diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f723f09..2c628dc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ An onscreen keyboard for the mouse.
* PyGObject
* python-xlib
* pyautogui
+* fast-autocomplete[levenshtein]
# TODO
Get save and execute of custom commands working.
diff --git a/src/__builtins__.py b/src/__builtins__.py
index 31b8b30..586dfbd 100644
--- a/src/__builtins__.py
+++ b/src/__builtins__.py
@@ -85,8 +85,9 @@ _USR_PATH = f"/usr/share/{app_name.lower()}"
_CONFIG_PATH = f"{_USER_HOME}/.config/{app_name.lower()}"
_ICON_FILE = f"{_CONFIG_PATH}/icons/{app_name.lower()}.png"
_CSS_FILE = f"{_CONFIG_PATH}/stylesheet.css"
+_DICT_FILE = f"{_CONFIG_PATH}/edmt_dictionary.json"
_EMOJI_FILE = f"{_CONFIG_PATH}/emoji.json"
-_LOG_FILE = f"{_CONFIG_PATH}/application.log"
+_LOG_PATH = f"{_CONFIG_PATH}"
ch_log_lvl: int = 10
fh_log_lvl: int = 20
@@ -110,10 +111,11 @@ if not os.path.exists(_EMOJI_FILE):
builtins.CONFIG_PATH = _CONFIG_PATH
builtins.ICON_FILE = _ICON_FILE
builtins.CSS_FILE = _CSS_FILE
+builtins.DICT_FILE = _DICT_FILE
builtins.EMOJI_FILE = _EMOJI_FILE
-builtins.logger = Logger(_LOG_FILE, ch_log_lvl, fh_log_lvl).get_logger()
+builtins.logger = Logger(_LOG_PATH, ch_log_lvl, fh_log_lvl).get_logger()
builtins.endpoint_registry = EndpointRegistry()
builtins.event_system = EventSystem()
builtins.typwriter = Pyautogui_Controller()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/core/container.py b/src/core/container.py
index 762dba2..079b820 100644
--- a/src/core/container.py
+++ b/src/core/container.py
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
# Python imports
+import json
+import time
# Lib imports
import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk
+try:
+ from fast_autocomplete import AutoComplete
+ auto_completion = True
+except Exception as e:
+ print( repr(e) )
+ auto_completion = False
+
# Application imports
from .columns import Left_Column
from .columns import Keys_Column
@@ -20,16 +29,34 @@ class Auto_Type(Gtk.Box):
def __init__(self):
super(Auto_Type, self).__init__()
- pad1 = Gtk.Label()
- pad2 = Gtk.Label()
- self._auto_typer = Gtk.SearchEntry()
- self._type_btn = Gtk.Button(label = "Type")
+ self._processing_dictionary = False
+ pad1 = Gtk.Label()
+ pad2 = Gtk.Label()
+ self._res_popover = Gtk.Popover()
+ self._auto_typer = Gtk.SearchEntry()
+ self._type_btn = Gtk.Button(label = "Type")
+
+ self._word_list = Gtk.Box()
+ scrolled_win = Gtk.ScrolledWindow()
+ viewport = Gtk.Viewport()
+
+ viewport.add(self._word_list)
+ scrolled_win.add(viewport)
+ scrolled_win.show_all()
+
+ self._res_popover.set_size_request(200, 400)
+ self._res_popover.set_relative_to(self._auto_typer)
+ self._res_popover.set_modal(False)
+ self._res_popover.add(scrolled_win)
+ self._res_popover.set_default_widget(scrolled_win)
self._auto_typer.set_placeholder_text("Autotype Field...")
self._auto_typer.set_icon_from_stock(0, "gtk-go-forward") # PRIMARY = 0, SECONDARY = 1
self._auto_typer.set_can_focus(True)
self._auto_typer.set_hexpand(True)
+ self._word_list.set_orientation(Gtk.Orientation.VERTICAL)
+
pad1.set_hexpand(True)
pad2.set_hexpand(True)
@@ -38,15 +65,49 @@ class Auto_Type(Gtk.Box):
self.add(self._type_btn)
self.add(pad2)
- self.setup_styling()
+ if auto_completion:
+ self.setup_dictionary()
+ self.setup_styling()
self.setup_signals()
self.show_all()
+ @daemon_threaded
+ def setup_dictionary(self):
+ self._processing_dictionary = True
+
+ _words = set()
+ words = {}
+ with open(DICT_FILE, 'r') as f:
+ dict_data = json.load(f)
+ self._auto_typer.set_progress_fraction(0.25)
+
+ for field in dict_data:
+ _words.add( field["word"] )
+ _words.add( field["word"].lower() )
+
+ self._auto_typer.set_progress_fraction(0.5)
+ del dict_data
+ for word in _words:
+ words[word] = {}
+
+ self._auto_typer.set_progress_fraction(0.75)
+ self.autocomplete = AutoComplete(words=words)
+ del _words
+ del words
+
+ self._auto_typer.set_progress_fraction(1.0)
+ time.sleep(1)
+ self._auto_typer.set_progress_fraction(0.0)
+ self._processing_dictionary = False
+
def setup_styling(self):
self.set_margin_bottom(5)
def setup_signals(self):
+ if auto_completion:
+ self._auto_typer.connect("search-changed", self.search_changed)
+
self._auto_typer.connect("enter-notify-event", self.focus_entry)
self._auto_typer.connect("leave-notify-event", self.unfocus_entry)
self._type_btn.connect("released", self.type_out)
@@ -61,8 +122,39 @@ class Auto_Type(Gtk.Box):
widget.grab_remove()
event_system.emit("unset_focusable")
+ def search_changed(self, widget = None, eve = None):
+ if self._processing_dictionary: return
+
+ text = widget.get_text()
+ if not text:
+ self._res_popover.hide()
+ return
+
+ words = self.autocomplete.search(word=text, max_cost=3, size=100)
+ if not words:
+ self._res_popover.hide()
+ return
+
+ self._clear_children(self._word_list)
+ for word in words:
+ button = Gtk.Button(label=word[0])
+ button.connect("clicked", self.type_out)
+ self._word_list.add(button)
+
+ self._word_list.show_all()
+ self._res_popover.show()
+
+ def _clear_children(self, widget):
+ for child in widget.get_children():
+ widget.remove(child)
+
def type_out(self, widget = None, eve = None):
text = self._auto_typer.get_text()
+
+ if isinstance(widget, Gtk.Button):
+ if not widget.get_label().lower() == "type":
+ text = widget.get_label()
+
typwriter.type_string(text)
@@ -110,4 +202,4 @@ class Container(Gtk.Box):
def add_content(self):
self.add(Auto_Type())
- self.add(Main_Container())
+ self.add(Main_Container())
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diff --git a/src/core/widgets/emoji_popover.py b/src/core/widgets/emoji_popover.py
index 69e2251..588657f 100644
--- a/src/core/widgets/emoji_popover.py
+++ b/src/core/widgets/emoji_popover.py
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
# Python imports
-from collections import defaultdict
import json
+import asyncio
+from collections import defaultdict
# Lib imports
import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk
+from gi.repository import GLib
# Application imports
from .key import Key
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ class Emoji_Notebook(Gtk.Notebook):
def __init__(self):
super(Emoji_Notebook, self).__init__()
- self.load_ui( self.get_data(EMOJI_FILE) )
+ self.load_ui()
self.setup_styling()
self.show_all()
@@ -29,26 +31,52 @@ class Emoji_Notebook(Gtk.Notebook):
self.set_current_page(0)
self.set_scrollable(True)
- def get_data(self, file):
- emoji_grouping = defaultdict(list)
-
- with open(file, 'r') as f:
+ @daemon_threaded
+ def load_ui(self):
+ emoji_data = None
+ with open(EMOJI_FILE, 'r') as f:
emoji_data = json.load(f)
- for emoji in emoji_data:
- category = emoji['category']
- del emoji['category']
- del emoji['unicode_version']
- del emoji['ios_version']
- emoji_grouping[category].append(emoji)
+
+ if not emoji_data:
+ print("No emoji data found in file...")
+ return
+
+ try:
+ loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+ except RuntimeError:
+ loop = None
+
+ if loop and loop.is_running():
+ loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+ loop.create_task( self._async_load_ui(emoji_data) )
+ else:
+ asyncio.run( self._async_load_ui(emoji_data) )
+
+ async def _async_load_ui(self, emoji_data):
+ emoji_grouping = await self._get_emoji_grouping(emoji_data)
+ GLib.idle_add(self._populate_ui, emoji_grouping)
+
+ async def _get_emoji_grouping(self, emoji_data):
+ emoji_grouping = defaultdict(list)
+ async def add_to_group(emoji):
+ category = emoji['category']
+ key = Key( emoji["emoji"], emoji["emoji"] )
+ key._is_emoji = True
+
+ emoji_grouping[category].append(key)
+
+ tasks = [ add_to_group(emoji) for emoji in emoji_data]
+ await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
return emoji_grouping
- def load_ui(self, emoji_grouping):
+ def _populate_ui(self, emoji_grouping):
width = 1
height = 1
for group in emoji_grouping:
tab_widget = Gtk.Label(label=group)
scroll, grid = self.create_scroll_and_grid()
+
self.append_page(scroll, tab_widget)
self.set_tab_reorderable(scroll, False)
self.set_tab_detachable(scroll, False)
@@ -56,16 +84,15 @@ class Emoji_Notebook(Gtk.Notebook):
top = 0
left = 0
for emoji in emoji_grouping[group]:
- key = Key(emoji["emoji"], emoji["emoji"])
- key._is_emoji = True
- key.show()
- grid.attach(key, left, top, width, height)
+ grid.attach(emoji, left, top, width, height)
left += 1
if left > 8:
left = 0
top += 1
+ self.show_all()
+ del emoji_grouping
def create_scroll_and_grid(self):
scroll = Gtk.ScrolledWindow()
@@ -114,4 +141,4 @@ class Emoji_Popover(Gtk.Popover):
self.popup()
def hide_emoji_view(self):
- self.popdown()
+ self.popdown()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/user_config/usr/share/mouse-keyboard/edmt_dictionary.json b/user_config/usr/share/mouse-keyboard/edmt_dictionary.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ab7b3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/user_config/usr/share/mouse-keyboard/edmt_dictionary.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the a sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"In each; to or for each; as, \"twenty leagues a day\", \"a hundred pounds a year\", \"a dollar a yard\", etc."},{"word":"A","type":"(prep.)","description":"In; on; at; by."},{"word":"A","type":"(prep.)","description":"In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"Of."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter"},{"word":"A-","type":"()","description":"A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French a (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3."},{"word":"Aam","type":"(n.)","description":"A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Hamburg 38 1/4."},{"word":"Aard-vark","type":"(n.)","description":"An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue."},{"word":"Aard-wolf","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles."},{"word":"Aaronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aaronical"},{"word":"Aaronical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the a sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. 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(4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French a (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3."},{"word":"Aam","type":"(n.)","description":"A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Hamburg 38 1/4."},{"word":"Aard-vark","type":"(n.)","description":"An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue."},{"word":"Aard-wolf","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles."},{"word":"Aaronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aaronical"},{"word":"Aaronical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews."},{"word":"Aaron's","type":"()","description":"A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two."},{"word":"Aaron's","type":"()","description":"A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod."},{"word":"Ab-","type":"()","description":"A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. 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See Manila hemp under Manila."},{"word":"Abacinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes."},{"word":"Abacination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abacinating."},{"word":"Abaciscus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus."},{"word":"Abacist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator."},{"word":"Aback","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the back or rear; backward."},{"word":"Aback","type":"(adv.)","description":"Behind; in the rear."},{"word":"Aback","type":"(adv.)","description":"Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind."},{"word":"Aback","type":"(n.)","description":"An abacus."},{"word":"Abactinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal."},{"word":"Abaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Stealing cattle on a large scale."},{"word":"Abactor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves."},{"word":"Abaculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abaculus"},{"word":"Abaculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements."},{"word":"Abacuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abacus"},{"word":"Abaci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abacus"},{"word":"Abacus","type":"(n.)","description":"A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc."},{"word":"Abacus","type":"(n.)","description":"A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China."},{"word":"Abacus","type":"(n.)","description":"The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column."},{"word":"Abacus","type":"(n.)","description":"A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work."},{"word":"Abacus","type":"(n.)","description":"A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard."},{"word":"Abada","type":"(n.)","description":"The rhinoceros."},{"word":"Abaddon","type":"(n.)","description":"The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus."},{"word":"Abaddon","type":"(n.)","description":"Hell; the bottomless pit."},{"word":"Abaft","type":"(prep.)","description":"Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse."},{"word":"Abaft","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft."},{"word":"Abaisance","type":"(n.)","description":"Obeisance."},{"word":"Abaiser","type":"(n.)","description":"Ivory black or animal charcoal."},{"word":"Abaist","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Abashed; confounded; discomfited."},{"word":"Abalienate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate."},{"word":"Abalienate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To estrange; to withdraw."},{"word":"Abalienate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause alienation of (mind)."},{"word":"Abalienation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement."},{"word":"Abalone","type":"(n.)","description":"A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks."},{"word":"Aband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To abandon."},{"word":"Aband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To banish; to expel."},{"word":"Abandoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abandon"},{"word":"Abandoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abandon"},{"word":"Abandon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject."},{"word":"Abandon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender."},{"word":"Abandon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense."},{"word":"Abandon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against."},{"word":"Abandon","type":"(v.)","description":"Abandonment; relinquishment."},{"word":"Abandon","type":"(n.)","description":"A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease."},{"word":"Abandoned","type":"(a.)","description":"Forsaken, deserted."},{"word":"Abandoned","type":"(a.)","description":"Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain."},{"word":"Abandonedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unrestrainedly."},{"word":"Abandonee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom anything is legally abandoned."},{"word":"Abandoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abandons."},{"word":"Abandonment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment."},{"word":"Abandonment","type":"(n.)","description":"The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against."},{"word":"Abandonment","type":"(n.)","description":"The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc."},{"word":"Abandonment","type":"(n.)","description":"The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion."},{"word":"Abandonment","type":"(n.)","description":"Careless freedom or ease; abandon."},{"word":"Abandum","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything forfeited or confiscated."},{"word":"Abanet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Abnet."},{"word":"Abanga","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest."},{"word":"Abannation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abannition"},{"word":"Abannition","type":"(n.)","description":"Banishment."},{"word":"Abarticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis."},{"word":"Abased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abase"},{"word":"Abasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abase"},{"word":"Abase","type":"(a.)","description":"To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye."},{"word":"Abase","type":"(a.)","description":"To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade."},{"word":"Abased","type":"(a.)","description":"Lowered; humbled."},{"word":"Abased","type":"(a.)","description":"Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield."},{"word":"Abasedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Abjectly; downcastly."},{"word":"Abasement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation."},{"word":"Abaser","type":"(n.)","description":"He who, or that which, abases."},{"word":"Abashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abash"},{"word":"Abashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abash"},{"word":"Abash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit."},{"word":"Abashedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abashed manner."},{"word":"Abashment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being abashed; confusion from shame."},{"word":"Abassi","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abassis"},{"word":"Abassis","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents."},{"word":"Abatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance."},{"word":"Abated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abate"},{"word":"Abating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abate"},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat down; to overthrow."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blunt."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce in estimation; to deprive."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates."},{"word":"Abate","type":"(n.)","description":"Abatement."},{"word":"Abatement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof."},{"word":"Abatement","type":"(n.)","description":"The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed."},{"word":"Abatement","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon."},{"word":"Abatement","type":"(n.)","description":"The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee."},{"word":"Abater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, abates."},{"word":"Abatis","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abattis"},{"word":"Abattis","type":"(n.)","description":"A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy."},{"word":"Abatised","type":"(a.)","description":"Provided with an abatis."},{"word":"Abator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abates a nuisance."},{"word":"Abator","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee."},{"word":"Abattoirs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abattoir"},{"word":"Abattoir","type":"(n.)","description":"A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc."},{"word":"Abature","type":"(n.)","description":"Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them."},{"word":"Abatvoix","type":"(n.)","description":"The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum."},{"word":"Abawed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Astonished; abashed."},{"word":"Abaxial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Abaxile"},{"word":"Abaxile","type":"(a.)","description":"Away from the axis or central line; eccentric."},{"word":"Abay","type":"(n.)","description":"Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay."},{"word":"Abb","type":"(n.)","description":"Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb."},{"word":"Abba","type":"(n.)","description":"Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch."},{"word":"Abbacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abbacy"},{"word":"Abbacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot."},{"word":"Abbatial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights."},{"word":"Abbatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Abbatial."},{"word":"Abbe","type":"(n.)","description":"The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress."},{"word":"Abbess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey."},{"word":"Abbeys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abbey"},{"word":"Abbey","type":"(n.)","description":"A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings."},{"word":"Abbey","type":"(n.)","description":"The church of a monastery."},{"word":"Abbot","type":"(n.)","description":"The superior or head of an abbey."},{"word":"Abbot","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys."},{"word":"Abbotship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or office of an abbot."},{"word":"Abbreviated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abbreviate"},{"word":"Abbreviating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abbreviate"},{"word":"Abbreviate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken."},{"word":"Abbreviate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction."},{"word":"Abbreviate","type":"(a.)","description":"Abbreviated; abridged; shortened."},{"word":"Abbreviate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type."},{"word":"Abbreviate","type":"(n.)","description":"An abridgment."},{"word":"Abbreviated","type":"(a.)","description":"Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate."},{"word":"Abbreviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of shortening, or reducing."},{"word":"Abbreviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of abbreviating; an abridgment."},{"word":"Abbreviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America."},{"word":"Abbreviation","type":"(n.)","description":"One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers."},{"word":"Abbreviator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abbreviates or shortens."},{"word":"Abbreviator","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form."},{"word":"Abbreviatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging."},{"word":"Abbreviature","type":"(n.)","description":"An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form."},{"word":"Abbreviature","type":"(n.)","description":"An abridgment; a compendium or abstract."},{"word":"Abb","type":"()","description":"See Abb."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance."},{"word":"Abdal","type":"(n.)","description":"A religious devotee or dervish in Persia."},{"word":"Abderian","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment."},{"word":"Abderite","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace."},{"word":"Abdest","type":"(n.)","description":"Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite."},{"word":"Abdicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being abdicated."},{"word":"Abdicant","type":"(a.)","description":"Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of."},{"word":"Abdicant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abdicates."},{"word":"Abdicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abdicate"},{"word":"Abdicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abdicate"},{"word":"Abdicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy."},{"word":"Abdicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc."},{"word":"Abdicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reject; to cast off."},{"word":"Abdicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit."},{"word":"Abdicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity."},{"word":"Abdication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority."},{"word":"Abdicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing, or implying, abdication."},{"word":"Abdicator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abdicates."},{"word":"Abditive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of hiding."},{"word":"Abditory","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for hiding or preserving articles of value."},{"word":"Abdomen","type":"(n.)","description":"The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity."},{"word":"Abdomen","type":"(n.)","description":"The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda."},{"word":"Abdominal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity."},{"word":"Abdominal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes."},{"word":"Abdominals","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abdominal"},{"word":"Abdominales","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abdominal"},{"word":"Abdominal","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the group Abdominales."},{"word":"Abdominales","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals."},{"word":"Abdominalia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages."},{"word":"Abdominoscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease."},{"word":"Abdominothoracic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest."},{"word":"Abdominous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied."},{"word":"Abduced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abduce"},{"word":"Abducing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abduce"},{"word":"Abduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part."},{"word":"Abducted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abduct"},{"word":"Abducting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abduct"},{"word":"Abduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap."},{"word":"Abduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position."},{"word":"Abduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away."},{"word":"Abduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body."},{"word":"Abduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress."},{"word":"Abduction","type":"(n.)","description":"A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable."},{"word":"Abductor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abducts."},{"word":"Abductor","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward."},{"word":"Abeam","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side."},{"word":"Abear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear; to behave."},{"word":"Abear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put up with; to endure."},{"word":"Abearance","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior."},{"word":"Abearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior."},{"word":"Abecedarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro."},{"word":"Abecedarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One engaged in teaching the alphabet."},{"word":"Abecedarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Abecedary"},{"word":"Abecedary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary."},{"word":"Abecedary","type":"(n.)","description":"A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything."},{"word":"Abed","type":"(adv.)","description":"In bed, or on the bed."},{"word":"Abed","type":"(adv.)","description":"To childbed (in the phrase \"brought abed,\" that is, delivered of a child)."},{"word":"Abegge","type":"()","description":"Same as Aby."},{"word":"Abele","type":"(n.)","description":"The white poplar (Populus alba)."},{"word":"Abelian","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abelonian"},{"word":"Abelite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abelonian"},{"word":"Abelonian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel."},{"word":"Abelmosk","type":"(n.)","description":"An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow."},{"word":"Aber-de-vine","type":"(n.)","description":"The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch."},{"word":"Aberr","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wander; to stray."},{"word":"Aberrance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aberrancy"},{"word":"Aberrancy","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc."},{"word":"Aberrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Wandering; straying from the right way."},{"word":"Aberrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal."},{"word":"Aberrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go astray; to diverge."},{"word":"Aberration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type."},{"word":"Aberration","type":"(n.)","description":"A partial alienation of reason."},{"word":"Aberration","type":"(n.)","description":"A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth."},{"word":"Aberration","type":"(n.)","description":"The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus."},{"word":"Aberration","type":"(n.)","description":"The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it."},{"word":"Aberration","type":"(n.)","description":"The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B."},{"word":"Aberrational","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by aberration."},{"word":"Aberuncate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weed out."},{"word":"Aberuncator","type":"(n.)","description":"A weeding machine."},{"word":"Abetted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abet"},{"word":"Abetting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abet"},{"word":"Abet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection."},{"word":"Abet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense."},{"word":"Abet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense."},{"word":"Abet","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of abetting; aid."},{"word":"Abetment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc."},{"word":"Abettal","type":"(n.)","description":"Abetment."},{"word":"Abetter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abettor"},{"word":"Abettor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender."},{"word":"Abevacuation","type":"(n.)","description":"A partial evacuation."},{"word":"Abeyance","type":"(n.)","description":"Expectancy; condition of being undetermined."},{"word":"Abeyance","type":"(n.)","description":"Suspension; temporary suppression."},{"word":"Abeyancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Abeyance."},{"word":"Abeyant","type":"(a.)","description":"Being in a state of abeyance."},{"word":"Abhal","type":"(n.)","description":"The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies."},{"word":"Abhominable","type":"(a.)","description":"Abominable."},{"word":"Abhominal","type":"(a.)","description":"Inhuman."},{"word":"Abhorred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abhor"},{"word":"Abhorring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abhor"},{"word":"Abhor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe."},{"word":"Abhor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with horror or disgust."},{"word":"Abhor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To protest against; to reject solemnly."},{"word":"Abhor","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with"},{"word":"Abhorrence","type":"(n.)","description":"Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike."},{"word":"Abhorrency","type":"(n.)","description":"Abhorrence."},{"word":"Abhorrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts."},{"word":"Abhorrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Abhorrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Detestable."},{"word":"Abhorrently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With abhorrence."},{"word":"Abhorrer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abhors."},{"word":"Abhorrible","type":"(a.)","description":"Detestable."},{"word":"Abhorring","type":"(n.)","description":"Detestation."},{"word":"Abhorring","type":"(n.)","description":"Object of abhorrence."},{"word":"Abib","type":"(n.)","description":"The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan."},{"word":"Abidance","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with)."},{"word":"Abode","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abide"},{"word":"Abid","type":"()","description":"of Abide"},{"word":"Abiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abide"},{"word":"Abide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wait; to pause; to delay."},{"word":"Abide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place."},{"word":"Abide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain."},{"word":"Abide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time."},{"word":"Abide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endure; to sustain; to submit to."},{"word":"Abide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with."},{"word":"Abide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for."},{"word":"Abider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abides, or continues."},{"word":"Abider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dwells; a resident."},{"word":"Abiding","type":"(a.)","description":"Continuing; lasting."},{"word":"Abidingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Permanently."},{"word":"Abies","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus."},{"word":"Abietene","type":"(n.)","description":"A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California."},{"word":"Abietic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid."},{"word":"Abietin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abietine"},{"word":"Abietine","type":"(n.)","description":"A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether."},{"word":"Abietinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid."},{"word":"Abietite","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata)."},{"word":"Abigail","type":"(n.)","description":"A lady's waiting-maid."},{"word":"Abiliment","type":"(n.)","description":"Habiliment."},{"word":"Abilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ability"},{"word":"Ability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent."},{"word":"Abime","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abyme"},{"word":"Abyme","type":"(n.)","description":"A abyss."},{"word":"Abiogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis."},{"word":"Abiogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to abiogenesis."},{"word":"Abiogenist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent."},{"word":"Abiogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by spontaneous generation."},{"word":"Abiogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Abiogenesis."},{"word":"Abiological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the study of inanimate things."},{"word":"Abirritant","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine that diminishes irritation."},{"word":"Abirritate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate."},{"word":"Abirritation","type":"(n.)","description":"A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia."},{"word":"Abirritative","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by abirritation or debility."},{"word":"Abit","type":"()","description":"3d sing. pres. of Abide."},{"word":"Abject","type":"(a.)","description":"Cast down; low-lying."},{"word":"Abject","type":"(a.)","description":"Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts."},{"word":"Abject","type":"(a.)","description":"To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase."},{"word":"Abject","type":"(n.)","description":"A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway."},{"word":"Abjectedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A very abject or low condition; abjectness."},{"word":"Abjection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bringing down or humbling."},{"word":"Abjection","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being rejected or cast out."},{"word":"Abjection","type":"(n.)","description":"A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation."},{"word":"Abjectly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Meanly; servilely."},{"word":"Abjectness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility."},{"word":"Abjudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away by judicial decision."},{"word":"Abjudicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge."},{"word":"Abjudication","type":"(n.)","description":"Rejection by judicial sentence."},{"word":"Abjugate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unyoke."},{"word":"Abjunctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Exceptional."},{"word":"Abjuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return."},{"word":"Abjuration","type":"(n.)","description":"A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy."},{"word":"Abjuratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing abjuration."},{"word":"Abjured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abjure"},{"word":"Abjuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abjure"},{"word":"Abjure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever."},{"word":"Abjure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors."},{"word":"Abjure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To renounce on oath."},{"word":"Abjurement","type":"(n.)","description":"Renunciation."},{"word":"Abjurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abjures."},{"word":"Ablactate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wean."},{"word":"Ablactation","type":"(n.)","description":"The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam."},{"word":"Ablactation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach."},{"word":"Ablaqueate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay bare, as the roots of a tree."},{"word":"Ablaqueation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water."},{"word":"Ablastemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Non-germinal."},{"word":"Ablation","type":"(n.)","description":"A carrying or taking away; removal."},{"word":"Ablation","type":"(n.)","description":"Extirpation."},{"word":"Ablation","type":"(n.)","description":"Wearing away; superficial waste."},{"word":"Ablatitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force."},{"word":"Ablative","type":"(a.)","description":"Taking away or removing."},{"word":"Ablative","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away."},{"word":"Ablative","type":"()","description":"The ablative case."},{"word":"Ablaut","type":"(n.)","description":"The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung."},{"word":"Ablaze","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"On fire; in a blaze, gleaming."},{"word":"Ablaze","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire."},{"word":"Able","type":"(superl.)","description":"Fit; adapted; suitable."},{"word":"Able","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano."},{"word":"Able","type":"(superl.)","description":"Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech."},{"word":"Able","type":"(superl.)","description":"Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property."},{"word":"Able","type":"(a.)","description":"To make able; to enable; to strengthen."},{"word":"Able","type":"(a.)","description":"To vouch for."},{"word":"-able","type":"()","description":"An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable."},{"word":"Able-bodied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust."},{"word":"Ablegate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send abroad."},{"word":"Ablegate","type":"(n.)","description":"A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office."},{"word":"Ablegation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sending abroad."},{"word":"Able-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having much intellectual power."},{"word":"Ableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Ability of body or mind; force; vigor."},{"word":"Ablepsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Blindness."},{"word":"Abler","type":"(a.)","description":"comp. of Able."},{"word":"Abler","type":"(a.)","description":"superl. of Able."},{"word":"Ablet","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Ablen"},{"word":"Ablen","type":"()","description":"A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak."},{"word":"Abligate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tie up so as to hinder from."},{"word":"Abligurition","type":"(n.)","description":"Prodigal expense for food."},{"word":"Ablins","type":"(adv.)","description":"Perhaps."},{"word":"Abloom","type":"(adv.)","description":"In or into bloom; in a blooming state."},{"word":"Ablude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be unlike; to differ."},{"word":"Abluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent."},{"word":"Abluent","type":"(n.)","description":"A detergent."},{"word":"Ablush","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Blushing; ruddy."},{"word":"Ablution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite."},{"word":"Ablution","type":"(n.)","description":"The water used in cleansing."},{"word":"Ablution","type":"(n.)","description":"A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest."},{"word":"Ablutionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to ablution."},{"word":"Abluvion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is washed off."},{"word":"Ably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said."},{"word":"-ably","type":"()","description":"A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably."},{"word":"Abnegated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abnegate"},{"word":"Abnegating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abnegate"},{"word":"Abnegate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deny and reject; to abjure."},{"word":"Abnegation","type":"(n.)","description":"a denial; a renunciation."},{"word":"Abnegative","type":"(a.)","description":"Denying; renouncing; negative."},{"word":"Abnegator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything."},{"word":"Abnet","type":"(n.)","description":"The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer."},{"word":"Abnodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear (tress) from knots."},{"word":"Abnodation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cutting away the knots of trees."},{"word":"Abnormal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular."},{"word":"Abnormalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abnormality"},{"word":"Abnormality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity."},{"word":"Abnormality","type":"(n.)","description":"Something abnormal."},{"word":"Abnormally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abnormal manner; irregularly."},{"word":"Abnormities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abnormity"},{"word":"Abnormity","type":"(n.)","description":"Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity."},{"word":"Abnormous","type":"(a.)","description":"Abnormal; irregular."},{"word":"Aboard","type":"(adv.)","description":"On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car."},{"word":"Aboard","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alongside; as, close aboard."},{"word":"Aboard","type":"(prep.)","description":"On board of; as, to go aboard a ship."},{"word":"Aboard","type":"(prep.)","description":"Across; athwart."},{"word":"Abodance","type":"(n.)","description":"An omen; a portending."},{"word":"Abode","type":"()","description":"pret. of Abide."},{"word":"Abode","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of waiting; delay."},{"word":"Abode","type":"(n.)","description":"Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn."},{"word":"Abode","type":"(n.)","description":"Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation."},{"word":"Abode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An omen."},{"word":"Abode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bode; to foreshow."},{"word":"Abode","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be ominous."},{"word":"Abodement","type":"(n.)","description":"A foreboding; an omen."},{"word":"Aboding","type":"(n.)","description":"A foreboding."},{"word":"Abolished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abolish"},{"word":"Abolishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abolish"},{"word":"Abolish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly."},{"word":"Abolish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out."},{"word":"Abolishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being abolished."},{"word":"Abolisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abolishes."},{"word":"Abolishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction."},{"word":"Abolition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc."},{"word":"Abolitionism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles or measures of abolitionists."},{"word":"Abolitionist","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery."},{"word":"Abolitionize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imbue with the principles of abolitionism."},{"word":"Aboma","type":"(n.)","description":"A large South American serpent (Boa aboma)."},{"word":"Abomasum","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abomasus"},{"word":"Abomasus","type":"(n.)","description":"The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia."},{"word":"Abominable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable."},{"word":"Abominable","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive."},{"word":"Abominableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness."},{"word":"Abominably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably."},{"word":"Abominated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abominate"},{"word":"Abominating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abominate"},{"word":"Abominate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety."},{"word":"Abomination","type":"(n.)","description":"The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination."},{"word":"Abomination","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution."},{"word":"Abomination","type":"(n.)","description":"A cause of pollution or wickedness."},{"word":"Aboon","type":"(prep.)","description":"and adv. Above."},{"word":"Aboral","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth."},{"word":"Abord","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner of approaching or accosting; address."},{"word":"Abord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To approach; to accost."},{"word":"Aboriginal","type":"(a.)","description":"First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America."},{"word":"Aboriginal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood."},{"word":"Aboriginal","type":"(n.)","description":"An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines."},{"word":"Aboriginal","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal or a plant native to the region."},{"word":"Aboriginality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being aboriginal."},{"word":"Aboriginally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Primarily."},{"word":"Aborigines","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races."},{"word":"Aborigines","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The original fauna and flora of a geographical area"},{"word":"Aborsement","type":"(n.)","description":"Abortment; abortion."},{"word":"Aborsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Abortive."},{"word":"Abort","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely."},{"word":"Abort","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile."},{"word":"Abort","type":"(n.)","description":"An untimely birth."},{"word":"Abort","type":"(n.)","description":"An aborted offspring."},{"word":"Aborted","type":"(a.)","description":"Brought forth prematurely."},{"word":"Aborted","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches."},{"word":"Aborticide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide."},{"word":"Abortifacient","type":"(v.)","description":"Producing miscarriage."},{"word":"Abortifacient","type":"(n.)","description":"A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery."},{"word":"Abortion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage."},{"word":"Abortion","type":"(n.)","description":"The immature product of an untimely birth."},{"word":"Abortion","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed."},{"word":"Abortion","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion."},{"word":"Abortional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive."},{"word":"Abortionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who procures abortion or miscarriage."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(v.)","description":"Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(v.)","description":"Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(v.)","description":"Rendering fruitless or ineffectual."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(v.)","description":"Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(v.)","description":"Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(v.)","description":"Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(v.)","description":"Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruitless effort or issue."},{"word":"Abortive","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion."},{"word":"Abortively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly."},{"word":"Abortiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being abortive."},{"word":"Abortment","type":"(n.)","description":"Abortion."},{"word":"Abought","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Aby."},{"word":"Abounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abound"},{"word":"Abounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abound"},{"word":"Abound","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful."},{"word":"Abound","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with."},{"word":"About","type":"(prep.)","description":"Around; all round; on every side of."},{"word":"About","type":"(prep.)","description":"In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person)."},{"word":"About","type":"(prep.)","description":"Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout."},{"word":"About","type":"(prep.)","description":"Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity."},{"word":"About","type":"(prep.)","description":"In concern with; engaged in; intent on."},{"word":"About","type":"(prep.)","description":"On the point or verge of; going; in act of."},{"word":"About","type":"(prep.)","description":"Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching."},{"word":"About","type":"(adv.)","description":"On all sides; around."},{"word":"About","type":"(adv.)","description":"In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across."},{"word":"About","type":"(adv.)","description":"Here and there; around; in one place and another."},{"word":"About","type":"(adv.)","description":"Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time."},{"word":"About","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about."},{"word":"About-sledge","type":"(n.)","description":"The largest hammer used by smiths."},{"word":"Above","type":"(prep.)","description":"In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath."},{"word":"Above","type":"(prep.)","description":"Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach."},{"word":"Above","type":"(prep.)","description":"Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.)"},{"word":"Above","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above."},{"word":"Above","type":"(adv.)","description":"Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page."},{"word":"Above","type":"(adv.)","description":"Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above."},{"word":"Above","type":"(adv.)","description":"More than; as, above five hundred were present."},{"word":"Aboveboard","type":"(adv.)","description":"Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception."},{"word":"Above-cited","type":"(a.)","description":"Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing."},{"word":"Abovedeck","type":"(a.)","description":"On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice."},{"word":"Above-mentioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Above-named"},{"word":"Above-named","type":"(a.)","description":"Mentioned or named before; aforesaid."},{"word":"Abovesaid","type":"(a.)","description":"Mentioned or recited before."},{"word":"Abox","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Braced aback."},{"word":"Abracadabra","type":"(n.)","description":"A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon."},{"word":"Abradant","type":"(n.)","description":"A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc."},{"word":"Abraded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abrade"},{"word":"Abrading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abrade"},{"word":"Abrade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks."},{"word":"Abrade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Abraid."},{"word":"Abrahamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant."},{"word":"Abrahamitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of ical"},{"word":"ical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the patriarch Abraham."},{"word":"Abraham-man","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abram-man"},{"word":"Abram-man","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms."},{"word":"Abraid","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out."},{"word":"Abranchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Abranchiate."},{"word":"Abranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration."},{"word":"Abranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without gills."},{"word":"Abrase","type":"(a.)","description":"Rubbed smooth."},{"word":"Abrasion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins."},{"word":"Abrasion","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance rubbed off."},{"word":"Abrasion","type":"(n.)","description":"A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds."},{"word":"Abrasive","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing abrasion."},{"word":"Abraum","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Abraum salts"},{"word":"Abraum","type":"(n.)","description":"A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium."},{"word":"Abraxas","type":"(n.)","description":"A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved."},{"word":"Abray","type":"(v.)","description":"See Abraid."},{"word":"Abreast","type":"(adv.)","description":"Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, \"Two men could hardly walk abreast.\""},{"word":"Abreast","type":"(adv.)","description":"Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of."},{"word":"Abreast","type":"(adv.)","description":"Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science."},{"word":"Abreast","type":"(adv.)","description":"At the same time; simultaneously."},{"word":"Abregge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Abridge."},{"word":"Abrenounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce."},{"word":"Abrenunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"Absolute renunciation or repudiation."},{"word":"Abreption","type":"(n.)","description":"A snatching away."},{"word":"Abreuvoir","type":"(n.)","description":"The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar."},{"word":"Abricock","type":"(n.)","description":"See Apricot."},{"word":"Abridged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abridge"},{"word":"Abridging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abridge"},{"word":"Abridge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights."},{"word":"Abridge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary."},{"word":"Abridge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights."},{"word":"Abridger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abridges."},{"word":"Abridgment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses."},{"word":"Abridgment","type":"(n.)","description":"An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation."},{"word":"Abridgment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly."},{"word":"Abroach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap."},{"word":"Abroach","type":"(adv.)","description":"Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped."},{"word":"Abroach","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir."},{"word":"Abroad","type":"(adv.)","description":"At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad."},{"word":"Abroad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad."},{"word":"Abroad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad."},{"word":"Abroad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely."},{"word":"Abrogable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being abrogated."},{"word":"Abrogate","type":"(a.)","description":"Abrogated; abolished."},{"word":"Abrogated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abrogate"},{"word":"Abrogating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abrogate"},{"word":"Abrogate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc."},{"word":"Abrogate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put an end to; to do away with."},{"word":"Abrogation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of abrogating; repeal by authority."},{"word":"Abrogative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law."},{"word":"Abrogator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who repeals by authority."},{"word":"Abrood","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the act of brooding."},{"word":"Abrook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To brook; to endure."},{"word":"Abrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places."},{"word":"Abrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious."},{"word":"Abrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected."},{"word":"Abrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Suddenly terminating, as if cut off."},{"word":"Abrupt","type":"(n.)","description":"An abrupt place."},{"word":"Abrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tear off or asunder."},{"word":"Abruption","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies."},{"word":"Abruptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly."},{"word":"Abruptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Precipitously."},{"word":"Abruptness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness."},{"word":"Abruptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner."},{"word":"Abscesses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abscess"},{"word":"Abscess","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process."},{"word":"Abscession","type":"(n.)","description":"A separating; removal; also, an abscess."},{"word":"Abscind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off."},{"word":"Abscision","type":"(n.)","description":"See Abscission."},{"word":"Abscisses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Absciss"},{"word":"Absciss","type":"(n.)","description":"See Abscissa."},{"word":"Abscissas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abscissa"},{"word":"Abscissae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Abscissa"},{"word":"Abscissa","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes."},{"word":"Abscission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of cutting off."},{"word":"Abscission","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being cut off."},{"word":"Abscission","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, \"He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more.\""},{"word":"Absconded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abscond"},{"word":"Absconding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abscond"},{"word":"Abscond","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hide, withdraw, or be concealed."},{"word":"Abscond","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor."},{"word":"Abscond","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide; to conceal."},{"word":"Abscondence","type":"(n.)","description":"Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding."},{"word":"Absconder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who absconds."},{"word":"Absence","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence."},{"word":"Absence","type":"(n.)","description":"Want; destitution; withdrawal."},{"word":"Absence","type":"(n.)","description":"Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind."},{"word":"Absent","type":"(a.)","description":"Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present."},{"word":"Absent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent."},{"word":"Absent","type":"(a.)","description":"Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air."},{"word":"Absented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Absent"},{"word":"Absenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Absent"},{"word":"Absent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Absent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withhold from being present."},{"word":"Absentaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to absence."},{"word":"Absentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of absenting one's self."},{"word":"Absentee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee."},{"word":"Absenteeism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated."},{"word":"Absenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who absents one's self."},{"word":"Absently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an absent or abstracted manner."},{"word":"Absentment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being absent; withdrawal."},{"word":"Absent-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied."},{"word":"Absentness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being absent-minded."},{"word":"Absey-book","type":"(n.)","description":"An A-B-C book; a primer."},{"word":"Absinthate","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical."},{"word":"Absinth","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Absinthe"},{"word":"Absinthe","type":"(n.)","description":"The plant absinthium or common wormwood."},{"word":"Absinthe","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol."},{"word":"Absinthial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian."},{"word":"Absinthian","type":"(n.)","description":"Of the nature of wormwood."},{"word":"Absinthiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate with wormwood."},{"word":"Absinthiated","type":"(a.)","description":"Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine."},{"word":"Absinthic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it."},{"word":"Absinthin","type":"(n.)","description":"The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)."},{"word":"Absinthism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth."},{"word":"Absinthium","type":"(n.)","description":"The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood."},{"word":"Absis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Apsis."},{"word":"Absist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist."},{"word":"Absistence","type":"(n.)","description":"A standing aloof."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Authoritative; peremptory."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative."},{"word":"Absolute","type":"(n.)","description":"In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity."},{"word":"Absolutely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively."},{"word":"Absoluteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness."},{"word":"Absolution","type":"(n.)","description":"An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense."},{"word":"Absolution","type":"(n.)","description":"An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent."},{"word":"Absolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven."},{"word":"Absolution","type":"(n.)","description":"An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication."},{"word":"Absolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The form of words by which a penitent is absolved."},{"word":"Absolution","type":"(n.)","description":"Delivery, in speech."},{"word":"Absolutism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism."},{"word":"Absolutism","type":"(n.)","description":"Doctrine of absolute decrees."},{"word":"Absolutist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government."},{"word":"Absolutist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute."},{"word":"Absolutist","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles."},{"word":"Absolutistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist."},{"word":"Absolutory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to absolve; absolving."},{"word":"Absolvable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be absolved."},{"word":"Absolvatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Conferring absolution; absolutory."},{"word":"Absolved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Absolve"},{"word":"Absolving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Absolve"},{"word":"Absolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment."},{"word":"Absolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt."},{"word":"Absolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To finish; to accomplish."},{"word":"Absolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To resolve or explain."},{"word":"Absolvent","type":"(a.)","description":"Absolving."},{"word":"Absolvent","type":"(n.)","description":"An absolver."},{"word":"Absolver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who absolves."},{"word":"Absonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant."},{"word":"Absonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous."},{"word":"Absorbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Absorb"},{"word":"Absorbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Absorb"},{"word":"Absorb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include."},{"word":"Absorb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body."},{"word":"Absorb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth."},{"word":"Absorb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass."},{"word":"Absorbability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being absorbable."},{"word":"Absorbable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up."},{"word":"Absorbedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged."},{"word":"Absorbency","type":"(n.)","description":"Absorptiveness."},{"word":"Absorbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive."},{"word":"Absorbent","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which absorbs."},{"word":"Absorbent","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts."},{"word":"Absorbent","type":"(n.)","description":"The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants."},{"word":"Absorber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, absorbs."},{"word":"Absorbing","type":"(a.)","description":"Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit."},{"word":"Absorbition","type":"(n.)","description":"Absorption."},{"word":"Absorpt","type":"(a.)","description":"Absorbed."},{"word":"Absorption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger."},{"word":"Absorption","type":"(n.)","description":"An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc."},{"word":"Absorption","type":"(n.)","description":"In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs."},{"word":"Absorption","type":"(n.)","description":"Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment."},{"word":"Absorptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe."},{"word":"Absorptiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power."},{"word":"Absorptivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Absorptiveness."},{"word":"Absquatulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take one's self off; to decamp."},{"word":"Absque","type":"()","description":"The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated."},{"word":"Abstained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abstain"},{"word":"Abstaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abstain"},{"word":"Abstain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from."},{"word":"Abstain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder; to withhold."},{"word":"Abstainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors."},{"word":"Abstemious","type":"(a.)","description":"Abstaining from wine."},{"word":"Abstemious","type":"(a.)","description":"Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions."},{"word":"Abstemious","type":"(a.)","description":"Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet."},{"word":"Abstemious","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life."},{"word":"Abstemious","type":"(a.)","description":"Promotive of abstemiousness."},{"word":"Abstemiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance."},{"word":"Abstention","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of abstaining; a holding aloof."},{"word":"Abstentious","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining."},{"word":"Absterge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge."},{"word":"Abstergent","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to cleanse, detergent."},{"word":"Abstergent","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent."},{"word":"Absterse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away."},{"word":"Abstersion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging."},{"word":"Abstersive","type":"(a.)","description":"Cleansing; purging."},{"word":"Abstersive","type":"(n.)","description":"Something cleansing."},{"word":"Abstersiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being abstersive."},{"word":"Abstinence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence."},{"word":"Abstinence","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat."},{"word":"Abstinency","type":"(n.)","description":"Abstinence."},{"word":"Abstinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate."},{"word":"Abstinent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abstains."},{"word":"Abstinent","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century."},{"word":"Abstinently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With abstinence."},{"word":"Abstorted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrested away."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"Withdraw; separate."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, \"reptile\" is an abstract or general name."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"Abstracted; absent in mind."},{"word":"Abstracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abstract"},{"word":"Abstracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abstract"},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"To withdraw; to separate; to take away."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"To epitomize; to abridge."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform the process of abstraction."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"An abstract term."},{"word":"Abstract","type":"(a.)","description":"A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance."},{"word":"Abstracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart."},{"word":"Abstracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated from matter; abstract; ideal."},{"word":"Abstracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Abstract; abstruse; difficult."},{"word":"Abstracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind."},{"word":"Abstractedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind."},{"word":"Abstractedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being abstracted; abstract character."},{"word":"Abstracter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abstracts, or makes an abstract."},{"word":"Abstraction","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal."},{"word":"Abstraction","type":"(a.)","description":"The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects."},{"word":"Abstraction","type":"(a.)","description":"An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions."},{"word":"Abstraction","type":"(a.)","description":"A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction."},{"word":"Abstraction","type":"(a.)","description":"Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects."},{"word":"Abstraction","type":"(a.)","description":"The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining."},{"word":"Abstraction","type":"(a.)","description":"A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation."},{"word":"Abstractional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to abstraction."},{"word":"Abstractionist","type":"(n.)","description":"An idealist."},{"word":"Abstractitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtained from plants by distillation."},{"word":"Abstractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature."},{"word":"Abstractively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself."},{"word":"Abstractiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property."},{"word":"Abstractly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered."},{"word":"Abstractness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being abstract."},{"word":"Abstringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unbind."},{"word":"Abstrude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust away."},{"word":"Abstruse","type":"(a.)","description":"Concealed or hidden out of the way."},{"word":"Abstruse","type":"(a.)","description":"Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning."},{"word":"Abstrusely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abstruse manner."},{"word":"Abstruseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension."},{"word":"Abstrusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of thrusting away."},{"word":"Abstrusity","type":"(n.)","description":"Abstruseness; that which is abstruse."},{"word":"Absume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consume gradually; to waste away."},{"word":"Absumption","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction."},{"word":"Absurd","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream."},{"word":"Absurd","type":"(n.)","description":"An absurdity."},{"word":"Absurdities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Absurdity"},{"word":"Absurdity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment."},{"word":"Absurdity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction."},{"word":"Absurdly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an absurd manner."},{"word":"Absurdness","type":"(n.)","description":"Absurdity."},{"word":"Abuna","type":"(n.)","description":"The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church."},{"word":"Abundance","type":"(n.)","description":"An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number."},{"word":"Abundant","type":"(a.)","description":"Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with."},{"word":"Abundantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure."},{"word":"Aburst","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bursting condition."},{"word":"Abusable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be abused."},{"word":"Abusage","type":"(n.)","description":"Abuse."},{"word":"Abused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abuse"},{"word":"Abusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abuse"},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dishonor."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To violate; to ravish."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive; to impose on."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Physical ill treatment; injury."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling."},{"word":"Abuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child."},{"word":"Abuseful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of abuse; abusive."},{"word":"Abuser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb]."},{"word":"Abusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat."},{"word":"Abusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied."},{"word":"Abusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to misusing; also, full of abuses."},{"word":"Abusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow."},{"word":"Abusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous."},{"word":"Abusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating."},{"word":"Abusively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language."},{"word":"Abusiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person."},{"word":"Abutted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abut"},{"word":"Abutting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Abut"},{"word":"Abut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road."},{"word":"Abutilon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow."},{"word":"Abutment","type":"(n.)","description":"State of abutting."},{"word":"Abutment","type":"(n.)","description":"That on or against which a body abuts or presses"},{"word":"Abutment","type":"(n.)","description":"The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut."},{"word":"Abutment","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc."},{"word":"Abutment","type":"(n.)","description":"In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil."},{"word":"Abuttal","type":"(n.)","description":"The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland."},{"word":"Abutter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river."},{"word":"Abuzz","type":"(a.)","description":"In a buzz; buzzing."},{"word":"Abought","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Abye"},{"word":"Aby","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Alt. of Abye"},{"word":"Abye","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction."},{"word":"Abye","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To endure; to abide."},{"word":"Abysm","type":"(n.)","description":"An abyss; a gulf."},{"word":"Abysmal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound."},{"word":"Abysmally","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a fathomless depth; profoundly."},{"word":"Abyss","type":"(n.)","description":"A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit."},{"word":"Abyss","type":"(n.)","description":"Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth."},{"word":"Abyss","type":"(n.)","description":"The center of an escutcheon."},{"word":"Abyssal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable."},{"word":"Abyssinian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Abyssinia."},{"word":"Abyssinian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Abyssinia."},{"word":"Abyssinian","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Abyssinian Church."},{"word":"Acacia","type":"(n.)","description":"A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals."},{"word":"Acacias","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acacia"},{"word":"Acaciae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acacia"},{"word":"Acacia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates."},{"word":"Acacia","type":"(n.)","description":"The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic."},{"word":"Acacin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Acacine"},{"word":"Acacine","type":"(n.)","description":"Gum arabic."},{"word":"Academe","type":"(n.)","description":"An academy."},{"word":"Academial","type":"(a.)","description":"Academic."},{"word":"Academian","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of an academy, university, or college."},{"word":"Academic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Academical"},{"word":"Academical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy."},{"word":"Academical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific."},{"word":"Academic","type":"(n.)","description":"One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist."},{"word":"Academic","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician."},{"word":"Academically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an academical manner."},{"word":"Academicals","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities."},{"word":"Academician","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts."},{"word":"Academician","type":"(n.)","description":"A collegian."},{"word":"Academicism","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenet of the Academic philosophy."},{"word":"Academicism","type":"(n.)","description":"A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy."},{"word":"Academism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines of the Academic philosophy."},{"word":"Academist","type":"(n.)","description":"An Academic philosopher."},{"word":"Academist","type":"(n.)","description":"An academician."},{"word":"Academies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Academy"},{"word":"Academy","type":"(n.)","description":"A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head."},{"word":"Academy","type":"(n.)","description":"An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school."},{"word":"Academy","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of training; a school."},{"word":"Academy","type":"(n.)","description":"A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology."},{"word":"Academy","type":"(n.)","description":"A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music."},{"word":"Acadian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia."},{"word":"Acadian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Acadie."},{"word":"Acajou","type":"(n.)","description":"The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew."},{"word":"Acajou","type":"(n.)","description":"The mahogany tree; also, its timber."},{"word":"Acalephs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acalephan"},{"word":"Acalephans","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acalephan"},{"word":"Acaleph","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Acalephan"},{"word":"Acalephan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Acalephae."},{"word":"Acalephae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles."},{"word":"Acalephoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes."},{"word":"Acalycine","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Acalysinous"},{"word":"Acalysinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope."},{"word":"Acanth","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Acanthus."},{"word":"Acantha","type":"(n.)","description":"A prickle."},{"word":"Acantha","type":"(n.)","description":"A spine or prickly fin."},{"word":"Acantha","type":"(n.)","description":"The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra."},{"word":"Acanthaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Armed with prickles, as a plant."},{"word":"Acanthaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type."},{"word":"Acanthine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus."},{"word":"Acanthocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the fruit covered with spines."},{"word":"Acanthocephala","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines."},{"word":"Acanthocephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala."},{"word":"Acanthophorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Spine-bearing."},{"word":"Acanthopodious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having spinous petioles."},{"word":"Acanthopteri","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii."},{"word":"Acanthopterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Spiny-winged."},{"word":"Acanthopterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Acanthopterygious."},{"word":"Acanthopterygian","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch."},{"word":"Acanthopterygian","type":"(n.)","description":"A spiny-finned fish."},{"word":"Acanthopterygii","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch."},{"word":"Acanthopterygious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned."},{"word":"Acanthuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acanthus"},{"word":"Acanthi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acanthus"},{"word":"Acanthus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech."},{"word":"Acanthus","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"A time indication, equivalent to alla breve."},{"word":"Acapsular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no capsule."},{"word":"Acardiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus."},{"word":"Acaridan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks."},{"word":"Acarina","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange."},{"word":"Acarine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases."},{"word":"Acaroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like or resembling a mite."},{"word":"Acarpellous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no carpels."},{"word":"Acarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not producing fruit; unfruitful."},{"word":"Acari","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acarus"},{"word":"Acarus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus including many species of small mites."},{"word":"Acatalectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse."},{"word":"Acatalectic","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables."},{"word":"Acatalepsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability."},{"word":"Acataleptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible."},{"word":"Acater","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caterer."},{"word":"Acates","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Cates."},{"word":"Acaudate","type":"(a.)","description":"Tailless."},{"word":"Acaulescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground."},{"word":"Acauline","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Acaulescent."},{"word":"Acaulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Acaulous"},{"word":"Acaulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Acaulescent."},{"word":"Accadian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest."},{"word":"Acceded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accede"},{"word":"Acceding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accede"},{"word":"Accede","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede."},{"word":"Accede","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain."},{"word":"Accede","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request."},{"word":"Accedence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of acceding."},{"word":"Acceder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accedes."},{"word":"Accelerando","type":"(a.)","description":"Gradually accelerating the movement."},{"word":"Accelerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accelerate"},{"word":"Accelerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accelerate"},{"word":"Accelerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard."},{"word":"Accelerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc."},{"word":"Accelerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure."},{"word":"Acceleration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation."},{"word":"Accelerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening."},{"word":"Accelerator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves."},{"word":"Acceleratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Accelerative."},{"word":"Accelerograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc."},{"word":"Accelerometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder."},{"word":"Accend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on fire; to kindle."},{"word":"Accendibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability."},{"word":"Accendible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable."},{"word":"Accension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition."},{"word":"Accensor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"A word; a significant tone"},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"expressions in general; speech."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches."},{"word":"Accented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accent"},{"word":"Accenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accent"},{"word":"Accent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent."},{"word":"Accent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark emphatically; to emphasize."},{"word":"Accentless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without accent."},{"word":"Accentor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sings the leading part; the director or leader."},{"word":"Accentor","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes."},{"word":"Accentuable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being accented."},{"word":"Accentual","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent."},{"word":"Accentuality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being accentual."},{"word":"Accentually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent."},{"word":"Accentuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accentuate"},{"word":"Accentuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accentuate"},{"word":"Accentuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce with an accent or with accents."},{"word":"Accentuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize."},{"word":"Accentuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with the written accent."},{"word":"Accentuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of accentuating; applications of accent."},{"word":"Accentuation","type":"(n.)","description":"pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy."},{"word":"Accepted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accept"},{"word":"Accepting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accept"},{"word":"Accept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of."},{"word":"Accept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive with favor; to approve."},{"word":"Accept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse."},{"word":"Accept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?"},{"word":"Accept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange."},{"word":"Accept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]"},{"word":"Accept","type":"(a.)","description":"Accepted."},{"word":"Acceptability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness."},{"word":"Acceptable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us."},{"word":"Acceptableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability."},{"word":"Acceptably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction."},{"word":"Acceptance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc."},{"word":"Acceptance","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being accepted; acceptableness."},{"word":"Acceptance","type":"(n.)","description":"An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance."},{"word":"Acceptance","type":"(n.)","description":"The bill itself when accepted."},{"word":"Acceptance","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner."},{"word":"Acceptance","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law."},{"word":"Acceptance","type":"(n.)","description":"Meaning; acceptation."},{"word":"Acceptancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Acceptance."},{"word":"Acceptant","type":"(a.)","description":"Accepting; receiving."},{"word":"Acceptant","type":"(n.)","description":"An accepter."},{"word":"Acceptation","type":"(n.)","description":"Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable."},{"word":"Acceptation","type":"(n.)","description":"The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation."},{"word":"Acceptedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a accepted manner; admittedly."},{"word":"Accepter","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who accepts; a taker."},{"word":"Accepter","type":"(n.)","description":"A respecter; a viewer with partiality."},{"word":"Accepter","type":"(n.)","description":"An acceptor."},{"word":"Acceptilation","type":"(n.)","description":"Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission."},{"word":"Acception","type":"(n.)","description":"Acceptation; the received meaning."},{"word":"Acceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit for acceptance."},{"word":"Acceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready to accept."},{"word":"Acceptor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accepts"},{"word":"Acceptor","type":"(n.)","description":"one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted."},{"word":"Access","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince."},{"word":"Access","type":"(n.)","description":"The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land."},{"word":"Access","type":"(n.)","description":"Admission to sexual intercourse."},{"word":"Access","type":"(n.)","description":"Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]"},{"word":"Access","type":"(n.)","description":"An onset, attack, or fit of disease."},{"word":"Access","type":"(n.)","description":"A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury."},{"word":"Accessarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an accessary."},{"word":"Accessariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being accessary."},{"word":"Accessary","type":"(a.)","description":"Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory."},{"word":"Accessaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Accessary"},{"word":"Accessary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense."},{"word":"Accessibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility."},{"word":"Accessible","type":"(a.)","description":"Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person."},{"word":"Accessible","type":"(a.)","description":"Open to the influence of; -- with to."},{"word":"Accessible","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtainable; to be got at."},{"word":"Accessibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an accessible manner."},{"word":"Accession","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy."},{"word":"Accession","type":"(n.)","description":"Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory."},{"word":"Accession","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf."},{"word":"Accession","type":"(n.)","description":"The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers."},{"word":"Accession","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty."},{"word":"Accession","type":"(n.)","description":"The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm."},{"word":"Accessional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to accession; additional."},{"word":"Accessive","type":"(a.)","description":"Additional."},{"word":"Accessorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt."},{"word":"Accessorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary."},{"word":"Accessoriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately."},{"word":"Accessory","type":"(a.)","description":"Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music."},{"word":"Accessories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Accessory"},{"word":"Accessory","type":"(n.)","description":"That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate."},{"word":"Accessory","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Accessary, n."},{"word":"Accessory","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts."},{"word":"Acciaccatura","type":"(n.)","description":"A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura."},{"word":"Accidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar."},{"word":"Accidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The rudiments of any subject."},{"word":"Accident","type":"(n.)","description":"Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident."},{"word":"Accident","type":"(n.)","description":"A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case."},{"word":"Accident","type":"(n.)","description":"A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms."},{"word":"Accident","type":"(n.)","description":"A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute."},{"word":"Accident","type":"(n.)","description":"A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness."},{"word":"Accident","type":"(n.)","description":"Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident."},{"word":"Accident","type":"(n.)","description":"Unusual appearance or effect."},{"word":"Accidental","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit."},{"word":"Accidental","type":"(a.)","description":"Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play."},{"word":"Accidental","type":"(n.)","description":"A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally."},{"word":"Accidental","type":"(n.)","description":"Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow."},{"word":"Accidental","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note."},{"word":"Accidentalism","type":"(n.)","description":"Accidental character or effect."},{"word":"Accidentality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being accidental; accidentalness."},{"word":"Accidentally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially."},{"word":"Accidentalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being accidental; casualness."},{"word":"Accidie","type":"(n.)","description":"Sloth; torpor."},{"word":"Accipenser","type":"(n.)","description":"See Acipenser."},{"word":"Accipient","type":"(n.)","description":"A receiver."},{"word":"Accipiters","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Accipiter"},{"word":"Accipitres","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Accipiter"},{"word":"Accipiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores."},{"word":"Accipiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk."},{"word":"Accipitral","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike."},{"word":"Accipitres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls."},{"word":"Accipitrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike."},{"word":"Accismus","type":"(n.)","description":"Affected refusal; coyness."},{"word":"Accite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cite; to summon."},{"word":"Acclaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To applaud."},{"word":"Acclaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare by acclamations."},{"word":"Acclaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shout; as, to acclaim my joy."},{"word":"Acclaim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shout applause."},{"word":"Acclaim","type":"(n.)","description":"Acclamation."},{"word":"Acclaimer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acclaims."},{"word":"Acclamation","type":"(n.)","description":"A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause."},{"word":"Acclamation","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy."},{"word":"Acclamatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation."},{"word":"Acclimatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being acclimated."},{"word":"Acclimatation","type":"(n.)","description":"Acclimatization."},{"word":"Acclimated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acclimate"},{"word":"Acclimating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acclimate"},{"word":"Acclimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize."},{"word":"Acclimatement","type":"(n.)","description":"Acclimation."},{"word":"Acclimation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization."},{"word":"Acclimatizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being acclimatized."},{"word":"Acclimatization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured."},{"word":"Acclimatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acclimatize"},{"word":"Acclimatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acclimatize"},{"word":"Acclimatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants."},{"word":"Acclimature","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated."},{"word":"Acclive","type":"(a.)","description":"Acclivous."},{"word":"Acclivitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Acclivous."},{"word":"Acclivities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acclivity"},{"word":"Acclivity","type":"(n.)","description":"A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent."},{"word":"Acclivous","type":"(a.)","description":"Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous."},{"word":"Accloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy."},{"word":"Accoast","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost."},{"word":"Accoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather together; to collect."},{"word":"Accoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To coil together."},{"word":"Accolade","type":"(n.)","description":"A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword."},{"word":"Accolade","type":"(n.)","description":"A brace used to join two or more staves."},{"word":"Accombination","type":"(n.)","description":"A combining together."},{"word":"Accommodable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree."},{"word":"Accommodableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being accommodable."},{"word":"Accommodated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accommodate"},{"word":"Accommodating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accommodate"},{"word":"Accommodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances."},{"word":"Accommodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc."},{"word":"Accommodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings."},{"word":"Accommodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events."},{"word":"Accommodate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted."},{"word":"Accommodate","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end."},{"word":"Accommodately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Suitably; fitly."},{"word":"Accommodateness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fitness."},{"word":"Accommodating","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement."},{"word":"Accommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Accommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"Willingness to accommodate; obligingness."},{"word":"Accommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn."},{"word":"Accommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement."},{"word":"Accommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended."},{"word":"Accommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"A loan of money."},{"word":"Accommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"An accommodation bill or note."},{"word":"Accommodator","type":"(n.)","description":"He who, or that which, accommodates."},{"word":"Accompanable","type":"(a.)","description":"Sociable."},{"word":"Accompanier","type":"(n.)","description":"He who, or that which, accompanies."},{"word":"Accompaniment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry."},{"word":"Accompaniment","type":"(n.)","description":"A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass."},{"word":"Accompanist","type":"(n.)","description":"The performer in music who takes the accompanying part."},{"word":"Accompanied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accompany"},{"word":"Accompanying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accompany"},{"word":"Accompany","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow."},{"word":"Accompany","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cohabit with."},{"word":"Accompany","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To associate in a company; to keep company."},{"word":"Accompany","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cohabit (with)."},{"word":"Accompany","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition."},{"word":"Accompletive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to accomplish."},{"word":"Accomplice","type":"(n.)","description":"A cooperator."},{"word":"Accomplice","type":"(n.)","description":"An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory."},{"word":"Accompliceship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being an accomplice."},{"word":"Accomplicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of being an accomplice."},{"word":"Accomplished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accomplish"},{"word":"Accomplishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accomplish"},{"word":"Accomplish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To complete, as time or distance."},{"word":"Accomplish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise."},{"word":"Accomplish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish."},{"word":"Accomplish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain; to obtain."},{"word":"Accomplishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being accomplished; practicable."},{"word":"Accomplished","type":"(a.)","description":"Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact."},{"word":"Accomplished","type":"(a.)","description":"Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain."},{"word":"Accomplisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accomplishes."},{"word":"Accomplishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc."},{"word":"Accomplishment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training."},{"word":"Accompt","type":"(n.)","description":"See Account."},{"word":"Accomptable","type":"(a.)","description":"See Accountable."},{"word":"Accomptant","type":"(n.)","description":"See Accountant."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit."},{"word":"Accorded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accord"},{"word":"According","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accord"},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks."},{"word":"Accord","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree in pitch and tone."},{"word":"Accordable","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing."},{"word":"Accordable","type":"(a.)","description":"Reconcilable; in accordance."},{"word":"Accordance","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement; harmony; conformity."},{"word":"Accordancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Accordance."},{"word":"Accordant","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to."},{"word":"Accordantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to."},{"word":"Accorder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accords, assents, or concedes."},{"word":"According","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious."},{"word":"According","type":"(adv.)","description":"Accordingly; correspondingly."},{"word":"Accordingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable."},{"word":"Accordingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In natural sequence; consequently; so."},{"word":"Accordion","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds."},{"word":"Accordionist","type":"(n.)","description":"A player on the accordion."},{"word":"Accordment","type":"(v.)","description":"Agreement; reconcilement."},{"word":"Accorporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite; to attach; to incorporate."},{"word":"Accosted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accost"},{"word":"Accosting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accost"},{"word":"Accost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of."},{"word":"Accost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To approach; to make up to."},{"word":"Accost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To speak to first; to address; to greet."},{"word":"Accost","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adjoin; to lie alongside."},{"word":"Accost","type":"(n.)","description":"Address; greeting."},{"word":"Accostable","type":"(a.)","description":"Approachable; affable."},{"word":"Accosted","type":"(a.)","description":"Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side."},{"word":"Accouchement","type":"(n.)","description":"Delivery in childbed"},{"word":"Accoucheur","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician."},{"word":"Accoucheuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A midwife."},{"word":"Account","type":"(n.)","description":"A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time."},{"word":"Account","type":"(n.)","description":"A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank."},{"word":"Account","type":"(n.)","description":"A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts."},{"word":"Account","type":"(n.)","description":"A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle."},{"word":"Account","type":"(n.)","description":"A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon."},{"word":"Account","type":"(n.)","description":"An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment."},{"word":"Account","type":"(n.)","description":"Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit."},{"word":"Accounted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Account"},{"word":"Accounting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Account"},{"word":"Account","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reckon; to compute; to count."},{"word":"Account","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to."},{"word":"Account","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem."},{"word":"Account","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To recount; to relate."},{"word":"Account","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received."},{"word":"Account","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities."},{"word":"Account","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty."},{"word":"Accountability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness."},{"word":"Accountable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct."},{"word":"Accountable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being accounted for; explicable."},{"word":"Accountable","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being accountable; accountability."},{"word":"Accountably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an accountable manner."},{"word":"Accountancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or employment of an accountant."},{"word":"Accountant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who renders account; one accountable."},{"word":"Accountant","type":"(n.)","description":"A reckoner."},{"word":"Accountant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts."},{"word":"Accountant","type":"(a.)","description":"Accountable."},{"word":"Accountantship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or employment of an accountant."},{"word":"Account","type":"()","description":"A book in which accounts are kept."},{"word":"Accouple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join; to couple."},{"word":"Accouplement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union."},{"word":"Accouplement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which couples, as a tie or brace."},{"word":"Accourage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encourage."},{"word":"Accourt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat courteously; to court."},{"word":"Accoutered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accoutre"},{"word":"Accoutred","type":"()","description":"of Accoutre"},{"word":"Accoutering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accoutre"},{"word":"Accoutring","type":"()","description":"of Accoutre"},{"word":"Accouter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Accoutre"},{"word":"Accoutre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array."},{"word":"Accouterments","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Accoutrements"},{"word":"Accoutrements","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers."},{"word":"Accoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render quiet; to soothe."},{"word":"Accoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subdue; to tame; to daunt."},{"word":"Accredited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accredit"},{"word":"Accrediting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accredit"},{"word":"Accredit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction."},{"word":"Accredit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate."},{"word":"Accredit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To believe; to credit; to put trust in."},{"word":"Accredit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one."},{"word":"Accreditation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation."},{"word":"Accrementitial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to accremention."},{"word":"Accrementition","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds."},{"word":"Accresce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To accrue."},{"word":"Accresce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To increase; to grow."},{"word":"Accrescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Continuous growth; an accretion."},{"word":"Accrescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing; increasing."},{"word":"Accrescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing larger after flowering."},{"word":"Accrete","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow together."},{"word":"Accrete","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to."},{"word":"Accrete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make adhere; to add."},{"word":"Accrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter."},{"word":"Accrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Grown together."},{"word":"Accretion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth."},{"word":"Accretion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth."},{"word":"Accretion","type":"(n.)","description":"Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass."},{"word":"Accretion","type":"(n.)","description":"A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes."},{"word":"Accretion","type":"(n.)","description":"The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark."},{"word":"Accretion","type":"(n.)","description":"Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share."},{"word":"Accretive","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth."},{"word":"Accriminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accuse of a crime."},{"word":"Accroach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook."},{"word":"Accroach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives."},{"word":"Accroachment","type":"(n.)","description":"An encroachment; usurpation."},{"word":"Accrual","type":"(n.)","description":"Accrument."},{"word":"Accrued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accrue"},{"word":"Accruing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accrue"},{"word":"Accrue","type":"(n.)","description":"To increase; to augment."},{"word":"Accrue","type":"(n.)","description":"To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent."},{"word":"Accrue","type":"(n.)","description":"Something that accrues; advantage accruing."},{"word":"Accruer","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer."},{"word":"Accrument","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase."},{"word":"Accubation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals."},{"word":"Accumb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To recline, as at table."},{"word":"Accumbency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being accumbent or reclining."},{"word":"Accumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals."},{"word":"Accumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf."},{"word":"Accumbent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who reclines at table."},{"word":"Accumber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encumber."},{"word":"Accumulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accumulate"},{"word":"Accumulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accumulate"},{"word":"Accumulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money."},{"word":"Accumulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly."},{"word":"Accumulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Collected; accumulated."},{"word":"Accumulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors."},{"word":"Accumulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The concurrence of several titles to the same proof."},{"word":"Accumulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional."},{"word":"Accumulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses."},{"word":"Accumulator","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc."},{"word":"Accumulator","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging."},{"word":"Accuracy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy."},{"word":"Accurate","type":"(a.)","description":"In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc."},{"word":"Accurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful."},{"word":"Accurately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect."},{"word":"Accurateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision."},{"word":"Accurse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize."},{"word":"Accursed","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Alt. of Accurst"},{"word":"Accurst","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed."},{"word":"Accusable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of."},{"word":"Accusal","type":"(n.)","description":"Accusation."},{"word":"Accusant","type":"(n.)","description":"An accuser."},{"word":"Accusation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense."},{"word":"Accusation","type":"(n.)","description":"That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge."},{"word":"Accusatival","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the accusative case."},{"word":"Accusative","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing accusations; accusatory."},{"word":"Accusative","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English."},{"word":"Accusative","type":"(n.)","description":"The accusative case."},{"word":"Accusatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an accusative manner."},{"word":"Accusatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In relation to the accusative case in grammar."},{"word":"Accusatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Accusatory."},{"word":"Accusatorially","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way accusation."},{"word":"Accusatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel."},{"word":"Accuse","type":"(n.)","description":"Accusation."},{"word":"Accused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accuse"},{"word":"Accusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accuse"},{"word":"Accuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense"},{"word":"Accuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor."},{"word":"Accuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure."},{"word":"Accuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betray; to show. [L.]"},{"word":"Accused","type":"(a.)","description":"Charged with offense; as, an accused person."},{"word":"Accusement","type":"(n.)","description":"Accusation."},{"word":"Accuser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault."},{"word":"Accusingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an accusing manner."},{"word":"Accustomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Accustom"},{"word":"Accustoming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Accustom"},{"word":"Accustom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to."},{"word":"Accustom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be wont."},{"word":"Accustom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cohabit."},{"word":"Accustom","type":"(n.)","description":"Custom."},{"word":"Accustomable","type":"(a.)","description":"Habitual; customary; wonted."},{"word":"Accustomably","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to custom; ordinarily; customarily."},{"word":"Accustomance","type":"(n.)","description":"Custom; habitual use."},{"word":"Accustomarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Customarily."},{"word":"Accustomary","type":"(a.)","description":"Usual; customary."},{"word":"Accustomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Familiar through use; usual; customary."},{"word":"Accustomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Frequented by customers."},{"word":"Accustomedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Habituation."},{"word":"Aces","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ace"},{"word":"Ace","type":"(n.)","description":"A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds."},{"word":"Ace","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot."},{"word":"Aceldama","type":"(n.)","description":"The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed."},{"word":"Acentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Not centered; without a center."},{"word":"Acephal","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Acephala."},{"word":"Acephala","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca."},{"word":"Acephalan","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Acephal."},{"word":"Acephalan","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Acephala."},{"word":"Acephali","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads."},{"word":"Acephali","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Christian sect without a leader."},{"word":"Acephali","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control."},{"word":"Acephali","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I."},{"word":"Acephalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acknowledges no head or superior."},{"word":"Acephalocyst","type":"(n.)","description":"A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin."},{"word":"Acephalocystic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts."},{"word":"Acephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Headless."},{"word":"Acephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks."},{"word":"Acephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries."},{"word":"Acephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a leader or chief."},{"word":"Acephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting the beginning."},{"word":"Acephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry."},{"word":"Acerate","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base."},{"word":"Acerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Acerose; needle-shaped."},{"word":"Acerb","type":"(a.)","description":"Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh."},{"word":"Acerbate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sour; to imbitter; to irritate."},{"word":"Acerbic","type":"(a.)","description":"Sour or severe."},{"word":"Acerbitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Sourness and harshness."},{"word":"Acerbity","type":"(n.)","description":"Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit."},{"word":"Acerbity","type":"(n.)","description":"Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain."},{"word":"Aceric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid."},{"word":"Acerose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of chaff; chaffy."},{"word":"Acerose","type":"(a.)","description":"Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine."},{"word":"Acerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Acerose."},{"word":"Acerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks."},{"word":"Acerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without antennae, as some insects."},{"word":"Acerval","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a heap."},{"word":"Acervate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heap up."},{"word":"Acervate","type":"(a.)","description":"Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters."},{"word":"Acervation","type":"(n.)","description":"A heaping up; accumulation."},{"word":"Acervative","type":"(a.)","description":"Heaped up; tending to heap up."},{"word":"Acervose","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of heaps."},{"word":"Acervuline","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling little heaps."},{"word":"Acescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Acescency"},{"word":"Acescency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness."},{"word":"Acescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour."},{"word":"Acescent","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance liable to become sour."},{"word":"Acetable","type":"(n.)","description":"An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint."},{"word":"Acetabular","type":"(a.)","description":"Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform."},{"word":"Acetabulifera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda."},{"word":"Acetabuliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc."},{"word":"Acetabuliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx."},{"word":"Acetabulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc."},{"word":"Acetabulum","type":"(n.)","description":"The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone."},{"word":"Acetabulum","type":"(n.)","description":"The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body."},{"word":"Acetabulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals."},{"word":"Acetabulum","type":"(n.)","description":"The large posterior sucker of the leeches."},{"word":"Acetabulum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals."},{"word":"Acetal","type":"(n.)","description":"A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black."},{"word":"Acetaldehyde","type":"(n.)","description":"Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde."},{"word":"Acetamide","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl."},{"word":"Acetanilide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine."},{"word":"Acetarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Used in salads; as, acetarious plants."},{"word":"Acetary","type":"(n.)","description":"An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear."},{"word":"Acetate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash."},{"word":"Acetated","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with acetic acid."},{"word":"Acetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation."},{"word":"Acetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due."},{"word":"Acetification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar."},{"word":"Acetifier","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for hastening acetification."},{"word":"Acetified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acetify"},{"word":"Acetifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acetify"},{"word":"Acetify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into acid or vinegar."},{"word":"Acetify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn acid."},{"word":"Acetimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid."},{"word":"Acetimetry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it."},{"word":"Acetin","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of acetic acid with glycerin."},{"word":"Acetize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To acetify."},{"word":"Acetometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Acetimeter."},{"word":"Acetone","type":"(n.)","description":"A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime."},{"word":"Acetonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies."},{"word":"Acetose","type":"(a.)","description":"Sour like vinegar; acetous."},{"word":"Acetosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acetous; sourness."},{"word":"Acetous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sour taste; sour; acid."},{"word":"Acetous","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation."},{"word":"Acetyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid."},{"word":"Acetylene","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant."},{"word":"Ach","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ache"},{"word":"Ache","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley."},{"word":"Achaean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Achaian"},{"word":"Achaian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian."},{"word":"Achaian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Achaia; a Greek."},{"word":"Acharnement","type":"(n.)","description":"Savage fierceness; ferocity."},{"word":"Achate","type":"(n.)","description":"An agate."},{"word":"Achate","type":"(n.)","description":"Purchase; bargaining."},{"word":"Achate","type":"(n.)","description":"Provisions. Same as Cates."},{"word":"Achatina","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa."},{"word":"Achatour","type":"(n.)","description":"Purveyor; acater."},{"word":"Ache","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. \"Such an ache in my bones.\""},{"word":"Ached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ache"},{"word":"Aching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ache"},{"word":"Ache","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed."},{"word":"Achean","type":"(a & n.)","description":"See Achaean, Achaian."},{"word":"Achene","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Achenium"},{"word":"Achenium","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists."},{"word":"Achenial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an achene."},{"word":"Acheron","type":"(n.)","description":"A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf."},{"word":"Acherontic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund."},{"word":"Achievable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being achieved."},{"word":"Achievance","type":"(n.)","description":"Achievement."},{"word":"Achieved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Achieve"},{"word":"Achieving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Achieve"},{"word":"Achieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise."},{"word":"Achieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win."},{"word":"Achieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To finish; to kill."},{"word":"Achievement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object."},{"word":"Achievement","type":"(n.)","description":"A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat."},{"word":"Achievement","type":"(n.)","description":"An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment."},{"word":"Achiever","type":"(n.)","description":"One who achieves; a winner."},{"word":"Achillean","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible."},{"word":"Achilles'","type":"(n.)","description":"The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx."},{"word":"Achilous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a lip."},{"word":"Aching","type":"(a.)","description":"That aches; continuously painful. See Ache."},{"word":"Achiote","type":"(n.)","description":"Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto."},{"word":"Achlamydate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods."},{"word":"Achlamydeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla."},{"word":"Acholia","type":"(n.)","description":"Deficiency or want of bile."},{"word":"Acholous","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking bile."},{"word":"Achromatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors."},{"word":"Achromatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue."},{"word":"Achromatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an achromatic manner."},{"word":"Achromaticity","type":"(n.)","description":"Achromatism."},{"word":"Achromatin","type":"(n.)","description":"Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes."},{"word":"Achromatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity."},{"word":"Achromatization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of achromatizing."},{"word":"Achromatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Achromatize"},{"word":"Achromatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Achromatize"},{"word":"Achromatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of color; to make achromatic."},{"word":"Achromatopsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism."},{"word":"Achronic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Acronyc."},{"word":"Achroodextrin","type":"(n.)","description":"Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin."},{"word":"Achroous","type":"(a.)","description":"Colorless; achromatic."},{"word":"Achylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without chyle."},{"word":"Achymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without chyme."},{"word":"Aciculae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acicula"},{"word":"Acicula","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal."},{"word":"Acicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless."},{"word":"Aciculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aciculated"},{"word":"Aciculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with aciculae."},{"word":"Aciculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Acicular."},{"word":"Aciculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle."},{"word":"Aciculiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Needle-shaped; acicular."},{"word":"Aciculite","type":"(n.)","description":"Needle ore."},{"word":"Acid","type":"(a.)","description":"Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered."},{"word":"Acid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction."},{"word":"Acid","type":"(n.)","description":"A sour substance."},{"word":"Acid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids."},{"word":"Acidic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic."},{"word":"Acidiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or yielding an acid."},{"word":"Acidifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid."},{"word":"Acidific","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing acidity; converting into an acid."},{"word":"Acidification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid."},{"word":"Acidifier","type":"(n.)","description":"A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc."},{"word":"Acidified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acidify"},{"word":"Acidifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acidify"},{"word":"Acidify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar."},{"word":"Acidify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sour; to imbitter."},{"word":"Acidimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids."},{"word":"Acidimetry","type":"(n.)","description":"The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required."},{"word":"Acidity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice."},{"word":"Acidly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Sourly; tartly."},{"word":"Acidness","type":"(n.)","description":"Acidity; sourness."},{"word":"Acidulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acidulate"},{"word":"Acidulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acidulate"},{"word":"Acidulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat."},{"word":"Acidulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous."},{"word":"Acidulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture."},{"word":"Acierage","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling."},{"word":"Aciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a needle."},{"word":"Acinaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them."},{"word":"Acinaces","type":"(n.)","description":"A short sword or saber."},{"word":"Acinaciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf."},{"word":"Acinesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Akinesia."},{"word":"Acinetae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria."},{"word":"Acinetiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the Acinetae."},{"word":"Aciniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes."},{"word":"Aciniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of small kernels like a grape."},{"word":"Acinose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Acinous"},{"word":"Acinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands."},{"word":"Acini","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acinus"},{"word":"Acinus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc."},{"word":"Acinus","type":"(n.)","description":"A grapestone."},{"word":"Acinus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland."},{"word":"Acipenser","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon."},{"word":"Aciurgy","type":"(n.)","description":"Operative surgery."},{"word":"Acknow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To recognize."},{"word":"Acknow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acknowledge; to confess."},{"word":"Acknowledged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acknowledge"},{"word":"Acknowledging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acknowledge"},{"word":"Acknowledge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God."},{"word":"Acknowledge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To own or recognize in a particular character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to."},{"word":"Acknowledge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter."},{"word":"Acknowledge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledgea deed."},{"word":"Acknowledgedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Confessedly."},{"word":"Acknowledger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acknowledges."},{"word":"Acknowledgment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession."},{"word":"Acknowledgment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness."},{"word":"Acknowledgment","type":"(n.)","description":"The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks."},{"word":"Acknowledgment","type":"(n.)","description":"Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc."},{"word":"Acknowledgment","type":"(n.)","description":"A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration."},{"word":"Aclinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator."},{"word":"Acme","type":"(n.)","description":"The top or highest point; the culmination."},{"word":"Acme","type":"(n.)","description":"The crisis or height of a disease."},{"word":"Acme","type":"(n.)","description":"Mature age; full bloom of life."},{"word":"Acne","type":"(n.)","description":"A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands."},{"word":"Acnodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to acnodes."},{"word":"Acnode","type":"(n.)","description":"An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve."},{"word":"Acock","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cocked or turned up fashion."},{"word":"Acockbill","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor."},{"word":"Acockbill","type":"(adv.)","description":"Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other."},{"word":"Acold","type":"(a.)","description":"Cold."},{"word":"Acologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to acology."},{"word":"Acology","type":"(n.)","description":"Materia medica; the science of remedies."},{"word":"Acolothist","type":"(n.)","description":"See Acolythist."},{"word":"Acolyctine","type":"(n.)","description":"An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum."},{"word":"Acolyte","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass."},{"word":"Acolyte","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attends; an assistant."},{"word":"Acolyth","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Acolyte."},{"word":"Acolythist","type":"(n.)","description":"An acolyte."},{"word":"Aconddylose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Acondylous"},{"word":"Acondylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Being without joints; jointless."},{"word":"Aconital","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of aconite."},{"word":"Aconite","type":"(n.)","description":"The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous."},{"word":"Aconite","type":"(n.)","description":"An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally."},{"word":"Aconitia","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aconitine."},{"word":"Aconitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to aconite."},{"word":"Aconitine","type":"(n.)","description":"An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite."},{"word":"Aconitum","type":"(n.)","description":"The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it."},{"word":"Acontia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated."},{"word":"Acontias","type":"(n.)","description":"Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards."},{"word":"Acopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relieving weariness; restorative."},{"word":"Acorn","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule."},{"word":"Acorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head."},{"word":"Acorn","type":"(n.)","description":"See Acorn-shell."},{"word":"Acorn","type":"()","description":"The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed."},{"word":"Acorned","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished or loaded with acorns."},{"word":"Acorned","type":"(a.)","description":"Fed or filled with acorns."},{"word":"Acorn-shell","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle."},{"word":"Acosmism","type":"(n.)","description":"A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God."},{"word":"Acosmist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God."},{"word":"Acotyledon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants."},{"word":"Acotyledonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc."},{"word":"Acouchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy)."},{"word":"Acoumeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing."},{"word":"Acoumetry","type":"(n.)","description":"The measuring of the power or extent of hearing."},{"word":"Acoustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory."},{"word":"Acoustic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine or agent to assist hearing."},{"word":"Acoustical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to acoustics."},{"word":"Acoustically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In relation to sound or to hearing."},{"word":"Acoustician","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in acoustics."},{"word":"Acoustics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws."},{"word":"Acquaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Acquainted."},{"word":"Acquainted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acquaint"},{"word":"Acquainting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acquaint"},{"word":"Acquaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Acquaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act."},{"word":"Acquaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To familiarize; to accustom."},{"word":"Acquaintable","type":"(a.)","description":"Easy to be acquainted with; affable."},{"word":"Acquaintance","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him."},{"word":"Acquaintance","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or persons with whom one is acquainted."},{"word":"Acquaintanceship","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being acquainted; acquaintance."},{"word":"Acquaintant","type":"(n.)","description":"An acquaintance."},{"word":"Acquainted","type":"(a.)","description":"Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t."},{"word":"Acquaintedness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance."},{"word":"Acquest","type":"(n.)","description":"Acquisition; the thing gained."},{"word":"Acquest","type":"(n.)","description":"Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance."},{"word":"Acquiesced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acquiesce"},{"word":"Acquiescing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acquiesce"},{"word":"Acquiesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to."},{"word":"Acquiesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition."},{"word":"Acquiescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction."},{"word":"Acquiescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Submission to an injury by the party injured."},{"word":"Acquiescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Tacit concurrence in the action of another."},{"word":"Acquiescency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence."},{"word":"Acquiescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy."},{"word":"Acquiescently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an acquiescent manner."},{"word":"Acquiet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quiet."},{"word":"Acquirability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acquirable; attainableness."},{"word":"Acquirable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being acquired."},{"word":"Acquired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acquire"},{"word":"Acquiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acquire"},{"word":"Acquire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits."},{"word":"Acquirement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment."},{"word":"Acquirer","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who acquires."},{"word":"Acquiry","type":"(n.)","description":"Acquirement."},{"word":"Acquisite","type":"(a.)","description":"Acquired."},{"word":"Acquisition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of acquiring."},{"word":"Acquisition","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition."},{"word":"Acquisitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Acquired."},{"word":"Acquisitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition."},{"word":"Acquisitively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the way of acquisition."},{"word":"Acquisitiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession."},{"word":"Acquisitiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing."},{"word":"Acquisitor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acquires."},{"word":"Acquist","type":"(n.)","description":"Acquisition; gain."},{"word":"Acquit","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Acquitted; set free; rid of."},{"word":"Acquitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Acquit"},{"word":"Acquitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Acquit"},{"word":"Acquit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite."},{"word":"Acquit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay for; to atone for."},{"word":"Acquit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions."},{"word":"Acquit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear one's self."},{"word":"Acquit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly."},{"word":"Acquitment","type":"(n.)","description":"Acquittal."},{"word":"Acquittal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance."},{"word":"Acquittal","type":"(n.)","description":"A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court."},{"word":"Acquittance","type":"(n.)","description":"The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability."},{"word":"Acquittance","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand."},{"word":"Acquittance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acquit."},{"word":"Acquitter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acquits or releases."},{"word":"Acrania","type":"(n.)","description":"Partial or total absence of the skull."},{"word":"Acrania","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists."},{"word":"Acranial","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting a skull."},{"word":"Acrase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Acraze"},{"word":"Acraze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To craze."},{"word":"Acraze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impair; to destroy."},{"word":"Acrasia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Acrasy"},{"word":"Acrasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Excess; intemperance."},{"word":"Acraspeda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora."},{"word":"Acre","type":"(n.)","description":"Any field of arable or pasture land."},{"word":"Acre","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English."},{"word":"Acreable","type":"(a.)","description":"Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce."},{"word":"Acreage","type":"(n.)","description":"Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country."},{"word":"Acred","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men."},{"word":"Acrid","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts."},{"word":"Acrid","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions."},{"word":"Acrid","type":"(a.)","description":"Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing."},{"word":"Acridity","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Acridness"},{"word":"Acridness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech."},{"word":"Acridly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an acid manner."},{"word":"Acrimonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall."},{"word":"Acrimonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper."},{"word":"Acrimoniously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an acrimonious manner."},{"word":"Acrimoniousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony."},{"word":"Acrimonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acrimony"},{"word":"Acrimony","type":"(n.)","description":"A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants."},{"word":"Acrimony","type":"(n.)","description":"Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners."},{"word":"Acrisia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Acrisy"},{"word":"Acrisy","type":"(n.)","description":"Inability to judge."},{"word":"Acrisy","type":"(n.)","description":"Undecided character of a disease."},{"word":"Acrita","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed."},{"word":"Acritan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Acrita."},{"word":"Acritan","type":"(n.)","description":"An individual of the Acrita."},{"word":"Acrite","type":"(a.)","description":"Acritan."},{"word":"Acritical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess."},{"word":"Acritochromacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Color blindness; achromatopsy."},{"word":"Acritude","type":"(n.)","description":"Acridity; pungency joined with heat."},{"word":"Acrity","type":"(n.)","description":"Sharpness; keenness."},{"word":"Acroamatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Acroamatical"},{"word":"Acroamatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound."},{"word":"Acroatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Acroamatic."},{"word":"Acrobat","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats."},{"word":"Acrobatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an acrobat."},{"word":"Acrobatism","type":"(n.)","description":"Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting."},{"word":"Acrocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk."},{"word":"Acrocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses."},{"word":"Acrocephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by a high skull."},{"word":"Acrocephaly","type":"(n.)","description":"Loftiness of skull."},{"word":"Acroceraunian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of \"thunder-smitten\" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia."},{"word":"Acrodactylum","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper surface of the toes, individually."},{"word":"Acrodont","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge."},{"word":"Acrodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the acrodonts."},{"word":"Acrogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia."},{"word":"Acrogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant."},{"word":"Acrolein","type":"(n.)","description":"A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating."},{"word":"Acrolith","type":"(n.)","description":"A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood."},{"word":"Acrolithan","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Acrolithic"},{"word":"Acrolithic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith."},{"word":"Acromegaly","type":"(n.)","description":"Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face."},{"word":"Acromial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the acromion."},{"word":"Acromion","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer extremity of the shoulder blade."},{"word":"Acromonogrammatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends."},{"word":"Acronyc","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Acronychal"},{"word":"Acronychal","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical."},{"word":"Acronycally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vice versa."},{"word":"Acronyctous","type":"(a.)","description":"Acronycal."},{"word":"Acrook","type":"(adv.)","description":"Crookedly."},{"word":"Acropetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence."},{"word":"Acrophony","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object."},{"word":"Acropodium","type":"(n.)","description":"The entire upper surface of the foot."},{"word":"Acropolis","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens."},{"word":"Acropolitan","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an acropolis."},{"word":"Acrospire","type":"(n.)","description":"The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form."},{"word":"Acrospire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put forth the first sprout."},{"word":"Acrospore","type":"(n.)","description":"A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi."},{"word":"Acrosporous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having acrospores."},{"word":"Across","type":"(n.)","description":"From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river."},{"word":"Across","type":"(adv.)","description":"From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across."},{"word":"Across","type":"(adv.)","description":"Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry."},{"word":"Acrostic","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto."},{"word":"Acrostic","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian."},{"word":"Acrostic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Acrostical"},{"word":"Acrostical","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics."},{"word":"Acrostically","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the manner of an acrostic."},{"word":"Acrotarsium","type":"(n.)","description":"The instep or front of the tarsus."},{"word":"Acroteleutic","type":"(n.)","description":"The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response."},{"word":"Acroter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Acroterium."},{"word":"Acroterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an acroterium; as, acroterial ornaments."},{"word":"Acroteria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Acroterium"},{"word":"Acroterium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture."},{"word":"Acroterium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade."},{"word":"Acrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or affecting the surface."},{"word":"Acrotism","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack or defect of pulsation."},{"word":"Acrotomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cleavage parallel with the base."},{"word":"Acrylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid."},{"word":"Act","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed."},{"word":"Act","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress."},{"word":"Act","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done."},{"word":"Act","type":"(n.)","description":"A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed."},{"word":"Act","type":"(n.)","description":"A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student."},{"word":"Act","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence."},{"word":"Act","type":"(n.)","description":"Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing)."},{"word":"Acted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Act"},{"word":"Acting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Act"},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move to action; to actuate; to animate."},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform; to execute; to do."},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage."},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero."},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feign or counterfeit; to simulate."},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food."},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will."},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so."},{"word":"Act","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform on the stage; to represent a character."},{"word":"Actable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being acted."},{"word":"Actinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth."},{"word":"Actinaria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not."},{"word":"Acting","type":"(a.)","description":"Operating in any way."},{"word":"Acting","type":"(a.)","description":"Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent."},{"word":"Actiniae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Actinia"},{"word":"Actinias","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Actinia"},{"word":"Actinia","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]."},{"word":"Actinia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus in the family Actinidae."},{"word":"Actinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays."},{"word":"Actiniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone."},{"word":"Actinism","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography."},{"word":"Actinium","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light."},{"word":"Actino-chemistry","type":"(n.)","description":"Chemistry in its relations to actinism."},{"word":"Actinograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light."},{"word":"Actinoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia."},{"word":"Actinolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses."},{"word":"Actinolitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite."},{"word":"Actinology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays."},{"word":"Actinomere","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata."},{"word":"Actinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays."},{"word":"Actinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light."},{"word":"Actinometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic."},{"word":"Actinometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The measurement of the force of solar radiation."},{"word":"Actinometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of light."},{"word":"Actinophorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having straight projecting spines."},{"word":"Actinosome","type":"(n.)","description":"The entire body of a coelenterate."},{"word":"Actinost","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish."},{"word":"Actinostome","type":"(n.)","description":"The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal."},{"word":"Actinotrocha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles."},{"word":"Actinozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example."},{"word":"Actinozoal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Actinozoa."},{"word":"Actinozoon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Actinozoa."},{"word":"Actinula","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action."},{"word":"Action","type":"(n.)","description":"The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe."},{"word":"Actionable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable."},{"word":"Actionably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an actionable manner."},{"word":"Actionary","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Actionist"},{"word":"Actionist","type":"(n.)","description":"A shareholder in joint-stock company."},{"word":"Actionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Void of action."},{"word":"Activate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make active."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive."},{"word":"Active","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state."},{"word":"Actively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively."},{"word":"Actively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an active signification; as, a word used actively."},{"word":"Activeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity."},{"word":"Activities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Activity"},{"word":"Activity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities."},{"word":"Actless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without action or spirit."},{"word":"Acton","type":"(n.)","description":"A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail."},{"word":"Actor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer."},{"word":"Actor","type":"(n.)","description":"A theatrical performer; a stageplayer."},{"word":"Actor","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes."},{"word":"Actor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant."},{"word":"Actress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female actor or doer."},{"word":"Actress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part."},{"word":"Actual","type":"(a.)","description":"Involving or comprising action; active."},{"word":"Actual","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion."},{"word":"Actual","type":"(a.)","description":"In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country."},{"word":"Actual","type":"(n.)","description":"Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts."},{"word":"Actualist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist."},{"word":"Actualities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Actuality"},{"word":"Actuality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature."},{"word":"Actualization","type":"(n.)","description":"A making actual or really existent."},{"word":"Actualize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make actual; to realize in action."},{"word":"Actually","type":"(adv.)","description":"Actively."},{"word":"Actually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively."},{"word":"Actualness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being actual; actuality."},{"word":"Actuarial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity."},{"word":"Actuaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Actuary"},{"word":"Actuary","type":"(n.)","description":"A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally."},{"word":"Actuary","type":"(n.)","description":"The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances."},{"word":"Actuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Actuate"},{"word":"Actuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Actuate"},{"word":"Actuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons."},{"word":"Actuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry out in practice; to perform."},{"word":"Actuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Put in action; actuated."},{"word":"Actuation","type":"(n.)","description":"A bringing into action; movement."},{"word":"Actuator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who actuates, or puts into action."},{"word":"Actuose","type":"(a.)","description":"Very active."},{"word":"Actuosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Abundant activity."},{"word":"Acture","type":"(n.)","description":"Action."},{"word":"Acturience","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency or impulse to act."},{"word":"Acuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken."},{"word":"Acuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharpened; sharp-pointed."},{"word":"Acuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of sharpening."},{"word":"Acuition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sharpening."},{"word":"Acuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc."},{"word":"Aculeate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle."},{"word":"Aculeate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles."},{"word":"Aculeate","type":"(a.)","description":"Severe or stinging; incisive."},{"word":"Aculeated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate."},{"word":"Aculeiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a prickle."},{"word":"Aculeolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having small prickles or sharp points."},{"word":"Aculeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Aculeate."},{"word":"Aculei","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aculeus"},{"word":"Aculeus","type":"(n.)","description":"A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses."},{"word":"Aculeus","type":"(n.)","description":"A sting."},{"word":"Acumen","type":"(n.)","description":"Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination."},{"word":"Acuminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc."},{"word":"Acuminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render sharp or keen."},{"word":"Acuminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To end in, or come to, a sharp point."},{"word":"Acumination","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point."},{"word":"Acuminose","type":"(a.)","description":"Terminating in a flat, narrow end."},{"word":"Acuminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by acumen; keen."},{"word":"Acupressure","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface."},{"word":"Acupuncturation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Acupuncture."},{"word":"Acupuncture","type":"(n.)","description":"Pricking with a needle; a needle prick."},{"word":"Acupuncture","type":"(n.)","description":"The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes."},{"word":"Acupuncture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with acupuncture."},{"word":"Acustumaunce","type":"(n.)","description":"See Accustomance."},{"word":"Acutangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Acute-angled."},{"word":"Acute","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf."},{"word":"Acute","type":"(a.)","description":"Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning."},{"word":"Acute","type":"(a.)","description":"Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure."},{"word":"Acute","type":"(a.)","description":"High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent."},{"word":"Acute","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease."},{"word":"Acute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much."},{"word":"Acute-angled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle."},{"word":"Acutely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination."},{"word":"Acuteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle."},{"word":"Acuteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions."},{"word":"Acuteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds."},{"word":"Acuteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis."},{"word":"Acutifoliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sharp-pointed leaves."},{"word":"Acutilobate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having acute lobes, as some leaves."},{"word":"Ad-","type":"()","description":"As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce."},{"word":"Adact","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compel; to drive."},{"word":"Adactyl","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Adactylous"},{"word":"Adactylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without fingers or without toes."},{"word":"Adactylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals)."},{"word":"Adage","type":"(n.)","description":"An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb."},{"word":"Adagial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an adage; proverbial."},{"word":"Adagio","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow."},{"word":"Adagio","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn."},{"word":"Adam","type":"(n.)","description":"The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race."},{"word":"Adam","type":"(n.)","description":"\"Original sin;\" human frailty."},{"word":"Adamant","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness."},{"word":"Adamant","type":"(n.)","description":"Lodestone; magnet."},{"word":"Adamantean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of adamant; hard as adamant."},{"word":"Adamantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains."},{"word":"Adamantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the diamond in hardness or luster."},{"word":"Adambulacral","type":"(a.)","description":"Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish."},{"word":"Adamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Adamical"},{"word":"Adamical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him."},{"word":"Adamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Adam; a human being."},{"word":"Adamite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies."},{"word":"Adam's","type":"()","description":"See under Adam."},{"word":"Adance","type":"(adv.)","description":"Dancing."},{"word":"Adangle","type":"(adv.)","description":"Dangling."},{"word":"Adansonia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth."},{"word":"Adapt","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted; suited."},{"word":"Adapted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adapt"},{"word":"Adapting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adapt"},{"word":"Adapt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for."},{"word":"Adaptability","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Adaptableness"},{"word":"Adaptableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being adaptable; suitableness."},{"word":"Adaptable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being adapted."},{"word":"Adaptation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness."},{"word":"Adaptation","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of adapting; an adapted form."},{"word":"Adaptative","type":"(a.)","description":"Adaptive."},{"word":"Adaptedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness."},{"word":"Adapter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adapts."},{"word":"Adapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A connecting tube; an adopter."},{"word":"Adaption","type":"(n.)","description":"Adaptation."},{"word":"Adaptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting."},{"word":"Adaptiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt."},{"word":"Adaptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a suitable manner."},{"word":"Adaptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Adaptedness."},{"word":"Adaptorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Adaptive."},{"word":"Adar","type":"(n.)","description":"The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March."},{"word":"Adarce","type":"(n.)","description":"A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy."},{"word":"Adatis","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine cotton cloth of India."},{"word":"Adaunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate."},{"word":"Adaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subdue; to daunt."},{"word":"Adaw","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To awaken; to arouse."},{"word":"Adays","type":"(adv.)","description":"By day, or every day; in the daytime."},{"word":"Ad","type":"()","description":"A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor."},{"word":"Added","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Add"},{"word":"Adding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Add"},{"word":"Add","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on)."},{"word":"Add","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column."},{"word":"Add","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To append, as a statement; to say further."},{"word":"Add","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety."},{"word":"Add","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly."},{"word":"Addable","type":"(a.)","description":"Addible."},{"word":"Addax","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, / Oryx, nasomaculatus)."},{"word":"Addeem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To award; to adjudge."},{"word":"Addenda","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Addendum"},{"word":"Addendum","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing to be added; an appendix or addition."},{"word":"Adder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers."},{"word":"Adder","type":"(n.)","description":"A serpent."},{"word":"Adder","type":"(n.)","description":"A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho."},{"word":"Adder","type":"(n.)","description":"In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc."},{"word":"Adder","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Sea Adder."},{"word":"Adder","type":"()","description":"A dragon fly."},{"word":"Adder's-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue."},{"word":"Adder's-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"The yellow dogtooth violet."},{"word":"Adderwort","type":"(n.)","description":"The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta)."},{"word":"Addibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of being addible; capability of addition."},{"word":"Addible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being added."},{"word":"Addice","type":"(n.)","description":"See Adze."},{"word":"Addict","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Addicted; devoted."},{"word":"Addicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Addict"},{"word":"Addicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Addict"},{"word":"Addict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to."},{"word":"Addict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adapt; to make suitable; to fit."},{"word":"Addictedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being addicted; attachment."},{"word":"Addiction","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination."},{"word":"Addison's","type":"()","description":"A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal."},{"word":"Additament","type":"(n.)","description":"An addition, or a thing added."},{"word":"Addition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution."},{"word":"Addition","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building."},{"word":"Addition","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers."},{"word":"Addition","type":"(n.)","description":"A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half."},{"word":"Addition","type":"(n.)","description":"A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title."},{"word":"Addition","type":"(n.)","description":"Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement."},{"word":"Additional","type":"(a.)","description":"Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition."},{"word":"Additional","type":"(n.)","description":"Something added."},{"word":"Additionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of addition."},{"word":"Additionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Additional."},{"word":"Addititious","type":"(a.)","description":"Additive."},{"word":"Additive","type":"(a.)","description":"Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive."},{"word":"Additory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to add; making some addition."},{"word":"Addle","type":"(n.)","description":"Liquid filth; mire."},{"word":"Addle","type":"(n.)","description":"Lees; dregs."},{"word":"Addle","type":"(a.)","description":"Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled."},{"word":"Addled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Addle"},{"word":"Addling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Addle"},{"word":"Addle","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain."},{"word":"Addle","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To earn by labor."},{"word":"Addle","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To thrive or grow; to ripen."},{"word":"Addle-brain","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Addle-pate"},{"word":"Addle-head","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Addle-pate"},{"word":"Addle-pate","type":"(n.)","description":"A foolish or dull-witted fellow."},{"word":"Addle-brained","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Addle-pated"},{"word":"Addle-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Addle-pated"},{"word":"Addle-pated","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull-witted; stupid."},{"word":"Addle-patedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Stupidity."},{"word":"Addlings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Earnings."},{"word":"Addoom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjudge."},{"word":"Addorsed","type":"(a.)","description":"Set or turned back to back."},{"word":"Addressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Address"},{"word":"Addressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Address"},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"To aim; to direct."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"To prepare or make ready."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"To clothe or array; to dress."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience)."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v.)","description":"To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prepare one's self."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To direct speech."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Act of preparing one's self."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady."},{"word":"Address","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness."},{"word":"Addressee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom anything is addressed."},{"word":"Addression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of addressing or directing one's course."},{"word":"Adduced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adduce"},{"word":"Adducing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adduce"},{"word":"Adduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege."},{"word":"Adducent","type":"(a.)","description":"Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent."},{"word":"Adducer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adduces."},{"word":"Adducible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being adduced."},{"word":"Adduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw towards a common center or a middle line."},{"word":"Adduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adducing or bringing forward."},{"word":"Adduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction."},{"word":"Adductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Adducing, or bringing towards or to something."},{"word":"Adductor","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose."},{"word":"Addulce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sweeten; to soothe."},{"word":"Adeem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift."},{"word":"Adelantadillo","type":"(n.)","description":"A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes."},{"word":"Adelantado","type":"(n.)","description":"A governor of a province; a commander."},{"word":"Adelaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus."},{"word":"Adeling","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Atheling."},{"word":"Adelocodonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic."},{"word":"Adelopod","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal having feet that are not apparent."},{"word":"Adelphia","type":"(n.)","description":"A \"brotherhood,\" or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc."},{"word":"Adelphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous."},{"word":"Adempt","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Takes away."},{"word":"Ademption","type":"(n.)","description":"The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like."},{"word":"Aden-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Adeno-"},{"word":"Adeno-","type":"()","description":"Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands."},{"word":"Adenalgia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Adenalgy"},{"word":"Adenalgy","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain in a gland."},{"word":"Adeniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a gland; adenoid."},{"word":"Adenitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Glandular inflammation."},{"word":"Adenographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to adenography."},{"word":"Adenography","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of anatomy which describes the glands."},{"word":"Adenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Adenoidal"},{"word":"Adenoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Glandlike; glandular."},{"word":"Adenological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to adenology."},{"word":"Adenology","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of physiology that treats of the glands."},{"word":"Adenophorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing glands."},{"word":"Adenophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having glands on the leaves."},{"word":"Adenose","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous."},{"word":"Adenotomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to adenotomy."},{"word":"Adenotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands."},{"word":"Adenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Adenose."},{"word":"Adeps","type":"(n.)","description":"Animal fat; lard."},{"word":"Adept","type":"(n.)","description":"One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy."},{"word":"Adept","type":"(a.)","description":"Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient."},{"word":"Adeption","type":"(a.)","description":"An obtaining; attainment."},{"word":"Adeptist","type":"(n.)","description":"A skilled alchemist."},{"word":"Adeptness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being adept; skill."},{"word":"Adequacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure."},{"word":"Adequate","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition."},{"word":"Adequate","type":"(a.)","description":"To equalize; to make adequate."},{"word":"Adequate","type":"(a.)","description":"To equal."},{"word":"Adequately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adequate manner."},{"word":"Adequateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy."},{"word":"Adequation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent."},{"word":"Adesmy","type":"(n.)","description":"The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire."},{"word":"Adessenarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation."},{"word":"Adfected","type":"(v.)","description":"See Affected, 5."},{"word":"Adfiliated","type":"(a.)","description":"See Affiliated."},{"word":"Adfiliation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Affiliation."},{"word":"Adfluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"See Affluxion."},{"word":"Adhamant","type":"(a.)","description":"Clinging, as by hooks."},{"word":"Adhered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adhere"},{"word":"Adhering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adhere"},{"word":"Adhere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura."},{"word":"Adhere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church."},{"word":"Adhere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree."},{"word":"Adherence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of adhering."},{"word":"Adherence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions."},{"word":"Adherency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being adherent; adherence."},{"word":"Adherency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which adheres."},{"word":"Adherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Sticking; clinging; adhering."},{"word":"Adherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Attached as an attribute or circumstance."},{"word":"Adherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals."},{"word":"Adherent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church."},{"word":"Adherent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which adheres; an appendage."},{"word":"Adherently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adherent manner."},{"word":"Adherer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adheres; an adherent."},{"word":"Adhesion","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like."},{"word":"Adhesion","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy."},{"word":"Adhesion","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent."},{"word":"Adhesion","type":"(n.)","description":"The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion."},{"word":"Adhesion","type":"(n.)","description":"Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process."},{"word":"Adhesion","type":"(n.)","description":"The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant."},{"word":"Adhesive","type":"(a.)","description":"Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances."},{"word":"Adhesive","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt or tending to adhere; clinging."},{"word":"Adhesively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adhesive manner."},{"word":"Adhesiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union."},{"word":"Adhesiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse."},{"word":"Adhibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit, as a person or thing; to take in."},{"word":"Adhibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use or apply; to administer."},{"word":"Adhibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attach; to affix."},{"word":"Adhibition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adhibiting; application; use."},{"word":"Ad","type":"()","description":"A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man."},{"word":"Adhort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhort; to advise."},{"word":"Adhortation","type":"(n.)","description":"Advice; exhortation."},{"word":"Adhortatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory."},{"word":"Adiabatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not giving out or receiving heat."},{"word":"Adiactinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not transmitting the actinic rays."},{"word":"Adiantum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort."},{"word":"Adiaphorism","type":"(n.)","description":"Religious indifference."},{"word":"Adiaphorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical."},{"word":"Adiaphoristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice."},{"word":"Adiaphorite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Adiaphorist."},{"word":"Adiaphorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Indifferent or neutral."},{"word":"Adiaphorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines."},{"word":"Adiaphory","type":"(n.)","description":"Indifference."},{"word":"Adiathermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not pervious to heat."},{"word":"Adieu","type":"(interj. & adv.)","description":"Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting."},{"word":"Adieus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Adieu"},{"word":"Adieu","type":"(n.)","description":"A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting."},{"word":"Adight","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Adight"},{"word":"Adight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress."},{"word":"Ad","type":"()","description":"Without limit; endlessly."},{"word":"Ad","type":"()","description":"Meanwhile; temporary."},{"word":"Adipescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming fatty."},{"word":"Adipic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid."},{"word":"Adipocerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into adipocere."},{"word":"Adipoceration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of changing into adipocere."},{"word":"Adipocere","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration."},{"word":"Adipoceriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor."},{"word":"Adipocerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like adipocere."},{"word":"Adipose","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty."},{"word":"Adiposeness","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Adiposity"},{"word":"Adiposity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fat; fatness."},{"word":"Adipous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fatty; adipose."},{"word":"Adipsous","type":"(a.)","description":"Quenching thirst, as certain fruits."},{"word":"Adipsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of thirst."},{"word":"Adit","type":"(n.)","description":"An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel."},{"word":"Adit","type":"(n.)","description":"Admission; approach; access."},{"word":"Adjacence","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Adjacency"},{"word":"Adjacency","type":"()","description":"The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings."},{"word":"Adjacency","type":"()","description":"That which is adjacent."},{"word":"Adjacent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway."},{"word":"Adjacent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is adjacent."},{"word":"Adjacently","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to be adjacent."},{"word":"Adject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add or annex; to join."},{"word":"Adjection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added."},{"word":"Adjectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed."},{"word":"Adjectitious","type":"()","description":"Added; additional."},{"word":"Adjectival","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective."},{"word":"Adjectivally","type":"(adv.)","description":"As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively."},{"word":"Adjective","type":"(n.)","description":"Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence."},{"word":"Adjective","type":"(n.)","description":"Not standing by itself; dependent."},{"word":"Adjective","type":"(n.)","description":"Relating to procedure."},{"word":"Adjective","type":"(n.)","description":"A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, \"a wise ruler,\" wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler."},{"word":"Adjective","type":"(n.)","description":"A dependent; an accessory."},{"word":"Adjectived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adjective"},{"word":"Adjectiving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adjective"},{"word":"Adjective","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective."},{"word":"Adjectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively."},{"word":"Adjoined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adjoin"},{"word":"Adjoining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adjoin"},{"word":"Adjoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append."},{"word":"Adjoin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin."},{"word":"Adjoin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To join one's self."},{"word":"Adjoinant","type":"(a.)","description":"Contiguous."},{"word":"Adjoining","type":"(a.)","description":"Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room."},{"word":"Adjoint","type":"(n.)","description":"An adjunct; a helper."},{"word":"Adjourned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adjourn"},{"word":"Adjourning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adjourn"},{"word":"Adjourn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate."},{"word":"Adjourn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day."},{"word":"Adjournal","type":"(n.)","description":"Adjournment; postponement."},{"word":"Adjournment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day."},{"word":"Adjournment","type":"(n.)","description":"The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business."},{"word":"Adjudged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adjudge"},{"word":"Adjudging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adjudge"},{"word":"Adjudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor."},{"word":"Adjudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term."},{"word":"Adjudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sentence; to condemn."},{"word":"Adjudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regard or hold; to judge; to deem."},{"word":"Adjudger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adjudges."},{"word":"Adjudgment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication."},{"word":"Adjudicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adjudicate"},{"word":"Adjudicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adjudicate"},{"word":"Adjudicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree."},{"word":"Adjudicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case."},{"word":"Adjudication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially."},{"word":"Adjudication","type":"(n.)","description":"A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence."},{"word":"Adjudication","type":"(n.)","description":"The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt."},{"word":"Adjudication","type":"(n.)","description":"A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt."},{"word":"Adjudicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Adjudicating."},{"word":"Adjudicator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adjudicates."},{"word":"Adjudicature","type":"(n.)","description":"Adjudication."},{"word":"Adjugate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To yoke to."},{"word":"Adjument","type":"(n.)","description":"Help; support; also, a helper."},{"word":"Adjuvant","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies."},{"word":"Adjuvant","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient."},{"word":"Adjunct","type":"(a.)","description":"Conjoined; attending; consequent."},{"word":"Adjunct","type":"(n.)","description":"Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it."},{"word":"Adjunct","type":"(n.)","description":"A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate."},{"word":"Adjunct","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of \"History.\""},{"word":"Adjunct","type":"(n.)","description":"A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind."},{"word":"Adjunct","type":"(n.)","description":"A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a."},{"word":"Adjunction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of joining; the thing joined or added."},{"word":"Adjunctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct."},{"word":"Adjunctive","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, is joined."},{"word":"Adjunctively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adjunctive manner."},{"word":"Adjunctly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with."},{"word":"Adjuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal."},{"word":"Adjuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The form of oath or appeal."},{"word":"Adjuratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing an adjuration."},{"word":"Adjured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adjure"},{"word":"Adjuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adjure"},{"word":"Adjure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly."},{"word":"Adjurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adjures."},{"word":"Adjusted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adjust"},{"word":"Adjusting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adjust"},{"word":"Adjust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard."},{"word":"Adjust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system."},{"word":"Adjust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted."},{"word":"Adjust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope."},{"word":"Adjustable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being adjusted."},{"word":"Adjustage","type":"(n.)","description":"Adjustment."},{"word":"Adjuster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, adjusts."},{"word":"Adjustive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to adjust."},{"word":"Adjustment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation."},{"word":"Adjustment","type":"(n.)","description":"Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling."},{"word":"Adjustment","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment."},{"word":"Adjutage","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ajutage."},{"word":"Adjutancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an adjutant."},{"word":"Adjutancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance."},{"word":"Adjutant","type":"(n.)","description":"A helper; an assistant."},{"word":"Adjutant","type":"(n.)","description":"A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty."},{"word":"Adjutant","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits."},{"word":"Adjutator","type":"(n.)","description":"A corruption of Agitator."},{"word":"Adjute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add."},{"word":"Adjutor","type":"(n.)","description":"A helper or assistant."},{"word":"Adjutory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to help or assist; helping."},{"word":"Adjutrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A female helper or assistant."},{"word":"Adjuvant","type":"(a.)","description":"Helping; helpful; assisting."},{"word":"Adjuvant","type":"(n.)","description":"An assistant."},{"word":"Adjuvant","type":"(n.)","description":"An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient."},{"word":"Adlegation","type":"(n.)","description":"A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire."},{"word":"Ad","type":"()","description":"At one's pleasure; as one wishes."},{"word":"Adlocution","type":"(n.)","description":"See Allocution."},{"word":"Admarginate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write in the margin."},{"word":"Admaxillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Near to the maxilla or jawbone."},{"word":"Admeasure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To measure."},{"word":"Admeasure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture."},{"word":"Admeasure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The measure of a thing; dimensions; size."},{"word":"Admeasure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff."},{"word":"Admeasurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who admeasures."},{"word":"Admensuration","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Admeasurement."},{"word":"Adminicle","type":"(n.)","description":"Help or support; an auxiliary."},{"word":"Adminicle","type":"(n.)","description":"Corroborative or explanatory proof."},{"word":"Adminicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence."},{"word":"Adminiculary","type":"(a.)","description":"Adminicular."},{"word":"Administered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Administer"},{"word":"Administering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Administer"},{"word":"Administer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state."},{"word":"Administer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament."},{"word":"Administer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc."},{"word":"Administer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tender, as an oath."},{"word":"Administer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor."},{"word":"Administer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister."},{"word":"Administer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B."},{"word":"Administer","type":"(n.)","description":"Administrator."},{"word":"Administerial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government."},{"word":"Administrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law."},{"word":"Administrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Executive; acting; managing affairs."},{"word":"Administrant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who administers."},{"word":"Administrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To administer."},{"word":"Administration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management."},{"word":"Administration","type":"(n.)","description":"The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain."},{"word":"Administration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament."},{"word":"Administration","type":"(n.)","description":"The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor."},{"word":"Administration","type":"(n.)","description":"The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use."},{"word":"Administrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy."},{"word":"Administrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager."},{"word":"Administrator","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority."},{"word":"Administratorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The position or office of an administrator."},{"word":"Administratrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator."},{"word":"Admirability","type":"(n.)","description":"Admirableness."},{"word":"Admirable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous."},{"word":"Admirable","type":"(a.)","description":"Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things."},{"word":"Admirableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence."},{"word":"Admirably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an admirable manner."},{"word":"Admiral","type":"(n.)","description":"A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets."},{"word":"Admiral","type":"(n.)","description":"The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet."},{"word":"Admiral","type":"(n.)","description":"A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles."},{"word":"Admiralship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral."},{"word":"Admiralties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Admiralty"},{"word":"Admiralty","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or jurisdiction of an admiral."},{"word":"Admiralty","type":"(n.)","description":"The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally."},{"word":"Admiralty","type":"(n.)","description":"The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses."},{"word":"Admiralty","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts."},{"word":"Admiralty","type":"(n.)","description":"The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business."},{"word":"Admirance","type":"(n.)","description":"Admiration."},{"word":"Admiration","type":"(n.)","description":"Wonder; astonishment."},{"word":"Admiration","type":"(n.)","description":"Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue."},{"word":"Admiration","type":"(n.)","description":"Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy."},{"word":"Admirative","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder."},{"word":"Admired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Admire"},{"word":"Admiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Admire"},{"word":"Admire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at."},{"word":"Admire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape."},{"word":"Admire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at."},{"word":"Admired","type":"(a.)","description":"Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem."},{"word":"Admired","type":"(a.)","description":"Wonderful; also, admirable."},{"word":"Admirer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly."},{"word":"Admiring","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance."},{"word":"Admissibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence."},{"word":"Admissible","type":"(a.)","description":"Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible."},{"word":"Admission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of admitting."},{"word":"Admission","type":"(n.)","description":"Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach."},{"word":"Admission","type":"(n.)","description":"The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession."},{"word":"Admission","type":"(n.)","description":"Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry."},{"word":"Admission","type":"(n.)","description":"A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence."},{"word":"Admission","type":"(n.)","description":"Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented."},{"word":"Admissive","type":"(a.)","description":"Implying an admission; tending to admit."},{"word":"Admissory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to admission."},{"word":"Admitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Admit"},{"word":"Admitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Admit"},{"word":"Admit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause."},{"word":"Admit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse."},{"word":"Admit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail."},{"word":"Admit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt."},{"word":"Admit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted."},{"word":"Admittable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admissible."},{"word":"Admittance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of admitting."},{"word":"Admittance","type":"(n.)","description":"Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception."},{"word":"Admittance","type":"(n.)","description":"Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument."},{"word":"Admittance","type":"(n.)","description":"Admissibility."},{"word":"Admittance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate."},{"word":"Admittatur","type":"(n.)","description":"The certificate of admission given in some American colleges."},{"word":"Admitted","type":"(a.)","description":"Received as true or valid; acknowledged."},{"word":"Admittedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Confessedly."},{"word":"Admitter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who admits."},{"word":"Admix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mingle with something else; to mix."},{"word":"Admixtion","type":"(n.)","description":"A mingling of different things; admixture."},{"word":"Admixture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of mixing; mixture."},{"word":"Admixture","type":"(n.)","description":"The compound formed by mixing different substances together."},{"word":"Admixture","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is mixed with anything."},{"word":"Admonished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Admonish"},{"word":"Admonishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Admonish"},{"word":"Admonish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort."},{"word":"Admonish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause."},{"word":"Admonish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify."},{"word":"Admonisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who admonishes."},{"word":"Admonishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Admonition."},{"word":"Admonition","type":"(n.)","description":"Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning."},{"word":"Admonitioner","type":"(n.)","description":"Admonisher."},{"word":"Admonitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Admonitory."},{"word":"Admonitor","type":"(n.)","description":"Admonisher; monitor."},{"word":"Admonitorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Admonitory."},{"word":"Admonitory","type":"(a.)","description":"That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance."},{"word":"Admonitrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A female admonitor."},{"word":"Admortization","type":"(n.)","description":"The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain."},{"word":"Admove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move or conduct to or toward."},{"word":"Adnascent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing to or on something else."},{"word":"Adnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Grown to congenitally."},{"word":"Adnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts."},{"word":"Adnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals."},{"word":"Adnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs."},{"word":"Adnominal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun."},{"word":"Adnoun","type":"(n.)","description":"An adjective, or attribute."},{"word":"Adnubilated","type":"(a.)","description":"Clouded; obscured."},{"word":"Ado","type":"(n.)","description":"To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado."},{"word":"Ado","type":"(n.)","description":"Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles."},{"word":"Adobe","type":"(n.)","description":"An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico."},{"word":"Adolescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals."},{"word":"Adolescency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness."},{"word":"Adolescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity."},{"word":"Adolescent","type":"(n.)","description":"A youth."},{"word":"Adonean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic."},{"word":"Adonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty."},{"word":"Adonic","type":"(n.)","description":"An Adonic verse."},{"word":"Adonis","type":"(n.)","description":"A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar."},{"word":"Adonis","type":"(n.)","description":"A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy."},{"word":"Adonis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower."},{"word":"Adonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated \"Jehovah\" are really the vowel points of the word \"Adonai.\" See Jehovist."},{"word":"Adonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beautify; to dandify."},{"word":"Adoor","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Adoors"},{"word":"Adoors","type":"()","description":"At the door; of the door; as, out adoors."},{"word":"Adopted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adopt"},{"word":"Adopting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adopt"},{"word":"Adopt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child."},{"word":"Adopt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted."},{"word":"Adoptable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being adopted."},{"word":"Adopted","type":"(a.)","description":"Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word."},{"word":"Adopter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adopts."},{"word":"Adopter","type":"(n.)","description":"A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters."},{"word":"Adoption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child."},{"word":"Adoption","type":"(n.)","description":"Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another."},{"word":"Adoption","type":"(n.)","description":"The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions."},{"word":"Adoptionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption."},{"word":"Adoptious","type":"(a.)","description":"Adopted."},{"word":"Adoptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language."},{"word":"Adorability","type":"(n.)","description":"Adorableness."},{"word":"Adorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors."},{"word":"Adorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of the utmost love or respect."},{"word":"Adorableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration."},{"word":"Adorably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adorable manner."},{"word":"Adoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god."},{"word":"Adoration","type":"(n.)","description":"Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion."},{"word":"Adoration","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave."},{"word":"Adoring","type":"(imp. & p. p. Adored (/)","description":" p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore"},{"word":"Adore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine."},{"word":"Adore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize."},{"word":"Adore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn."},{"word":"Adorement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adoring; adoration."},{"word":"Adorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer."},{"word":"Adoringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With adoration."},{"word":"Adorned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adorn"},{"word":"Adorning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adorn"},{"word":"Adorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive."},{"word":"Adorn","type":"(n.)","description":"Adornment."},{"word":"Adorn","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned; decorated."},{"word":"Adornation","type":"(n.)","description":"Adornment."},{"word":"Adorner","type":"(n.)","description":"He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier."},{"word":"Adorningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By adorning; decoratively."},{"word":"Adornment","type":"(n.)","description":"An adorning; an ornament; a decoration."},{"word":"Adosculation","type":"(n.)","description":"Impregnation by external contact, without intromission."},{"word":"Adown","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground."},{"word":"Adown","type":"(prep.)","description":"Down."},{"word":"Adpress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Appressed."},{"word":"Adrad","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Put in dread; afraid."},{"word":"Adragant","type":"(n.)","description":"Gum tragacanth."},{"word":"Adread","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To dread."},{"word":"Adreamed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream."},{"word":"Adrenal","type":"(a.)","description":"Suprarenal."},{"word":"Adrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows."},{"word":"Adriatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice."},{"word":"Adrift","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig."},{"word":"Adrip","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip."},{"word":"Adrogate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adopt (a person who is his own master)."},{"word":"Adrogation","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation."},{"word":"Adroit","type":"(a.)","description":"Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply."},{"word":"Adroitly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adroit manner."},{"word":"Adroitness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity."},{"word":"Adry","type":"(a.)","description":"In a dry or thirsty condition."},{"word":"Adscititious","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious."},{"word":"Adscript","type":"(a.)","description":"Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs."},{"word":"Adscript","type":"(n.)","description":"One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf."},{"word":"Adscriptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it."},{"word":"Adsignification","type":"(n.)","description":"Additional signification."},{"word":"Adsignify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To denote additionally."},{"word":"Adstrict","type":"(n.)","description":"See Astrict, and Astriction."},{"word":"Adstrictory","type":"(a.)","description":"See Astrictory."},{"word":"Adstringent","type":"(a.)","description":"See Astringent."},{"word":"Adularia","type":"(n.)","description":"A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone."},{"word":"Adulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flatter in a servile way."},{"word":"Adulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited."},{"word":"Adulator","type":"(n.)","description":"A servile or hypocritical flatterer."},{"word":"Adulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address."},{"word":"Adulatress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who flatters with servility."},{"word":"Adult","type":"(a.)","description":"Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age."},{"word":"Adult","type":"(n.)","description":"A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity."},{"word":"Adulter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To commit adultery; to pollute."},{"word":"Adulterant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is used to adulterate anything."},{"word":"Adulterant","type":"(a.)","description":"Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes."},{"word":"Adulterated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adulterate"},{"word":"Adulterating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adulterate"},{"word":"Adulterate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defile by adultery."},{"word":"Adulterate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc."},{"word":"Adulterate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To commit adultery."},{"word":"Adulterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Tainted with adultery."},{"word":"Adulterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious."},{"word":"Adulteration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture."},{"word":"Adulteration","type":"(n.)","description":"An adulterated state or product."},{"word":"Adulterator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adulterates or corrupts."},{"word":"Adulterer","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife."},{"word":"Adulterer","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who violates his religious covenant."},{"word":"Adulteress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who commits adultery."},{"word":"Adulteress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who violates her religious engagements."},{"word":"Adulterine","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal."},{"word":"Adulterine","type":"(n.)","description":"An illegitimate child."},{"word":"Adulterize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To commit adultery."},{"word":"Adulterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit."},{"word":"Adulterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by adulteration; spurious."},{"word":"Adulterously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adulterous manner."},{"word":"Adulteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Adultery"},{"word":"Adultery","type":"(n.)","description":"The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband."},{"word":"Adultery","type":"(n.)","description":"Adulteration; corruption."},{"word":"Adultery","type":"(n.)","description":"Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment."},{"word":"Adultery","type":"(n.)","description":"Faithlessness in religion."},{"word":"Adultery","type":"(n.)","description":"The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery."},{"word":"Adultery","type":"(n.)","description":"The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop."},{"word":"Adultery","type":"(n.)","description":"Injury; degradation; ruin."},{"word":"Adultness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being adult."},{"word":"Adumbrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth."},{"word":"Adumbrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth."},{"word":"Adumbrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overshadow; to shade."},{"word":"Adumbration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth."},{"word":"Adumbration","type":"(n.)","description":"A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing."},{"word":"Adumbration","type":"(n.)","description":"The shadow or outlines of a figure."},{"word":"Adumbrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Faintly representing; typical."},{"word":"Adunation","type":"(n.)","description":"A uniting; union."},{"word":"Adunc","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Adunque"},{"word":"Adunque","type":"(a.)","description":"Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill."},{"word":"Aduncity","type":"(n.)","description":"Curvature inwards; hookedness."},{"word":"Aduncous","type":"(a.)","description":"Curved inwards; hooked."},{"word":"Adure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burn up."},{"word":"Adust","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflamed or scorched; fiery."},{"word":"Adust","type":"(a.)","description":"Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt."},{"word":"Adust","type":"(a.)","description":"Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy."},{"word":"Adusted","type":"(a.)","description":"Burnt; adust."},{"word":"Adustible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be burnt."},{"word":"Adustion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried."},{"word":"Adustion","type":"(n.)","description":"Cauterization."},{"word":"Ad","type":"()","description":"A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent."},{"word":"Advanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Advance"},{"word":"Advancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Advance"},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise; to elevate."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise to a higher rank; to promote."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extol; to laud."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v.)","description":"The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v.)","description":"Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v.)","description":"An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v.)","description":"The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(v.)","description":"A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand."},{"word":"Advance","type":"(a.)","description":"Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication."},{"word":"Advanced","type":"(a.)","description":"In the van or front."},{"word":"Advanced","type":"(a.)","description":"In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers."},{"word":"Advanced","type":"(a.)","description":"Far on in life or time."},{"word":"Advancement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning."},{"word":"Advancement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5."},{"word":"Advancement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution."},{"word":"Advancement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Settlement on a wife, or jointure."},{"word":"Advancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who advances; a promoter."},{"word":"Advancer","type":"(n.)","description":"A second branch of a buck's antler."},{"word":"Advancive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to advance."},{"word":"Advantage","type":"(n.)","description":"Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position."},{"word":"Advantage","type":"(n.)","description":"Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over."},{"word":"Advantage","type":"(n.)","description":"Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution."},{"word":"Advantage","type":"(n.)","description":"Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen)."},{"word":"Advantaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Advantage"},{"word":"Advantaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Advantage"},{"word":"Advantage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit."},{"word":"Advantageable","type":"(a.)","description":"Advantageous."},{"word":"Advantageous","type":"(a.)","description":"Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation."},{"word":"Advantageously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Profitably; with advantage."},{"word":"Advantageousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Profitableness."},{"word":"Advene","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential."},{"word":"Advenient","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming from outward causes; superadded."},{"word":"Advent","type":"(n.)","description":"The period including the four Sundays before Christmas."},{"word":"Advent","type":"(n.)","description":"The first or the expected second coming of Christ."},{"word":"Advent","type":"(n.)","description":"Coming; any important arrival; approach."},{"word":"Adventist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists."},{"word":"Adventitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign."},{"word":"Adventitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots."},{"word":"Adventitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants."},{"word":"Adventitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Acquired, as diseases; accidental."},{"word":"Adventive","type":"(a.)","description":"Accidental."},{"word":"Adventive","type":"(a.)","description":"Adventitious."},{"word":"Adventive","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant."},{"word":"Adventual","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the season of advent."},{"word":"Adventure","type":"(n.)","description":"That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss."},{"word":"Adventure","type":"(n.)","description":"Risk; danger; peril."},{"word":"Adventure","type":"(n.)","description":"The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat."},{"word":"Adventure","type":"(n.)","description":"A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life."},{"word":"Adventure","type":"(n.)","description":"A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account."},{"word":"Adventured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Adventure"},{"word":"Adventuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Adventure"},{"word":"Adventure","type":"(n.)","description":"To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture."},{"word":"Adventure","type":"(n.)","description":"To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare."},{"word":"Adventure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To try the chance; to take the risk."},{"word":"Adventureful","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to adventure."},{"word":"Adventurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises."},{"word":"Adventurer","type":"(n.)","description":"A social pretender on the lookout for advancement."},{"word":"Adventuresome","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome."},{"word":"Adventuress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means."},{"word":"Adventurous","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons."},{"word":"Adventurous","type":"(n.)","description":"Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song."},{"word":"Adventurously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly."},{"word":"Adventurousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness."},{"word":"Adverb","type":"(n.)","description":"A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white."},{"word":"Adverbial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form."},{"word":"Adverbiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being adverbial."},{"word":"Adverbialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give the force or form of an adverb to."},{"word":"Adverbially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an adverb."},{"word":"Adversaria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes."},{"word":"Adversarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Hostile."},{"word":"Adversaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Adversary"},{"word":"Adversary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe."},{"word":"Adversary","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic."},{"word":"Adversary","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit."},{"word":"Adversative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force."},{"word":"Adversative","type":"(n.)","description":"An adversative word."},{"word":"Adverse","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste."},{"word":"Adverse","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposite."},{"word":"Adverse","type":"(a.)","description":"In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse."},{"word":"Adverse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose; to resist."},{"word":"Adversely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise."},{"word":"Adverseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being adverse; opposition."},{"word":"Adversifoliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Adversifolious"},{"word":"Adversifolious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem."},{"word":"Adversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning towards; attention."},{"word":"Adversities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Adversity"},{"word":"Adversity","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition; contrariety."},{"word":"Adverted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Advert"},{"word":"Adverting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Advert"},{"word":"Advert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said."},{"word":"Advertence","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Advertency"},{"word":"Advertency","type":"()","description":"The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness."},{"word":"Advertent","type":"(a.)","description":"Attentive; heedful; regardful."},{"word":"Advertised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Advertise"},{"word":"Advertising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Advertise"},{"word":"Advertise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss."},{"word":"Advertise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting."},{"word":"Advertisement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of informing or notifying; notification."},{"word":"Advertisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Admonition; advice; warning."},{"word":"Advertisement","type":"(n.)","description":"A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements."},{"word":"Advertiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, advertises."},{"word":"Advice","type":"(n.)","description":"An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel."},{"word":"Advice","type":"(n.)","description":"Deliberate consideration; knowledge."},{"word":"Advice","type":"(n.)","description":"Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural."},{"word":"Advice","type":"(n.)","description":"Counseling to perform a specific illegal act."},{"word":"Advisability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being advisable; advisableness."},{"word":"Advisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent."},{"word":"Advisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready to receive advice."},{"word":"Advisable-ness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability."},{"word":"Advisably","type":"(adv.)","description":"With advice; wisely."},{"word":"Advised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Advise"},{"word":"Advising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Advise"},{"word":"Advise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn."},{"word":"Advise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk."},{"word":"Advise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consider; to deliberate."},{"word":"Advise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends."},{"word":"Advisedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely."},{"word":"Advisedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design."},{"word":"Advisedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution."},{"word":"Advisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Counsel; advice; information."},{"word":"Advisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Consideration; deliberation; consultation."},{"word":"Adviser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who advises."},{"word":"Advisership","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an adviser."},{"word":"Adviso","type":"(n.)","description":"Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat."},{"word":"Advisory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory."},{"word":"Advocacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession."},{"word":"Advocate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor."},{"word":"Advocate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth."},{"word":"Advocate","type":"(n.)","description":"Christ, considered as an intercessor."},{"word":"Advocated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Advocate"},{"word":"Advocating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Advocate"},{"word":"Advocate","type":"(n.)","description":"To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly."},{"word":"Advocate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as advocate."},{"word":"Advocateship","type":"(n.)","description":"Office or duty of an advocate."},{"word":"Advocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy."},{"word":"Advocation","type":"(n.)","description":"Advowson."},{"word":"Advocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court."},{"word":"Advocatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an advocate."},{"word":"Advoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To summon; to call."},{"word":"Advolution","type":"(n.)","description":"A rolling toward something."},{"word":"Advoutrer","type":"(n.)","description":"An adulterer."},{"word":"Advoutress","type":"(n.)","description":"An adulteress."},{"word":"Advoutry","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Advowtry"},{"word":"Advowtry","type":"(n.)","description":"Adultery."},{"word":"Advowee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has an advowson."},{"word":"Advowson","type":"(n.)","description":"The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]"},{"word":"Advoyer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Avoyer."},{"word":"Adward","type":"(n.)","description":"Award."},{"word":"Adynamia","type":"(n.)","description":"Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever."},{"word":"Adynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak."},{"word":"Adynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by the absence of power or force."},{"word":"Adynamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Adynamia."},{"word":"Adyta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Adytum"},{"word":"Adytum","type":"(n.)","description":"The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum."},{"word":"Adz","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Adze"},{"word":"Adze","type":"(n.)","description":"A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood."},{"word":"Adz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut with an adz."},{"word":"Ae","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Ae"},{"word":"Ae","type":"()","description":"A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E."},{"word":"Aecidia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aecidium"},{"word":"Aecidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants."},{"word":"Aedile","type":"(n.)","description":"A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer."},{"word":"Aedileship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an aedile."},{"word":"Aegean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago."},{"word":"Aegicrania","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls."},{"word":"Aegilops","type":"(n.)","description":"An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye."},{"word":"Aegilops","type":"(n.)","description":"The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed."},{"word":"Aegilops","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, called also hardgrass."},{"word":"Aegis","type":"(n.)","description":"A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection."},{"word":"Aegophony","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Egophony."},{"word":"Aegrotat","type":"(n.)","description":"A medical certificate that a student is ill."},{"word":"Aeneid","type":"(n.)","description":"The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas."},{"word":"Aeneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Colored like bronze."},{"word":"Aeolian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect."},{"word":"Aeolian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial."},{"word":"Aeolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode."},{"word":"Aeolipile","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aeolipyle"},{"word":"Aeolipyle","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve."},{"word":"Aeolotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic."},{"word":"Aeolotropy","type":"(n.)","description":"Difference of quality or property in different directions."},{"word":"Aeolus","type":"(n.)","description":"The god of the winds."},{"word":"Aeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon."},{"word":"Aeonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Eternal; everlasting."},{"word":"Aepyornis","type":"(n.)","description":"A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar."},{"word":"Aerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aerate"},{"word":"Aerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aerate"},{"word":"Aerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air."},{"word":"Aerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water."},{"word":"Aerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize."},{"word":"Aeration","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc."},{"word":"Aeration","type":"(n.)","description":"A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization."},{"word":"Aeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen."},{"word":"Aerator","type":"(n.)","description":"That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water."},{"word":"Aerial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents."},{"word":"Aerial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal."},{"word":"Aerial","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires."},{"word":"Aerial","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants."},{"word":"Aerial","type":"(a.)","description":"Light as air; ethereal."},{"word":"Aeriality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being aerial; unsubstantiality."},{"word":"Aerially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Like, or from, the air; in an aerial manner."},{"word":"Aerie","type":"(n.)","description":"The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest."},{"word":"Aeriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aeriferous tube."},{"word":"Aerification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air."},{"word":"Aerification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of becoming aerified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aeriform state; the state of being aeriform."},{"word":"Aeriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal."},{"word":"Aerify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse air into; to combine air with."},{"word":"Aerify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change into an aeriform state."},{"word":"Aero-","type":"()","description":"The combining form of the Greek word meaning air."},{"word":"Aerobies","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Microorganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids."},{"word":"Aerobiotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to, or of the nature of, aerobies; as, aerobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen."},{"word":"Aerocyst","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the air cells of algals."},{"word":"Aerodynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the force of air in motion."},{"word":"Aerodynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects."},{"word":"Aerognosy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature."},{"word":"Aerographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in aeography: an aerologist."},{"word":"Aerographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aerographical"},{"word":"Aerographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to aerography; aerological."},{"word":"Aerography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of the air or atmosphere; aerology."},{"word":"Aerohydrodynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aerohydrodynamic wheel."},{"word":"Aerolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone."},{"word":"Aerolith","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as A/rolite."},{"word":"Aerolithology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of aerolites."},{"word":"Aerolitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to aerolites; meteoric; as, aerolitic iron."},{"word":"Aerologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aerological"},{"word":"Aerological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to aerology."},{"word":"Aerologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in aerology."},{"word":"Aerology","type":"(n.)","description":"That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere."},{"word":"Aeromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather."},{"word":"Aerometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases."},{"word":"Aerometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to aerometry; as, aerometric investigations."},{"word":"Aerometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics."},{"word":"Aeronaut","type":"(n.)","description":"An aerial navigator; a balloonist."},{"word":"Aeronautic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aeronautical"},{"word":"Aeronautical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to aeronautics, or aerial sailing."},{"word":"Aeronautics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning."},{"word":"Aerophobia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aerophoby"},{"word":"Aerophoby","type":"(n.)","description":"Dread of a current of air."},{"word":"Aerophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte."},{"word":"Aeroplane","type":"(n.)","description":"A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it."},{"word":"Aeroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air."},{"word":"Aeroscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere."},{"word":"Aerose","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy."},{"word":"Aerosiderite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of meteoric iron."},{"word":"Aerosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"The atmosphere."},{"word":"Aerostat","type":"(n.)","description":"A balloon."},{"word":"Aerostat","type":"(n.)","description":"A balloonist; an aeronaut."},{"word":"Aerostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aerostatical"},{"word":"Aerostatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to aerostatics; pneumatic."},{"word":"Aerostatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Aeronautic; as, an aerostatic voyage."},{"word":"Aerostatics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aeronautics."},{"word":"Aerostation","type":"(n.)","description":"Aerial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air."},{"word":"Aerostation","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of weighing air; aerostatics."},{"word":"Aeruginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper."},{"word":"Aerugo","type":"(n.)","description":"The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris."},{"word":"Aery","type":"(n.)","description":"An aerie."},{"word":"Aery","type":"(a.)","description":"Aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary."},{"word":"Aesculapian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal."},{"word":"Aesculapius","type":"(n.)","description":"The god of medicine. Hence, a physician."},{"word":"Aesculin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Esculin."},{"word":"Esopian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Aesop, or in his manner."},{"word":"Aesopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Esopic"},{"word":"Esopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Aesopian."},{"word":"Aesthesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia."},{"word":"Aesthesiometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Esthesiometer"},{"word":"Esthesiometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered."},{"word":"Aesthesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Sensuous perception."},{"word":"Aesthesodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves."},{"word":"Aesthete","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics."},{"word":"Aesthetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aesthetical"},{"word":"Aesthetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or Pertaining to aesthetics; versed in aesthetics; as, aesthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc."},{"word":"Aesthetican","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in aesthetics."},{"word":"Aestheticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of aesthetics; aesthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art."},{"word":"Aesthetics","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Esthetics"},{"word":"Esthetics","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art."},{"word":"Aestho-physiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of sensation in relation to nervous action."},{"word":"Aestival","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases."},{"word":"Aestivate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spend the summer."},{"word":"Aestivate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass the summer in a state of torpor."},{"word":"Aestivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation."},{"word":"Aestivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration."},{"word":"Aestuary","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"See Estuary."},{"word":"Aestuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Glowing; agitated, as with heat."},{"word":"Aetheogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous."},{"word":"Aether","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ether."},{"word":"Aethiops","type":"()","description":"Same as Ethiops mineral."},{"word":"Aethogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride."},{"word":"Aethrioscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded."},{"word":"Aetiological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to aetiology; assigning a cause."},{"word":"Aetiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things."},{"word":"Aetiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The assignment of a cause."},{"word":"Aetites","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eaglestone."},{"word":"Afar","type":"(adv.)","description":"At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off."},{"word":"Afeard","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Afraid."},{"word":"Afer","type":"(n.)","description":"The southwest wind."},{"word":"Affability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior."},{"word":"Affable","type":"(a.)","description":"Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable."},{"word":"Affable","type":"(a.)","description":"Gracious; mild; benign."},{"word":"Affableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Affability."},{"word":"Affably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an affable manner; courteously."},{"word":"Affabrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made."},{"word":"Affair","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. \"At the head of affairs.\" Junius."},{"word":"Affair","type":"(n.)","description":"Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue."},{"word":"Affair","type":"(n.)","description":"An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle."},{"word":"Affair","type":"(n.)","description":"Action; endeavor."},{"word":"Affair","type":"(n.)","description":"A material object (vaguely designated)."},{"word":"Affamish","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To afflict with, or perish from, hunger."},{"word":"Affamishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Starvation."},{"word":"Affatuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infatuate."},{"word":"Affear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frighten."},{"word":"Affected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Affect"},{"word":"Affecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Affect"},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To love; to regard with affection."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispose or incline."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To aim at; to aspire; to covet."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tend to by affinity or disposition."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assign; to appoint."},{"word":"Affect","type":"(n.)","description":"Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition."},{"word":"Affectation","type":"(n.)","description":"An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show."},{"word":"Affectation","type":"(n.)","description":"A striving after."},{"word":"Affectation","type":"(n.)","description":"Fondness; affection."},{"word":"Affectationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exhibits affectation."},{"word":"Affected","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Regarded with affection; beloved."},{"word":"Affected","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Inclined; disposed; attached."},{"word":"Affected","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real."},{"word":"Affected","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Assumed artificially; not natural."},{"word":"Affected","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation."},{"word":"Affectedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality."},{"word":"Affectedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Lovingly; with tender care."},{"word":"Affectedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Affectation."},{"word":"Affecter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after."},{"word":"Affectibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being affectible."},{"word":"Affectible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be affected."},{"word":"Affecting","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight."},{"word":"Affecting","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected; given to false show."},{"word":"Affectingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"Prejudice; bias."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"The lively representation of any emotion."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"Affectation."},{"word":"Affection","type":"(n.)","description":"Passion; violent emotion."},{"word":"Affectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature."},{"word":"Affectionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother."},{"word":"Affectionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Kindly inclined; zealous."},{"word":"Affectionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language."},{"word":"Affectionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Strongly inclined; -- with to."},{"word":"Affectionated","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed; inclined."},{"word":"Affectionately","type":"(adv.)","description":"With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly."},{"word":"Affectionateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection."},{"word":"Affectioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed."},{"word":"Affectioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected; conceited."},{"word":"Affective","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to affect; affecting."},{"word":"Affective","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional."},{"word":"Affectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally."},{"word":"Affectuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of passion or emotion; earnest."},{"word":"Affeer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confirm; to assure."},{"word":"Affeer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum."},{"word":"Affeerer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Affeeror"},{"word":"Affeeror","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affeers."},{"word":"Affeerment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of affeering."},{"word":"Afferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain."},{"word":"Affettuoso","type":"(adv.)","description":"With feeling."},{"word":"Affiance","type":"(n.)","description":"Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise."},{"word":"Affiance","type":"(n.)","description":"Trust; reliance; faith; confidence."},{"word":"Affianced","type":"(imp. / p. p.)","description":"of Affiance"},{"word":"Affiancing","type":"(p. pr. / vb. n.)","description":"of Affiance"},{"word":"Affiance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage."},{"word":"Affiance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assure by promise."},{"word":"Affiancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons."},{"word":"Affiant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an affidavit."},{"word":"Affidavit","type":"(n.)","description":"A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate."},{"word":"Affile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To polish."},{"word":"Affiliable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin."},{"word":"Affiliated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Affiliate"},{"word":"Affiliating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Affiliate"},{"word":"Affiliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally."},{"word":"Affiliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another."},{"word":"Affiliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to."},{"word":"Affiliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with."},{"word":"Affiliate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party."},{"word":"Affiliation","type":"(n.)","description":"Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society."},{"word":"Affiliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation."},{"word":"Affiliation","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection in the way of descent."},{"word":"Affinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Related by marriage; from the same source."},{"word":"Affine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refine."},{"word":"Affined","type":"(a.)","description":"Joined in affinity or by any tie."},{"word":"Affinitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of affinity."},{"word":"Affinitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely connected, as by affinity."},{"word":"Affinities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Affinity"},{"word":"Affinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between."},{"word":"Affinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages."},{"word":"Affinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Companionship; acquaintance."},{"word":"Affinity","type":"(n.)","description":"That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction."},{"word":"Affinity","type":"(n.)","description":"A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin."},{"word":"Affinity","type":"(n.)","description":"A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction."},{"word":"Affirmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Affirm"},{"word":"Affirming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Affirm"},{"word":"Affirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review."},{"word":"Affirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny."},{"word":"Affirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4."},{"word":"Affirm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To declare or assert positively."},{"word":"Affirm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation."},{"word":"Affirmable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man."},{"word":"Affirmance","type":"(n.)","description":"Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act."},{"word":"Affirmance","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong declaration; affirmation."},{"word":"Affirmant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affirms or asserts."},{"word":"Affirmant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affirms, instead of taking an oath."},{"word":"Affirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law."},{"word":"Affirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial."},{"word":"Affirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality."},{"word":"Affirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath."},{"word":"Affirmative","type":"(a.)","description":"Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law."},{"word":"Affirmative","type":"(a.)","description":"That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering \"yes\" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote."},{"word":"Affirmative","type":"(a.)","description":"Positive; dogmatic."},{"word":"Affirmative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition."},{"word":"Affirmative","type":"(a.)","description":"Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted."},{"word":"Affirmative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative."},{"word":"Affirmative","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as, yes, that is so, etc."},{"word":"Affirmatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively."},{"word":"Affirmatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative."},{"word":"Affirmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affirms."},{"word":"Affixed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Affix"},{"word":"Affixing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Affix"},{"word":"Affix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing."},{"word":"Affix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically."},{"word":"Affix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one."},{"word":"Affix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground."},{"word":"Affixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Affix"},{"word":"Affix","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix."},{"word":"Affixion","type":"(n.)","description":"Affixture."},{"word":"Affixture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment."},{"word":"Afflation","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowing or breathing on; inspiration."},{"word":"Afflatus","type":"(n.)","description":"A breath or blast of wind."},{"word":"Afflatus","type":"(n.)","description":"A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration."},{"word":"Afflicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Afflict"},{"word":"Afflicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Afflict"},{"word":"Afflict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike or cast down; to overthrow."},{"word":"Afflict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment."},{"word":"Afflict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make low or humble."},{"word":"Afflict","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Afflicted."},{"word":"Afflictedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being afflicted; affliction."},{"word":"Afflicter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who afflicts."},{"word":"Afflicting","type":"(a.)","description":"Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict\"ing*ly, adv."},{"word":"Affliction","type":"(n.)","description":"The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief."},{"word":"Affliction","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief."},{"word":"Afflictionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from affliction."},{"word":"Afflictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing."},{"word":"Afflictively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an afflictive manner."},{"word":"Affluence","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx."},{"word":"Affluence","type":"(n.)","description":"An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth."},{"word":"Affluency","type":"(n.)","description":"Affluence."},{"word":"Affluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing to; flowing abundantly."},{"word":"Affluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches."},{"word":"Affluent","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream."},{"word":"Affluently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Abundantly; copiously."},{"word":"Affluentness","type":"(n.)","description":"Great plenty."},{"word":"Afflux","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head."},{"word":"Affluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flowing towards; afflux."},{"word":"Affodill","type":"(n.)","description":"Asphodel."},{"word":"Afforce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reenforce; to strengthen."},{"word":"Afforcement","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortress; a fortification for defense."},{"word":"Afforcement","type":"(n.)","description":"A reenforcement; a strengthening."},{"word":"Afforciament","type":"(n.)","description":"See Afforcement."},{"word":"Afforded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Afford"},{"word":"Affording","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Afford"},{"word":"Afford","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish."},{"word":"Afford","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age."},{"word":"Afford","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity."},{"word":"Afford","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough."},{"word":"Affordable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be afforded."},{"word":"Affordment","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything given as a help; bestowal."},{"word":"Afforest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country."},{"word":"Afforestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of converting into forest or woodland."},{"word":"Afformative","type":"(n.)","description":"An affix."},{"word":"Affranchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make free; to enfranchise."},{"word":"Affranchisement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making free; enfranchisement."},{"word":"Affrap","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To strike, or strike down."},{"word":"Affrayed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Affray"},{"word":"Affray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To startle from quiet; to alarm."},{"word":"Affray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frighten; to scare; to frighten away."},{"word":"Affray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack."},{"word":"Affray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alarm; terror; fright."},{"word":"Affray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray."},{"word":"Affray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others."},{"word":"Affrayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One engaged in an affray."},{"word":"Affrayment","type":"(n.)","description":"Affray."},{"word":"Affreight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight."},{"word":"Affreighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods."},{"word":"Affreightment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo."},{"word":"Affret","type":"(n.)","description":"A furious onset or attack."},{"word":"Affriction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rubbing against."},{"word":"Affriended","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Made friends; reconciled."},{"word":"Affrighted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Affright"},{"word":"Affrighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Affright"},{"word":"Affright","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm."},{"word":"Affright","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Affrighted."},{"word":"Affright","type":"(n.)","description":"Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror."},{"word":"Affright","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread."},{"word":"Affrightedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With fright."},{"word":"Affrighten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frighten."},{"word":"Affrighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frightens."},{"word":"Affrightful","type":"(a.)","description":"Terrifying; frightful."},{"word":"Affrightment","type":"(n.)","description":"Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm."},{"word":"Affronted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Affront"},{"word":"Affronting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Affront"},{"word":"Affront","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face."},{"word":"Affront","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter."},{"word":"Affront","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility."},{"word":"Affront","type":"(n.)","description":"An encounter either friendly or hostile."},{"word":"Affront","type":"(n.)","description":"Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult."},{"word":"Affront","type":"(n.)","description":"An offense to one's self-respect; shame."},{"word":"Affronte","type":"(a.)","description":"Face to face, or front to front; facing."},{"word":"Affrontedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Shamelessly."},{"word":"Affrontee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives an affront."},{"word":"Affronter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affronts, or insults to the face."},{"word":"Affrontingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an affronting manner."},{"word":"Affrontive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive."},{"word":"Affrontiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality that gives an affront or offense."},{"word":"Affused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Affuse"},{"word":"Affusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Affuse"},{"word":"Affuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour out or upon."},{"word":"Affusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism."},{"word":"Affusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease."},{"word":"Affied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Affy"},{"word":"Affying","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"of Affy"},{"word":"Affy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust."},{"word":"Affy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betroth or espouse; to affiance."},{"word":"Affy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind in faith."},{"word":"Affy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To trust or confide."},{"word":"Afghan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Afghanistan."},{"word":"Afghan","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Afghanistan."},{"word":"Afghan","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of worsted blanket or wrap."},{"word":"Afield","type":"(adv.)","description":"To, in, or on the field."},{"word":"Afield","type":"(adv.)","description":"Out of the way; astray."},{"word":"Afire","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"On fire."},{"word":"Aflame","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze."},{"word":"Aflat","type":"(adv.)","description":"Level with the ground; flat."},{"word":"Aflaunt","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a flaunting state or position."},{"word":"Aflicker","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a flickering state."},{"word":"Afloat","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Borne on the water; floating; on board ship."},{"word":"Afloat","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat."},{"word":"Afloat","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat."},{"word":"Aflow","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Flowing."},{"word":"Aflush","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a flushed or blushing state."},{"word":"Aflush","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"On a level."},{"word":"Aflutter","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a flutter; agitated."},{"word":"Afoam","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam."},{"word":"Afoot","type":"(adv.)","description":"On foot."},{"word":"Afoot","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress."},{"word":"Afore","type":"(adv.)","description":"Before."},{"word":"Afore","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the fore part of a vessel."},{"word":"Afore","type":"(prep.)","description":"Before (in all its senses)."},{"word":"Afore","type":"(prep.)","description":"Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass."},{"word":"Aforecited","type":"(a.)","description":"Named or quoted before."},{"word":"Aforegoing","type":"(a.)","description":"Going before; foregoing."},{"word":"Aforehand","type":"(adv.)","description":"Beforehand; in anticipation."},{"word":"Aforehand","type":"(a.)","description":"Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand."},{"word":"Aforementioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Previously mentioned; before-mentioned."},{"word":"Aforenamed","type":"(a.)","description":"Named before."},{"word":"Aforesaid","type":"(a.)","description":"Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified."},{"word":"Aforethought","type":"(a.)","description":"Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder."},{"word":"Aforethought","type":"(n.)","description":"Premeditation."},{"word":"Aforetime","type":"(adv.)","description":"In time past; formerly."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"With stronger reason."},{"word":"Afoul","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In collision; entangled."},{"word":"Afraid","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive."},{"word":"Afreet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Afrit."},{"word":"Afresh","type":"(adv.)","description":"Anew; again; once more; newly."},{"word":"Afric","type":"(a.)","description":"African."},{"word":"Afric","type":"(n.)","description":"Africa."},{"word":"African","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Africa."},{"word":"African","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race."},{"word":"Africander","type":"(n.)","description":"One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a \"colored\" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers."},{"word":"Africanism","type":"(n.)","description":"A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans."},{"word":"Africanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place under the domination of Africans or negroes."},{"word":"Afrit","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Afreet"},{"word":"Afrite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Afreet"},{"word":"Afreet","type":"(n.)","description":"A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant."},{"word":"Afront","type":"(adv.)","description":"In front; face to face."},{"word":"Afront","type":"(prep.)","description":"In front of."},{"word":"Aft","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft."},{"word":"After","type":"(a.)","description":"Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life."},{"word":"After","type":"(a.)","description":"Hinder; nearer the rear."},{"word":"After","type":"(a.)","description":"To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"Behind in place; as, men in line one after another."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"Below in rank; next to in order."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind."},{"word":"After","type":"(prep.)","description":"According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting."},{"word":"After","type":"(adv.)","description":"Subsequently in time or place; behind; afterward; as, he follows after."},{"word":"Afterbirth","type":"(n.)","description":"The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery."},{"word":"Aftercast","type":"(n.)","description":"A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late."},{"word":"Afterclap","type":"(n.)","description":"An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end."},{"word":"Aftercrop","type":"(n.)","description":"A second crop or harvest in the same year."},{"word":"After","type":"()","description":"An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid."},{"word":"After-dinner","type":"(n.)","description":"The time just after dinner."},{"word":"After-dinner","type":"(a.)","description":"Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap."},{"word":"After-eatage","type":"(n.)","description":"Aftergrass."},{"word":"Aftereye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look after."},{"word":"Aftergame","type":"(n.)","description":"A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient."},{"word":"After-glow","type":"(n.)","description":"A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset."},{"word":"Aftergrass","type":"(n.)","description":"The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath."},{"word":"Aftergrowth","type":"(n.)","description":"A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development."},{"word":"Afterguard","type":"(n.)","description":"The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails."},{"word":"After-image","type":"(n.)","description":"The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc."},{"word":"Afterings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The last milk drawn in milking; strokings."},{"word":"Aftermath","type":"(n.)","description":"A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen."},{"word":"After-mentioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing)."},{"word":"Aftermost","type":"(a. superl.)","description":"Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost."},{"word":"Aftermost","type":"(a. superl.)","description":"Nearest the stern; most aft."},{"word":"Afternoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening."},{"word":"After-note","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note."},{"word":"Afterpains","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth."},{"word":"Afterpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment."},{"word":"Afterpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"The heel of a rudder."},{"word":"After-sails","type":"(n.)","description":"The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast."},{"word":"Aftershaft","type":"(n.)","description":"The hypoptilum."},{"word":"Aftertaste","type":"(n.)","description":"A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking."},{"word":"Afterthought","type":"(n.)","description":"Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient."},{"word":"Afterwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Afterward"},{"word":"Afterward","type":"(adv.)","description":"At a later or succeeding time."},{"word":"Afterwise","type":"(a.)","description":"Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late."},{"word":"After-wit","type":"(n.)","description":"Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use."},{"word":"After-witted","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted."},{"word":"Aftmost","type":"(a.)","description":"Nearest the stern."},{"word":"Aftward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the stern."},{"word":"Aga","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Agha"},{"word":"Agha","type":"(n.)","description":"In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect."},{"word":"Again","type":"(adv.)","description":"In return, back; as, bring us word again."},{"word":"Again","type":"(adv.)","description":"Another time; once more; anew."},{"word":"Again","type":"(adv.)","description":"Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again."},{"word":"Again","type":"(adv.)","description":"In any other place."},{"word":"Again","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the other hand."},{"word":"Again","type":"(adv.)","description":"Moreover; besides; further."},{"word":"Again","type":"(prep.)","description":"Alt. of Agains"},{"word":"Agains","type":"(prep.)","description":"Against; also, towards (in order to meet)."},{"word":"Againbuy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To redeem."},{"word":"Againsay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gainsay."},{"word":"Against","type":"(prep.)","description":"Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over."},{"word":"Against","type":"(prep.)","description":"From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof."},{"word":"Against","type":"(prep.)","description":"In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time."},{"word":"Against","type":"(prep.)","description":"By of before the time that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when."},{"word":"Againstand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withstand."},{"word":"Againward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Back again."},{"word":"Agalactia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Agalaxy"},{"word":"Agalaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth."},{"word":"Agalactous","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking milk to suckle with."},{"word":"Agal-agal","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Agar-agar."},{"word":"Agalloch","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Agallochum"},{"word":"Agallochum","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species."},{"word":"Agalmatolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite."},{"word":"Agama","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards."},{"word":"Agamis","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agami"},{"word":"Agami","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter."},{"word":"Agamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs."},{"word":"Agamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous."},{"word":"Agamically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an agamic manner."},{"word":"Agamist","type":"(n.)","description":"An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage."},{"word":"Agamogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction."},{"word":"Agamogenetic","type":"(n.)","description":"Reproducing or produced without sexual union."},{"word":"Agamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no visible sexual organs; asexual."},{"word":"Agamous","type":"(a.)","description":"cryptogamous."},{"word":"Aganglionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Without ganglia."},{"word":"Agape","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention."},{"word":"Agapae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agape"},{"word":"Agape","type":"(n.)","description":"The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion."},{"word":"Agar-agar","type":"(n.)","description":"A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides)."},{"word":"Agaric","type":"(n.)","description":"A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example."},{"word":"Agaric","type":"(n.)","description":"An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood."},{"word":"Agasp","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a state of gasping."},{"word":"Agast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Aghast"},{"word":"Aghast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affright; to terrify."},{"word":"Agast","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"See Aghast."},{"word":"Agastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm."},{"word":"Agate","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate."},{"word":"Agate","type":"(n.)","description":"A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds."},{"word":"Agate","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby."},{"word":"Agate","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals."},{"word":"Agate","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing."},{"word":"Agatiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or producing agates."},{"word":"Agatine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, agate."},{"word":"Agatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into agate; to make resemble agate."},{"word":"Agaty","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of agate, or containing agate."},{"word":"Agave","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses."},{"word":"Agazed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Gazing with astonishment; amazed."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?"},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"A great period in the history of the Earth."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"A century; the period of one hundred years."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation."},{"word":"Age","type":"(n.)","description":"A long time."},{"word":"Aged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Age"},{"word":"Aging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Age"},{"word":"Age","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged."},{"word":"Age","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us."},{"word":"Aged","type":"(a.)","description":"Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak."},{"word":"Aged","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to old age."},{"word":"Aged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years."},{"word":"Agedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an aged person."},{"word":"Agedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being aged; oldness."},{"word":"Ageless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth."},{"word":"Agen","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"See Again."},{"word":"Agencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agency"},{"word":"Agency","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality."},{"word":"Agency","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another."},{"word":"Agency","type":"(n.)","description":"The place of business of am agent."},{"word":"Agend","type":"(n.)","description":"See Agendum."},{"word":"Agenda","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agendum"},{"word":"Agendum","type":"(n.)","description":"Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book."},{"word":"Agendum","type":"(n.)","description":"A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]"},{"word":"Agenesic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by sterility; infecund."},{"word":"Agenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization."},{"word":"Agennesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Impotence; sterility."},{"word":"Agent","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action."},{"word":"Agent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor."},{"word":"Agent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor."},{"word":"Agent","type":"(n.)","description":"An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent."},{"word":"Agential","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency."},{"word":"Agentship","type":"(n.)","description":"Agency."},{"word":"Ageratum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters."},{"word":"Aggeneration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of producing in addition."},{"word":"Agger","type":"(n.)","description":"An earthwork; a mound; a raised work."},{"word":"Aggerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heap up."},{"word":"Aggeration","type":"(n.)","description":"A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand."},{"word":"Aggerose","type":"(a.)","description":"In heaps; full of heaps."},{"word":"Aggest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heap up."},{"word":"Agglomerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Agglomerate"},{"word":"Agglomerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Agglomerate"},{"word":"Agglomerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass."},{"word":"Agglomerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To collect in a mass."},{"word":"Agglomerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Agglomerated"},{"word":"Agglomerated","type":"(a.)","description":"Collected into a ball, heap, or mass."},{"word":"Agglomerated","type":"(a.)","description":"Collected into a rounded head of flowers."},{"word":"Agglomerate","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection or mass."},{"word":"Agglomerate","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate."},{"word":"Agglomeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together."},{"word":"Agglomeration","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster."},{"word":"Agglomerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections."},{"word":"Agglutinant","type":"(a.)","description":"Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion."},{"word":"Agglutinant","type":"(n.)","description":"Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere."},{"word":"Agglutinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Agglutinate"},{"word":"Agglutinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Agglutinate"},{"word":"Agglutinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances."},{"word":"Agglutinate","type":"(a.)","description":"United with glue or as with glue; cemented together."},{"word":"Agglutinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2."},{"word":"Agglutination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts."},{"word":"Agglutination","type":"(n.)","description":"Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2."},{"word":"Agglutinative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive."},{"word":"Agglutinative","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound."},{"word":"Aggrace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To favor; to grace."},{"word":"Aggrace","type":"(n.)","description":"Grace; favor."},{"word":"Aggrandizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being aggrandized."},{"word":"Aggrandization","type":"(n.)","description":"Aggrandizement."},{"word":"Aggrandized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aggrandize"},{"word":"Aggrandizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aggrandize"},{"word":"Aggrandize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress."},{"word":"Aggrandize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc."},{"word":"Aggrandize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make appear great or greater; to exalt."},{"word":"Aggrandize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To increase or become great."},{"word":"Aggrandizement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family."},{"word":"Aggrandizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who aggrandizes, or makes great."},{"word":"Aggrate","type":"(a.)","description":"To please."},{"word":"Aggravated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aggravate"},{"word":"Aggravating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aggravate"},{"word":"Aggravate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase."},{"word":"Aggravate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify."},{"word":"Aggravate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances."},{"word":"Aggravate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate."},{"word":"Aggravating","type":"(a.)","description":"Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances."},{"word":"Aggravating","type":"(a.)","description":"Exasperating; provoking; irritating."},{"word":"Aggravatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an aggravating manner."},{"word":"Aggravation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences."},{"word":"Aggravation","type":"(n.)","description":"Exaggerated representation."},{"word":"Aggravation","type":"(n.)","description":"An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity."},{"word":"Aggravation","type":"(n.)","description":"Provocation; irritation."},{"word":"Aggravative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to aggravate."},{"word":"Aggravative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which aggravates."},{"word":"Aggregated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aggregate"},{"word":"Aggregating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aggregate"},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \"The aggregated soil.\""},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add or unite, as, a person, to an association."},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels."},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective."},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands."},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry."},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means."},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(a.)","description":"United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals."},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc."},{"word":"Aggregate","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles."},{"word":"Aggregately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Collectively; in mass."},{"word":"Aggregation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate."},{"word":"Aggregative","type":"(a.)","description":"Taken together; collective."},{"word":"Aggregative","type":"(a.)","description":"Gregarious; social."},{"word":"Aggregator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who aggregates."},{"word":"Aggrege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make heavy; to aggravate."},{"word":"Aggressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aggress"},{"word":"Aggressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aggress"},{"word":"Aggress","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on."},{"word":"Aggress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set upon; to attack."},{"word":"Aggress","type":"(n.)","description":"Aggression."},{"word":"Aggression","type":"(n.)","description":"The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. \"Aggressions of power.\""},{"word":"Aggressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation."},{"word":"Aggressor","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant."},{"word":"Aggrievance","type":"(n.)","description":"Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance."},{"word":"Aggrieved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aggrieve"},{"word":"Aggrieving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aggrieve"},{"word":"Aggrieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved."},{"word":"Aggrieve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grieve; to lament."},{"word":"Aggrouped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aggroup"},{"word":"Aggrouping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aggroup"},{"word":"Aggroup","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring together in a group; to group."},{"word":"Aggroupment","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping."},{"word":"Aggry","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aggri"},{"word":"Aggri","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa."},{"word":"Aghast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Agast, v. t."},{"word":"Aghast","type":"(a & p. p.)","description":"Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror."},{"word":"Agible","type":"(a.)","description":"Possible to be done; practicable."},{"word":"Agile","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue."},{"word":"Agilely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an agile manner; nimbly."},{"word":"Agileness","type":"(n.)","description":"Agility; nimbleness."},{"word":"Agility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body."},{"word":"Agility","type":"(n.)","description":"Activity; powerful agency."},{"word":"Agios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agio"},{"word":"Agio","type":"(n.)","description":"The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio."},{"word":"Agiotage","type":"(n.)","description":"Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds."},{"word":"Agist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same."},{"word":"Agistator","type":"(n.)","description":"See Agister."},{"word":"Agister","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Agistor"},{"word":"Agistor","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker."},{"word":"Agistor","type":"(n.)","description":"Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer."},{"word":"Agistment","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests."},{"word":"Agistment","type":"(n.)","description":"The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate."},{"word":"Agistment","type":"(n.)","description":"The price paid for such feeding."},{"word":"Agistment","type":"(n.)","description":"A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes."},{"word":"Agitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being agitated, or easily moved."},{"word":"Agitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Agitate"},{"word":"Agitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Agitate"},{"word":"Agitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel."},{"word":"Agitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move or actuate."},{"word":"Agitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated."},{"word":"Agitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated."},{"word":"Agitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs."},{"word":"Agitatedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an agitated manner."},{"word":"Agitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation."},{"word":"Agitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation."},{"word":"Agitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation."},{"word":"Agitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate."},{"word":"Agitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to agitate."},{"word":"Agitato","type":"(a.)","description":"Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner."},{"word":"Agitator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators."},{"word":"Agitator","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators."},{"word":"Agitator","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement for shaking or mixing."},{"word":"Agleam","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Gleaming; as, faces agleam."},{"word":"Aglet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aiglet"},{"word":"Aiglet","type":"(n.)","description":"A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, \"aglet baby\" (Shak.), an aglet image."},{"word":"Aiglet","type":"(n.)","description":"A round white staylace."},{"word":"Agley","type":"(adv.)","description":"Aside; askew."},{"word":"Aglimmer","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a glimmering state."},{"word":"Aglitter","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Glittering; in a glitter."},{"word":"Aglossal","type":"(a.)","description":"Without tongue; tongueless."},{"word":"Aglow","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow."},{"word":"Aglutition","type":"(n.)","description":"Inability to swallow."},{"word":"Agminal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train."},{"word":"Agminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Agminated"},{"word":"Agminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine."},{"word":"Agnail","type":"(n.)","description":"A corn on the toe or foot."},{"word":"Agnail","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail."},{"word":"Agnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor."},{"word":"Agnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Allied; akin."},{"word":"Agnate","type":"(n.)","description":"A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males."},{"word":"Agnatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors."},{"word":"Agnation","type":"(n.)","description":"Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation."},{"word":"Agnition","type":"(n.)","description":"Acknowledgment."},{"word":"Agnize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To recognize; to acknowledge."},{"word":"Agnoiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant."},{"word":"Agnomen","type":"(n.)","description":"An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus."},{"word":"Agnomen","type":"(n.)","description":"An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just."},{"word":"Agnominate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To name."},{"word":"Agnomination","type":"(n.)","description":"A surname."},{"word":"Agnomination","type":"(n.)","description":"Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination."},{"word":"Agnostic","type":"(a.)","description":"Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism."},{"word":"Agnostic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc."},{"word":"Agnosticism","type":"(n.)","description":"That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies."},{"word":"Agnosticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism."},{"word":"Agnuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agnus"},{"word":"Agni","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agnus"},{"word":"Agnus","type":"(n.)","description":"Agnus Dei."},{"word":"Agnus","type":"()","description":"A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree."},{"word":"Agnus","type":"()","description":"A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag."},{"word":"Agnus","type":"()","description":"A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope."},{"word":"Agnus","type":"()","description":"A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words \"Agnus Dei.\""},{"word":"Ago","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago."},{"word":"Agog","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"In eager desire; eager; astir."},{"word":"Agoing","type":"(adv.)","description":"In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing."},{"word":"Agones","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agon"},{"word":"Agon","type":"(n.)","description":"A contest for a prize at the public games."},{"word":"Agone","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Ago."},{"word":"Agone","type":"(n.)","description":"Agonic line."},{"word":"Agonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not forming an angle."},{"word":"Agonism","type":"(n.)","description":"Contention for a prize; a contest."},{"word":"Agonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contends for the prize in public games."},{"word":"Agonistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Agonistical"},{"word":"Agonistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural."},{"word":"Agonistically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an agonistic manner."},{"word":"Agonistics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games."},{"word":"Agonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Agonize"},{"word":"Agonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Agonize"},{"word":"Agonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish."},{"word":"Agonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately."},{"word":"Agonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture."},{"word":"Agonizingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With extreme anguish or desperate struggles."},{"word":"Agonothete","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece."},{"word":"Agonothetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the office of an agonothete."},{"word":"Agonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Agony"},{"word":"Agony","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent contest or striving."},{"word":"Agony","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane."},{"word":"Agony","type":"(n.)","description":"Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion."},{"word":"Agony","type":"(n.)","description":"The last struggle of life; death struggle."},{"word":"Agood","type":"(adv.)","description":"In earnest; heartily."},{"word":"Agora","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city."},{"word":"Agouara","type":"(n.)","description":"The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America."},{"word":"Agouta","type":"(n.)","description":"A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti."},{"word":"Agouti","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Agouty"},{"word":"Agouty","type":"(n.)","description":"A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti."},{"word":"Agrace","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Aggrace."},{"word":"Agraffe","type":"(n.)","description":"A hook or clasp."},{"word":"Agraffe","type":"(n.)","description":"A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration."},{"word":"Agrammatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A illiterate person."},{"word":"Agraphia","type":"(n.)","description":"The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia."},{"word":"Agraphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by agraphia."},{"word":"Agrappes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Hooks and eyes for armor, etc."},{"word":"Agrarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens."},{"word":"Agrarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields."},{"word":"Agrarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One in favor of an equal division of landed property."},{"word":"Agrarian","type":"(n.)","description":"An agrarian law."},{"word":"Agrarianism","type":"(n.)","description":"An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land."},{"word":"Agrarianize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism."},{"word":"Agre","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Agree"},{"word":"Agree","type":"(adv.)","description":"In good part; kindly."},{"word":"Agreed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Agree"},{"word":"Agreeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Agree"},{"word":"Agree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law."},{"word":"Agree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion."},{"word":"Agree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise."},{"word":"Agree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly."},{"word":"Agree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution."},{"word":"Agree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To correspond in gender, number, case, or person."},{"word":"Agree","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends."},{"word":"Agree","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences."},{"word":"Agreeability","type":"(n.)","description":"Easiness of disposition."},{"word":"Agreeability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness."},{"word":"Agreeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste."},{"word":"Agreeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Willing; ready to agree or consent."},{"word":"Agreeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with."},{"word":"Agreeable","type":"(a.)","description":"In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report."},{"word":"Agreeableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses."},{"word":"Agreeableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency."},{"word":"Agreeableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between."},{"word":"Agreeably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly."},{"word":"Agreeably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4."},{"word":"Agreeably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alike; similarly."},{"word":"Agreeingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an agreeing manner (to); correspondingly; agreeably."},{"word":"Agreement","type":"(n.)","description":"State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council."},{"word":"Agreement","type":"(n.)","description":"Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person."},{"word":"Agreement","type":"(n.)","description":"A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract."},{"word":"Agreement","type":"(n.)","description":"The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises."},{"word":"Agreer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who agrees."},{"word":"Agrestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth."},{"word":"Agrestical","type":"(a.)","description":"Agrestic."},{"word":"Agricolation","type":"(n.)","description":"Agriculture."},{"word":"Agricolist","type":"(n.)","description":"A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist."},{"word":"Agricultor","type":"(n.)","description":"An agriculturist; a farmer."},{"word":"Agricultural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc."},{"word":"Agriculturalist","type":"(n.)","description":"An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)"},{"word":"Agriculture","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming."},{"word":"Agriculturism","type":"(n.)","description":"Agriculture."},{"word":"Agriculturist","type":"(n.)","description":"One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman."},{"word":"Agrief","type":"(adv.)","description":"In grief; amiss."},{"word":"Agrimony","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the Rose family."},{"word":"Agrimony","type":"(n.)","description":"The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens)."},{"word":"Agrin","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In the act of grinning."},{"word":"Agriologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed or engaged in agriology."},{"word":"Agriology","type":"(n.)","description":"Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes."},{"word":"Agrise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear."},{"word":"Agrise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe."},{"word":"Agrise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To terrify; to affright."},{"word":"Agrom","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves."},{"word":"Agronomic","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Agronomical"},{"word":"Agronomical","type":"()","description":"Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms."},{"word":"Agronomics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the distribution and management of land."},{"word":"Agronomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy."},{"word":"Agronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The management of land; rural economy; agriculture."},{"word":"Agrope","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In the act of groping."},{"word":"Agrostis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses."},{"word":"Agrostographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Agrostographical"},{"word":"Agrostographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to agrostography."},{"word":"Agrostography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of the grasses."},{"word":"Agrostologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Agrostological"},{"word":"Agrostological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to agrostology."},{"word":"Agrostologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in agrostology."},{"word":"Agrostology","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of botany which treats of the grasses."},{"word":"Aground","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground."},{"word":"Agroupment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aggroupment."},{"word":"Agrypnotic","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee."},{"word":"Aguardiente","type":"(n.)","description":"A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal."},{"word":"Aguardiente","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque."},{"word":"Ague","type":"(n.)","description":"An acute fever."},{"word":"Ague","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits."},{"word":"Ague","type":"(n.)","description":"The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague."},{"word":"Ague","type":"(n.)","description":"A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold."},{"word":"Agued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ague"},{"word":"Ague","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit."},{"word":"Aguilt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong."},{"word":"Aguise","type":"(n.)","description":"Dress."},{"word":"Aguise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress; to attire; to adorn."},{"word":"Aguish","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky."},{"word":"Aguish","type":"(a.)","description":"Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England."},{"word":"Agush","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a gushing state."},{"word":"Agynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without female organs; male."},{"word":"Ah","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance."},{"word":"Aha","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise."},{"word":"Aha","type":"(n.)","description":"A sunk fence. See Ha-ha."},{"word":"Ahead","type":"(adv.)","description":"In or to the front; in advance; onward."},{"word":"Ahead","type":"(adv.)","description":"Headlong; without restraint."},{"word":"Aheap","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a heap; huddled together."},{"word":"Aheight","type":"(adv.)","description":"Aloft; on high."},{"word":"Ahem","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation to call one's attention; hem."},{"word":"Ahey","type":"(interj.)","description":"Hey; ho."},{"word":"Ahigh","type":"(adv.)","description":"On high."},{"word":"Ahold","type":"(adv.)","description":"Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold."},{"word":"Ahorseback","type":"(adv.)","description":"On horseback."},{"word":"Ahoy","type":"(interj.)","description":"A term used in hailing; as, \"Ship ahoy.\""},{"word":"Ahriman","type":"(n.)","description":"The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light."},{"word":"Ahu","type":"(n.)","description":"The Asiatic gazelle."},{"word":"Ahull","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n."},{"word":"Ahungered","type":"(a.)","description":"Pinched with hunger; very hungry."},{"word":"Ais","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ai"},{"word":"Ai","type":"(n.)","description":"The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth."},{"word":"Aiblins","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Ablins"},{"word":"Ablins","type":"(adv.)","description":"Perhaps; possibly."},{"word":"Aich's","type":"()","description":"A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin."},{"word":"Aided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aid"},{"word":"Aiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aid"},{"word":"Aid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist."},{"word":"Aid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Help; succor; assistance; relief."},{"word":"Aid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant."},{"word":"Aid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan."},{"word":"Aid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions."},{"word":"Aid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid."},{"word":"Aidance","type":"(n.)","description":"Aid."},{"word":"Aidant","type":"(a.)","description":"Helping; helpful; supplying aid."},{"word":"Aids-de-camp","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aid-de-camp"},{"word":"Aid-de-camp","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements."},{"word":"Aider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, aids."},{"word":"Aidful","type":"(a.)","description":"Helpful."},{"word":"Aidless","type":"(a.)","description":"Helpless; without aid."},{"word":"Aid-major","type":"(n.)","description":"The adjutant of a regiment."},{"word":"Aiel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ayle."},{"word":"Aiglet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aglet."},{"word":"Aigre","type":"(a.)","description":"Sour."},{"word":"Aigremore","type":"(n.)","description":"Charcoal prepared for making powder."},{"word":"Aigret","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aigrette"},{"word":"Aigrette","type":"(n.)","description":"The small white European heron. See Egret."},{"word":"Aigrette","type":"(n.)","description":"A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc."},{"word":"Aigrette","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft like that of the egret."},{"word":"Aigrette","type":"(n.)","description":"A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle."},{"word":"Aiguille","type":"(n.)","description":"A needle-shaped peak."},{"word":"Aiguille","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting."},{"word":"Aiguillette","type":"(n.)","description":"A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet."},{"word":"Aiguillette","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms."},{"word":"Aigulet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aglet."},{"word":"Ailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ail"},{"word":"Ailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ail"},{"word":"Ail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him."},{"word":"Ail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble."},{"word":"Ail","type":"(n.)","description":"Indisposition or morbid affection."},{"word":"Ailanthus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ailantus."},{"word":"Ailantus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di/cious, and the staminate or male plant is very offensive when blossom."},{"word":"Ailette","type":"(n.)","description":"A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet."},{"word":"Ailment","type":"(n.)","description":"Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases."},{"word":"Ailuroidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas."},{"word":"Aimed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aim"},{"word":"Aiming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aim"},{"word":"Aim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target."},{"word":"Aim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well."},{"word":"Aim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To guess or conjecture."},{"word":"Aim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice)."},{"word":"Aim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it."},{"word":"Aim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected."},{"word":"Aim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Intention; purpose; design; scheme."},{"word":"Aim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Conjecture; guess."},{"word":"Aimer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who aims, directs, or points."},{"word":"Aimless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life."},{"word":"Aino","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies."},{"word":"Ain't","type":"()","description":"A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"Odoriferous or contaminated air."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"That which surrounds and influences."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"Utterance abroad; publicity; vent."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"Intelligence; information."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"The artificial motion or carriage of a horse."},{"word":"Aired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Air"},{"word":"Airing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Air"},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion."},{"word":"Air","type":"(n.)","description":"To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A railway brake operated by condensed air."},{"word":"Air-built","type":"(a.)","description":"Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A faucet to allow escape of air."},{"word":"Air-drawn","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawn in air; imaginary."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"An engine driven by heated or by compressed air."},{"word":"Airer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exposes to the air."},{"word":"Airer","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame on which clothes are aired or dried."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"See under Gas."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole."},{"word":"Airily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly."},{"word":"Airiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat."},{"word":"Airiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons."},{"word":"Airing","type":"(n.)","description":"A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake."},{"word":"Airing","type":"(n.)","description":"An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming."},{"word":"Airless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"Spirit level. See Level."},{"word":"Airlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling air."},{"word":"Airling","type":"(n.)","description":"A thoughtless, gay person."},{"word":"Airometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"An instrument to measure the weight of air."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel."},{"word":"Air-slacked","type":"(a.)","description":"Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building."},{"word":"Air-tight","type":"(a.)","description":"So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder."},{"word":"Air-tight","type":"(n.)","description":"A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off."},{"word":"Air","type":"()","description":"A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessels."},{"word":"Airward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Airwards"},{"word":"Airwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the air; upward."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand."},{"word":"Airy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the light and aerial tints true to nature."},{"word":"Aisle","type":"(n.)","description":"A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall."},{"word":"Aisle","type":"(n.)","description":"Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle."},{"word":"Aisle","type":"(n.)","description":"Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open."},{"word":"Aisled","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with an aisle or aisles."},{"word":"Aisless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without an aisle."},{"word":"Ait","type":"(n.)","description":"An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot."},{"word":"Ait","type":"(n.)","description":"Oat."},{"word":"Aitch","type":"(n.)","description":"The letter h or H."},{"word":"Aitchbone","type":"(n.)","description":"The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone."},{"word":"Aitiology","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aetiology."},{"word":"Ajar","type":"(adv.)","description":"Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar."},{"word":"Ajar","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world."},{"word":"Ajog","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the jog."},{"word":"Ajutage","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain."},{"word":"Ake","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Ache."},{"word":"Akene","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Achene."},{"word":"Aketon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Acton."},{"word":"Akimbo","type":"(a.)","description":"With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward."},{"word":"Akin","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin."},{"word":"Akin","type":"(a.)","description":"Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind."},{"word":"Akinesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement."},{"word":"Akinesic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to akinesia."},{"word":"Aknee","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the knee."},{"word":"Aknow","type":"()","description":"Earlier form of Acknow."},{"word":"Al","type":"(a.)","description":"All."},{"word":"Al-","type":"(A prefix.)","description":"All; wholly; completely; as, almighty, almost."},{"word":"Al-","type":"(A prefix.)","description":"To; at; on; -- in OF. shortened to a-. See Ad-."},{"word":"Al-","type":"(A prefix.)","description":"The Arabic definite article answering to the English the; as, Alkoran, the Koran or the Book; alchemy, the chemistry."},{"word":"Al","type":"(conj.)","description":"Although; if."},{"word":"Alae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ala"},{"word":"Ala","type":"(n.)","description":"A winglike organ, or part."},{"word":"Alabama","type":"()","description":"A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic."},{"word":"Alabaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc."},{"word":"Alabaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster."},{"word":"Alabaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made."},{"word":"Alabastrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alabastrine."},{"word":"Alabastrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs."},{"word":"Alabastra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alabastrum"},{"word":"Alabastrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A flower bud."},{"word":"Alack","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation expressive of sorrow."},{"word":"Alackaday","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation expressing sorrow."},{"word":"Alacrify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rouse to action; to inspirit."},{"word":"Alacrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Brisk; joyously active; lively."},{"word":"Alacriously","type":"(adv.)","description":"With alacrity; briskly."},{"word":"Alacriousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Alacrity."},{"word":"Alacrity","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy."},{"word":"Aladinist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans."},{"word":"Alalonga","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alilonghi"},{"word":"Alilonghi","type":"(n.)","description":"The tunny. See Albicore."},{"word":"Alamire","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music."},{"word":"Alamodality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being a la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness."},{"word":"Alamode","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"According to the fashion or prevailing mode."},{"word":"Alamode","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode."},{"word":"Alamort","type":"(a.)","description":"To the death; mortally."},{"word":"Alan","type":"(n.)","description":"A wolfhound."},{"word":"Aland","type":"(adv.)","description":"On land; to the land; ashore."},{"word":"Alanine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia."},{"word":"Alantin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Inulin."},{"word":"Alar","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having, wings."},{"word":"Alar","type":"(a.)","description":"Axillary; in the fork or axil."},{"word":"Alarm","type":"(n.)","description":"A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy."},{"word":"Alarm","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger."},{"word":"Alarm","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden attack; disturbance; broil."},{"word":"Alarm","type":"(n.)","description":"Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise."},{"word":"Alarm","type":"(n.)","description":"A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum."},{"word":"Alarmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alarm"},{"word":"Alarming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alarm"},{"word":"Alarm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert."},{"word":"Alarm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep in excitement; to disturb."},{"word":"Alarm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear."},{"word":"Alarmable","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily alarmed or disturbed."},{"word":"Alarmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty."},{"word":"Alarmedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an alarmed manner."},{"word":"Alarming","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm\"ing*ly, adv."},{"word":"Alarmist","type":"(n.)","description":"One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms."},{"word":"Alarum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alarm."},{"word":"Alary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped."},{"word":"Alas","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white."},{"word":"Alate","type":"(adv.)","description":"Lately; of late."},{"word":"Alate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alated"},{"word":"Alated","type":"(a.)","description":"Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings."},{"word":"Alatern","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alaternus"},{"word":"Alaternus","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns."},{"word":"Alation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being winged."},{"word":"Alaunt","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alan."},{"word":"Alb","type":"(n.)","description":"A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life."},{"word":"Albacore","type":"(n.)","description":"See Albicore."},{"word":"Alban","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether."},{"word":"Albanian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey."},{"word":"Albanian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Albania."},{"word":"Albata","type":"(n.)","description":"A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German."},{"word":"Albatross","type":"(n.)","description":"A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long-continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere."},{"word":"Albe","type":"(conj.)","description":"Alt. of Albee"},{"word":"Albee","type":"(conj.)","description":"Although; albeit."},{"word":"Albedo","type":"(n.)","description":"Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface."},{"word":"Albeit","type":"(conj.)","description":"Even though; although; notwithstanding."},{"word":"Albertite","type":"(n.)","description":"A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A. /bert, New Brunswick."},{"word":"Albertype","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative."},{"word":"Albescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of becoming white; whitishness."},{"word":"Albescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming white or whitish; moderately white."},{"word":"Albicant","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing or becoming white."},{"word":"Albication","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks."},{"word":"Albicore","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny."},{"word":"Albification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making white."},{"word":"Albigenses","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Albigeois"},{"word":"Albigeois","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries."},{"word":"Albigensian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Albigenses."},{"word":"Albiness","type":"(n.)","description":"A female albino."},{"word":"Albinism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy."},{"word":"Albinistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with albinism."},{"word":"Albinos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Albino"},{"word":"Albino","type":"(n.)","description":"A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll."},{"word":"Albinoism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being an albino; albinism."},{"word":"Albinotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with albinism."},{"word":"Albion","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry."},{"word":"Albite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar."},{"word":"Albolith","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite."},{"word":"Alborak","type":"(n.)","description":"The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule."},{"word":"Albugineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white."},{"word":"Albugines","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Albugo"},{"word":"Albugo","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Leucoma."},{"word":"Album","type":"(n.)","description":"A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc."},{"word":"Album","type":"(n.)","description":"A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book."},{"word":"Album","type":"(n.)","description":"A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc."},{"word":"Albumen","type":"(n.)","description":"The white of an egg."},{"word":"Albumen","type":"(n.)","description":"Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc."},{"word":"Albumen","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Albumin."},{"word":"Albumenized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Albumenize"},{"word":"Albumenizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Albumenize"},{"word":"Albumenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper."},{"word":"Album","type":"()","description":"Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine."},{"word":"Albumin","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents."},{"word":"Albuminate","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance."},{"word":"Albuminiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplying albumen."},{"word":"Albuminimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid."},{"word":"Albuminin","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs."},{"word":"Albuminiparous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing albumin."},{"word":"Albuminoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling albumin."},{"word":"Albuminoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues."},{"word":"Albuminoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of an albuminoid."},{"word":"Albuminose","type":"(n.)","description":"A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone."},{"word":"Albuminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Albuminose"},{"word":"Albuminose","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin."},{"word":"Albuminuria","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine."},{"word":"Albumose","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose."},{"word":"Alburn","type":"(n.)","description":"The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls."},{"word":"Alburnous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances."},{"word":"Alburnum","type":"(n.)","description":"The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood."},{"word":"Albyn","type":"(n.)","description":"Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland."},{"word":"Alcade","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alcaid."},{"word":"Alcahest","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alkahest."},{"word":"Alcaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c."},{"word":"Alcaic","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls."},{"word":"Alcaid","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alcayde"},{"word":"Alcayde","type":"(n.)","description":"A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors."},{"word":"Alcayde","type":"(n.)","description":"The warden, or keeper of a jail."},{"word":"Alcalde","type":"(n.)","description":"A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc."},{"word":"Alcalimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alkalimeter."},{"word":"Alcanna","type":"(n.)","description":"An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained."},{"word":"Alcarrazas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alcarraza"},{"word":"Alcarraza","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface."},{"word":"Alcayde","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alcaid."},{"word":"Alcazar","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortress; also, a royal palace."},{"word":"Alcedo","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon."},{"word":"Alchemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alchemical"},{"word":"Alchemical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to alchemy."},{"word":"Alchemically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of alchemy."},{"word":"Alchemist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices alchemy."},{"word":"Alchemistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alchemistical"},{"word":"Alchemistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to or practicing alchemy."},{"word":"Alchemistry","type":"(n.)","description":"Alchemy."},{"word":"Alchemize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change by alchemy; to transmute."},{"word":"Alchemy","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry."},{"word":"Alchemy","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet."},{"word":"Alchemy","type":"(n.)","description":"Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious."},{"word":"Alchymic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alchymy"},{"word":"Alchymist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alchymy"},{"word":"Alchymistic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alchymy"},{"word":"Alchymy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy."},{"word":"Alco","type":"(n.)","description":"A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines."},{"word":"Alcoate","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alcohate"},{"word":"Alcohate","type":"(n.)","description":"Shortened forms of Alcoholate."},{"word":"Alcohol","type":"(n.)","description":"An impalpable powder."},{"word":"Alcohol","type":"(n.)","description":"The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation."},{"word":"Alcohol","type":"(n.)","description":"Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation."},{"word":"Alcohol","type":"(n.)","description":"A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc."},{"word":"Alcoholate","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization."},{"word":"Alcoholature","type":"(n.)","description":"An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants."},{"word":"Alcoholic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor."},{"word":"Alcoholic","type":"(n.)","description":"A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors."},{"word":"Alcoholic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alcoholic liquors."},{"word":"Alcoholism","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors."},{"word":"Alcoholization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder."},{"word":"Alcoholization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act rectifying spirit."},{"word":"Alcoholization","type":"(n.)","description":"Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor."},{"word":"Alcoholized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alcoholize"},{"word":"Alcoholizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alcoholize"},{"word":"Alcoholize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a fine powder."},{"word":"Alcoholize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol."},{"word":"Alcoholometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alcoholmeter"},{"word":"Alcoholmeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale."},{"word":"Alcoholometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alcoholmetrical"},{"word":"Alcoholometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alcoholmetrical"},{"word":"Alcoholmetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry."},{"word":"Alcoholometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain."},{"word":"Alcohometer","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alcohometric"},{"word":"Alcohometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric."},{"word":"Alcoometry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alcoholometry."},{"word":"Alcoran","type":"(n.)","description":"The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form)."},{"word":"Alcoranic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Koran."},{"word":"Alcoranist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions."},{"word":"Alcove","type":"(n.)","description":"A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library."},{"word":"Alcove","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower."},{"word":"Alcove","type":"(n.)","description":"Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment."},{"word":"Alcyon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Halcyon."},{"word":"Alcyonacea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria."},{"word":"Alcyonaria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea."},{"word":"Alcyones","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The kingfishers."},{"word":"Alcyonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria."},{"word":"Alcyonium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges."},{"word":"Alcyonoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria."},{"word":"Alcyonoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A zoophyte of the order Alcyonaria."},{"word":"Alday","type":"(adv.)","description":"Continually."},{"word":"Aldebaran","type":"(n.)","description":"A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades."},{"word":"Aldehyde","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation."},{"word":"Aldehydic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid."},{"word":"Alder","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees."},{"word":"Alder","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aller"},{"word":"Aller","type":"(a.)","description":"Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all."},{"word":"Alder-liefest","type":"(a.)","description":"Most beloved."},{"word":"Aldermen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alderman"},{"word":"Alderman","type":"(n.)","description":"A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity."},{"word":"Alderman","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions."},{"word":"Aldermancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an alderman."},{"word":"Aldermanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman."},{"word":"Aldermanity","type":"(n.)","description":"Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen."},{"word":"Aldermanity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being an alderman."},{"word":"Aldermanlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or suited to an alderman."},{"word":"Aldermanly","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, an alderman."},{"word":"Aldermanly","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, an alderman."},{"word":"Aldermanry","type":"(n.)","description":"The district or ward of an alderman."},{"word":"Aldermanry","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or rank of an alderman."},{"word":"Aldermanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition, position, or office of an alderman."},{"word":"Aldern","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of alder."},{"word":"Alderney","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3."},{"word":"Aldine","type":"(a.)","description":"An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works."},{"word":"Ale","type":"(n.)","description":"An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops."},{"word":"Ale","type":"(n.)","description":"A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk."},{"word":"Aleak","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a leaking condition."},{"word":"Aleatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract."},{"word":"Alebench","type":"(n.)","description":"A bench in or before an alehouse."},{"word":"Aleberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread."},{"word":"Alecithal","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm."},{"word":"Aleconner","type":"(n.)","description":"Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.]"},{"word":"Alecost","type":"(n.)","description":"The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale."},{"word":"Alectorides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants."},{"word":"Alectoromachy","type":"(n.)","description":"Cockfighting."},{"word":"Alectoromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alectryomancy."},{"word":"Alectryom'achy","type":"(n.)","description":"Cockfighting."},{"word":"Alectryomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten."},{"word":"Alee","type":"(adv.)","description":"On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side."},{"word":"Alegar","type":"(n.)","description":"Sour ale; vinegar made of ale."},{"word":"Aleger","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; cheerful; sprightly."},{"word":"Alegge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allay or alleviate; to lighten."},{"word":"Alehoof","type":"(n.)","description":"Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma)."},{"word":"Alehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house."},{"word":"Ale-knight","type":"(n.)","description":"A pot companion."},{"word":"Alemannic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes."},{"word":"Alemannic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Alemanni."},{"word":"Alembic","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still."},{"word":"Alembroth","type":"(n.)","description":"The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant."},{"word":"Alen/on","type":"()","description":"See under Lace."},{"word":"Alength","type":"(adv.)","description":"At full length; lengthwise."},{"word":"Alepidote","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having scales."},{"word":"Alepidote","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish without scales."},{"word":"Alepole","type":"(n.)","description":"A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse."},{"word":"Alert","type":"(a.)","description":"Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance."},{"word":"Alert","type":"(a.)","description":"Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity."},{"word":"Alert","type":"(n.)","description":"An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning."},{"word":"Alertly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an alert manner; nimbly."},{"word":"Alertness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity."},{"word":"Ale","type":"()","description":"A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city."},{"word":"Alestake","type":"(n.)","description":"A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a \"bush.\""},{"word":"Aletaster","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aleconner."},{"word":"Alethiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence."},{"word":"Alethoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations."},{"word":"Aleuromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of flour."},{"word":"Aleurometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour."},{"word":"Aleurone","type":"(n.)","description":"An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (\"protein granules\") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm."},{"word":"Aleuronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of aleurone."},{"word":"Aleutian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aleutic"},{"word":"Aleutic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands."},{"word":"Alevin","type":"(n.)","description":"Young fish; fry."},{"word":"Alew","type":"(n.)","description":"Halloo."},{"word":"Alewives","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alewife"},{"word":"Alewife","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who keeps an alehouse."},{"word":"Alewives","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alewife"},{"word":"Alewife","type":"(n.)","description":"A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species."},{"word":"Alexanders","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alisanders"},{"word":"Alisanders","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely."},{"word":"Alexandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library."},{"word":"Alexandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n."},{"word":"Alexandrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian."},{"word":"Alexandrine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables."},{"word":"Alexipharmac","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Alt. of Alexipharmacal"},{"word":"Alexipharmacal","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Alexipharmic."},{"word":"Alexipharmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alexipharmical"},{"word":"Alexipharmical","type":"(a.)","description":"Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal."},{"word":"Alexipharmic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison."},{"word":"Alexipyretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile."},{"word":"Alexipyretic","type":"(n.)","description":"A febrifuge."},{"word":"Alexiteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alexiterical"},{"word":"Alexiterical","type":"(a.)","description":"Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic."},{"word":"Alexiteric","type":"(n.)","description":"A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general."},{"word":"Alfa","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alfa grass"},{"word":"Alfa","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making."},{"word":"Alfalfa","type":"(n.)","description":"The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc."},{"word":"Alfenide","type":"(n.)","description":"An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver."},{"word":"Alferes","type":"(n.)","description":"An ensign; a standard bearer."},{"word":"Alfet","type":"(n.)","description":"A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt."},{"word":"Alfilaria","type":"(n.)","description":"The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California."},{"word":"Alfione","type":"(n.)","description":"An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes)."},{"word":"Alfresco","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In the open-air."},{"word":"Algae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alga"},{"word":"Alga","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc."},{"word":"Algal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, algae."},{"word":"Algaroba","type":"(n.)","description":"The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread."},{"word":"Algaroba","type":"(n.)","description":"The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico."},{"word":"Algarot","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Algaroth"},{"word":"Algaroth","type":"(n.)","description":"A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic."},{"word":"Algarovilla","type":"(n.)","description":"The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye."},{"word":"Algate","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Algates"},{"word":"Algates","type":"(adv.)","description":"Always; wholly; everywhere."},{"word":"Algates","type":"(adv.)","description":"By any or means; at all events."},{"word":"Algates","type":"(adv.)","description":"Notwithstanding; yet."},{"word":"Algazel","type":"(n.)","description":"The true gazelle."},{"word":"Algebra","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude."},{"word":"Algebra","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on this science."},{"word":"Algebraic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Algebraical"},{"word":"Algebraical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings."},{"word":"Algebraically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By algebraic process."},{"word":"Algebraist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in algebra."},{"word":"Algebraize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form."},{"word":"Algerian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Algeria."},{"word":"Algerian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Algeria."},{"word":"Algerine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria."},{"word":"Algerine","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate."},{"word":"Algid","type":"(a.)","description":"Cold; chilly."},{"word":"Algidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Chilliness; coldness"},{"word":"Algidity","type":"(n.)","description":"coldness and collapse."},{"word":"Algidness","type":"(n.)","description":"Algidity."},{"word":"Algific","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing cold."},{"word":"Algoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga."},{"word":"Algol","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness."},{"word":"Algological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens."},{"word":"Algologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One learned about algae; a student of algology."},{"word":"Algology","type":"(n.)","description":"The study or science of algae or seaweeds."},{"word":"Algonquin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Algonkin"},{"word":"Algonkin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence."},{"word":"Algor","type":"(n.)","description":"Cold; chilliness."},{"word":"Algorism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Algorithm"},{"word":"Algorithm","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of calculating by nine figures and zero."},{"word":"Algorithm","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc."},{"word":"Algous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed."},{"word":"Alguazil","type":"(n.)","description":"An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable."},{"word":"Algum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable)."},{"word":"Alhambra","type":"(n.)","description":"The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada."},{"word":"Alhambraic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alhambresque"},{"word":"Alhambresque","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture."},{"word":"Alhenna","type":"(n.)","description":"See Henna."},{"word":"Alias","type":"(adv.)","description":"Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson."},{"word":"Alias","type":"(adv.)","description":"At another time."},{"word":"Aliases","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alias"},{"word":"Alias","type":"(n.)","description":"A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect."},{"word":"Alias","type":"(n.)","description":"Another name; an assumed name."},{"word":"Alibi","type":"(n.)","description":"The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi."},{"word":"Alibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being alible."},{"word":"Alible","type":"(a.)","description":"Nutritive; nourishing."},{"word":"Alicant","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain."},{"word":"Alidade","type":"(n.)","description":"The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument"},{"word":"Alien","type":"(a.)","description":"Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores."},{"word":"Alien","type":"(a.)","description":"Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion."},{"word":"Alien","type":"(n.)","description":"A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage."},{"word":"Alien","type":"(n.)","description":"One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies."},{"word":"Alien","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership."},{"word":"Alienability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being alienated."},{"word":"Alienable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state."},{"word":"Alienage","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or legal condition of being an alien."},{"word":"Alienage","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being alienated or transferred to another."},{"word":"Alienate","type":"(a.)","description":"Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from."},{"word":"Alienated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alienate"},{"word":"Alienating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alienate"},{"word":"Alienate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of."},{"word":"Alienate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from."},{"word":"Alienate","type":"(n.)","description":"A stranger; an alien."},{"word":"Alienation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated."},{"word":"Alienation","type":"(n.)","description":"A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another."},{"word":"Alienation","type":"(n.)","description":"A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections."},{"word":"Alienation","type":"(n.)","description":"Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind."},{"word":"Alienator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who alienates."},{"word":"Aliene","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate."},{"word":"Alienee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor."},{"word":"Alienism","type":"(n.)","description":"The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage."},{"word":"Alienism","type":"(n.)","description":"The study or treatment of diseases of the mind."},{"word":"Alienist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who treats diseases of the mind."},{"word":"Alienor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who alienates or transfers property to another."},{"word":"Aliethmoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aliethmoidal"},{"word":"Aliethmoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage."},{"word":"Alife","type":"(adv.)","description":"On my life; dearly."},{"word":"Aliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having wings, winged; aligerous."},{"word":"Aliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Wing-shaped; winglike."},{"word":"Aligerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having wings; winged."},{"word":"Alighted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alight"},{"word":"Alit","type":"()","description":"of Alight"},{"word":"Alighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alight"},{"word":"Alight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount."},{"word":"Alight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof."},{"word":"Alight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come or chance (upon)."},{"word":"Alight","type":"(a.)","description":"Lighted; lighted up; in a flame."},{"word":"Align","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline."},{"word":"Align","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form in line; to fall into line."},{"word":"Alignment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron."},{"word":"Alignment","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile."},{"word":"Alike","type":"(a.)","description":"Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference."},{"word":"Alike","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion."},{"word":"Alike-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Like-minded."},{"word":"Aliment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support."},{"word":"Aliment","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance for maintenance."},{"word":"Aliment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To nourish; to support."},{"word":"Aliment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide for the maintenance of."},{"word":"Alimental","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap."},{"word":"Alimentally","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality."},{"word":"Alimentariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality."},{"word":"Alimentary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances."},{"word":"Alimentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal."},{"word":"Alimentation","type":"(n.)","description":"State or mode of being nourished."},{"word":"Alimentiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The instinct or faculty of appetite for food."},{"word":"Alimonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording food; nourishing."},{"word":"Alimony","type":"(n.)","description":"Maintenance; means of living."},{"word":"Alimony","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same."},{"word":"Alinasal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage."},{"word":"Aline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align."},{"word":"Alineation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Allineation."},{"word":"Alinement","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alignment."},{"word":"Aliner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line."},{"word":"Alioth","type":"(n.)","description":"A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper."},{"word":"Aliped","type":"(a.)","description":"Wing-footed, as the bat."},{"word":"Aliped","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat."},{"word":"Aliquant","type":"(a.)","description":"An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot."},{"word":"Aliquot","type":"(a.)","description":"An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant."},{"word":"Aliseptal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to expansions of the nasal septum."},{"word":"Alish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like ale; as, an alish taste."},{"word":"Alisphenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alisphenoidal"},{"word":"Alisphenoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal."},{"word":"Alisphenoid","type":"(n.)","description":"The alisphenoid bone."},{"word":"Alitrunk","type":"(n.)","description":"The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax."},{"word":"Aliturgical","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered."},{"word":"Aliunde","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde."},{"word":"Alive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive."},{"word":"Alive","type":"(a.)","description":"In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive."},{"word":"Alive","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged."},{"word":"Alive","type":"(a.)","description":"Sprightly; lively; brisk."},{"word":"Alive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive."},{"word":"Alive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of all living (by way of emphasis)."},{"word":"Alizari","type":"(n.)","description":"The madder of the Levant."},{"word":"Alizarin","type":"(n.)","description":"A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds."},{"word":"Alkahest","type":"(n.)","description":"The fabled \"universal solvent\" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies."},{"word":"Alkalamide","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals."},{"word":"Alkalescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alkalescency"},{"word":"Alkalescency","type":"(n.)","description":"A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant."},{"word":"Alkalescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline."},{"word":"Alkalis","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alkali"},{"word":"Alkalies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alkali"},{"word":"Alkali","type":"(n.)","description":"Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc."},{"word":"Alkali","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue."},{"word":"Alkalifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali."},{"word":"Alkalified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alkalify"},{"word":"Alkalifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alkalify"},{"word":"Alkalify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to."},{"word":"Alkalify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become changed into an alkali."},{"word":"Alkalimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture."},{"word":"Alkalimetric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alkalimetrical"},{"word":"Alkalimetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to alkalimetry."},{"word":"Alkalimetry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures."},{"word":"Alkaline","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali."},{"word":"Alkalinity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property."},{"word":"Alkalious","type":"(a.)","description":"Alkaline."},{"word":"Alkalizate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alkaline."},{"word":"Alkalizate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alkalizate."},{"word":"Alkalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities."},{"word":"Alkalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alkalize"},{"word":"Alkalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alkalize"},{"word":"Alkalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to."},{"word":"Alkaloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alkaloidal"},{"word":"Alkaloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali."},{"word":"Alkaloid","type":"(n.)","description":"An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals."},{"word":"Alkanet","type":"(n.)","description":"A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color."},{"word":"Alkanet","type":"(n.)","description":"A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet."},{"word":"Alkanet","type":"(n.)","description":"The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon."},{"word":"Alkargen","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cacodylic acid."},{"word":"Alkarsin","type":"(n.)","description":"A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid."},{"word":"Alkazar","type":"()","description":"See Alcazar."},{"word":"Alkekengi","type":"(n.)","description":"An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato."},{"word":"Alkermes","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient."},{"word":"Alkoran","type":"(n.)","description":"The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran."},{"word":"Alkoranic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Alcoranic."},{"word":"Alkoranist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alcoranist."},{"word":"All","type":"(a.)","description":"The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us)."},{"word":"All","type":"(a.)","description":"Any."},{"word":"All","type":"(a.)","description":"Only; alone; nothing but."},{"word":"All","type":"(adv.)","description":"Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement."},{"word":"All","type":"(adv.)","description":"Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.)"},{"word":"All","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake."},{"word":"All","type":"(conj.)","description":"Although; albeit."},{"word":"Alla","type":"()","description":"With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by /."},{"word":"Allah","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally."},{"word":"All-a-mort","type":"(a.)","description":"See Alamort."},{"word":"Allanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition."},{"word":"Allantoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois."},{"word":"Allantoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Allantoidal"},{"word":"Allantoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the allantois."},{"word":"Allantoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals."},{"word":"Allantoin","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid."},{"word":"Allantois","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Allantoid"},{"word":"Allantoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle."},{"word":"Allatrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bark as a dog."},{"word":"Allayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Allay"},{"word":"Allaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Allay"},{"word":"Allay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions."},{"word":"Allay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity."},{"word":"Allay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside."},{"word":"Allay","type":"(n.)","description":"Alleviation; abatement; check."},{"word":"Allay","type":"(n.)","description":"Alloy."},{"word":"Allay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate."},{"word":"Allayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, allays."},{"word":"Allayment","type":"(n.)","description":"An allaying; that which allays; mitigation."},{"word":"Allecret","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss."},{"word":"Allect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allure; to entice."},{"word":"Allectation","type":"(n.)","description":"Enticement; allurement."},{"word":"Allective","type":"(a.)","description":"Alluring."},{"word":"Allective","type":"(n.)","description":"Allurement."},{"word":"Alledge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Allege."},{"word":"Allegation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of alleging or positively asserting."},{"word":"Allegation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment"},{"word":"Allegation","type":"(n.)","description":"A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved."},{"word":"Alleged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Allege"},{"word":"Alleging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Allege"},{"word":"Allege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact."},{"word":"Allege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge."},{"word":"Allege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending."},{"word":"Allege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble."},{"word":"Allegeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being alleged or affirmed."},{"word":"Allegeance","type":"(n.)","description":"Allegation."},{"word":"Allegement","type":"(n.)","description":"Allegation."},{"word":"Alleger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affirms or declares."},{"word":"Allegge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Alegge and Allay."},{"word":"Allegiance","type":"(n.)","description":"The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state."},{"word":"Allegiance","type":"(n.)","description":"Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science."},{"word":"Allegiant","type":"(a.)","description":"Loyal."},{"word":"Allegoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Allegorical"},{"word":"Allegorical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative."},{"word":"Allegorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory."},{"word":"Allegorization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense."},{"word":"Allegorized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Allegorize"},{"word":"Allegorizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Allegorize"},{"word":"Allegorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people."},{"word":"Allegorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it."},{"word":"Allegorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use allegory."},{"word":"Allegorizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist."},{"word":"Allegories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Allegory"},{"word":"Allegory","type":"(n.)","description":"A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject."},{"word":"Allegory","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem."},{"word":"Allegory","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured."},{"word":"Allegresse","type":"(n.)","description":"Joy; gladsomeness."},{"word":"Allegretto","type":"(a.)","description":"Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro."},{"word":"Allegretto","type":"(n.)","description":"A movement in this time."},{"word":"Allegro","type":"(a.)","description":"Brisk, lively."},{"word":"Allegro","type":"(n.)","description":"An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece."},{"word":"Alleluia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alleluiah"},{"word":"Alleluiah","type":"(n.)","description":"An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form."},{"word":"Allemande","type":"(n.)","description":"A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel."},{"word":"Allemande","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in dancing."},{"word":"Allemannic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Alemannic."},{"word":"Allenarly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Solely; only."},{"word":"Aller","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Alder, of all."},{"word":"Allerion","type":"(n.)","description":"Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings."},{"word":"Alleviated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alleviate"},{"word":"Alleviating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alleviate"},{"word":"Alleviate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lighten or lessen the force or weight of."},{"word":"Alleviate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate."},{"word":"Alleviate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extenuate; to palliate."},{"word":"Alleviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief."},{"word":"Alleviation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable."},{"word":"Alleviative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to alleviate."},{"word":"Alleviative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which alleviates."},{"word":"Alleviator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, alleviates."},{"word":"Alleviatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Alleviative."},{"word":"Alleys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alley"},{"word":"Alley","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way."},{"word":"Alley","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street."},{"word":"Alley","type":"(n.)","description":"A passageway between rows of pews in a church."},{"word":"Alley","type":"(n.)","description":"Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length."},{"word":"Alley","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office."},{"word":"Alleys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alley"},{"word":"Alley","type":"(n.)","description":"A choice taw or marble."},{"word":"Alleyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with alleys; forming an alley."},{"word":"Alleyway","type":"(n.)","description":"An alley."},{"word":"All","type":"()","description":"The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced."},{"word":"Allfours","type":"()","description":"A game at cards, called \"High, Low, Jack, and the Game.\""},{"word":"All","type":"()","description":"All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person."},{"word":"All","type":"(interj.)","description":"All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome."},{"word":"All-hail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To salute; to greet."},{"word":"Allhallond","type":"(n.)","description":"Allhallows."},{"word":"Allhallow","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Allhallows"},{"word":"Allhallows","type":"(n.)","description":"All the saints (in heaven)."},{"word":"Allhallows","type":"(n.)","description":"All Saints' Day, November 1st."},{"word":"Allhallow","type":"()","description":"The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween."},{"word":"Allhallowmas","type":"(n.)","description":"The feast of All Saints."},{"word":"Allhallown","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] \"Allhallown summer.\" Shak. (i. e., late summer; \"Indian Summer\")."},{"word":"Allhallowtide","type":"(n.)","description":"The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st."},{"word":"Allheal","type":"(n.)","description":"A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants."},{"word":"Alliable","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to enter into alliance."},{"word":"Alliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions."},{"word":"Alliance","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England."},{"word":"Alliance","type":"(n.)","description":"Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity."},{"word":"Alliance","type":"(n.)","description":"The persons or parties allied."},{"word":"Alliance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect by alliance; to ally."},{"word":"Alliant","type":"(n.)","description":"An ally; a confederate."},{"word":"Allice","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Allis"},{"word":"Allis","type":"(n.)","description":"The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose."},{"word":"Alliciency","type":"(n.)","description":"Attractive power; attractiveness."},{"word":"Allicient","type":"(a.)","description":"That attracts; attracting."},{"word":"Allicient","type":"(n.)","description":"That attracts."},{"word":"Allied","type":"(a.)","description":"United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally."},{"word":"Alligate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tie; to unite by some tie."},{"word":"Alligation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached."},{"word":"Alligation","type":"(n.)","description":"A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values."},{"word":"Alligator","type":"(n.)","description":"A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America."},{"word":"Alligator","type":"(n.)","description":"Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator"},{"word":"Alligator","type":"(n.)","description":"a form of squeezer for the puddle ball"},{"word":"Alligator","type":"(n.)","description":"a rock breaker"},{"word":"Alligator","type":"(n.)","description":"a kind of job press, called also alligator press."},{"word":"Allignment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alignment."},{"word":"Allineate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To align."},{"word":"Allineation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alineation"},{"word":"Alineation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun."},{"word":"Allision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dashing against, or striking upon."},{"word":"Alliteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration."},{"word":"Alliterate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To employ or place so as to make alliteration."},{"word":"Alliterate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration."},{"word":"Alliteration","type":"(n.)","description":"The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -"},{"word":"Alliterative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry."},{"word":"Alliterator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who alliterates."},{"word":"Allium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc."},{"word":"Allmouth","type":"(n.)","description":"The angler."},{"word":"Allness","type":"(n.)","description":"Totality; completeness."},{"word":"Allnight","type":"(n.)","description":"Light, fuel, or food for the whole night."},{"word":"Allocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distribute or assign; to allot."},{"word":"Allocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To localize."},{"word":"Allocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement."},{"word":"Allocation","type":"(n.)","description":"An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company."},{"word":"Allocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer."},{"word":"Allocatur","type":"(n.)","description":"\"Allowed.\" The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer."},{"word":"Allochroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Changeable in color."},{"word":"Allochroite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Garnet."},{"word":"Allochroous","type":"(a.)","description":"Changing color."},{"word":"Allocution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words."},{"word":"Allocution","type":"(n.)","description":"An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy."},{"word":"Allod","type":"(n.)","description":"See Allodium."},{"word":"Allodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system."},{"word":"Allodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Anything held allodially."},{"word":"Allodialism","type":"(n.)","description":"The allodial system."},{"word":"Allodialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds allodial land."},{"word":"Allodially","type":"(adv.)","description":"By allodial tenure."},{"word":"Allodiary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds an allodium."},{"word":"Allodium","type":"(n.)","description":"Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud."},{"word":"Allogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by allogamy."},{"word":"Allogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization."},{"word":"Allogeneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Different in nature or kind."},{"word":"Allograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph."},{"word":"Allomerism","type":"(n.)","description":"Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form."},{"word":"Allomerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by allomerism."},{"word":"Allomorph","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite."},{"word":"Allomorph","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite."},{"word":"Allomorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to allomorphism."},{"word":"Allomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph."},{"word":"Allonge","type":"(v.)","description":"A thrust or pass; a lunge."},{"word":"Allonge","type":"(v.)","description":"A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider."},{"word":"Allonge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To thrust with a sword; to lunge."},{"word":"Allonym","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of another person assumed by the author of a work."},{"word":"Allonym","type":"(n.)","description":"A work published under the name of some one other than the author."},{"word":"Allonymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Published under the name of some one other than the author."},{"word":"Alloo","type":"(v. t. / i.)","description":"To incite dogs by a call; to halloo."},{"word":"Allopath","type":"(n.)","description":"An allopathist."},{"word":"Allopathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to allopathy."},{"word":"Allopathically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods."},{"word":"Allopathist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy."},{"word":"Allopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy."},{"word":"Allophylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Allophylian"},{"word":"Allophylian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic."},{"word":"Alloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"A speaking to another; an address."},{"word":"Allotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Allot"},{"word":"Allotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Allot"},{"word":"Allot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distribute by lot."},{"word":"Allot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him."},{"word":"Allotheism","type":"(n.)","description":"The worship of strange gods."},{"word":"Allotment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of allotting; assignment."},{"word":"Allotment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party."},{"word":"Allotment","type":"(n.)","description":"The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person."},{"word":"Allotriophagy","type":"(n.)","description":"A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food."},{"word":"Allotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Allotropical"},{"word":"Allotropical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to allotropism."},{"word":"Allotropicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Allotropic property or nature."},{"word":"Allotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Allotropy"},{"word":"Allotropy","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations."},{"word":"Allotropize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change in physical properties but not in substance."},{"word":"Allottable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being allotted."},{"word":"Allottee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made."},{"word":"Allotter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who allots."},{"word":"Allottery","type":"(n.)","description":"Allotment."},{"word":"Allowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Allow"},{"word":"Allowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Allow"},{"word":"Allow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction."},{"word":"Allow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To like; to be suited or pleased with."},{"word":"Allow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sanction; to invest; to intrust."},{"word":"Allow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest."},{"word":"Allow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition."},{"word":"Allow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage."},{"word":"Allow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent."},{"word":"Allow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement."},{"word":"Allowable","type":"(a.)","description":"Praiseworthy; laudable."},{"word":"Allowable","type":"(a.)","description":"Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends."},{"word":"Allowableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety."},{"word":"Allowably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an allowable manner."},{"word":"Allowance","type":"(n.)","description":"Approval; approbation."},{"word":"Allowance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance."},{"word":"Allowance","type":"(n.)","description":"Acknowledgment."},{"word":"Allowance","type":"(n.)","description":"License; indulgence."},{"word":"Allowance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short."},{"word":"Allowance","type":"(n.)","description":"Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth."},{"word":"Allowance","type":"(n.)","description":"A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret."},{"word":"Allowancing","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Allowance"},{"word":"Allowance","type":"(n.)","description":"To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced."},{"word":"Allowedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By allowance; admittedly."},{"word":"Allower","type":"(n.)","description":"An approver or abettor."},{"word":"Allower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who allows or permits."},{"word":"Alloxan","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol."},{"word":"Alloxanate","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical."},{"word":"Alloxanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan."},{"word":"Alloxantin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid."},{"word":"Alloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam."},{"word":"Alloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness."},{"word":"Alloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A baser metal mixed with a finer."},{"word":"Alloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy."},{"word":"Alloyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alloy"},{"word":"Alloying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alloy"},{"word":"Alloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper."},{"word":"Alloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound."},{"word":"Alloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes."},{"word":"Alloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a metallic compound."},{"word":"Alloyage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy."},{"word":"All-possessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild."},{"word":"All","type":"()","description":"Alt. of All Saints'"},{"word":"All","type":"()","description":"The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival."},{"word":"All","type":"()","description":"The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead."},{"word":"Allspice","type":"(n.)","description":"The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush."},{"word":"Allthing","type":"(adv.)","description":"Altogether."},{"word":"Alluded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Allude"},{"word":"Alluding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Allude"},{"word":"Allude","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction."},{"word":"Allude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable."},{"word":"Allumette","type":"(n.)","description":"A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc."},{"word":"Alluminor","type":"(n.)","description":"An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner."},{"word":"Allurance","type":"(n.)","description":"Allurement."},{"word":"Alluded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Allure"},{"word":"Alluring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Allure"},{"word":"Allure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract."},{"word":"Allure","type":"(n.)","description":"Allurement."},{"word":"Allure","type":"(n.)","description":"Gait; bearing."},{"word":"Allurement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act alluring; temptation; enticement."},{"word":"Allurement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor."},{"word":"Allurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, allures."},{"word":"Alluring","type":"(a.)","description":"That allures; attracting; charming; tempting."},{"word":"Allusion","type":"(n.)","description":"A figurative or symbolical reference."},{"word":"Allusion","type":"(n.)","description":"A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint."},{"word":"Allusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Figurative; symbolical."},{"word":"Allusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion."},{"word":"Allusively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation."},{"word":"Allusiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being allusive."},{"word":"Allusory","type":"(a.)","description":"Allusive."},{"word":"Alluvial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits."},{"word":"Alluvion","type":"(n.)","description":"Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank."},{"word":"Alluvion","type":"(n.)","description":"An overflowing; an inundation; a flood."},{"word":"Alluvion","type":"(n.)","description":"Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium."},{"word":"Alluvion","type":"(n.)","description":"An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion."},{"word":"Alluvious","type":"(n.)","description":"Alluvial."},{"word":"Alluviums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alluvium"},{"word":"Alluvia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alluvium"},{"word":"Alluvium","type":"(n.)","description":"Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas."},{"word":"Allwhere","type":"(adv.)","description":"Everywhere."},{"word":"Allwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant."},{"word":"Allied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ally"},{"word":"Allying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ally"},{"word":"Ally","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with."},{"word":"Ally","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love."},{"word":"Allies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ally"},{"word":"Ally","type":"(v.)","description":"A relative; a kinsman."},{"word":"Ally","type":"(v.)","description":"One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate."},{"word":"Ally","type":"(v.)","description":"Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary."},{"word":"Ally","type":"(v.)","description":"Anything akin to another by structure, etc."},{"word":"Ally","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alley, a marble or taw."},{"word":"Allyl","type":"(n.)","description":"An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard."},{"word":"Allylene","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine."},{"word":"Alma","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Almah"},{"word":"Almah","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alme."},{"word":"Almacantar","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Almucantar."},{"word":"Almacantar","type":"(n.)","description":"A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar."},{"word":"Almadia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Almadie"},{"word":"Almadie","type":"(n.)","description":"A bark canoe used by the Africans."},{"word":"Almadie","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad."},{"word":"Almagest","type":"(n.)","description":"The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works."},{"word":"Almagra","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver."},{"word":"Almain","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alman"},{"word":"Almayne","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alman"},{"word":"Alman","type":"(n.)","description":"A German."},{"word":"Alman","type":"(adj.)","description":"German."},{"word":"Alman","type":"(adj.)","description":"The German language."},{"word":"Alman","type":"(adj.)","description":"A kind of dance. See Allemande."},{"word":"Alma","type":"()","description":"A college or seminary where one is educated."},{"word":"Almanac","type":"(n.)","description":"A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc."},{"word":"Almandine","type":"(n.)","description":"The common red variety of garnet."},{"word":"Alme","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Almeh"},{"word":"Almeh","type":"(n.)","description":"An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma."},{"word":"Almendron","type":"(n.)","description":"The lofty Brazil-nut tree."},{"word":"Almery","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ambry."},{"word":"Almesse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alms."},{"word":"Almightful","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Almightiful"},{"word":"Almightiful","type":"(a.)","description":"All-powerful; almighty."},{"word":"Almightily","type":"(adv.)","description":"With almighty power."},{"word":"Almightiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might."},{"word":"Almighty","type":"(a.)","description":"Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible."},{"word":"Almighty","type":"(a.)","description":"Great; extreme; terrible."},{"word":"Almner","type":"(n.)","description":"An almoner."},{"word":"Almond","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the almond tree."},{"word":"Almond","type":"(n.)","description":"The tree that bears the fruit; almond tree."},{"word":"Almond","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything shaped like an almond."},{"word":"Almond","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the tonsils."},{"word":"Almond","type":"()","description":"A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter."},{"word":"Almondine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Almandine"},{"word":"Almoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc."},{"word":"Almonership","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an almoner."},{"word":"Almonries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Almonry"},{"word":"Almonry","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed."},{"word":"Almose","type":"(n.)","description":"Alms."},{"word":"Almost","type":"(adv.)","description":"Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part."},{"word":"Almry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Almonry."},{"word":"Alms","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity."},{"word":"Almsdeed","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of charity."},{"word":"Almsfolk","type":"(n.)","description":"Persons supported by alms; almsmen."},{"word":"Almsgiver","type":"(n.)","description":"A giver of alms."},{"word":"Almsgiving","type":"(n.)","description":"The giving of alms."},{"word":"Almshouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse."},{"word":"Almsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A recipient of alms."},{"word":"Almsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A giver of alms."},{"word":"Almucantar","type":"(n.)","description":"A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar."},{"word":"Almuce","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amice, a hood or cape."},{"word":"Almude","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the \"almud\" is about 1.4 gallons."},{"word":"Almug","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Algum"},{"word":"Algum","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11)."},{"word":"Alnage","type":"(n.)","description":"Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement."},{"word":"Alnager","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal."},{"word":"Aloes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aloe"},{"word":"Aloe","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood of the agalloch."},{"word":"Aloe","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries."},{"word":"Aloe","type":"(n.)","description":"The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative."},{"word":"Aloes","type":"()","description":"See Agalloch."},{"word":"Aloetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes."},{"word":"Aloetic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine containing chiefly aloes."},{"word":"Aloft","type":"(adv.)","description":"On high; in the air; high above the ground."},{"word":"Aloft","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven."},{"word":"Aloft","type":"(prep.)","description":"Above; on top of."},{"word":"Alogian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos."},{"word":"Alogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Unreasonableness; absurdity."},{"word":"Aloin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter purgative principle in aloes."},{"word":"Alomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of salt."},{"word":"Alone","type":"(a.)","description":"Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing."},{"word":"Alone","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only."},{"word":"Alone","type":"(a.)","description":"Sole; only; exclusive."},{"word":"Alone","type":"(a.)","description":"Hence; Unique; rare; matchless."},{"word":"Alone","type":"(adv.)","description":"Solely; simply; exclusively."},{"word":"Alonely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Only; merely; singly."},{"word":"Alonely","type":"(a.)","description":"Exclusive."},{"word":"Aloneness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness."},{"word":"Along","type":"(adv.)","description":"By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise."},{"word":"Along","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward."},{"word":"Along","type":"(adv.)","description":"In company; together."},{"word":"Along","type":"(prep.)","description":"By the length of, as distinguished from across."},{"word":"Along","type":"()","description":"(Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)"},{"word":"Alongshore","type":"(adv.)","description":"Along the shore or coast."},{"word":"Alongshoreman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Longshoreman."},{"word":"Alongside","type":"(adv.)","description":"Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree."},{"word":"Alongst","type":"(prep. & adv.)","description":"Along."},{"word":"Aloof","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alewife."},{"word":"Aloof","type":"(adv.)","description":"At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away."},{"word":"Aloof","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without sympathy; unfavorably."},{"word":"Aloof","type":"(prep.)","description":"Away from; clear from."},{"word":"Aloofness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being aloof."},{"word":"Alopecia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alopecy"},{"word":"Alopecy","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of the hair; baldness."},{"word":"Alopecist","type":"(n.)","description":"A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness."},{"word":"Alose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise."},{"word":"Alose","type":"(n.)","description":"The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad."},{"word":"Alouatte","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2."},{"word":"Aloud","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly."},{"word":"Alow","type":"(adv.)","description":"Below; in a lower part."},{"word":"Alp","type":"(n.)","description":"A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc."},{"word":"Alp","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted."},{"word":"Alp","type":"(n.)","description":"A bullfinch."},{"word":"Alpaca","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama."},{"word":"Alpaca","type":"(n.)","description":"Wool of the alpaca."},{"word":"Alpaca","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton."},{"word":"Alpen","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Alps."},{"word":"Alpenstock","type":"(n.)","description":"A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps."},{"word":"Alpestrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc."},{"word":"Alpha","type":"(n.)","description":"The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning."},{"word":"Alphabet","type":"(n.)","description":"The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language."},{"word":"Alphabet","type":"(n.)","description":"The simplest rudiments; elements."},{"word":"Alphabet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically."},{"word":"Alphabetarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian."},{"word":"Alphabetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Alphabetical"},{"word":"Alphabetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement."},{"word":"Alphabetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Literal."},{"word":"Alphabetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters."},{"word":"Alphabetics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of representing spoken sounds by letters."},{"word":"Alphabetism","type":"(n.)","description":"The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet."},{"word":"Alphabetize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words."},{"word":"Alphabetize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with an alphabet."},{"word":"Al-phitomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of barley meal."},{"word":"Alphonsine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252-1284)."},{"word":"Alpigene","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing in Alpine regions."},{"word":"Alpine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants."},{"word":"Alpine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the Alps; lofty."},{"word":"Alpinist","type":"(n.)","description":"A climber of the Alps."},{"word":"Alpist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Alpia"},{"word":"Alpia","type":"(n.)","description":"The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds."},{"word":"Alquifou","type":"(n.)","description":"A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore."},{"word":"Already","type":"(adv.)","description":"Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously."},{"word":"Als","type":"(adv.)","description":"Also."},{"word":"Als","type":"(adv.)","description":"As."},{"word":"Alsatian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Alsatia."},{"word":"Alsatian","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London."},{"word":"Al","type":"()","description":"A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign /."},{"word":"Alsike","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum."},{"word":"Also","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"In like manner; likewise."},{"word":"Also","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"In addition; besides; as well; further; too."},{"word":"Also","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Even as; as; so."},{"word":"Alt","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"The higher part of the scale. See Alto."},{"word":"Altaian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Altaic"},{"word":"Altaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia."},{"word":"Altar","type":"(n.)","description":"A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity."},{"word":"Altar","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table."},{"word":"Altarage","type":"(n.)","description":"The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church."},{"word":"Altarage","type":"(n.)","description":"The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes."},{"word":"Altarist","type":"(n.)","description":"A chaplain."},{"word":"Altarist","type":"(n.)","description":"A vicar of a church."},{"word":"Altarpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos."},{"word":"Altarwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south."},{"word":"Altazimuth","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously."},{"word":"Altered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alter"},{"word":"Altering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alter"},{"word":"Alter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify."},{"word":"Alter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To agitate; to affect mentally."},{"word":"Alter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To geld."},{"word":"Alter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure."},{"word":"Alterability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being alterable; alterableness."},{"word":"Alterable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being altered."},{"word":"Alterableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability."},{"word":"Alterably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an alterable manner."},{"word":"Alterant","type":"(a.)","description":"Altering; gradually changing."},{"word":"Alterant","type":"(n.)","description":"An alterative."},{"word":"Alteration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of altering or making different."},{"word":"Alteration","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition."},{"word":"Alterative","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing ateration."},{"word":"Alterative","type":"(a.)","description":"Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health."},{"word":"Alterative","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations."},{"word":"Altercated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Altercate"},{"word":"Altercating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Altercate"},{"word":"Altercate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle."},{"word":"Altercation","type":"(n.)","description":"Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest."},{"word":"Altercative","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by wrangling; scolding."},{"word":"Alterity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise."},{"word":"Altern","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting by turns; alternate."},{"word":"Alternacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alternateness; alternation."},{"word":"Alternant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks."},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(a.)","description":"Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal."},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(a.)","description":"Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line."},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(a.)","description":"Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence."},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(n.)","description":"That which alternates with something else; vicissitude."},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(n.)","description":"A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty."},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(n.)","description":"A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means."},{"word":"Alternated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Alternate"},{"word":"Alternating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Alternate"},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly."},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other."},{"word":"Alternate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains."},{"word":"Alternately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order."},{"word":"Alternately","type":"(adv.)","description":"By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent."},{"word":"Alternateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns."},{"word":"Alternation","type":"(n.)","description":"The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear."},{"word":"Alternation","type":"(n.)","description":"Permutation."},{"word":"Alternation","type":"(n.)","description":"The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister."},{"word":"Alternative","type":"(a.)","description":"Offering a choice of two things."},{"word":"Alternative","type":"(a.)","description":"Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction."},{"word":"Alternative","type":"(a.)","description":"Alternate; reciprocal."},{"word":"Alternative","type":"(n.)","description":"An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left."},{"word":"Alternative","type":"(n.)","description":"Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives."},{"word":"Alternative","type":"(n.)","description":"The course of action or the thing offered in place of another."},{"word":"Alternative","type":"(n.)","description":"A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among."},{"word":"Alternatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things."},{"word":"Alternativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two."},{"word":"Alternity","type":"(n.)","description":"Succession by turns; alternation."},{"word":"Althaea","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Althea"},{"word":"Althea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks."},{"word":"Althea","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family."},{"word":"Altheine","type":"(n.)","description":"Asparagine."},{"word":"Altho","type":"(conj.)","description":"Although."},{"word":"Althorn","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn."},{"word":"Although","type":"(conj.)","description":"Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though."},{"word":"Altiloquence","type":"(n.)","description":"Lofty speech; pompous language."},{"word":"Altiloquent","type":"(a.)","description":"High-sounding; pompous in speech."},{"word":"Altimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc."},{"word":"Altimetry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring altitudes, or heights."},{"word":"Altincar","type":"(n.)","description":"See Tincal."},{"word":"Altiscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects."},{"word":"Altisonant","type":"(a.)","description":"High-sounding; lofty or pompous."},{"word":"Altisonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Altisonant."},{"word":"Altissimo","type":"(n.)","description":"The part or notes situated above F in alt."},{"word":"Altitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree."},{"word":"Altitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon."},{"word":"Altitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc."},{"word":"Altitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Height of degree; highest point or degree."},{"word":"Altitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Height of rank or excellence; superiority."},{"word":"Altitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs."},{"word":"Altitudinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements."},{"word":"Altitudinarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc."},{"word":"Altivolant","type":"(a.)","description":"Flying high."},{"word":"Altos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alto"},{"word":"Alto","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor."},{"word":"Alto","type":"(n.)","description":"An alto singer."},{"word":"Altogether","type":"(adv.)","description":"All together; conjointly."},{"word":"Altogether","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without exception; wholly; completely."},{"word":"Altometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A theodolite."},{"word":"Alto-relievo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alto-rilievo."},{"word":"Alto-rilievos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alto-rilievo"},{"word":"Alto-rilievo","type":"(n.)","description":"High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo."},{"word":"Altrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the articles."},{"word":"Altrices","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces."},{"word":"Altruism","type":"(n.)","description":"Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness."},{"word":"Altruist","type":"(n.)","description":"One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist."},{"word":"Altruistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish."},{"word":"Aludel","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation."},{"word":"Alula","type":"(n.)","description":"A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard."},{"word":"Alular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the alula."},{"word":"Alum","type":"(n.)","description":"A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization."},{"word":"Alum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum."},{"word":"Alumen","type":"(n.)","description":"Alum."},{"word":"Alumina","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3."},{"word":"Aluminate","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen."},{"word":"Aluminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with alumina."},{"word":"Alumine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alumina."},{"word":"Aluminic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or containing aluminium; as, aluminic phosphate."},{"word":"Aluminiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing alum."},{"word":"Aluminiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of alumina."},{"word":"Aluminium","type":"(n.)","description":"The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al."},{"word":"Aluminize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat or impregnate with alum; to alum."},{"word":"Aluminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution."},{"word":"Aluminum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aluminium."},{"word":"Alumish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat like alum."},{"word":"Alumnae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alumna"},{"word":"Alumna","type":"(n. fem.)","description":"A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college."},{"word":"Alumni","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alumnus"},{"word":"Alumnus","type":"(n.)","description":"A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning."},{"word":"Alum","type":"()","description":"A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties."},{"word":"Alum","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Alum shale"},{"word":"Alum","type":"()","description":"A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock."},{"word":"Alum","type":"()","description":"A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite."},{"word":"Alunite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alum stone."},{"word":"Alunogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt."},{"word":"Alure","type":"(n.)","description":"A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds."},{"word":"Alutaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Leathery."},{"word":"Alutaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow."},{"word":"Alutation","type":"(n.)","description":"The tanning or dressing of leather."},{"word":"Alvearies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alveary"},{"word":"Alveary","type":"(n.)","description":"A beehive, or something resembling a beehive."},{"word":"Alveary","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow of the external ear."},{"word":"Alveated","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or vaulted like a beehive."},{"word":"Alveolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets."},{"word":"Alveolary","type":"(a.)","description":"Alveolar."},{"word":"Alveolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb."},{"word":"Alveole","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alveolus."},{"word":"Alveoliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities."},{"word":"Alveoli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alveolus"},{"word":"Alveolus","type":"(n.)","description":"A cell in a honeycomb."},{"word":"Alveolus","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil"},{"word":"Alveolus","type":"(n.)","description":"A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc."},{"word":"Alvei","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Alveus"},{"word":"Alveus","type":"(n.)","description":"The channel of a river."},{"word":"Alvine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions."},{"word":"Alway","type":"(adv.)","description":"Always."},{"word":"Always","type":"(adv.)","description":"At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same."},{"word":"Always","type":"(adv.)","description":"Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally."},{"word":"Alyssum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers."},{"word":"Am","type":"()","description":"The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be."},{"word":"Amability","type":"(n.)","description":"Lovableness."},{"word":"Amacratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Amasthenic."},{"word":"Amadavat","type":"(n.)","description":"The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill."},{"word":"Amadou","type":"(n.)","description":"A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter."},{"word":"Amain","type":"(n.)","description":"With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly."},{"word":"Amain","type":"(n.)","description":"At full speed; in great haste; also, at once."},{"word":"Amain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc."},{"word":"Amain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield."},{"word":"Amalgam","type":"(n.)","description":"An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc."},{"word":"Amalgam","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture or compound of different things."},{"word":"Amalgam","type":"(n.)","description":"A native compound of mercury and silver."},{"word":"Amalgam","type":"(v. t. / i.)","description":"To amalgamate."},{"word":"Amalgama","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amalgam."},{"word":"Amalgamated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amalgamate"},{"word":"Amalgamating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amalgamate"},{"word":"Amalgamate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury."},{"word":"Amalgamate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another."},{"word":"Amalgamate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver."},{"word":"Amalgamate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate."},{"word":"Amalgamate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amalgamated"},{"word":"Amalgamated","type":"(a.)","description":"Coalesced; united; combined."},{"word":"Amalgamation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury."},{"word":"Amalgamation","type":"(n.)","description":"The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union."},{"word":"Amalgamative","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by amalgamation."},{"word":"Amalgamator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam."},{"word":"Amalgamize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To amalgamate."},{"word":"Amandine","type":"(n.)","description":"The vegetable casein of almonds."},{"word":"Amandine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc."},{"word":"Amanitine","type":"(n.)","description":"The poisonous principle of some fungi."},{"word":"Amanuenses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amanuensis"},{"word":"Amanuensis","type":"(n.)","description":"A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written."},{"word":"Amaracus","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant flower."},{"word":"Amarant","type":"(n.)","description":"Amaranth, 1."},{"word":"Amarantaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type."},{"word":"Amaranth","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary flower supposed never to fade."},{"word":"Amaranth","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers."},{"word":"Amaranth","type":"(n.)","description":"A color inclining to purple."},{"word":"Amaranthine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to amaranth."},{"word":"Amaranthine","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying."},{"word":"Amaranthine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a purplish color."},{"word":"Amaranthus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amarantus"},{"word":"Amarantus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amaranth."},{"word":"Amarine","type":"(n.)","description":"A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds."},{"word":"Amaritude","type":"(n.)","description":"Bitterness."},{"word":"Amaryllidaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amaryllideous"},{"word":"Amaryllideous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family."},{"word":"Amaryllis","type":"(n.)","description":"A pastoral sweetheart."},{"word":"Amaryllis","type":"(n.)","description":"A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others."},{"word":"Amaryllis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily."},{"word":"Amassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amass"},{"word":"Amassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amass"},{"word":"Amass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases."},{"word":"Amass","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass; a heap."},{"word":"Amassable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being amassed."},{"word":"Amasser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who amasses."},{"word":"Amassette","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding."},{"word":"Amassment","type":"(n.)","description":"An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation."},{"word":"Amasthenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic."},{"word":"Amate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt."},{"word":"Amate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be a mate to; to match."},{"word":"Amateur","type":"(n.)","description":"A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally."},{"word":"Amateurish","type":"(a.)","description":"In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur."},{"word":"Amateurism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice, habit, or work of an amateur."},{"word":"Amateurship","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or character of an amateur."},{"word":"Amative","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of love; amatory."},{"word":"Amativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love."},{"word":"Amatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses."},{"word":"Amatorially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an amatorial manner."},{"word":"Amatorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Amatory."},{"word":"Amatorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Amatory."},{"word":"Amatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions."},{"word":"Amaurosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the \"drop serene\" of Milton."},{"word":"Amaurotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis."},{"word":"Amazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amaze"},{"word":"Amazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amaze"},{"word":"Amaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze."},{"word":"Amaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly."},{"word":"Amaze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be astounded."},{"word":"Amaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement."},{"word":"Amazedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In amazement; with confusion or astonishment."},{"word":"Amazedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder."},{"word":"Amazeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of amazement."},{"word":"Amazement","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration."},{"word":"Amazement","type":"(n.)","description":"Frenzy; madness."},{"word":"Amazing","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace."},{"word":"Amazon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior."},{"word":"Amazon","type":"(n.)","description":"A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago."},{"word":"Amazon","type":"(n.)","description":"A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis"},{"word":"Amazonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike."},{"word":"Amazonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley."},{"word":"Amazonite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amazon stone"},{"word":"Amazon","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color."},{"word":"Amb-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Ambi-"},{"word":"Ambi-","type":"()","description":"A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin."},{"word":"Ambages","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech."},{"word":"Ambaginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambagious."},{"word":"Ambagious","type":"(a.)","description":"Circumlocutory; circuitous."},{"word":"Ambagitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambagious."},{"word":"Ambassade","type":"(ambassade.)","description":"Alt. of Embassade"},{"word":"Embassade","type":"(ambassade.)","description":"The mission of an ambassador."},{"word":"Embassade","type":"(ambassade.)","description":"An embassy."},{"word":"Ambassador","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Embassador"},{"word":"Embassador","type":"(n.)","description":"A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country."},{"word":"Embassador","type":"(n.)","description":"An official messenger and representative."},{"word":"Ambassadorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an ambassador."},{"word":"Ambassadorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, office, or functions of an ambassador."},{"word":"Ambassadress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador."},{"word":"Ambassage","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Embassage."},{"word":"Ambassy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Embassy, the usual spelling."},{"word":"Amber","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric."},{"word":"Amber","type":"(n.)","description":"Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky."},{"word":"Amber","type":"(n.)","description":"Ambergris."},{"word":"Amber","type":"(n.)","description":"The balsam, liquidambar."},{"word":"Amber","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of amber; made of amber."},{"word":"Amber","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored."},{"word":"Ambered","type":"(p. p. & p. a.)","description":"of Amber"},{"word":"Amber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine."},{"word":"Amber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly."},{"word":"Amber","type":"()","description":"A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)"},{"word":"Ambergrease","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ambergris."},{"word":"Ambergris","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212� Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery."},{"word":"Amber","type":"()","description":"A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans."},{"word":"Amber","type":"()","description":"Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed."},{"word":"Amber","type":"()","description":"A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor."},{"word":"Ambes-as","type":"(n.)","description":"Ambs-ace."},{"word":"Ambidexter","type":"(a.)","description":"Using both hands with equal ease."},{"word":"Ambidexter","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who uses both hands with equal facility."},{"word":"Ambidexter","type":"(n.)","description":"A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes."},{"word":"Ambidexter","type":"(n.)","description":"A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict."},{"word":"Ambidexterity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility."},{"word":"Ambidexterity","type":"(n.)","description":"Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation."},{"word":"Ambidexterity","type":"(n.)","description":"Double-dealing."},{"word":"Ambidexterity","type":"(n.)","description":"A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict."},{"word":"Ambidextral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side."},{"word":"Ambidextrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease."},{"word":"Ambidextrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Practicing or siding with both parties."},{"word":"Ambidextrously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly."},{"word":"Ambidextrousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity."},{"word":"Ambient","type":"(a.)","description":"Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing."},{"word":"Ambient","type":"(n.)","description":"Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient."},{"word":"Ambigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of two kinds."},{"word":"Ambigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid."},{"word":"Ambigu","type":"(n.)","description":"An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time."},{"word":"Ambiguities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ambiguity"},{"word":"Ambiguity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression."},{"word":"Ambiguous","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression."},{"word":"Ambiguously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning."},{"word":"Ambiguousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Ambiguity."},{"word":"Ambilevous","type":"(a.)","description":"Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter."},{"word":"Ambiloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubtful or ambiguous language."},{"word":"Ambiparous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud."},{"word":"Ambit","type":"(n.)","description":"Circuit or compass."},{"word":"Ambition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing."},{"word":"Ambition","type":"(n.)","description":"An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something."},{"word":"Ambition","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet."},{"word":"Ambitionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One excessively ambitious."},{"word":"Ambitionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Devoid of ambition."},{"word":"Ambitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction."},{"word":"Ambitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something."},{"word":"Ambitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style."},{"word":"Ambitiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ambitious manner."},{"word":"Ambitiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness."},{"word":"Ambitus","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell."},{"word":"Ambitus","type":"(n.)","description":"A canvassing for votes."},{"word":"Ambled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amble"},{"word":"Ambling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amble"},{"word":"Amble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider."},{"word":"Amble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks."},{"word":"Amble","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side."},{"word":"Amble","type":"(n.)","description":"A movement like the amble of a horse."},{"word":"Ambler","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse or a person that ambles."},{"word":"Amblingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With an ambling gait."},{"word":"Amblotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to cause abortion."},{"word":"Amblygon","type":"(n.)","description":"An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle."},{"word":"Amblygonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtuse-angled."},{"word":"Amblyopia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amblyopy"},{"word":"Amblyopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis."},{"word":"Amblyopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to amblyopy."},{"word":"Amblypoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States."},{"word":"Ambos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ambo"},{"word":"Ambo","type":"(n.)","description":"A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches."},{"word":"Ambon","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ambo."},{"word":"Amboyna","type":"()","description":"A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc."},{"word":"Ambreate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical."},{"word":"Ambreic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid."},{"word":"Ambrein","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris."},{"word":"Ambrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand."},{"word":"Ambrose","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3."},{"word":"Ambrosia","type":"(n.)","description":"The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it."},{"word":"Ambrosia","type":"(n.)","description":"An unguent of the gods."},{"word":"Ambrosia","type":"(n.)","description":"A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell."},{"word":"Ambrosia","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc."},{"word":"Ambrosiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious."},{"word":"Ambrosial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious."},{"word":"Ambrosial","type":"(a.)","description":"Divinely excellent or beautiful."},{"word":"Ambrosially","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully."},{"word":"Ambrosian","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambrosial."},{"word":"Ambrosian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose."},{"word":"Ambrosin","type":"(n.)","description":"An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback."},{"word":"Ambrotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass."},{"word":"Ambries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ambry"},{"word":"Ambry","type":"(n.)","description":"In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc."},{"word":"Ambry","type":"(n.)","description":"A store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc."},{"word":"Ambry","type":"(n.)","description":"Almonry."},{"word":"Ambs-ace","type":"(n.)","description":"Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value."},{"word":"Ambulacral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms."},{"word":"Ambulacriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of ambulacra."},{"word":"Ambulacra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ambulacrum"},{"word":"Ambulacrum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays."},{"word":"Ambulacrum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the suckers on the feet of mites."},{"word":"Ambulance","type":"(n.)","description":"A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps."},{"word":"Ambulance","type":"(n.)","description":"An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital."},{"word":"Ambulant","type":"(a.)","description":"Walking; moving from place to place."},{"word":"Ambulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To walk; to move about."},{"word":"Ambulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of walking."},{"word":"Ambulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Walking."},{"word":"Ambulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who walks about; a walker."},{"word":"Ambulator","type":"(n.)","description":"A beetle of the genus Lamia."},{"word":"Ambulator","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of birds, or one of this genus."},{"word":"Ambulator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator."},{"word":"Ambulatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambulatory; fitted for walking."},{"word":"Ambulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal."},{"word":"Ambulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places."},{"word":"Ambulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a walk."},{"word":"Ambulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator."},{"word":"Ambulatories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ambulatory"},{"word":"Ambulatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building."},{"word":"Amburry","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anbury."},{"word":"Ambuscade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush."},{"word":"Ambuscade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly."},{"word":"Ambuscade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The body of troops lying in ambush."},{"word":"Ambuscaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ambuscade"},{"word":"Ambuscading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ambuscade"},{"word":"Ambuscade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush."},{"word":"Ambuscade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay."},{"word":"Ambuscade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie in ambush."},{"word":"Ambuscado","type":"(n.)","description":"Ambuscade."},{"word":"Ambuscadoed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Posted in ambush; ambuscaded."},{"word":"Ambush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare."},{"word":"Ambush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise."},{"word":"Ambush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait."},{"word":"Ambushed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ambush"},{"word":"Ambushing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ambush"},{"word":"Ambush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy."},{"word":"Ambush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack by ambush; to waylay."},{"word":"Ambush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk."},{"word":"Ambusher","type":"(n.)","description":"One lying in ambush."},{"word":"Ambushment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An ambush."},{"word":"Ambustion","type":"(n.)","description":"A burn or scald."},{"word":"Amebean","type":"(a.)","description":"See Am/bean."},{"word":"Ameer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amir"},{"word":"Amir","type":"(n.)","description":"Emir."},{"word":"Amir","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde."},{"word":"Amel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Enamel."},{"word":"Amel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enamel."},{"word":"Amelcorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice."},{"word":"Ameliorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being ameliorated."},{"word":"Ameliorated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ameliorate"},{"word":"Ameliorating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ameliorate"},{"word":"Ameliorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make better; to improve; to meliorate."},{"word":"Ameliorate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age."},{"word":"Amelioration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration."},{"word":"Ameliorative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts."},{"word":"Ameliorator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who ameliorates."},{"word":"Amen","type":"(interj., adv., & n.)","description":"An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily."},{"word":"Amen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To say Amen to; to sanction fully."},{"word":"Amenability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being amenable; amenableness."},{"word":"Amenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband."},{"word":"Amenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law."},{"word":"Amenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc."},{"word":"Amenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable."},{"word":"Amenableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness."},{"word":"Amenably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an amenable manner."},{"word":"Amenage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage."},{"word":"Amenance","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior; bearing."},{"word":"Amended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amend"},{"word":"Amending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amend"},{"word":"Amend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change or modify in any way for the better"},{"word":"Amend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;"},{"word":"Amend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"by supplying deficiencies;"},{"word":"Amend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify."},{"word":"Amend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve."},{"word":"Amendable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error."},{"word":"Amendatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory."},{"word":"Amende","type":"(n.)","description":"A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation."},{"word":"Amender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who amends."},{"word":"Amendful","type":"(a.)","description":"Much improving."},{"word":"Amendment","type":"(n.)","description":"An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices."},{"word":"Amendment","type":"(n.)","description":"In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting."},{"word":"Amendment","type":"(n.)","description":"Correction of an error in a writ or process."},{"word":"Amends","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation."},{"word":"Amenities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amenity"},{"word":"Amenity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness."},{"word":"Amenorrhoea","type":"(n.)","description":"Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge."},{"word":"Amenorrhoeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to amenorrhoea."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife."},{"word":"Ament","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of inflorescence; a catkin."},{"word":"Amentaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence."},{"word":"Amentaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants."},{"word":"Amentia","type":"(n.)","description":"Imbecility; total want of understanding."},{"word":"Amentiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing catkins."},{"word":"Amentiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a catkin."},{"word":"Amenta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amentum"},{"word":"Amentum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ament."},{"word":"Amenuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen."},{"word":"Amerced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amerce"},{"word":"Amercing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amerce"},{"word":"Amerce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars."},{"word":"Amerce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish, in general; to mulct."},{"word":"Amerceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be amerced."},{"word":"Amercement","type":"(n.)","description":"The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.]"},{"word":"Amercer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who amerces."},{"word":"Amerciament","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amercement."},{"word":"American","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians."},{"word":"American","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the United States."},{"word":"American","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States."},{"word":"Americanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Attachment to the United States."},{"word":"Americanism","type":"(n.)","description":"A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea."},{"word":"Americanism","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or phrase peculiar to the United States."},{"word":"Americanization","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of Americanizing."},{"word":"Americanizer","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Americanize"},{"word":"Americanizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Americanize"},{"word":"Americanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics."},{"word":"Ames-ace","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ambs-ace."},{"word":"Amess","type":"(n.)","description":"Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice."},{"word":"Ametabola","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis."},{"word":"Ametabolian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis."},{"word":"Ametabolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ametabolous"},{"word":"Ametabolous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects."},{"word":"Amethodist","type":"(n.)","description":"One without method; a quack."},{"word":"Amethyst","type":"()","description":"A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone."},{"word":"Amethyst","type":"()","description":"A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms."},{"word":"Amethystine","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet."},{"word":"Amethystine","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of, or containing, amethyst."},{"word":"Ametropia","type":"(n.)","description":"Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye."},{"word":"Amharic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic."},{"word":"Amharic","type":"(n.)","description":"The Amharic language (now the chief language of Abyssinia)."},{"word":"Amia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin."},{"word":"Amiability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition."},{"word":"Amiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Lovable; lovely; pleasing."},{"word":"Amiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas."},{"word":"Amiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman."},{"word":"Amiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Done out of love."},{"word":"Amiableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being amiable; amiability."},{"word":"Amiably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an amiable manner."},{"word":"Amianth","type":"(n.)","description":"See Amianthus."},{"word":"Amianthiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling amianthus in form."},{"word":"Amianthoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling amianthus."},{"word":"Amianthus","type":"(n.)","description":"Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus."},{"word":"Amic","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid."},{"word":"Amicability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness."},{"word":"Amicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement."},{"word":"Amicableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being amicable; amicability."},{"word":"Amicably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an amicable manner."},{"word":"Amice","type":"(n.)","description":"A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass."},{"word":"Amice","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce."},{"word":"Amid","type":"(prep.)","description":"See Amidst."},{"word":"Amide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical."},{"word":"Amidin","type":"(n.)","description":"Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water."},{"word":"Amido","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or derived from, amidogen."},{"word":"Amidogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido."},{"word":"Amidships","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth."},{"word":"Amidst","type":"(prep.)","description":"Alt. of Amid"},{"word":"Amid","type":"(prep.)","description":"In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among."},{"word":"Amine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical."},{"word":"Amioid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the Amioidei."},{"word":"Amioid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Amioidei."},{"word":"Amioidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of ganoid fishes of which Amia is the type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei."},{"word":"Amir","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ameer."},{"word":"Amiss","type":"(adv.)","description":"Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill."},{"word":"Amiss","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice."},{"word":"Amiss","type":"(n.)","description":"A fault, wrong, or mistake."},{"word":"Amissibility","type":"()","description":"The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost."},{"word":"Amissible","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be lost."},{"word":"Amission","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation; loss."},{"word":"Amit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lose."},{"word":"Amities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amity"},{"word":"Amity","type":"(n.)","description":"Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories."},{"word":"Amma","type":"(n.)","description":"An abbes or spiritual mother."},{"word":"Ammeter","type":"(n.)","description":"A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter."},{"word":"Ammiral","type":"(n.)","description":"An obsolete form of admiral."},{"word":"Ammite","type":"(n.)","description":"Oolite or roestone; -- written also hammite."},{"word":"Ammodyte","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel."},{"word":"Ammodyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of viper in southern Europe."},{"word":"Ammonia","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn."},{"word":"Ammoniac","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ammoniacal"},{"word":"Ammoniacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas."},{"word":"Ammoniac","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gum ammoniac"},{"word":"Gum","type":"(n.)","description":"The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters."},{"word":"Ammoniated","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined or impregnated with ammonia."},{"word":"Ammonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ammonia."},{"word":"Ammonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis."},{"word":"Ammonitiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing fossil ammonites."},{"word":"Ammonitoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite."},{"word":"Ammonium","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals."},{"word":"Ammunition","type":"(n.)","description":"Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense."},{"word":"Ammunition","type":"(n.)","description":"Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc."},{"word":"Ammunition","type":"(n.)","description":"Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative."},{"word":"Ammunitioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ammunition"},{"word":"Ammunitioning","type":"(p pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ammunition"},{"word":"Ammunition","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with ammunition."},{"word":"Amnesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ."},{"word":"Amnesic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to amnesia."},{"word":"Amnestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing loss of memory."},{"word":"Amnesty","type":"(v.)","description":"Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion."},{"word":"Amnesty","type":"(v.)","description":"An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection."},{"word":"Amnestied","type":"(imp. p. p.)","description":"of Amnesty"},{"word":"Amnestying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amnesty"},{"word":"Amnesty","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant amnesty to."},{"word":"Amnicolist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives near a river."},{"word":"Amnigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Born or bred in, of, or near a river."},{"word":"Amnion","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles."},{"word":"Amnios","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amnion."},{"word":"Amniota","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals."},{"word":"Amniotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac."},{"word":"Amoebae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amoeba"},{"word":"Amoebas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amoeba"},{"word":"Amoeba","type":"(n.)","description":"A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda."},{"word":"Amoebaeum","type":"(n.)","description":"A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil."},{"word":"Amoebea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms."},{"word":"Amoebean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alternately answering."},{"word":"Amoebian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Amoebea."},{"word":"Amoebiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amoeboid"},{"word":"Amoeboid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba."},{"word":"Amoebous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like an amoeba in structure."},{"word":"Amolition","type":"(n.)","description":"Removal; a putting away."},{"word":"Amomum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise."},{"word":"Amoneste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admonish."},{"word":"Among","type":"(prep.)","description":"Alt. of Amongst"},{"word":"Amongst","type":"(prep.)","description":"Mixed or mingled; surrounded by."},{"word":"Amongst","type":"(prep.)","description":"Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of."},{"word":"Amongst","type":"(prep.)","description":"Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action."},{"word":"Amontillado","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry kind of cherry, of a light color."},{"word":"Amoret","type":"(n.)","description":"An amorous girl or woman; a wanton."},{"word":"Amoret","type":"(n.)","description":"A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks."},{"word":"Amoret","type":"(n.)","description":"A petty love affair or amour."},{"word":"Amorette","type":"(n.)","description":"An amoret."},{"word":"Amorist","type":"(n.)","description":"A lover; a gallant."},{"word":"A-mornings","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the morning; every morning."},{"word":"Amorosa","type":"(n.)","description":"A wanton woman; a courtesan."},{"word":"Amorosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being amorous; lovingness."},{"word":"Amoroso","type":"(n.)","description":"A lover; a man enamored."},{"word":"Amoroso","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a soft, tender, amatory style."},{"word":"Amorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition."},{"word":"Amorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on."},{"word":"Amorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to, or produced by, love."},{"word":"Amorously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an amorous manner; fondly."},{"word":"Amorousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness."},{"word":"Amorphas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amorpha"},{"word":"Amorpha","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo."},{"word":"Amorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc."},{"word":"Amorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless."},{"word":"Amorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized."},{"word":"Amorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of no particular kind or character; anomalous."},{"word":"Amorphozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges."},{"word":"Amorphozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa."},{"word":"Amorphy","type":"(n.)","description":"Shapelessness."},{"word":"Amort","type":"(a.)","description":"As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed."},{"word":"Amortise","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amortisement"},{"word":"Amortisation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amortisement"},{"word":"Amortisable","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amortisement"},{"word":"Amortisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc."},{"word":"Amortizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being cleared off, as a debt."},{"word":"Amortization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain."},{"word":"Amortization","type":"(n.)","description":"The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid."},{"word":"Amortize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make as if dead; to destroy."},{"word":"Amortize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain."},{"word":"Amortize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund."},{"word":"Amortizement","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amortization."},{"word":"Amorwe","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the morning."},{"word":"Amorwe","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the following morning."},{"word":"Amotion","type":"(n.)","description":"Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office."},{"word":"Amotion","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation of possession."},{"word":"Amotus","type":"(a.)","description":"Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground."},{"word":"Amounted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amount"},{"word":"Amounting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amount"},{"word":"Amount","type":"(n.)","description":"To go up; to ascend."},{"word":"Amount","type":"(n.)","description":"To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto."},{"word":"Amount","type":"(n.)","description":"To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little."},{"word":"Amount","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To signify; to amount to."},{"word":"Amount","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue."},{"word":"Amount","type":"(n.)","description":"The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this."},{"word":"Amour","type":"(n.)","description":"Love; affection."},{"word":"Amour","type":"(n.)","description":"Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair."},{"word":"Amour","type":"()","description":"Self-love; self-esteem."},{"word":"Amovability","type":"(n.)","description":"Liability to be removed or dismissed from office."},{"word":"Amovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Removable."},{"word":"Amove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove, as a person or thing, from a position."},{"word":"Amove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dismiss from an office or station."},{"word":"Amove","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To move or be moved; to excite."},{"word":"Ampelite","type":"(n.)","description":"An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist."},{"word":"Ampere","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ampere"},{"word":"Ampere","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere."},{"word":"Amperemeter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amperometer"},{"word":"Amperometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amperes."},{"word":"Ampersand","type":"(n.)","description":"A word used to describe the character /, /, or &."},{"word":"Amphi-","type":"()","description":"A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around."},{"word":"Amphiarthrodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by amphiarthrosis."},{"word":"Amphiarthrosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis."},{"word":"Amphiaster","type":"(n.)","description":"The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle."},{"word":"Amphibia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the classes of vertebrates."},{"word":"Amphibial","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Amphibian."},{"word":"Amphibian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles."},{"word":"Amphibian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Amphibia."},{"word":"Amphibiological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to amphibiology."},{"word":"Amphibiology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia."},{"word":"Amphibiotica","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of insects having aquatic larvae."},{"word":"Amphibious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants."},{"word":"Amphibious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water."},{"word":"Amphibious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures."},{"word":"Amphibiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Like an amphibious being."},{"word":"Amphibia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amphibium"},{"word":"Amphibiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amphibium"},{"word":"Amphibium","type":"(n.)","description":"An amphibian."},{"word":"Amphiblastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation."},{"word":"Amphibole","type":"(n.)","description":"A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende."},{"word":"Amphibolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal."},{"word":"Amphibolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or resembling the mineral amphibole."},{"word":"Amphibological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous."},{"word":"Amphibologies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amphibology"},{"word":"Amphibology","type":"(n.)","description":"A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term."},{"word":"Amphibolous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambiguous; doubtful."},{"word":"Amphibolous","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of two meanings."},{"word":"Amphibolies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amphiboly"},{"word":"Amphiboly","type":"(n.)","description":"Ambiguous discourse; amphibology."},{"word":"Amphibrach","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic."},{"word":"Amphicarpic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amphicarpous"},{"word":"Amphicarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening."},{"word":"Amphichroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red."},{"word":"Amphicoelian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amphicoelous"},{"word":"Amphicoelous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebrae."},{"word":"Amphicome","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination."},{"word":"Amphictyonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body."},{"word":"Amphictyons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters."},{"word":"Amphictyonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amphictyony"},{"word":"Amphictyony","type":"(n.)","description":"A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece."},{"word":"Amphid","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound."},{"word":"Amphidisc","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges."},{"word":"Amphidromical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it."},{"word":"Amphigamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants."},{"word":"Amphigean","type":"(a.)","description":"Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive."},{"word":"Amphigen","type":"(n.)","description":"An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium."},{"word":"Amphigene","type":"(n.)","description":"Leucite."},{"word":"Amphigenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Sexual generation; amphigony."},{"word":"Amphigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens."},{"word":"Amphigonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation."},{"word":"Amphigonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to both parents."},{"word":"Amphigony","type":"(n.)","description":"Sexual propagation."},{"word":"Amphigoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory."},{"word":"Amphigory","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless."},{"word":"Amphilogism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amphilogy"},{"word":"Amphilogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Ambiguity of speech; equivocation."},{"word":"Amphimacer","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas."},{"word":"Amphineura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves."},{"word":"Amphioxus","type":"(n.)","description":"A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc."},{"word":"Amphipneust","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren."},{"word":"Amphipod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Amphipoda."},{"word":"Amphipod","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amphipodan"},{"word":"Amphipodan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda."},{"word":"Amphipoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca."},{"word":"Amphipodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda."},{"word":"Amphiprostyle","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides."},{"word":"Amphiprostyle","type":"(n.)","description":"An amphiprostyle temple or edifice."},{"word":"Amphirhina","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double."},{"word":"Amphisbaena","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way."},{"word":"Amphisbaena","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Amphisbaenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbaena."},{"word":"Amphiscii","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Amphiscians"},{"word":"Amphiscians","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith."},{"word":"Amphistomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere."},{"word":"Amphistylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull."},{"word":"Amphitheater","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amphitheatre"},{"word":"Amphitheatre","type":"(n.)","description":"An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena."},{"word":"Amphitheatre","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater."},{"word":"Amphitheatral","type":"(a.)","description":"Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater."},{"word":"Amphitheatric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amphitheatrical"},{"word":"Amphitheatrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater."},{"word":"Amphitheatrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form or manner of an amphitheater."},{"word":"Amphitrocha","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia."},{"word":"Amphitropal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amphitropous"},{"word":"Amphitropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous."},{"word":"Amphiuma","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake."},{"word":"Amphopeptone","type":"(n.)","description":"A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone."},{"word":"Amophorae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Amphora"},{"word":"Amphora","type":"(n.)","description":"Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc."},{"word":"Amphoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora."},{"word":"Amphoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance."},{"word":"Amphoteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral."},{"word":"Ample","type":"(a.)","description":"Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended."},{"word":"Ample","type":"(a.)","description":"Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice."},{"word":"Ample","type":"(a.)","description":"Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative."},{"word":"Amplectant","type":"(a.)","description":"Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils."},{"word":"Ampleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness."},{"word":"Amplexation","type":"(n.)","description":"An embrace."},{"word":"Amplexicaul","type":"(a.)","description":"Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves."},{"word":"Ampliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge."},{"word":"Ampliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects."},{"word":"Ampliation","type":"(n.)","description":"Enlargement; amplification."},{"word":"Ampliation","type":"(n.)","description":"A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument."},{"word":"Ampliative","type":"(a.)","description":"Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already known or received."},{"word":"Amplificate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To amplify."},{"word":"Amplification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension."},{"word":"Amplification","type":"(n.)","description":"The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject."},{"word":"Amplification","type":"(n.)","description":"The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications."},{"word":"Amplificative","type":"(a.)","description":"Amplificatory."},{"word":"Amplificatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative."},{"word":"Amplifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who or that which amplifies."},{"word":"Amplified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amplify"},{"word":"Amplifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amplify"},{"word":"Amplify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc."},{"word":"Amplify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of."},{"word":"Amplify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become larger."},{"word":"Amplify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Of extent of means or resources."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements."},{"word":"Amplitude","type":"(n.)","description":"An angle upon which the value of some function depends; -- a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions."},{"word":"Amply","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ample manner."},{"word":"Ampul","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ampulla, 2."},{"word":"Ampullae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ampulla"},{"word":"Ampulla","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug."},{"word":"Ampulla","type":"(n.)","description":"A cruet for the wine and water at Mass."},{"word":"Ampulla","type":"(n.)","description":"The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept."},{"word":"Ampulla","type":"(n.)","description":"Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear."},{"word":"Ampullaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling."},{"word":"Ampullar","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ampullary"},{"word":"Ampullary","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an ampulla."},{"word":"Ampullate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ampullated"},{"word":"Ampullated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied."},{"word":"Ampulliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Flask-shaped; dilated."},{"word":"Amputated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amputate"},{"word":"Amputating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amputate"},{"word":"Amputate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils."},{"word":"Amputate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)"},{"word":"Amputation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body."},{"word":"Amputator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who amputates."},{"word":"Ampyx","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair."},{"word":"Amrita","type":"(n.)","description":"Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality."},{"word":"Amrita","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambrosial; immortal."},{"word":"Amsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Amzel"},{"word":"Amzel","type":"(n.)","description":"The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus)."},{"word":"Amuck","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"In a frenzied and reckless manner."},{"word":"Amulet","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.]"},{"word":"Amuletic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm."},{"word":"Amurcous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full off dregs; foul."},{"word":"Amusable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being amused."},{"word":"Amused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Amuse"},{"word":"Amusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Amuse"},{"word":"Amuse","type":"(v.)","description":"To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder."},{"word":"Amuse","type":"(v.)","description":"To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert."},{"word":"Amuse","type":"(v.)","description":"To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude."},{"word":"Amuse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To muse; to mediate."},{"word":"Amused","type":"(a.)","description":"Diverted."},{"word":"Amused","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing amusement; as, an amused look."},{"word":"Amusement","type":"(n.)","description":"Deep thought; muse."},{"word":"Amusement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion."},{"word":"Amuser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who amuses."},{"word":"Amusette","type":"(n.)","description":"A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel."},{"word":"Amusing","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story."},{"word":"Amusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth."},{"word":"Amy","type":"(n.)","description":"A friend."},{"word":"Amyelous","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting the spinal cord."},{"word":"Amygdalaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Akin to, or derived from, the almond."},{"word":"Amygdalate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds."},{"word":"Amygdalate","type":"(n.)","description":"An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds."},{"word":"Amygdalate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt amygdalic acid."},{"word":"Amygdalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid."},{"word":"Amygdaliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Almond-bearing."},{"word":"Amygdalin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance."},{"word":"Amygdaline","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds."},{"word":"Amygdaloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava."},{"word":"Amygdaloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amygdaloidal"},{"word":"Amygdaloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Almond-shaped."},{"word":"Amygdaloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid."},{"word":"Amyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc."},{"word":"Amylaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy."},{"word":"Amylate","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical."},{"word":"Amylene","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group."},{"word":"Amylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether."},{"word":"Amylobacter","type":"(n.)","description":"A microorganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction."},{"word":"Amyloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Amyloidal"},{"word":"Amyloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike."},{"word":"Amyloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance."},{"word":"Amyloid","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration."},{"word":"Amylolytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment."},{"word":"Amylose","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc."},{"word":"Amyous","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in muscle; without flesh."},{"word":"Amyss","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amice, a hood or cape."},{"word":"An","type":"()","description":"This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as \"twice an hour,\" \"once an age,\" a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every."},{"word":"An","type":"(conj.)","description":"If; -- a word used by old English authors."},{"word":"Ana-","type":"()","description":"A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew."},{"word":"Ana","type":"(adv.)","description":"Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces."},{"word":"-ana","type":"()","description":"A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc."},{"word":"Anabaptism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of the Anabaptists."},{"word":"Anabaptist","type":"(n.)","description":"A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy."},{"word":"Anabaptistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anabaptistical"},{"word":"Anabaptistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines."},{"word":"Anabaptistry","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists."},{"word":"Anabaptize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename."},{"word":"Anabas","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes."},{"word":"Anabasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called \"The Anabasis.\""},{"word":"Anabasis","type":"(n.)","description":"The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation."},{"word":"Anabatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever."},{"word":"Anabolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature."},{"word":"Anabolism","type":"(n.)","description":"The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism."},{"word":"Anacamptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo)."},{"word":"Anacamptically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically."},{"word":"Anacamptics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics."},{"word":"Anacamptics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of reflected sounds."},{"word":"Anacanthini","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Anacanths"},{"word":"Anacanths","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod."},{"word":"Anacanthous","type":"(a.)","description":"Spineless, as certain fishes."},{"word":"Anacardiaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples."},{"word":"Anacardic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid."},{"word":"Anacardium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew."},{"word":"Anacathartic","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing vomiting or expectoration."},{"word":"Anacathartic","type":"(n.)","description":"An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic."},{"word":"Anacharis","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme."},{"word":"Anachoret","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anachoretical"},{"word":"Anachoretical","type":"(a.)","description":"See Anchoret, Anchoretic."},{"word":"Anachorism","type":"(n.)","description":"An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place."},{"word":"Anachronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anachronical"},{"word":"Anachronical","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic."},{"word":"Anachronism","type":"(n.)","description":"A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation."},{"word":"Anachronistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism."},{"word":"Anachronize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refer to, or put into, a wrong time."},{"word":"Anachronous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing an anachronism; anachronistic."},{"word":"Anaclastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves."},{"word":"Anaclastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass."},{"word":"Anaclastics","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics."},{"word":"Anacoenosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate."},{"word":"Anacoluthic","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking grammatical sequence."},{"word":"Anacoluthon","type":"(n.)","description":"A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part."},{"word":"Anaconda","type":"(n.)","description":"A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon."},{"word":"Anacreontic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial."},{"word":"Anacreontic","type":"(n.)","description":"A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine."},{"word":"Anacrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to anachronism."},{"word":"Anacrotism","type":"(n.)","description":"A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing."},{"word":"Anacrusis","type":"(n.)","description":"A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable."},{"word":"Anadem","type":"(n.)","description":"A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath."},{"word":"Anadiplosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, \"He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent.\""},{"word":"Anadrom","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers."},{"word":"Anadromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc."},{"word":"Anadromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem."},{"word":"Anaemia","type":"(a.)","description":"A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity."},{"word":"Anaemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anaemia."},{"word":"Anaerobic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or like, anaerobies; anaerobiotic."},{"word":"Anaerobies","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Microorganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it."},{"word":"Anaerobiotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to, or of the nature of, anaerobies."},{"word":"Anaesthesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic."},{"word":"Anaesthesis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Anaesthesia."},{"word":"Anaesthetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of rendering insensible; as, anaesthetic agents."},{"word":"Anaesthetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation."},{"word":"Anaesthetic","type":"(n.)","description":"That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc."},{"word":"Anaesthetization","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics."},{"word":"Anaesthetize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render insensible by an anaesthetic."},{"word":"Anaglyph","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo."},{"word":"Anaglyphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anaglyphical"},{"word":"Anaglyphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work."},{"word":"Anaglyphic","type":"(n.)","description":"Work chased or embossed relief."},{"word":"Anaglyptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief."},{"word":"Anaglyptics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc."},{"word":"Anaglyptograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed."},{"word":"Anaglyptographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, anaglyptographic engraving."},{"word":"Anaglyptography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc."},{"word":"Anagnorisis","type":"(n.)","description":"The unfolding or denouement."},{"word":"Anagoge","type":"(n.)","description":"An elevation of mind to things celestial."},{"word":"Anagoge","type":"(n.)","description":"The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New."},{"word":"Anagogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anagogical"},{"word":"Anagogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication."},{"word":"Anagogics","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures."},{"word":"Anagogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anagoge."},{"word":"Anagram","type":"(n.)","description":"Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law."},{"word":"Anagram","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To anagrammatize."},{"word":"Anagrammatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anagrammatical"},{"word":"Anagrammatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, containing, or making, an anagram."},{"word":"Anagrammatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of making anagrams."},{"word":"Anagrammatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker anagrams."},{"word":"Anagrammatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram."},{"word":"Anagraph","type":"(n.)","description":"An inventory; a record."},{"word":"Anakim","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Anaks"},{"word":"Anaks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A race of giants living in Palestine."},{"word":"Anal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands."},{"word":"Analcime","type":"(n.)","description":"A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name."},{"word":"Analcite","type":"(n.)","description":"Analcime."},{"word":"Analectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine."},{"word":"Analects","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Analecta"},{"word":"Analecta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A collection of literary fragments."},{"word":"Analemma","type":"(n.)","description":"An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon."},{"word":"Analemma","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems."},{"word":"Analemma","type":"(n.)","description":"A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe."},{"word":"Analepsis","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Analepsy"},{"word":"Analepsy","type":"()","description":"Recovery of strength after sickness."},{"word":"Analepsy","type":"()","description":"A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder."},{"word":"Analeptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Restorative; giving strength after disease."},{"word":"Analeptic","type":"(n.)","description":"A restorative."},{"word":"Analgesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of sensibility to pain."},{"word":"Anallagmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not changed in form by inversion."},{"word":"Anallantoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Without, or not developing, an allantois."},{"word":"Anallantoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms."},{"word":"Analogal","type":"(a.)","description":"Analogous."},{"word":"Analogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to analogy."},{"word":"Analogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy."},{"word":"Analogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having analogy; analogous."},{"word":"Analogically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude."},{"word":"Analogicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being analogical."},{"word":"Analogism","type":"(n.)","description":"an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument."},{"word":"Analogism","type":"(n.)","description":"Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other."},{"word":"Analogist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy."},{"word":"Analogize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To employ, or reason by, analogy."},{"word":"Analogon","type":"(n.)","description":"Analogue."},{"word":"Analogous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to."},{"word":"Analogue","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing."},{"word":"Analogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin \"pater\" is the analogue of the English \"father.\""},{"word":"Analogue","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations."},{"word":"Analogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group."},{"word":"Analogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera."},{"word":"Analogies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Analogy"},{"word":"Analogy","type":"(n.)","description":"A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden."},{"word":"Analogy","type":"(n.)","description":"A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different."},{"word":"Analogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Proportion; equality of ratios."},{"word":"Analogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly."},{"word":"Analyse","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Analyser"},{"word":"Analyser","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc."},{"word":"Analyses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Analysis"},{"word":"Analysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis."},{"word":"Analysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis."},{"word":"Analysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles."},{"word":"Analysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations."},{"word":"Analysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order."},{"word":"Analysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis."},{"word":"Analysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key."},{"word":"Analyst","type":"(n.)","description":"One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis."},{"word":"Analytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Analytical"},{"word":"Analytical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic."},{"word":"Analytically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an analytical manner."},{"word":"Analytics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of analysis."},{"word":"Analyzable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be analyzed."},{"word":"Analyzation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis."},{"word":"Analyzed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Analyze"},{"word":"Analyzing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Analyze"},{"word":"Analyze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality."},{"word":"Analyzer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, analyzes."},{"word":"Analyzer","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties."},{"word":"Anamese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia."},{"word":"Anamese","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Anam."},{"word":"Anamnesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A recalling to mind; recollection."},{"word":"Anamnestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies."},{"word":"Anamniotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Without, or not developing, an amnion."},{"word":"Anamorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"A distorted image."},{"word":"Anamorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending."},{"word":"Anamorphosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image."},{"word":"Anamorphosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anamorphism, 2."},{"word":"Anamorphosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration."},{"word":"Anamorphosy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anamorphosis."},{"word":"Anan","type":"(interj.)","description":"An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh?"},{"word":"Ananas","type":"(n.)","description":"The pineapple (Ananassa sativa)."},{"word":"Anandrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers."},{"word":"Anangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing no angle."},{"word":"Anantherous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of anthers."},{"word":"Ananthous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of flowers; flowerless."},{"word":"Anapaest","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Anapaestic"},{"word":"Anapaestic","type":"()","description":"Same as Anapest, Anapestic."},{"word":"Anapest","type":"(n.)","description":"A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests."},{"word":"Anapest","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse composed of such feet."},{"word":"Anapestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse."},{"word":"Anapestic","type":"(n.)","description":"Anapestic measure or verse."},{"word":"Anapestical","type":"(a.)","description":"Anapestic."},{"word":"Anaphora","type":"(n.)","description":"A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses."},{"word":"Anaphrodisia","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of sexual appetite."},{"word":"Anaphrodisiac","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Antaphrodisiac."},{"word":"Anaphroditic","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced without concourse of sexes."},{"word":"Anaplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anaplasty."},{"word":"Anaplasty","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue."},{"word":"Anaplerotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers."},{"word":"Anaplerotic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy which promotes such granulation."},{"word":"Anapnograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of spirometer."},{"word":"Anapnoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to respiration."},{"word":"Anapodeictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not apodeictic; undemonstrable."},{"word":"Anapophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"An accessory process in many lumbar vertebrae."},{"word":"Anaptotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages."},{"word":"Anaptichi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anaptychus"},{"word":"Anaptychus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites."},{"word":"Anarch","type":"(n.)","description":"The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt."},{"word":"Anarchal","type":"(a.)","description":"Lawless; anarchical."},{"word":"Anarchic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anarchical"},{"word":"Anarchical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions."},{"word":"Anarchism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or practice of anarchists."},{"word":"Anarchist","type":"(n.)","description":"An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government."},{"word":"Anarchize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to anarchy."},{"word":"Anarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion."},{"word":"Anarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, confusion or disorder, in general."},{"word":"Anarthropoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda."},{"word":"Anarthropodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda."},{"word":"Anarthrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive."},{"word":"Anarthrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects."},{"word":"Anas","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks."},{"word":"Anasarca","type":"(n.)","description":"Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin."},{"word":"Anasarcous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical."},{"word":"Anastaltic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Styptic."},{"word":"Anastate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate."},{"word":"Anastatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates."},{"word":"Anastomozed","type":"(imp. p. p.)","description":"of Anastomose"},{"word":"Anastomosing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anastomose"},{"word":"Anastomose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins."},{"word":"Anastomoses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anastomosis"},{"word":"Anastomosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins."},{"word":"Anastomotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anastomosis."},{"word":"Anastrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed."},{"word":"Anathemas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anathema"},{"word":"Anathema","type":"(n.)","description":"A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed."},{"word":"Anathema","type":"(n.)","description":"An imprecation; a curse; a malediction."},{"word":"Anathema","type":"(n.)","description":"Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority."},{"word":"Anathematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anathematical"},{"word":"Anathematical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema."},{"word":"Anathematism","type":"(n.)","description":"Anathematization."},{"word":"Anathematization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation."},{"word":"Anathematized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anathematize"},{"word":"Anathematizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anathematize"},{"word":"Anathematize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed."},{"word":"Anathematizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pronounces an anathema."},{"word":"Anatifae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anatifa"},{"word":"Anatifa","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia."},{"word":"Anatifer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anatifa."},{"word":"Anatiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle."},{"word":"Anatine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike."},{"word":"Anatocism","type":"(n.)","description":"Compound interest."},{"word":"Anatomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anatomical"},{"word":"Anatomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations."},{"word":"Anatomically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection."},{"word":"Anatomism","type":"(n.)","description":"The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art."},{"word":"Anatomism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life."},{"word":"Anatomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection."},{"word":"Anatomization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of anatomizing."},{"word":"Anatomized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anatomize"},{"word":"Anatomizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anatomize"},{"word":"Anatomize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts."},{"word":"Anatomize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze."},{"word":"Anatomizer","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissector."},{"word":"Anatomies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anatomy"},{"word":"Anatomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection."},{"word":"Anatomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization."},{"word":"Anatomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise or book on anatomy."},{"word":"Anatomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse."},{"word":"Anatomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so."},{"word":"Anatreptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues."},{"word":"Anatron","type":"(n.)","description":"Native carbonate of soda; natron."},{"word":"Anatron","type":"(n.)","description":"Glass gall or sandiver."},{"word":"Anatron","type":"(n.)","description":"Saltpeter."},{"word":"Anatropal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anatropous"},{"word":"Anatropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous."},{"word":"Anatto","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Annotto."},{"word":"Anbury","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ambury"},{"word":"Ambury","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen."},{"word":"Ambury","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes."},{"word":"-ance","type":"()","description":"A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy."},{"word":"Ancestor","type":"(n.)","description":"One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father."},{"word":"Ancestor","type":"(n.)","description":"An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse."},{"word":"Ancestor","type":"(n.)","description":"One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir."},{"word":"Ancestorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Ancestral."},{"word":"Ancestorially","type":"(adv.)","description":"With regard to ancestors."},{"word":"Ancestral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate."},{"word":"Ancestress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female ancestor."},{"word":"Ancestry","type":"(n.)","description":"Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent."},{"word":"Ancestry","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(n.)","description":"A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(n.)","description":"Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(n.)","description":"An emblem of hope."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(n.)","description":"A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(n.)","description":"Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta."},{"word":"Anchored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anchor"},{"word":"Anchoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anchor"},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stop; to fix or rest."},{"word":"Anchor","type":"(n.)","description":"An anchoret."},{"word":"Anchorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit for anchorage."},{"word":"Anchorage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor."},{"word":"Anchorage","type":"(n.)","description":"A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor."},{"word":"Anchorage","type":"(n.)","description":"The set of anchors belonging to a ship."},{"word":"Anchorage","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge."},{"word":"Anchorage","type":"(n.)","description":"Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust."},{"word":"Anchorage","type":"(n.)","description":"A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties."},{"word":"Anchorage","type":"(n.)","description":"Abode of an anchoret."},{"word":"Anchorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Anchor-shaped."},{"word":"Anchored","type":"(a.)","description":"Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue."},{"word":"Anchored","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross."},{"word":"Anchoress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female anchoret."},{"word":"Anchoret","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Anchorite"},{"word":"Anchorite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse."},{"word":"Anchoretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anchoretical"},{"word":"Anchoretical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret."},{"word":"Anchoretish","type":"(a.)","description":"Hermitlike."},{"word":"Anchoretism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or mode of life of an anchoret."},{"word":"Anchor-hold","type":"(n.)","description":"The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds."},{"word":"Anchor-hold","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: Firm hold: security."},{"word":"Anchorite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anchoret."},{"word":"Anchoritess","type":"(n.)","description":"An anchoress."},{"word":"Anchorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled."},{"word":"Anchovy","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species."},{"word":"Anchovy","type":"()","description":"A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit."},{"word":"Anchusin","type":"(n.)","description":"A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root."},{"word":"Anchylosed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anchylose"},{"word":"Anchylosing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anchylose"},{"word":"Anchylose","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one."},{"word":"Anchylosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ankylosis"},{"word":"Ankylosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint."},{"word":"Ankylosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals."},{"word":"Anchylotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anchylosis."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(a.)","description":"Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(a.)","description":"Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(a.)","description":"Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(a.)","description":"Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(a.)","description":"Experienced; versed."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(a.)","description":"Former; sometime."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(n.)","description":"Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(n.)","description":"An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(n.)","description":"A senior; an elder; a predecessor."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(n.)","description":"An ensign or flag."},{"word":"Ancient","type":"(n.)","description":"The bearer of a flag; an ensign."},{"word":"Anciently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In ancient times."},{"word":"Anciently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ancient manner."},{"word":"Ancientness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times."},{"word":"Ancientry","type":"(n.)","description":"Antiquity; what is ancient."},{"word":"Ancientry","type":"(n.)","description":"Old age; also, old people."},{"word":"Ancientry","type":"(n.)","description":"Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth."},{"word":"Ancienty","type":"(n.)","description":"Age; antiquity."},{"word":"Ancienty","type":"(n.)","description":"Seniority."},{"word":"Ancile","type":"(n.)","description":"The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome."},{"word":"Ancillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary."},{"word":"Ancille","type":"(n.)","description":"A maidservant; a handmaid."},{"word":"Ancipital","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ancipitous"},{"word":"Ancipitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves."},{"word":"Ancistroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Hook-shaped."},{"word":"Ancle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ankle."},{"word":"Ancome","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow."},{"word":"Ancones","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ancon"},{"word":"Ancon","type":"(n.)","description":"The olecranon, or the elbow."},{"word":"Ancon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ancone"},{"word":"Ancone","type":"(n.)","description":"The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter."},{"word":"Ancone","type":"(n.)","description":"A bracket supporting a cornice; a console."},{"word":"Anconal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anconeal"},{"word":"Anconeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow."},{"word":"Anconeus","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle of the elbow and forearm."},{"word":"Anconoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Elbowlike; anconal."},{"word":"Ancony","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends."},{"word":"-ancy","type":"()","description":"A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy."},{"word":"And","type":"(conj.)","description":"A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence."},{"word":"And","type":"(conj.)","description":"In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go."},{"word":"And","type":"(conj.)","description":"It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive."},{"word":"And","type":"(conj.)","description":"If; though. See An, conj."},{"word":"Andabatism","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubt; uncertainty."},{"word":"Andalusite","type":"(n.)","description":"A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain."},{"word":"Andante","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto."},{"word":"Andante","type":"(n.)","description":"A movement or piece in andante time."},{"word":"Andantino","type":"(a.)","description":"Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto."},{"word":"Andarac","type":"(n.)","description":"Red orpiment."},{"word":"Andean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Andes."},{"word":"Andesine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes."},{"word":"Andesite","type":"(n.)","description":"An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene."},{"word":"Andine","type":"(a.)","description":"Andean; as, Andine flora."},{"word":"Andiron","type":"(n.)","description":"A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons."},{"word":"Andranatomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy."},{"word":"Androecium","type":"(n.)","description":"The stamens of a flower taken collectively."},{"word":"Androgyne","type":"(n.)","description":"An hermaphrodite."},{"word":"Androgyne","type":"(n.)","description":"An androgynous plant."},{"word":"Androgynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Androgynal"},{"word":"Androgynal","type":"(a.)","description":"Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic."},{"word":"Androgynal","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster."},{"word":"Androgyny","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Androgynism"},{"word":"Androgynism","type":"(n.)","description":"Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism."},{"word":"Android","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Androides"},{"word":"Androides","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine or automaton in the form of a human being."},{"word":"Android","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a man."},{"word":"Andromeda","type":"(n.)","description":"A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda."},{"word":"Andromeda","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water."},{"word":"Andron","type":"(n.)","description":"The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house."},{"word":"Andropetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus."},{"word":"Androphagi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi."},{"word":"Androphagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Anthropophagous."},{"word":"Androphore","type":"(n.)","description":"A support or column on which stamens are raised."},{"word":"Androphore","type":"(n.)","description":"The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores."},{"word":"Androsphinx","type":"(n.)","description":"A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion."},{"word":"Androspore","type":"(n.)","description":"A spore of some algae, which has male functions."},{"word":"Androtomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts."},{"word":"Androtomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zootomy; anthropotomy."},{"word":"androus","type":"()","description":"A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens."},{"word":"Anear","type":"(prep. & adv.)","description":"Near."},{"word":"Anear","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To near; to approach."},{"word":"Aneath","type":"(prep. & adv.)","description":"Beneath."},{"word":"Anecdotage","type":"(n.)","description":"Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes."},{"word":"Anecdotal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation."},{"word":"Anecdote","type":"(n.)","description":"Unpublished narratives."},{"word":"Anecdote","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life."},{"word":"Anecdotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anecdotical"},{"word":"Anecdotical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes."},{"word":"Anecdotist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who relates or collects anecdotes."},{"word":"Anelace","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anlace."},{"word":"Anele","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To anoint."},{"word":"Anele","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give extreme unction to."},{"word":"Anelectric","type":"(a.)","description":"Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric."},{"word":"Anelectric","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance incapable of being electrified by friction."},{"word":"Anelectrode","type":"(n.)","description":"The positive pole of a voltaic battery."},{"word":"Anelectrotonus","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it."},{"word":"Anemogram","type":"(n.)","description":"A record made by an anemograph."},{"word":"Anemograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind."},{"word":"Anemographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by an anemograph; of or pertaining to anemography."},{"word":"Anemography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of the winds."},{"word":"Anemography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph."},{"word":"Anemology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the wind."},{"word":"Anemometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge."},{"word":"Anemometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anemometrical"},{"word":"Anemometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anemometry."},{"word":"Anemometrograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An anemograph."},{"word":"Anemometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind."},{"word":"Anemone","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens."},{"word":"Anemone","type":"(n.)","description":"The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone."},{"word":"Anemonic","type":"(a.)","description":"An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin."},{"word":"Anemonin","type":"(n.)","description":"An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone."},{"word":"Anemony","type":"(n.)","description":"See Anemone."},{"word":"Anemorphilous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized."},{"word":"Anemoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind."},{"word":"Anencephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anencephalous"},{"word":"Anencephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a brain; brainless."},{"word":"Anenst","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anent"},{"word":"Anent","type":"(a.)","description":"Over against; as, he lives anent the church."},{"word":"Anent","type":"(a.)","description":"About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular."},{"word":"Anenterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a stomach or an intestine."},{"word":"Aneroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer."},{"word":"Aneroid","type":"(n.)","description":"An aneroid barometer."},{"word":"Anes","type":"(adv.)","description":"Once."},{"word":"Anesthesia","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anesthetic"},{"word":"Anesthetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Anaesthesia, Anaesthetic."},{"word":"Anet","type":"(n.)","description":"The herb dill, or dillseed."},{"word":"Anethol","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor."},{"word":"Anetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Soothing."},{"word":"Aneurism","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery."},{"word":"Aneurismal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis."},{"word":"Anew","type":"(adv.)","description":"Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew."},{"word":"Anfractuose","type":"(a.)","description":"Anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers."},{"word":"Anfractuosities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anfractuosity"},{"word":"Anfractuosity","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity."},{"word":"Anfractuosity","type":"(n.)","description":"A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain."},{"word":"Anfractuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born."},{"word":"Anfracture","type":"(n.)","description":"A mazy winding."},{"word":"Angariation","type":"(n.)","description":"Exaction of forced service; compulsion."},{"word":"Angeiology","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Angeiotomy"},{"word":"Angeiotomy","type":"()","description":"Same as Angiology, Angiotomy, etc."},{"word":"Angel","type":"(n.)","description":"A messenger."},{"word":"Angel","type":"(n.)","description":"A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers."},{"word":"Angel","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of \"fallen angels;\" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels."},{"word":"Angel","type":"(n.)","description":"A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches."},{"word":"Angel","type":"(n.)","description":"Attendant spirit; genius; demon."},{"word":"Angel","type":"(n.)","description":"An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling."},{"word":"Angel","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s."},{"word":"Angelage","type":"(n.)","description":"Existence or state of angels."},{"word":"Angelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel."},{"word":"Angel","type":"()","description":"See under Angel."},{"word":"Angelhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being an angel; angelic nature."},{"word":"Angelic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Angelical"},{"word":"Angelical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine."},{"word":"Angelic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or derived from angelica; as, angelic acid; angelic ether."},{"word":"Angelica","type":"(n.)","description":"An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic."},{"word":"Angelica","type":"(n.)","description":"The candied leaf stalks of angelica."},{"word":"Angelically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Like an angel."},{"word":"Angelicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human."},{"word":"Angelify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make like an angel; to angelize."},{"word":"Angelize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic."},{"word":"Angellike","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Resembling an angel."},{"word":"Angelolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Worship paid to angels."},{"word":"Angelology","type":"(n.)","description":"A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels."},{"word":"Angelophany","type":"(n.)","description":"The actual appearance of an angel to man."},{"word":"Angelot","type":"(n.)","description":"A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI."},{"word":"Angelot","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused."},{"word":"Angelot","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy."},{"word":"Angelus","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell."},{"word":"Angelus","type":"(n.)","description":"The Angelus bell."},{"word":"Anger","type":"(n.)","description":"Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc."},{"word":"Anger","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury."},{"word":"Angered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anger"},{"word":"Angering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anger"},{"word":"Anger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame."},{"word":"Anger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke."},{"word":"Angerly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Angrily."},{"word":"Angevine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Anjou in France."},{"word":"Angevine","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Anjou."},{"word":"Angienchyma","type":"(n.)","description":"Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels."},{"word":"Angina","type":"(n.)","description":"Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath."},{"word":"Anginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anginose"},{"word":"Anginose","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris."},{"word":"Angio-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel."},{"word":"Angiocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule."},{"word":"Angiocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens."},{"word":"Angiography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of blood vessels and lymphatics."},{"word":"Angiology","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics."},{"word":"Angioma","type":"(n.)","description":"A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels."},{"word":"Angiomonospermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing one seed only in a seed pod."},{"word":"Angioscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants."},{"word":"Angiosperm","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp."},{"word":"Angiospermatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Angiospermous."},{"word":"Angiospermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp."},{"word":"Angiosporous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi."},{"word":"Angiostomous","type":"(a.)","description":"With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods."},{"word":"Angiotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body."},{"word":"Angle","type":"(n.)","description":"The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook."},{"word":"Angle","type":"(n.)","description":"The figure made by. two lines which meet."},{"word":"Angle","type":"(n.)","description":"The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle."},{"word":"Angle","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment."},{"word":"Angle","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to four of the twelve astrological \"houses.\""},{"word":"Angle","type":"(n.)","description":"A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod."},{"word":"Angled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Angle"},{"word":"Angling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Angle"},{"word":"Angle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line."},{"word":"Angle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise."},{"word":"Angle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure."},{"word":"Angled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right-angled, many-angled, etc."},{"word":"Anglemeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata."},{"word":"Angler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who angles."},{"word":"Angler","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc."},{"word":"Angles","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc."},{"word":"Anglesite","type":"(n.)","description":"A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals."},{"word":"Anglewise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an angular manner; angularly."},{"word":"Angleworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm."},{"word":"Anglian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Angles."},{"word":"Anglian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Angles."},{"word":"Anglic","type":"(a.)","description":"Anglian."},{"word":"Anglican","type":"(a.)","description":"English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc."},{"word":"Anglican","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England."},{"word":"Anglican","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Church of England."},{"word":"Anglican","type":"(n.)","description":"In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England."},{"word":"Anglicanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England."},{"word":"Anglicanism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party."},{"word":"Anglicanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Attachment to England or English institutions."},{"word":"Anglice","type":"(adv.)","description":"In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn."},{"word":"Anglicify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To anglicize."},{"word":"Anglicism","type":"(n.)","description":"An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English."},{"word":"Anglicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method."},{"word":"Anglicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being English."},{"word":"Anglicization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of anglicizing, or making English in character."},{"word":"Anglicized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anglicize"},{"word":"Anglicizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anglicize"},{"word":"Anglicize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies."},{"word":"Anglified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anglify"},{"word":"Anglifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anglify"},{"word":"Anglify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into English; to anglicize."},{"word":"Angling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line."},{"word":"Anglo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish."},{"word":"Anglo-Catholic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England."},{"word":"Anglo-Catholic","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman."},{"word":"Anglomania","type":"(n.)","description":"A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc."},{"word":"Anglomaniac","type":"(n.)","description":"One affected with Anglomania."},{"word":"Anglophobia","type":"(n.)","description":"Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English."},{"word":"Anglo-Saxon","type":"(n.)","description":"A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or \"Old\") Saxon."},{"word":"Anglo-Saxon","type":"(n.)","description":"The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest."},{"word":"Anglo-Saxon","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon."},{"word":"Anglo-Saxon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense."},{"word":"Anglo-Saxon","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language."},{"word":"Anglo-Saxondom","type":"(n.)","description":"The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race."},{"word":"Anglo-Saxonism","type":"(n.)","description":"A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue."},{"word":"Anglo-Saxonism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense."},{"word":"Angola","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat."},{"word":"Angola","type":"()","description":"A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea."},{"word":"Angor","type":"(n.)","description":"Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression."},{"word":"Angora","type":"(n.)","description":"A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc."},{"word":"Angostura","type":"()","description":"An aromatic bark used as a tonic, obtained from a South American of the rue family (Galipea cusparia, / officinalis)."},{"word":"Angoumois","type":"()","description":"A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell."},{"word":"Angrily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an angry manner; under the influence of anger."},{"word":"Angriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger."},{"word":"Angry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous."},{"word":"Angry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Inflamed and painful, as a sore."},{"word":"Angry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing."},{"word":"Angry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves."},{"word":"Angry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Red."},{"word":"Angry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Sharp; keen; stimulated."},{"word":"Anguiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Snake-shaped."},{"word":"Anguilliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Eel-shaped."},{"word":"Anguine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent."},{"word":"Anguineal","type":"(a.)","description":"Anguineous."},{"word":"Anguineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Snakelike."},{"word":"Anguish","type":"(n.)","description":"Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress."},{"word":"Anguish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distress with extreme pain or grief."},{"word":"Angular","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure."},{"word":"Angular","type":"(a.)","description":"Measured by an angle; as, angular distance."},{"word":"Angular","type":"(a.)","description":"Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female."},{"word":"Angular","type":"(n.)","description":"A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes."},{"word":"Angularity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being angular; angularness."},{"word":"Angularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners."},{"word":"Angularness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being angular."},{"word":"Angulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Angulated"},{"word":"Angulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves."},{"word":"Angulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make angular."},{"word":"Angulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A making angular; angular formation."},{"word":"Angulo-dentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Angularly toothed, as certain leaves."},{"word":"Angulometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring external angles."},{"word":"Angulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Angulous."},{"word":"Angulosity","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being angulous or angular."},{"word":"Angulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Angular; having corners; hooked."},{"word":"Angust","type":"(a.)","description":"Narrow; strait."},{"word":"Angustate","type":"(a.)","description":"Narrowed."},{"word":"Angustation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting."},{"word":"Angustifoliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Angustifolious"},{"word":"Angustifolious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having narrow leaves."},{"word":"Angustura","type":"()","description":"See Angostura bark."},{"word":"Angwantibo","type":"(n.)","description":"A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail."},{"word":"Anhang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hang."},{"word":"Anharmonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not harmonic."},{"word":"Anhelation","type":"(n.)","description":"Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma."},{"word":"Anhele","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for)."},{"word":"Anhelose","type":"(a.)","description":"Anhelous; panting."},{"word":"Anhelous","type":"(a.)","description":"Short of breath; panting."},{"word":"Anhima","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi."},{"word":"Anhinga","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird."},{"word":"Anhistous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane."},{"word":"Anhungered","type":"(a.)","description":"Ahungered; longing."},{"word":"Anhydride","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water."},{"word":"Anhydrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name)."},{"word":"Anhydrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids."},{"word":"Ani","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ano"},{"word":"Ano","type":"(n.)","description":"A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting."},{"word":"Anicut","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Annicut"},{"word":"Annicut","type":"(n.)","description":"A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation."},{"word":"Anidiomatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not idiomatic."},{"word":"Anient","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Anientise"},{"word":"Anientise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frustrate; to bring to naught; to annihilate."},{"word":"Anigh","type":"(prep. & adv.)","description":"Nigh."},{"word":"Anight","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Anights"},{"word":"Anights","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the night time; at night."},{"word":"Anil","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye."},{"word":"Anile","type":"(a.)","description":"Old-womanish; imbecile."},{"word":"Anileness","type":"(n.)","description":"Anility."},{"word":"Anilic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo."},{"word":"Anilide","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl."},{"word":"Aniline","type":"(n.)","description":"An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made."},{"word":"Aniline","type":"(a.)","description":"Made from, or of the nature of, aniline."},{"word":"Anility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage."},{"word":"Animadversal","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty of perceiving; a percipient."},{"word":"Animadversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception."},{"word":"Animadversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Monition; warning."},{"word":"Animadversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame."},{"word":"Animadversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment."},{"word":"Animadversive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of perceiving; percipient."},{"word":"Animadverted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Animadvert"},{"word":"Animadverting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Animadvert"},{"word":"Animadvert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that."},{"word":"Animadvert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon."},{"word":"Animadvert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment."},{"word":"Animadverter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser."},{"word":"Animal","type":"(n.)","description":"An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity."},{"word":"Animal","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals."},{"word":"Animal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions."},{"word":"Animal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites."},{"word":"Animal","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food."},{"word":"Animalcular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Animalculine"},{"word":"Animalculine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules."},{"word":"Animalcule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc."},{"word":"Animalcule","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria."},{"word":"Animalculism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules."},{"word":"Animalculist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the knowledge of animalcules."},{"word":"Animalculist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in the theory of animalculism."},{"word":"Animalcula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Animalculum"},{"word":"Animalculum","type":"(n.)","description":"An animalcule."},{"word":"Animalish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like an animal."},{"word":"Animalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality."},{"word":"Animality","type":"(n.)","description":"Animal existence or nature."},{"word":"Animalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties."},{"word":"Animalization","type":"(n.)","description":"Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation."},{"word":"Animalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Animalize"},{"word":"Animalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Animalize"},{"word":"Animalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form."},{"word":"Animalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation."},{"word":"Animalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize."},{"word":"Animally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Physically."},{"word":"Animalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Animality."},{"word":"Animastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual."},{"word":"Animastic","type":"(n.)","description":"Psychology."},{"word":"Animated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Animate"},{"word":"Animating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Animate"},{"word":"Animate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body."},{"word":"Animate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre."},{"word":"Animate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven."},{"word":"Animate","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively."},{"word":"Animated","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous."},{"word":"Animatedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With animation."},{"word":"Animater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who animates."},{"word":"Animating","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing."},{"word":"Animation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive."},{"word":"Animation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation."},{"word":"Animative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of giving life or spirit."},{"word":"Animator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, animates; an animater."},{"word":"Anime","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal."},{"word":"Anime","type":"(n.)","description":"A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenaea courbaril), and much used by varnish makers."},{"word":"Animism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body."},{"word":"Animism","type":"(n.)","description":"The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter."},{"word":"Animist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who maintains the doctrine of animism."},{"word":"Animistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to animism."},{"word":"Animose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Animous"},{"word":"Animous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute."},{"word":"Animoseness","type":"(n.)","description":"Vehemence of temper."},{"word":"Animosities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Animosity"},{"word":"Animosity","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Mere spiritedness or courage."},{"word":"Animosity","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike."},{"word":"Animi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Animus"},{"word":"Animus","type":"(n.)","description":"Animating spirit; intention; temper."},{"word":"Anion","type":"(n.)","description":"An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation."},{"word":"Anise","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds."},{"word":"Anise","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit or seeds of this plant."},{"word":"Aniseed","type":"(n.)","description":"The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it."},{"word":"Anisette","type":"(n.)","description":"A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds."},{"word":"Anisic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or derived from anise; as, anisic acid; anisic alcohol."},{"word":"Anisodactyla","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Anisodactyls"},{"word":"Anisodactyls","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc."},{"word":"Anisodactyls","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous."},{"word":"Anisodactylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds."},{"word":"Anisomeric","type":"(a.)","description":"Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions."},{"word":"Anisomerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens."},{"word":"Anisometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes."},{"word":"Anisopetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having unequal petals."},{"word":"Anisophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having unequal leaves."},{"word":"Anisopleura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed."},{"word":"Anisopoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda."},{"word":"Anisostemonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals."},{"word":"Anisosthenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of unequal strength."},{"word":"Anisotrope","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anisotropic"},{"word":"Anisotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic."},{"word":"Anisotropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Anisotropic."},{"word":"Anker","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons."},{"word":"Ankerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron."},{"word":"Ankle","type":"(n.)","description":"The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus."},{"word":"Ankled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled."},{"word":"Anklet","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring."},{"word":"Ankylose","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Same as Anchylose."},{"word":"Ankylosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anchylosis."},{"word":"Anlace","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle."},{"word":"Ann","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Annat"},{"word":"Annat","type":"(n.)","description":"A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease."},{"word":"Anna","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents."},{"word":"Annal","type":"(n.)","description":"See Annals."},{"word":"Annalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of annals."},{"word":"Annalistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."},{"word":"Annalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To record in annals."},{"word":"Annals","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened."},{"word":"Annals","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Historical records; chronicles; history."},{"word":"Annals","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The record of a single event or item."},{"word":"Annals","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as \"Annals of Science.\""},{"word":"Annats","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Annates"},{"word":"Annates","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings."},{"word":"Annealed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anneal"},{"word":"Annealing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anneal"},{"word":"Anneal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen."},{"word":"Anneal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them."},{"word":"Annealer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, anneals."},{"word":"Annealing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat."},{"word":"Annealing","type":"(n.)","description":"The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc."},{"word":"Annectent","type":"(a.)","description":"Connecting; annexing."},{"word":"Annelid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Annelidan"},{"word":"Annelidan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Annelida."},{"word":"Annelidan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Annelida."},{"word":"Annelida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda."},{"word":"Annelidous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of an annelid."},{"word":"Annellata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Annelida."},{"word":"Anneloid","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal resembling an annelid."},{"word":"Annexed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Annex"},{"word":"Annexing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Annex"},{"word":"Annex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Annex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater."},{"word":"Annex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt."},{"word":"Annex","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To join; to be united."},{"word":"Annex","type":"(n.)","description":"Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing."},{"word":"Annexation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold."},{"word":"Annexation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. Bouvier. (b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands or rents to the crown."},{"word":"Annexationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors annexation."},{"word":"Annexer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who annexes."},{"word":"Annexion","type":"(n.)","description":"Annexation."},{"word":"Annexionist","type":"(n.)","description":"An annexationist."},{"word":"Annexment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage."},{"word":"Annihilable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being annihilated."},{"word":"Annihilated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Annihilate"},{"word":"Annihilating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Annihilate"},{"word":"Annihilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be."},{"word":"Annihilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees."},{"word":"Annihilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness."},{"word":"Annihilate","type":"(a.)","description":"Annihilated."},{"word":"Annihilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation."},{"word":"Annihilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being annihilated."},{"word":"Annihilationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist."},{"word":"Annihilative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to annihilate; destructive."},{"word":"Annihilator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator."},{"word":"Annihilatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Annihilative."},{"word":"Anniversarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Annually."},{"word":"Anniversary","type":"(a.)","description":"Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast."},{"word":"Anniversaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anniversary"},{"word":"Anniversary","type":"(n.)","description":"The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence."},{"word":"Anniversary","type":"(n.)","description":"The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope."},{"word":"Anniversary","type":"(n.)","description":"The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day."},{"word":"Anniverse","type":"(n.)","description":"Anniversary."},{"word":"Annodated","type":"(a.)","description":"Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S."},{"word":"Anno","type":"()","description":"In the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887."},{"word":"Annominate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To name."},{"word":"Annomination","type":"(n.)","description":"Paronomasia; punning."},{"word":"Annomination","type":"(n.)","description":"Alliteration."},{"word":"Annotated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Annotate"},{"word":"Annotating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Annotate"},{"word":"Annotate","type":"(n.)","description":"To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon."},{"word":"Annotate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon."},{"word":"Annotation","type":"(n.)","description":"A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage."},{"word":"Annotationist","type":"(n.)","description":"An annotator."},{"word":"Annotative","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by annotations; of the nature of annotation."},{"word":"Annotator","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of annotations; a commentator."},{"word":"Annotatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations."},{"word":"Annotine","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird one year old, or that has once molted."},{"word":"Annotinous","type":"(a.)","description":"A year old; in Yearly growths."},{"word":"Annotto","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arnotto"},{"word":"Arnotto","type":"(n.)","description":"A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc."},{"word":"Announced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Announce"},{"word":"Announcing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Announce"},{"word":"Announce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim."},{"word":"Announce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence."},{"word":"Announcement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication."},{"word":"Announcer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who announces."},{"word":"Annoyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Annoy"},{"word":"Annoying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Annoy"},{"word":"Annoy","type":"(n.)","description":"To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks."},{"word":"Annoy","type":"(n.)","description":"To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade."},{"word":"Annoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy."},{"word":"Annoyance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy."},{"word":"Annoyance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which annoys."},{"word":"Annoyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, annoys."},{"word":"Annoyful","type":"(a.)","description":"Annoying."},{"word":"Annoying","type":"(a.)","description":"That annoys; molesting; vexatious."},{"word":"Annoyous","type":"(a.)","description":"Troublesome; annoying."},{"word":"Annual","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly."},{"word":"Annual","type":"(a.)","description":"Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth."},{"word":"Annual","type":"(a.)","description":"Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets."},{"word":"Annual","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year."},{"word":"Annual","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant."},{"word":"Annual","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day."},{"word":"Annualist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes for, or who edits, an annual."},{"word":"Annually","type":"(adv.)","description":"Yearly; year by year."},{"word":"Annuary","type":"(a.)","description":"Annual."},{"word":"Annuary","type":"(n.)","description":"A yearbook."},{"word":"Annueler","type":"(n.)","description":"A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses."},{"word":"Annuent","type":"(a.)","description":"Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding)."},{"word":"Annuitant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity."},{"word":"Annuities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Annuity"},{"word":"Annuity","type":"(n.)","description":"A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance."},{"word":"Annulled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Annul"},{"word":"Annulling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Annul"},{"word":"Annul","type":"(a.)","description":"To reduce to nothing; to obliterate."},{"word":"Annul","type":"(a.)","description":"To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority."},{"word":"Annular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers."},{"word":"Annular","type":"(a.)","description":"Banded or marked with circles."},{"word":"Annularity","type":"(n.)","description":"Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula."},{"word":"Annularry","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an annular manner."},{"word":"Annulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a ring; annular."},{"word":"Annulata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida."},{"word":"Annulate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Annulata."},{"word":"Annulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Annulated"},{"word":"Annulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color."},{"word":"Annulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Annulata."},{"word":"Annulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt."},{"word":"Annulet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little ring."},{"word":"Annulet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital."},{"word":"Annulet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little circle borne as a charge."},{"word":"Annulet","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow circle of some distinct color on a surface or round an organ."},{"word":"Annullable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be Annulled."},{"word":"Annuller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who annuls."},{"word":"Annulment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation."},{"word":"Annuloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Annuloida."},{"word":"Annuloida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms."},{"word":"Annulosa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoologists it is applied to the former only."},{"word":"Annulosan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Annulosa."},{"word":"Annulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed."},{"word":"Annulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Annulosa."},{"word":"Annuli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Annulus"},{"word":"Annulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring; a ringlike part or space."},{"word":"Annulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other."},{"word":"Annulus","type":"(n.)","description":"The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it."},{"word":"Annulus","type":"(n.)","description":"Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals."},{"word":"Annumerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add on; to count in."},{"word":"Annumeration","type":"(n.)","description":"Addition to a former number."},{"word":"Annunciable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be announced or declared; declarable."},{"word":"Annunciated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Annunciate"},{"word":"Annunciating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Annunciate"},{"word":"Annunciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To announce."},{"word":"Annunciate","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Foretold; preannounced."},{"word":"Annunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace."},{"word":"Annunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary."},{"word":"Annunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day."},{"word":"Annunciative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to annunciation; announcing."},{"word":"Annunciator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated."},{"word":"Annunciator","type":"(n.)","description":"An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted."},{"word":"Annunciatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known."},{"word":"Anoa","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns."},{"word":"Anode","type":"(n.)","description":"The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode."},{"word":"Anodon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge."},{"word":"Anodyne","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to assuage pain; soothing."},{"word":"Anodyne","type":"(a.)","description":"Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings."},{"word":"Anodynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Anodyne."},{"word":"Anoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To anoint with oil."},{"word":"Anointed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anoint"},{"word":"Anointing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anoint"},{"word":"Anoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil."},{"word":"Anoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration."},{"word":"Anoint","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Anointed."},{"word":"Anointer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who anoints."},{"word":"Anointment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment."},{"word":"Anolis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidae. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons."},{"word":"Anomal","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything anomalous."},{"word":"Anomaliped","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anomalipede"},{"word":"Anomalipede","type":"(a.)","description":"Having anomalous feet."},{"word":"Anomaliped","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones."},{"word":"Anomalism","type":"(n.)","description":"An anomaly; a deviation from rule."},{"word":"Anomalistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anomalistical"},{"word":"Anomalistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Irregular; departing from common or established rules."},{"word":"Anomalistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion."},{"word":"Anomalistically","type":"(adv.)","description":"With irregularity."},{"word":"Anomaloflorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having anomalous flowers."},{"word":"Anomalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding."},{"word":"Anomalously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an anomalous manner."},{"word":"Anomalousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being anomalous."},{"word":"Anomalies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anomaly"},{"word":"Anomaly","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous."},{"word":"Anomaly","type":"(n.)","description":"The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform."},{"word":"Anomaly","type":"(n.)","description":"The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet."},{"word":"Anomaly","type":"(n.)","description":"Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type."},{"word":"Anomia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment."},{"word":"Anomophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having leaves irregularly placed."},{"word":"Anomura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Anomoura"},{"word":"Anomoura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example."},{"word":"Anomural","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anomuran"},{"word":"Anomuran","type":"(a.)","description":"Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans."},{"word":"Anomuran","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Anomura."},{"word":"Anomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Disregard or violation of law."},{"word":"Anon","type":"(adv.)","description":"Straightway; at once."},{"word":"Anon","type":"(adv.)","description":"Soon; in a little while."},{"word":"Anon","type":"(adv.)","description":"At another time; then; again."},{"word":"Anona","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceae, including the soursop."},{"word":"Anonaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc."},{"word":"Anonym","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for \"pseudonym.\""},{"word":"Anonym","type":"(n.)","description":"A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word."},{"word":"Anonymity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous."},{"word":"Anonymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter."},{"word":"Anonymously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an anonymous manner; without a name."},{"word":"Anonymousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being anonymous."},{"word":"Anophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves."},{"word":"Anopla","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the two orders of Nemerteans. See Nemertina."},{"word":"Anoplothere","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Anoplotherium"},{"word":"Anoplotherium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name)."},{"word":"Anoplura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of insects which includes the lice."},{"word":"Anopsia","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anopsy"},{"word":"Anopsy","type":"(a.)","description":"Want or defect of sight; blindness."},{"word":"Anorexia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Anorexy"},{"word":"Anorexy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of appetite, without a loathing of food."},{"word":"Anormal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not according to rule; abnormal."},{"word":"Anorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn."},{"word":"Anorthic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals."},{"word":"Anorthite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar."},{"word":"Anorthoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted."},{"word":"Anosmia","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of the sense of smell."},{"word":"Another","type":"(pron. & a.)","description":"One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect."},{"word":"Another","type":"(pron. & a.)","description":"Not the same; different."},{"word":"Another","type":"(pron. & a.)","description":"Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else."},{"word":"Another-gaines","type":"(a.)","description":"Of another kind."},{"word":"Another-gates","type":"(a.)","description":"Of another sort."},{"word":"Another-guess","type":"(a.)","description":"Of another sort."},{"word":"Anotta","type":"(n.)","description":"See Annotto."},{"word":"Anoura","type":"(n.)","description":"See Anura."},{"word":"Anourous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Anurous."},{"word":"Ansae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ansa"},{"word":"Ansa","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring."},{"word":"Ansated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a handle."},{"word":"Anserated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross."},{"word":"Anseres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc."},{"word":"Anseriformes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms."},{"word":"Anserine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose."},{"word":"Anserine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Anseres."},{"word":"Anserous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a goose; silly; simple."},{"word":"Answered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Answer"},{"word":"Answering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Answer"},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To be or act in return or response to."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To render account to or for."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To atone; to be punished for."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To be opposite to; to face."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a satisfactory response or return."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or act in return."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be opposite, or to act in opposition."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"A reply to a change; a defense."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem."},{"word":"Answer","type":"(n.)","description":"A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill."},{"word":"Answerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages."},{"word":"Answerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer."},{"word":"Answerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable."},{"word":"Answerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it."},{"word":"Answerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal; equivalent; adequate."},{"word":"Answerableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent."},{"word":"Answerably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably."},{"word":"Answerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who answers."},{"word":"Answerless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no answer, or impossible to be answered."},{"word":"An","type":"()","description":"An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj."},{"word":"An't","type":"()","description":"A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't."},{"word":"Ant-","type":"()","description":"See Anti-, prefix."},{"word":"-ant","type":"()","description":"A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent."},{"word":"Ant","type":"(n.)","description":"A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire."},{"word":"Antae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anta"},{"word":"Anta","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base."},{"word":"Antacid","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent."},{"word":"Antacid","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteractive of acidity."},{"word":"Antacrid","type":"(a.)","description":"Corrective of acrimony of the humors."},{"word":"Antaean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules."},{"word":"Antagonism","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles."},{"word":"Antagonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent."},{"word":"Antagonist","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it."},{"word":"Antagonist","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues."},{"word":"Antagonist","type":"(a.)","description":"Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy."},{"word":"Antagonistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antagonistical"},{"word":"Antagonistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces."},{"word":"Antagonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Antagonize"},{"word":"Antagonozing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Antagonize"},{"word":"Antagonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract."},{"word":"Antagonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act in opposition."},{"word":"Antagony","type":"(n.)","description":"Contest; opposition; antagonism."},{"word":"Antalgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alleviating pain."},{"word":"Antalgic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne."},{"word":"Antalkali","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Antalkaline"},{"word":"Antalkaline","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system."},{"word":"Antalkaline","type":"(a.)","description":"Of power to counteract alkalies."},{"word":"Antambulacral","type":"(a.)","description":"Away from the ambulacral region."},{"word":"Antanaclasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft."},{"word":"Antanaclasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc."},{"word":"Antanagoge","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge."},{"word":"Antaphrodisiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of blunting the venereal appetite."},{"word":"Antaphrodisiac","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that quells the venereal appetite."},{"word":"Antaphroditic","type":"(a.)","description":"Antaphrodisiac."},{"word":"Antaphroditic","type":"(a.)","description":"Antisyphilitic."},{"word":"Antaphroditic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antaphroditic medicine."},{"word":"Antapoplectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against apoplexy."},{"word":"Antapoplectic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine used against apoplexy."},{"word":"Antarchism","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition to government in general."},{"word":"Antarchist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who opposes all government."},{"word":"Antarchistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antarchistical"},{"word":"Antarchistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to all human government."},{"word":"Antarctic","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23� 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc."},{"word":"Antares","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart."},{"word":"Antarthritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting or alleviating gout."},{"word":"Antarthritic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy against gout."},{"word":"Antasthmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma."},{"word":"Antasthmatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for asthma."},{"word":"Ant-bear","type":"(n.)","description":"An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga."},{"word":"Ant","type":"()","description":"See Ant bird, under Ant, n."},{"word":"Ant-cattle","type":"(n.)","description":"Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips."},{"word":"Ante-","type":"()","description":"A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. 'anti`, Skr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. 'anti` in that of opposite, or in the place of."},{"word":"Ante","type":"(n.)","description":"Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins."},{"word":"Ante","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To put up (an ante)."},{"word":"Anteact","type":"(n.)","description":"A preceding act."},{"word":"Anteal","type":"(a.)","description":"Being before, or in front."},{"word":"Ant-eater","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna."},{"word":"Antecedaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Antecedent; preceding in time."},{"word":"Antecede","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass."},{"word":"Antecedence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of going before in time; precedence."},{"word":"Antecedence","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation."},{"word":"Antecedency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being antecedent; priority."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(a.)","description":"Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(a.)","description":"Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which goes before in time; that which precedes."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who precedes or goes in front."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(n.)","description":"The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(n.)","description":"The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence \"Solomon was the prince who built the temple,\" prince is the antecedent of who."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(n.)","description":"The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(n.)","description":"The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die."},{"word":"Antecedent","type":"(n.)","description":"The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent."},{"word":"Antecedently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion."},{"word":"Antecessor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who goes before; a predecessor."},{"word":"Antecessor","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancestor; a progenitor."},{"word":"Antechamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby."},{"word":"Antechamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part."},{"word":"Antechapel","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel."},{"word":"Antecians","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Ant/cians."},{"word":"Antecommunion","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements."},{"word":"Antecursor","type":"(n.)","description":"A forerunner; a precursor."},{"word":"Antedate","type":"(n.)","description":"Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date."},{"word":"Antedate","type":"(n.)","description":"Anticipation."},{"word":"Antedated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Antedate"},{"word":"Antedating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Antedate"},{"word":"Antedate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution."},{"word":"Antedate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To precede in time."},{"word":"Antedate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To anticipate; to make before the true time."},{"word":"Antediluvial","type":"(a.)","description":"Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time."},{"word":"Antediluvian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle."},{"word":"Antediluvian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lived before the Deluge."},{"word":"Antefact","type":"(n.)","description":"Something done before another act."},{"word":"Antefixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antefix"},{"word":"Antefixa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antefix"},{"word":"Antefix","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament fixed upon a frieze."},{"word":"Antefix","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof."},{"word":"Antefix","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water."},{"word":"Anteflexion","type":"(n.)","description":"A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself."},{"word":"Ant","type":"()","description":"One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs."},{"word":"Antelope","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia."},{"word":"Antelucan","type":"(a.)","description":"Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning."},{"word":"Antemeridian","type":"(a.)","description":"Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)"},{"word":"Antemetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to check vomiting."},{"word":"Antemetic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy to check or allay vomiting."},{"word":"Antemosaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Being before the time of Moses."},{"word":"Antemundane","type":"(a.)","description":"Being or occurring before the creation of the world."},{"word":"Antemural","type":"(n.)","description":"An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance."},{"word":"Antenatal","type":"(a.)","description":"Before birth."},{"word":"Antenicene","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith."},{"word":"Antennae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antenna"},{"word":"Antenna","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids."},{"word":"Antennal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the antennae."},{"word":"Antenniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or having antennae."},{"word":"Antenniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like antennae."},{"word":"Antennule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennae or feelers of Crustacea."},{"word":"Antenumber","type":"(n.)","description":"A number that precedes another."},{"word":"Antenuptial","type":"(a.)","description":"Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement."},{"word":"Anteorbital","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Antorbital."},{"word":"Antepaschal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter."},{"word":"Antepast","type":"(n.)","description":"A foretaste."},{"word":"Antependium","type":"(n.)","description":"The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal."},{"word":"Antepenult","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Antepenultima"},{"word":"Antepenultima","type":"(n.)","description":"The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable."},{"word":"Antepenultimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two."},{"word":"Antepenultimate","type":"(n.)","description":"The antepenult."},{"word":"Antephialtic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against nightmare."},{"word":"Antephialtic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy nightmare."},{"word":"Antepileptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against epilepsy."},{"word":"Antepileptic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for epilepsy."},{"word":"Antepone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put before; to prefer."},{"word":"Anteport","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer port, gate, or door."},{"word":"Anteportico","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer porch or vestibule."},{"word":"Anteposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it."},{"word":"Anteprandial","type":"(a.)","description":"Preceding dinner."},{"word":"Antepredicament","type":"(n.)","description":"A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms."},{"word":"Anterior","type":"(a.)","description":"Before in time; antecedent."},{"word":"Anterior","type":"(a.)","description":"Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior."},{"word":"Anteriority","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority."},{"word":"Anteriorly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an anterior manner; before."},{"word":"Anteroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room."},{"word":"Antero-","type":"()","description":"A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side."},{"word":"Antes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Antae. See Anta."},{"word":"Antestature","type":"(n.)","description":"A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth."},{"word":"Antestomach","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds."},{"word":"Antetemple","type":"(n.)","description":"The portico, or narthex in an ancient temple or church."},{"word":"Anteversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual."},{"word":"Antevert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prevent."},{"word":"Antevert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To displace by anteversion."},{"word":"Anthelia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anthelion"},{"word":"Anthelion","type":"(n.)","description":"A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank."},{"word":"Anthelix","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Antihelix."},{"word":"Anthelmintic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against intestinal worms."},{"word":"Anthelmintic","type":"(n.)","description":"An anthelmintic remedy."},{"word":"Anthem","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music."},{"word":"Anthem","type":"(n.)","description":"A song or hymn of praise."},{"word":"Anthem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To celebrate with anthems."},{"word":"Anthemion","type":"()","description":"A floral ornament. See Palmette"},{"word":"Anthemis","type":"(n.)","description":"Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants."},{"word":"Anthemwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alternately."},{"word":"Anther","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary."},{"word":"Antheridia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antheridium"},{"word":"Antheridium","type":"(n.)","description":"The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary."},{"word":"Antheriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing anthers, as plants."},{"word":"Antheriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower."},{"word":"Antheriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like an anther; anther-shaped."},{"word":"Antherogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower."},{"word":"Antheroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an anther."},{"word":"Antherozoid","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Antherozooid"},{"word":"Antherozooid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams."},{"word":"Anthesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The period or state of full expansion in a flower."},{"word":"Ant-hill","type":"(n.)","description":"A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests."},{"word":"Anthobian","type":"(n.)","description":"A beetle which feeds on flowers."},{"word":"Anthobranchia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris."},{"word":"Anthocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple."},{"word":"Anthocyanin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anthokyan."},{"word":"Anthodium","type":"(n.)","description":"The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head."},{"word":"Anthography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of flowers."},{"word":"Anthoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a flower; flowerlike."},{"word":"Anthokyan","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin."},{"word":"Antholite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil plant, like a petrified flower."},{"word":"Anthological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets."},{"word":"Anthologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who compiles an anthology."},{"word":"Anthology","type":"(n.)","description":"A discourse on flowers."},{"word":"Anthology","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of flowers; a garland."},{"word":"Anthology","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams."},{"word":"Anthology","type":"(n.)","description":"A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services."},{"word":"Anthomania","type":"(n.)","description":"A extravagant fondness for flowers."},{"word":"Anthony's","type":"()","description":"See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint."},{"word":"Anthophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects."},{"word":"Anthophore","type":"(n.)","description":"The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family."},{"word":"Anthophorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Flower bearing; supporting the flower."},{"word":"Anthophyllite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color."},{"word":"Anthorism","type":"(n.)","description":"A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party."},{"word":"Anthotaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence."},{"word":"Anthozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria."},{"word":"Anthozoan","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Anthozoa."},{"word":"Anthozoan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Anthozoa."},{"word":"Anthozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Anthozoa."},{"word":"Anthracene","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin."},{"word":"Anthracic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to anthrax; as, anthracic blood."},{"word":"Anthraciferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata."},{"word":"Anthracite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal."},{"word":"Anthracitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations."},{"word":"Anthracoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax; as, an anthracoid microbe."},{"word":"Anthracomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by inspecting a burning coal."},{"word":"Anthracometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the amount of carbonic acid in a mixture."},{"word":"Anthracometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an anthracometer."},{"word":"Anthraconite","type":"(n.)","description":"A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone."},{"word":"Anthraquinone","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene."},{"word":"Anthrax","type":"(n.)","description":"A carbuncle."},{"word":"Anthrax","type":"(n.)","description":"A malignant pustule."},{"word":"Anthrax","type":"(n.)","description":"A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]"},{"word":"Anthrax","type":"(n.)","description":"An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever."},{"word":"Anthrenus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common \"museum pest\" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths."},{"word":"Anthropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anthropical"},{"word":"Anthropical","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or related to man; human."},{"word":"Anthropidae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The group that includes man only."},{"word":"Anthropocentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system."},{"word":"Anthropogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anthropogeny."},{"word":"Anthropogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man."},{"word":"Anthropoglot","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, as the parrot."},{"word":"Anthropography","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations."},{"word":"Anthropoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla."},{"word":"Anthropoid","type":"(n.)","description":"An anthropoid ape."},{"word":"Anthropoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Anthropoid."},{"word":"Anthropoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man."},{"word":"Anthropolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Man worship."},{"word":"Anthropolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it."},{"word":"Anthropologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anthropological"},{"word":"Anthropological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man."},{"word":"Anthropologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in anthropology."},{"word":"Anthropology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the structure and functions of the human body."},{"word":"Anthropology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal."},{"word":"Anthropology","type":"(n.)","description":"That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God."},{"word":"Anthropomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by the entrails of human being."},{"word":"Anthropometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anthropometrical"},{"word":"Anthropometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to anthropometry."},{"word":"Anthropometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc."},{"word":"Anthropomorpha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The manlike, or anthropoid, apes."},{"word":"Anthropomorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anthropomorphism."},{"word":"Anthropomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections."},{"word":"Anthropomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"The ascription of human characteristics to things not human."},{"word":"Anthropomorphist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human."},{"word":"Anthropomorphite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson."},{"word":"Anthropomorphitic","type":"(a.)","description":"to anthropomorphism."},{"word":"Anthropomorphitism","type":"(n.)","description":"Anthropomorphism."},{"word":"Anthropomorphize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To attribute a human form or personality to."},{"word":"Anthropomorphology","type":"(n.)","description":"The application to God of terms descriptive of human beings."},{"word":"Anthropomorphosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Transformation into the form of a human being."},{"word":"Anthropomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthropomorphous plant."},{"word":"Anthropopathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anthropopathical"},{"word":"Anthropopathical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to anthropopathy."},{"word":"Anthropopathism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Anthropopathy"},{"word":"Anthropopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity."},{"word":"Anthropophagi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Man eaters; cannibals."},{"word":"Anthropophagic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Anthropophagical"},{"word":"Anthropophagical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy."},{"word":"Anthropophaginian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who east human flesh."},{"word":"Anthropophagite","type":"(n.)","description":"A cannibal."},{"word":"Anthropophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding on human flesh; cannibal."},{"word":"Anthropophagy","type":"(n.)","description":"The eating of human flesh; cannibalism."},{"word":"Anthropophuism","type":"(n.)","description":"Human nature."},{"word":"Anthroposcopy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of discovering or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features."},{"word":"Anthroposophy","type":"(n.)","description":"Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom."},{"word":"Anthropotomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies."},{"word":"Anthropotomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy."},{"word":"Anthropotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy."},{"word":"Anthypnotic","type":"()","description":"See Antihypnotic."},{"word":"Anthypochondriac","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Antihypochondriac."},{"word":"Anthysteric","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Antihysteric."},{"word":"Anti","type":"()","description":"A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic."},{"word":"Antiae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points."},{"word":"Antialbumid","type":"(n.)","description":"A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone."},{"word":"Antialbumose","type":"(n.)","description":"See Albumose."},{"word":"Anti-American","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions."},{"word":"Antiaphrodisiac","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Antaphrodisiac."},{"word":"Antiapoplectic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Antapoplectic."},{"word":"Antiar","type":"(n.)","description":"A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria)."},{"word":"Antiarin","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous principle obtained from antiar."},{"word":"Antiasthmatic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Antasthmatic."},{"word":"Antiattrition","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease."},{"word":"Antibacchius","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#)."},{"word":"Antibillous","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness."},{"word":"Antibrachial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the antibrachium, or forearm."},{"word":"Antibrachium","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm."},{"word":"Antibromic","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent that destroys offensive smells; a deodorizer."},{"word":"Antiburgher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath."},{"word":"Antic","type":"(a.)","description":"Old; antique."},{"word":"Antic","type":"(a.)","description":")"},{"word":"Antic","type":"(a.)","description":"Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous."},{"word":"Antic","type":"(n.)","description":"A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play."},{"word":"Antic","type":"(n.)","description":"An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure."},{"word":"Antic","type":"(n.)","description":"A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper."},{"word":"Antic","type":"(n.)","description":"A grotesque representation."},{"word":"Antic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antimask."},{"word":"Anticked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Antic"},{"word":"Antickt","type":"()","description":"of Antic"},{"word":"Antic","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make appear like a buffoon."},{"word":"Antic","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform antics."},{"word":"Anticatarrhal","type":"(a.)","description":"Efficacious against catarrh."},{"word":"Anticatarrhal","type":"(n.)","description":"An anticatarrhal remedy."},{"word":"Anticathode","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge."},{"word":"Anticausodic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Anticausotic."},{"word":"Anticausotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against an inflammatory fever."},{"word":"Anticausotic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for such a fever."},{"word":"Antichamber","type":"(n.)","description":"See Antechamber."},{"word":"Antichlor","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching."},{"word":"Antichrist","type":"(n.)","description":"A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming."},{"word":"Antichristian","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to the Christian religion."},{"word":"Antichristianism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Antichristianity"},{"word":"Antichristianity","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion."},{"word":"Antichristianly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an antichristian manner."},{"word":"Antichronical","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from the proper order of time."},{"word":"Antichronism","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism."},{"word":"Antichthones","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antichthon"},{"word":"Antichthon","type":"(n.)","description":"A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun."},{"word":"Antichthon","type":"(n.)","description":"Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres."},{"word":"Anticipant","type":"(a.)","description":"Anticipating; expectant; -- with of."},{"word":"Anticipated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Anticipate"},{"word":"Anticipating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Anticipate"},{"word":"Anticipate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action."},{"word":"Anticipate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument."},{"word":"Anticipate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foresee (a wish, command, etc.) and do beforehand that which will be desired."},{"word":"Anticipate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life."},{"word":"Anticipation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order."},{"word":"Anticipation","type":"(n.)","description":"Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven."},{"word":"Anticipation","type":"(n.)","description":"Hasty notion; intuitive preconception."},{"word":"Anticipation","type":"(n.)","description":"The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord."},{"word":"Anticipative","type":"(a.)","description":"Anticipating, or containing anticipation."},{"word":"Anticipator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who anticipates."},{"word":"Anticipatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation."},{"word":"Anticivic","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposed to citizenship."},{"word":"Anticivism","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition to the body politic of citizens."},{"word":"Anticlastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle."},{"word":"Anticlimax","type":"(n.)","description":"A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect."},{"word":"Anticlinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal."},{"word":"Anticlinal","type":"(n.)","description":"The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions."},{"word":"Anticlinoria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anticlinorium"},{"word":"Anticlinorium","type":"(n.)","description":"The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal."},{"word":"Anticly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Oddly; grotesquely."},{"word":"Antic-mask","type":"(n.)","description":"An antimask."},{"word":"Anticness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being antic."},{"word":"Anticonstitutional","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional."},{"word":"Anticontagious","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposing or destroying contagion."},{"word":"Anticonvulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against convulsions."},{"word":"Anticor","type":"(n.)","description":"A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart."},{"word":"Anticous","type":"(a.)","description":"Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily."},{"word":"Anticyclone","type":"(n.)","description":"A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone."},{"word":"Antidotal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison."},{"word":"Antidotary","type":"(a.)","description":"Antidotal."},{"word":"Antidote","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison."},{"word":"Antidote","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce."},{"word":"Antidote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote."},{"word":"Antidote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fortify or preserve by an antidote."},{"word":"Antidotical","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving as an antidote."},{"word":"Antidromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem."},{"word":"Antidysenteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against dysentery."},{"word":"Antidysenteric","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for dysentery."},{"word":"Antiemetic","type":"(a. / n.)","description":"Same as Antemetic."},{"word":"Antiephialtic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Antephialtic."},{"word":"Antiepileptic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Antepileptic."},{"word":"Antifebrile","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Febrifuge."},{"word":"Antifebrine","type":"(n.)","description":"Acetanilide."},{"word":"Anti-federalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States."},{"word":"Antifriction","type":"(n.)","description":"Something to lessen friction; antiattrition."},{"word":"Antifriction","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to lessen friction."},{"word":"Antigalastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk."},{"word":"Anti-Gallican","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to what is Gallic or French."},{"word":"Antigraph","type":"(n.)","description":"A copy or transcript."},{"word":"Antiguggler","type":"(n.)","description":"A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise."},{"word":"Antihelix","type":"(n.)","description":"The curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix. See Ear."},{"word":"Antihemorrhagic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to stop hemorrhage."},{"word":"Antihemorrhagic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for hemorrhage."},{"word":"Antihydrophobic","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia."},{"word":"Antihydrophobic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for hydrophobia."},{"word":"Antihydropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against dropsy."},{"word":"Antihydropic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for dropsy."},{"word":"Antihypnotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to prevent sleep."},{"word":"Antihypnotic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antihypnotic agent."},{"word":"Antihypochondriac","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteractive of hypochondria."},{"word":"Antihypochondriac","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for hypochondria."},{"word":"Antihysteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting hysteria."},{"word":"Antihysteric","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for hysteria."},{"word":"Antiicteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against jaundice."},{"word":"Antiicteric","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for jaundice."},{"word":"Antilegomena","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena."},{"word":"Antilibration","type":"(n.)","description":"A balancing; equipoise."},{"word":"Antilithic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed."},{"word":"Antilithic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antilithic medicine."},{"word":"Antilogarithm","type":"(n.)","description":"The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine."},{"word":"Antilogous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous."},{"word":"Antilogies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antilogy"},{"word":"Antilogy","type":"(n.)","description":"A contradiction between any words or passages in an author."},{"word":"Antiloimic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy against the plague."},{"word":"Antilopine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the antelope."},{"word":"Antiloquist","type":"(n.)","description":"A contradicter."},{"word":"Antiloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"Contradiction."},{"word":"Antilyssic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Antihydrophobic."},{"word":"Antimacassar","type":"(n.)","description":"A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair."},{"word":"Antimagistrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates."},{"word":"Antimalarial","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against malaria."},{"word":"Antimask","type":"(n.)","description":"A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask."},{"word":"Antimason","type":"(n.)","description":"One opposed to Freemasonry."},{"word":"Antimasonry","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition to Freemasonry."},{"word":"Antimephitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against mephitic or deleterious gases."},{"word":"Antimephitic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy against mephitic gases."},{"word":"Antimere","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants."},{"word":"Antimetabole","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order."},{"word":"Antimetathesis","type":"(n.)","description":"An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order."},{"word":"Antimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles."},{"word":"Antimonarchic","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Antimonarchical"},{"word":"Antimonarchical","type":"()","description":"Opposed to monarchial government."},{"word":"Antimonarchist","type":"(n.)","description":"An enemy to monarchial government."},{"word":"Antimonate","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical."},{"word":"Antimonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to antimony."},{"word":"Antimonial","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation or medicine containing antimony."},{"word":"Antimoniated","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined or prepared with antimony; as, antimoniated tartar."},{"word":"Antimonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid."},{"word":"Antimonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid."},{"word":"Antimonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical."},{"word":"Antimonite","type":"(n.)","description":"Stibnite."},{"word":"Antimoniureted","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen."},{"word":"Antimony","type":"(n.)","description":"An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb."},{"word":"Antinational","type":"(a.)","description":"Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government."},{"word":"Antinephritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys."},{"word":"Antinephritic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antinephritic remedy."},{"word":"Antinomian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory."},{"word":"Antinomian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535."},{"word":"Antinomianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenets or practice of Antinomians."},{"word":"Antinomist","type":"(n.)","description":"An Antinomian."},{"word":"Antinomies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antinomy"},{"word":"Antinomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule."},{"word":"Antinomy","type":"(n.)","description":"An opposing law or rule of any kind."},{"word":"Antinomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience."},{"word":"Antiochian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers."},{"word":"Antiochian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria."},{"word":"Antiodontalgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Efficacious in curing toothache."},{"word":"Antiodontalgic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for toothache."},{"word":"Antiorgastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative."},{"word":"Antipapal","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to the pope or to popery."},{"word":"Antiparallel","type":"(a.)","description":"Running in a contrary direction."},{"word":"Antiparallels","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes."},{"word":"Antiparalytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against paralysis."},{"word":"Antiparalytic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for paralysis."},{"word":"Antiparalytical","type":"(a.)","description":"Antiparalytic."},{"word":"Antipathetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antipathetical"},{"word":"Antipathetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to."},{"word":"Antipathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic."},{"word":"Antipathist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has an antipathy."},{"word":"Antipathize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feel or show antipathy."},{"word":"Antipathous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic."},{"word":"Antipathies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antipathy"},{"word":"Antipathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste."},{"word":"Antipathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy."},{"word":"Antipeptone","type":"(n.)","description":"A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice."},{"word":"Antiperiodic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers."},{"word":"Antiperistaltic","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube."},{"word":"Antiperistasis","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality."},{"word":"Antiperistatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to antiperistasis."},{"word":"Antipetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing before a petal, as a stamen."},{"word":"Antipharmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Antidotal; alexipharmic."},{"word":"Antiphlogistian","type":"(n.)","description":"An opposer of the theory of phlogiston."},{"word":"Antiphlogistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston."},{"word":"Antiphlogistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting inflammation."},{"word":"Antiphlogistic","type":"(n.)","description":"Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation."},{"word":"Antiphon","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone."},{"word":"Antiphon","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse said before and after the psalms."},{"word":"Antiphonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs."},{"word":"Antiphonal","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of antiphons or anthems."},{"word":"Antiphonary","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained."},{"word":"Antiphone","type":"(n.)","description":"The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing."},{"word":"Antiphoner","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of antiphons."},{"word":"Antiphonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Antiphonal."},{"word":"Antiphonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antiphony"},{"word":"Antiphony","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing."},{"word":"Antiphony","type":"(n.)","description":"An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively."},{"word":"Antiphrasis","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance."},{"word":"Antiphrastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antiphrastical"},{"word":"Antiphrastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to antiphrasis."},{"word":"Antiphthisic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption."},{"word":"Antiphthisic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for phthisis."},{"word":"Antiphysical","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to nature; unnatural."},{"word":"Antiphysical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relieving flatulence; carminative."},{"word":"Antiplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Diminishing plasticity."},{"word":"Antiplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation."},{"word":"Antipodagric","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against gout."},{"word":"Antipodagric","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for gout."},{"word":"Antipodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe."},{"word":"Antipodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Diametrically opposite."},{"word":"Antipode","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite."},{"word":"Antipodean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal."},{"word":"Antipodes","type":"(n.)","description":"Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite."},{"word":"Antipodes","type":"(n.)","description":"The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe."},{"word":"Antipodes","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything exactly opposite or contrary."},{"word":"Antipole","type":"(n.)","description":"The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed."},{"word":"Antipope","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism."},{"word":"Antipsoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of use in curing the itch."},{"word":"Antipsoric","type":"(n.)","description":"An antipsoric remedy."},{"word":"Antiptosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The putting of one case for another."},{"word":"Antiputrefactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antiputrescent"},{"word":"Antiputrescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic."},{"word":"Antipyic","type":"(a.)","description":"Checking or preventing suppuration."},{"word":"Antipyic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antipyic medicine."},{"word":"Antipyresis","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or state of being free from fever."},{"word":"Antipyretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever."},{"word":"Antipyretic","type":"(n.)","description":"A febrifuge."},{"word":"Antipyrine","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever."},{"word":"Antipyrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against burns or pyrosis."},{"word":"Antipyrotic","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis."},{"word":"Antiquarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature."},{"word":"Antiquarian","type":"(n.)","description":"An antiquary."},{"word":"Antiquarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n."},{"word":"Antiquarianism","type":"(n.)","description":"Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities."},{"word":"Antiquarianize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act the part of an antiquary."},{"word":"Antiquary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to antiquity."},{"word":"Antiquaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antiquary"},{"word":"Antiquary","type":"(n.)","description":"One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity."},{"word":"Antiquate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate."},{"word":"Antiquated","type":"(a.)","description":"Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law."},{"word":"Antiquatedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being antiquated."},{"word":"Antiquateness","type":"(n.)","description":"Antiquatedness."},{"word":"Antiquation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated."},{"word":"Antique","type":"(a.)","description":"Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome."},{"word":"Antique","type":"(a.)","description":"Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe."},{"word":"Antique","type":"(a.)","description":"Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's \"Castle of Indolence.\""},{"word":"Antique","type":"(a.)","description":"Odd; fantastic."},{"word":"Antique","type":"(a.)","description":"In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases."},{"word":"Antiquely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an antique manner."},{"word":"Antiqueness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship."},{"word":"Antiquist","type":"(n.)","description":"An antiquary; a collector of antiques."},{"word":"Antiquitarian","type":"(n.)","description":"An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.]"},{"word":"Antiquities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antiquity"},{"word":"Antiquity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity."},{"word":"Antiquity","type":"(n.)","description":"Old age."},{"word":"Antiquity","type":"(n.)","description":"Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity."},{"word":"Antiquity","type":"(n.)","description":"The ancients; the people of ancient times."},{"word":"Antiquity","type":"(n.)","description":"An old gentleman."},{"word":"Antiquity","type":"(n.)","description":"A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]"},{"word":"Antirachitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against the rickets."},{"word":"Antirenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York."},{"word":"Antisabbatarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath."},{"word":"Antisacerdotal","type":"(a.)","description":"Hostile to priests or the priesthood."},{"word":"Antiscians","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Antiscii"},{"word":"Antiscii","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions."},{"word":"Antiscoletic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antiscolic"},{"word":"Antiscolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Anthelmintic."},{"word":"Antiscorbutic","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting scurvy."},{"word":"Antiscorbutic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for scurvy."},{"word":"Antiscorbutical","type":"(a.)","description":"Antiscorbutic."},{"word":"Antiscriptural","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures."},{"word":"Antisepalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf."},{"word":"Antiseptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antiseptical"},{"word":"Antiseptical","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive."},{"word":"Antiseptic","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona."},{"word":"Antiseptically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By means of antiseptics."},{"word":"Antislavery","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to slavery."},{"word":"Antislavery","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition to slavery."},{"word":"Antisocial","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles."},{"word":"Antisocialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism."},{"word":"Antisolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180� distant from the sun."},{"word":"Antispasmodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against spasms."},{"word":"Antispasmodic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions."},{"word":"Antispast","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#)."},{"word":"Antispastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another."},{"word":"Antispastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic."},{"word":"Antispastic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antispastic agent."},{"word":"Antisplenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen."},{"word":"Antisplenetic","type":"(n.)","description":"An antisplenetic medicine."},{"word":"Antistrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song."},{"word":"Antistrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master."},{"word":"Antistrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him."},{"word":"Antistrophic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an antistrophe."},{"word":"Antistrophon","type":"(n.)","description":"An argument retorted on an opponent."},{"word":"Antistrumatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Antistrumous."},{"word":"Antistrumatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for scrofula."},{"word":"Antistrumous","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against scrofulous disorders."},{"word":"Antisyphilitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Efficacious against syphilis."},{"word":"Antisyphilitic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for syphilis."},{"word":"Antitheism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of antitheists."},{"word":"Antitheist","type":"(n.)","description":"A disbeliever in the existence of God."},{"word":"Antitheses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antithesis"},{"word":"Antithesis","type":"(n.)","description":"An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, \"The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself.\" \"He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen.\""},{"word":"Antithesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The second of two clauses forming an antithesis."},{"word":"Antithesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition; contrast."},{"word":"Antithet","type":"(n.)","description":"An antithetic or contrasted statement."},{"word":"Antithetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antithetical"},{"word":"Antithetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted."},{"word":"Antithetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way antithesis."},{"word":"Antitoxin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Antitoxine"},{"word":"Antitoxine","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria."},{"word":"Anti-trade","type":"(n.)","description":"A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind."},{"word":"Antitragus","type":"(n.)","description":"A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear."},{"word":"Antitrochanter","type":"(n.)","description":"An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays."},{"word":"Antitropal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Antitropous"},{"word":"Antitropous","type":"(a.)","description":"At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle."},{"word":"Antitypal","type":"(a.)","description":"Antitypical."},{"word":"Antitype","type":"(n.)","description":"That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol."},{"word":"Antitypical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type."},{"word":"Antitypous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resisting blows; hard."},{"word":"Antitypy","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition or resistance of matter to force."},{"word":"Antivaccination","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition to vaccination."},{"word":"Antivaccinationist","type":"(n.)","description":"An antivaccinist."},{"word":"Antivaccinist","type":"(n.)","description":"One opposed to vaccination."},{"word":"Antivariolous","type":"(a.)","description":"Preventing the contagion of smallpox."},{"word":"Antivenereal","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic."},{"word":"Antivivisection","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition to vivisection."},{"word":"Antivivisectionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One opposed to vivisection"},{"word":"Antizymic","type":"(a.)","description":"Preventing fermentation."},{"word":"Antizymotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Preventing fermentation or decomposition."},{"word":"Antizymotic","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent so used."},{"word":"Antler","type":"(n.)","description":"The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag."},{"word":"Antlered","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with antlers."},{"word":"Antilae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antlia"},{"word":"Antlia","type":"(n.)","description":"The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera."},{"word":"Ant-lion","type":"(n.)","description":"A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius."},{"word":"Antoeci","type":"(n. pl)","description":"Alt. of Antoecians"},{"word":"Antoecians","type":"(n. pl)","description":"Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator."},{"word":"Antonomasia","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero."},{"word":"Antonomastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia."},{"word":"Antonomasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Antonomasia."},{"word":"Antonym","type":"(n.)","description":"A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym."},{"word":"Antorbital","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit."},{"word":"Antorbital","type":"(n.)","description":"The antorbital bone."},{"word":"Antorgastic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Antiorgastic."},{"word":"Antozone","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen."},{"word":"Antral","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an antrum."},{"word":"Antre","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavern."},{"word":"Antrorse","type":"(a.)","description":"Forward or upward in direction."},{"word":"Antrovert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend forward."},{"word":"Antra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Antrum"},{"word":"Antrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus"},{"word":"Antrustion","type":"(n.)","description":"A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises"},{"word":"Ant","type":"()","description":"One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants."},{"word":"Ant","type":"()","description":"See Ant bird, under Ant."},{"word":"Anubis","type":"(n.)","description":"An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox."},{"word":"Anura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads."},{"word":"Anurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads."},{"word":"Anury","type":"(n.)","description":"Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury."},{"word":"Anus","type":"(n.)","description":"The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled."},{"word":"Anvil","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped."},{"word":"Anvil","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use."},{"word":"Anvil","type":"(n.)","description":"the incus. See Incus."},{"word":"Anvil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor."},{"word":"Anxietude","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being anxious; anxiety."},{"word":"Anxieties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Anxiety"},{"word":"Anxiety","type":"(n.)","description":"Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness."},{"word":"Anxiety","type":"(n.)","description":"Eager desire."},{"word":"Anxiety","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium."},{"word":"Anxious","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle."},{"word":"Anxious","type":"(a.)","description":"Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor."},{"word":"Anxious","type":"(a.)","description":"Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please."},{"word":"Anxiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously."},{"word":"Anxiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety."},{"word":"Any","type":"(a. & pron.)","description":"One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be."},{"word":"Any","type":"(a. & pron.)","description":"Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it?"},{"word":"Any","type":"(adv.)","description":"To any extent; in any degree; at all."},{"word":"Anybody","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person."},{"word":"Anybody","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of consideration or standing."},{"word":"Anyhow","type":"(adv.)","description":"In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event."},{"word":"Anyone","type":"(n.)","description":"One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]"},{"word":"Anything","type":"(n.)","description":"Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything."},{"word":"Anything","type":"(n.)","description":"Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like."},{"word":"Anything","type":"(adv.)","description":"In any measure; anywise; at all."},{"word":"Anythingarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds to no particular creed or dogma."},{"word":"Anyway","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Anyways"},{"word":"Anyways","type":"(adv.)","description":"Anywise; at all."},{"word":"Anywhere","type":"(adv.)","description":"In any place."},{"word":"Anywhither","type":"(adv.)","description":"To or towards any place."},{"word":"Anywise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In any wise or way; at all."},{"word":"Aonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there."},{"word":"Aorist","type":"(n.)","description":"A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate."},{"word":"Aoristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense."},{"word":"Aorta","type":"(n.)","description":"The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system."},{"word":"Aortic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the aorta."},{"word":"Aortitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the aorta."},{"word":"Aoudad","type":"(n.)","description":"An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament."},{"word":"Apace","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily."},{"word":"Apaches","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc."},{"word":"Apagoge","type":"(n.)","description":"An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary."},{"word":"Apagogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apagogical"},{"word":"Apagogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary."},{"word":"Apaid","type":"(a.)","description":"Paid; pleased."},{"word":"Apair","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To impair or become impaired; to injure."},{"word":"Apalachian","type":"(a.)","description":"See Appalachian."},{"word":"Apanage","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Appanage."},{"word":"Apanthropy","type":"(n.)","description":"An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude."},{"word":"Apar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apara"},{"word":"Apara","type":"(n.)","description":"See Mataco."},{"word":"Aparejo","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like."},{"word":"Aparithmesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Enumeration of parts or particulars."},{"word":"Apart","type":"(adv.)","description":"Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside."},{"word":"Apart","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart."},{"word":"Apart","type":"(adv.)","description":"Aside; away."},{"word":"Apart","type":"(adv.)","description":"In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart."},{"word":"Apartment","type":"(n.)","description":"A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions."},{"word":"Apartment","type":"(n.)","description":"A set or suite of rooms."},{"word":"Apartment","type":"(n.)","description":"A compartment."},{"word":"Apartness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of standing apart."},{"word":"Apastron","type":"(n.)","description":"That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary."},{"word":"Apathetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apathetical"},{"word":"Apathetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent."},{"word":"Apathetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an apathetic manner."},{"word":"Apathist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is destitute of feeling."},{"word":"Apathistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Apathetic; une motional."},{"word":"Apathies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apathy"},{"word":"Apathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion."},{"word":"Apatite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent."},{"word":"Apaume","type":"(n.)","description":"See Appaume."},{"word":"Ape","type":"(n.)","description":"A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes."},{"word":"Ape","type":"(n.)","description":"One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic."},{"word":"Ape","type":"(n.)","description":"A dupe."},{"word":"Aped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ape"},{"word":"Aping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ape"},{"word":"Ape","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally."},{"word":"Apeak","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak."},{"word":"Apehood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being an ape."},{"word":"Apellous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of skin."},{"word":"Apennine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy."},{"word":"Apepsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Defective digestion, indigestion."},{"word":"Aper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who apes."},{"word":"Aperea","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea)."},{"word":"Aperient","type":"(a.)","description":"Gently opening the bowels; laxative."},{"word":"Aperient","type":"(n.)","description":"An aperient medicine or food."},{"word":"Aperitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to open; aperient."},{"word":"Apert","type":"(a.)","description":"Open; evident; undisguised."},{"word":"Apert","type":"(adv.)","description":"Openly."},{"word":"Apertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of opening; an opening; an aperture."},{"word":"Apertly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Openly; clearly."},{"word":"Apertness","type":"(n.)","description":"Openness; frankness."},{"word":"Aperture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of opening."},{"word":"Aperture","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall."},{"word":"Aperture","type":"(n.)","description":"The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture."},{"word":"Aperies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apery"},{"word":"Apery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where apes are kept."},{"word":"Apery","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of aping; an apish action."},{"word":"Apetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther]."},{"word":"Apetalousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being apetalous."},{"word":"Apexes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apex"},{"word":"Apices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apex"},{"word":"Apex","type":"(n.)","description":"The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf."},{"word":"Apex","type":"(n.)","description":"The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface."},{"word":"Aphaeresis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Apheresis."},{"word":"Aphakia","type":"(n.)","description":"An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses."},{"word":"Aphakial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes."},{"word":"Aphaniptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea."},{"word":"Aphanipterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera."},{"word":"Aphanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains."},{"word":"Aphanitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure."},{"word":"Aphasia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aphasy"},{"word":"Aphasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain."},{"word":"Aphasic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless."},{"word":"Aphelia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aphelion"},{"word":"Aphelion","type":"(n.)","description":"That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion."},{"word":"Apheliotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc."},{"word":"Apheliotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants."},{"word":"Aphemia","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin."},{"word":"Apheresis","type":"(n.)","description":"The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute."},{"word":"Apheresis","type":"(n.)","description":"An operation by which any part is separated from the rest."},{"word":"Aphesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire."},{"word":"Aphetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form."},{"word":"Aphetism","type":"(n.)","description":"An aphetized form of a word."},{"word":"Aphetize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shorten by aphesis."},{"word":"Aphid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian."},{"word":"Aphides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Aphis."},{"word":"Aphidian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae."},{"word":"Aphidian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the aphides; an aphid."},{"word":"Aphidivorous","type":"()","description":"Devouring aphides; aphidophagous."},{"word":"Aphidophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidae."},{"word":"Aphilanthropy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy."},{"word":"Aphides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aphis"},{"word":"Aphis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies."},{"word":"Aphis","type":"()","description":"The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvae of the ladybugs (Coccinella)."},{"word":"Aphlogistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame."},{"word":"Aphonia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aphony"},{"word":"Aphony","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of voice or vocal utterance."},{"word":"Aphonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aphonous"},{"word":"Aphonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal."},{"word":"Aphorism","type":"(n.)","description":"A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters."},{"word":"Aphorismatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aphorismic"},{"word":"Aphorismic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism."},{"word":"Aphorismer","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in aphorisms."},{"word":"Aphorist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer or utterer of aphorisms."},{"word":"Aphoristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aphoristical"},{"word":"Aphoristical","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style."},{"word":"Aphoristically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily."},{"word":"Aphorize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make aphorisms."},{"word":"Aphrite","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Calcite."},{"word":"Aphrodisiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aphrodisiacal"},{"word":"Aphrodisiacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting venereal desire; provocative to venery."},{"word":"Aphrodisiac","type":"(n.)","description":"That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery."},{"word":"Aphrodisian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. \"Aphrodisian dames\" [that is, courtesans]."},{"word":"Aphrodite","type":"(n.)","description":"The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans."},{"word":"Aphrodite","type":"(n.)","description":"A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse."},{"word":"Aphrodite","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States."},{"word":"Aphroditic","type":"(a.)","description":"Venereal."},{"word":"Aphtha","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the whitish specks called aphthae."},{"word":"Aphtha","type":"(n.)","description":"The disease, also called thrush."},{"word":"Aphthae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush."},{"word":"Aphthoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of aphthae; resembling thrush."},{"word":"Aphthong","type":"(n.)","description":"A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound."},{"word":"Aphthous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthae; characterized by aphtae; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever."},{"word":"Aphyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc."},{"word":"Apiaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Umbelliferous."},{"word":"Apian","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to bees."},{"word":"Apiarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to bees."},{"word":"Apiarist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps an apiary."},{"word":"Apiary","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse."},{"word":"Apical","type":"(a.)","description":"At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit."},{"word":"Apices","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Apex."},{"word":"Apician","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery."},{"word":"Apicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated at, or near, the apex; apical."},{"word":"Apiculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apiculated"},{"word":"Apiculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf."},{"word":"Apiculture","type":"(n.)","description":"Rearing of bees for their honey and wax."},{"word":"Apiece","type":"(adv.)","description":"Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece."},{"word":"Apieces","type":"(adv.)","description":"In pieces or to pieces."},{"word":"Apiked","type":"(a.)","description":"Trimmed."},{"word":"Apiol","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily liquid derived from parsley."},{"word":"Apiologist","type":"(n.)","description":"A student of bees."},{"word":"Apis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee."},{"word":"Apish","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling."},{"word":"Apishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly."},{"word":"Apishness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery."},{"word":"Apitpat","type":"(adv.)","description":"With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat."},{"word":"Aplacental","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta."},{"word":"Aplacentata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Mammals which have no placenta."},{"word":"Aplacophora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setae, but is without shelly plates."},{"word":"Aplanatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens."},{"word":"Aplanatism","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from spherical aberration."},{"word":"Aplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not plastic or easily molded."},{"word":"Aplomb","type":"(n.)","description":"Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession."},{"word":"Aplotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Simple incision."},{"word":"Aplustre","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather."},{"word":"Aplysia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix."},{"word":"Apneumona","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes."},{"word":"Apnoea","type":"(n.)","description":"Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation."},{"word":"Apo","type":"()","description":"A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous."},{"word":"Apocalypse","type":"(n.)","description":"The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament."},{"word":"Apocalypse","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything viewed as a revelation; a disclosure."},{"word":"Apocalyptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apocalyptical"},{"word":"Apocalyptical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation."},{"word":"Apocalyptic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apocalyptist"},{"word":"Apocalyptist","type":"(n.)","description":"The writer of the Apocalypse."},{"word":"Apocalyptically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner."},{"word":"Apocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous."},{"word":"Apocopate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word."},{"word":"Apocopate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apocopated"},{"word":"Apocopated","type":"(a.)","description":"Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form."},{"word":"Apocopation","type":"(n.)","description":"Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated."},{"word":"Apocope","type":"(n.)","description":"The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word."},{"word":"Apocope","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting off; abscission."},{"word":"Apocrisiary","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apocrisiarius"},{"word":"Apocrisiarius","type":"(n.)","description":"A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople."},{"word":"Apocrustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Astringent and repellent."},{"word":"Apocrustic","type":"(n.)","description":"An apocrustic medicine."},{"word":"Apocryphas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apocrypha"},{"word":"Apocrypha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively."},{"word":"Apocrypha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others."},{"word":"Apocryphal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Apocrypha."},{"word":"Apocryphal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false."},{"word":"Apocryphalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha."},{"word":"Apocryphally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably."},{"word":"Apocryphalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness."},{"word":"Apocynaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apocyneous"},{"word":"Apocyneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type."},{"word":"Apocynin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum)."},{"word":"Apod","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apodal"},{"word":"Apodal","type":"(n.)","description":"Without feet; footless."},{"word":"Apodal","type":"(n.)","description":"Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels."},{"word":"Apods","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apode"},{"word":"Apodes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apode"},{"word":"Apod","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apode"},{"word":"Apode","type":"(n.)","description":"One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet."},{"word":"Apoda","type":"(n.)","description":"A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs."},{"word":"Apoda","type":"(n.)","description":"An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha."},{"word":"Apoda","type":"(n.)","description":"A group of worms without appendages, as the leech."},{"word":"Apodan","type":"(a.)","description":"Apodal."},{"word":"Apodeictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apodictical"},{"word":"Apodictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apodictical"},{"word":"Apodeictical","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apodictical"},{"word":"Apodictical","type":"(a.)","description":"Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction."},{"word":"Apodeictically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Apodictically"},{"word":"Apodictically","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to be evident beyond contradiction."},{"word":"Apodeme","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea."},{"word":"Apodes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels."},{"word":"Apodes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona."},{"word":"Apodictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Apodeictic."},{"word":"Apodixis","type":"(n.)","description":"Full demonstration."},{"word":"Apodosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, \"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,\" the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis."},{"word":"Apodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Apodal; apod."},{"word":"Apodyterium","type":"(n.)","description":"The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room."},{"word":"Apogaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Apogean."},{"word":"Apogamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to apogamy."},{"word":"Apogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore."},{"word":"Apogeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Apogean."},{"word":"Apogean","type":"(a.)","description":"Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee."},{"word":"Apogee","type":"(n.)","description":"That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth."},{"word":"Apogee","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination."},{"word":"Apogeotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc."},{"word":"Apogeotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts."},{"word":"Apograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A copy or transcript."},{"word":"Apohyal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone."},{"word":"Apoise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Balanced."},{"word":"Apolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells."},{"word":"Apolaustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Devoted to enjoyment."},{"word":"Apollinarian","type":"(a.)","description":"In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games."},{"word":"Apollinarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ."},{"word":"Apollinaris","type":"()","description":"An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn."},{"word":"Apollo","type":"(n.)","description":"A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the \"sun god\"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus."},{"word":"Apollonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apollonic"},{"word":"Apollonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo."},{"word":"Apollyon","type":"(n.)","description":"The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon."},{"word":"Apologer","type":"(n.)","description":"A teller of apologues."},{"word":"Apologetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apologetical"},{"word":"Apologetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay."},{"word":"Apologetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of apology."},{"word":"Apologetics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority."},{"word":"Apologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity."},{"word":"Apologized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Apologize"},{"word":"Apologizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Apologize"},{"word":"Apologize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an apology or defense."},{"word":"Apologize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment of some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter."},{"word":"Apologize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defend."},{"word":"Apologizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an apology; an apologist."},{"word":"Apologue","type":"(n.)","description":"A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable."},{"word":"Apologies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apology"},{"word":"Apology","type":"(n.)","description":"Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity."},{"word":"Apology","type":"(n.)","description":"An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret."},{"word":"Apology","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift."},{"word":"Apology","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To offer an apology."},{"word":"Apomecometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the height of objects."},{"word":"Apomecometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off."},{"word":"Apomorphia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apomorphine"},{"word":"Apomorphine","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic."},{"word":"Aponeuroses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aponeurosis"},{"word":"Aponeurosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciae which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia."},{"word":"Aponeurotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis."},{"word":"Aponeurotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissection of aponeuroses."},{"word":"Apopemptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns."},{"word":"Apophasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Caesar, iii. 2.]"},{"word":"Apophlegmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils."},{"word":"Apophlegmatic","type":"(n.)","description":"An apophlegmatic medicine."},{"word":"Apophlegmatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of apophlegmatics."},{"word":"Apophlegmatism","type":"(n.)","description":"An apophlegmatic."},{"word":"Apophlegmatizant","type":"(n.)","description":"An apophlegmatic."},{"word":"Apophthegm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Apothegm."},{"word":"Apophthegmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apophthegmatical"},{"word":"Apophthegmatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Apothegmatic."},{"word":"Apophyge","type":"(n.)","description":"The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape."},{"word":"Apophyllite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium."},{"word":"-ses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apophysis"},{"word":"Apophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone."},{"word":"Apophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses."},{"word":"Apoplectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apoplectical"},{"word":"Apoplectical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke."},{"word":"Apoplectic","type":"(n.)","description":"One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy."},{"word":"Apoplectiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apoplectoid"},{"word":"Apoplectoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling apoplexy."},{"word":"Apoplex","type":"(n.)","description":"Apoplexy."},{"word":"Apoplexed","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with apoplexy."},{"word":"Apoplexy","type":"(n.)","description":"Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain."},{"word":"Aporetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubting; skeptical."},{"word":"Aporias","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aporia"},{"word":"Aporia","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc."},{"word":"Aporosa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata."},{"word":"Aporose","type":"(a.)","description":"Without pores."},{"word":"Aport","type":"(adv.)","description":"On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm."},{"word":"Aposiopesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, \"I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here.\""},{"word":"Apositic","type":"(a.)","description":"Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger."},{"word":"Apostasies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apostasy"},{"word":"Apostasy","type":"(n.)","description":"An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity."},{"word":"Apostate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade."},{"word":"Apostate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession."},{"word":"Apostate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade."},{"word":"Apostate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To apostatize."},{"word":"Apostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Apostatical."},{"word":"Apostatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Apostate."},{"word":"Apostatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Apostatize"},{"word":"Apostatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Apostatize"},{"word":"Apostatize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered."},{"word":"Apostemate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus."},{"word":"Apostemation","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration."},{"word":"Apostematous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme."},{"word":"Aposteme","type":"(n.)","description":"An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical."},{"word":"Apostil","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apostille"},{"word":"Apostille","type":"(n.)","description":"A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation."},{"word":"Apostle","type":"(n.)","description":"Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel."},{"word":"Apostle","type":"(n.)","description":"The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance."},{"word":"Apostle","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts."},{"word":"Apostleship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or dignity of an apostle."},{"word":"Apostolate","type":"(n.)","description":"The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship."},{"word":"Apostolate","type":"(n.)","description":"The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the apostolic see."},{"word":"Apostolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apostolical"},{"word":"Apostolical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age."},{"word":"Apostolical","type":"(a.)","description":"According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice."},{"word":"Apostolical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal."},{"word":"Apostolic","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles."},{"word":"Apostolically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an apostolic manner."},{"word":"Apostolicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Apostolicity."},{"word":"Apostolicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apostolicity"},{"word":"Apostolicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being apostolical."},{"word":"Apostrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of \"Paradise Lost.\""},{"word":"Apostrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called."},{"word":"Apostrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e."},{"word":"Apostrophic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical."},{"word":"Apostrophize","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"To address by apostrophe."},{"word":"Apostrophize","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes."},{"word":"Apostrophize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe."},{"word":"Apostume","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aposteme."},{"word":"Apotactite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions."},{"word":"Apotelesm","type":"(n.)","description":"The result or issue."},{"word":"Apotelesm","type":"(n.)","description":"The calculation and explanation of a nativity."},{"word":"Apotelesmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the casting of horoscopes."},{"word":"Apotelesmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an issue of fulfillment."},{"word":"Apothecaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apothecary"},{"word":"Apothecary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes."},{"word":"Apothecia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apothecium"},{"word":"Apothecium","type":"(n.)","description":"The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes."},{"word":"Apothegm","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apophthegm"},{"word":"Apophthegm","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim."},{"word":"Apothegmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apothegmatical"},{"word":"Apothegmatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy."},{"word":"Apothegmatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A collector or maker of apothegms."},{"word":"Apothegmatize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings."},{"word":"Apothem","type":"(n.)","description":"The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon."},{"word":"Apothem","type":"(n.)","description":"A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air."},{"word":"Apotheoses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apotheosis"},{"word":"Apotheosis","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, \"the gods;\" deification."},{"word":"Apotheosis","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Glorification; exaltation."},{"word":"Apotheosize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify."},{"word":"Apothesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc."},{"word":"Apothesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A dressing room connected with a public bath."},{"word":"Apotome","type":"(n.)","description":"The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between �2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square."},{"word":"Apotome","type":"(n.)","description":"The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone."},{"word":"Apozem","type":"(n.)","description":"A decoction or infusion."},{"word":"Apozemical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction."},{"word":"Appair","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To impair; to grow worse."},{"word":"Appalachian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains."},{"word":"Appalled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appall"},{"word":"Appalling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appall"},{"word":"Appall","type":"(a.)","description":"To make pale; to blanch."},{"word":"Appall","type":"(a.)","description":"To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight."},{"word":"Appall","type":"(a.)","description":"To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart."},{"word":"Appall","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged."},{"word":"Appall","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lose flavor or become stale."},{"word":"Appall","type":"(n.)","description":"Terror; dismay."},{"word":"Appalling","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident."},{"word":"Appallment","type":"(n.)","description":"Depression occasioned by terror; dismay."},{"word":"Appanage","type":"(n.)","description":"The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons."},{"word":"Appanage","type":"(n.)","description":"A dependency; a dependent territory."},{"word":"Appanage","type":"(n.)","description":"That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment."},{"word":"Appanagist","type":"(n.)","description":"A prince to whom an appanage has been granted."},{"word":"Apparaillyng","type":"(v.)","description":"Preparation."},{"word":"Apparatus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apparatus"},{"word":"Apparatuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apparatus"},{"word":"Apparatus","type":"(n.)","description":"Things provided as means to some end."},{"word":"Apparatus","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism."},{"word":"Apparatus","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus."},{"word":"Apparel","type":"(n.)","description":"External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array."},{"word":"Apparel","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments."},{"word":"Apparel","type":"(n.)","description":"The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc."},{"word":"Appareled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Apparel"},{"word":"Apparelled","type":"()","description":"of Apparel"},{"word":"Appareling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Apparel"},{"word":"Apparelling","type":"()","description":"of Apparel"},{"word":"Apparel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or get (something) ready; to prepare."},{"word":"Apparel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out."},{"word":"Apparel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress or clothe; to attire."},{"word":"Apparel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure."},{"word":"Apparence","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance."},{"word":"Apparency","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance."},{"word":"Apparency","type":"(n.)","description":"Apparentness; state of being apparent."},{"word":"Apparency","type":"(n.)","description":"The position of being heir apparent."},{"word":"Apparent","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view."},{"word":"Apparent","type":"(a.)","description":"Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable."},{"word":"Apparent","type":"(a.)","description":"Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun."},{"word":"Apparent","type":"(n.)","description":"An heir apparent."},{"word":"Apparently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Visibly."},{"word":"Apparently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently."},{"word":"Apparently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart."},{"word":"Apparentness","type":"(n.)","description":"Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness."},{"word":"Apparition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility."},{"word":"Apparition","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing appearing; a visible object; a form."},{"word":"Apparition","type":"(n.)","description":"An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom."},{"word":"Apparition","type":"(n.)","description":"The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation."},{"word":"Apparitional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral."},{"word":"Apparitor","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders."},{"word":"Apparitor","type":"(n.)","description":"A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court."},{"word":"Appaume","type":"(n.)","description":"A hand open and extended so as to show the palm."},{"word":"Appay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay; to satisfy or appease."},{"word":"Appeach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach."},{"word":"Appeacher","type":"(n.)","description":"An accuser."},{"word":"Appeachment","type":"(n.)","description":"Accusation."},{"word":"Appealed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appeal"},{"word":"Appealing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appeal"},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To summon; to challenge."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invoke."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reexamination or review."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The right of appeal."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A summons to answer to a charge."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty."},{"word":"Appeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Resort to physical means; recourse."},{"word":"Appealable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable."},{"word":"Appealable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter."},{"word":"Appealant","type":"(n.)","description":"An appellant."},{"word":"Appealer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an appeal."},{"word":"Appealing","type":"(a.)","description":"That appeals; imploring."},{"word":"Appeared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appear"},{"word":"Appearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appear"},{"word":"Appear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible."},{"word":"Appear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time."},{"word":"Appear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried."},{"word":"Appear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest."},{"word":"Appear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look."},{"word":"Appear","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance."},{"word":"Appearance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me."},{"word":"Appearance","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky."},{"word":"Appearance","type":"(n.)","description":"Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien."},{"word":"Appearance","type":"(n.)","description":"Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him."},{"word":"Appearance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator."},{"word":"Appearance","type":"(n.)","description":"Probability; likelihood."},{"word":"Appearance","type":"(n.)","description":"The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction."},{"word":"Appearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appears."},{"word":"Appearingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Apparently."},{"word":"Appeasable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable."},{"word":"Appealed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appease"},{"word":"Appeasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appease"},{"word":"Appease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst."},{"word":"Appeasement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification."},{"word":"Appeaser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appeases; a pacifier."},{"word":"Appeasive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to appease."},{"word":"Appellable","type":"(a.)","description":"Appealable."},{"word":"Appellancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of appeal."},{"word":"Appellant","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an appeal; appellate."},{"word":"Appellant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accuses another of felony or treason."},{"word":"Appellant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal."},{"word":"Appellant","type":"(n.)","description":"A challenger."},{"word":"Appellant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus."},{"word":"Appellant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appeals or entreats."},{"word":"Appellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals."},{"word":"Appellate","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee."},{"word":"Appellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of appealing; appeal."},{"word":"Appellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of calling by a name."},{"word":"Appellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation."},{"word":"Appellative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming."},{"word":"Appellative","type":"(a.)","description":"Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class."},{"word":"Appellative","type":"(n.)","description":"A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie."},{"word":"Appellative","type":"(n.)","description":"An appellation or title; a descriptive name."},{"word":"Appellatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man."},{"word":"Appellativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being appellative."},{"word":"Appellatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing an appeal."},{"word":"Appellee","type":"(n.)","description":"The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant."},{"word":"Appellee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor."},{"word":"Appellor","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime."},{"word":"Appellor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices."},{"word":"Appenage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Appanage."},{"word":"Appended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Append"},{"word":"Appending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Append"},{"word":"Append","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column."},{"word":"Append","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter."},{"word":"Appendage","type":"(n.)","description":"Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house."},{"word":"Appendage","type":"(n.)","description":"A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates."},{"word":"Appendaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage."},{"word":"Appendance","type":"(n.)","description":"Something appendant."},{"word":"Appendant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper."},{"word":"Appendant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house."},{"word":"Appendant","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it."},{"word":"Appendant","type":"(n.)","description":"A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance."},{"word":"Appendence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Appendency"},{"word":"Appendency","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being appendant; appendance."},{"word":"Appendical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or like an appendix."},{"word":"Appendicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To append."},{"word":"Appendication","type":"(n.)","description":"An appendage."},{"word":"Appendicitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the vermiform appendix."},{"word":"Appendicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small appendage."},{"word":"Appendicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate."},{"word":"Appendicularia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Appendiculata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of annelids; the Polych/ta."},{"word":"Appendiculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having small appendages; forming an appendage."},{"word":"Appendixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Appendix"},{"word":"Appendices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Appendix"},{"word":"Appendix","type":"(n.)","description":"Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant."},{"word":"Appendix","type":"(n.)","description":"Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies."},{"word":"Appension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of appending."},{"word":"Apperceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perceive; to comprehend."},{"word":"Apperception","type":"(n.)","description":"The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception."},{"word":"Apperil","type":"(n.)","description":"Peril."},{"word":"Appertained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appertain"},{"word":"Appertaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appertain"},{"word":"Appertain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate."},{"word":"Appertainment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which appertains to a person; an appurtenance."},{"word":"Appertinance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Appertinence"},{"word":"Appertinence","type":"(n.)","description":"See Appurtenance."},{"word":"Appertinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging; appertaining."},{"word":"Appertinent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant."},{"word":"Appete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seek for; to desire."},{"word":"Appetence","type":"(n.)","description":"A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency."},{"word":"Appetencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Appetency"},{"word":"Appetency","type":"(n.)","description":"Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite."},{"word":"Appetency","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism."},{"word":"Appetency","type":"(n.)","description":"Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects."},{"word":"Appetent","type":"(a.)","description":"Desiring; eagerly desirous."},{"word":"Appetibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being desirable."},{"word":"Appetible","type":"(a.)","description":"Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire."},{"word":"Appetite","type":"(n.)","description":"The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind."},{"word":"Appetite","type":"(n.)","description":"Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger."},{"word":"Appetite","type":"(n.)","description":"Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing."},{"word":"Appetite","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency; appetency."},{"word":"Appetite","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing desired."},{"word":"Appetition","type":"(n.)","description":"Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something."},{"word":"Appetitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty."},{"word":"Appetize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hungry; to whet the appetite of."},{"word":"Appetizer","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which creates or whets an appetite."},{"word":"Appetizing","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food."},{"word":"Appetizing","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to excite appetite."},{"word":"Appian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Appius."},{"word":"Applauded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Applaud"},{"word":"Applauding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Applaud"},{"word":"Applaud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign."},{"word":"Applaud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve."},{"word":"Applaud","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To express approbation loudly or significantly."},{"word":"Applauder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who applauds."},{"word":"Applausable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of applause; praiseworthy."},{"word":"Applause","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation."},{"word":"Applausive","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing applause; approbative."},{"word":"Apple","type":"(n.)","description":"The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones."},{"word":"Apple","type":"(n.)","description":"Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree."},{"word":"Apple","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple."},{"word":"Apple","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold."},{"word":"Apple","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow like an apple; to bear apples."},{"word":"Apple-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a round, broad face, like an apple."},{"word":"Apple-jack","type":"(n.)","description":"Apple brandy."},{"word":"Apple-john","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple."},{"word":"Apple","type":"()","description":"A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar."},{"word":"Apple-squire","type":"(n.)","description":"A pimp; a kept gallant."},{"word":"Appliable","type":"(a.)","description":"Applicable; also, compliant."},{"word":"Appliance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience."},{"word":"Appliance","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances."},{"word":"Applicability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied."},{"word":"Applicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration."},{"word":"Applicancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being applicable."},{"word":"Applicant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner."},{"word":"Applicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied or put to some use."},{"word":"Applicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To apply."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing applied."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the \"moral\" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery."},{"word":"Application","type":"(n.)","description":"A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file."},{"word":"Applicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical."},{"word":"Applicatorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of application."},{"word":"Applicatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of applying; applicative; practical."},{"word":"Applicatory","type":"(n.)","description":"That which applies."},{"word":"Appliedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By application."},{"word":"Applier","type":"(n.)","description":"He who, or that which, applies."},{"word":"Appliment","type":"(n.)","description":"Application."},{"word":"Applique","type":"(a.)","description":"Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work."},{"word":"Applotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Applot"},{"word":"Applotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Applot"},{"word":"Applot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into plots or parts; to apportion."},{"word":"Applotment","type":"(n.)","description":"Apportionment."},{"word":"Applied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Apply"},{"word":"Applying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Apply"},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct or address."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To busy; to keep at work; to ply."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To visit."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ply; to move."},{"word":"Apply","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to)."},{"word":"Appoggiatura","type":"(n.)","description":"A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony."},{"word":"Appointed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appoint"},{"word":"Appointing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appoint"},{"word":"Appoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out."},{"word":"Appoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of."},{"word":"Appoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assign, designate, or set apart by authority."},{"word":"Appoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out."},{"word":"Appoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign."},{"word":"Appoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed."},{"word":"Appoint","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ordain; to determine; to arrange."},{"word":"Appointable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being appointed or constituted."},{"word":"Appointee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A person appointed."},{"word":"Appointee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed."},{"word":"Appointer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment."},{"word":"Appointive","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office."},{"word":"Appointment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men."},{"word":"Appointment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer."},{"word":"Appointment","type":"(n.)","description":"Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six."},{"word":"Appointment","type":"(n.)","description":"Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments."},{"word":"Appointment","type":"(n.)","description":"The exercise of the power of designating (under a \"power of appointment\") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made."},{"word":"Appointment","type":"(n.)","description":"Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords."},{"word":"Appointment","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural."},{"word":"Appointment","type":"(n.)","description":"A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment."},{"word":"Appointor","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2."},{"word":"Apporter","type":"(n.)","description":"A bringer in; an importer."},{"word":"Apportioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Apportion"},{"word":"Apportioning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Apportion"},{"word":"Apportion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments."},{"word":"Apportionateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being apportioned or in proportion."},{"word":"Apportioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who apportions."},{"word":"Apportionment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property."},{"word":"Appose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another)."},{"word":"Appose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in juxtaposition or proximity."},{"word":"Appose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose."},{"word":"Apposed","type":"(a.)","description":"Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak."},{"word":"Apposer","type":"(n.)","description":"An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts."},{"word":"Apposite","type":"(a.)","description":"Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case."},{"word":"Apposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adding; application; accretion."},{"word":"Apposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed."},{"word":"Apposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first."},{"word":"Appositional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically."},{"word":"Appositive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to apposition; in apposition."},{"word":"Appositive","type":"(n.)","description":"A noun in apposition."},{"word":"Appraisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being appraised."},{"word":"Appraisal","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement."},{"word":"Appraised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appraise"},{"word":"Appraising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appraise"},{"word":"Appraise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels."},{"word":"Appraise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To estimate; to conjecture."},{"word":"Appraise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise; to commend."},{"word":"Appraisement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth."},{"word":"Appraiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates."},{"word":"Apprecation","type":"(n.)","description":"Earnest prayer; devout wish."},{"word":"Apprecatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Praying or wishing good."},{"word":"Appreciable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity."},{"word":"Appreciant","type":"(a.)","description":"Appreciative."},{"word":"Appreciated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appreciate"},{"word":"Appreciating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appreciate"},{"word":"Appreciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value."},{"word":"Appreciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate."},{"word":"Appreciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be sensible of; to distinguish."},{"word":"Appreciate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise in value. [See note under Rise, v. i.]"},{"word":"Appreciatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an appreciating manner; with appreciation."},{"word":"Appreciation","type":"(n.)","description":"A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence."},{"word":"Appreciation","type":"(n.)","description":"Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors."},{"word":"Appreciation","type":"(n.)","description":"A rise in value; -- opposed to depreciation."},{"word":"Appreciative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience."},{"word":"Appreciativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence."},{"word":"Appreciator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appreciates."},{"word":"Appreciatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation."},{"word":"Apprehended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Apprehend"},{"word":"Apprehending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Apprehend"},{"word":"Apprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or seize; to take hold of."},{"word":"Apprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal."},{"word":"Apprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider."},{"word":"Apprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To know or learn with certainty."},{"word":"Apprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear."},{"word":"Apprehend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose."},{"word":"Apprehend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be apprehensive; to fear."},{"word":"Apprehender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who apprehends."},{"word":"Apprehensibiity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being apprehensible."},{"word":"Apprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being apprehended or conceived."},{"word":"Apprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension."},{"word":"Apprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped."},{"word":"Apprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception."},{"word":"Apprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea."},{"word":"Apprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension."},{"word":"Apprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil."},{"word":"Apprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning."},{"word":"Apprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Knowing; conscious; cognizant."},{"word":"Apprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the faculty of apprehension."},{"word":"Apprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil."},{"word":"Apprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Sensible; feeling; perceptive."},{"word":"Apprehensively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger."},{"word":"Apprehensiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being apprehensive."},{"word":"Apprentice","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him."},{"word":"Apprentice","type":"(n.)","description":"One not well versed in a subject; a tyro."},{"word":"Apprentice","type":"(n.)","description":"A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant."},{"word":"Apprenticed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Apprentice"},{"word":"Apprenticing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Apprentice"},{"word":"Apprentice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business."},{"word":"Apprenticeage","type":"(n.)","description":"Apprenticeship."},{"word":"Apprenticehood","type":"(n.)","description":"Apprenticeship."},{"word":"Apprenticeship","type":"(n.)","description":"The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement."},{"word":"Apprenticeship","type":"(n.)","description":"The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one)."},{"word":"Appressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Apprest"},{"word":"Apprest","type":"(a.)","description":"Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem,"},{"word":"Apprised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Apprise"},{"word":"Apprising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Apprise"},{"word":"Apprise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done."},{"word":"Apprise","type":"(n.)","description":"Notice; information."},{"word":"Apprizal","type":"(n.)","description":"See Appraisal."},{"word":"Apprize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appraise; to value; to appreciate."},{"word":"Apprizement","type":"(n.)","description":"Appraisement."},{"word":"Apprizer","type":"(n.)","description":"An appraiser."},{"word":"Apprizer","type":"(n.)","description":"A creditor for whom an appraisal is made."},{"word":"Approached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Approach"},{"word":"Approaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Approach"},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take approaches to."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A access, or opportunity of drawing near."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Movements to gain favor; advances."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post."},{"word":"Approach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Approaching."},{"word":"Approachability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being approachable; approachableness."},{"word":"Approachable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue."},{"word":"Approachableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility."},{"word":"Approacher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who approaches."},{"word":"Approaching","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach."},{"word":"Approachless","type":"(a.)","description":"Impossible to be approached."},{"word":"Approachment","type":"(n.)","description":"Approach."},{"word":"Approbate","type":"(a.)","description":"Approved."},{"word":"Approbate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially."},{"word":"Approbation","type":"(n.)","description":"Proof; attestation."},{"word":"Approbation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation."},{"word":"Approbation","type":"(n.)","description":"Probation or novitiate."},{"word":"Approbative","type":"(a.)","description":"Approving, or implying approbation."},{"word":"Approbativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being approbative."},{"word":"Approbativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"Love of approbation."},{"word":"Approbator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who approves."},{"word":"Approbatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory."},{"word":"Appromt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quicken; to prompt."},{"word":"Approof","type":"(n.)","description":"Trial; proof."},{"word":"Approof","type":"(n.)","description":"Approval; commendation."},{"word":"Appropinquate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To approach."},{"word":"Appropinquation","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing nigh; approach."},{"word":"Appropinquity","type":"(n.)","description":"Nearness; propinquity."},{"word":"Appropre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appropriate."},{"word":"Appropriable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use."},{"word":"Appropriament","type":"(n.)","description":"What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification."},{"word":"Appropriate","type":"(a.)","description":"Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper."},{"word":"Appropriated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Appropriate"},{"word":"Appropriating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Appropriate"},{"word":"Appropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."},{"word":"Appropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy."},{"word":"Appropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make suitable; to suit."},{"word":"Appropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property."},{"word":"Appropriate","type":"(n.)","description":"A property; attribute."},{"word":"Appropriately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly."},{"word":"Appropriateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness."},{"word":"Appropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object."},{"word":"Appropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything, especially money, thus set apart."},{"word":"Appropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone."},{"word":"Appropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter."},{"word":"Appropriative","type":"(a.)","description":"Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act."},{"word":"Appropriator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appropriates."},{"word":"Appropriator","type":"(n.)","description":"A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator."},{"word":"Approvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of being approved; meritorious."},{"word":"Approval","type":"(n.)","description":"Approbation; sanction."},{"word":"Approvance","type":"(n.)","description":"Approval."},{"word":"Approved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Approve"},{"word":"Approving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Approve"},{"word":"Approve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show to be real or true; to prove."},{"word":"Approve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically."},{"word":"Approve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial."},{"word":"Approve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration."},{"word":"Approve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance."},{"word":"Approve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor."},{"word":"Approvedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner."},{"word":"Approvement","type":"(n.)","description":"Approbation."},{"word":"Approvement","type":"(n.)","description":"a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States."},{"word":"Approvement","type":"(n.)","description":"Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor."},{"word":"Approver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial."},{"word":"Approver","type":"(n.)","description":"An informer; an accuser."},{"word":"Approver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2."},{"word":"Approver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bailiff or steward; an agent."},{"word":"Approving","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile."},{"word":"Approximate","type":"(a.)","description":"Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling."},{"word":"Approximate","type":"(a.)","description":"Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values."},{"word":"Approximated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Approximate"},{"word":"Approximating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Approximate"},{"word":"Approximate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry or advance near; to cause to approach."},{"word":"Approximate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come near to; to approach."},{"word":"Approximate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To draw; to approach."},{"word":"Approximately","type":"(adv.)","description":"With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly."},{"word":"Approximation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating."},{"word":"Approximation","type":"(n.)","description":"An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc."},{"word":"Approximation","type":"(n.)","description":"A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation."},{"word":"Approximation","type":"(n.)","description":"A value that is nearly but not exactly correct."},{"word":"Approximative","type":"(a.)","description":"Approaching; approximate."},{"word":"Approximator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, approximates."},{"word":"Appui","type":"(n.)","description":"A support or supporter; a stay; a prop."},{"word":"Appulse","type":"(n.)","description":"A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against."},{"word":"Appulse","type":"(n.)","description":"The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian."},{"word":"Appulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"A driving or striking against; an appulse."},{"word":"Appulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets."},{"word":"Appulsively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By appulsion."},{"word":"Appurtenance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land."},{"word":"Appurtenant","type":"(a.)","description":"Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings."},{"word":"Appurtenant","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance."},{"word":"Apricate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To bask in the sun."},{"word":"Aprication","type":"(n.)","description":"Basking in the sun."},{"word":"Apricot","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone."},{"word":"April","type":"(n.)","description":"The fourth month of the year."},{"word":"April","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori."},{"word":"A","type":"()","description":"Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible."},{"word":"Apriorism","type":"(n.)","description":"An a priori principle."},{"word":"Apriority","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning."},{"word":"Aprocta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal aperture."},{"word":"Aproctous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without an anal office."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;"},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing."},{"word":"Apron","type":"(n.)","description":"The infolded abdomen of a crab."},{"word":"Aproned","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing an apron."},{"word":"Apronfuls","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apronful"},{"word":"Apronful","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity an apron can hold."},{"word":"Apronless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without an apron."},{"word":"Apron","type":"()","description":"A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic."},{"word":"Apron","type":"()","description":"The string of an apron."},{"word":"Aprosos","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable."},{"word":"Aprosos","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"By the way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration."},{"word":"Apse","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy."},{"word":"Apse","type":"(n.)","description":"The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches."},{"word":"Apse","type":"(n.)","description":"A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept."},{"word":"Apsidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit."},{"word":"Apsidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel."},{"word":"Apsides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Apsis."},{"word":"Apsides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Apsis"},{"word":"Apsis","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides."},{"word":"Apsis","type":"(n.)","description":"In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum."},{"word":"Apsis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Apse."},{"word":"Apt","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate."},{"word":"Apt","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things."},{"word":"Apt","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons."},{"word":"Apt","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar."},{"word":"Apt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit; to suit; to adapt."},{"word":"Aptable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being adapted."},{"word":"Aptate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fit."},{"word":"Aptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders."},{"word":"Apteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Apterous."},{"word":"Apteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral."},{"word":"Apteran","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Aptera."},{"word":"Apteria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae."},{"word":"Apterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects."},{"word":"Apterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate."},{"word":"Apteryges","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx."},{"word":"Apteryx","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known."},{"word":"Aptitude","type":"(n.)","description":"A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn."},{"word":"Aptitude","type":"(n.)","description":"A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation."},{"word":"Aptitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Readiness in learning; docility; aptness."},{"word":"Aptitudinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable; fit."},{"word":"Aptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily."},{"word":"Aptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end."},{"word":"Aptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example."},{"word":"Aptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others."},{"word":"Aptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust."},{"word":"Aptote","type":"(n.)","description":"A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun."},{"word":"Aptotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages."},{"word":"Aptychus","type":"(n.)","description":"A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula."},{"word":"Apus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod."},{"word":"Apyretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever."},{"word":"Apyrexia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Apyrexy"},{"word":"Apyrexy","type":"(n.)","description":"The absence or intermission of fever."},{"word":"Apyrexial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to apyrexy."},{"word":"Apyrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties."},{"word":"Aqua","type":"(n.)","description":"Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed."},{"word":"Aqua","type":"()","description":"Nitric acid."},{"word":"Aquamarine","type":"(n.)","description":"A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl."},{"word":"Aquapuncture","type":"(n.)","description":"The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain."},{"word":"Aquarelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors."},{"word":"Aquarellist","type":"(n.)","description":"A painter in thin transparent water colors."},{"word":"Aquarial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aquarian"},{"word":"Aquarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an aquarium."},{"word":"Aquarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper."},{"word":"Aquariums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aquarium"},{"word":"Aquaria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aquarium"},{"word":"Aquarium","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept."},{"word":"Aquarius","type":"(n.)","description":"The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East."},{"word":"Aquarius","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation south of Pegasus."},{"word":"Aquatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls."},{"word":"Aquatic","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic animal or plant."},{"word":"Aquatic","type":"(n.)","description":"Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water."},{"word":"Aquatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Aquatic."},{"word":"Aquatile","type":"(a.)","description":"Inhabiting the water."},{"word":"Aquatint","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aquatinta"},{"word":"Aquatinta","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method."},{"word":"Aqueduct","type":"(n.)","description":"A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water."},{"word":"Aqueduct","type":"(n.)","description":"A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain."},{"word":"Aqueity","type":"(n.)","description":"Wateriness."},{"word":"Aqueous","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery."},{"word":"Aqueous","type":"(a.)","description":"Made from, or by means of, water."},{"word":"Aqueousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Wateriness."},{"word":"Aquiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system."},{"word":"Aquiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of water."},{"word":"Aquilae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aquila"},{"word":"Aquila","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of eagles."},{"word":"Aquila","type":"(n.)","description":"A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle."},{"word":"Aquilated","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with eagles' heads."},{"word":"Aquiline","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to or like an eagle."},{"word":"Aquiline","type":"(a.)","description":"Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose"},{"word":"Aquilon","type":"(n.)","description":"The north wind."},{"word":"Aquiparous","type":"(a.)","description":"Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands."},{"word":"Aquitanian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony."},{"word":"Aquose","type":"(a.)","description":"Watery; aqueous."},{"word":"Aquosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness."},{"word":"Ar","type":"(conj.)","description":"Ere; before."},{"word":"Ara","type":"(n.)","description":"The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion."},{"word":"Ara","type":"(n.)","description":"A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America."},{"word":"Arab","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc."},{"word":"Arabesque","type":"(n.)","description":"A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together."},{"word":"Arabesque","type":"(a.)","description":"Arabian."},{"word":"Arabesque","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes."},{"word":"Arabesqued","type":"(a.)","description":"Ornamented in the style of arabesques."},{"word":"Arabian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants."},{"word":"Arabian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Arabia; an Arab."},{"word":"Arabic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians."},{"word":"Arabic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Arabians."},{"word":"Arabical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Arabia; Arabic."},{"word":"Arabin","type":"(n.)","description":"A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance."},{"word":"Arabin","type":"(n.)","description":"Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic."},{"word":"Arabinose","type":"(n.)","description":"A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid."},{"word":"Arabism","type":"(n.)","description":"An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language."},{"word":"Arabist","type":"(n.)","description":"One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery."},{"word":"Arable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled."},{"word":"Arable","type":"(n.)","description":"Arable land; plow land."},{"word":"Araby","type":"(n.)","description":"The country of Arabia."},{"word":"Aracanese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah."},{"word":"Aracanese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or natives of Aracan."},{"word":"Aracari","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species."},{"word":"Arace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tear up by the roots; to draw away."},{"word":"Araceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type."},{"word":"Arachnid","type":"(n.)","description":"An arachnidan."},{"word":"Arachnida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Arachnidan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Arachnida."},{"word":"Arachnidial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Arachnida."},{"word":"Arachnidial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the arachnidium."},{"word":"Arachnidium","type":"(n.)","description":"The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted."},{"word":"Arachnitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane."},{"word":"Arachnoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike."},{"word":"Arachnoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater."},{"word":"Arachnoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby."},{"word":"Arachnoid","type":"(n.)","description":"The arachnoid membrane."},{"word":"Arachnoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Arachnoidea."},{"word":"Arachnoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the arachnoid membrane; arachnoid."},{"word":"Arachnoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Arachnida."},{"word":"Arachnological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to arachnology."},{"word":"Arachnologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology."},{"word":"Arachnology","type":"(n.)","description":"The department of zoology which treats of spiders and other Arachnida."},{"word":"Araeometer","type":"()","description":"See Areometer."},{"word":"Araeostyle","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Intercolumniation."},{"word":"Araeosystyle","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Intercolumniation."},{"word":"Aragonese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Aragonese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or natives of Aragon, in Spain."},{"word":"Aragonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters."},{"word":"Araguato","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2."},{"word":"Araise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise."},{"word":"Arak","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Arrack."},{"word":"Aramaean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aramean"},{"word":"Aramean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic."},{"word":"Aramean","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Aram."},{"word":"Aramaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee."},{"word":"Aramaic","type":"(n.)","description":"The Aramaic language."},{"word":"Aramaism","type":"(n.)","description":"An idiom of the Aramaic."},{"word":"Araneida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Araneoidea"},{"word":"Araneoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Araneina."},{"word":"Araneidan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders."},{"word":"Araneidan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Araneina; a spider."},{"word":"Araneiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a spider."},{"word":"Araneina","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders."},{"word":"Araneose","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid."},{"word":"Araneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid."},{"word":"Arangoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Arango"},{"word":"Arango","type":"(n.)","description":"A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade."},{"word":"Arapaima","type":"(n.)","description":"A large fresh-water food fish of South America."},{"word":"Arara","type":"(n.)","description":"The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia (Microglossus aterrimus)."},{"word":"Aration","type":"(n.)","description":"Plowing; tillage."},{"word":"Aratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Contributing to tillage."},{"word":"Araucaria","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible."},{"word":"Araucarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian."},{"word":"Arbalest","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arbalist"},{"word":"Arbalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc."},{"word":"Arbalester","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arbalister"},{"word":"Arbalister","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbowman."},{"word":"Arbiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them."},{"word":"Arbiter","type":"(n.)","description":"Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited."},{"word":"Arbiter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act as arbiter between."},{"word":"Arbitrable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable."},{"word":"Arbitrage","type":"(n.)","description":"Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination."},{"word":"Arbitrage","type":"(n.)","description":"A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets."},{"word":"Arbitral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration."},{"word":"Arbitrament","type":"(n.)","description":"Determination; decision; arbitration."},{"word":"Arbitrament","type":"(n.)","description":"The award of arbitrators."},{"word":"Arbitrarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely."},{"word":"Arbitrariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being arbitrary; despoticalness; tyranny."},{"word":"Arbitrarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Arbitrary; despotic."},{"word":"Arbitrary","type":"(a.)","description":"Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment."},{"word":"Arbitrary","type":"(a.)","description":"Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power."},{"word":"Arbitrary","type":"(a.)","description":"Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government."},{"word":"Arbitrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arbitrate"},{"word":"Arbitrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arbitrate"},{"word":"Arbitrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case."},{"word":"Arbitrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decide, or determine generally."},{"word":"Arbitrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To decide; to determine."},{"word":"Arbitrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as arbitrator or judge; as, to arbitrate upon several reports; to arbitrate in disputes among neighbors; to arbitrate between parties to a suit."},{"word":"Arbitration","type":"(n.)","description":"The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties."},{"word":"Arbitrator","type":"(n.)","description":"A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration."},{"word":"Arbitrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor."},{"word":"Arbitratrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A female who arbitrates or judges."},{"word":"Arbitress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female arbiter; an arbitratrix."},{"word":"Arblast","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbow. See Arbalest."},{"word":"Arbor","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower."},{"word":"Arbor","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree, as distinguished from a shrub."},{"word":"Arbor","type":"(n.)","description":"An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion."},{"word":"Arbor","type":"(n.)","description":"A mandrel in lathe turning."},{"word":"Arborary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal."},{"word":"Arborator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plants or who prunes trees."},{"word":"Arbor","type":"()","description":"A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form."},{"word":"Arboreal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees."},{"word":"Arboreal","type":"(a.)","description":"Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals."},{"word":"Arbored","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees."},{"word":"Arboreous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub."},{"word":"Arboreous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss."},{"word":"Arborescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver."},{"word":"Arborescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree."},{"word":"Arboret","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tree or shrub."},{"word":"Arboreta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Arboretum"},{"word":"Arboretum","type":"(n.)","description":"A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes."},{"word":"Arborical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to trees."},{"word":"Arboricole","type":"(a.)","description":"Tree-inhabiting; -- said of certain birds."},{"word":"Arboricultural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to arboriculture."},{"word":"Arboriculture","type":"(n.)","description":"The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes."},{"word":"Arboriculturist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cultivates trees."},{"word":"Arboriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Treelike in shape."},{"word":"Arborist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees."},{"word":"Arborization","type":"(n.)","description":"The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite."},{"word":"Arborized","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a treelike appearance."},{"word":"Arborous","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by trees."},{"word":"Arbor","type":"()","description":"A species of bindweed."},{"word":"Arbor","type":"()","description":"An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis."},{"word":"Arbor","type":"()","description":"The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section."},{"word":"Arbuscle","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub."},{"word":"Arbuscular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike."},{"word":"Arbustive","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs."},{"word":"Arbutus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arbute"},{"word":"Arbute","type":"(n.)","description":"The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree."},{"word":"Arc","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse."},{"word":"Arc","type":"(n.)","description":"A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant."},{"word":"Arc","type":"(n.)","description":"An arch."},{"word":"Arc","type":"(n.)","description":"The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night."},{"word":"Arcade","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature."},{"word":"Arcade","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, arched building or gallery."},{"word":"Arcade","type":"(n.)","description":"An arched or covered passageway or avenue."},{"word":"Arcaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with an arcade."},{"word":"Arcadia","type":"(n.)","description":"A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness."},{"word":"Arcadia","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet."},{"word":"Arcadian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arcadic"},{"word":"Arcadic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery."},{"word":"Arcane","type":"(a.)","description":"Hidden; secret."},{"word":"Arcana","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Arcanum"},{"word":"Arcanum","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural."},{"word":"Arcanum","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret remedy; an elixir."},{"word":"Arcboutant","type":"(n.)","description":"A flying buttress."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(n.)","description":"Any part of a curved line."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(n.)","description":"Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(n.)","description":"Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(n.)","description":"Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta."},{"word":"Arched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arch"},{"word":"Arching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arch"},{"word":"Arch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with an arch or arches."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or bend into the shape of an arch."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form into an arch; to curve."},{"word":"Arch-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(a.)","description":"Chief; eminent; greatest; principal."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(a.)","description":"Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad."},{"word":"Arch","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief."},{"word":"-arch","type":"(a.)","description":"A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler)."},{"word":"Archaean","type":"(a.)","description":"Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history."},{"word":"Archaean","type":"(n.)","description":"The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life."},{"word":"Archaeography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities."},{"word":"Archaeolithic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age."},{"word":"Archaeologian","type":"(n.)","description":"An archaeologist."},{"word":"Archaeologic","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Archaeological"},{"word":"Archaeological","type":"()","description":"Relating to archaeology, or antiquities; as, archaeological researches."},{"word":"Archaeologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in archaeology; an antiquary."},{"word":"Archaeology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or study of antiquities, esp. prehistoric antiquities, such as the remains of buildings or monuments of an early epoch, inscriptions, implements, and other relics, written manuscripts, etc."},{"word":"Archaeopteryx","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics."},{"word":"Archaeostomatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up."},{"word":"Archaeozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life."},{"word":"Archaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent."},{"word":"Archaical","type":"(a.)","description":"Archaic."},{"word":"Archaism","type":"(a.)","description":"An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use."},{"word":"Archaism","type":"(a.)","description":"Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness."},{"word":"Archaist","type":"(n.)","description":"Am antiquary."},{"word":"Archaist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses archaisms."},{"word":"Archaistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism."},{"word":"Archaized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Archaize"},{"word":"Archaizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Archaize"},{"word":"Archaize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make appear archaic or antique."},{"word":"Archangel","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy."},{"word":"Archangel","type":"(n.)","description":"A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.)."},{"word":"Archangelic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel."},{"word":"Archbishop","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese."},{"word":"Archbishopric","type":"(n.)","description":"The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority."},{"word":"Arch","type":"()","description":"A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch."},{"word":"Archbutler","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire."},{"word":"Archchamberlain","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England."},{"word":"Archchancellor","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court."},{"word":"Archchemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of supreme chemical powers."},{"word":"Archdeacon","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority."},{"word":"Archdeaconry","type":"(n.)","description":"The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice."},{"word":"Archdeaconship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an archdeacon."},{"word":"Archdiocese","type":"(n.)","description":"The diocese of an archbishop."},{"word":"Archducal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy."},{"word":"Archduchess","type":"(n.)","description":"The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke."},{"word":"Archduchy","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory of an archduke or archduchess."},{"word":"Archduke","type":"(n.)","description":"A prince of the imperial family of Austria."},{"word":"Archdukedom","type":"(n.)","description":"An archduchy."},{"word":"Archebiosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis."},{"word":"Arched","type":"(a.)","description":"Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door."},{"word":"Archegonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the archegonium."},{"word":"Archegonium","type":"(n.)","description":"The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants."},{"word":"Archegony","type":"(n.)","description":"Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis."},{"word":"Archelogy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of, or a treatise on, first principles."},{"word":"Archencephala","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division that includes man alone."},{"word":"Archenemy","type":"(n.)","description":"A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind."},{"word":"Archenteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination."},{"word":"Archenteron","type":"(n.)","description":"The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination."},{"word":"Archeology","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Archeological"},{"word":"Archeological","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Archaeology, etc."},{"word":"Archer","type":"(n.)","description":"A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow."},{"word":"Archeress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female archer."},{"word":"Archer","type":"()","description":"A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chaetodon rostratus."},{"word":"Archership","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or skill of an archer."},{"word":"Archery","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows."},{"word":"Archery","type":"(n.)","description":"Archers, or bowmen, collectively."},{"word":"Arches","type":"()","description":"pl. of Arch, n."},{"word":"Archetypal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original."},{"word":"Archetypally","type":"(adv.)","description":"With reference to the archetype; originally. \"Parts archetypally distinct.\""},{"word":"Archetype","type":"(n.)","description":"The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed."},{"word":"Archetype","type":"(n.)","description":"The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted."},{"word":"Archetype","type":"(n.)","description":"The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype."},{"word":"Archetypical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an archetype; archetypal."},{"word":"Archeus","type":"(n.)","description":"The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers."},{"word":"Archi-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing."},{"word":"Archiannelida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions."},{"word":"Archiater","type":"(n.)","description":"Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities."},{"word":"Archiblastula","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula."},{"word":"Archical","type":"(pref.)","description":"Chief; primary; primordial."},{"word":"Archidiaconal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an archdeacon."},{"word":"Archiepiscopacy","type":"(n.)","description":"That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops."},{"word":"Archiepiscopacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or dignity of an archbishop."},{"word":"Archiepiscopal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see."},{"word":"Archiepiscopality","type":"(n.)","description":"The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy."},{"word":"Archiepiscopate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric."},{"word":"Archierey","type":"(n.)","description":"The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops."},{"word":"Archil","type":"(n.)","description":"A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc."},{"word":"Archil","type":"(n.)","description":"The plant from which the dye is obtained."},{"word":"Archilochian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter."},{"word":"Archimage","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Archimagus"},{"word":"Archimagus","type":"(n.)","description":"The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire."},{"word":"Archimagus","type":"(n.)","description":"A great magician, wizard, or enchanter."},{"word":"Archimandrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church."},{"word":"Archimandrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church."},{"word":"Archimedean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc."},{"word":"Archimedes","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw."},{"word":"Arching","type":"(n.)","description":"The arched part of a structure."},{"word":"Arching","type":"(n.)","description":"Hogging; -- opposed to sagging."},{"word":"Archipelagic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an archipelago."},{"word":"-goes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Archipelago"},{"word":"-gos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Archipelago"},{"word":"Archipelago","type":"(n.)","description":"The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands."},{"word":"Archipelago","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands."},{"word":"Archipterygium","type":"(n.)","description":"The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus."},{"word":"Architect","type":"(n.)","description":"A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed."},{"word":"Architect","type":"(n.)","description":"A contriver, designer, or maker."},{"word":"Architective","type":"(a.)","description":"Used in building; proper for building."},{"word":"Architectonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Architectonical"},{"word":"Architectonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive."},{"word":"Architectonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the systemizing of knowledge."},{"word":"Architectonic","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of architecture."},{"word":"Architectonic","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of arranging knowledge into a system."},{"word":"Architectonics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of architecture."},{"word":"Architector","type":"(n.)","description":"An architect."},{"word":"Architectress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female architect."},{"word":"Architectural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture."},{"word":"Architecture","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture."},{"word":"Architecture","type":"(n.)","description":"Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship."},{"word":"Architeuthis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand."},{"word":"Architrave","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column."},{"word":"Architrave","type":"(n.)","description":"The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form."},{"word":"Architraved","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with an architrave."},{"word":"Archival","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records."},{"word":"Archives","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Archive"},{"word":"Archive","type":"(n.)","description":"The place in which public records or historic documents are kept."},{"word":"Archive","type":"(n.)","description":"Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family."},{"word":"Archivist","type":"(n.)","description":"A keeper of archives or records."},{"word":"Archivolt","type":"(n.)","description":"The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening."},{"word":"Archivolt","type":"(n.)","description":"More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged."},{"word":"Archlute","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Archilute"},{"word":"Archilute","type":"(n.)","description":"A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison."},{"word":"Archly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly."},{"word":"Archmarshal","type":"(n.)","description":"The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony."},{"word":"Archness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness."},{"word":"Archon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates."},{"word":"Archonship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an archon."},{"word":"Archontate","type":"(n.)","description":"An archon's term of office."},{"word":"Archonts","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"The group including man alone."},{"word":"Archprelate","type":"(n.)","description":"An archbishop or other chief prelate."},{"word":"Archpresbyter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Archpriest."},{"word":"Archpresbytery","type":"(n.)","description":"The absolute dominion of presbytery."},{"word":"Archpriest","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean."},{"word":"Archprimate","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief primate."},{"word":"Arch","type":"()","description":"A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir."},{"word":"Archtraitor","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief or transcendent traitor."},{"word":"Archtreasurer","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire."},{"word":"Archway","type":"(n.)","description":"A way or passage under an arch."},{"word":"Archwife","type":"(n.)","description":"A big, masculine wife."},{"word":"Archwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Arch-shaped."},{"word":"Archy","type":"(a.)","description":"Arched; as, archy brows."},{"word":"archy","type":"()","description":"A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch."},{"word":"Arciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of an arch; curved."},{"word":"Arcograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph."},{"word":"Arctation","type":"(n.)","description":"Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation."},{"word":"Arctic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature."},{"word":"Arctic","type":"(n.)","description":"The arctic circle."},{"word":"Arctic","type":"(n.)","description":"A warm waterproof overshoe."},{"word":"Arctisca","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix."},{"word":"Arctogeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna."},{"word":"Arctoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc."},{"word":"Arcturus","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Bootes."},{"word":"Arcual","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an arc."},{"word":"Arcuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arcuated"},{"word":"Arcuated","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent or curved in the form of a bow."},{"word":"Arcuately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form of a bow."},{"word":"Arcuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness."},{"word":"Arcuation","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering."},{"word":"Arcubalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbow."},{"word":"Arcubalister","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist."},{"word":"Arcubus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Arquebus."},{"word":"-ard","type":"()","description":"Alt. of -art"},{"word":"-art","type":"()","description":"The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard."},{"word":"Ardassine","type":"(n.)","description":"A very fine sort of Persian silk."},{"word":"Ardency","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat."},{"word":"Ardency","type":"(n.)","description":"Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal."},{"word":"Ardent","type":"(a.)","description":"Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever."},{"word":"Ardent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes."},{"word":"Ardent","type":"(a.)","description":"Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper."},{"word":"Ardently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately."},{"word":"Ardentness","type":"(n.)","description":"Ardency."},{"word":"Ardor","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays."},{"word":"Ardor","type":"(n.)","description":"Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor."},{"word":"Ardor","type":"(n.)","description":"Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim."},{"word":"Arduous","type":"(a.)","description":"Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb."},{"word":"Arduous","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise."},{"word":"Arduously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness."},{"word":"Arduousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution."},{"word":"Ardurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Burning; ardent."},{"word":"Are","type":"()","description":"The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as."},{"word":"Are","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards."},{"word":"Areas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Area"},{"word":"Area","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building."},{"word":"Area","type":"(n.)","description":"The inclosed space on which a building stands."},{"word":"Area","type":"(n.)","description":"The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building."},{"word":"Area","type":"(n.)","description":"An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas."},{"word":"Area","type":"(n.)","description":"The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle."},{"word":"Area","type":"(n.)","description":"A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area."},{"word":"Area","type":"(n.)","description":"Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought."},{"word":"Aread","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Areed"},{"word":"Areed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream."},{"word":"Areed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To read."},{"word":"Areed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To counsel, advise, warn, or direct."},{"word":"Areed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decree; to adjudge."},{"word":"Areal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves)."},{"word":"Arear","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To raise; to set up; to stir up."},{"word":"Arear","type":"(adv.)","description":"Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand."},{"word":"Areca","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime."},{"word":"Areek","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a reeking condition."},{"word":"Arefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drying, or the state of growing dry."},{"word":"Arefy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry, or make dry."},{"word":"Arenas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Arena"},{"word":"Arenae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Arena"},{"word":"Arena","type":"(n.)","description":"The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand."},{"word":"Arena","type":"(n.)","description":"Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life."},{"word":"Arena","type":"(n.)","description":"\"Sand\" or \"gravel\" in the kidneys."},{"word":"Arenaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone."},{"word":"Arenarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Sandy; as, arenarious soil."},{"word":"Arenation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body."},{"word":"Arendator","type":"(n.)","description":"In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues."},{"word":"Areng","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arenga"},{"word":"Arenga","type":"(n.)","description":"A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm."},{"word":"Arenicolite","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks."},{"word":"Arenilitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains."},{"word":"Arenose","type":"(a.)","description":"Sandy; full of sand."},{"word":"Arenulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fine sand; like sand."},{"word":"Areolae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Areola"},{"word":"Areola","type":"(n.)","description":"An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing."},{"word":"Areola","type":"(n.)","description":"The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule."},{"word":"Areolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolae."},{"word":"Areolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Areolated"},{"word":"Areolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers."},{"word":"Areolation","type":"(n.)","description":"Division into areolae."},{"word":"Areolation","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola."},{"word":"Areole","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Areola."},{"word":"Areolet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins."},{"word":"Areometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer."},{"word":"Areometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Areometrical"},{"word":"Areometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer."},{"word":"Areometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids."},{"word":"Areopagist","type":"(n.)","description":"See Areopagite."},{"word":"Areopagite","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Areopagus."},{"word":"Areopagitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Areopagus."},{"word":"Areopagus","type":"(n.)","description":"The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal"},{"word":"Areostyle","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Intercolumniation, and Araeostyle."},{"word":"Areosystyle","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Intercolumniation, and Araeosystyle."},{"word":"Arere","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Arear."},{"word":"Arest","type":"(n.)","description":"A support for the spear when couched for the attack."},{"word":"Aret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reckon; to ascribe; to impute."},{"word":"Aretaics","type":"(n.)","description":"The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics."},{"word":"Aretology","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it."},{"word":"Arew","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a row."},{"word":"Argal","type":"(n.)","description":"Crude tartar. See Argol."},{"word":"Argal","type":"(adv.)","description":"A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore."},{"word":"Argal","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Argali"},{"word":"Argali","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia."},{"word":"Argala","type":"(n.)","description":"The adjutant bird."},{"word":"Argand","type":"()","description":"A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame."},{"word":"Argas","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje."},{"word":"Argean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo."},{"word":"Argent","type":"(n.)","description":"Silver, or money."},{"word":"Argent","type":"(n.)","description":"Whiteness; anything that is white."},{"word":"Argent","type":"(n.)","description":"The white color in coats of arms, intended to represent silver, or, figuratively, purity, innocence, beauty, or gentleness; -- represented in engraving by a plain white surface."},{"word":"Argent","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of silver; of a silvery color; white; shining."},{"word":"Argental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver."},{"word":"Argentan","type":"(n.)","description":"An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver."},{"word":"Argentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Silvery white."},{"word":"Argentation","type":"(n.)","description":"A coating or overlaying with silver."},{"word":"Argentic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; -- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride."},{"word":"Argentiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore or veins."},{"word":"Argentine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery."},{"word":"Argentine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America."},{"word":"Argentine","type":"(n.)","description":"A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure."},{"word":"Argentine","type":"(n.)","description":"White metal coated with silver."},{"word":"Argentine","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina."},{"word":"Argentine","type":"(n.)","description":"A citizen of the Argentine Republic."},{"word":"Argentite","type":"(n.)","description":"Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead."},{"word":"Argentous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or containing, silver; -- said of certain silver compounds in which silver has a higher proportion than in argentic compounds; as, argentous chloride."},{"word":"Argentry","type":"(n.)","description":"Silver plate or vessels."},{"word":"Argil","type":"(n.)","description":"Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay."},{"word":"Argillaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey."},{"word":"Argilliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil."},{"word":"Argillite","type":"(n.)","description":"Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc."},{"word":"Argillo-areenaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil."},{"word":"Argillo-calcareous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth."},{"word":"Argillo-ferruginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing clay and iron."},{"word":"Argillous","type":"(a.)","description":"Argillaceous; clayey."},{"word":"Argive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece."},{"word":"Argive","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek."},{"word":"Argo","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece."},{"word":"Argo","type":"(n.)","description":"A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela."},{"word":"Argoan","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ship Argo."},{"word":"Argoile","type":"(n.)","description":"Potter's clay."},{"word":"Argol","type":"(n.)","description":"Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks."},{"word":"Argolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus."},{"word":"Argon","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness."},{"word":"Argonaut","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece."},{"word":"Argonaut","type":"(n.)","description":"A cephalopod of the genus Argonauta."},{"word":"Argonauta","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor."},{"word":"Argonautic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Argonauts."},{"word":"Argosies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Argosy"},{"word":"Argosy","type":"(n.)","description":"A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size."},{"word":"Argot","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash."},{"word":"Arguable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being argued; admitting of debate."},{"word":"Argued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Argue"},{"word":"Arguing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Argue"},{"word":"Argue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason."},{"word":"Argue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him."},{"word":"Argue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued."},{"word":"Argue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning."},{"word":"Argue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion."},{"word":"Argue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blame; to accuse; to charge with."},{"word":"Arguer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant."},{"word":"Argufy","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To argue pertinaciously."},{"word":"Argufy","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To signify."},{"word":"Argulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura."},{"word":"Argument","type":"(n.)","description":"Proof; evidence."},{"word":"Argument","type":"(n.)","description":"A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it."},{"word":"Argument","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation."},{"word":"Argument","type":"(n.)","description":"The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem."},{"word":"Argument","type":"(n.)","description":"Matter for question; business in hand."},{"word":"Argument","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction."},{"word":"Argument","type":"(n.)","description":"The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends."},{"word":"Argument","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an argument; to argue."},{"word":"Argumentable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting of argument."},{"word":"Argumental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative."},{"word":"Argumentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true."},{"word":"Argumentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Debate; discussion."},{"word":"Argumentative","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse."},{"word":"Argumentative","type":"(a.)","description":"Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator."},{"word":"Argumentative","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious; as, an argumentative writer."},{"word":"Argumentize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To argue or discuss."},{"word":"Argus","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail."},{"word":"Argus","type":"(n.)","description":"One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful."},{"word":"Argus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo."},{"word":"Argus-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted."},{"word":"Argus","type":"()","description":"A species of shell (Cypraea argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail."},{"word":"Argutation","type":"(n.)","description":"Caviling; subtle disputation."},{"word":"Argute","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharp; shrill."},{"word":"Argute","type":"(a.)","description":"Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd."},{"word":"Argutely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a subtle; shrewdly."},{"word":"Arguteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Acuteness."},{"word":"Arhizal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arhythmous"},{"word":"Arhizous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arhythmous"},{"word":"Arhythmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arhythmous"},{"word":"Arhythmous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous."},{"word":"Aria","type":"(n.)","description":"An air or song; a melody; a tune."},{"word":"Arian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Aryan."},{"word":"Arian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings."},{"word":"Arian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius."},{"word":"Arianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines of the Arians."},{"word":"Arianize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To admit or accept the tenets of the Arians; to become an Arian."},{"word":"Arianize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert to Arianism."},{"word":"Aricine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark."},{"word":"Arid","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren."},{"word":"Aridities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aridity"},{"word":"Aridity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness."},{"word":"Aridity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought."},{"word":"Aridness","type":"(n.)","description":"Aridity; dryness."},{"word":"Ariel","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Ariel gazelle"},{"word":"Ariel","type":"()","description":"A variety of the gazelle (Antilope, / Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries."},{"word":"Ariel","type":"()","description":"A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus."},{"word":"Ariel","type":"()","description":"A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel)."},{"word":"Aries","type":"(n.)","description":"The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March."},{"word":"Aries","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram."},{"word":"Aries","type":"(n.)","description":"A battering-ram."},{"word":"Arietate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To butt, as a ram."},{"word":"Arietation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram."},{"word":"Arietation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of striking or conflicting."},{"word":"Arietta","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ariette"},{"word":"Ariette","type":"(n.)","description":"A short aria, or air."},{"word":"Aright","type":"(adv.)","description":"Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright."},{"word":"Aril","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arillus"},{"word":"Arillus","type":"(n.)","description":"A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril."},{"word":"Arillate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ariled"},{"word":"Arllated","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ariled"},{"word":"Ariled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an aril."},{"word":"Ariman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ahriman."},{"word":"Ariolation","type":"(n.)","description":"A soothsaying; a foretelling."},{"word":"Ariose","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony."},{"word":"Arioso","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose."},{"word":"Arose","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Arise"},{"word":"Arising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arise"},{"word":"Arisen","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Arise"},{"word":"Arise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning."},{"word":"Arise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise."},{"word":"Arise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed; to issue; to spring."},{"word":"Arise","type":"(n.)","description":"Rising."},{"word":"Arist","type":"()","description":"3d sing. pres. of Arise, for ariseth."},{"word":"Arista","type":"(n.)","description":"An awn."},{"word":"Aristarch","type":"(n.)","description":"A severe critic."},{"word":"Aristarchian","type":"(a.)","description":"Severely critical."},{"word":"Aristarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"Severely criticism."},{"word":"Aristarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"Severe criticism."},{"word":"Aristate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned."},{"word":"Aristate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip."},{"word":"Aristocracies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aristocracy"},{"word":"Aristocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by the best citizens."},{"word":"Aristocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruling body composed of the best citizens."},{"word":"Aristocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy."},{"word":"Aristocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect."},{"word":"Aristocrat","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble."},{"word":"Aristocrat","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person."},{"word":"Aristocrat","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern."},{"word":"Aristocratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aristocratical"},{"word":"Aristocratical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution."},{"word":"Aristocratical","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with, the aristocracy; as, an aristocratic measure; aristocratic pride or manners."},{"word":"Aristocratism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of aristocrats."},{"word":"Aristocratism","type":"(n.)","description":"Aristocrats, collectively."},{"word":"Aristology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of dining."},{"word":"Aristophanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet."},{"word":"Aristotelian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.)."},{"word":"Aristotelian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic."},{"word":"Aristotelianism","type":"()","description":"The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy."},{"word":"Aristotelic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy."},{"word":"Aristotle's","type":"()","description":"The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins."},{"word":"Aristulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a short beard or awn."},{"word":"Arithmancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of numbers."},{"word":"Arithmetic","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures."},{"word":"Arithmetic","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing the principles of this science."},{"word":"Arithmetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to arithmetic; according to the rules or method of arithmetic."},{"word":"Arithmetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Conformably to the principles or methods of arithmetic."},{"word":"Arithmetician","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in arithmetic."},{"word":"Arithmomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Arithmancy."},{"word":"Arithmometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A calculating machine."},{"word":"Ark","type":"(n.)","description":"A chest, or coffer."},{"word":"Ark","type":"(n.)","description":"The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant."},{"word":"Ark","type":"(n.)","description":"The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge."},{"word":"Ark","type":"(n.)","description":"A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market."},{"word":"Arkite","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the ark."},{"word":"Ark","type":"()","description":"A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies."},{"word":"Arles","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling an arm"},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"A branch of a tree."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"An inlet of water from the sea."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(n.)","description":"A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl."},{"word":"Armed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arm"},{"word":"Arming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arm"},{"word":"Arm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with arms or limbs."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense."},{"word":"Arm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms."},{"word":"Armada","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558."},{"word":"Armadillos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Armadillo"},{"word":"Armadillo","type":"(n.)","description":"Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay."},{"word":"Armadillo","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball."},{"word":"Armado","type":"(n.)","description":"Armada."},{"word":"Armament","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force."},{"word":"Armament","type":"(n.)","description":"All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification."},{"word":"Armament","type":"(n.)","description":"Any equipment for resistance."},{"word":"Armamentary","type":"(n.)","description":"An armory; a magazine or arsenal."},{"word":"Armature","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants."},{"word":"Armature","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force."},{"word":"Armature","type":"(n.)","description":"Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc."},{"word":"Armchair","type":"(n.)","description":"A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms."},{"word":"Armed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection."},{"word":"Armed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency."},{"word":"Armed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey."},{"word":"Armenian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Armenia."},{"word":"Armenian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians."},{"word":"Armenian","type":"(n.)","description":"An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic."},{"word":"Armet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries."},{"word":"Armfulus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Armful"},{"word":"Armful","type":"(n.)","description":"As much as the arm can hold."},{"word":"Armgaunt","type":"(a.)","description":"With gaunt or slender legs. (?)"},{"word":"Arm-gret","type":"(a.)","description":"Great as a man's arm."},{"word":"Armhole","type":"(n.)","description":"The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit."},{"word":"Armhole","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole for the arm in a garment."},{"word":"Armiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing arms or weapons."},{"word":"Armiger","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire."},{"word":"Armigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing arms."},{"word":"Armil","type":"(n.)","description":"A bracelet."},{"word":"Armil","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient astronomical instrument."},{"word":"Armillas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Armilla"},{"word":"Armillae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Armilla"},{"word":"Armilla","type":"(n.)","description":"An armil."},{"word":"Armilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring of hair or feathers on the legs."},{"word":"Armillary","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles."},{"word":"Arming","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms."},{"word":"Arming","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom."},{"word":"Arming","type":"(n.)","description":"Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays."},{"word":"Arminian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n."},{"word":"Arminian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609)."},{"word":"Arminianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religious doctrines or tenets of the Arminians."},{"word":"Armipotence","type":"(n.)","description":"Power in arms."},{"word":"Armipotent","type":"(a.)","description":"Powerful in arms; mighty in battle."},{"word":"Armisonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Armisonous"},{"word":"Armisonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rustling in arms; resounding with arms."},{"word":"Armistice","type":"(n.)","description":"A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce."},{"word":"Armless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without any arm or branch."},{"word":"Armless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of arms or weapons."},{"word":"Armlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea."},{"word":"Armlet","type":"(n.)","description":"An arm ring; a bracelet for the upper arm."},{"word":"Armlet","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor for the arm."},{"word":"Armoniac","type":"(a.)","description":"Ammoniac."},{"word":"Armor","type":"(n.)","description":"Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle."},{"word":"Armor","type":"(n.)","description":"Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery."},{"word":"Armor-bearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger."},{"word":"Armored","type":"(a.)","description":"Clad with armor."},{"word":"Armorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or repairs armor or arms."},{"word":"Armorer","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor."},{"word":"Armorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the care of arms and armor, cleans or repairs them, etc."},{"word":"Armorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family."},{"word":"Armoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Armorican"},{"word":"Armorican","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people."},{"word":"Armorican","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times."},{"word":"Armorican","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Armorica."},{"word":"Armorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in coat armor or heraldry."},{"word":"Armor-plated","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad."},{"word":"Armories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Armory"},{"word":"Armory","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping."},{"word":"Armory","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor; defensive and offensive arms."},{"word":"Armory","type":"(n.)","description":"A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords."},{"word":"Armory","type":"(n.)","description":"Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings."},{"word":"Armory","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor."},{"word":"Armozeen","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Armozine"},{"word":"Armozine","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical."},{"word":"Armpit","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla."},{"word":"Armrack","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms."},{"word":"Arms","type":"(n.)","description":"Instruments or weapons of offense or defense."},{"word":"Arms","type":"(n.)","description":"The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science."},{"word":"Arms","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon."},{"word":"Arms","type":"(n.)","description":"The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son."},{"word":"Arms","type":"(n.)","description":"The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot."},{"word":"Armure","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor."},{"word":"Armure","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface."},{"word":"Army","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers."},{"word":"Army","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army."},{"word":"Army","type":"(n.)","description":"A great number; a vast multitude; a host."},{"word":"Army","type":"()","description":"A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm."},{"word":"Army","type":"()","description":"The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton."},{"word":"Arna","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arnee"},{"word":"Arnee","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns."},{"word":"Arnatto","type":"(n.)","description":"See Annotto."},{"word":"Arnica","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant."},{"word":"Arnicin","type":"(n.)","description":"An active principle of Arnica montana. It is a bitter resin."},{"word":"Arnicine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant."},{"word":"Arnot","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arnut"},{"word":"Arnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The earthnut."},{"word":"Arnotto","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Annotto."},{"word":"Aroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aroideous"},{"word":"Aroideous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants."},{"word":"Aroint","type":"(interj.)","description":"Stand off, or begone."},{"word":"Aroint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive or scare off by some exclamation."},{"word":"Aroma","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee."},{"word":"Aroma","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius."},{"word":"Aromatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aromatical"},{"word":"Aromatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam."},{"word":"Aromatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices."},{"word":"Aromatization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impregnating or secting with aroma."},{"word":"Aromatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aromatize"},{"word":"Aromatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aromatize"},{"word":"Aromatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume."},{"word":"Aromatizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic."},{"word":"Aromatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Aromatic."},{"word":"Aroph","type":"(n.)","description":"A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies."},{"word":"Arose","type":"()","description":"The past or preterit tense of Arise."},{"word":"Around","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a circle; circularly; on every side; round."},{"word":"Around","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town."},{"word":"Around","type":"(adv.)","description":"Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took place."},{"word":"Around","type":"(prep.)","description":"On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about."},{"word":"Around","type":"(prep.)","description":"From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner."},{"word":"Arousal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused."},{"word":"Aroused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arouse"},{"word":"Arousing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arouse"},{"word":"Arouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties."},{"word":"Arow","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order."},{"word":"Aroynt","type":"(interj.)","description":"See Aroint."},{"word":"Arpeggio","type":"(n.)","description":"The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played."},{"word":"Arpent","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arpen"},{"word":"Arpen","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English."},{"word":"Arpentator","type":"(n.)","description":"The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor."},{"word":"Arpine","type":"(n.)","description":"An arpent."},{"word":"Arquated","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved."},{"word":"Arquebus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Arquebuse"},{"word":"Arquebuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention."},{"word":"Arquebusade","type":"(n.)","description":"The shot of an arquebus."},{"word":"Arquebusade","type":"(n.)","description":"A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds."},{"word":"Arquebusier","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier armed with an arquebus."},{"word":"Arquifoux","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Alquifou."},{"word":"Arrach","type":"(n.)","description":"See Orach."},{"word":"Arrack","type":"(n.)","description":"A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc."},{"word":"Arragonite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aragonite."},{"word":"Arraigned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arraign"},{"word":"Arraigning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arraign"},{"word":"Arraign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint."},{"word":"Arraign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal."},{"word":"Arraign","type":"(n.)","description":"Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns."},{"word":"Arraign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin."},{"word":"Arraigner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who arraigns."},{"word":"Arraignment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint."},{"word":"Arraignment","type":"(n.)","description":"A calling to an account to faults; accusation."},{"word":"Arraiment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Arrayment"},{"word":"Arrayment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Clothes; raiment."},{"word":"Arranged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arrange"},{"word":"Arranging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arrange"},{"word":"Arrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle."},{"word":"Arrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking."},{"word":"Arrangement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form."},{"word":"Arrangement","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of one's dress; the Linnaean arrangement of plants."},{"word":"Arrangement","type":"(n.)","description":"Preparatory proceeding or measure; preparation; as, we have made arrangement for receiving company."},{"word":"Arrangement","type":"(n.)","description":"Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement."},{"word":"Arrangement","type":"(n.)","description":"The adaptation of a composition to voices or instruments for which it was not originally written."},{"word":"Arrangement","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece so adapted; a transcription; as, a pianoforte arrangement of Beethoven's symphonies; an orchestral arrangement of a song, an opera, or the like."},{"word":"Arranger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who arranges."},{"word":"Arrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward."},{"word":"Arrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Thorough or downright, in a good sense."},{"word":"Arrantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully."},{"word":"Arras","type":"(n.)","description":"Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures."},{"word":"Arras","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with an arras."},{"word":"Arrasene","type":"(n.)","description":"A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery."},{"word":"Arrastre","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold."},{"word":"Arraswise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Arrasways"},{"word":"Arrasways","type":"(adv.)","description":"Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form."},{"word":"Arraught","type":"()","description":"Obtained; seized."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"An imposing series of things."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"The panel itself."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court."},{"word":"Arrayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Array"},{"word":"Arraying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Array"},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind."},{"word":"Array","type":"(n.)","description":"To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man."},{"word":"Arrayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered."},{"word":"Arrear","type":"(adv.)","description":"To or in the rear; behind; backwards."},{"word":"Arrear","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes."},{"word":"Arrearage","type":"(n.)","description":"That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears."},{"word":"Arrect","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arrected"},{"word":"Arrected","type":"(a.)","description":"Lifted up; raised; erect."},{"word":"Arrected","type":"(a.)","description":"Attentive, as a person listening."},{"word":"Arrect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct."},{"word":"Arrect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impute."},{"word":"Arrectary","type":"(n.)","description":"An upright beam."},{"word":"Arrenotokous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees."},{"word":"Arrentation","type":"()","description":"A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent."},{"word":"Arreption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking away."},{"word":"Arreptitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained."},{"word":"Arrested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arrest"},{"word":"Arresting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arrest"},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses."},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime."},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention."},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate."},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tarry; to rest."},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development."},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant."},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any seizure by power, physical or moral."},{"word":"Arrest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails."},{"word":"Arrestation","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrest."},{"word":"Arrestee","type":"(v.)","description":"The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment."},{"word":"Arrester","type":"(n.)","description":"One who arrests."},{"word":"Arrester","type":"(n.)","description":"The person at whose suit an arrestment is made."},{"word":"Arresting","type":"(a.)","description":"Striking; attracting attention; impressive."},{"word":"Arrestive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to arrest."},{"word":"Arrestment","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached."},{"word":"Arrestment","type":"(n.)","description":"A stoppage or check."},{"word":"Arret","type":"(n.)","description":"A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign."},{"word":"Arret","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrest; a legal seizure."},{"word":"Arret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Aret."},{"word":"Arrhaphostic","type":"(a.)","description":"Seamless."},{"word":"Arrhizal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arrhizous"},{"word":"Arrhizous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant."},{"word":"Arrhythmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arrhythmous"},{"word":"Arrhythmous","type":"(a.)","description":"Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse."},{"word":"Arrhytmy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of rhythm."},{"word":"Arride","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To please; to gratify."},{"word":"Arriere","type":"(n.)","description":"\"That which is behind\"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate."},{"word":"Arriere-ban","type":"(n.)","description":"A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France."},{"word":"Arris","type":"(n.)","description":"The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column."},{"word":"Arrish","type":"(n.)","description":"The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish."},{"word":"Arriswise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise."},{"word":"Arrival","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land."},{"word":"Arrival","type":"(n.)","description":"The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected."},{"word":"Arrival","type":"(n.)","description":"The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival."},{"word":"Arrival","type":"(n.)","description":"An approach."},{"word":"Arrivance","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrival."},{"word":"Arrived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arrive"},{"word":"Arriving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arrive"},{"word":"Arrive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from."},{"word":"Arrive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment."},{"word":"Arrive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come; said of time; as, the time arrived."},{"word":"Arrive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To happen or occur."},{"word":"Arrive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to shore."},{"word":"Arrive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach; to come to."},{"word":"Arrive","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrival."},{"word":"Arriver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who arrives."},{"word":"Arroba","type":"(n.)","description":"A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir."},{"word":"Arroba","type":"(n.)","description":"A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons."},{"word":"Arrogance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption."},{"word":"Arrogancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrogance."},{"word":"Arrogant","type":"(a.)","description":"Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons."},{"word":"Arrogant","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior."},{"word":"Arrogantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance."},{"word":"Arrogantness","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrogance."},{"word":"Arrogated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arrogate"},{"word":"Arrogating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arrogate"},{"word":"Arrogate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings."},{"word":"Arrogation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to."},{"word":"Arrogation","type":"(n.)","description":"Adoption of a person of full age."},{"word":"Arrogative","type":"(a.)","description":"Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance."},{"word":"Arrondissement","type":"(n.)","description":"A subdivision of a department."},{"word":"Arrose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten."},{"word":"Arrosion","type":"(n.)","description":"A gnawing."},{"word":"Arrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow."},{"word":"Arrow","type":"(n.)","description":"An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads."},{"word":"Arrowhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The head of an arrow."},{"word":"Arrowhead","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves."},{"word":"Arrowheaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform."},{"word":"Arrowroot","type":"(n.)","description":"A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows."},{"word":"Arrowroot","type":"(n.)","description":"A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma."},{"word":"Arrowwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots."},{"word":"Arrowworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta."},{"word":"Arrowy","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of arrows."},{"word":"Arrowy","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing."},{"word":"Arroyos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Arroyo"},{"word":"Arroyo","type":"(n.)","description":"A water course; a rivulet."},{"word":"Arroyo","type":"(n.)","description":"The dry bed of a small stream."},{"word":"Arschin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Arshine."},{"word":"Arse","type":"(n.)","description":"The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom."},{"word":"Arsenal","type":"(n.)","description":"A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service."},{"word":"Arsenate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of arsenic acid."},{"word":"Arseniate","type":"(n.)","description":"See Arsenate."},{"word":"Arsenic","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356� Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenicum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5.9. Atomic weight 75. Symbol As."},{"word":"Arsenic","type":"(n.)","description":"Arsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane."},{"word":"Arsenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic; -- said of those compounds of arsenic in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, arsenic acid."},{"word":"Arsenical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenical vapor; arsenical wall papers."},{"word":"Arsenicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arsenicate"},{"word":"Arsenicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arsenicate"},{"word":"Arsenicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic."},{"word":"Arsenicism","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic."},{"word":"Arsenide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret."},{"word":"Arseniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or producing arsenic."},{"word":"Arsenious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenious powder or glass."},{"word":"Arsenious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid."},{"word":"Arsenite","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base."},{"word":"Arseniuret","type":"(n.)","description":"See Arsenide."},{"word":"Arseniureted","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with arsenic; -- said some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen."},{"word":"Arsenopyrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel."},{"word":"Arsesmart","type":"(n.)","description":"Smartweed; water pepper."},{"word":"Arshine","type":"(n.)","description":"A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches."},{"word":"Arsine","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen."},{"word":"Arsis","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice."},{"word":"Arsis","type":"(n.)","description":"That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent."},{"word":"Arsis","type":"(n.)","description":"The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis."},{"word":"Arsmetrike","type":"(n.)","description":"Arithmetic."},{"word":"Arson","type":"(n.)","description":"The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship."},{"word":"Art","type":"()","description":"The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"Skillful plan; device."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"Cunning; artifice; craft."},{"word":"Art","type":"(n.)","description":"The black art; magic."},{"word":"Artemia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp."},{"word":"Artemisia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region."},{"word":"Arteriac","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the windpipe."},{"word":"Arterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system."},{"word":"Arterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad."},{"word":"Arterialization","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aeration and hematosis."},{"word":"Arterialized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Arterialize"},{"word":"Arterializing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Arterialize"},{"word":"Arterialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial."},{"word":"Arteriography","type":"(n.)","description":"A systematic description of the arteries."},{"word":"Arteriole","type":"(n.)","description":"A small artery."},{"word":"Arteriology","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of anatomy which treats of arteries."},{"word":"Arteriotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting."},{"word":"Arteriotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries."},{"word":"Arteritis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of an artery or arteries."},{"word":"Arteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Artery"},{"word":"Artery","type":"(n.)","description":"The trachea or windpipe."},{"word":"Artery","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries."},{"word":"Artery","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce."},{"word":"Artesian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France."},{"word":"Artful","type":"(a.)","description":"Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill."},{"word":"Artful","type":"(a.)","description":"Artificial; imitative."},{"word":"Artful","type":"(a.)","description":"Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful."},{"word":"Artful","type":"(a.)","description":"Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]"},{"word":"Artfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily."},{"word":"Artfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft."},{"word":"Arthen","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as"},{"word":"Arthritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arthritical"},{"word":"Arthritical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the joints."},{"word":"Arthritical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to arthritis; gouty."},{"word":"Arthritis","type":"(n.)","description":"Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout."},{"word":"Arthroderm","type":"(n.)","description":"The external covering of an Arthropod."},{"word":"Arthrodia","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of diarthrodial articulation in which the articular surfaces are nearly flat, so that they form only an imperfect ball and socket."},{"word":"Arthrodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Arthrodic"},{"word":"Arthrodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to arthrodia."},{"word":"Arthrodynia","type":"(n.)","description":"An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease."},{"word":"Arthrodynic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic."},{"word":"Arthrogastra","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Arachnida, having the abdomen annulated, including the scorpions, harvestmen, etc.; pedipalpi."},{"word":"Arthrography","type":"(n.)","description":"The description of joints."},{"word":"Arthrology","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of anatomy which treats of joints."},{"word":"Arthromere","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca."},{"word":"Arthropleura","type":"(n.)","description":"The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere."},{"word":"Arthropod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Arthropoda."},{"word":"Arthropoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea."},{"word":"Arthropomata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the orders of Branchiopoda. See Branchiopoda."},{"word":"Arthrosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Articulation."},{"word":"Arthrostraca","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda."},{"word":"Arthrozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Articulata; articulate."},{"word":"Artiad","type":"(a.)","description":"Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder."},{"word":"Artichoke","type":"(n.)","description":"The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food."},{"word":"Artichoke","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jerusalem artichoke."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"Subject; matter; concern; distinct."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinct part."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"Precise point of time; moment."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the segments of an articulated appendage."},{"word":"Articled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Article"},{"word":"Articling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Article"},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles."},{"word":"Article","type":"(n.)","description":"To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic."},{"word":"Article","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant."},{"word":"Articled","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk."},{"word":"Articular","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process."},{"word":"Articular","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Articulary"},{"word":"Articulary","type":"(n.)","description":"A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes."},{"word":"Articularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an articular or an articulate manner."},{"word":"Articulata","type":"(v.)","description":"One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers."},{"word":"Articulata","type":"(v.)","description":"One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge."},{"word":"Articulata","type":"(v.)","description":"A subdivision of the Crinoidea."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal of the subkingdom Articulata."},{"word":"Articulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Articulate"},{"word":"Articulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Articulate"},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To treat or make terms."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To join or be connected by articulation."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language."},{"word":"Articulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express distinctly; to give utterance to."},{"word":"Articulated","type":"(a.)","description":"United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton."},{"word":"Articulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced."},{"word":"Articulately","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the manner, or in the form, of a joint."},{"word":"Articulately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely."},{"word":"Articulately","type":"(adv.)","description":"With distinct utterance of the separate sounds."},{"word":"Articulateness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being articulate."},{"word":"Articulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton."},{"word":"Articulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods."},{"word":"Articulation","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize."},{"word":"Articulation","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc."},{"word":"Articulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint."},{"word":"Articulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being jointed; connection of parts."},{"word":"Articulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation."},{"word":"Articulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant."},{"word":"Articulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to articulation."},{"word":"Articulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering."},{"word":"Articuli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Articulus"},{"word":"Articulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage."},{"word":"Artifice","type":"(n.)","description":"A handicraft; a trade; art of making."},{"word":"Artifice","type":"(n.)","description":"Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work."},{"word":"Artifice","type":"(n.)","description":"Artful or skillful contrivance."},{"word":"Artifice","type":"(n.)","description":"Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]"},{"word":"Artificer","type":"(n.)","description":"An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith."},{"word":"Artificer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer."},{"word":"Artificer","type":"(n.)","description":"A cunning or artful fellow."},{"word":"Artificer","type":"(n.)","description":"A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory."},{"word":"Artificial","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers."},{"word":"Artificial","type":"(a.)","description":"Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine."},{"word":"Artificial","type":"(a.)","description":"Artful; cunning; crafty."},{"word":"Artificial","type":"(a.)","description":"Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses."},{"word":"Artificiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial."},{"word":"Artificialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render artificial."},{"word":"Artificially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature."},{"word":"Artificially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Ingeniously; skillfully."},{"word":"Artificially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Craftily; artfully."},{"word":"Artificialness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being artificial."},{"word":"Artificious","type":"(a.)","description":"Artificial."},{"word":"Artilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make resemble."},{"word":"Artillerist","type":"(n.)","description":"A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman."},{"word":"Artillery","type":"(n.)","description":"Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows."},{"word":"Artillery","type":"(n.)","description":"Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds."},{"word":"Artillery","type":"(n.)","description":"The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided."},{"word":"Artillery","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of artillery or gunnery."},{"word":"Artilleryman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing."},{"word":"Artiodactyla","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla."},{"word":"Artiodactyle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Artiodactyla."},{"word":"Artiodactylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Even-toed."},{"word":"Artisan","type":"(n.)","description":"One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist."},{"word":"Artisan","type":"(n.)","description":"One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic."},{"word":"Artist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan."},{"word":"Artist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution."},{"word":"Artist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation."},{"word":"Artist","type":"(n.)","description":"An artful person; a schemer."},{"word":"Artiste","type":"(n.)","description":"One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook."},{"word":"Artistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Artistical"},{"word":"Artistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to art or to artists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill."},{"word":"Artistry","type":"(n.)","description":"Works of art collectively."},{"word":"Artistry","type":"(n.)","description":"Artistic effect or quality."},{"word":"Artistry","type":"(n.)","description":"Artistic pursuits; artistic ability."},{"word":"Artless","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful."},{"word":"Artless","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrived without skill or art; inartistic."},{"word":"Artless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale."},{"word":"Artlessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly."},{"word":"Artlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity."},{"word":"Artly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With art or skill."},{"word":"Artocarpeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Artocarpous"},{"word":"Artocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus."},{"word":"Artotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of autotype."},{"word":"Artotyrite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]"},{"word":"Artow","type":"()","description":"A contraction of art thou."},{"word":"Artsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man skilled in an art or in arts."},{"word":"Art","type":"()","description":"An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists."},{"word":"Arum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example."},{"word":"Arundelian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624."},{"word":"Arundiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing reeds or canes."},{"word":"Arundinaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane."},{"word":"Arundineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with reeds; reedy."},{"word":"Aruspices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aruspex"},{"word":"Aruspex","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods."},{"word":"Aruspice","type":"(n.)","description":"A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex."},{"word":"Aruspicy","type":"(n.)","description":"Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice."},{"word":"Arval","type":"(n.)","description":"A funeral feast."},{"word":"Arvicole","type":"(n.)","description":"A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species."},{"word":"Aryan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic."},{"word":"Aryan","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the original Aryans."},{"word":"Aryan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages."},{"word":"Aryanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make Aryan (a language, or in language)."},{"word":"Arytenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Because; since; it being the case that."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning)."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"As if; as though."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Than."},{"word":"As","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Expressing a wish."},{"word":"As","type":"(n.)","description":"An ace."},{"word":"Asses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of As"},{"word":"As","type":"(n.)","description":"A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces."},{"word":"As","type":"(n.)","description":"A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce."},{"word":"Asa","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient name of a gum."},{"word":"Asafetida","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Asafoetida"},{"word":"Asafoetida","type":"(n.)","description":"The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic."},{"word":"Asaphus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append."},{"word":"Asarabacca","type":"(n.)","description":"An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs."},{"word":"Asarone","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum."},{"word":"Asbestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine."},{"word":"Asbestiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or structure of asbestus."},{"word":"Asbestine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic."},{"word":"Asbestous","type":"(a.)","description":"Asbestic."},{"word":"Asbestus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Asbestos"},{"word":"Asbestos","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine."},{"word":"Asbolin","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot."},{"word":"Ascarides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ascarid"},{"word":"Ascarid","type":"(n.)","description":"A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons."},{"word":"Ascended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ascend"},{"word":"Ascending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ascend"},{"word":"Ascend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend."},{"word":"Ascend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor."},{"word":"Ascend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne."},{"word":"Ascendable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being ascended."},{"word":"Ascendancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ascendance"},{"word":"Ascendance","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ascendency."},{"word":"Ascendant","type":"(n.)","description":"Ascent; height; elevation."},{"word":"Ascendant","type":"(n.)","description":"The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune."},{"word":"Ascendant","type":"(n.)","description":"Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another."},{"word":"Ascendant","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant."},{"word":"Ascendant","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ascendent"},{"word":"Ascendent","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon."},{"word":"Ascendent","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising; ascending."},{"word":"Ascendent","type":"(a.)","description":"Superior; surpassing; ruling."},{"word":"Ascendency","type":"(n.)","description":"Governing or controlling influence; domination; power."},{"word":"Ascendible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being ascended; climbable."},{"word":"Ascending","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite."},{"word":"Ascension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ascending; a rising; ascent."},{"word":"Ascension","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day."},{"word":"Ascension","type":"(n.)","description":"An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation."},{"word":"Ascensional","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon."},{"word":"Ascensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise."},{"word":"Ascensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Augmentative; intensive."},{"word":"Ascent","type":"()","description":"The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth."},{"word":"Ascent","type":"()","description":"The way or means by which one ascends."},{"word":"Ascent","type":"()","description":"An eminence, hill, or high place."},{"word":"Ascent","type":"()","description":"The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees."},{"word":"Ascertained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ascertain"},{"word":"Ascertaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ascertain"},{"word":"Ascertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise."},{"word":"Ascertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine."},{"word":"Ascertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal."},{"word":"Ascertainable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be ascertained."},{"word":"Ascertainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who ascertains."},{"word":"Ascertainment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery."},{"word":"Ascessancy","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ascessant"},{"word":"Ascessant","type":"(a.)","description":"See Acescency, Acescent."},{"word":"Ascetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe."},{"word":"Ascetic","type":"(n.)","description":"In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things."},{"word":"Asceticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics."},{"word":"Ascham","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery."},{"word":"Asci","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Ascus."},{"word":"Ascian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Ascii."},{"word":"Ascidian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj."},{"word":"Ascidiarium","type":"(n.)","description":"The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian."},{"word":"Ascidiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like an ascidian."},{"word":"Ascidioidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Ascidiozooid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea."},{"word":"Ascidia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ascidium"},{"word":"Ascidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia)."},{"word":"Ascidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata."},{"word":"Ascigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having asci."},{"word":"Ascii","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Ascians"},{"word":"Ascians","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun."},{"word":"Ascites","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum."},{"word":"Ascitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ascitical"},{"word":"Ascitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical."},{"word":"Ascititious","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed."},{"word":"Asclepiad","type":"(n.)","description":"A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus."},{"word":"Asclepiadaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family."},{"word":"Asclepias","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties."},{"word":"Ascococci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ascococcus"},{"word":"Ascococcus","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci."},{"word":"Ascospore","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.]"},{"word":"Ascribable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being ascribed; attributable."},{"word":"Ascribed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ascribe"},{"word":"Ascribing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ascribe"},{"word":"Ascribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author."},{"word":"Ascribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong."},{"word":"Ascript","type":"(a.)","description":"See Adscript."},{"word":"Ascription","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed."},{"word":"Ascriptitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Ascribed."},{"word":"Ascriptitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Added; additional."},{"word":"Ascus","type":"(n.)","description":"A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi."},{"word":"A-sea","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the sea; at sea; toward the sea."},{"word":"Aseptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent."},{"word":"Aseptic","type":"(n.)","description":"An aseptic substance."},{"word":"Asexual","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation."},{"word":"Asexually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an asexual manner; without sexual agency."},{"word":"Ash","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana)."},{"word":"Ash","type":"(n.)","description":"The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree."},{"word":"Ash","type":"(n.)","description":"sing. of Ashes."},{"word":"Ash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strew or sprinkle with ashes."},{"word":"Ashame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shame."},{"word":"Ashamed","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety."},{"word":"Ashamedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Bashfully."},{"word":"Ashantees","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ashantee"},{"word":"Ashantee","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa."},{"word":"Ashantee","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Ashantee."},{"word":"Ash-colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray."},{"word":"Ashen","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ash tree."},{"word":"Ashen","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray."},{"word":"Ashen","type":"(n.)","description":"obs. pl. for Ashes."},{"word":"Ashery","type":"(n.)","description":"A depository for ashes."},{"word":"Ashery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where potash is made."},{"word":"Ashes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal."},{"word":"Ashes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when \"returned to dust\" by natural decay."},{"word":"Ashes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The color of ashes; deathlike paleness."},{"word":"Ash-fire","type":"(n.)","description":"A low fire used in chemical operations."},{"word":"Ash-furnace","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ash-oven"},{"word":"Ash-oven","type":"(n.)","description":"A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making."},{"word":"Ashine","type":"(a.)","description":"Shining; radiant."},{"word":"Ashlar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ashler"},{"word":"Ashler","type":"(n.)","description":"Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone."},{"word":"Ashler","type":"(n.)","description":"In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick."},{"word":"Ashlaring","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ashlering"},{"word":"Ashlering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bedding ashlar in mortar."},{"word":"Ashlering","type":"(n.)","description":"Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall."},{"word":"Ashlering","type":"(n.)","description":"The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2."},{"word":"Ashore","type":"(adv.)","description":"On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat."},{"word":"Ashtaroth","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ashtoreth"},{"word":"Ashtoreth","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity."},{"word":"Ash","type":"()","description":"The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents."},{"word":"Ashweed","type":"(n.)","description":"Goutweed."},{"word":"Ashy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes."},{"word":"Ashy","type":"(a.)","description":"Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale."},{"word":"Asian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic."},{"word":"Asian","type":"(n.)","description":"An Asiatic."},{"word":"Asiarch","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites."},{"word":"Asiatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Asiatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A native, or one of the people, of Asia."},{"word":"Asiaticism","type":"(n.)","description":"Something peculiar to Asia or the Asiatics."},{"word":"Aside","type":"(adv.)","description":"On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart."},{"word":"Aside","type":"(adv.)","description":"Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts."},{"word":"Aside","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to be heard by others; privately."},{"word":"Aside","type":"(n.)","description":"Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear."},{"word":"Asilus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly."},{"word":"Asinego","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Assinego"},{"word":"Assinego","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid fellow."},{"word":"Asinine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy."},{"word":"Asininity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy."},{"word":"Asiphonate","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells."},{"word":"Asiphonate","type":"(n.)","description":"An asiphonate mollusk."},{"word":"Asiphonea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Asiphonida"},{"word":"Asiphonata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Asiphonida"},{"word":"Asiphonida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks."},{"word":"Asitia","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of appetite; loathing of food."},{"word":"Asked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ask"},{"word":"Asking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ask"},{"word":"Ask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed."},{"word":"Ask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?"},{"word":"Ask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question."},{"word":"Ask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment."},{"word":"Ask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons."},{"word":"Ask","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread."},{"word":"Ask","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after."},{"word":"Ask","type":"(n.)","description":"A water newt."},{"word":"Askance","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Askant"},{"word":"Askant","type":"(adv.)","description":"Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion."},{"word":"Askance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn aside."},{"word":"Asker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer."},{"word":"Asker","type":"(n.)","description":"An ask; a water newt."},{"word":"Askew","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry."},{"word":"Asking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation."},{"word":"Asking","type":"(n.)","description":"The publishing of banns."},{"word":"Aslake","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish."},{"word":"Aslant","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely."},{"word":"Aslant","type":"(prep.)","description":"In a slanting direction over; athwart."},{"word":"Asleep","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant."},{"word":"Asleep","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"In the sleep of the grave; dead."},{"word":"Asleep","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Numbed, and, usually, tingling."},{"word":"Aslope","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping."},{"word":"Aslug","type":"(adv.)","description":"Sluggishly."},{"word":"Asmear","type":"(a.)","description":"Smeared over."},{"word":"Asmonean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty."},{"word":"Asmonean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c."},{"word":"Asoak","type":"(a.)","description":"Soaking."},{"word":"Asomatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a material body; incorporeal."},{"word":"Asonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sounding or sounded."},{"word":"Asp","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aspen."},{"word":"Asp","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the Naja haje. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to Vipera aspis of southern Europe. See Haje."},{"word":"Aspalathus","type":"(n.)","description":"A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil."},{"word":"Aspalathus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosae. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope."},{"word":"Asparagine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine."},{"word":"Asparaginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables."},{"word":"Asparagus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens."},{"word":"Asparagus","type":"(n.)","description":"The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food."},{"word":"Aspartic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid."},{"word":"Aspect","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance."},{"word":"Aspect","type":"(n.)","description":"Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air."},{"word":"Aspect","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view."},{"word":"Aspect","type":"(n.)","description":"Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south."},{"word":"Aspect","type":"(n.)","description":"Prospect; outlook."},{"word":"Aspect","type":"(n.)","description":"The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth."},{"word":"Aspect","type":"(n.)","description":"The influence of the stars for good or evil; as, an ill aspect."},{"word":"Aspect","type":"(n.)","description":"To behold; to look at."},{"word":"Aspectable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being; visible."},{"word":"Aspectant","type":"(a.)","description":"Facing each other."},{"word":"Aspected","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an aspect."},{"word":"Aspection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of viewing; a look."},{"word":"Aspen","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Asp"},{"word":"Asp","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air."},{"word":"Aspen","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood."},{"word":"Asper","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce."},{"word":"Asper","type":"(n.)","description":"The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus \"ws, pronounced h/s, \"rh`twr, pronounced hra\"t/r."},{"word":"Asper","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster."},{"word":"Asperated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Asperate"},{"word":"Asperating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Asperate"},{"word":"Asperate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make rough or uneven."},{"word":"Asperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough."},{"word":"Asperges","type":"(n.)","description":"The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water."},{"word":"Asperges","type":"(n.)","description":"The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill."},{"word":"Aspergill","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aspergillum"},{"word":"Aspergillum","type":"(n.)","description":"The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people."},{"word":"Aspergillum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Wateringpot shell."},{"word":"Aspergilliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma."},{"word":"Asperifoliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Asperifolious"},{"word":"Asperifolious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having rough leaves."},{"word":"Asperities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Asperity"},{"word":"Asperity","type":"(n.)","description":"Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness."},{"word":"Asperity","type":"(n.)","description":"Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity."},{"word":"Asperity","type":"(n.)","description":"Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness."},{"word":"Asperity","type":"(n.)","description":"Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness."},{"word":"Asperity","type":"(n.)","description":"Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty."},{"word":"Aspermatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Aspermous."},{"word":"Aspermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of seeds; aspermatous."},{"word":"Asperne","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spurn; to despise."},{"word":"Asperous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough; uneven."},{"word":"Aspersed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Asperse"},{"word":"Aspersing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Asperse"},{"word":"Asperse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust."},{"word":"Asperse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character."},{"word":"Aspersed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface."},{"word":"Aspersed","type":"(a.)","description":"Bespattered; slandered; calumniated."},{"word":"Asperser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another."},{"word":"Aspersion","type":"(n.)","description":"A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense."},{"word":"Aspersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny."},{"word":"Aspersive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous."},{"word":"Aspersoir","type":"(n.)","description":"An aspergill."},{"word":"Aspersoria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aspersorium"},{"word":"Aspersorium","type":"(n.)","description":"The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches."},{"word":"Aspersorium","type":"(n.)","description":"A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill."},{"word":"Asphalt","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Asphaltum"},{"word":"Asphaltum","type":"(n.)","description":"Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen."},{"word":"Asphaltum","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc."},{"word":"Asphalt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets."},{"word":"Asphalte","type":"(n.)","description":"Asphaltic mastic or cement. See Asphalt, 2."},{"word":"Asphaltic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous."},{"word":"Asphaltite","type":"(a.)","description":"Asphaltic."},{"word":"Asphaltite","type":"(a.)","description":"Asphaltic."},{"word":"Asphaltus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Asphalt."},{"word":"Asphodel","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers."},{"word":"Asphyctic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to asphyxia."},{"word":"Asphyxia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Asphyxy"},{"word":"Asphyxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases."},{"word":"Asphyxial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to asphyxia; as, asphyxial phenomena."},{"word":"Asphyxiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]"},{"word":"Asphyxiated","type":"(p. p. )","description":"Alt. of Asphyxied"},{"word":"Asphyxied","type":"(p. p. )","description":"In a state of asphyxia; suffocated."},{"word":"Asphyxiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia."},{"word":"Aspic","type":"(n.)","description":"The venomous asp."},{"word":"Aspic","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot."},{"word":"Aspic","type":"(n.)","description":"A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike."},{"word":"Aspic","type":"(n.)","description":"A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc."},{"word":"Aspidobranchia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets."},{"word":"Aspirant","type":"(a.)","description":"Aspiring."},{"word":"Aspirant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment."},{"word":"Aspirated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aspirate"},{"word":"Aspirating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aspirate"},{"word":"Aspirate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant."},{"word":"Aspirate","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound."},{"word":"Aspirate","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing."},{"word":"Aspirate","type":"(n.)","description":"An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc."},{"word":"Aspirate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Aspirated"},{"word":"Aspirated","type":"(a.)","description":"Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath."},{"word":"Aspiration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound."},{"word":"Aspiration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration."},{"word":"Aspiration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire."},{"word":"Aspirator","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction."},{"word":"Aspirator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood."},{"word":"Aspiratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air"},{"word":"Aspired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aspire"},{"word":"Aspiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aspire"},{"word":"Aspire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality."},{"word":"Aspire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar."},{"word":"Aspire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to."},{"word":"Aspire","type":"(n.)","description":"Aspiration."},{"word":"Aspirement","type":"(n.)","description":"Aspiration."},{"word":"Aspirer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who aspires."},{"word":"Aspiring","type":"(a.)","description":"That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind."},{"word":"Aspish","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, an asp."},{"word":"Asportation","type":"(n.)","description":"The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited."},{"word":"Asprawl","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Sprawling."},{"word":"Asquat","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Squatting."},{"word":"Asquint","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint."},{"word":"Ass","type":"(n.)","description":"A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed."},{"word":"Ass","type":"(n.)","description":"A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt."},{"word":"Assaf/tida","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Asafetida."},{"word":"Assagai","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Assegai"},{"word":"Assegai","type":"(n.)","description":"A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin."},{"word":"Assai","type":"()","description":"A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow."},{"word":"Assailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assail"},{"word":"Assailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assail"},{"word":"Assail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery."},{"word":"Assail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like."},{"word":"Assail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like."},{"word":"Assailable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being assailed."},{"word":"Assailant","type":"(a.)","description":"Assailing; attacking."},{"word":"Assailant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer."},{"word":"Assailer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assails."},{"word":"Assailment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or power of assailing; attack; assault."},{"word":"Assamar","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown."},{"word":"Assamese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Assamese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or natives of Assam."},{"word":"Assapan","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Assapanic"},{"word":"Assapanic","type":"(n.)","description":"The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella)."},{"word":"Assart","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest."},{"word":"Assart","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing."},{"word":"Assart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees."},{"word":"Assassin","type":"(n.)","description":"One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense."},{"word":"Assassin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assassinate."},{"word":"Assassinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assassinate"},{"word":"Assassinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assassinate"},{"word":"Assassinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence."},{"word":"Assassinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly."},{"word":"Assassinate","type":"(n.)","description":"An assassination, murder, or murderous assault."},{"word":"Assassinate","type":"(n.)","description":"An assassin."},{"word":"Assassination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence."},{"word":"Assassinator","type":"(n.)","description":"An assassin."},{"word":"Assassinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Murderous."},{"word":"Assastion","type":"(n.)","description":"Roasting."},{"word":"Assault","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town."},{"word":"Assault","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government."},{"word":"Assault","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery."},{"word":"Assaulted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assault"},{"word":"Assaulting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assault"},{"word":"Assault","type":"(n.)","description":"To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces."},{"word":"Assault","type":"(n.)","description":"To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration."},{"word":"Assaultable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being assaulted."},{"word":"Assaulter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(n.)","description":"Trial; attempt; essay."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(n.)","description":"Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(n.)","description":"Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(n.)","description":"Tested purity or value."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(n.)","description":"The alloy or metal to be assayed."},{"word":"Assayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assay"},{"word":"Assaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assay"},{"word":"Assay","type":"(v.)","description":"To try; to attempt; to apply."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(v.)","description":"To affect."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(v.)","description":"To try tasting, as food or drink."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(v.)","description":"To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition."},{"word":"Assay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To attempt, try, or endeavor."},{"word":"Assayable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be assayed."},{"word":"Assayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver."},{"word":"Assaying","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal."},{"word":"Asse","type":"(n.)","description":"A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur."},{"word":"Assecuration","type":"(n.)","description":"Assurance; certainty."},{"word":"Assecure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sure or safe; to assure."},{"word":"Assecution","type":"(n.)","description":"An obtaining or acquiring."},{"word":"Assegai","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Assagai."},{"word":"Assemblage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association."},{"word":"Assemblage","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas."},{"word":"Assemblance","type":"(n.)","description":"Resemblance; likeness; appearance."},{"word":"Assemblance","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembling; assemblage."},{"word":"Assembled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assemble"},{"word":"Assembling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assemble"},{"word":"Assemble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate."},{"word":"Assemble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate."},{"word":"Assemble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To liken; to compare."},{"word":"Assembler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled."},{"word":"Assemblies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Assembly"},{"word":"Assembly","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment."},{"word":"Assembly","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of inanimate objects."},{"word":"Assembly","type":"(n.)","description":"A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble."},{"word":"Assemblymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Assemblyman"},{"word":"Assemblyman","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature."},{"word":"Assented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assent"},{"word":"Assenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assent"},{"word":"Assent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession."},{"word":"Assent","type":"(v.)","description":"The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence."},{"word":"Assentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence."},{"word":"Assentator","type":"(n.)","description":"An obsequious; a flatterer."},{"word":"Assentatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Flattering; obsequious."},{"word":"Assenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assents."},{"word":"Assentient","type":"(a.)","description":"Assenting."},{"word":"Assenting","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving or implying assent."},{"word":"Assentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying."},{"word":"Assentment","type":"(n.)","description":"Assent; agreement."},{"word":"Asserted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assert"},{"word":"Asserting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assert"},{"word":"Assert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate."},{"word":"Assert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To maintain; to defend."},{"word":"Assert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties."},{"word":"Asserter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor."},{"word":"Assertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced."},{"word":"Assertion","type":"(n.)","description":"Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives."},{"word":"Assertive","type":"(a.)","description":"Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory."},{"word":"Assertor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter."},{"word":"Assertorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical."},{"word":"Assertory","type":"(a.)","description":"Affirming; maintaining."},{"word":"Assessed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assess"},{"word":"Assessing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assess"},{"word":"Assess","type":"(v.)","description":"To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation."},{"word":"Assess","type":"(v.)","description":"To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment."},{"word":"Assess","type":"(v.)","description":"To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents."},{"word":"Assess","type":"(v.)","description":"To fix or determine the rate or amount of."},{"word":"Assessable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property."},{"word":"Assessee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is assessed."},{"word":"Assession","type":"(n.)","description":"A sitting beside or near."},{"word":"Assessment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club."},{"word":"Assessment","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property."},{"word":"Assessment","type":"(n.)","description":"The specific sum levied or assessed."},{"word":"Assessment","type":"(n.)","description":"An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a \"call\")."},{"word":"Assessor","type":"(v.)","description":"One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors."},{"word":"Assessor","type":"(v.)","description":"One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office."},{"word":"Assessor","type":"(v.)","description":"One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation."},{"word":"Assessorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors."},{"word":"Assessorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or function of an assessor."},{"word":"Asset","type":"(n.)","description":"Any article or separable part of one's assets."},{"word":"Assets","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend."},{"word":"Assets","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts."},{"word":"Assets","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities."},{"word":"Assever","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Asseverate."},{"word":"Asseverated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Asseverate"},{"word":"Asseverating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Asseverate"},{"word":"Asseverate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity."},{"word":"Asseveration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration."},{"word":"Asseverative","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively."},{"word":"Asseveratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Asseverative."},{"word":"Assibilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant."},{"word":"Assibilation","type":"(n.)","description":"Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch."},{"word":"Assidean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans."},{"word":"Assident","type":"(a.)","description":"Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms."},{"word":"Assiduate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unremitting; assiduous."},{"word":"Assiduities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Assiduity"},{"word":"Assiduity","type":"(n.)","description":"Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence."},{"word":"Assiduity","type":"(n.)","description":"Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Assiduous","type":"(a.)","description":"Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting."},{"word":"Assiduous","type":"(a.)","description":"Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor."},{"word":"Assiege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To besiege."},{"word":"Assiege","type":"(n.)","description":"A siege."},{"word":"Assientist","type":"(n.)","description":"A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract."},{"word":"Assiento","type":"(n.)","description":"A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713."},{"word":"Assigned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assign"},{"word":"Assigning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assign"},{"word":"Assign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over."},{"word":"Assign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial."},{"word":"Assign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors."},{"word":"Assign","type":"(v.)","description":"A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance."},{"word":"Assign","type":"(n.)","description":"A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns."},{"word":"Assignability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being assignable."},{"word":"Assignable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity."},{"word":"Assignat","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state."},{"word":"Assignation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment."},{"word":"Assignation","type":"(n.)","description":"An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense."},{"word":"Assignation","type":"(n.)","description":"A making over by transfer of title; assignment."},{"word":"Assignee","type":"(v.)","description":"A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor."},{"word":"Assignee","type":"(v.)","description":"In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors."},{"word":"Assigner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions."},{"word":"Assignment","type":"(n.)","description":"An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court."},{"word":"Assignment","type":"(n.)","description":"A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands."},{"word":"Assignment","type":"(n.)","description":"The writing by which an interest is transferred."},{"word":"Assignment","type":"(n.)","description":"The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors."},{"word":"Assignor","type":"(n.)","description":"An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action."},{"word":"Assimilability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being assimilable."},{"word":"Assimilable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated."},{"word":"Assimilated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assimilate"},{"word":"Assimilating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assimilate"},{"word":"Assimilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between."},{"word":"Assimilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To liken; to compa/e."},{"word":"Assimilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue."},{"word":"Assimilate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become similar or like something else."},{"word":"Assimilate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body."},{"word":"Assimilate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others."},{"word":"Assimilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another."},{"word":"Assimilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals."},{"word":"Assimilative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance."},{"word":"Assimilatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs."},{"word":"Assimulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble."},{"word":"Assimulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assimilate."},{"word":"Assimulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Assimilation."},{"word":"Assinego","type":"(n.)","description":"See Asinego."},{"word":"Assish","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate."},{"word":"Assisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assist"},{"word":"Assisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assist"},{"word":"Assist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor."},{"word":"Assist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lend aid; to help."},{"word":"Assist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting."},{"word":"Assistance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support."},{"word":"Assistance","type":"(n.)","description":"An assistant or helper; a body of helpers."},{"word":"Assistance","type":"(n.)","description":"Persons present."},{"word":"Assistant","type":"(a.)","description":"Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary."},{"word":"Assistant","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon."},{"word":"Assistant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help."},{"word":"Assistant","type":"(n.)","description":"An attendant; one who is present."},{"word":"Assistantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to give aid."},{"word":"Assister","type":"(n.)","description":"An assistant; a helper."},{"word":"Assistful","type":"(a.)","description":"Helpful."},{"word":"Assistive","type":"(a.)","description":"Lending aid, helping."},{"word":"Assistless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without aid or help."},{"word":"Assistor","type":"(n.)","description":"A assister."},{"word":"Assithment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Assythment."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"A special kind of jury or inquest."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of writ or real action."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(n.)","description":"Measure; dimension; size."},{"word":"Assized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assize"},{"word":"Assizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assize"},{"word":"Assize","type":"(v.)","description":"To assess; to value; to rate."},{"word":"Assize","type":"(v.)","description":"To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority."},{"word":"Assizer","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc."},{"word":"Assizor","type":"(n.)","description":"A juror."},{"word":"Assober","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or keep sober."},{"word":"Associability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness."},{"word":"Associable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being associated or joined."},{"word":"Associable","type":"(a.)","description":"Sociable; companionable."},{"word":"Associable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc."},{"word":"Associableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Associability."},{"word":"Associated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Associate"},{"word":"Associating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Associate"},{"word":"Associate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect or place together in thought."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accompany; to keep company with."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(a.)","description":"Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(n.)","description":"A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(n.)","description":"A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(n.)","description":"One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy."},{"word":"Associate","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant."},{"word":"Associated","type":"(a.)","description":"Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined."},{"word":"Associateship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office."},{"word":"Association","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things."},{"word":"Association","type":"(n.)","description":"Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing."},{"word":"Association","type":"(n.)","description":"Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches."},{"word":"Associational","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to association, or to an association."},{"word":"Associational","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists."},{"word":"Associationism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or theory held by associationists."},{"word":"Associationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill."},{"word":"Associative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty."},{"word":"Associator","type":"(n.)","description":"An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme."},{"word":"Assoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free; to release."},{"word":"Assoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To solve; to clear up."},{"word":"Assoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free from guilt; to absolve."},{"word":"Assoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expiate; to atone for."},{"word":"Assoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove; to put off."},{"word":"Assoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil; to stain."},{"word":"Assoilment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal."},{"word":"Assoilment","type":"(n.)","description":"A soiling; defilement."},{"word":"Assoilzie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Assoilyie"},{"word":"Assoilyie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court."},{"word":"Assonance","type":"(n.)","description":"Resemblance of sound."},{"word":"Assonance","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary."},{"word":"Assonance","type":"(n.)","description":"Incomplete correspondence."},{"word":"Assonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a resemblance of sounds."},{"word":"Assonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant."},{"word":"Assonantal","type":"(a.)","description":"Assonant."},{"word":"Assonate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To correspond in sound."},{"word":"Assorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assort"},{"word":"Assorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assort"},{"word":"Assort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [Rarely applied to persons.]"},{"word":"Assort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo."},{"word":"Assort","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place."},{"word":"Assorted","type":"(a.)","description":"Selected; culled."},{"word":"Assortment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes."},{"word":"Assortment","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted."},{"word":"Assortment","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods."},{"word":"Assot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate."},{"word":"Assot","type":"(a.)","description":"Dazed; foolish; infatuated."},{"word":"Assuaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assuage"},{"word":"Assuaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assuage"},{"word":"Assuage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire."},{"word":"Assuage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To abate or subside."},{"word":"Assuagement","type":"(n.)","description":"Mitigation; abatement."},{"word":"Assuager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, assuages."},{"word":"Assuasive","type":"(a.)","description":"Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing."},{"word":"Assubjugate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into subjection."},{"word":"Assuefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accustoming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation."},{"word":"Assuetude","type":"(n.)","description":"Accustomedness; habit; habitual use."},{"word":"Assumable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be assumed."},{"word":"Assumably","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of assumption."},{"word":"Assumed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assume"},{"word":"Assuming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assume"},{"word":"Assume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly."},{"word":"Assume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively."},{"word":"Assume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pretend to possess; to take in appearance."},{"word":"Assume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive or adopt."},{"word":"Assume","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due."},{"word":"Assume","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undertake, as by a promise."},{"word":"Assumed","type":"(a.)","description":"Supposed."},{"word":"Assumed","type":"(a.)","description":"Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character."},{"word":"Assumedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By assumption."},{"word":"Assument","type":"(n.)","description":"A patch; an addition; a piece put on."},{"word":"Assumer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes."},{"word":"Assuming","type":"(a.)","description":"Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous."},{"word":"Assumpsit","type":"(n.)","description":"A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied."},{"word":"Assumpsit","type":"(n.)","description":"An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking."},{"word":"Assumpt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take up; to elevate; to assume."},{"word":"Assumpt","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is assumed; an assumption."},{"word":"Assumption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting."},{"word":"Assumption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim."},{"word":"Assumption","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition."},{"word":"Assumption","type":"(n.)","description":"The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism."},{"word":"Assumption","type":"(n.)","description":"The taking of a person up into heaven."},{"word":"Assumption","type":"(n.)","description":"A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven."},{"word":"Assumptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims."},{"word":"Assurance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence."},{"word":"Assurance","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty."},{"word":"Assurance","type":"(n.)","description":"Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance."},{"word":"Assurance","type":"(n.)","description":"Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable."},{"word":"Assurance","type":"(n.)","description":"Betrothal; affiance."},{"word":"Assurance","type":"(n.)","description":"Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death."},{"word":"Assurance","type":"(n.)","description":"Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed."},{"word":"Assured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Assure"},{"word":"Assuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Assure"},{"word":"Assure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence."},{"word":"Assure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence."},{"word":"Assure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confirm; to make certain or secure."},{"word":"Assure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affiance; to betroth."},{"word":"Assure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure."},{"word":"Assured","type":"(a.)","description":"Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess."},{"word":"Assured","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose life or property is insured."},{"word":"Assuredly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Certainly; indubitably."},{"word":"Assuredness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence."},{"word":"Assurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter."},{"word":"Assurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes out a life assurance policy."},{"word":"Assurgency","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of rising."},{"word":"Assurgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Ascending"},{"word":"Assurgent","type":"(a.)","description":"rising obliquely; curving upward."},{"word":"Assuring","type":"(a.)","description":"That assures; tending to assure; giving confidence."},{"word":"Asswage","type":"(v.)","description":"See Assuage."},{"word":"Assyrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Assyrian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria."},{"word":"Assyriological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies."},{"word":"Assyriologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archaeology."},{"word":"Assyriology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient Assyria."},{"word":"Assythment","type":"(n.)","description":"Indemnification for injury; satisfaction."},{"word":"Astacus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish."},{"word":"Astarboard","type":"(adv.)","description":"Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller."},{"word":"Astart","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Same as Astert."},{"word":"Astarte","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe."},{"word":"Astate","type":"(n.)","description":"Estate; state."},{"word":"Astatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction."},{"word":"Astatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an astatic manner."},{"word":"Astaticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being astatic."},{"word":"Astay","type":"(adv.)","description":"An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water."},{"word":"Asteism","type":"(n.)","description":"Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another."},{"word":"Astel","type":"(n.)","description":"An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine."},{"word":"Aster","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy."},{"word":"Aster","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers."},{"word":"Asterias","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of echinoderms."},{"word":"Asteriated","type":"(a.)","description":"Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire."},{"word":"Asteridian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea."},{"word":"Asteridian","type":"(n.)","description":"A starfish; one of the Asterioidea."},{"word":"Asterioidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Asteridea"},{"word":"Asteridea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal."},{"word":"Asterion","type":"(n.)","description":"The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures."},{"word":"Asteriscus","type":"(n.)","description":"The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes."},{"word":"Asterisk","type":"(n.)","description":"The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character."},{"word":"Asterism","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation."},{"word":"Asterism","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cluster of stars."},{"word":"Asterism","type":"(n.)","description":"An asterisk, or mark of reference."},{"word":"Asterism","type":"(n.)","description":"Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage."},{"word":"Asterism","type":"(n.)","description":"An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica."},{"word":"Astern","type":"(adv.)","description":"In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern."},{"word":"Astern","type":"(adv.)","description":"Behind a ship; in the rear."},{"word":"Asternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum."},{"word":"Asteroid","type":"(n.)","description":"A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets."},{"word":"Asteroidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids."},{"word":"Asterolepis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone."},{"word":"Asterophyllite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites."},{"word":"Astert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun."},{"word":"Astert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To escape."},{"word":"Asthenia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Astheny"},{"word":"Astheny","type":"(n.)","description":"Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces."},{"word":"Asthenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating."},{"word":"Asthenopia","type":"(n.)","description":"Weakness of sight."},{"word":"Asthma","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration."},{"word":"Asthmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Asthmatical"},{"word":"Asthmatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient."},{"word":"Asthmatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A person affected with asthma."},{"word":"Astigmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses."},{"word":"Astigmatism","type":"(n.)","description":"A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision."},{"word":"Astipulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assent."},{"word":"Astipulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Stipulation; agreement."},{"word":"Astir","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed."},{"word":"Astomatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Astomous"},{"word":"Astomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not possessing a mouth."},{"word":"Astoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Astone"},{"word":"Astond","type":"()","description":"of Astone"},{"word":"Astound","type":"()","description":"of Astone"},{"word":"Aston","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Astone"},{"word":"Astone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stun; to astonish; to stupefy."},{"word":"Astonied","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Stunned; astonished. See Astony."},{"word":"Astonished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Astonish"},{"word":"Astonishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Astonish"},{"word":"Astonish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow."},{"word":"Astonish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion."},{"word":"Astonishedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an astonished manner."},{"word":"Astonishing","type":"(a.)","description":"Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event."},{"word":"Astonishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense."},{"word":"Astonishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Dismay; consternation."},{"word":"Astonishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement."},{"word":"Astonishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The object causing such an emotion."},{"word":"Astonied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Astony"},{"word":"Astonying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Astony"},{"word":"Astony","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay."},{"word":"Astoop","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a stooping or inclined position."},{"word":"Astound","type":"(a.)","description":"Stunned; astounded; astonished."},{"word":"Astounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Astound"},{"word":"Astound","type":"()","description":"of Astound"},{"word":"Astounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Astound"},{"word":"Astound","type":"(a.)","description":"To stun; to stupefy."},{"word":"Astound","type":"(a.)","description":"To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear."},{"word":"Astounding","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact."},{"word":"Astoundment","type":"(n.)","description":"Amazement."},{"word":"Astrachan","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Astrakhan."},{"word":"Astraddle","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse."},{"word":"Astraean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the genus Astraea or the family Astraeidae."},{"word":"Astraean","type":"(n.)","description":"A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral."},{"word":"Astragal","type":"(n.)","description":"A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle."},{"word":"Astragal","type":"(n.)","description":"A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth."},{"word":"Astragalar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the astragalus."},{"word":"Astragaloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the astragalus in form."},{"word":"Astragalomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of small bones or dice."},{"word":"Astragalus","type":"(n.)","description":"The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle."},{"word":"Astragalus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus."},{"word":"Astragalus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Astragal, 1."},{"word":"Astrakhan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin."},{"word":"Astrakhan","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur."},{"word":"Astral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike."},{"word":"Astrand","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Stranded."},{"word":"Astray","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray."},{"word":"Astricted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Astrict"},{"word":"Astricting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Astrict"},{"word":"Astrict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract."},{"word":"Astrict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit."},{"word":"Astrict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4."},{"word":"Astrict","type":"(a.)","description":"Concise; contracted."},{"word":"Astriction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation."},{"word":"Astriction","type":"(n.)","description":"A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy."},{"word":"Astriction","type":"(n.)","description":"Constipation."},{"word":"Astriction","type":"(n.)","description":"Astringency."},{"word":"Astriction","type":"(n.)","description":"An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll."},{"word":"Astrictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Binding; astringent."},{"word":"Astrictive","type":"(n.)","description":"An astringent."},{"word":"Astrictory","type":"(a.)","description":"Astrictive."},{"word":"Astride","type":"(adv.)","description":"With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle."},{"word":"Astriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing stars."},{"word":"Astringed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Astringe"},{"word":"Astringing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Astringe"},{"word":"Astringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress."},{"word":"Astringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind by moral or legal obligation."},{"word":"Astringency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin."},{"word":"Astringent","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit."},{"word":"Astringent","type":"(a.)","description":"Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue."},{"word":"Astringent","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc."},{"word":"Astringently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an astringent manner."},{"word":"Astringer","type":"(n.)","description":"A falconer who keeps a goshawk."},{"word":"Astro-","type":"()","description":"The combining form of the Greek word 'a`stron, meaning star."},{"word":"Astrofel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Astrofell"},{"word":"Astrofell","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort."},{"word":"Astrogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens."},{"word":"Astrognosy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or knowledge of the stars, esp. the fixed stars."},{"word":"Astrogony","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Astrogeny."},{"word":"Astrography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens."},{"word":"Astroite","type":"(n.)","description":"A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone."},{"word":"Astrolabe","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused."},{"word":"Astrolabe","type":"(n.)","description":"A stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere."},{"word":"Astrolater","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper of the stars."},{"word":"Astrolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"The worship of the stars."},{"word":"Astrolithology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of aerolites."},{"word":"Astrologer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who studies the stars; an astronomer."},{"word":"Astrologer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars."},{"word":"Astrologian","type":"(n.)","description":"An astrologer."},{"word":"Astrologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Astrological"},{"word":"Astrological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology."},{"word":"Astrologize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To apply astrology to; to study or practice astrology."},{"word":"Astrology","type":"(n.)","description":"In its etymological signification, the science of the stars; among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects."},{"word":"Astromantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic."},{"word":"Astrometeorology","type":"(n.)","description":"The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather."},{"word":"Astrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for comparing the relative amount of the light of stars."},{"word":"Astrometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes."},{"word":"Astronomer","type":"(n.)","description":"An astrologer."},{"word":"Astronomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena."},{"word":"Astronomian","type":"(n.)","description":"An astrologer."},{"word":"Astronomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Astronomical."},{"word":"Astronomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to astronomy; in accordance with the methods or principles of astronomy."},{"word":"Astronomize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To study or to talk astronomy."},{"word":"Astronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Astrology."},{"word":"Astronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena."},{"word":"Astronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on, or text-book of, the science."},{"word":"Astrophel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Astrofel."},{"word":"Astrophotography","type":"(n.)","description":"The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars."},{"word":"Astrophysical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the physics of astronomical science."},{"word":"Astrophyton","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched."},{"word":"Astroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated."},{"word":"Astroscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Observation of the stars."},{"word":"Astrotheology","type":"(n.)","description":"Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies."},{"word":"Astructive","type":"(a.)","description":"Building up; constructive; -- opposed to destructive."},{"word":"Astrut","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner."},{"word":"Astrut","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"In a strutting manner; with a strutting gait."},{"word":"Astucious","type":"(a.)","description":"Subtle; cunning; astute."},{"word":"Astucity","type":"(n.)","description":"Craftiness; astuteness."},{"word":"Astun","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stun."},{"word":"Asturian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain."},{"word":"Asturian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Asturias."},{"word":"Astute","type":"(a.)","description":"Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty."},{"word":"Astylar","type":"(a.)","description":"Without columns or pilasters."},{"word":"Astyllen","type":"(n.)","description":"A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level."},{"word":"Asunder","type":"(adv.)","description":"Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places."},{"word":"Asura","type":"(n.)","description":"An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants."},{"word":"Aswail","type":"(n.)","description":"The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India."},{"word":"Asweve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stupefy."},{"word":"Aswing","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a state of swinging."},{"word":"Aswoon","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a swoon."},{"word":"Aswooned","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a swoon."},{"word":"Asylums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Asylum"},{"word":"Asyla","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Asylum"},{"word":"Asylum","type":"(n.)","description":"A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege."},{"word":"Asylum","type":"(n.)","description":"Any place of retreat and security."},{"word":"Asylum","type":"(n.)","description":"An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum."},{"word":"Asymmetral","type":"(a.)","description":"Incommensurable; also, unsymmetrical."},{"word":"Asymmetric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Asymmetrical"},{"word":"Asymmetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Incommensurable."},{"word":"Asymmetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical."},{"word":"Asymmetrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Asymmetrical."},{"word":"Asymmetry","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry."},{"word":"Asymmetry","type":"(n.)","description":"Incommensurability."},{"word":"Asymptote","type":"(n.)","description":"A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance."},{"word":"Asynartete","type":"(a.)","description":"Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted."},{"word":"Asyndetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions."},{"word":"Asyndeton","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton."},{"word":"Asystole","type":"(n.)","description":"A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart."},{"word":"Asystolism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole."},{"word":"At","type":"(prep.)","description":"Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. It is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at."},{"word":"At","type":"(prep.)","description":"A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land."},{"word":"At","type":"(prep.)","description":"The relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage."},{"word":"At","type":"(prep.)","description":"The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns."},{"word":"At","type":"(prep.)","description":"The relation of a point or position in a series, or of degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80�; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest."},{"word":"At","type":"(prep.)","description":"The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first."},{"word":"At","type":"(prep.)","description":"The relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands."},{"word":"At","type":"(prep.)","description":"Relation of direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one."},{"word":"Atabal","type":"(n.)","description":"A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors."},{"word":"Atacamite","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals."},{"word":"Atafter","type":"(prep.)","description":"After."},{"word":"Ataghan","type":"(n.)","description":"See Yataghan."},{"word":"Atake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overtake."},{"word":"Ataman","type":"(n.)","description":"A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks."},{"word":"Ataraxia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ataraxy"},{"word":"Ataraxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Perfect peace of mind, or calmness."},{"word":"Ataunt","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Ataunto"},{"word":"Ataunto","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right."},{"word":"Atavic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism."},{"word":"Atavism","type":"(n.)","description":"The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form."},{"word":"Atavism","type":"(n.)","description":"The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two."},{"word":"Ataxia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ataxy"},{"word":"Ataxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder; irregularity."},{"word":"Ataxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Irregularity in disease, or in the functions."},{"word":"Ataxy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition."},{"word":"Ataxic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements."},{"word":"Atazir","type":"(n.)","description":"The influence of a star upon other stars or upon men."},{"word":"Ate","type":"()","description":"the preterit of Eat."},{"word":"Ate","type":"(n.)","description":"The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance."},{"word":"-ate","type":"()","description":"As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated."},{"word":"-ate","type":"()","description":"As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to)."},{"word":"-ate","type":"()","description":"As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate."},{"word":"-ate","type":"()","description":"In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts."},{"word":"Atechnic","type":"(a.)","description":"Without technical or artistic knowledge."},{"word":"Ateles","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita."},{"word":"Atelier","type":"(n.)","description":"A workshop; a studio."},{"word":"Atellan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald."},{"word":"Atellan","type":"(n.)","description":"A farcical drama performed at Atella."},{"word":"Athalamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens."},{"word":"Athamaunt","type":"(n.)","description":"Adamant."},{"word":"Athanasian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century."},{"word":"Athanor","type":"(n.)","description":"A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat."},{"word":"Athecata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian."},{"word":"Atheism","type":"(n.)","description":"The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being."},{"word":"Atheism","type":"(n.)","description":"Godlessness."},{"word":"Atheist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being."},{"word":"Atheist","type":"(n.)","description":"A godless person."},{"word":"Atheistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Atheistical"},{"word":"Atheistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books."},{"word":"Atheistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer."},{"word":"Atheize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render atheistic or godless."},{"word":"Atheize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist."},{"word":"Atheling","type":"(n.)","description":"An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family."},{"word":"Atheneums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Athenaeum"},{"word":"Athenaea","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Athenaeum"},{"word":"Atheneum","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Athenaeum"},{"word":"Athenaeum","type":"(n.)","description":"A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students."},{"word":"Athenaeum","type":"(n.)","description":"A school founded at Rome by Hadrian."},{"word":"Athenaeum","type":"(n.)","description":"A literary or scientific association or club."},{"word":"Athenaeum","type":"(n.)","description":"A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use."},{"word":"Athenian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece."},{"word":"Athenian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or citizen of Athens."},{"word":"Atheological","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to theology; atheistic."},{"word":"Atheology","type":"(n.)","description":"Antagonism to theology."},{"word":"Atheous","type":"(a.)","description":"Atheistic; impious."},{"word":"Atheous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without God, neither accepting nor denying him."},{"word":"Atherine","type":"(n.)","description":"A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides."},{"word":"Athermancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat."},{"word":"Athermanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous."},{"word":"Athermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Athermanous."},{"word":"Atheroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like an ear of grain."},{"word":"Atheroma","type":"(n.)","description":"An encysted tumor containing curdy matter."},{"word":"Atheroma","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries."},{"word":"Atheromatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma."},{"word":"Athetosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes."},{"word":"Athink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repent; to displease; to disgust."},{"word":"Athirst","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting drink; thirsty."},{"word":"Athirst","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing."},{"word":"Athlete","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome."},{"word":"Athlete","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion."},{"word":"Athlete","type":"(n.)","description":"One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate."},{"word":"Athletic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports."},{"word":"Athletic","type":"(a.)","description":"Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts."},{"word":"Athleticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism."},{"word":"Athletics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes."},{"word":"Athletism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete."},{"word":"Athwart","type":"(prep.)","description":"Across; from side to side of."},{"word":"Athwart","type":"(prep.)","description":"Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course."},{"word":"Athwart","type":"(adv.)","description":"Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely."},{"word":"Athwart","type":"(adv.)","description":"Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely."},{"word":"Atilt","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust."},{"word":"Atilt","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.]"},{"word":"Atimy","type":"(n.)","description":"Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights."},{"word":"-ation","type":"()","description":"A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization."},{"word":"A-tiptoe","type":"(adv.)","description":"On tiptoe; eagerly expecting."},{"word":"Atlanta","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod."},{"word":"Atlantal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the atlas."},{"word":"Atlantal","type":"(a.)","description":"Anterior; cephalic."},{"word":"Atlantean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean."},{"word":"Atlantean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong."},{"word":"Atlantes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides."},{"word":"Atlantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph."},{"word":"Atlantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis."},{"word":"Atlantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Descended from Atlas."},{"word":"Atlantides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas."},{"word":"Atlases","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Atlas"},{"word":"Atlas","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sustains a great burden."},{"word":"Atlas","type":"(n.)","description":"The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name."},{"word":"Atlas","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of maps in a volume"},{"word":"Atlas","type":"(n.)","description":"A volume of plates illustrating any subject."},{"word":"Atlas","type":"(n.)","description":"A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas."},{"word":"Atlas","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio."},{"word":"Atlas","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n."},{"word":"Atlas","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich kind of satin manufactured in India."},{"word":"Atmidometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow."},{"word":"Atmo","type":"(n.)","description":"The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0� Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris."},{"word":"Atmologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Atmological"},{"word":"Atmological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to atmology."},{"word":"Atmologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in atmology."},{"word":"Atmology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor."},{"word":"Atmolysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances."},{"word":"Atmolyzation","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation by atmolysis."},{"word":"Atmolyze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis."},{"word":"Atmolyzer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for effecting atmolysis."},{"word":"Atmometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer."},{"word":"Atmosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars."},{"word":"Atmosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"Any gaseous envelope or medium."},{"word":"Atmosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies."},{"word":"Atmosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 Ibs. to the sq. inch."},{"word":"Atmosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition."},{"word":"Atmosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere."},{"word":"Atmospheric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Atmospherical"},{"word":"Atmospherical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere; as, atmospheric air; the atmospheric envelope of the earth."},{"word":"Atmospherical","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing in the atmosphere."},{"word":"Atmospherical","type":"(a.)","description":"Caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere; as, an atmospheric effect; an atmospheric engine."},{"word":"Atmospherical","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent on the atmosphere."},{"word":"Atmospherically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In relation to the atmosphere."},{"word":"Atmospherology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or a treatise on the atmosphere."},{"word":"Atokous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids."},{"word":"Atoll","type":"(n.)","description":"A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island."},{"word":"Atom","type":"(n.)","description":"An ultimate indivisible particle of matter."},{"word":"Atom","type":"(n.)","description":"An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule."},{"word":"Atom","type":"(n.)","description":"A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles."},{"word":"Atom","type":"(n.)","description":"The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule."},{"word":"Atom","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit."},{"word":"Atom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to atoms."},{"word":"Atomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Atomical"},{"word":"Atomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to atoms."},{"word":"Atomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Extremely minute; tiny."},{"word":"Atomically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an atomic manner; in accordance with the atomic philosophy."},{"word":"Atomician","type":"(n.)","description":"An atomist."},{"word":"Atomicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Atomism."},{"word":"Atomicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence."},{"word":"Atomism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic."},{"word":"Atomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory."},{"word":"Atomistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to atoms; relating to atomism."},{"word":"Atomization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced."},{"word":"Atomization","type":"(n.)","description":"The reduction of fluids into fine spray."},{"word":"Atomize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray."},{"word":"Atomizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming."},{"word":"Atomology","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of atoms."},{"word":"Atomy","type":"(n.)","description":"An atom; a mite; a pigmy."},{"word":"Atomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A skeleton."},{"word":"Atonable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable."},{"word":"At","type":"()","description":"In concord or friendship; in agreement (with each other); as, to be, bring, make, or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation."},{"word":"At","type":"()","description":"Of the same opinion; agreed; as, on these points we are at one."},{"word":"At","type":"()","description":"Together."},{"word":"Atoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Atone"},{"word":"Atoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Atone"},{"word":"Atone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to be in accordance; to accord."},{"word":"Atone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime."},{"word":"Atone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease."},{"word":"Atone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite in making."},{"word":"Atone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make satisfaction for; to expiate."},{"word":"Atonement","type":"(n.)","description":"Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord."},{"word":"Atonement","type":"(n.)","description":"Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ."},{"word":"Atoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes atonement."},{"word":"Atonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease."},{"word":"Atonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable."},{"word":"Atonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of tone vocality; surd."},{"word":"Atonic","type":"(n.)","description":"A word that has no accent."},{"word":"Atonic","type":"(n.)","description":"An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing."},{"word":"Atonic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation."},{"word":"Atony","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile."},{"word":"Atop","type":"(adv.)","description":"On or at the top."},{"word":"Atrabilarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Atrabilarious"},{"word":"Atrabilarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with melancholy; atrabilious."},{"word":"Atrabilarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac."},{"word":"Atrabiliar","type":"(a.)","description":"Melancholy; atrabilious."},{"word":"Atrabiliary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys."},{"word":"Atrabiliary","type":"(a.)","description":"Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania."},{"word":"Atrabilious","type":"(a.)","description":"Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary."},{"word":"Atramentaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Black, like ink; inky; atramental."},{"word":"Atramental","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Atramentous"},{"word":"Atramentous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots."},{"word":"Atramentarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink."},{"word":"Atrede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surpass in council."},{"word":"Atrenne","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To outrun."},{"word":"Atresia","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation."},{"word":"Atrial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an atrium."},{"word":"Atrip","type":"(adv.)","description":"Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor."},{"word":"Atrip","type":"(adv.)","description":"Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails."},{"word":"Atrip","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards."},{"word":"Atria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Atrium"},{"word":"Atrium","type":"(n.)","description":"A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels."},{"word":"Atrium","type":"(n.)","description":"An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery."},{"word":"Atrium","type":"(n.)","description":"The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart."},{"word":"Atrium","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea."},{"word":"Atrocha","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of chaetopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed."},{"word":"Atrocious","type":"(a.)","description":"Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds."},{"word":"Atrocious","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity."},{"word":"Atrocious","type":"(a.)","description":"Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers."},{"word":"Atrocities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Atrocity"},{"word":"Atrocity","type":"(n.)","description":"Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty."},{"word":"Atrocity","type":"(n.)","description":"An atrocious or extremely cruel deed."},{"word":"Atrophic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to atrophy."},{"word":"Atrophied","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary."},{"word":"Atrophy","type":"(n.)","description":"A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part."},{"word":"Atrophied","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Atrophy"},{"word":"Atrophy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken."},{"word":"Atrophy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waste away; to dwindle."},{"word":"Atropia","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Atropine."},{"word":"Atropine","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine."},{"word":"Atropism","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna."},{"word":"Atropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not inverted; orthotropous."},{"word":"Atrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Coal-black; very black."},{"word":"Atrypa","type":"(n.)","description":"A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones."},{"word":"Attabal","type":"(n.)","description":"See Atabal."},{"word":"Attacca","type":"()","description":"Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause."},{"word":"Attached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attach"},{"word":"Attaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attach"},{"word":"Attach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like."},{"word":"Attach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship."},{"word":"Attach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery."},{"word":"Attach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance."},{"word":"Attach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take, seize, or lay hold of."},{"word":"Attach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4."},{"word":"Attach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adhere; to be attached."},{"word":"Attach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach."},{"word":"Attach","type":"(n.)","description":"An attachment."},{"word":"Attachable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept."},{"word":"Attache","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy."},{"word":"Attachment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an/ passion of affection that binds a person; as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party."},{"word":"Attachment","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle."},{"word":"Attachment","type":"(n.)","description":"Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.)."},{"word":"Attachment","type":"(n.)","description":"A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process."},{"word":"Attachment","type":"(n.)","description":"The writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking."},{"word":"Attacked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attack"},{"word":"Attacking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attack"},{"word":"Attack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an onset or attack."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(n.)","description":"An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(n.)","description":"A setting to work upon some task, etc."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(n.)","description":"An access of disease; a fit of sickness."},{"word":"Attack","type":"(n.)","description":"The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent."},{"word":"Attackable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being attacked."},{"word":"Attacker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attacks."},{"word":"Attagas","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Attagen"},{"word":"Attagen","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe."},{"word":"Attaghan","type":"(n.)","description":"See Yataghan."},{"word":"Attained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attain"},{"word":"Attaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attain"},{"word":"Attain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest."},{"word":"Attain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire."},{"word":"Attain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain."},{"word":"Attain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at."},{"word":"Attain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overtake."},{"word":"Attain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach in excellence or degree; to equal."},{"word":"Attain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach."},{"word":"Attain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come or arrive, by an effort of mind."},{"word":"Attain","type":"(n.)","description":"Attainment."},{"word":"Attainability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being attainable; attainableness."},{"word":"Attainable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object."},{"word":"Attainable","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtainable."},{"word":"Attainableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being attainable; attainability."},{"word":"Attainder","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder."},{"word":"Attainder","type":"(n.)","description":"A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation."},{"word":"Attainment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts."},{"word":"Attainment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments."},{"word":"Attainted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attaint"},{"word":"Attainting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attaint"},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attain; to get act; to hit."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Attainted; corrupted."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v.)","description":"A touch or hit."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v.)","description":"A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v.)","description":"A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v.)","description":"A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint."},{"word":"Attaint","type":"(v.)","description":"An infecting influence."},{"word":"Attaintment","type":"(n.)","description":"Attainder; attainture; conviction."},{"word":"Attainture","type":"(n.)","description":"Attainder; disgrace."},{"word":"Attal","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Attle."},{"word":"Attame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce; to attack."},{"word":"Attame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To broach; to begin."},{"word":"Attaminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate."},{"word":"Attar","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses."},{"word":"Attask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take to task; to blame."},{"word":"Attaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taste or cause to taste."},{"word":"Atte","type":"()","description":"At the."},{"word":"Attempered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attemper"},{"word":"Attempering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attemper"},{"word":"Attemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature."},{"word":"Attemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency."},{"word":"Attemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice."},{"word":"Attemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt."},{"word":"Attemperament","type":"(n.)","description":"A tempering, or mixing in due proportion."},{"word":"Attemperance","type":"(n.)","description":"Temperance; attemperament."},{"word":"Attemperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted."},{"word":"Attemperate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attemper."},{"word":"Attemperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attempering or regulating."},{"word":"Attemperly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Temperately."},{"word":"Attemperment","type":"(n.)","description":"Attemperament."},{"word":"Attempted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attempt"},{"word":"Attempting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attempt"},{"word":"Attempt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight."},{"word":"Attempt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt."},{"word":"Attempt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman."},{"word":"Attempt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp."},{"word":"Attempt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an attempt; -- with upon."},{"word":"Attempt","type":"(n.)","description":"A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort."},{"word":"Attemptable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked."},{"word":"Attempter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attempts; one who essays anything."},{"word":"Attempter","type":"(n.)","description":"An assailant; also, a temper."},{"word":"Attemptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to attempt; adventurous."},{"word":"Attended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attend"},{"word":"Attending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attend"},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen; -- usually followed by to."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting; -- often followed by on or upon."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"(with to) To take charge of; to look after; as, to attend to a matter of business."},{"word":"Attend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wait; to stay; to delay."},{"word":"Attendance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Attention; regard; careful application."},{"word":"Attendance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence."},{"word":"Attendance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Waiting for; expectation."},{"word":"Attendance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The persons attending; a retinue; attendants."},{"word":"Attendancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant."},{"word":"Attendant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting."},{"word":"Attendant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils."},{"word":"Attendant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir."},{"word":"Attendant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor."},{"word":"Attendant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting."},{"word":"Attendant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which accompanies; a concomitant."},{"word":"Attendant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another."},{"word":"Attendement","type":"(n.)","description":"Intent."},{"word":"Attender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, attends."},{"word":"Attendment","type":"(n.)","description":"An attendant circumstance."},{"word":"Attent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Attentive; heedful."},{"word":"Attent","type":"(n.)","description":"Attention; heed."},{"word":"Attentate","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Attentat"},{"word":"Attentat","type":"(n.)","description":"An attempt; an assault."},{"word":"Attentat","type":"(n.)","description":"A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed."},{"word":"Attentat","type":"(n.)","description":"Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge."},{"word":"Attention","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending."},{"word":"Attention","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of civility or courtesy; care for the comfort and pleasure of others; as, attentions paid to a stranger."},{"word":"Attentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention."},{"word":"Attentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Heedful of the comfort of others; courteous."},{"word":"Attently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Attentively."},{"word":"Attenuant","type":"(a.)","description":"Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent."},{"word":"Attenuant","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent."},{"word":"Attenuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attenuate"},{"word":"Attenuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attenuate"},{"word":"Attenuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies."},{"word":"Attenuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts."},{"word":"Attenuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken."},{"word":"Attenuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen."},{"word":"Attenuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Attenuated"},{"word":"Attenuated","type":"(a.)","description":"Made thin or slender."},{"word":"Attenuated","type":"(a.)","description":"Made thin or less viscid; rarefied."},{"word":"Attenuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation."},{"word":"Attenuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases."},{"word":"Attenuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus."},{"word":"Atter","type":"(n.)","description":"Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore."},{"word":"Attercop","type":"(n.)","description":"A spider."},{"word":"Attercop","type":"(n.)","description":"A peevish, ill-natured person."},{"word":"Atterrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill up with alluvial earth."},{"word":"Atterration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth."},{"word":"Attested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attest"},{"word":"Attesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attest"},{"word":"Attest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record."},{"word":"Attest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence."},{"word":"Attest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call to witness; to invoke."},{"word":"Attest","type":"(n.)","description":"Witness; testimony; attestation."},{"word":"Attestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation."},{"word":"Attestative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of attestation."},{"word":"Attester","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Attestor"},{"word":"Attestor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attests."},{"word":"Attestive","type":"(a.)","description":"Attesting; furnishing evidence."},{"word":"Attic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined."},{"word":"Attic","type":"(a.)","description":"A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:"},{"word":"Attic","type":"(a.)","description":"A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof."},{"word":"Attic","type":"(a.)","description":"An Athenian; an Athenian author."},{"word":"Attical","type":"(a.)","description":"Attic."},{"word":"Atticism","type":"(n.)","description":"A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians."},{"word":"Atticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression."},{"word":"Atticize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica."},{"word":"Atticize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To side with the Athenians."},{"word":"Atticize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians."},{"word":"Attiguous","type":"(a.)","description":"Touching; bordering; contiguous."},{"word":"Attinge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To touch lightly."},{"word":"Attired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attire"},{"word":"Attiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attire"},{"word":"Attire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments."},{"word":"Attire","type":"(n.)","description":"Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing."},{"word":"Attire","type":"(n.)","description":"The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck."},{"word":"Attire","type":"(n.)","description":"The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla."},{"word":"Attired","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Provided with antlers, as a stag."},{"word":"Attirement","type":"(n.)","description":"Attire; adornment."},{"word":"Attirer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attires."},{"word":"Attitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue."},{"word":"Attitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty."},{"word":"Attitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion."},{"word":"Attitudinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to attitude."},{"word":"Attitudinarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attitudinizes; a posture maker."},{"word":"Attitudinarianism","type":"(n.)","description":"A practicing of attitudes; posture making."},{"word":"Attitudinize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose."},{"word":"Attitudinizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices attitudes."},{"word":"Attle","type":"(n.)","description":"Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore."},{"word":"Attollent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle."},{"word":"Attonce","type":"(adv.)","description":"At once; together."},{"word":"Attone","type":"(adv.)","description":"See At one."},{"word":"Attorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate."},{"word":"Attorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted."},{"word":"Attorneys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Attorney"},{"word":"Attorney","type":"(n.)","description":"A substitute; a proxy; an agent."},{"word":"Attorney","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact."},{"word":"Attorney","type":"(n.)","description":"A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law."},{"word":"Attorney","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy."},{"word":"Attorney-general","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required."},{"word":"Attorneyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys."},{"word":"Attorneyship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another."},{"word":"Attornment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord."},{"word":"Attracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attract"},{"word":"Attracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attract"},{"word":"Attract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition."},{"word":"Attract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers."},{"word":"Attract","type":"(n.)","description":"Attraction."},{"word":"Attractability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or fact of being attractable."},{"word":"Attractable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction."},{"word":"Attracter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, attracts."},{"word":"Attractile","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to attract."},{"word":"Attracting","type":"(a.)","description":"That attracts."},{"word":"Attraction","type":"(n.)","description":"An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation."},{"word":"Attraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction."},{"word":"Attraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence."},{"word":"Attraction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which attracts; an attractive object or feature."},{"word":"Attractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies."},{"word":"Attractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing."},{"word":"Attractive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement."},{"word":"Attractivity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or degree of attractive power."},{"word":"Attractor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, attracts."},{"word":"Attrahent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Attracting; drawing; attractive."},{"word":"Attrahent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which attracts, as a magnet."},{"word":"Attrahent","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism."},{"word":"Attrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entrap; to insnare."},{"word":"Attrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with trapping; to array."},{"word":"Attrectation","type":"(n.)","description":"Frequent handling or touching."},{"word":"Attributable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable."},{"word":"Attributed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attribute"},{"word":"Attributing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attribute"},{"word":"Attribute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to)."},{"word":"Attribute","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic."},{"word":"Attribute","type":"(n.)","description":"Reputation."},{"word":"Attribute","type":"(n.)","description":"A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules."},{"word":"Attribute","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective."},{"word":"Attribution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause."},{"word":"Attribution","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is ascribed or attributed."},{"word":"Attributive","type":"(a.)","description":"Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute."},{"word":"Attributive","type":"(n.)","description":"A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase."},{"word":"Attributively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an attributive manner."},{"word":"Attrite","type":"(a.)","description":"Rubbed; worn by friction."},{"word":"Attrite","type":"(a.)","description":"Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite."},{"word":"Attrition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion."},{"word":"Attrition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being worn."},{"word":"Attrition","type":"(n.)","description":"Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition."},{"word":"Attry","type":"(a.)","description":"Poisonous; malignant; malicious."},{"word":"Attuned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Attune"},{"word":"Attuning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Attune"},{"word":"Attune","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp."},{"word":"Attune","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange fitly; to make accordant."},{"word":"Atwain","type":"(adv.)","description":"In twain; asunder."},{"word":"Atween","type":"(adv. or prep.)","description":"Between."},{"word":"Atwirl","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Twisted; distorted; awry."},{"word":"Atwite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid."},{"word":"Atwixt","type":"(adv.)","description":"Betwixt."},{"word":"Atwo","type":"(adv.)","description":"In two; in twain; asunder."},{"word":"Atypic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Atypical"},{"word":"Atypical","type":"(a.)","description":"That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type."},{"word":"Aubade","type":"(n.)","description":"An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning."},{"word":"Aubaine","type":"(n.)","description":"Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized."},{"word":"Aube","type":"(n.)","description":"An alb."},{"word":"Auberge","type":"(n.)","description":"An inn."},{"word":"Aubin","type":"(n.)","description":"A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop."},{"word":"Auburn","type":"(a.)","description":"Flaxen-colored."},{"word":"Auburn","type":"(a.)","description":"Reddish brown."},{"word":"Auchenium","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the neck nearest the back."},{"word":"Auctary","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is superadded; augmentation."},{"word":"Auction","type":"(n.)","description":"A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue."},{"word":"Auction","type":"(n.)","description":"The things sold by auction or put up to auction."},{"word":"Auction","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sell by auction."},{"word":"Auctionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer."},{"word":"Auctioneer","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder."},{"word":"Auctioneer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sell by auction; to auction."},{"word":"Aucupation","type":"(n.)","description":"Birdcatching; fowling."},{"word":"Audacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Daring; spirited; adventurous."},{"word":"Audacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent."},{"word":"Audacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum."},{"word":"Audaciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently."},{"word":"Audaciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity."},{"word":"Audacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness."},{"word":"Audacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints."},{"word":"Audibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity."},{"word":"Audible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper."},{"word":"Audible","type":"(n.)","description":"That which may be heard."},{"word":"Audibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being audible."},{"word":"Audibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to be heard."},{"word":"Audience","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of hearing; attention to sounds."},{"word":"Audience","type":"(a.)","description":"Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business."},{"word":"Audience","type":"(a.)","description":"An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers."},{"word":"Audient","type":"(a.)","description":"Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls."},{"word":"Audient","type":"(n.)","description":"A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church."},{"word":"Audiometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale."},{"word":"Audiphone","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone."},{"word":"Audit","type":"(a.)","description":"An audience; a hearing."},{"word":"Audit","type":"(a.)","description":"An examination in general; a judicial examination."},{"word":"Audit","type":"(a.)","description":"The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account."},{"word":"Audit","type":"(a.)","description":"A general receptacle or receiver."},{"word":"Audited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Audit"},{"word":"Auditing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Audit"},{"word":"Audit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court."},{"word":"Audit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To settle or adjust an account."},{"word":"Audita","type":"()","description":"A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment."},{"word":"Audition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hearing or listening; hearing."},{"word":"Auditive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory."},{"word":"Auditor","type":"(a.)","description":"A hearer or listener."},{"word":"Auditor","type":"(a.)","description":"A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance."},{"word":"Auditor","type":"(a.)","description":"One who hears judicially, as in an audience court."},{"word":"Auditorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Auditory."},{"word":"Auditorium","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience."},{"word":"Auditorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or function of auditor."},{"word":"Auditory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear."},{"word":"Auditory","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly of hearers; an audience."},{"word":"Auditory","type":"(n.)","description":"An auditorium."},{"word":"Auditress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female hearer."},{"word":"Auditual","type":"(a.)","description":"Auditory."},{"word":"Auf","type":"(n.)","description":"A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf."},{"word":"Au","type":"()","description":"Expert; skillful; well instructed."},{"word":"Augean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day."},{"word":"Augean","type":"(a.)","description":"Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt."},{"word":"Auger","type":"(n.)","description":"A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge."},{"word":"Auger","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water."},{"word":"Auget","type":"(n.)","description":"A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied."},{"word":"Aught","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aucht"},{"word":"Aucht","type":"(n.)","description":"Property; possession."},{"word":"Aught","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything; any part."},{"word":"Aught","type":"(adv.)","description":"At all; in any degree."},{"word":"Augite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene."},{"word":"Augitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks."},{"word":"Augmented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Augment"},{"word":"Augmenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Augment"},{"word":"Augment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil."},{"word":"Augment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add an augment to."},{"word":"Augment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain."},{"word":"Augment","type":"(n.)","description":"Enlargement by addition; increase."},{"word":"Augment","type":"(n.)","description":"A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs."},{"word":"Augmentable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of augmentation."},{"word":"Augmentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase."},{"word":"Augmentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being augmented; enlargement."},{"word":"Augmentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing added by way of enlargement."},{"word":"Augmentation","type":"(n.)","description":"A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor."},{"word":"Augmentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing."},{"word":"Augmentation","type":"(n.)","description":"In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length."},{"word":"Augmentative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation."},{"word":"Augmentative","type":"(n.)","description":"A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive."},{"word":"Augmenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, augments or increases anything."},{"word":"Augrim","type":"(n.)","description":"See Algorism."},{"word":"Augur","type":"(n.)","description":"An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences."},{"word":"Augur","type":"(n.)","description":"One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet."},{"word":"Augured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Augur"},{"word":"Auguring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Augur"},{"word":"Augur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow."},{"word":"Augur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill."},{"word":"Augur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer."},{"word":"Augural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books."},{"word":"Augurate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict."},{"word":"Augurate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an augur."},{"word":"Auguration","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of augury."},{"word":"Augurer","type":"(n.)","description":"An augur."},{"word":"Augurial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to augurs or to augury."},{"word":"Augurist","type":"(n.)","description":"An augur."},{"word":"Angurize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To augur."},{"word":"Augurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of augury; foreboding."},{"word":"Augurship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, or period of office, of an augur."},{"word":"Auguries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Augury"},{"word":"Augury","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination."},{"word":"Augury","type":"(n.)","description":"An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage."},{"word":"Augury","type":"(n.)","description":"A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur."},{"word":"August","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority."},{"word":"August","type":"(a.)","description":"The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days."},{"word":"Augustan","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times."},{"word":"Augustan","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg."},{"word":"Augustine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Augustinian"},{"word":"Augustinian","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar."},{"word":"Augustinian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines."},{"word":"Augustinian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally."},{"word":"Augustinianism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Augustinism"},{"word":"Augustinism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians."},{"word":"Augustly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an august manner."},{"word":"Augustness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence."},{"word":"Auk","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre."},{"word":"Aukward","type":"(a.)","description":"See Awkward."},{"word":"Aularian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a hall."},{"word":"Aularian","type":"(n.)","description":"At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian."},{"word":"Auld","type":"(a.)","description":"Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh."},{"word":"Auld","type":"()","description":"A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past."},{"word":"Auletic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper."},{"word":"Aulic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a royal court."},{"word":"Aulic","type":"(n.)","description":"The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic)."},{"word":"Auln","type":"(n.)","description":"An ell. [Obs.] See Aune."},{"word":"Aulnage","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aulnager"},{"word":"Aulnager","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alnage and Alnager."},{"word":"Aum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aam."},{"word":"Aumail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To figure or variegate."},{"word":"Aumbry","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ambry."},{"word":"Aumery","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms."},{"word":"Auncel","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England."},{"word":"Auncetry","type":"(n.)","description":"Ancestry."},{"word":"Aune","type":"(n.)","description":"A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter."},{"word":"Aunt","type":"(n.)","description":"The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife."},{"word":"Aunt","type":"(n.)","description":"An old woman; and old gossip."},{"word":"Aunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A bawd, or a prostitute."},{"word":"Auntter","type":"(n.)","description":"Adventure; hap."},{"word":"Aunter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Auntre"},{"word":"Auntre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To venture; to dare."},{"word":"Auntie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aunty"},{"word":"Aunty","type":"(n.)","description":"A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women."},{"word":"Auntrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Adventurous."},{"word":"Aurae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aura"},{"word":"Aura","type":"(n.)","description":"Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc."},{"word":"Aura","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics."},{"word":"Aural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura."},{"word":"Aural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery."},{"word":"Aurantiaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceae, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type."},{"word":"Aurate","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium."},{"word":"Aurated","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded."},{"word":"Aurated","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with auric acid."},{"word":"Aurated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ears. See Aurited."},{"word":"Aureate","type":"(a.)","description":"Golden; gilded."},{"word":"Aurelia","type":"(n.)","description":"The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies."},{"word":"Aurelia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora."},{"word":"Aurelian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the aurelia."},{"word":"Aurelian","type":"(n.)","description":"An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist."},{"word":"Aureola","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aureole"},{"word":"Aureole","type":"(n.)","description":"A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil."},{"word":"Aureole","type":"(n.)","description":"The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence."},{"word":"Aureole","type":"(n.)","description":"A halo, actual or figurative."},{"word":"Aureole","type":"(n.)","description":"See Areola, 2."},{"word":"Auric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gold."},{"word":"Auric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence; as, auric oxide; auric chloride."},{"word":"Aurichalceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Brass-colored."},{"word":"Aurichalcite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous carbonate of copper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. It yields a kind of brass on reduction."},{"word":"Auricle","type":"(n.)","description":"The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head."},{"word":"Auricle","type":"(n.)","description":"The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart."},{"word":"Auricle","type":"(n.)","description":"An angular or ear-shaped lobe."},{"word":"Auricle","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet."},{"word":"Auricled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves."},{"word":"Auriculae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Auricula"},{"word":"Auriculas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Auricula"},{"word":"Auricula","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear."},{"word":"Auricula","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear."},{"word":"Auricula","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish"},{"word":"Auricula","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin."},{"word":"Auricular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves."},{"word":"Auricular","type":"(a.)","description":"Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest."},{"word":"Auricular","type":"(a.)","description":"Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence."},{"word":"Auricular","type":"(a.)","description":"Received by the ear; known by report."},{"word":"Auricular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the auricles of the heart."},{"word":"Auricularia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Auricularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an auricular manner."},{"word":"Auriculars","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds."},{"word":"Auriculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Auriculated"},{"word":"Auriculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zool.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc."},{"word":"Auriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold."},{"word":"Auriflamme","type":"(n.)","description":"See Oriflamme."},{"word":"Auriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped."},{"word":"Auriga","type":"(n.)","description":"The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella."},{"word":"Aurigal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chariot."},{"word":"Aurigation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of driving a chariot or a carriage."},{"word":"Aurigraphy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of writing with or in gold."},{"word":"Aurin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin."},{"word":"Auriphrygiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Embroidered or decorated with gold."},{"word":"Auripigment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Orpiment."},{"word":"Auriscalp","type":"(n.)","description":"An earpick."},{"word":"Auriscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for examining the condition of the ear."},{"word":"Auriscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope."},{"word":"Aurist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear."},{"word":"Aurited","type":"(a.)","description":"Having lobes like the ear; auriculate."},{"word":"Aurivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Gold-devouring."},{"word":"Aurocephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a gold-colored head."},{"word":"Aurochloride","type":"(n.)","description":"The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate."},{"word":"Aurochs","type":"(n.)","description":"The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused."},{"word":"Aurocyanide","type":"(n.)","description":"A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate."},{"word":"Auroras","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aurora"},{"word":"Aurorae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aurora"},{"word":"Aurora","type":"(n.)","description":"The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises."},{"word":"Aurora","type":"(n.)","description":"The rise, dawn, or beginning."},{"word":"Aurora","type":"(n.)","description":"The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew."},{"word":"Aurora","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of crowfoot."},{"word":"Aurora","type":"(n.)","description":"The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights)."},{"word":"Auroral","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy."},{"word":"Aurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing gold."},{"word":"Aurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide."},{"word":"Aurum","type":"(n.)","description":"Gold."},{"word":"Auscult","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To auscultate."},{"word":"Auscultate","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation."},{"word":"Auscultation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of listening or hearkening to."},{"word":"Auscultation","type":"(n.)","description":"An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate auscultation), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease."},{"word":"Auscultator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices auscultation."},{"word":"Auscultatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to auscultation."},{"word":"Ausonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Italian."},{"word":"Auspicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Auspicious."},{"word":"Auspicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foreshow; to foretoken."},{"word":"Auspicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business."},{"word":"Auspices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Auspice"},{"word":"Auspice","type":"(a.)","description":"A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future."},{"word":"Auspice","type":"(a.)","description":"Protection; patronage and care; guidance."},{"word":"Auspicial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious."},{"word":"Auspicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning."},{"word":"Auspicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years."},{"word":"Auspicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things."},{"word":"Auster","type":"(n.)","description":"The south wind."},{"word":"Austere","type":"()","description":"Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine."},{"word":"Austere","type":"()","description":"Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life."},{"word":"Austere","type":"()","description":"Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple."},{"word":"Austerely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Severely; rigidly; sternly."},{"word":"Austereness","type":"(n.)","description":"Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity."},{"word":"Austereness","type":"(n.)","description":"Severity; strictness; austerity."},{"word":"Austerities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Austerity"},{"word":"Austerity","type":"(n.)","description":"Sourness and harshness to the taste."},{"word":"Austerity","type":"(n.)","description":"Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline."},{"word":"Austerity","type":"(n.)","description":"Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity."},{"word":"Austin","type":"(a.)","description":"Augustinian; as, Austin friars."},{"word":"Austral","type":"(a.)","description":"Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean."},{"word":"Australasian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions."},{"word":"Australasian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Australasia."},{"word":"Australian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Australia."},{"word":"Australian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Australia."},{"word":"Australize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet."},{"word":"Austrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Austrian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Austria."},{"word":"Austrine","type":"(n.)","description":"Southern; southerly; austral."},{"word":"Austro-Hungarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria and Hungary."},{"word":"Austromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds."},{"word":"Autarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-sufficiency."},{"word":"Authentic","type":"(n.)","description":"Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register."},{"word":"Authentic","type":"(n.)","description":"Authoritative."},{"word":"Authentic","type":"(n.)","description":"Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information."},{"word":"Authentic","type":"(n.)","description":"Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested."},{"word":"Authentic","type":"(n.)","description":"Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic."},{"word":"Authentic","type":"(n.)","description":"An original (book or document)."},{"word":"Authentical","type":"(a.)","description":"Authentic."},{"word":"Authentically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority."},{"word":"Authenticalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being authentic; authenticity."},{"word":"Authenticated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Authenticate"},{"word":"Authenticating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Authenticate"},{"word":"Authenticate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit."},{"word":"Authenticate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait."},{"word":"Authenticity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness."},{"word":"Authenticity","type":"(n.)","description":"Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original."},{"word":"Authenticly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Authentically."},{"word":"Authenticness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being authentic; authenticity."},{"word":"Authentics","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authenticity."},{"word":"Author","type":"(n.)","description":"The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator."},{"word":"Author","type":"(n.)","description":"One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler."},{"word":"Author","type":"(n.)","description":"The editor of a periodical."},{"word":"Author","type":"(n.)","description":"An informant."},{"word":"Author","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To occasion; to originate."},{"word":"Author","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tell; to say; to declare."},{"word":"Authoress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female author."},{"word":"Authorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an author."},{"word":"Authorism","type":"(n.)","description":"Authorship."},{"word":"Authoritative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding."},{"word":"Authoritative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone."},{"word":"Authorities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Authority"},{"word":"Authority","type":"(n.)","description":"Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court."},{"word":"Authority","type":"(n.)","description":"Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities."},{"word":"Authority","type":"(n.)","description":"The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority."},{"word":"Authority","type":"(n.)","description":"That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc."},{"word":"Authority","type":"(n.)","description":"Testimony; witness."},{"word":"Authority","type":"(n.)","description":"A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent."},{"word":"Authority","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book."},{"word":"Authority","type":"(n.)","description":"Justification; warrant."},{"word":"Authorizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being authorized."},{"word":"Authorization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant."},{"word":"Authorized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Authorize"},{"word":"Authorizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Authorize"},{"word":"Authorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary."},{"word":"Authorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage."},{"word":"Authorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage."},{"word":"Authorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report."},{"word":"Authorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To justify; to furnish a ground for."},{"word":"Authorized","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent."},{"word":"Authorized","type":"(a.)","description":"Sanctioned by authority."},{"word":"Authorizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who authorizes."},{"word":"Authorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without an author; without authority; anonymous."},{"word":"Authorly","type":"(a.)","description":"Authorial."},{"word":"Authorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author."},{"word":"Authorship","type":"(n.)","description":"Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs."},{"word":"Authotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph."},{"word":"Auto-","type":"()","description":"A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own."},{"word":"Autobiographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writers his own life or biography."},{"word":"Autobiographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autobiographical"},{"word":"Autobiographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch."},{"word":"Autobiographist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes his own life; an autobiographer."},{"word":"Autobiographies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Autobiography"},{"word":"Autobiography","type":"(n.)","description":"A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self."},{"word":"Autocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autocarpian"},{"word":"Autocarpian","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape."},{"word":"Autocephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches."},{"word":"Autochronograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time."},{"word":"Authochthons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Autochthon"},{"word":"Autochthones","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Autochthon"},{"word":"Autochthon","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians."},{"word":"Autochthon","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin."},{"word":"Autochthonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autochthonous"},{"word":"Authochthonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autochthonous"},{"word":"Autochthonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Aboriginal; indigenous; native."},{"word":"Autochthonism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being autochthonal."},{"word":"Autochthony","type":"(n.)","description":"An aboriginal or autochthonous condition."},{"word":"Autoclave","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid."},{"word":"Autocracies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Autocracy"},{"word":"Autocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy."},{"word":"Autocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat."},{"word":"Autocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy."},{"word":"Autocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle."},{"word":"Autocrat","type":"(a.)","description":"An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar)."},{"word":"Autocrat","type":"(a.)","description":"One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot."},{"word":"Autocratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autocratical"},{"word":"Autocratical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government."},{"word":"Autocrator","type":"(n.)","description":"An autocrat."},{"word":"Autocratorical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute."},{"word":"Autocratrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia."},{"word":"Autocratship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or dignity of an autocrat."},{"word":"Autos-da-fe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Auto-da-fe"},{"word":"Auto-da-fe","type":"(n.)","description":"A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses."},{"word":"Auto-da-fe","type":"(n.)","description":"An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies."},{"word":"Auto-da-fe","type":"(n.)","description":"A session of the court of Inquisition."},{"word":"Autos-de-fe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Auto-de-fe"},{"word":"Auto-de-fe","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Auto-da-fe."},{"word":"Autodidact","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is self-taught; an automath."},{"word":"Autodynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram."},{"word":"Autofecundation","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-impregnation."},{"word":"Autogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized."},{"word":"Autogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon."},{"word":"Autogeneal","type":"(a.)","description":"Self-produced; autogenous."},{"word":"Autogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Spontaneous generation."},{"word":"Autogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to autogenesis; self-generated."},{"word":"Autogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Self-generated; produced independently."},{"word":"Autogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Developed from an independent center of ossification."},{"word":"Autogenously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an autogenous manner; spontaneously."},{"word":"Autograph","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting."},{"word":"Autograph","type":"(a.)","description":"In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will."},{"word":"Autographal","type":"(a.)","description":"Autographic."},{"word":"Autographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autographical"},{"word":"Autographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph."},{"word":"Autographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or used in, the process of autography; as, autographic ink, paper, or press."},{"word":"Autography","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph."},{"word":"Autography","type":"(n.)","description":"A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone."},{"word":"Autolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-worship."},{"word":"Automath","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is self-taught."},{"word":"Automatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Automatical"},{"word":"Automatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an inherent power of action or motion."},{"word":"Automatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse."},{"word":"Automatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions."},{"word":"Automatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an automatic manner."},{"word":"Automatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter."},{"word":"Automata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Automaton"},{"word":"Automatons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Automaton"},{"word":"Automaton","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action."},{"word":"Automaton","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc."},{"word":"Automatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Automatic."},{"word":"Automorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Patterned after one's self."},{"word":"Automorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"Automorphic characterization."},{"word":"Autonomasy","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, \"He has gone to town,\" for, \"He has gone to London.\""},{"word":"Autonomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of self-government; autonomous."},{"word":"Autoomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who advocates autonomy."},{"word":"Autonomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government."},{"word":"Autonomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having independent existence or laws."},{"word":"Autonomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state."},{"word":"Autonomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty."},{"word":"Autophagi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched."},{"word":"Autophoby","type":"(n.)","description":"Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical."},{"word":"Autophony","type":"(n.)","description":"An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest."},{"word":"Autoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to autoplasty."},{"word":"Autoplasty","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds."},{"word":"Autopsic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autopsical"},{"word":"Autopsical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to autopsy; autoptical."},{"word":"Autopsorin","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus."},{"word":"Autopsy","type":"(a.)","description":"Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view."},{"word":"Autopsy","type":"(a.)","description":"Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination."},{"word":"Autoptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autoptical"},{"word":"Autoptical","type":"(a.)","description":"Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience."},{"word":"Autoptically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By means of ocular view, or one's own observation."},{"word":"Autoschediastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Autoschediastical"},{"word":"Autoschediastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Extemporary; offhand."},{"word":"Autostylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia."},{"word":"Autotheism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of God's self-existence."},{"word":"Autotheism","type":"(n.)","description":"Deification of one's self; self-worship."},{"word":"Autotheist","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to self-worship."},{"word":"Autotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A facsimile."},{"word":"Autotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate."},{"word":"Autotypography","type":"(n.)","description":"A process resembling \"nature printing,\" by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate."},{"word":"Autotypy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of making autotypes."},{"word":"Autumn","type":"(n.)","description":"The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called \"the fall.\" Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November."},{"word":"Autumn","type":"(n.)","description":"The harvest or fruits of autumn."},{"word":"Autumn","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage."},{"word":"Autumnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant."},{"word":"Autumnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Past the middle of life; in the third stage."},{"word":"Auxanometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to measure the growth of plants."},{"word":"Auxesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole."},{"word":"Auxetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying."},{"word":"Auxiliar","type":"(a.)","description":"Auxiliary."},{"word":"Auxiliar","type":"(n.)","description":"An auxiliary."},{"word":"Auxiliarly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of help."},{"word":"Auxiliary","type":"(a.)","description":"Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops."},{"word":"Auxiliaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Auxiliary"},{"word":"Auxiliary","type":"(n.)","description":"A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise."},{"word":"Auxiliary","type":"(n.)","description":"Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force."},{"word":"Auxiliary","type":"(sing.)","description":"A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish."},{"word":"Auxiliary","type":"(sing.)","description":"A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae."},{"word":"Auxiliatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Auxiliary; helping."},{"word":"Ava","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Kava."},{"word":"Avadavat","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amadavat."},{"word":"Availed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Avail"},{"word":"Availing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Avail"},{"word":"Avail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment."},{"word":"Avail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To promote; to assist."},{"word":"Avail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease."},{"word":"Avail","type":"(n.)","description":"Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail."},{"word":"Avail","type":"(n.)","description":"Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction."},{"word":"Avail","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Avale, v."},{"word":"Availabilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Availability"},{"word":"Availability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being available; availableness."},{"word":"Availability","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is available."},{"word":"Available","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea."},{"word":"Available","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate."},{"word":"Availableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title."},{"word":"Availableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended."},{"word":"Avaiably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously."},{"word":"Availment","type":"(n.)","description":"Profit; advantage."},{"word":"Avalanche","type":"(n.)","description":"A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice."},{"word":"Avalanche","type":"(n.)","description":"A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice."},{"word":"Avalanche","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything."},{"word":"Avale","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff."},{"word":"Avale","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To bring low; to abase."},{"word":"Avale","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To descend; to fall; to dismount."},{"word":"Avant","type":"(n.)","description":"The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van."},{"word":"Avant-courier","type":"(n.)","description":"A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach."},{"word":"Avant-guard","type":"(n.)","description":"The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard."},{"word":"Avarice","type":"(n.)","description":"An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity."},{"word":"Avarice","type":"(n.)","description":"An inordinate desire for some supposed good."},{"word":"Avaricious","type":"(a.)","description":"Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property."},{"word":"Avarous","type":"(a.)","description":"Avaricious."},{"word":"Avast","type":"(a.)","description":"Cease; stop; stay."},{"word":"Avatar","type":"(n.)","description":"The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu."},{"word":"Avatar","type":"(n.)","description":"Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration."},{"word":"Avaunce","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To advance; to profit."},{"word":"Avaunt","type":"(interj.)","description":"Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase \"Get thee gone.\""},{"word":"Avaunt","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To advance; to move forward; to elevate."},{"word":"Avaunt","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To depart; to move away."},{"word":"Avaunt","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To vaunt; to boast."},{"word":"Avaunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A vaunt; to boast."},{"word":"Avauntour","type":"(n.)","description":"A boaster."},{"word":"Ave","type":"(n.)","description":"An ave Maria."},{"word":"Ave","type":"(n.)","description":"A reverential salutation."},{"word":"Avel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pull away."},{"word":"Avellane","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross."},{"word":"Ave","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Ave Mary"},{"word":"Ave","type":"()","description":"A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church."},{"word":"Ave","type":"()","description":"A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria."},{"word":"Avena","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses."},{"word":"Avenaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses."},{"word":"Avenage","type":"(n.)","description":"A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent."},{"word":"Avener","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses."},{"word":"Avenged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Avenge"},{"word":"Avenging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Avenge"},{"word":"Avenge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer."},{"word":"Avenge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on."},{"word":"Avenge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take vengeance."},{"word":"Avenge","type":"(n.)","description":"Vengeance; revenge."},{"word":"Avengeance","type":"(n.)","description":"Vengeance."},{"word":"Avengeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Vengeful."},{"word":"Avengement","type":"(n.)","description":"The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken."},{"word":"Avenger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood."},{"word":"Avenger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes vengeance."},{"word":"Avengeress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female avenger."},{"word":"Avenious","type":"(a.)","description":"Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants."},{"word":"Avenor","type":"(n.)","description":"See Avener."},{"word":"Avens","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet."},{"word":"Aventail","type":"(n.)","description":"The movable front to a helmet; the ventail."},{"word":"Aventine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood."},{"word":"Aventine","type":"(n.)","description":"A post of security or defense."},{"word":"Aventre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear."},{"word":"Aventure","type":"(n.)","description":"Accident; chance; adventure."},{"word":"Aventure","type":"(n.)","description":"A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire."},{"word":"Aventurine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass."},{"word":"Aventurine","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica."},{"word":"Avenue","type":"(n.)","description":"A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit."},{"word":"Avenue","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered."},{"word":"Avenue","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York."},{"word":"Aver","type":"(n.)","description":"A work horse, or working ox."},{"word":"Averred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Aver"},{"word":"Averring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Aver"},{"word":"Aver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assert, or prove, the truth of."},{"word":"Aver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment."},{"word":"Aver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth."},{"word":"Average","type":"(n.)","description":"That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc."},{"word":"Average","type":"(n.)","description":"A tariff or duty on goods, etc."},{"word":"Average","type":"(n.)","description":"Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped."},{"word":"Average","type":"(n.)","description":"A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils."},{"word":"Average","type":"(n.)","description":"The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested."},{"word":"Average","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10."},{"word":"Average","type":"(n.)","description":"Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc."},{"word":"Average","type":"(n.)","description":"In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets."},{"word":"Average","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp."},{"word":"Average","type":"(a.)","description":"According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution."},{"word":"Averaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Average"},{"word":"Averaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Average"},{"word":"Average","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean."},{"word":"Average","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss."},{"word":"Average","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average."},{"word":"Average","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length."},{"word":"Avercorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers."},{"word":"Averment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion."},{"word":"Averment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Verification; establishment by evidence."},{"word":"Averment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged."},{"word":"Avernal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Avernian"},{"word":"Avernian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions."},{"word":"Averpenny","type":"(n.)","description":"Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average."},{"word":"Averroism","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenets of the Averroists."},{"word":"Averroist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism."},{"word":"Averruncate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To avert; to ward off."},{"word":"Averruncate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To root up."},{"word":"Averruncation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of averting."},{"word":"Averruncation","type":"(n.)","description":"Eradication."},{"word":"Averruncator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod."},{"word":"Aversation","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning from with dislike; aversion."},{"word":"Averse","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned away or backward."},{"word":"Averse","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant."},{"word":"Averse","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To turn away."},{"word":"Aversely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely."},{"word":"Aversely","type":"(adv.)","description":"With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly."},{"word":"Averseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness."},{"word":"Aversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning away."},{"word":"Aversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance."},{"word":"Aversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The object of dislike or repugnance."},{"word":"Averted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Avert"},{"word":"Averting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Avert"},{"word":"Avert","type":"(n.)","description":"To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? \"To avert his ire.\""},{"word":"Avert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn away."},{"word":"Averted","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious."},{"word":"Averter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, averts."},{"word":"Avertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being averted; preventable."},{"word":"Avertiment","type":"(n.)","description":"Advertisement."},{"word":"Aves","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds."},{"word":"Avesta","type":"(n.)","description":"The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta."},{"word":"Avian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or instrument to birds."},{"word":"Aviaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Aviary"},{"word":"Aviary","type":"(n.)","description":"A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house."},{"word":"Aviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of flying."},{"word":"Aviator","type":"(n.)","description":"An experimenter in aviation."},{"word":"Aviator","type":"(n.)","description":"A flying machine."},{"word":"Avicula","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird."},{"word":"Avicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds."},{"word":"Avicularia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill."},{"word":"Aviculture","type":"(n.)","description":"Rearing and care of birds."},{"word":"Avid","type":"(a.)","description":"Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy."},{"word":"Avidious","type":"(a.)","description":"Avid."},{"word":"Avidiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Eagerly; greedily."},{"word":"Avidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity."},{"word":"Avie","type":"(adv.)","description":"Emulously."},{"word":"Avifauna","type":"(n.)","description":"The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region."},{"word":"Avigato","type":"(n.)","description":"See Avocado."},{"word":"Avignon","type":"()","description":"The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry."},{"word":"Avile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate."},{"word":"Avis","type":"(n.)","description":"Advice; opinion; deliberation."},{"word":"Avise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look at; to view; to think of."},{"word":"Avise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advise; to counsel."},{"word":"Avise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To consider; to reflect."},{"word":"Aviseful","type":"(a.)","description":"Watchful; circumspect."},{"word":"Avisely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Advisedly."},{"word":"Avisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Advisement; observation; deliberation."},{"word":"Avision","type":"(n.)","description":"Vision."},{"word":"Aviso","type":"(n.)","description":"Information; advice."},{"word":"Aviso","type":"(n.)","description":"An advice boat, or dispatch boat."},{"word":"Avocado","type":"(n.)","description":"The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter."},{"word":"Avocat","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate."},{"word":"Avocate","type":"(a.)","description":"To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal."},{"word":"Avocation","type":"(n.)","description":"A calling away; a diversion."},{"word":"Avocation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation."},{"word":"Avocation","type":"(n.)","description":"Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation."},{"word":"Avocative","type":"(a.)","description":"Calling off."},{"word":"Avocative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which calls aside; a dissuasive."},{"word":"Avocet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Avoset"},{"word":"Avoset","type":"(n.)","description":"A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana."},{"word":"Avoided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Avoid"},{"word":"Avoiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Avoid"},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(a.)","description":"To empty."},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(a.)","description":"To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions."},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(a.)","description":"To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from."},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(a.)","description":"To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute."},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(a.)","description":"To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters."},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(a.)","description":"To get rid of."},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(a.)","description":"To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter."},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To retire; to withdraw."},{"word":"Avoid","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become void or vacant."},{"word":"Avoidable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable."},{"word":"Avoidable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped."},{"word":"Avoidance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of annulling; annulment."},{"word":"Avoidance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent."},{"word":"Avoidance","type":"(n.)","description":"A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal."},{"word":"Avoidance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of."},{"word":"Avoidance","type":"(n.)","description":"The courts by which anything is carried off."},{"word":"Avoider","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away."},{"word":"Avoider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who avoids, shuns, or escapes."},{"word":"Avoidless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unavoidable; inevitable."},{"word":"Avoirdupois","type":"(n.)","description":"Goods sold by weight."},{"word":"Avoirdupois","type":"(n.)","description":"Avoirdupois weight."},{"word":"Avoirdupois","type":"(n.)","description":"Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois."},{"word":"Avoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call from or back again."},{"word":"Avolate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fly away; to escape; to exhale."},{"word":"Avolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flying; flight; evaporation."},{"word":"Avoset","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Avocet."},{"word":"Avouched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Avouch"},{"word":"Avouching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Avouch"},{"word":"Avouch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority."},{"word":"Avouch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To maintain a just or true; to vouch for."},{"word":"Avouch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly."},{"word":"Avouch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction."},{"word":"Avouch","type":"(n.)","description":"Evidence; declaration."},{"word":"Avouchable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being avouched."},{"word":"Avoucher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who avouches."},{"word":"Avouchment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of avouching; positive declaration."},{"word":"Avoutrer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Advoutrer."},{"word":"Avoutrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Adultery."},{"word":"Avowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Avow"},{"word":"Avowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Avow"},{"word":"Avow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes."},{"word":"Avow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry."},{"word":"Avow","type":"(n.)","description":"Avowal."},{"word":"Avow","type":"(n.)","description":"To bind, or to devote, by a vow."},{"word":"Avow","type":"(n.)","description":"A vow or determination."},{"word":"Avowable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence."},{"word":"Avowal","type":"(n.)","description":"An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles."},{"word":"Avowance","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of avowing; avowal."},{"word":"Avowance","type":"(n.)","description":"Upholding; defense; vindication."},{"word":"Avowant","type":"(n.)","description":"The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking."},{"word":"Avowed","type":"(a.)","description":"Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted."},{"word":"Avowee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson."},{"word":"Avower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who avows or asserts."},{"word":"Avowry","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate; a patron; a patron saint."},{"word":"Avowry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right."},{"word":"Avowtry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Adultery. See Advoutry."},{"word":"Avoyer","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland."},{"word":"Avulse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pluck or pull off."},{"word":"Avulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"A tearing asunder; a forcible separation."},{"word":"Avulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragment torn off."},{"word":"Avulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner."},{"word":"Avuncular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an uncle."},{"word":"Awaited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Await"},{"word":"Awaiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Await"},{"word":"Await","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To watch for; to look out for."},{"word":"Await","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait on, serve, or attend."},{"word":"Await","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect."},{"word":"Await","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good."},{"word":"Await","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To watch."},{"word":"Await","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wait (on or upon)."},{"word":"Await","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wait; to stay in waiting."},{"word":"Await","type":"(n.)","description":"A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed."},{"word":"Awoke","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Awake"},{"word":"Awaked","type":"()","description":"of Awake"},{"word":"Awaked","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Awake"},{"word":"Awaken","type":"()","description":"of Awake"},{"word":"Awoken","type":"()","description":"of Awake"},{"word":"Awaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Awake"},{"word":"Awoke","type":"()","description":"of Awake"},{"word":"Awake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken."},{"word":"Awake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties."},{"word":"Awake","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death."},{"word":"Awake","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action."},{"word":"Awakened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Awaken"},{"word":"Awakening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Awaken"},{"word":"Awaken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake."},{"word":"Awakener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, awakens."},{"word":"Awakening","type":"(a.)","description":"Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn."},{"word":"Awakening","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual."},{"word":"Awakenment","type":"(n.)","description":"An awakening."},{"word":"Awanting","type":"(a.)","description":"Missing; wanting."},{"word":"Awarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Award"},{"word":"Awarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Award"},{"word":"Award","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant."},{"word":"Award","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To determine; to make an award."},{"word":"Award","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted."},{"word":"Award","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded."},{"word":"Awarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge."},{"word":"Aware","type":"(a.)","description":"Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty."},{"word":"Aware","type":"(a.)","description":"Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs."},{"word":"Awarn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To warn."},{"word":"Awash","type":"(a.)","description":"Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it."},{"word":"Away","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a place; hence."},{"word":"Away","type":"(adv.)","description":"Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home."},{"word":"Away","type":"(adv.)","description":"Aside; off; in another direction."},{"word":"Away","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a state or condition of being; out of existence."},{"word":"Away","type":"(adv.)","description":"By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away."},{"word":"Away","type":"(adv.)","description":"On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away."},{"word":"Away-going","type":"(a.)","description":"Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops."},{"word":"Awayward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Turned away; away."},{"word":"Awe","type":"(n.)","description":"Dread; great fear mingled with respect."},{"word":"Awe","type":"(n.)","description":"The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence."},{"word":"Awed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Awe"},{"word":"Awing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Awe"},{"word":"Awe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread."},{"word":"Awearied","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Wearied."},{"word":"Aweary","type":"(a.)","description":"Weary."},{"word":"Aweather","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather!"},{"word":"Aweigh","type":"(adv.)","description":"Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor."},{"word":"Aweless","type":"(a.)","description":"See Awless."},{"word":"Awesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight."},{"word":"Awesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressive of awe or terror."},{"word":"Awesomeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being awesome."},{"word":"Awe-stricken","type":"(a.)","description":"Awe-struck."},{"word":"Awe-struck","type":"(a.)","description":"Struck with awe."},{"word":"Awful","type":"(a.)","description":"Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene."},{"word":"Awful","type":"(a.)","description":"Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive."},{"word":"Awful","type":"(a.)","description":"Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken."},{"word":"Awful","type":"(a.)","description":"Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding."},{"word":"Awful","type":"(a.)","description":"Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster."},{"word":"Awfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently."},{"word":"Awfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"Very; excessively."},{"word":"Awfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place."},{"word":"Awfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence."},{"word":"Awhape","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confound; to terrify; to amaze."},{"word":"Awhile","type":"(adv.)","description":"For a while; for some time; for a short time."},{"word":"Awing","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the wing; flying; fluttering."},{"word":"Awk","type":"(a.)","description":"Odd; out of order; perverse."},{"word":"Awk","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end)."},{"word":"Awk","type":"(a.)","description":"Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward."},{"word":"Awk","type":"(adv.)","description":"Perversely; in the wrong way."},{"word":"Awkly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner."},{"word":"Awkly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Awkwardly."},{"word":"Awkward","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy."},{"word":"Awkward","type":"(a.)","description":"Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing."},{"word":"Awkward","type":"(a.)","description":"Perverse; adverse; untoward."},{"word":"Awl","type":"(n.)","description":"A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc."},{"word":"Awless","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear."},{"word":"Awless","type":"(a.)","description":"Inspiring no awe."},{"word":"Awlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being awless."},{"word":"Awl-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like an awl."},{"word":"Awl-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Subulate. See Subulate."},{"word":"Awlwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves."},{"word":"Awm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aam."},{"word":"Awn","type":"(n.)","description":"The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista."},{"word":"Awned","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded."},{"word":"Awning","type":"(n.)","description":"A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind."},{"word":"Awning","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin."},{"word":"Awninged","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with an awning."},{"word":"Awnless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without awns or beard."},{"word":"Awny","type":"(a.)","description":"Having awns; bearded."},{"word":"Awork","type":"(adv.)","description":"At work; in action."},{"word":"Aworking","type":"(adv.)","description":"At work; in action."},{"word":"Awreak","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Alt. of Awreke"},{"word":"Awreke","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To avenge. [Obs.] See Wreak."},{"word":"Awrong","type":"(adv.)","description":"Wrongly."},{"word":"Awry","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry."},{"word":"Awry","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely."},{"word":"Awsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Awesome."},{"word":"Ax","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Axe"},{"word":"Axe","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle."},{"word":"Ax","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To ask; to inquire or inquire of."},{"word":"Axal","type":"(a.)","description":"[See Axial.]"},{"word":"Axe","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Axeman"},{"word":"Axeman","type":"()","description":"See Ax, Axman."},{"word":"Axial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis."},{"word":"Axial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones."},{"word":"Axially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In relation to, or in a line with, an axis; in the axial (magnetic) line."},{"word":"Axil","type":"(n.)","description":"The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs."},{"word":"Axile","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed."},{"word":"Axillae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Axilla"},{"word":"Axilla","type":"(n.)","description":"The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder."},{"word":"Axilla","type":"(n.)","description":"An axil."},{"word":"Axillar","type":"(a.)","description":"Axillary."},{"word":"Axillaries","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Axillars"},{"word":"Axillars","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing."},{"word":"Axillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve."},{"word":"Axillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil."},{"word":"Axinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges."},{"word":"Axinomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet."},{"word":"Axiom","type":"(a.)","description":"A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, \"The whole is greater than a part;\" \"A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be.\""},{"word":"Axiom","type":"(a.)","description":"An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy."},{"word":"Axiomatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Axiomatical"},{"word":"Axiomatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms."},{"word":"Axiomatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom."},{"word":"Axis","type":"(n.)","description":"The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name)."},{"word":"Axes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Axis"},{"word":"Axis","type":"(n.)","description":"A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged."},{"word":"Axis","type":"(n.)","description":"A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center."},{"word":"Axis","type":"(n.)","description":"The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body."},{"word":"Axis","type":"(n.)","description":"The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata."},{"word":"Axis","type":"(n.)","description":"Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon."},{"word":"Axis","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded."},{"word":"Axis","type":"(n.)","description":"The primary or secondary central line of any design."},{"word":"Axle","type":"(n.)","description":"The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel."},{"word":"Axle","type":"(n.)","description":"A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree."},{"word":"Axle","type":"(n.)","description":"An axis; as, the sun's axle."},{"word":"Axle","type":"()","description":"A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes."},{"word":"Axle","type":"()","description":"The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle."},{"word":"Axled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an axle; -- used in composition."},{"word":"Axle","type":"()","description":"The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England."},{"word":"Axletree","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve."},{"word":"Axletree","type":"(n.)","description":"A spindle or axle of a wheel."},{"word":"Axmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Axman"},{"word":"Axman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wields an ax."},{"word":"Axminster","type":"(n.)","description":"An Axminster carpet, an imitation Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile; -- so called from Axminster, Eng."},{"word":"Axolotl","type":"(n.)","description":"An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico; the siredon."},{"word":"Axstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets."},{"word":"Axtree","type":"(n.)","description":"Axle or axletree."},{"word":"Axunge","type":"(n.)","description":"Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use."},{"word":"Ay","type":"(interj.)","description":"Ah! alas!"},{"word":"Ay","type":"(adv.)","description":"Same as Aye."},{"word":"Ayah","type":"(n.)","description":"A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid."},{"word":"Aye","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Ay"},{"word":"Ay","type":"(adv.)","description":"Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc."},{"word":"Aye","type":"(n.)","description":"An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, \"To call for the ayes and noes;\" \"The ayes have it.\""},{"word":"Aye","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ay"},{"word":"Ay","type":"(a.)","description":"Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time."},{"word":"Aye-aye","type":"(n.)","description":"A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth."},{"word":"Ayegreen","type":"(n.)","description":"The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum)."},{"word":"Ayen","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"Alt. of Ayeins"},{"word":"Ayein","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"Alt. of Ayeins"},{"word":"Ayeins","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"Again; back against."},{"word":"Ayenward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Backward."},{"word":"Ayle","type":"(n.)","description":"A grandfather."},{"word":"Ayme","type":"(n.)","description":"The utterance of the ejaculation \"Ay me !\" [Obs.] See Ay, interj."},{"word":"Ayond","type":"(prep. & adv.)","description":"Beyond."},{"word":"Ayont","type":"(prep. & adv.)","description":"Beyond."},{"word":"Ayrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ayry"},{"word":"Ayry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aerie."},{"word":"Ayrshire","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk."},{"word":"Ayuntamiento","type":"(n.)","description":"In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen."},{"word":"Azaleas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Azalea"},{"word":"Azalea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron."},{"word":"Azarole","type":"(n.)","description":"The Neapolitan medlar (Crataegus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit."},{"word":"Azedarach","type":"(n.)","description":"A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree."},{"word":"Azedarach","type":"(n.)","description":"The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic."},{"word":"Azimuth","type":"(n.)","description":"The quadrant of an azimuth circle."},{"word":"Azimuth","type":"(n.)","description":"An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying."},{"word":"Azimuthal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle."},{"word":"Azo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form of azote"},{"word":"Azo-","type":"()","description":"Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc."},{"word":"Azo-","type":"()","description":"Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-."},{"word":"Azobenzene","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible."},{"word":"Azoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks."},{"word":"Azoleic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid."},{"word":"Azonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Confined to no zone or region; not local."},{"word":"Azorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Azores."},{"word":"Azorian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of the Azores."},{"word":"Azote","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Nitrogen."},{"word":"Azoth","type":"(n.)","description":"The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them."},{"word":"Azoth","type":"(n.)","description":"The universal remedy of Paracelsus."},{"word":"Azotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid."},{"word":"Azotite","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite."},{"word":"Azotized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Azotize"},{"word":"Azotizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Azotize"},{"word":"Azotize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize."},{"word":"Azotometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer."},{"word":"Azotous","type":"(a.)","description":"Nitrous; as, azotous acid."},{"word":"Aztec","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519."},{"word":"Aztec","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Aztec race or people."},{"word":"Azure","type":"(a.)","description":"Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless."},{"word":"Azure","type":"(n.)","description":"The lapis lazuli."},{"word":"Azure","type":"(n.)","description":"The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color."},{"word":"Azure","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue vault above; the unclouded sky."},{"word":"Azure","type":"(n.)","description":"A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines."},{"word":"Azure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To color blue."},{"word":"Azured","type":"(a.)","description":"Of an azure color; sky-blue."},{"word":"Azureous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a fine blue color; azure."},{"word":"Azurine","type":"(a.)","description":"Azure."},{"word":"Azurine","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus); -- so called from its color."},{"word":"Azurite","type":"(n.)","description":"Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite."},{"word":"Azurn","type":"(a.)","description":"Azure."},{"word":"Azygous","type":"(a.)","description":"Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula."},{"word":"Azym","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Azyme"},{"word":"Azyme","type":"(n.)","description":"Unleavened bread."},{"word":"Azymic","type":"(a.)","description":"Azymous."},{"word":"Azymite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins."},{"word":"Azymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Unleavened; unfermented."},{"word":"B","type":"()","description":"is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.\"epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B."},{"word":"Ba","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To kiss."},{"word":"Baa","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep."},{"word":"Baas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Baa"},{"word":"Baa","type":"(n.)","description":"The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat."},{"word":"Baaing","type":"(n.)","description":"The bleating of a sheep."},{"word":"Baalim","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Baal"},{"word":"Baal","type":"(n.)","description":"The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations."},{"word":"Baal","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied."},{"word":"Baalism","type":"(n.)","description":"Worship of Baal; idolatry."},{"word":"Baalist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Baalite"},{"word":"Baalite","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater."},{"word":"Baba","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of plum cake."},{"word":"Babbitt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To line with Babbitt metal."},{"word":"Babbitt","type":"()","description":"A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction."},{"word":"Babbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Babble"},{"word":"Babbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Babble"},{"word":"Babble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles."},{"word":"Babble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words."},{"word":"Babble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk much; to chatter; to prate."},{"word":"Babble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones."},{"word":"Babble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding."},{"word":"Babble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To disclose by too free talk, as a secret."},{"word":"Babble","type":"(n.)","description":"Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle."},{"word":"Babble","type":"(n.)","description":"Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur."},{"word":"Babblement","type":"(n.)","description":"Babble."},{"word":"Babbler","type":"(n.)","description":"An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets."},{"word":"Babbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A hound too noisy on finding a good scent."},{"word":"Babbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to any one of family (Timalinae) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note."},{"word":"Babblery","type":"(n.)","description":"Babble."},{"word":"Babe","type":"(n.)","description":"An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby."},{"word":"Babe","type":"(n.)","description":"A doll for children."},{"word":"Babehood","type":"(n.)","description":"Babyhood."},{"word":"Babel","type":"(n.)","description":"The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place."},{"word":"Babel","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages."},{"word":"Babery","type":"(n.)","description":"Finery of a kind to please a child."},{"word":"Babian","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Babion"},{"word":"Babion","type":"(n.)","description":"A baboon."},{"word":"Babillard","type":"(n.)","description":"The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler."},{"word":"Babingtonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime."},{"word":"Babiroussa","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Babirussa"},{"word":"Babirussa","type":"(n.)","description":"A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, / Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved."},{"word":"Babish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a babe; a childish; babyish."},{"word":"Babism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements."},{"word":"Babist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in Babism."},{"word":"Bablah","type":"(n.)","description":"The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab."},{"word":"Baboo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Babu"},{"word":"Babu","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hindoo gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire."},{"word":"Baboon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape."},{"word":"Baboonery","type":"(n.)","description":"Baboonish behavior."},{"word":"Baboonish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a baboon."},{"word":"Babies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Baby"},{"word":"Baby","type":"(n.)","description":"An infant or young child of either sex; a babe."},{"word":"Baby","type":"(n.)","description":"A small image of an infant; a doll."},{"word":"Baby","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans."},{"word":"Babied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Baby"},{"word":"Babying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Baby"},{"word":"Baby","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle."},{"word":"Baby","type":"()","description":"A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire."},{"word":"Baby","type":"()","description":"One who keeps a baby farm."},{"word":"Baby","type":"()","description":"The business of keeping a baby farm."},{"word":"Babyhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or period of infancy."},{"word":"Babyhouse","type":"(a.)","description":"A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture."},{"word":"Babyish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple."},{"word":"Babyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a baby."},{"word":"Babyism","type":"(n.)","description":"A babyish manner of acting or speaking."},{"word":"Baby","type":"()","description":"A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor."},{"word":"Babylonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean."},{"word":"Babylonian","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean."},{"word":"Babylonian","type":"(n.)","description":"An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology."},{"word":"Babylonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Babylonical"},{"word":"Babylonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings."},{"word":"Babylonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Tumultuous; disorderly."},{"word":"Babylonish","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia."},{"word":"Babylonish","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8."},{"word":"Babylonish","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to Rome and papal power."},{"word":"Babylonish","type":"(n.)","description":"Confused; Babel-like."},{"word":"Babyroussa","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Babyrussa"},{"word":"Babyrussa","type":"(n.)","description":"See Babyroussa."},{"word":"Babyship","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant."},{"word":"Bac","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope."},{"word":"Bac","type":"(n.)","description":"A vat or cistern. See 1st Back."},{"word":"Baccalaureate","type":"(n.)","description":"The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges."},{"word":"Baccalaureate","type":"(n.)","description":"A baccalaureate sermon."},{"word":"Baccalaureate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a bachelor of arts."},{"word":"Baccara","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Baccarat"},{"word":"Baccarat","type":"(n.)","description":"A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters."},{"word":"Baccare","type":"(interj.)","description":"Alt. of Backare"},{"word":"Backare","type":"(interj.)","description":"Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess."},{"word":"Baccate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits."},{"word":"Baccated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having many berries."},{"word":"Baccated","type":"(a.)","description":"Set or adorned with pearls."},{"word":"Bacchanal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Bacchus or his festival."},{"word":"Bacchanal","type":"(a.)","description":"Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy."},{"word":"Bacchanal","type":"(n.)","description":"A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser."},{"word":"Bacchanal","type":"(n.)","description":"The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia."},{"word":"Bacchanal","type":"(n.)","description":"Drunken revelry; an orgy."},{"word":"Bacchanal","type":"(n.)","description":"A song or dance in honor of Bacchus."},{"word":"Bacchanalia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus."},{"word":"Bacchanalia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler."},{"word":"Bacchanalian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness."},{"word":"Bacchanalian","type":"(n.)","description":"A bacchanal; a drunken reveler."},{"word":"Bacchanalianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry."},{"word":"Bacchants","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bacchant"},{"word":"Bacchantes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bacchant"},{"word":"Bacchant","type":"(n.)","description":"A priest of Bacchus."},{"word":"Bacchant","type":"(n.)","description":"A bacchanal; a reveler."},{"word":"Bacchant","type":"(a.)","description":"Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing."},{"word":"Bacchantes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bacchante"},{"word":"Bacchante","type":"(n.)","description":"A priestess of Bacchus."},{"word":"Bacchante","type":"(n.)","description":"A female bacchanal."},{"word":"Bacchantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Bacchanalian."},{"word":"Bacchic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bacchical"},{"word":"Bacchical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication."},{"word":"Bacchii","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bacchius"},{"word":"Bacchius","type":"(n.)","description":"A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short."},{"word":"Bacchus","type":"(n.)","description":"The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele."},{"word":"Bacciferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing berries."},{"word":"Bacciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a berry."},{"word":"Baccivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds."},{"word":"Bace","type":"(n., a., & v.)","description":"See Base."},{"word":"Bacharach","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Backarack"},{"word":"Backarack","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine."},{"word":"Bachelor","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of any age who has not been married."},{"word":"Bachelor","type":"(n.)","description":"An unmarried woman."},{"word":"Bachelor","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts."},{"word":"Bachelor","type":"(n.)","description":"A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight."},{"word":"Bachelor","type":"(n.)","description":"In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member."},{"word":"Bachelor","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States."},{"word":"Bachelordom","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors."},{"word":"Bachelorhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship."},{"word":"Bachelorism","type":"(n.)","description":"Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors."},{"word":"Bachelor's","type":"()","description":"A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena)."},{"word":"Bachelorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a bachelor."},{"word":"Bachelry","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of young aspirants for knighthood."},{"word":"Bacillar","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a rod or staff."},{"word":"Bacillariae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Diatom."},{"word":"Bacillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped."},{"word":"Bacilliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Rod-shaped."},{"word":"Bacilli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bacillus"},{"word":"Bacillus","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"A ferryboat. See Bac, 1."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"A support or resource in reserve."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"The keel and keelson of a ship."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage."},{"word":"Back","type":"(n.)","description":"A garment for the back; hence, clothing."},{"word":"Back","type":"(a.)","description":"Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements."},{"word":"Back","type":"(a.)","description":"Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent."},{"word":"Back","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving or operating backward; as, back action."},{"word":"Backed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Back"},{"word":"Backing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Back"},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To get upon the back of; to mount."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To place or seat upon the back."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adjoin behind; to be at the back of."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind."},{"word":"Back","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"(Of time) In times past; ago."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"Away from contact; by reverse movement."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a state of restraint or hindrance."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"In return, repayment, or requital."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words."},{"word":"Back","type":"(adv.)","description":"In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent."},{"word":"Backarack","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bacharach."},{"word":"Backare","type":"(interj.)","description":"Same as Baccare."},{"word":"Backband","type":"(n.)","description":"The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage."},{"word":"Backbite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent)."},{"word":"Backbite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To censure or revile the absent."},{"word":"Backbiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor."},{"word":"Backbiting","type":"(n.)","description":"Secret slander; detraction."},{"word":"Backboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;"},{"word":"Backboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon."},{"word":"Backboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc."},{"word":"Backboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel."},{"word":"Backboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure."},{"word":"Backbond","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust."},{"word":"Backbone","type":"(n.)","description":"The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column."},{"word":"Backbone","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone."},{"word":"Backbone","type":"(n.)","description":"Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness."},{"word":"Backboned","type":"(a.)","description":"Vertebrate."},{"word":"Backcast","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse."},{"word":"Back","type":"()","description":"A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way."},{"word":"Backdoor","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues."},{"word":"Backdown","type":"(n.)","description":"A receding or giving up; a complete surrender."},{"word":"Backed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed."},{"word":"Backer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest."},{"word":"Backfall","type":"(n.)","description":"A fall or throw on the back in wrestling."},{"word":"Backfriend","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret enemy."},{"word":"Backgammon","type":"(n.)","description":"A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a \"board\" marked off into twenty-four spaces called \"points\". Each player has fifteen pieces, or \"men\", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables."},{"word":"Backgammon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first \"table\"."},{"word":"Background","type":"(n.)","description":"Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front."},{"word":"Background","type":"(n.)","description":"The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures."},{"word":"Background","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings."},{"word":"Background","type":"(n.)","description":"A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight."},{"word":"Backhand","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right."},{"word":"Backhand","type":"(a.)","description":"Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting."},{"word":"Backhand","type":"(a.)","description":"Backhanded; indirect; oblique."},{"word":"Backhanded","type":"(a.)","description":"With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow."},{"word":"Backhanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment."},{"word":"Backhanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters."},{"word":"Backhandedness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods."},{"word":"Backhander","type":"(n.)","description":"A backhanded blow."},{"word":"Backhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary."},{"word":"Backing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward."},{"word":"Backing","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability."},{"word":"Backing","type":"(n.)","description":"Support or aid given to a person or cause."},{"word":"Backing","type":"(n.)","description":"The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover."},{"word":"Backjoint","type":"(n.)","description":"A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling."},{"word":"Backlash","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion."},{"word":"Backless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a back."},{"word":"Backlog","type":"(n.)","description":"A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth."},{"word":"Backpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Backplate"},{"word":"Backplate","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back."},{"word":"Backrack","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Backrag"},{"word":"Backrag","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bacharach."},{"word":"Backs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides."},{"word":"Backsaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back."},{"word":"Backset","type":"(n.)","description":"A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback."},{"word":"Backset","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water."},{"word":"Backset","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring."},{"word":"Backsettler","type":"(n.)","description":"One living in the back or outlying districts of a community."},{"word":"Backsheesh","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Backshish"},{"word":"Backshish","type":"(n.)","description":"In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a \"tip\"."},{"word":"Backside","type":"(n.)","description":"The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal."},{"word":"Backsight","type":"(n.)","description":"The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3."},{"word":"Backslid","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Backslide"},{"word":"Backslidden","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Backslide"},{"word":"Backslid","type":"()","description":"of Backslide"},{"word":"Backsliding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Backslide"},{"word":"Backslide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed."},{"word":"Backslider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who backslides."},{"word":"Backsliding","type":"(a.)","description":"Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning."},{"word":"Backsliding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty."},{"word":"Backstaff","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed."},{"word":"Back","type":"()","description":"Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way."},{"word":"Backstairs","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Backstair"},{"word":"Backstair","type":"(a.)","description":"Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs."},{"word":"Backstay","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast."},{"word":"Backstay","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion."},{"word":"Backster","type":"(n.)","description":"A backer."},{"word":"Backstitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end."},{"word":"Backstitch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam."},{"word":"Backstress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female baker."},{"word":"Backsword","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword with one sharp edge."},{"word":"Backsword","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Backwards"},{"word":"Backwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward."},{"word":"Backwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward."},{"word":"Backwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the back, or with the back downward."},{"word":"Backwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward, or in, past time or events; ago."},{"word":"Backwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of reflection; reflexively."},{"word":"Backwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin."},{"word":"Backwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(a.)","description":"Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(a.)","description":"Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(a.)","description":"Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(a.)","description":"Late or behindhand; as, a backward season."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(a.)","description":"Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(a.)","description":"Already past or gone; bygone."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(n.)","description":"The state behind or past."},{"word":"Backward","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To keep back; to hinder."},{"word":"Backwardation","type":"(n.)","description":"The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango."},{"word":"Backwardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Reluctantly; slowly; aversely."},{"word":"Backwardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Perversely; ill."},{"word":"Backwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being backward."},{"word":"Backwash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To clean the oil from (wood) after combing."},{"word":"Backwater","type":"(n.)","description":"Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar."},{"word":"Backwater","type":"(n.)","description":"An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction."},{"word":"Backwater","type":"(n.)","description":"Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer."},{"word":"Backwoods","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers."},{"word":"Backwoodsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Backwoodsman"},{"word":"Backwoodsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States."},{"word":"Backworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of hawks. See Filanders."},{"word":"Bacon","type":"(n.)","description":"The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh."},{"word":"Baconian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy."},{"word":"Bacteria","type":"(n.p.)","description":"See Bacterium."},{"word":"Bacterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bacteria."},{"word":"Bactericidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Destructive of bacteria."},{"word":"Bactericide","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Germicide."},{"word":"Bacteriological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies."},{"word":"Bacteriologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in bacteriology."},{"word":"Bacteriology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science relating to bacteria."},{"word":"Bacterioscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination."},{"word":"Bacterioscopist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations."},{"word":"Bacterioscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water."},{"word":"Bacteria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bacterium"},{"word":"Bacterium","type":"(n.)","description":"A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus."},{"word":"Bacteroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bacteroidal"},{"word":"Bacteroidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles."},{"word":"Bactrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia."},{"word":"Bactrian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Bactria."},{"word":"Bacule","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bascule."},{"word":"Baculine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod."},{"word":"Baculite","type":"(n.)","description":"A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite."},{"word":"Baculometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs."},{"word":"Bad","type":"(imp.)","description":"Bade."},{"word":"Bad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news."},{"word":"Badder","type":"()","description":"compar. of Bad, a."},{"word":"Badderlocks","type":"(n.)","description":"A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware."},{"word":"Baddish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat bad; inferior."},{"word":"Bade","type":"()","description":"A form of the pat tense of Bid."},{"word":"Badge","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman."},{"word":"Badge","type":"(n.)","description":"Something characteristic; a mark; a token."},{"word":"Badge","type":"(n.)","description":"A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one."},{"word":"Badge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark or distinguish with a badge."},{"word":"Badgeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no badge."},{"word":"Badger","type":"(n.)","description":"An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another."},{"word":"Badger","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu."},{"word":"Badger","type":"(n.)","description":"A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists."},{"word":"Badgered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Badger"},{"word":"Badgering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Badger"},{"word":"Badger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently."},{"word":"Badger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain."},{"word":"Badgerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who badgers."},{"word":"Badgerer","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of dog used in badger baiting."},{"word":"Badgering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who badgers."},{"word":"Badgering","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit."},{"word":"Badger-legged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have."},{"word":"Badiaga","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises."},{"word":"Badian","type":"(n.)","description":"An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise."},{"word":"Badigeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface."},{"word":"Badinage","type":"(n.)","description":"Playful raillery; banter."},{"word":"Bad","type":"()","description":"Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by ca�ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands)."},{"word":"Badly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously."},{"word":"Badminton","type":"(n.)","description":"A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks."},{"word":"Badminton","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened."},{"word":"Badness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bad."},{"word":"Baenomere","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods."},{"word":"Baenopod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods."},{"word":"Baenosome","type":"(n.)","description":"The thorax of Arthropods."},{"word":"Baff","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow; a stroke."},{"word":"Baffled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Baffle"},{"word":"Baffling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Baffle"},{"word":"Baffle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight."},{"word":"Baffle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil."},{"word":"Baffle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart."},{"word":"Baffle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice deceit."},{"word":"Baffle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds."},{"word":"Baffle","type":"(n.)","description":"A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture."},{"word":"Bafflement","type":"(n.)","description":"The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check."},{"word":"Baffler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, baffles."},{"word":"Baffling","type":"(a.)","description":"Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks."},{"word":"Baft","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bafta."},{"word":"Bafta","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(n.)","description":"A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(n.)","description":"A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of game bagged."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee."},{"word":"Bagged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bag"},{"word":"Bagging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bag"},{"word":"Bag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a bag; as, to bag hops."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell with arrogance."},{"word":"Bag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become pregnant."},{"word":"Bagasse","type":"(n.)","description":"Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar."},{"word":"Bagatelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifle; a thing of no importance."},{"word":"Bagatelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player."},{"word":"Baggage","type":"(n.)","description":"The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army."},{"word":"Baggage","type":"(n.)","description":"The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage."},{"word":"Baggage","type":"(n.)","description":"Purulent matter."},{"word":"Baggage","type":"(n.)","description":"Trashy talk."},{"word":"Baggage","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of bad character."},{"word":"Baggage","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman of loose morals; a prostitute."},{"word":"Baggage","type":"(n.)","description":"A romping, saucy girl."},{"word":"Baggage","type":"()","description":"One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel."},{"word":"Baggager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower."},{"word":"Baggala","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean."},{"word":"Baggily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a loose, baggy way."},{"word":"Bagging","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth or other material for bags."},{"word":"Bagging","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag."},{"word":"Bagging","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of swelling; swelling."},{"word":"Bagging","type":"(n.)","description":"Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke."},{"word":"Baggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks."},{"word":"Bagmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bagman"},{"word":"Bagman","type":"(n.)","description":"A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen."},{"word":"Bag","type":"()","description":"A bag-shaped net for catching fish."},{"word":"Bagnio","type":"(n.)","description":"A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves."},{"word":"Bagnio","type":"(n.)","description":"A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution."},{"word":"Bagpipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland."},{"word":"Bagpipe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make to look like a bagpipe."},{"word":"Bagpiper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper."},{"word":"Bagreef","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails."},{"word":"Bague","type":"(n.)","description":"The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts."},{"word":"Baguet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Baguette"},{"word":"Baguette","type":"(n.)","description":"A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead."},{"word":"Baguette","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation."},{"word":"Bagwig","type":"(n.)","description":"A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag."},{"word":"Bagworm","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm."},{"word":"Bah","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt."},{"word":"Bahar","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds."},{"word":"Baigne","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To soak or drench."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat."},{"word":"Bailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bail"},{"word":"Bailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bail"},{"word":"Bail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(v./t.)","description":"To deliver; to release."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(v./t.)","description":"To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(v./t.)","description":"To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"Custody; keeping."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain limit within a forest."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"A division for the stalls of an open stable."},{"word":"Bail","type":"(n.)","description":"The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket."},{"word":"Bailable","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons."},{"word":"Bailable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense."},{"word":"Bailable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods."},{"word":"Bail","type":"()","description":"A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ."},{"word":"Bail","type":"()","description":"Special bail in court to abide the judgment."},{"word":"Bailee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust."},{"word":"Bailer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bailor."},{"word":"Bailer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bails or lades."},{"word":"Bailer","type":"(n.)","description":"A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit."},{"word":"Bailey","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer wall of a feudal castle."},{"word":"Bailey","type":"(n.)","description":"The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress."},{"word":"Bailey","type":"(n.)","description":"A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester."},{"word":"Bailie","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman."},{"word":"Bailiff","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted."},{"word":"Bailiff","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc."},{"word":"Bailiff","type":"(n.)","description":"An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc."},{"word":"Bailiffwick","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bailiwick."},{"word":"Bailiwick","type":"(n.)","description":"The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority."},{"word":"Baillie","type":"(n.)","description":"Bailiff."},{"word":"Baillie","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bailie."},{"word":"Bailment","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of bailing a person accused."},{"word":"Bailment","type":"(n.)","description":"A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed."},{"word":"Bailor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who delivers goods or money to another in trust."},{"word":"Bailpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond."},{"word":"Bain","type":"(n.)","description":"A bath; a bagnio."},{"word":"Bain-marie","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations."},{"word":"Bairam","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast."},{"word":"Bairn","type":"(n.)","description":"A child."},{"word":"Baisemains","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Respects; compliments."},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net."},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation."},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment."},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A light or hasty luncheon."},{"word":"Baited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bait"},{"word":"Baiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bait"},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull."},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses."},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook."},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey."},{"word":"Bait","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey."},{"word":"Baiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who baits; a tormentor."},{"word":"Baize","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors."},{"word":"Bajocco","type":"(n.)","description":"A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half."},{"word":"Baked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bake"},{"word":"Baking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bake"},{"word":"Bake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples."},{"word":"Bake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground."},{"word":"Bake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harden by cold."},{"word":"Bake","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes."},{"word":"Bake","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun."},{"word":"Bake","type":"(n.)","description":"The process, or result, of baking."},{"word":"Bakehouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A house for baking; a bakery."},{"word":"Bakemeat","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Baked-meat"},{"word":"Baked-meat","type":"(n.)","description":"A pie; baked food."},{"word":"Baken","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Bake."},{"word":"Baker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc."},{"word":"Baker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A portable oven in which baking is done."},{"word":"Baker-legged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having legs that bend inward at the knees."},{"word":"Bakery","type":"(n.)","description":"The trade of a baker."},{"word":"Bakery","type":"(n.)","description":"The place for baking bread; a bakehouse."},{"word":"Baking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold."},{"word":"Baking","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread."},{"word":"Bakingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hot or baking manner."},{"word":"Bakistre","type":"(n.)","description":"A baker."},{"word":"Baksheesh","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bakshish"},{"word":"Bakshish","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Backsheesh."},{"word":"Balaam","type":"(n.)","description":"A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking."},{"word":"Balachong","type":"(n.)","description":"A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China."},{"word":"Balaenoidea","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for weighing."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary)."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"The constellation Libra."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S."},{"word":"Balanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Balance"},{"word":"Balancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Balance"},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(n.)","description":"To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate."},{"word":"Balance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move toward a person or couple, and then back."},{"word":"Balanceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as can be balanced."},{"word":"Balancement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces."},{"word":"Balancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who balances, or uses a balance."},{"word":"Balancer","type":"(n.)","description":"In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing."},{"word":"Balancereef","type":"(n.)","description":"The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship."},{"word":"Balance","type":"()","description":"A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance."},{"word":"Balance","type":"()","description":"A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance)."},{"word":"Balance","type":"()","description":"A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel."},{"word":"Balaniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or producing acorns."},{"word":"Balanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil balanoid shell."},{"word":"Balanoglossus","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria."},{"word":"Balanoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle."},{"word":"Balas","type":"()","description":"A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel."},{"word":"Balaustine","type":"(n.)","description":"The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally."},{"word":"Balbutiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Balbucinate"},{"word":"Balbucinate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stammer."},{"word":"Balbuties","type":"(n.)","description":"The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation."},{"word":"Balcon","type":"(n.)","description":"A balcony."},{"word":"Balconied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having balconies."},{"word":"Balconies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Balcony"},{"word":"Balcony","type":"(n.)","description":"A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater."},{"word":"Balcony","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships."},{"word":"Bald","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak."},{"word":"Bald","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal."},{"word":"Bald","type":"(a.)","description":"Undisguised."},{"word":"Bald","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean."},{"word":"Bald","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat."},{"word":"Bald","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of the natural covering."},{"word":"Bald","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced."},{"word":"Baldachin","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich brocade; baudekin."},{"word":"Baldachin","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's."},{"word":"Baldachin","type":"(n.)","description":"A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession."},{"word":"Bald","type":"()","description":"The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head."},{"word":"Balder","type":"(n.)","description":"The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya."},{"word":"Balderdash","type":"(n.)","description":"A worthless mixture, especially of liquors."},{"word":"Balderdash","type":"(n.)","description":"Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash."},{"word":"Balderdash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix or adulterate, as liquors."},{"word":"Bald-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag."},{"word":"Baldhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A person whose head is bald."},{"word":"Baldhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A white-headed variety of pigeon."},{"word":"Baldheaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bald head."},{"word":"Baldly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly."},{"word":"Baldness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style."},{"word":"Baldpate","type":"(n.)","description":"A baldheaded person."},{"word":"Baldpate","type":"(n.)","description":"The American widgeon (Anas Americana)."},{"word":"Baldpate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Baldpated"},{"word":"Baldpated","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded."},{"word":"Baldrib","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat."},{"word":"Baldric","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt."},{"word":"Baldwin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple."},{"word":"Bale","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation."},{"word":"Baled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bale"},{"word":"Baling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bale"},{"word":"Bale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make up in a bale."},{"word":"Bale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Bail, v. t., to lade."},{"word":"Bale","type":"(n.)","description":"Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow."},{"word":"Bale","type":"(n.)","description":"Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury."},{"word":"Balearic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia."},{"word":"Baleen","type":"(n.)","description":"Plates or blades of \"whalebone,\" from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth."},{"word":"Balefire","type":"(n.)","description":"A signal fire; an alarm fire."},{"word":"Baleful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive."},{"word":"Baleful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad."},{"word":"Balefully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a baleful manner; perniciously."},{"word":"Balefulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being baleful."},{"word":"Balisaur","type":"(n.)","description":"A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris)."},{"word":"Balister","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbow."},{"word":"Balistoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidae. See Filefish."},{"word":"Balistraria","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged."},{"word":"Balize","type":"(n.)","description":"A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called \"the balks.\""},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A hindrance or disappointment; a check."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball."},{"word":"Balked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Balk"},{"word":"Balking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Balk"},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave or make balks in."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To omit, miss, or overlook by chance."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks."},{"word":"Balk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring."},{"word":"Balker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which balks."},{"word":"Balker","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer."},{"word":"Balkingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to balk or frustrate."},{"word":"Balkish","type":"(a.)","description":"Uneven; ridgy."},{"word":"Balky","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to balk; as, a balky horse."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"The globe or earth."},{"word":"Balled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ball"},{"word":"Balling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ball"},{"word":"Ball","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton."},{"word":"Ball","type":"(n.)","description":"A social assembly for the purpose of dancing."},{"word":"Ballad","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas."},{"word":"Ballad","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make or sing ballads."},{"word":"Ballad","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make mention of in ballads."},{"word":"Ballade","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy."},{"word":"Ballader","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of ballads."},{"word":"Ballad","type":"()","description":"A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster."},{"word":"Balladry","type":"(n.)","description":"Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads."},{"word":"Ballahoo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ballahou"},{"word":"Ballahou","type":"(n.)","description":"A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies."},{"word":"Ballarag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bully; to threaten."},{"word":"Ballast","type":"(a.)","description":"Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing."},{"word":"Ballast","type":"(a.)","description":"Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness."},{"word":"Ballast","type":"(a.)","description":"Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid."},{"word":"Ballast","type":"(a.)","description":"The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete."},{"word":"Ballast","type":"(a.)","description":"Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security."},{"word":"Ballasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ballast"},{"word":"Ballasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ballast"},{"word":"Ballast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold."},{"word":"Ballast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid."},{"word":"Ballast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep steady; to steady, morally."},{"word":"Ballastage","type":"(n.)","description":"A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor."},{"word":"Ballasting","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is used for steadying anything; ballast."},{"word":"Ballatry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Balladry."},{"word":"Ballet","type":"(n.)","description":"An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing."},{"word":"Ballet","type":"(n.)","description":"The company of persons who perform the ballet."},{"word":"Ballet","type":"(n.)","description":"A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers."},{"word":"Ballet","type":"(n.)","description":"A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color."},{"word":"Ball-flower","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding."},{"word":"Ballist/","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ballista"},{"word":"Ballista","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles."},{"word":"Ballister","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbow."},{"word":"Ballistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine."},{"word":"Ballistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile."},{"word":"Ballistics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine."},{"word":"Ballium","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bailey."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(n.)","description":"A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(n.)","description":"A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(n.)","description":"A bomb or shell."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played with a large inflated ball."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(n.)","description":"The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take up in, or as if in, a balloon."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go up or voyage in a balloon."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To expand, or puff out, like a balloon."},{"word":"Ballooned","type":"(a.)","description":"Swelled out like a balloon."},{"word":"Ballooner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut."},{"word":"Balloon","type":"()","description":"A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish."},{"word":"Ballooning","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them."},{"word":"Ballooning","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales."},{"word":"Ballooning","type":"()","description":"A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft."},{"word":"Balloonist","type":"(n.)","description":"An aeronaut."},{"word":"Balloonry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics."},{"word":"Ballot","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting."},{"word":"Ballot","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets."},{"word":"Ballot","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district."},{"word":"Balloted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ballot"},{"word":"Balloting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ballot"},{"word":"Ballot","type":"(n.)","description":"To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate."},{"word":"Ballot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vote for or in opposition to."},{"word":"Ballotade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out."},{"word":"Ballotation","type":"(n.)","description":"Voting by ballot."},{"word":"Balloter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who votes by ballot."},{"word":"Ballotin","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who has charge of a ballot box."},{"word":"Ballow","type":"(n.)","description":"A cudgel."},{"word":"Ballproof","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms."},{"word":"Ballroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A room for balls or dancing."},{"word":"Balm","type":"(n.)","description":"An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa."},{"word":"Balm","type":"(n.)","description":"The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs."},{"word":"Balm","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fragrant ointment."},{"word":"Balm","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that heals or that mitigates pain."},{"word":"Balm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate."},{"word":"Balmify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render balmy."},{"word":"Balmily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a balmy manner."},{"word":"Balmoral","type":"(n.)","description":"A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress."},{"word":"Balmoral","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front."},{"word":"Balmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild."},{"word":"Balmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing balm."},{"word":"Balneal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a bath."},{"word":"Balneary","type":"(n.)","description":"A bathing room."},{"word":"Balneation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bathing."},{"word":"Balneatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a bath."},{"word":"Balneography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of baths."},{"word":"Balneology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on baths; the science of bathing."},{"word":"Balneotherapy","type":"(n.)","description":"The treatment of disease by baths."},{"word":"Balotade","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ballotade."},{"word":"Balsa","type":"(n.)","description":"A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America."},{"word":"Balsam","type":"(n.)","description":"A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil."},{"word":"Balsam","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of tree (Abies balsamea)."},{"word":"Balsam","type":"(n.)","description":"An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine."},{"word":"Balsam","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that heals, soothes, or restores."},{"word":"Balsam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic."},{"word":"Balsamation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imparting balsamic properties."},{"word":"Balsamation","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of embalming."},{"word":"Balsamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Balsamical"},{"word":"Balsamical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative."},{"word":"Balsamiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing balsam."},{"word":"Balsamine","type":"(n.)","description":"The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam."},{"word":"Balsamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam."},{"word":"Balter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stick together."},{"word":"Baltic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea."},{"word":"Baltimore","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Baltimore oriole"},{"word":"Baltimore","type":"()","description":"A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin."},{"word":"Baluster","type":"(n.)","description":"A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade."},{"word":"Balustered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having balusters."},{"word":"Balustrade","type":"(n.)","description":"A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building."},{"word":"Bam","type":"(n.)","description":"An imposition; a cheat; a hoax."},{"word":"Bam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat; to wheedle."},{"word":"Bambino","type":"(n.)","description":"A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes."},{"word":"Bambino","type":"(n.)","description":"Babe Ruth."},{"word":"Bambocciade","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life."},{"word":"Bamboo","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries."},{"word":"Bamboo","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flog with the bamboo."},{"word":"Bamboozled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bamboozle"},{"word":"Bamboozling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bamboozle"},{"word":"Bamboozle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug."},{"word":"Bamboozler","type":"(n.)","description":"A swindler; one who deceives by trickery."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(n.)","description":"A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(n.)","description":"A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(n.)","description":"Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense)."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(n.)","description":"An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(n.)","description":"A curse or anathema."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(n.)","description":"A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes."},{"word":"Banned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ban"},{"word":"Banning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ban"},{"word":"Ban","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To curse; to invoke evil upon."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forbid; to interdict."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To curse; to swear."},{"word":"Ban","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia."},{"word":"Banal","type":"(a.)","description":"Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite."},{"word":"Banalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Banality"},{"word":"Banality","type":"(n.)","description":"Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech."},{"word":"Banana","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa."},{"word":"Banat","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory governed by a ban."},{"word":"Banc","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bank"},{"word":"Bancus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bank"},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court."},{"word":"Banco","type":"(n.)","description":"A bank, especially that of Venice."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A belt or strap."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bond"},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Pledge; security."},{"word":"Banded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Band"},{"word":"Banding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Band"},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind or tie with a band."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with a band."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together."},{"word":"Band","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bandy; to drive away."},{"word":"Band","type":"()","description":"imp. of Bind."},{"word":"Bandage","type":"(n.)","description":"A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc."},{"word":"Bandage","type":"(n.)","description":"Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature."},{"word":"Bandaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bandage"},{"word":"Bandaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bandage"},{"word":"Bandage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes."},{"word":"Bandala","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis)."},{"word":"Bandanna","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bandana"},{"word":"Bandana","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form."},{"word":"Bandana","type":"(n.)","description":"A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure."},{"word":"Bandbox","type":"(n.)","description":"A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc."},{"word":"Bandeaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bandeau"},{"word":"Bandeau","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress."},{"word":"Bandelet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bandlet"},{"word":"Bandlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring."},{"word":"Bander","type":"(n.)","description":"One banded with others."},{"word":"Banderole","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bandrol"},{"word":"Bandrol","type":"(n.)","description":"A little banner, flag, or streamer."},{"word":"Band","type":"()","description":"A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish."},{"word":"Bandicoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens."},{"word":"Bandicoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania."},{"word":"Banding","type":"()","description":"A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work."},{"word":"Bandits","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bandit"},{"word":"Banditti","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bandit"},{"word":"Bandit","type":"(n.)","description":"An outlaw; a brigand."},{"word":"Bandle","type":"(n.)","description":"An Irish measure of two feet in length."},{"word":"Bandlet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bandelet."},{"word":"Bandmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"The conductor of a musical band."},{"word":"Bandog","type":"(n.)","description":"A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up."},{"word":"Bandoleer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bandolier"},{"word":"Bandolier","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt."},{"word":"Bandolier","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried."},{"word":"Bandoline","type":"(n.)","description":"A glutinous pomatum for the fair."},{"word":"Bandon","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposal; control; license."},{"word":"Bandore","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore."},{"word":"Bandrol","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Banderole."},{"word":"Bandy","type":"(n.)","description":"A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks."},{"word":"Bandies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bandy"},{"word":"Bandy","type":"(n.)","description":"A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick."},{"word":"Bandy","type":"(n.)","description":"The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball."},{"word":"Bandied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bandy"},{"word":"Bandying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bandy"},{"word":"Bandy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy."},{"word":"Bandy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange."},{"word":"Bandy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate."},{"word":"Bandy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way."},{"word":"Bandy","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg."},{"word":"Bandy-legged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having crooked legs."},{"word":"Bane","type":"(n.)","description":"That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality."},{"word":"Bane","type":"(n.)","description":"Destruction; death."},{"word":"Bane","type":"(n.)","description":"Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe."},{"word":"Bane","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot."},{"word":"Bane","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be the bane of; to ruin."},{"word":"Baneberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous."},{"word":"Baneful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious."},{"word":"Banewort","type":"(n.)","description":"Deadly nightshade."},{"word":"Banged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bang"},{"word":"Banging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bang"},{"word":"Bang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly."},{"word":"Bang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it."},{"word":"Bang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano."},{"word":"Bang","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow as with a club; a heavy blow."},{"word":"Bang","type":"(n.)","description":"The sound produced by a sudden concussion."},{"word":"Bang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair)."},{"word":"Bang","type":"(n.)","description":"The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn."},{"word":"Bang","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bangue"},{"word":"Bangue","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bhang."},{"word":"Banging","type":"(a.)","description":"Huge; great in size."},{"word":"Bangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To waste by little and little; to fritter away."},{"word":"Bangle","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet."},{"word":"Banian","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer."},{"word":"Banian","type":"(n.)","description":"A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians."},{"word":"Banian","type":"(n.)","description":"The Indian fig. See Banyan."},{"word":"Banished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Banish"},{"word":"Banishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Banish"},{"word":"Banish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power."},{"word":"Banish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of."},{"word":"Banish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel."},{"word":"Banisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who banishes."},{"word":"Banishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of banishing, or the state of being banished."},{"word":"Banister","type":"(n.)","description":"A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"The face of the coal at which miners are working."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank."},{"word":"Banked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bank"},{"word":"Banking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bank"},{"word":"Bank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass by the banks of."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"The bench or seat upon which the judges sit."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of table used by printers."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"The building or office used for banking purposes."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(n.)","description":"In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit in a bank."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker."},{"word":"Bank","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker."},{"word":"Bankable","type":"(a.)","description":"Receivable at a bank."},{"word":"Bank","type":"()","description":"In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note."},{"word":"Bank","type":"()","description":"In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency."},{"word":"Bank","type":"()","description":"A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank."},{"word":"Banker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc."},{"word":"Banker","type":"(n.)","description":"A money changer."},{"word":"Banker","type":"(n.)","description":"The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house."},{"word":"Banker","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland."},{"word":"Banker","type":"(n.)","description":"A ditcher; a drain digger."},{"word":"Banker","type":"(n.)","description":"The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work."},{"word":"Bankeress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female banker."},{"word":"Banking","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a bank or of a banker."},{"word":"Bank","type":"()","description":"A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand."},{"word":"Bank","type":"()","description":"Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2."},{"word":"Bank","type":"()","description":"A promissory note payable at a bank."},{"word":"Bankrupt","type":"(n.)","description":"A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors."},{"word":"Bankrupt","type":"(n.)","description":"A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person."},{"word":"Bankrupt","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities."},{"word":"Bankrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant."},{"word":"Bankrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury."},{"word":"Bankrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy."},{"word":"Bankrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess)."},{"word":"Bankrupted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bankrupt"},{"word":"Bankrupting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bankrupt"},{"word":"Bankrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish."},{"word":"Bankruptcies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bankruptcy"},{"word":"Bankruptcy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being actually or legally bankrupt."},{"word":"Bankruptcy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of becoming a bankrupt."},{"word":"Bankruptcy","type":"(n.)","description":"Complete loss; -- followed by of."},{"word":"Bankside","type":"(n.)","description":"The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam."},{"word":"Bank-sided","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided."},{"word":"Bank","type":"()","description":"See under 1st Bank, n."},{"word":"Banlieue","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city."},{"word":"Banner","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle."},{"word":"Banner","type":"(n.)","description":"A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place."},{"word":"Banner","type":"(n.)","description":"Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner."},{"word":"Bannered","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, or bearing, banners."},{"word":"Banneret","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank."},{"word":"Banneret","type":"(n.)","description":"A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank."},{"word":"Banneret","type":"(n.)","description":"A civil officer in some Swiss cantons."},{"word":"Banneret","type":"(n.)","description":"A small banner."},{"word":"Bannerol","type":"(n.)","description":"A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole."},{"word":"Bannition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expulsion."},{"word":"Bannock","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England."},{"word":"Banns","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place."},{"word":"Banquet","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches."},{"word":"Banquet","type":"(n.)","description":"A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats."},{"word":"Banqueted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Banquet"},{"word":"Banqueting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Banquet"},{"word":"Banquet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast."},{"word":"Banquet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast."},{"word":"Banquet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To partake of a dessert after a feast."},{"word":"Banquetter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts."},{"word":"Banquette","type":"(n.)","description":"A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy."},{"word":"Banquette","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser."},{"word":"Banshee","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Banshie"},{"word":"Banshie","type":"(n.)","description":"A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house."},{"word":"Banstickle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fish, the three-spined stickleback."},{"word":"Bantam","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java."},{"word":"Bantam","type":"()","description":"Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware."},{"word":"Banteng","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng)."},{"word":"Bantered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Banter"},{"word":"Bantering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Banter"},{"word":"Banter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity."},{"word":"Banter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like."},{"word":"Banter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest."},{"word":"Banter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To challenge or defy to a match."},{"word":"Banter","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry."},{"word":"Banterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who banters or rallies."},{"word":"Bantingism","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London."},{"word":"Bantling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]"},{"word":"Banxring","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia."},{"word":"Banyan","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men."},{"word":"Baobab","type":"(n.)","description":"A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia."},{"word":"Baphomet","type":"(n.)","description":"An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites."},{"word":"Baptism","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring."},{"word":"Baptismal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows."},{"word":"Baptismally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a baptismal manner."},{"word":"Baptist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ."},{"word":"Baptist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist."},{"word":"Baptisteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Baptistry"},{"word":"-tries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Baptistry"},{"word":"Baptistery","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Baptistry"},{"word":"Baptistry","type":"(n.)","description":"In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near."},{"word":"Baptistry","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services."},{"word":"Baptistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or for baptism; baptismal."},{"word":"Baptistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Baptistic."},{"word":"Baptizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized."},{"word":"Baptization","type":"(n.)","description":"Baptism."},{"word":"Baptized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Baptize"},{"word":"Baptizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Baptize"},{"word":"Baptize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To administer the sacrament of baptism to."},{"word":"Baptize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name."},{"word":"Baptize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sanctify; to consecrate."},{"word":"Baptizement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of baptizing."},{"word":"Baptizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who baptizes."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A drilling or tamping rod."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A vein or dike crossing a lode."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar."},{"word":"Barred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bar"},{"word":"Barring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bar"},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"To except; to exclude by exception."},{"word":"Bar","type":"(n.)","description":"To cross with one or more stripes or lines."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"A bit for a horse."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"A hair or bristle ending in a double hook."},{"word":"Barbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Barb"},{"word":"Barbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Barb"},{"word":"Barb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shave or dress the beard of."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clip; to mow."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary."},{"word":"Barb","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1."},{"word":"Barbacan","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barbican."},{"word":"Barbacanage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barbicanage."},{"word":"Barbadian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Barbados."},{"word":"Barbadian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Barbados."},{"word":"Barbados","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Barbadoes"},{"word":"Barbadoes","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc."},{"word":"Barbara","type":"(n.)","description":"The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives."},{"word":"Barbaresque","type":"(a.)","description":"Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture."},{"word":"Barbarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A foreigner."},{"word":"Barbarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state."},{"word":"Barbarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A person destitute of culture."},{"word":"Barbarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity."},{"word":"Barbarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations."},{"word":"Barbaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east."},{"word":"Barbaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement."},{"word":"Barbarism","type":"(n.)","description":"An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness."},{"word":"Barbarism","type":"(n.)","description":"A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage."},{"word":"Barbarism","type":"(n.)","description":"An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism."},{"word":"Barbarities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Barbarity"},{"word":"Barbarity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization."},{"word":"Barbarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity."},{"word":"Barbarity","type":"(n.)","description":"A barbarous or cruel act."},{"word":"Barbarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Barbarism; impurity of speech."},{"word":"Barbarized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Barbarize"},{"word":"Barbarizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Barbarize"},{"word":"Barbarize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become barbarous."},{"word":"Barbarize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech."},{"word":"Barbarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make barbarous."},{"word":"Barbarous","type":"(a.)","description":"Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country."},{"word":"Barbarous","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste."},{"word":"Barbarous","type":"(a.)","description":"Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless."},{"word":"Barbarous","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to the pure idioms of a language."},{"word":"Barbarously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a barbarous manner."},{"word":"Barbarousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism."},{"word":"Barbary","type":"(n.)","description":"The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon."},{"word":"Barbastel","type":"(n.)","description":"A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips."},{"word":"Barbate","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs."},{"word":"Barbated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having barbed points."},{"word":"Barbecue","type":"(n.)","description":"A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast."},{"word":"Barbecue","type":"(n.)","description":"A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole."},{"word":"Barbecue","type":"(n.)","description":"A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried."},{"word":"Barbecued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Barbecue"},{"word":"Barbecuing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Barbecue"},{"word":"Barbecue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron."},{"word":"Barbecue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog."},{"word":"Barbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)"},{"word":"Barbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire."},{"word":"Barbel","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished."},{"word":"Barbel","type":"(n.)","description":"A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels."},{"word":"Barbel","type":"(n.)","description":"Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3."},{"word":"Barbellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point."},{"word":"Barbellulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs."},{"word":"Barber","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons."},{"word":"Barbered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Barber"},{"word":"Barbering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Barber"},{"word":"Barber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shave and dress the beard or hair of."},{"word":"Barber","type":"()","description":"See Surgeon fish."},{"word":"Barbermonger","type":"(n.)","description":"A fop."},{"word":"Barberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root."},{"word":"Barbet","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of small dog, having long curly hair."},{"word":"Barbet","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa."},{"word":"Barbet","type":"(n.)","description":"A larva that feeds on aphides."},{"word":"Barbette","type":"(n.)","description":"A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet."},{"word":"Barbican","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Barbacan"},{"word":"Barbacan","type":"(n.)","description":"A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own."},{"word":"Barbacan","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy."},{"word":"Barbicanage","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Barbacanage"},{"word":"Barbacanage","type":"(n.)","description":"Money paid for the support of a barbican."},{"word":"Barbicel","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers."},{"word":"Barbiers","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form."},{"word":"Barbigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a beard; bearded; hairy."},{"word":"Barbiton","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre."},{"word":"Barbituric","type":"()","description":"A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea."},{"word":"Barble","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barbel."},{"word":"Barbotine","type":"(n.)","description":"A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief."},{"word":"Barbre","type":"(a.)","description":"Barbarian."},{"word":"Barbule","type":"(n.)","description":"A very minute barb or beard."},{"word":"Barbule","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather."},{"word":"Barcarolle","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers."},{"word":"Barcarolle","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song."},{"word":"Barcon","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean."},{"word":"Bard","type":"(n.)","description":"A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men."},{"word":"Bard","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon."},{"word":"Bard","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Barde"},{"word":"Barde","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]"},{"word":"Barde","type":"(pl.)","description":"Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms."},{"word":"Barde","type":"(pl.)","description":"A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game."},{"word":"Bard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon."},{"word":"Barded","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse."},{"word":"Barded","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Wearing rich caparisons."},{"word":"Bardic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry."},{"word":"Bardish","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards."},{"word":"Bardism","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards."},{"word":"Bardling","type":"(n.)","description":"An inferior bard."},{"word":"Bardship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a bard."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(a.)","description":"Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(a.)","description":"With head uncovered; bareheaded."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(a.)","description":"Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(a.)","description":"Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(a.)","description":"Threadbare; much worn."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(a.)","description":"Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(n.)","description":"Surface; body; substance."},{"word":"Bare","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather."},{"word":"Bared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bare"},{"word":"Baring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bare"},{"word":"Bare","type":"(a.)","description":"To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast."},{"word":"Bare","type":"()","description":"Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v."},{"word":"Bareback","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback."},{"word":"Barebacked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse."},{"word":"Barebone","type":"(n.)","description":"A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin."},{"word":"Barefaced","type":"(a.)","description":"With the face uncovered; not masked."},{"word":"Barefaced","type":"(a.)","description":"Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious."},{"word":"Barefacedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Openly; shamelessly."},{"word":"Barefacedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness."},{"word":"Barefoot","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings."},{"word":"Barefooted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the feet bare."},{"word":"Barege","type":"(n.)","description":"A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted."},{"word":"Barehanded","type":"(n.)","description":"Having bare hands."},{"word":"Bareheaded","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Alt. of Barehead"},{"word":"Barehead","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl."},{"word":"Barelegged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the legs bare."},{"word":"Barely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without covering; nakedly."},{"word":"Barely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without concealment or disguise."},{"word":"Barely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Merely; only."},{"word":"Barely","type":"(adv.)","description":"But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped."},{"word":"Barenecked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the neck bare."},{"word":"Bareness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bare."},{"word":"Baresark","type":"(n.)","description":"A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor."},{"word":"Barfish","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Calico bass."},{"word":"Barful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of obstructions."},{"word":"Bargain","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration."},{"word":"Bargain","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge."},{"word":"Bargain","type":"(n.)","description":"A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain."},{"word":"Bargain","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap."},{"word":"Bargain","type":"(n.)","description":"To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow."},{"word":"Bargained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bargain"},{"word":"Bargaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bargain"},{"word":"Bargain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another."},{"word":"Bargainee","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold."},{"word":"Bargainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor."},{"word":"Bargainor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another."},{"word":"Barge","type":"(n.)","description":"A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated."},{"word":"Barge","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge."},{"word":"Barge","type":"(n.)","description":"A large boat used by flag officers."},{"word":"Barge","type":"(n.)","description":"A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat."},{"word":"Barge","type":"(n.)","description":"A large omnibus used for excursions."},{"word":"Bargeboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A vergeboard."},{"word":"Bargecourse","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable."},{"word":"Bargee","type":"(n.)","description":"A bargeman."},{"word":"Bargeman","type":"(n.)","description":"The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge."},{"word":"Bargemastter","type":"(n.)","description":"The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge."},{"word":"Barger","type":"(n.)","description":"The manager of a barge."},{"word":"Barghest","type":"(n.)","description":"A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune."},{"word":"Baria","type":"(n.)","description":"Baryta."},{"word":"Baric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide."},{"word":"Baric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer."},{"word":"Barilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes."},{"word":"Barilla","type":"(n.)","description":"The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes."},{"word":"Barilla","type":"(n.)","description":"Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp."},{"word":"Barillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little cask, or something resembling one."},{"word":"Bar","type":"()","description":"See under Iron."},{"word":"Barite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins."},{"word":"Baritone","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Barytone."},{"word":"Barium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta."},{"word":"Bard","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind."},{"word":"Bard","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, Peruvian bark."},{"word":"Barked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bark"},{"word":"Barking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bark"},{"word":"Bark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip the bark from; to peel."},{"word":"Bark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel."},{"word":"Bark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3."},{"word":"Bark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut."},{"word":"Bark","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs."},{"word":"Bark","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries."},{"word":"Bark","type":"(n.)","description":"The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals."},{"word":"Bark","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Barque"},{"word":"Barque","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind."},{"word":"Barque","type":"(n.)","description":"A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged."},{"word":"Barkantine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Barkentine."},{"word":"Bark","type":"()","description":"A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage."},{"word":"Barkbound","type":"(a.)","description":"Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close."},{"word":"Barkeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors."},{"word":"Barken","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of bark."},{"word":"Barkentine","type":"(n.)","description":"A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append."},{"word":"Barker","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably."},{"word":"Barker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases."},{"word":"Barker","type":"(n.)","description":"A pistol."},{"word":"Barker","type":"(n.)","description":"The spotted redshank."},{"word":"Barker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who strips trees of their bark."},{"word":"Barker's","type":"()","description":"A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis."},{"word":"Barkery","type":"(n.)","description":"A tanhouse."},{"word":"Barking","type":"()","description":"Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees."},{"word":"Barking","type":"()","description":"A pair of pistols."},{"word":"Barkless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of bark."},{"word":"Bark","type":"()","description":"An insect of the family Coccidae, which infests the bark of trees and vines."},{"word":"Barky","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with, or containing, bark."},{"word":"Barley","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky."},{"word":"Barleybrake","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Barleybreak"},{"word":"Barleybreak","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal."},{"word":"Barley-bree","type":"(n.)","description":"Liquor made from barley; strong ale."},{"word":"Barleycorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A grain or \"corn\" of barley."},{"word":"Barleycorn","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch."},{"word":"Barm","type":"(n.)","description":"Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast."},{"word":"Barm","type":"(n.)","description":"The lap or bosom."},{"word":"Barmaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop."},{"word":"Barmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote."},{"word":"Barmcloth","type":"(n.)","description":"Apron."},{"word":"Barmecidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Unreal; illusory."},{"word":"Barmecide","type":"(n.)","description":"One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal."},{"word":"Barmote","type":"(n.)","description":"A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners."},{"word":"Balmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of barm or froth; in a ferment."},{"word":"Barn","type":"(n.)","description":"A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables."},{"word":"Barn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay up in a barn."},{"word":"Barn","type":"(n.)","description":"A child. [Obs.] See Bairn."},{"word":"Barnabite","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas."},{"word":"Barnacle","type":"(n.)","description":"Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle."},{"word":"Barnacle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bernicle goose."},{"word":"Barnacle","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him."},{"word":"Barnacle","type":"(sing.)","description":"Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers."},{"word":"Barnyard","type":"(n.)","description":"A yard belonging to a barn."},{"word":"Barocco","type":"(a.)","description":"See Baroque."},{"word":"Barograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure."},{"word":"Baroko","type":"(n.)","description":"A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative."},{"word":"Barology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of weight or gravity."},{"word":"Baromacrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant."},{"word":"Barometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent."},{"word":"Barometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Barometrical"},{"word":"Barometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations."},{"word":"Barometrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations."},{"word":"Barometrograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure."},{"word":"Barometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of making barometrical measurements."},{"word":"Barometz","type":"(n.)","description":"The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb."},{"word":"Baron","type":"(n.)","description":"A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount."},{"word":"Baron","type":"(n.)","description":"A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife."},{"word":"Baronage","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of barons or peers."},{"word":"Baronage","type":"(n.)","description":"The dignity or rank of a baron."},{"word":"Baronage","type":"(n.)","description":"The land which gives title to a baron."},{"word":"Baroness","type":"(n.)","description":"A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts."},{"word":"Baronet","type":"(n.)","description":"A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners."},{"word":"Baronetage","type":"(n.)","description":"State or rank of a baronet."},{"word":"Baronetage","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective body of baronets."},{"word":"Baronetcy","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank or patent of a baronet."},{"word":"Baronial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a baron or a barony."},{"word":"Baronies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Barony"},{"word":"Barony","type":"(n.)","description":"The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron."},{"word":"Barony","type":"(n.)","description":"In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner."},{"word":"Baroque","type":"(a.)","description":"In bad taste; grotesque; odd."},{"word":"Baroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes."},{"word":"Baroscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Baroscopical"},{"word":"Baroscopical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope."},{"word":"Barouche","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat."},{"word":"Barouchet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of light barouche."},{"word":"Barpost","type":"(n.)","description":"A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field."},{"word":"Barque","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as 3d Bark, n."},{"word":"Barracan","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant."},{"word":"Barrack","type":"(n.)","description":"A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings."},{"word":"Barrack","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc."},{"word":"Barrack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops."},{"word":"Barrack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To live or lodge in barracks."},{"word":"Barraclade","type":"(n.)","description":"A home-made woolen blanket without nap."},{"word":"Barracoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily."},{"word":"Barracuda","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Barracouata"},{"word":"Barracouata","type":"(n.)","description":"A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyraena, sometimes used as food."},{"word":"Barracouata","type":"(n.)","description":"A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun)."},{"word":"Barrage","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile."},{"word":"Barranca","type":"(n.)","description":"A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse."},{"word":"Barras","type":"(n.)","description":"A resin, called also galipot."},{"word":"Barrator","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One guilty of barratry."},{"word":"Barratrous","type":"(/)","description":"Tainter with, or constituting, barratry."},{"word":"Barratry","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels."},{"word":"Barratry","type":"(n.)","description":"A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo."},{"word":"Barratry","type":"(n.)","description":"The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment."},{"word":"Barred","type":"()","description":"A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast."},{"word":"Barrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads."},{"word":"Barrel","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds."},{"word":"Barrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled."},{"word":"Barrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged."},{"word":"Barrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A jar."},{"word":"Barrel","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow basal part of a feather."},{"word":"Barreled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Barrel"},{"word":"Barrelled","type":"()","description":"of Barrel"},{"word":"Barreling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Barrel"},{"word":"Barrelling","type":"()","description":"of Barrel"},{"word":"Barrel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels."},{"word":"Barreled","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Barrelled"},{"word":"Barrelled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun."},{"word":"Barren","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals."},{"word":"Barren","type":"(a.)","description":"Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile."},{"word":"Barren","type":"(a.)","description":"Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty."},{"word":"Barren","type":"(a.)","description":"Mentally dull; stupid."},{"word":"Barren","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract of barren land."},{"word":"Barren","type":"(n.)","description":"Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile."},{"word":"Barrenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unfruitfully; unproductively."},{"word":"Barrenness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness."},{"word":"Barrenwort","type":"(n.)","description":"An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific."},{"word":"Barret","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics."},{"word":"Barricade","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access."},{"word":"Barricade","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense."},{"word":"Barricaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Barricade"},{"word":"Barricading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Barricade"},{"word":"Barricade","type":"(n.)","description":"To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris."},{"word":"Barricader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who constructs barricades."},{"word":"Barricado","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"See Barricade."},{"word":"Barrier","type":"(n.)","description":"A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy."},{"word":"Barrier","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach."},{"word":"Barrier","type":"(n.)","description":"A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd."},{"word":"Barrier","type":"(n.)","description":"An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack."},{"word":"Barrier","type":"(n.)","description":"Any limit or boundary; a line of separation."},{"word":"Barrigudo","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail."},{"word":"Barringout","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools."},{"word":"Barrister","type":"(n.)","description":"Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney."},{"word":"Barroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold."},{"word":"Barrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow."},{"word":"Barrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain."},{"word":"Barrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A hog, esp. a male hog castrated."},{"word":"Barrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus."},{"word":"Barrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A heap of rubbish, attle, etc."},{"word":"Barrowist","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953."},{"word":"Barrulet","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width."},{"word":"Barruly","type":"(a.)","description":"Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field."},{"word":"Barry","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into bars; -- said of the field."},{"word":"Barse","type":"(n.)","description":"The common perch. See 1st Bass."},{"word":"Bartender","type":"(n.)","description":"A barkeeper."},{"word":"Bartered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Barter"},{"word":"Bartering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Barter"},{"word":"Barter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck."},{"word":"Barter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor."},{"word":"Barter","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods."},{"word":"Barter","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing given in exchange."},{"word":"Barterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who barters."},{"word":"Bartery","type":"(n.)","description":"Barter."},{"word":"Barth","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of shelter for cattle."},{"word":"Bartholomew","type":"()","description":"Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th."},{"word":"Bartizan","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway."},{"word":"Bartlett","type":"(n.)","description":"A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts."},{"word":"Barton","type":"(n.)","description":"The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself."},{"word":"Barton","type":"(n.)","description":"A farmyard."},{"word":"Bartram","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bertram."},{"word":"Barway","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts."},{"word":"Barwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Horizontally."},{"word":"Barwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work."},{"word":"Barycentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus."},{"word":"Baryphony","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficulty of speech."},{"word":"Baryta","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4."},{"word":"Barytes","type":"(n.)","description":"Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite."},{"word":"Barytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to baryta."},{"word":"Baryto-calcite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium."},{"word":"Barytone","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Baritone"},{"word":"Baritone","type":"(a.)","description":"Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice."},{"word":"Baritone","type":"(a.)","description":"Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood."},{"word":"Barytone","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Baritone"},{"word":"Baritone","type":"(n.)","description":"A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other."},{"word":"Baritone","type":"(n.)","description":"A person having a voice of such range."},{"word":"Baritone","type":"(n.)","description":"The viola di gamba, now entirely disused."},{"word":"Baritone","type":"(n.)","description":"A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood."},{"word":"Barytum","type":"(n.)","description":"The metal barium. See Barium."},{"word":"Basal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or forming, the base."},{"word":"Basal-nerved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves."},{"word":"Basalt","type":"(n.)","description":"A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated."},{"word":"Basalt","type":"(n.)","description":"An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain."},{"word":"Basaltic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava."},{"word":"Basaltiform","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form of basalt; columnar."},{"word":"Basaltoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed like basalt; basaltiform."},{"word":"Basan","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Basil, a sheepskin."},{"word":"Basanite","type":"(n.)","description":"Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal."},{"word":"Basbleu","type":"(n.)","description":"A bluestocking; a literary woman."},{"word":"Bascinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor."},{"word":"Bascule","type":"(n.)","description":"In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Low in place or position."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Illegitimate by birth; bastard."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Not classical or correct."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief ingredient in a compound."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance used as a mordant."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The smallest kind of cannon."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The basal plane of a crystal."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The housing of a horse."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower part of a robe or petticoat."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"An apron."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars."},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield."},{"word":"Based","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Base"},{"word":"Basing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Base"},{"word":"Base","type":"(n.)","description":"To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower."},{"word":"Base","type":"(a.)","description":"To reduce the value of; to debase."},{"word":"Baseball","type":"(n.)","description":"A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball."},{"word":"Baseball","type":"(n.)","description":"The ball used in this game."},{"word":"Baseboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard."},{"word":"Baseborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Born out of wedlock."},{"word":"Baseborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Born of low parentage."},{"word":"Baseborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Vile; mean."},{"word":"Base-burner","type":"(n.)","description":"A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed."},{"word":"Base-court","type":"(n.)","description":"The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle."},{"word":"Base-court","type":"(n.)","description":"An inferior court of law, not of record."},{"word":"Based","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based."},{"word":"Based","type":"(n.)","description":"Wearing, or protected by, bases."},{"word":"Basedow's","type":"()","description":"A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter."},{"word":"Baselard","type":"(n.)","description":"A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century."},{"word":"Baseless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a base; having no foundation or support."},{"word":"Basely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully."},{"word":"Basely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Illegitimately; in bastardy."},{"word":"Basement","type":"(a.)","description":"The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively."},{"word":"Baseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness."},{"word":"Basenet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bascinet."},{"word":"Base","type":"()","description":"See Bass viol."},{"word":"Bash","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance."},{"word":"Bashaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha."},{"word":"Bashaw","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A magnate or grandee."},{"word":"Bashaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat."},{"word":"Bashful","type":"(a.)","description":"Abashed; daunted; dismayed."},{"word":"Bashful","type":"(a.)","description":"Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression."},{"word":"Bashfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bashful manner."},{"word":"Bashfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being bashful."},{"word":"Bashi-bazouk","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army."},{"word":"Bashless","type":"(a.)","description":"Shameless; unblushing."},{"word":"Bashyle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Basyle."},{"word":"Basi-","type":"()","description":"A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc."},{"word":"Basic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt."},{"word":"Basic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt."},{"word":"Basic","type":"(a.)","description":"Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper."},{"word":"Basic","type":"(a.)","description":"Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt."},{"word":"Basicerite","type":"(n.)","description":"The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans."},{"word":"Basicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being a base."},{"word":"Basicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid."},{"word":"Basidiospore","type":"(n.)","description":"A spore borne by a basidium."},{"word":"Basidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example."},{"word":"Basifier","type":"(n.)","description":"That which converts into a salifiable base."},{"word":"Basifugal","type":"(n.)","description":"Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth."},{"word":"Basify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into a salifiable base."},{"word":"Basigynium","type":"(n.)","description":"The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore."},{"word":"Basihyal","type":"(a.)","description":"Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch."},{"word":"Basihyoid","type":"(n.)","description":"The central tongue bone."},{"word":"Basil","type":"(n.)","description":"The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground."},{"word":"Basiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Basil"},{"word":"Basiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Basil"},{"word":"Basil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grind or form the edge of to an angle."},{"word":"Basil","type":"(n.)","description":"The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum)."},{"word":"Basil","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of a sheep tanned with bark."},{"word":"Basilar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Basilary"},{"word":"Basilary","type":"(n.)","description":"Relating to, or situated at, the base."},{"word":"Basilary","type":"(n.)","description":"Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action."},{"word":"Basilic","type":"(n.)","description":"Basilica."},{"word":"Basilic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Basilical"},{"word":"Basilical","type":"(a.)","description":"Royal; kingly; also, basilican."},{"word":"Basilical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm."},{"word":"Basilicas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Basilica"},{"word":"Basilic/","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Basilica"},{"word":"Basilica","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose."},{"word":"Basilica","type":"(n.)","description":"A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached."},{"word":"Basilica","type":"(n.)","description":"A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction."},{"word":"Basilica","type":"(n.)","description":"A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century."},{"word":"Basilican","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical."},{"word":"Basilicok","type":"(n.)","description":"The basilisk."},{"word":"Basilicon","type":"(n.)","description":"An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance."},{"word":"Basilisk","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice."},{"word":"Basilisk","type":"(n.)","description":"A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae."},{"word":"Basilisk","type":"(n.)","description":"A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size."},{"word":"Basin","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses."},{"word":"Basin","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity contained in a basin."},{"word":"Basin","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc."},{"word":"Basin","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay."},{"word":"Basin","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river."},{"word":"Basin","type":"(n.)","description":"The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake."},{"word":"Basin","type":"(n.)","description":"An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields."},{"word":"Basined","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed in a basin."},{"word":"Basinet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bascinet."},{"word":"Basioccipital","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young."},{"word":"Basioccipital","type":"(n.)","description":"The basioccipital bone."},{"word":"Basion","type":"(n.)","description":"The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull."},{"word":"Basipodite","type":"(n.)","description":"The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea."},{"word":"Basipterygium","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium."},{"word":"Basipterygoid","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone."},{"word":"Bases","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Basis"},{"word":"Basis","type":"(n.)","description":"The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests."},{"word":"Basis","type":"(n.)","description":"The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue."},{"word":"Basis","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports."},{"word":"Basis","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal component part of a thing."},{"word":"Basisolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves."},{"word":"Basisphenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Basisphenoidal"},{"word":"Basisphenoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult."},{"word":"Basisphenoid","type":"(n.)","description":"The basisphenoid bone."},{"word":"Basked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bask"},{"word":"Basking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bask"},{"word":"Bask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat."},{"word":"Bask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat."},{"word":"Basket","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven."},{"word":"Basket","type":"(n.)","description":"The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches."},{"word":"Basket","type":"(n.)","description":"The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital."},{"word":"Basket","type":"(n.)","description":"The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach."},{"word":"Basket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a basket."},{"word":"Basketfuls","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Basketful"},{"word":"Basketful","type":"(n.)","description":"As much as a basket will contain."},{"word":"Basketry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively."},{"word":"Basking","type":"()","description":"One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species."},{"word":"Basnet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bascinet."},{"word":"Basommatophora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails."},{"word":"Bason","type":"(n.)","description":"A basin."},{"word":"Basque","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language."},{"word":"Basque","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France."},{"word":"Basque","type":"(n.)","description":"The language spoken by the Basque people."},{"word":"Basque","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques."},{"word":"Basquish","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque"},{"word":"Bas-relief","type":"(n.)","description":"Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bass"},{"word":"Basses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bass"},{"word":"Bass","type":"(n.)","description":"An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(n.)","description":"The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(n.)","description":"Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(n.)","description":"The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(n.)","description":"The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(n.)","description":"A hassock or thick mat."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(a.)","description":"A bass, or deep, sound or tone."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(a.)","description":"The lowest part in a musical composition."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(a.)","description":"One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(a.)","description":"Deep or grave in tone."},{"word":"Bass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sound in a deep tone."},{"word":"Bassa","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bassaw"},{"word":"Bassaw","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bashaw."},{"word":"Bass","type":"()","description":"The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a."},{"word":"Basset","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice."},{"word":"Basset","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata."},{"word":"Basset","type":"(n.)","description":"The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop."},{"word":"Basseted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Basset"},{"word":"Basseting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Basset"},{"word":"Basset","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets."},{"word":"Basset","type":"(a.)","description":"An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves."},{"word":"Basset","type":"()","description":"A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog."},{"word":"Basseting","type":"(n.)","description":"The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface."},{"word":"Bassetto","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenor or small bass viol."},{"word":"Bass","type":"()","description":"A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone."},{"word":"Bassinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle."},{"word":"Bassinet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bascinet."},{"word":"Basso","type":"(a.)","description":"The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso."},{"word":"Basso","type":"(a.)","description":"One who sings the lowest part."},{"word":"Basso","type":"(a.)","description":"The double bass, or contrabasso."},{"word":"Bassock","type":"(n.)","description":"A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2."},{"word":"Bassoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc."},{"word":"Bassoonist","type":"(n.)","description":"A performer on the bassoon."},{"word":"Basso-rilievo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Basso-relievo"},{"word":"Basso-relievo","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bas-relief."},{"word":"Bassorin","type":"(n.)","description":"A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses."},{"word":"Bass-relief","type":"(n.)","description":"Some as Bas-relief."},{"word":"Bass","type":"()","description":"A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello."},{"word":"Basswood","type":"(n.)","description":"The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree."},{"word":"Bast","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom."},{"word":"Bast","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2."},{"word":"Basta","type":"(interj.)","description":"Enough; stop."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(n.)","description":"A \"natural\" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(n.)","description":"An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(n.)","description":"A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(a.)","description":"Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(n.)","description":"Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(n.)","description":"Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(n.)","description":"Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book."},{"word":"Bastard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bastardize."},{"word":"Bastardism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a bastard; bastardy."},{"word":"Bastardized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bastardize"},{"word":"Bastardizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bastardize"},{"word":"Bastardize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate."},{"word":"Bastardize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beget out of wedlock."},{"word":"Bastardly","type":"(a.)","description":"Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt."},{"word":"Bastardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a bastard; spuriously."},{"word":"Bastardy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy."},{"word":"Bastardy","type":"(n.)","description":"The procreation of a bastard child."},{"word":"Basted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Baste"},{"word":"Basting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Baste"},{"word":"Baste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a stick; to cudgel."},{"word":"Baste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting."},{"word":"Baste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with tar, as sheep."},{"word":"Baste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly."},{"word":"Bastile","type":"(n.)","description":"A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place."},{"word":"Bastile","type":"(n.)","description":"\"The Bastille\", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison."},{"word":"Bastinade","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bastinado, n."},{"word":"Bastinade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bastinado."},{"word":"Bastinadoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bastinado"},{"word":"Bastinado","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow with a stick or cudgel."},{"word":"Bastinado","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet."},{"word":"Bastinadoes","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bastinado"},{"word":"Bastinadoing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bastinado"},{"word":"Bastinado","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet."},{"word":"Bastion","type":"(n.)","description":"A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin."},{"word":"Bastioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a bastion; having bastions."},{"word":"Basto","type":"(n.)","description":"The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber."},{"word":"Baston","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff or cudgel."},{"word":"Baston","type":"(n.)","description":"See Baton."},{"word":"Baston","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court."},{"word":"Basyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element."},{"word":"Basylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous."},{"word":"Bat","type":"(n.)","description":"A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc."},{"word":"Bat","type":"(n.)","description":"Shale or bituminous shale."},{"word":"Bat","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting."},{"word":"Bat","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a brick with one whole end."},{"word":"Batted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bat"},{"word":"Batting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bat"},{"word":"Bat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat."},{"word":"Bat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use a bat, as in a game of baseball."},{"word":"Bat","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire."},{"word":"Batable","type":"(a.)","description":"Disputable."},{"word":"Batailled","type":"(a.)","description":"Embattled."},{"word":"Batardeau","type":"(n.)","description":"A cofferdam."},{"word":"Batardeau","type":"(n.)","description":"A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall."},{"word":"Batatas","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Batata"},{"word":"Batata","type":"(n.)","description":"An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas)."},{"word":"Batavian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion."},{"word":"Batavian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland."},{"word":"Batch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The quantity of bread baked at one time."},{"word":"Batch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(n.)","description":"Strife; contention."},{"word":"Bated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bate"},{"word":"Bating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bate"},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allow by way of abatement or deduction."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave out; to except."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remit or retrench a part; -- with of."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waste away."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack; to bait."},{"word":"Bate","type":"()","description":"imp. of Bite."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flutter as a hawk; to bait."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(n.)","description":"See 2d Bath."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer."},{"word":"Bate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather."},{"word":"Bateaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bateau"},{"word":"Bateau","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers."},{"word":"Bated","type":"(a.)","description":"Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath."},{"word":"Bateful","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting contention; contentious."},{"word":"Bateless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be abated."},{"word":"Batement","type":"(n.)","description":"Abatement; diminution."},{"word":"Batfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)"},{"word":"Batfowler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices or finds sport in batfowling."},{"word":"Batfowling","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise."},{"word":"Batful","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Rich; fertile."},{"word":"Baths","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bath"},{"word":"Bath","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath."},{"word":"Bath","type":"(n.)","description":"Water or other liquid for bathing."},{"word":"Bath","type":"(n.)","description":"A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water."},{"word":"Bath","type":"(n.)","description":"A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing."},{"word":"Bath","type":"(n.)","description":"A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body."},{"word":"Bath","type":"(n.)","description":"A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution."},{"word":"Bath","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure."},{"word":"Bath","type":"(n.)","description":"A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects."},{"word":"Bathed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bathe"},{"word":"Bathing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bathe"},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath."},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lave; to wet."},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To moisten or suffuse with a liquid."},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor."},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed."},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths."},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath."},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bask in the sun."},{"word":"Bathe","type":"(n.)","description":"The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe."},{"word":"Bather","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bathes."},{"word":"Bathetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the character of bathos."},{"word":"Bathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of taking a bath or baths."},{"word":"Bathmism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Vital force."},{"word":"Bathometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line."},{"word":"Bathorse","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign."},{"word":"Bathos","type":"(n.)","description":"A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax."},{"word":"Bathybius","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin."},{"word":"Bathymetric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bathymetrical"},{"word":"Bathymetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea."},{"word":"Bathymetry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea."},{"word":"Bating","type":"(prep.)","description":"With the exception of; excepting."},{"word":"Batiste","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton."},{"word":"Batlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff."},{"word":"Batman","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds."},{"word":"Batmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Batman"},{"word":"Batman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load."},{"word":"Batoidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates."},{"word":"Baton","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances."},{"word":"Baton","type":"(n.)","description":"An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister."},{"word":"Batoon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Baton, and Baston."},{"word":"Bat","type":"()","description":"A mode of printing on glazed ware."},{"word":"Batrachia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia."},{"word":"Batrachian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Batrachia."},{"word":"Batrachian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Batrachia."},{"word":"Batrachoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines."},{"word":"Batrachomyomachy","type":"(n.)","description":"The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship."},{"word":"Batrachophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding on frogs."},{"word":"Batsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Batsman"},{"word":"Batsman","type":"(n.)","description":"The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc."},{"word":"Bat's-wing","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Batwing"},{"word":"Batwing","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner."},{"word":"Batta","type":"(n.)","description":"Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India."},{"word":"Batta","type":"(n.)","description":"Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins."},{"word":"Battable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening."},{"word":"Battailant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike."},{"word":"Battailant","type":"(n.)","description":"A combatant."},{"word":"Battailous","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike."},{"word":"Battalia","type":"(n.)","description":"Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action."},{"word":"Battalia","type":"(n.)","description":"An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body."},{"word":"Battalion","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array."},{"word":"Battalion","type":"(n.)","description":"A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle."},{"word":"Battalion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into battalions."},{"word":"Battel","type":"(n.)","description":"A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager."},{"word":"Battel","type":"(n.)","description":"Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively."},{"word":"Battel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be supplied with provisions from the buttery."},{"word":"Battel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make fertile."},{"word":"Battel","type":"(a.)","description":"Fertile; fruitful; productive."},{"word":"Batteler","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Battler"},{"word":"Battler","type":"(n.)","description":"A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge."},{"word":"Battened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Batten"},{"word":"Battening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Batten"},{"word":"Batten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten."},{"word":"Batten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fertilize or enrich, as land."},{"word":"Batten","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self."},{"word":"Batten","type":"(n .)","description":"A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc."},{"word":"Batten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or fasten with battens."},{"word":"Batten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof."},{"word":"Battening","type":"(n.)","description":"Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall."},{"word":"Battered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Batter"},{"word":"Battering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Batter"},{"word":"Batter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart."},{"word":"Batter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage."},{"word":"Batter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly."},{"word":"Batter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery."},{"word":"Batter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Paste of clay or loam."},{"word":"Batter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form."},{"word":"Batter","type":"(n.)","description":"A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope."},{"word":"Batter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To slope gently backward."},{"word":"Batter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wields a bat; a batsman."},{"word":"Batterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, batters."},{"word":"Battering-ram","type":"(n.)","description":"An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places."},{"word":"Battering-ram","type":"(n.)","description":"A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally."},{"word":"Battering","type":"()","description":"A train of artillery for siege operations."},{"word":"Batteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Battery"},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of battering or beating."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Two or more pieces of artillery in the field."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down."},{"word":"Battery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The pitcher and catcher together."},{"word":"Batting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball."},{"word":"Batting","type":"(n.)","description":"Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting."},{"word":"Battle","type":"(a.)","description":"Fertile. See Battel, a."},{"word":"Battle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat."},{"word":"Battle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life."},{"word":"Battle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A division of an army; a battalion."},{"word":"Battle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia."},{"word":"Battled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Battle"},{"word":"Battling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Battle"},{"word":"Battle","type":"(n.)","description":"To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories."},{"word":"Battle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assail in battle; to fight."},{"word":"Battle-ax","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Battle-axe"},{"word":"Battle-axe","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon."},{"word":"Battled","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Embattled."},{"word":"Battledoor","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock."},{"word":"Battledoor","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's hornbook."},{"word":"Battlement","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications."},{"word":"Battlement","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches."},{"word":"Battlemented","type":"(a.)","description":"Having battlements."},{"word":"Battologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who battologizes."},{"word":"Battologize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate."},{"word":"Battology","type":"(n.)","description":"A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing."},{"word":"Batton","type":"(n.)","description":"See Batten, and Baton."},{"word":"Battue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game."},{"word":"Battue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The game itself."},{"word":"Battue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The wanton slaughter of game."},{"word":"Batture","type":"(n.)","description":"An elevated river bed or sea bed."},{"word":"Battuta","type":"(n.)","description":"The measuring of time by beating."},{"word":"Batty","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, a bat."},{"word":"Batule","type":"(n.)","description":"A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board."},{"word":"Batzen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Batz"},{"word":"Batz","type":"(n.)","description":"A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents."},{"word":"Baubee","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bawbee."},{"word":"Bauble","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything."},{"word":"Bauble","type":"(n.)","description":"The fool's club."},{"word":"Baubling","type":"(a.)","description":"See Bawbling."},{"word":"Baudekin","type":"(n.)","description":"The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad."},{"word":"Baudrick","type":"(n.)","description":"A belt. See Baldric."},{"word":"Bauk","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"Alt. of Baulk"},{"word":"Baulk","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Balk."},{"word":"Baunscheidtism","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid."},{"word":"Bauxite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Beauxite"},{"word":"Beauxite","type":"(n.)","description":"A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat."},{"word":"Bavarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bavaria."},{"word":"Bavarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria."},{"word":"Bavaroy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cloak or surtout."},{"word":"Bavian","type":"(n.)","description":"A baboon."},{"word":"Bavin","type":"(n.)","description":"A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood."},{"word":"Bavin","type":"(n.)","description":"Impure limestone."},{"word":"Bawbee","type":"(n.)","description":"A halfpenny."},{"word":"Bawble","type":"(n.)","description":"A trinket. See Bauble."},{"word":"Bawbling","type":"(a.)","description":"Insignificant; contemptible."},{"word":"Bawcock","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment."},{"word":"Bawd","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman."},{"word":"Bawd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To procure women for lewd purposes."},{"word":"Bawdily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Obscenely; lewdly."},{"word":"Bawdiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Obscenity; lewdness."},{"word":"Bawdrick","type":"(n.)","description":"A belt. See Baldric."},{"word":"Bawdry","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust."},{"word":"Bawdry","type":"(n.)","description":"Illicit intercourse; fornication."},{"word":"Bawdry","type":"(n.)","description":"Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language."},{"word":"Bawdy","type":"(a.)","description":"Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes."},{"word":"Bawdy","type":"(a.)","description":"Obscene; filthy; unchaste."},{"word":"Bawdyhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel."},{"word":"Bawhorse","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bathorse."},{"word":"Bawled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bawl"},{"word":"Bawling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bawl"},{"word":"Bawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate."},{"word":"Bawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation."},{"word":"Bawl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does."},{"word":"Bawl","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry."},{"word":"Bawler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bawls."},{"word":"Bawn","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure."},{"word":"Bawn","type":"(n.)","description":"A large house."},{"word":"Bawrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of hawk."},{"word":"Bawsin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bawson"},{"word":"Bawson","type":"(n.)","description":"A badger."},{"word":"Bawson","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, unwieldy person."},{"word":"Baxter","type":"(n.)","description":"A baker; originally, a female baker."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(a.)","description":"Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"A recess or indentation shaped like a bay."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"A berry, particularly of the laurel."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract covered with bay trees."},{"word":"Bayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bay"},{"word":"Baying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bay"},{"word":"Bay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Deep-toned, prolonged barking."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bathe."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(n.)","description":"A bank or dam to keep back water."},{"word":"Bay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dam, as water; -- with up or back."},{"word":"Baya","type":"(n.)","description":"The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus)."},{"word":"Bayad","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bayatte"},{"word":"Bayatte","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac)."},{"word":"Bayadere","type":"(n.)","description":"A female dancer in the East Indies."},{"word":"Bay-antler","type":"(n.)","description":"The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler."},{"word":"Bayard","type":"(a.)","description":"Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse."},{"word":"Bayard","type":"(a.)","description":"A stupid, clownish fellow."},{"word":"Bayardly","type":"(a.)","description":"Blind; stupid."},{"word":"Bayberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis."},{"word":"Bayberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris)."},{"word":"Bayberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree."},{"word":"Baybolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A bolt with a barbed shank."},{"word":"Bayed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bay or bays."},{"word":"Bay","type":"()","description":"See under Ice."},{"word":"Bay","type":"()","description":"See under 3d Bay."},{"word":"Bayonet","type":"(n.)","description":"A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense."},{"word":"Bayonet","type":"(n.)","description":"A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery."},{"word":"Bayoneted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bayonet"},{"word":"Bayoneting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bayonet"},{"word":"Bayonet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stab with a bayonet."},{"word":"Bayonet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compel or drive by the bayonet."},{"word":"Bayous","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bayou"},{"word":"Bayou","type":"(n.)","description":"An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind."},{"word":"Bay","type":"()","description":"A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes."},{"word":"Bays","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bayze"},{"word":"Bayze","type":"(n.)","description":"See Baize."},{"word":"Bay","type":"()","description":"Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce."},{"word":"Bay","type":"()","description":"A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis)."},{"word":"Bay","type":"()","description":"A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window."},{"word":"Bay","type":"()","description":"Woolen yarn."},{"word":"Bazaar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bazar"},{"word":"Bazar","type":"(n.)","description":"In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale."},{"word":"Bazar","type":"(n.)","description":"A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair."},{"word":"Bazar","type":"(n.)","description":"A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects."},{"word":"Bdellium","type":"(n.)","description":"An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia."},{"word":"Bdellium","type":"(n.)","description":"A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa."},{"word":"Bdelloidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea."},{"word":"Bdellometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe."},{"word":"Bdellomorpha","type":"(n.)","description":"An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams."},{"word":"Was","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Be"},{"word":"Been","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Be"},{"word":"Being","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Be"},{"word":"Be","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence."},{"word":"Be","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man."},{"word":"Be","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday."},{"word":"Be","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to."},{"word":"Be-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, originally the same word as by;"},{"word":"Be-","type":"()","description":"To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir."},{"word":"Be-","type":"()","description":"To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for)."},{"word":"Be-","type":"()","description":"To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around)."},{"word":"Beaches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Beach"},{"word":"Beach","type":"(n.)","description":"Pebbles, collectively; shingle."},{"word":"Beach","type":"(n.)","description":"The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand."},{"word":"Beached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beach"},{"word":"Beaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beach"},{"word":"Beach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship."},{"word":"Beach","type":"()","description":"A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber."},{"word":"Beached","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Bordered by a beach."},{"word":"Beached","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached."},{"word":"Beachy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly."},{"word":"Beacon","type":"(n.)","description":"A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning."},{"word":"Beacon","type":"(n.)","description":"A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners."},{"word":"Beacon","type":"(n.)","description":"A high hill near the shore."},{"word":"Beacon","type":"(n.)","description":"That which gives notice of danger."},{"word":"Beaconed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beacon"},{"word":"Beaconing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beacon"},{"word":"Beacon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine."},{"word":"Beacon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a beacon or beacons."},{"word":"Beaconage","type":"(n.)","description":"Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively."},{"word":"Beaconless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no beacon."},{"word":"Bead","type":"(n.)","description":"A prayer."},{"word":"Bead","type":"(n.)","description":"A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer."},{"word":"Bead","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small globular body"},{"word":"Bead","type":"(n.)","description":"A bubble in spirits."},{"word":"Bead","type":"(n.)","description":"A drop of sweat or other liquid."},{"word":"Bead","type":"(n.)","description":"A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim)."},{"word":"Bead","type":"(n.)","description":"A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments."},{"word":"Bead","type":"(n.)","description":"A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc."},{"word":"Beaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bead"},{"word":"Beading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bead"},{"word":"Bead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with beads or beading."},{"word":"Bead","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form beadlike bubbles."},{"word":"Beadhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bedehouse"},{"word":"Bedehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors."},{"word":"Beading","type":"(n.)","description":"Molding in imitation of beads."},{"word":"Beading","type":"(n.)","description":"The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky."},{"word":"Beadle","type":"(v.)","description":"A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner."},{"word":"Beadle","type":"(v.)","description":"An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students."},{"word":"Beadle","type":"(v.)","description":"An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc."},{"word":"Beadlery","type":"(n.)","description":"Office or jurisdiction of a beadle."},{"word":"Beadleship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle."},{"word":"Bead","type":"()","description":"Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters."},{"word":"Bead","type":"()","description":"A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken."},{"word":"Beadroll","type":"(n.)","description":"A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general."},{"word":"-men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bedesman"},{"word":"Beadsman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bedesman"},{"word":"Bedesman","type":"(n.)","description":"A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman."},{"word":"Beadsnake","type":"(n.)","description":"A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black."},{"word":"-women","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bedeswoman"},{"word":"Beadswoman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bedeswoman"},{"word":"Bedeswoman","type":"(n.)","description":"Fem. of Beadsman."},{"word":"Beadwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornamental work in beads."},{"word":"Beady","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening."},{"word":"Beady","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads."},{"word":"Beady","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor."},{"word":"Beagle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Beagle","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.)."},{"word":"Beak","type":"(n.)","description":"A magistrate or policeman."},{"word":"Beaked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped."},{"word":"Beaked","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate."},{"word":"Beaker","type":"(n.)","description":"A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard."},{"word":"Beaker","type":"(n.)","description":"An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat."},{"word":"Beakhead","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak."},{"word":"Beakhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew."},{"word":"Beakhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Beak, 3."},{"word":"Beakiron","type":"(n.)","description":"A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil."},{"word":"Bealed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beal"},{"word":"Bealing","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Beal"},{"word":"Beal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple."},{"word":"Be-all","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole; all that is to be."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"The pole of a carriage."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"The straight part or shank of an anchor."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather."},{"word":"Beamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beam"},{"word":"Beaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beam"},{"word":"Beam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light."},{"word":"Beam","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emit beams of light."},{"word":"Beambird","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building."},{"word":"Beamed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag."},{"word":"Beamful","type":"(a.)","description":"Beamy; radiant."},{"word":"Beamily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a beaming manner."},{"word":"Beaminess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being beamy."},{"word":"Beaming","type":"(a.)","description":"Emitting beams; radiant."},{"word":"Beamingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a beaming manner; radiantly."},{"word":"Beamless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having a beam."},{"word":"Beamless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not emitting light."},{"word":"Beamlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small beam of light."},{"word":"Beam","type":"()","description":"A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple."},{"word":"Beamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining."},{"word":"Beamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy."},{"word":"Beamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having horns, or antlers."},{"word":"Bean","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs."},{"word":"Bean","type":"(n.)","description":"The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans."},{"word":"Bean","type":"()","description":"A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum."},{"word":"Bean","type":"()","description":"A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida)."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Bear"},{"word":"Bare","type":"()","description":"of Bear"},{"word":"Born","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bear"},{"word":"Borne","type":"()","description":"of Bear"},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bear"},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support or sustain; to hold up."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support and remove or carry; to convey."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To possess and use, as power; to exercise."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor"},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain or win."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render or give; to bring forward."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry on, or maintain; to have."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage, wield, or direct."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To behave; to conduct."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To afford; to be to; to supply with."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer, as in carrying a burden."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To endure with patience; to be patient."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To press; -- with on or upon, or against."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?"},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"A bier."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"A portable punching machine."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market."},{"word":"Bear","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bere"},{"word":"Bere","type":"(n.)","description":"Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare)."},{"word":"Bearable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable."},{"word":"Bearberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond."},{"word":"Bearbind","type":"(n.)","description":"The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds"},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(n.)","description":"An imposition; a trick."},{"word":"Bearded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beard"},{"word":"Bearding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beard"},{"word":"Beard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance."},{"word":"Beard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish."},{"word":"Bearded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a beard."},{"word":"Beardie","type":"(n.)","description":"The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe."},{"word":"Beardless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful."},{"word":"Beardless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat."},{"word":"Beardlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being destitute of beard."},{"word":"Bearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries."},{"word":"Bearer","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer."},{"word":"Bearer","type":"(n.)","description":"A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant."},{"word":"Bearer","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer."},{"word":"Bearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer."},{"word":"Bearer","type":"(n.)","description":"A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved."},{"word":"Bearherd","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who tends a bear."},{"word":"Bearhound","type":"(n.)","description":"A hound for baiting or hunting bears."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Patient endurance; suffering without complaint."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The portion of a support on which anything rests."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"()","description":"A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized."},{"word":"Bearing","type":"()","description":"A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein."},{"word":"Bearish","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners."},{"word":"Bearishness","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior like that of a bear."},{"word":"Bearn","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bairn."},{"word":"Bear's-breech","type":"(n.)","description":"See Acanthus, n., 1."},{"word":"Bear's-breech","type":"(n.)","description":"The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)"},{"word":"Bear's-ear","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf."},{"word":"Bear's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic."},{"word":"Bearskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of a bear."},{"word":"Bearskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats."},{"word":"Bearskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers."},{"word":"Bear's-paw","type":"(n.)","description":"A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament."},{"word":"Bearward","type":"(n.)","description":"A keeper of bears. See Bearherd."},{"word":"Beast","type":"(n.)","description":"Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc."},{"word":"Beast","type":"(n.)","description":"Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden."},{"word":"Beast","type":"(n.)","description":"As opposed to man: Any irrational animal."},{"word":"Beast","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow."},{"word":"Beast","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards similar to loo."},{"word":"Beast","type":"(n.)","description":"A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc."},{"word":"Beasthood","type":"(n.)","description":"State or nature of a beast."},{"word":"Beastings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Biestings."},{"word":"Beastlihead","type":"(n.)","description":"Beastliness."},{"word":"Beastlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a beast."},{"word":"Beastliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being beastly."},{"word":"Beastly","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast."},{"word":"Beastly","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy."},{"word":"Beastly","type":"(a.)","description":"Abominable; as, beastly weather."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Beat"},{"word":"Beat","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Beat"},{"word":"Beaten","type":"()","description":"of Beat"},{"word":"Beating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beat"},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish by blows; to thrash."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tread, as a path."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move with pulsation or throbbing."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in agitation or doubt."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke; a blow."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(n.)","description":"A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(n.)","description":"The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(n.)","description":"A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A place of habitual or frequent resort."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat."},{"word":"Beat","type":"(a.)","description":"Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted."},{"word":"Beaten","type":"(a.)","description":"Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use."},{"word":"Beaten","type":"(a.)","description":"Vanquished; conquered; baffled."},{"word":"Beaten","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhausted; tired out."},{"word":"Beaten","type":"(a.)","description":"Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase."},{"word":"Beaten","type":"(a.)","description":"Tried; practiced."},{"word":"Beater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, beats."},{"word":"Beater","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who beats up game for the hunters."},{"word":"Beath","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood."},{"word":"Beatific","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Beatifical"},{"word":"Beatifical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful."},{"word":"Beatificate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beatify."},{"word":"Beatification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of \"the blessed,\" or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization."},{"word":"Beatified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beatify"},{"word":"Beatifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beatify"},{"word":"Beatify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness."},{"word":"Beatify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment."},{"word":"Beatify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of \"the blessed\" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized."},{"word":"Beating","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows."},{"word":"Beating","type":"(n.)","description":"Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart."},{"word":"Beating","type":"(n.)","description":"Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n."},{"word":"Beating","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction."},{"word":"Beatitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss."},{"word":"Beatitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues."},{"word":"Beatitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Beatification."},{"word":"Beaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Beau"},{"word":"Beaus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Beau"},{"word":"Beau","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy."},{"word":"Beau","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a lover."},{"word":"Beaucatcher","type":"(n.)","description":"A small flat curl worn on the temple by women."},{"word":"Beaufet","type":"(n.)","description":"A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet."},{"word":"Beaufin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Biffin."},{"word":"Beau","type":"()","description":"A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model."},{"word":"Beauish","type":"(n.)","description":"Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine."},{"word":"Beau","type":"()","description":"The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety."},{"word":"Beaupere","type":"(n.)","description":"A father."},{"word":"Beaupere","type":"(n.)","description":"A companion."},{"word":"Beauseant","type":"(n.)","description":"The black and white standard of the Knights Templars."},{"word":"Beauship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau."},{"word":"Beauteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome."},{"word":"Beautied","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Beautiful; embellished."},{"word":"Beautifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful."},{"word":"Beautiful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind."},{"word":"Beautified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beautify"},{"word":"Beautifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beautify"},{"word":"Beautify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish."},{"word":"Beautify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become beautiful; to advance in beauty."},{"word":"Beautiless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of beauty."},{"word":"Beautie","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Beauty"},{"word":"Beauty","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense."},{"word":"Beauty","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature."},{"word":"Beauty","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman."},{"word":"Beauty","type":"(n.)","description":"Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion."},{"word":"Beaux","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. of Beau."},{"word":"Beauxite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bauxite."},{"word":"Beaver","type":"(n.)","description":"An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor."},{"word":"Beaver","type":"(n.)","description":"The fur of the beaver."},{"word":"Beaver","type":"(n.)","description":"A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk."},{"word":"Beaver","type":"(n.)","description":"Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats."},{"word":"Beaver","type":"(n.)","description":"That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink."},{"word":"Beavered","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat."},{"word":"Beaverteen","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing."},{"word":"Bebeerine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bebirine"},{"word":"Bebirine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine."},{"word":"Bebleed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bloody; to stain with blood."},{"word":"Beblood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Bebloody"},{"word":"Bebloody","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bloody; to stain with blood."},{"word":"Beblot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blot; to stain."},{"word":"Beblubber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered."},{"word":"Becalmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Becalm"},{"word":"Becalming","type":"(n.)","description":"of Becalm"},{"word":"Becalm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease."},{"word":"Becalm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed."},{"word":"Became","type":"()","description":"imp. of Become."},{"word":"Becard","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor)."},{"word":"Because","type":"(conj.)","description":"By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that."},{"word":"Because","type":"(conj.)","description":"In order that; that."},{"word":"Beccabunga","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brooklime."},{"word":"Beccaficos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Beccafico"},{"word":"Beccafico","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc."},{"word":"Bechamel","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream."},{"word":"Bechance","type":"(adv.)","description":"By chance; by accident."},{"word":"Bechance","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To befall; to chance; to happen to."},{"word":"Becharm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charm; to captivate."},{"word":"Beche","type":"()","description":"The trepang."},{"word":"Bechic","type":"()","description":"Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough."},{"word":"Bechic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for relieving coughs."},{"word":"Beck","type":"(n.)","description":"See Beak."},{"word":"Beck","type":"(n.)","description":"A small brook."},{"word":"Beck","type":"(n.)","description":"A vat. See Back."},{"word":"Becked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beck"},{"word":"Becking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beck"},{"word":"Beck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand."},{"word":"Beck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to."},{"word":"Beck","type":"(n.)","description":"A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command."},{"word":"Becker","type":"(n.)","description":"A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise."},{"word":"Becket","type":"(n.)","description":"A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope."},{"word":"Becket","type":"(n.)","description":"A spade for digging turf."},{"word":"Beckoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beckon"},{"word":"Beckoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beckon"},{"word":"Beckon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand."},{"word":"Beckon","type":"(n.)","description":"A sign made without words; a beck."},{"word":"Beclap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch; to grasp; to insnare."},{"word":"Beclipped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beclip"},{"word":"Beclip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embrace; to surround."},{"word":"Beclouded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Becloud"},{"word":"Beclouding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Becloud"},{"word":"Becloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud."},{"word":"Became","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Become"},{"word":"Become","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Become"},{"word":"Becoming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Become"},{"word":"Become","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character."},{"word":"Become","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come; to get."},{"word":"Become","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things."},{"word":"Becomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Proper; decorous."},{"word":"Becoming","type":"(a.)","description":"Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting."},{"word":"Becoming","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is becoming or appropriate."},{"word":"Becomingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a becoming manner."},{"word":"Becomingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness."},{"word":"Becripple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame."},{"word":"Becuna","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda."},{"word":"Becurl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To curl; to adorn with curls."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"A course of stone or brick in a wall."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"The place or material in which a block or brick is laid."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(n.)","description":"The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid."},{"word":"Bedded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bed"},{"word":"Bedding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bed"},{"word":"Bed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a bed."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a bed or bedding."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position."},{"word":"Bed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go to bed; to cohabit."},{"word":"Bedabbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedabble"},{"word":"Bedabbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedabble"},{"word":"Bedabble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dabble; to sprinkle or wet."},{"word":"Bedaff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a daff or fool of."},{"word":"Bedagat","type":"(n.)","description":"The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah."},{"word":"Bedaggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daggle."},{"word":"Bedashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedash"},{"word":"Bedashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedash"},{"word":"Bedash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter."},{"word":"Bedaubed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedaub"},{"word":"Bedaubing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedaub"},{"word":"Bedaub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty."},{"word":"Bedazzled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedazzle"},{"word":"Bedazzling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedazzle"},{"word":"Bedazzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dazzle or make dim by a strong light."},{"word":"Bedbug","type":"(n.)","description":"A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Bedchair","type":"(n.)","description":"A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed."},{"word":"Bedchamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in."},{"word":"Bedclothes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed."},{"word":"Bedcord","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed."},{"word":"Bedded","type":"(a.)","description":"Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds."},{"word":"Bedding","type":"(n.)","description":"A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter."},{"word":"Bedding","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or position of beds and layers."},{"word":"Bede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pray; also, to offer; to proffer."},{"word":"Bede","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pickax."},{"word":"Bedecked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedeck"},{"word":"Bedecking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedeck"},{"word":"Bedeck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace."},{"word":"Bedeguar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bedegar"},{"word":"Bedegar","type":"(n.)","description":"A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties."},{"word":"Bedehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Beadhouse."},{"word":"Bedel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bedell"},{"word":"Bedell","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Beadle."},{"word":"Bedelry","type":"(n.)","description":"Beadleship."},{"word":"Beden","type":"(n.)","description":"The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible."},{"word":"Bedesman","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Beadsman."},{"word":"Bedevilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedevil"},{"word":"Bedeviling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedevil"},{"word":"Bedevilling","type":"()","description":"of Bedevil"},{"word":"Bedevil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment."},{"word":"Bedevil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spoil; to corrupt."},{"word":"Bedevilment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble."},{"word":"Bedewed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedew"},{"word":"Bedewing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedew"},{"word":"Bedew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To moisten with dew, or as with dew."},{"word":"Bedewer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bedews."},{"word":"Bedewy","type":"(a.)","description":"Moist with dew; dewy."},{"word":"Bedfellow","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch."},{"word":"Bedfere","type":"(n.)","description":"A bedfellow."},{"word":"Bedgown","type":"(n.)","description":"A nightgown."},{"word":"Bedight","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bedight"},{"word":"Bedighted","type":"()","description":"of Bedight"},{"word":"Bedight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn."},{"word":"Bedimmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedim"},{"word":"Bedimming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedim"},{"word":"Bedim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dim; to obscure or darken."},{"word":"Bedizen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste."},{"word":"Bedizenment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily."},{"word":"Bedkey","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead."},{"word":"Bedlam","type":"(n.)","description":"A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse."},{"word":"Bedlam","type":"(n.)","description":"An insane person; a lunatic; a madman."},{"word":"Bedlam","type":"(n.)","description":"Any place where uproar and confusion prevail."},{"word":"Bedlam","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse."},{"word":"Bedlamite","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman."},{"word":"Bedmaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes beds."},{"word":"Bed-molding","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bed-moulding"},{"word":"Bed-moulding","type":"(n.)","description":"The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona."},{"word":"Bedote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to dote; to deceive."},{"word":"Bedouin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts."},{"word":"Bedouin","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad."},{"word":"Bedpan","type":"(n.)","description":"A pan for warming beds."},{"word":"Bedpan","type":"(n.)","description":"A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed."},{"word":"Bedphere","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bedfere."},{"word":"Bedpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bedplate"},{"word":"Bedplate","type":"(n.)","description":"The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate."},{"word":"Bedpost","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead."},{"word":"Bedpost","type":"(n.)","description":"Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff."},{"word":"Bedquilt","type":"(n.)","description":"A quilt for a bed; a coverlet."},{"word":"Bedrabble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble."},{"word":"Bedraggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedraggle"},{"word":"Bedraggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedraggle"},{"word":"Bedraggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc."},{"word":"Bedrenched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedrench"},{"word":"Bedrenching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedrench"},{"word":"Bedrench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak."},{"word":"Bedribble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dribble upon."},{"word":"Bedrid","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Bedridden"},{"word":"Bedridden","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity."},{"word":"Bedright","type":"(n.)","description":"The duty or privilege of the marriage bed."},{"word":"Bedrizzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drizzle upon."},{"word":"Bed","type":"()","description":"The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig."},{"word":"Bedroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room."},{"word":"Bedroom","type":"(n.)","description":"Room in a bed."},{"word":"Bedrop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle, as with drops."},{"word":"Bedrug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drug abundantly or excessively."},{"word":"Bed","type":"()","description":"A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching."},{"word":"Bed","type":"()","description":"A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces."},{"word":"Bedside","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of a bed."},{"word":"Bedsite","type":"(n.)","description":"A recess in a room for a bed."},{"word":"Bedsore","type":"(n.)","description":"A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed."},{"word":"Bedspread","type":"(n.)","description":"A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet."},{"word":"Bedstaves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bedstaff"},{"word":"Bedstaff","type":"(n.)","description":"\"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side.\""},{"word":"Bedstead","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework for supporting a bed."},{"word":"Bed","type":"()","description":"Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height."},{"word":"Bedstock","type":"(n.)","description":"The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead."},{"word":"Bedstraw","type":"(n.)","description":"Straw put into a bed."},{"word":"Bedstraw","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers."},{"word":"Bedswerver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow."},{"word":"Bedtick","type":"(n.)","description":"A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed."},{"word":"Bedtime","type":"(n.)","description":"The time to go to bed."},{"word":"Beducked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beduck"},{"word":"Beduck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse."},{"word":"Beduin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bedouin."},{"word":"Bedunged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedung"},{"word":"Bedung","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively."},{"word":"Bedust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust."},{"word":"Bedward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Towards bed."},{"word":"Bedwarfed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedwarf"},{"word":"Bedwarf","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf."},{"word":"Bedyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bedye"},{"word":"Bedyeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bedye"},{"word":"Bedye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dye or stain."},{"word":"Bee","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Be; -- used for been."},{"word":"Bee","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee."},{"word":"Bee","type":"(n.)","description":"A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee."},{"word":"Bee","type":"(n.)","description":"Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks."},{"word":"Beebread","type":"(n.)","description":"A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young."},{"word":"Beeches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Beech"},{"word":"Beech","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree of the genus Fagus."},{"word":"Beechen","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech."},{"word":"Beechnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The nut of the beech tree."},{"word":"Beech","type":"()","description":"The beech."},{"word":"Beechy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to beeches."},{"word":"Bee-eater","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors."},{"word":"Bee-eater","type":"(n.)","description":"An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes."},{"word":"Beef","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food."},{"word":"Beef","type":"(n.)","description":"The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food."},{"word":"Beef","type":"(n.)","description":"Applied colloquially to human flesh."},{"word":"Beef","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef."},{"word":"Beefeater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person."},{"word":"Beefeater","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the yeomen of the guard, in England."},{"word":"Beefeater","type":"(n.)","description":"An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known."},{"word":"Beefsteak","type":"(n.)","description":"A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling."},{"word":"Beef-witted","type":"(n.)","description":"Stupid; dull."},{"word":"Beefwood","type":"(n.)","description":"An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland."},{"word":"Beefy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy."},{"word":"Beehive","type":"(n.)","description":"A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively."},{"word":"Beehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house for bees; an apiary."},{"word":"Bee","type":"()","description":"(Bot.) See Larkspur."},{"word":"Beeld","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Beild."},{"word":"Bee","type":"()","description":"The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line."},{"word":"Beelzebub","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal."},{"word":"Beem","type":"(n.)","description":"A trumpet."},{"word":"Beemaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps bees."},{"word":"Been","type":"()","description":"The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee."},{"word":"Beer","type":"(n.)","description":"A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor."},{"word":"Beer","type":"(n.)","description":"A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc."},{"word":"Beeregar","type":"(n.)","description":"Sour beer."},{"word":"Beerhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse."},{"word":"Beeriness","type":"(n.)","description":"Beery condition."},{"word":"Beery","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin."},{"word":"Beestings","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Biestings."},{"word":"Beeswax","type":"(n.)","description":"The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed."},{"word":"Beeswing","type":"(n.)","description":"The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee."},{"word":"Beet","type":"(n.)","description":"A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year."},{"word":"Beet","type":"(n.)","description":"The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar."},{"word":"Beete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Bete"},{"word":"Bete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mend; to repair."},{"word":"Bete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renew or enkindle (a fire)."},{"word":"Beetle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc."},{"word":"Beetle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine."},{"word":"Beetled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beetle"},{"word":"Beetling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beetle"},{"word":"Beetle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a heavy mallet."},{"word":"Beetle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods."},{"word":"Beetle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera."},{"word":"Beetle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut."},{"word":"Beetle","type":"()","description":"An overhanging brow."},{"word":"Beetle-browed","type":"()","description":"Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen."},{"word":"Beetlehead","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid fellow; a blockhead."},{"word":"Beetlehead","type":"(n.)","description":"The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover."},{"word":"Beetle-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull; stupid."},{"word":"Beetlestock","type":"(n.)","description":"The handle of a beetle."},{"word":"Beet","type":"()","description":"Same as Beetrave."},{"word":"Beetrave","type":"(n.)","description":"The common beet (Beta vulgaris)."},{"word":"Beeve","type":"(n.)","description":"A beef; a beef creature."},{"word":"Beeves","type":"(n.)","description":"plural of Beef, the animal."},{"word":"Befell","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Befall"},{"word":"Befallen","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Befall"},{"word":"Befalling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Befall"},{"word":"Befall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To happen to."},{"word":"Befall","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to pass; to happen."},{"word":"Befitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Befit"},{"word":"Befitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Befit"},{"word":"Befit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be suitable to; to suit; to become."},{"word":"Befitting","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting."},{"word":"Befittingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a befitting manner; suitably."},{"word":"Beflatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flatter excessively."},{"word":"Beflower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers."},{"word":"Befogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Befog"},{"word":"Befogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Befog"},{"word":"Befog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj."},{"word":"Befog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence: To confuse; to mystify."},{"word":"Befooled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Befool"},{"word":"Befooling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Befool"},{"word":"Befool","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive."},{"word":"Befool","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish."},{"word":"Before","type":"(prep.)","description":"In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house."},{"word":"Before","type":"(prep.)","description":"Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that."},{"word":"Before","type":"(prep.)","description":"An advance of; farther onward, in place or time."},{"word":"Before","type":"(prep.)","description":"Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than."},{"word":"Before","type":"(prep.)","description":"In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing."},{"word":"Before","type":"(prep.)","description":"Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of."},{"word":"Before","type":"(prep.)","description":"Open for; free of access to; in the power of."},{"word":"Before","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear."},{"word":"Before","type":"(adv.)","description":"In advance."},{"word":"Before","type":"(adv.)","description":"In time past; previously; already."},{"word":"Before","type":"(adv.)","description":"Earlier; sooner than; until then."},{"word":"Beforehand","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with."},{"word":"Beforehand","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime."},{"word":"Beforehand","type":"(a.)","description":"In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded."},{"word":"Beforetime","type":"(adv.)","description":"Formerly; aforetime."},{"word":"Befortune","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To befall."},{"word":"Befouled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Befoul"},{"word":"Befouling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Befoul"},{"word":"Befoul","type":"(a.)","description":"To make foul; to soil."},{"word":"Befoul","type":"(a.)","description":"To entangle or run against so as to impede motion."},{"word":"Befriended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Befriend"},{"word":"Befriending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Befriend"},{"word":"Befriend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance."},{"word":"Befriendment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of befriending."},{"word":"Befrill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or deck with a frill."},{"word":"Befringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe."},{"word":"Befuddled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Befuddle"},{"word":"Befuddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To becloud and confuse, as with liquor."},{"word":"Beg","type":"(n.)","description":"A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey."},{"word":"Begged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beg"},{"word":"Begging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beg"},{"word":"Beg","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech."},{"word":"Beg","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house."},{"word":"Beg","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor."},{"word":"Beg","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take for granted; to assume without proof."},{"word":"Beg","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for."},{"word":"Beg","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms."},{"word":"Bega","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bigha."},{"word":"Begemmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Begem"},{"word":"Begemming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Begem"},{"word":"Begem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with gems, or as with gems."},{"word":"Begot","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Beget"},{"word":"Begat","type":"()","description":"of Beget"},{"word":"Begot","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Beget"},{"word":"Begotten","type":"()","description":"of Beget"},{"word":"Begetting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beget"},{"word":"Beget","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father."},{"word":"Beget","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get (with child.)"},{"word":"Beget","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce as an effect; to cause to exist."},{"word":"Begetter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who begets; a father."},{"word":"Beggable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being begged."},{"word":"Beggar","type":"(n.)","description":"One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner."},{"word":"Beggar","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes it his business to ask alms."},{"word":"Beggar","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use."},{"word":"Beggar","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assumes in argument what he does not prove."},{"word":"Beggared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beggar"},{"word":"Beggaring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beggar"},{"word":"Beggar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself."},{"word":"Beggar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to seem very poor and inadequate."},{"word":"Beggarhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars."},{"word":"Beggarism","type":"(n.)","description":"Beggary."},{"word":"Beggarliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness."},{"word":"Beggarly","type":"(a.)","description":"In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible."},{"word":"Beggarly","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced or occasioned by beggary."},{"word":"Beggarly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar."},{"word":"Beggar's","type":"()","description":"The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them."},{"word":"Beggar's","type":"()","description":"The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity."},{"word":"Beggary","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty."},{"word":"Beggary","type":"(n.)","description":"Beggarly appearance."},{"word":"Beggary","type":"(a.)","description":"Beggarly."},{"word":"Beggestere","type":"(n.)","description":"A beggar."},{"word":"Beghard","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Beguard"},{"word":"Beguard","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins."},{"word":"Begilded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Begild"},{"word":"Begilt","type":"()","description":"of Begild"},{"word":"Begild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gild."},{"word":"Began","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Begin"},{"word":"Begun","type":"()","description":"of Begin"},{"word":"Beginning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Begin"},{"word":"Begin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence."},{"word":"Begin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start."},{"word":"Begin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter on; to commence."},{"word":"Begin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of."},{"word":"Begin","type":"(n.)","description":"Beginning."},{"word":"Beginner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro."},{"word":"Beginning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states."},{"word":"Beginning","type":"(n.)","description":"That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source."},{"word":"Beginning","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is begun; a rudiment or element."},{"word":"Beginning","type":"(n.)","description":"Enterprise."},{"word":"Begirt","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Begird"},{"word":"Begirded","type":"()","description":"of Begird"},{"word":"Begirt","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Begird"},{"word":"Begirding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Begird"},{"word":"Begird","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind with a band or girdle; to gird."},{"word":"Begird","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround as with a band; to encompass."},{"word":"Begirdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround as with a girdle."},{"word":"Begirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encompass; to begird."},{"word":"Beglerbeg","type":"(n.)","description":"The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier."},{"word":"Begnawed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Begnaw"},{"word":"Begnawn","type":"()","description":"of Begnaw"},{"word":"Begnaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode."},{"word":"Begodded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Begod"},{"word":"Begod","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify."},{"word":"Begone","type":"(interj.)","description":"Go away; depart; get you gone."},{"word":"Begone","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone)."},{"word":"Begonia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors."},{"word":"Begore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To besmear with gore."},{"word":"Begot","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Beget."},{"word":"Begotten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Beget."},{"word":"Begrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bury; also, to engrave."},{"word":"Begrease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter."},{"word":"Begrimed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Begrime"},{"word":"Begriming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Begrime"},{"word":"Begrime","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in."},{"word":"Begrimer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, begrimes."},{"word":"Begrudged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Begrudge"},{"word":"Begrudging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Begrudge"},{"word":"Begrudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grudge; to envy the possession of."},{"word":"Beguiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beguile"},{"word":"Beguiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beguile"},{"word":"Beguile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure."},{"word":"Beguile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To elude, or evade by craft; to foil."},{"word":"Beguile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert."},{"word":"Beguilement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled."},{"word":"Beguiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, beguiles."},{"word":"Beguiling","type":"(a.)","description":"Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting."},{"word":"Beguin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Beghard."},{"word":"Beguinage","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines."},{"word":"Beguine","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows."},{"word":"Begum","type":"(n.)","description":"In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank."},{"word":"Begun","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Begin."},{"word":"Behalf","type":"(n.)","description":"Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication."},{"word":"Behappen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To happen to."},{"word":"Behaved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Behave"},{"word":"Behaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Behave"},{"word":"Behave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain."},{"word":"Behave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively."},{"word":"Behave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill."},{"word":"Behavior","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle."},{"word":"Beheaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Behead"},{"word":"Beheading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Behead"},{"word":"Behead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sever the head from; to take off the head of."},{"word":"Beheadal","type":"(n.)","description":"Beheading."},{"word":"Beheld","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Behold."},{"word":"Behemoth","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24."},{"word":"Behen","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Behn"},{"word":"Behn","type":"(n.)","description":"The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury."},{"word":"Behn","type":"(n.)","description":"The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata."},{"word":"Behn","type":"(n.)","description":"The Statice limonium, or sea lavender."},{"word":"Behest","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction."},{"word":"Behest","type":"(n.)","description":"A vow; a promise."},{"word":"Behest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vow."},{"word":"Behete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Behight."},{"word":"Behight","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Behight"},{"word":"Behight","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Behight"},{"word":"Behoten","type":"()","description":"of Behight"},{"word":"Behight","type":"(v.)","description":"To promise; to vow."},{"word":"Behight","type":"(v.)","description":"To give in trust; to commit; to intrust."},{"word":"Behight","type":"(v.)","description":"To adjudge; to assign by authority."},{"word":"Behight","type":"(v.)","description":"To mean, or intend."},{"word":"Behight","type":"(v.)","description":"To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be."},{"word":"Behight","type":"(v.)","description":"To call; to name; to address."},{"word":"Behight","type":"(v.)","description":"To command; to order."},{"word":"Behight","type":"(n.)","description":"A vow; a promise."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(a.)","description":"On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(a.)","description":"Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(a.)","description":"Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(adv.)","description":"At the back part; in the rear."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(adv.)","description":"Backward in time or order of succession; past."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the departure of another; as, to stay behind."},{"word":"Behind","type":"(n.)","description":"The backside; the rump."},{"word":"Behindhand","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds."},{"word":"Behindhand","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work."},{"word":"Behither","type":"(prep.)","description":"On this side of."},{"word":"Beheld","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Behold"},{"word":"Beholden","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Behold"},{"word":"Beholding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Behold"},{"word":"Behold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes."},{"word":"Behold","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see."},{"word":"Beholden","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted."},{"word":"Beholder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who beholds; a spectator."},{"word":"Beholding","type":"(a.)","description":"Obliged; beholden."},{"word":"Beholding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld."},{"word":"Beholdingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being obliged or beholden."},{"word":"Behoof","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use."},{"word":"Behoovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplying need; profitable; advantageous."},{"word":"Behooved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Behoove"},{"word":"Behooving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Behoove"},{"word":"Behoove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally."},{"word":"Behoove","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due."},{"word":"Behoove","type":"(n.)","description":"Advantage; behoof."},{"word":"Behooveful","type":"(a.)","description":"Advantageous; useful; profitable."},{"word":"Behove","type":"(v.)","description":"and derivatives. See Behoove, &c."},{"word":"Behovely","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Useful, or usefully."},{"word":"Behowl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To howl at."},{"word":"Beige","type":"(n.)","description":"Debeige."},{"word":"Beild","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of shelter; protection; refuge."},{"word":"Being","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Existing."},{"word":"Being","type":"(n.)","description":"Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence."},{"word":"Being","type":"(n.)","description":"That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings."},{"word":"Being","type":"(n.)","description":"Lifetime; mortal existence."},{"word":"Being","type":"(n.)","description":"An abode; a cottage."},{"word":"Being","type":"(adv.)","description":"Since; inasmuch as."},{"word":"Bejade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To jade or tire."},{"word":"Bejape","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To jape; to laugh at; to deceive."},{"word":"Bejaundice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infect with jaundice."},{"word":"Bejeweled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bejewel"},{"word":"Bejewelled","type":"()","description":"of Bejewel"},{"word":"Bejeweling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bejewel"},{"word":"Bejewelling","type":"()","description":"of Bejewel"},{"word":"Bejewel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle."},{"word":"Bejumble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To jumble together."},{"word":"Bekah","type":"(n.)","description":"Half a shekel."},{"word":"Beknave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call knave."},{"word":"Beknow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confess; to acknowledge."},{"word":"Bel","type":"(n.)","description":"The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal."},{"word":"Belabored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belabor"},{"word":"Belaboring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belabor"},{"word":"Belabor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ply diligently; to work carefully upon."},{"word":"Belabor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat soundly; to cudgel."},{"word":"Bel-accoyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind or favorable reception or salutation."},{"word":"Belaced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belace"},{"word":"Belace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten, as with a lace or cord."},{"word":"Belace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or adorn with lace."},{"word":"Belace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a strap. See Lace."},{"word":"Belam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat or bang."},{"word":"Belamour","type":"(n.)","description":"A lover."},{"word":"Belamour","type":"(n.)","description":"A flower, but of what kind is unknown."},{"word":"Belamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Good friend; dear friend."},{"word":"Belated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belate"},{"word":"Belating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belate"},{"word":"Belate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To retard or make too late."},{"word":"Belated","type":"(a.)","description":"Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted."},{"word":"Belaud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To laud or praise greatly."},{"word":"Belaid","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belay"},{"word":"Belayed","type":"()","description":"of Belay"},{"word":"Belaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belay"},{"word":"Belay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay on or cover; to adorn."},{"word":"Belay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel."},{"word":"Belay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct."},{"word":"Belaying","type":"()","description":"A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed."},{"word":"Belched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belch"},{"word":"Belching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belch"},{"word":"Belch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct."},{"word":"Belch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent."},{"word":"Belch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate."},{"word":"Belch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To issue with spasmodic force or noise."},{"word":"Belch","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation."},{"word":"Belch","type":"(n.)","description":"Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation."},{"word":"Belcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, belches."},{"word":"Beldam","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Beldame"},{"word":"Beldame","type":"(n.)","description":"Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire."},{"word":"Beldame","type":"(n.)","description":"An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag."},{"word":"Beleaguered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beleaguer"},{"word":"Beleaguering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beleaguer"},{"word":"Beleaguer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade."},{"word":"Beleaguerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who beleaguers."},{"word":"Beleft","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beleave"},{"word":"Beleave","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To leave or to be left."},{"word":"Belectured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belecture"},{"word":"Belecturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belecture"},{"word":"Belecture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently."},{"word":"Belee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind."},{"word":"Belemnite","type":"(n.)","description":"A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages."},{"word":"Belepered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beleper"},{"word":"Beleper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infect with leprosy."},{"word":"Beaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bel-esprit"},{"word":"-esprits","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bel-esprit"},{"word":"Bel-esprit","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine genius, or man of wit."},{"word":"Belfry","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense."},{"word":"Belfry","type":"(n.)","description":"A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile."},{"word":"Belfry","type":"(n.)","description":"A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose."},{"word":"Belfry","type":"(n.)","description":"The framing on which a bell is suspended."},{"word":"Belgard","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet or loving look."},{"word":"Belgian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Belgium."},{"word":"Belgian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Belgium."},{"word":"Belgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean."},{"word":"Belgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium."},{"word":"Belgravian","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic."},{"word":"Belial","type":"(n.)","description":"An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil."},{"word":"Belibel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To libel or traduce; to calumniate."},{"word":"Belied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belie"},{"word":"Belying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belie"},{"word":"Belie","type":"(n.)","description":"To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood."},{"word":"Belie","type":"(n.)","description":"To give a false representation or account of."},{"word":"Belie","type":"(n.)","description":"To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander."},{"word":"Belie","type":"(n.)","description":"To mimic; to counterfeit."},{"word":"Belie","type":"(n.)","description":"To fill with lies."},{"word":"Belief","type":"(n.)","description":"Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses."},{"word":"Belief","type":"(n.)","description":"A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith."},{"word":"Belief","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing believed; the object of belief."},{"word":"Belief","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed."},{"word":"Beliefful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having belief or faith."},{"word":"Believable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being believed; credible."},{"word":"Believed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Believe"},{"word":"Believing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Believe"},{"word":"Believe","type":"(n.)","description":"To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine."},{"word":"Believe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith."},{"word":"Believe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To think; to suppose."},{"word":"Believer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing."},{"word":"Believer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel."},{"word":"Believer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction."},{"word":"Believing","type":"(a.)","description":"That believes; having belief."},{"word":"Belight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To illuminate."},{"word":"Belike","type":"(adv.)","description":"It is likely or probably; perhaps."},{"word":"Belimed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belime"},{"word":"Belime","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To besmear or insnare with birdlime."},{"word":"Belittled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belittle"},{"word":"Belittling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belittle"},{"word":"Belittle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way."},{"word":"Belive","type":"(a.)","description":"Forthwith; speedily; quickly."},{"word":"Belk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vomit."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(n.)","description":"The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated."},{"word":"Belled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bell"},{"word":"Belling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bell"},{"word":"Bell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter by bellowing."},{"word":"Bell","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar."},{"word":"Belladonna","type":"(n.)","description":"An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade."},{"word":"Belladonna","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily."},{"word":"Bell","type":"()","description":"An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds."},{"word":"Bell","type":"()","description":"A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax."},{"word":"Bellbird","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero."},{"word":"Bellbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia."},{"word":"Bell","type":"()","description":"A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery."},{"word":"Belle","type":"(n.)","description":"A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady."},{"word":"Belled","type":"(a.)","description":"Hung with a bell or bells."},{"word":"Belle-lettrist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in belles-lettres."},{"word":"Bellerophon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age."},{"word":"Belles-lettres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant."},{"word":"Belletristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Belletristical"},{"word":"Belletristical","type":"(a.)","description":"Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres."},{"word":"Bell-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers."},{"word":"Bellflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers."},{"word":"Bellflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple."},{"word":"Bellibone","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid."},{"word":"Bellic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bellical"},{"word":"Bellical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial."},{"word":"Bellicose","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious."},{"word":"Bellicosely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bellicose manner."},{"word":"Bellicous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bellicose."},{"word":"Bellied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied."},{"word":"Belligerence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Belligerency"},{"word":"Belligerency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare."},{"word":"Belligerent","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Waging war; carrying on war."},{"word":"Belligerent","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights."},{"word":"Belligerent","type":"(n.)","description":"A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare."},{"word":"Belligerently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a belligerent manner; hostilely."},{"word":"Belling","type":"(n.)","description":"A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time."},{"word":"Bellipotent","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Mighty in war; armipotent."},{"word":"Bell","type":"()","description":"A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view."},{"word":"Bellman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours."},{"word":"Bell","type":"()","description":"A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells."},{"word":"Bell-mouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun."},{"word":"Bellon","type":"(n.)","description":"Lead colic."},{"word":"Bellona","type":"(n.)","description":"The goddess of war."},{"word":"Bellowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bellow"},{"word":"Bellowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bellow"},{"word":"Bellow","type":"(v.)","description":"To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull."},{"word":"Bellow","type":"(v.)","description":"To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor."},{"word":"Bellow","type":"(v.)","description":"To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound."},{"word":"Bellow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out."},{"word":"Bellow","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar."},{"word":"Bellower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bellows."},{"word":"Bellows","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind."},{"word":"Bellows","type":"()","description":"A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish."},{"word":"Bell","type":"()","description":"A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens."},{"word":"Bell-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate."},{"word":"Belluine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal."},{"word":"Bellwether","type":"(n.)","description":"A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck."},{"word":"Bellwether","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: A leader."},{"word":"Bellwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers."},{"word":"Bellies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Belly"},{"word":"Belly","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen."},{"word":"Belly","type":"(n.)","description":"The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly."},{"word":"Belly","type":"(n.)","description":"The womb."},{"word":"Belly","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship."},{"word":"Belly","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back."},{"word":"Bellied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belly"},{"word":"Bellying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belly"},{"word":"Belly","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to swell out; to fill."},{"word":"Belly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge."},{"word":"Bellyache","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain in the bowels; colic."},{"word":"Bellyband","type":"(n.)","description":"A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth."},{"word":"Bellyband","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly."},{"word":"Bellyband","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail."},{"word":"Bellybound","type":"(a.)","description":"Costive; constipated."},{"word":"Bellycheat","type":"(n.)","description":"An apron or covering for the front of the person."},{"word":"Bellycheer","type":"(n.)","description":"Good cheer; viands."},{"word":"Bellycheer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To revel; to feast."},{"word":"Bellyful","type":"(n.)","description":"As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough."},{"word":"Belly-god","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure."},{"word":"Belly-pinched","type":"(a.)","description":"Pinched with hunger; starved."},{"word":"Belocked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belock"},{"word":"Belock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lock, or fasten as with a lock."},{"word":"Belomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future."},{"word":"Belonged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belong"},{"word":"Belonging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belong"},{"word":"Belong","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain."},{"word":"Belong","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service."},{"word":"Belong","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to."},{"word":"Belong","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be suitable for; to be due to."},{"word":"Belong","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town."},{"word":"Belong","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be deserved by."},{"word":"Belonging","type":"(n.)","description":"That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects."},{"word":"Belonging","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance."},{"word":"Belonging","type":"(n.)","description":"Family; relations; household."},{"word":"Belonite","type":"(n.)","description":"Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks."},{"word":"Belooche","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Belooche","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan."},{"word":"Belord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act the lord over."},{"word":"Belord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To address by the title of \"lord\"."},{"word":"Beloved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belove"},{"word":"Belove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To love."},{"word":"Beloved","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Greatly loved; dear to the heart."},{"word":"Beloved","type":"(n.)","description":"One greatly loved."},{"word":"Below","type":"(prep.)","description":"Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee."},{"word":"Below","type":"(prep.)","description":"Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality."},{"word":"Below","type":"(prep.)","description":"Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath."},{"word":"Below","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath."},{"word":"Below","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the earth, as opposed to the heavens."},{"word":"Below","type":"(adv.)","description":"In hell, or the regions of the dead."},{"word":"Below","type":"(adv.)","description":"In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below."},{"word":"Below","type":"(adv.)","description":"In some part or page following."},{"word":"Belowt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to."},{"word":"Belsire","type":"(n.)","description":"A grandfather, or ancestor."},{"word":"Belswagger","type":"(n.)","description":"A lewd man; also, a bully."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"That which restrains or confines as a girdle."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"A token or badge of knightly rank."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(n.)","description":"A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges."},{"word":"Belted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belt"},{"word":"Belting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belt"},{"word":"Belt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround."},{"word":"Belt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep."},{"word":"Beltane","type":"(n.)","description":"The first day of May (Old Style)."},{"word":"Beltane","type":"(n.)","description":"A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland."},{"word":"Belted","type":"(a.)","description":"Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl."},{"word":"Belted","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk."},{"word":"Belted","type":"(a.)","description":"Worn in, or suspended from, the belt."},{"word":"Beltein","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Beltin"},{"word":"Beltin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Beltane."},{"word":"Belting","type":"(n.)","description":"The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively."},{"word":"Beluga","type":"(n.)","description":"A cetacean allied to the dolphins."},{"word":"Beluted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Belute"},{"word":"Beluting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Belute"},{"word":"Belute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bespatter, as with mud."},{"word":"Belvedere","type":"(n.)","description":"A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect."},{"word":"Belzebuth","type":"(n.)","description":"A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil."},{"word":"Bema","type":"(n.)","description":"A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly."},{"word":"Bema","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel."},{"word":"Bema","type":"(n.)","description":"Erroneously: A pulpit."},{"word":"Bemad","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make mad."},{"word":"Bemangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mangle; to tear asunder."},{"word":"Bemask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mask; to conceal."},{"word":"Bemaster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To master thoroughly."},{"word":"Bemaul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To maul or beat severely; to bruise."},{"word":"Bemaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bewilder."},{"word":"Bemean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make mean; to lower."},{"word":"Bemet","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bemeet"},{"word":"Bemeeting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bemeet"},{"word":"Bemeet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To meet."},{"word":"Bemete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mete."},{"word":"Bemingle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mingle; to mix."},{"word":"Bemired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bemire"},{"word":"Bemiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bemire"},{"word":"Bemire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt."},{"word":"Bemist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop in mist."},{"word":"Bemoaned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bemoan"},{"word":"Bemoaning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bemoan"},{"word":"Bemoan","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with."},{"word":"Bemoaner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bemoans."},{"word":"Bemock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mock; to ridicule."},{"word":"Bemoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil or encumber with mire and dirt."},{"word":"Bemol","type":"(n.)","description":"The sign /; the same as B flat."},{"word":"Bemonster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make monstrous or like a monster."},{"word":"Bemourn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mourn over."},{"word":"Bemuddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse."},{"word":"Bemuffle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up."},{"word":"Bemuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor."},{"word":"Ben","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Ben nut"},{"word":"Ben","type":"()","description":"The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa."},{"word":"Ben","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment."},{"word":"Ben","type":"(adv.)","description":"The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment."},{"word":"Ben","type":"()","description":"An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be."},{"word":"Benamed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bename"},{"word":"Benempt","type":"()","description":"of Bename"},{"word":"Bename","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To promise; to name."},{"word":"Benches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bench"},{"word":"Bench","type":"(n.)","description":"A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length."},{"word":"Bench","type":"(n.)","description":"A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench."},{"word":"Bench","type":"(n.)","description":"The seat where judges sit in court."},{"word":"Bench","type":"(n.)","description":"The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench."},{"word":"Bench","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms."},{"word":"Bench","type":"(n.)","description":"A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river."},{"word":"Benched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bench"},{"word":"Benching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bench"},{"word":"Bench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with benches."},{"word":"Bench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place on a bench or seat of honor."},{"word":"Bench","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sit on a seat of justice."},{"word":"Bencher","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court."},{"word":"Bencher","type":"(n.)","description":"An alderman of a corporation."},{"word":"Bencher","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a court or council."},{"word":"Bencher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler."},{"word":"Bench","type":"()","description":"A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant."},{"word":"Bended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bend"},{"word":"Bent","type":"()","description":"of Bend"},{"word":"Bending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bend"},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply closely or with interest; to direct."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jut over; to overhang."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be inclined; to be directed."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bow in prayer, or in token of submission."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(n.)","description":"A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(n.)","description":"Turn; purpose; inclination; ends."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(n.)","description":"The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(n.)","description":"Hard, indurated clay; bind."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(n.)","description":"same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(n.)","description":"A band."},{"word":"Bend","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base."},{"word":"Bendable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being bent."},{"word":"Bender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bends."},{"word":"Bender","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument used for bending."},{"word":"Bender","type":"(n.)","description":"A drunken spree."},{"word":"Bender","type":"(n.)","description":"A sixpence."},{"word":"Bending","type":"(n.)","description":"The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands."},{"word":"Bendlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend."},{"word":"Bendwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Diagonally."},{"word":"Bendy","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge."},{"word":"Bene","type":"(n.)","description":"See Benne."},{"word":"Bene","type":"(n.)","description":"A prayer; boon."},{"word":"Bene","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ben"},{"word":"Ben","type":"(n.)","description":"A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis)."},{"word":"Beneaped","type":"(a.)","description":"See Neaped."},{"word":"Beneath","type":"(prep.)","description":"Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of."},{"word":"Beneath","type":"(prep.)","description":"Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens."},{"word":"Beneath","type":"(prep.)","description":"Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming."},{"word":"Beneath","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a lower place; underneath."},{"word":"Beneath","type":"(adv.)","description":"Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath."},{"word":"Benedicite","type":"(n.)","description":"A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel."},{"word":"Benedicite","type":"(n.)","description":"An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !."},{"word":"Benedict","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Benedick"},{"word":"Benedick","type":"(n.)","description":"A married man, or a man newly married."},{"word":"Benedict","type":"(a.)","description":"Having mild and salubrious qualities."},{"word":"Benedictine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet."},{"word":"Benedictine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846."},{"word":"Benediction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blessing."},{"word":"Benediction","type":"(n.)","description":"A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness."},{"word":"Benediction","type":"(n.)","description":"The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction."},{"word":"Benediction","type":"(n.)","description":"The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop."},{"word":"Benediction","type":"(n.)","description":"A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God."},{"word":"Benedictional","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of benedictions."},{"word":"Benedictionary","type":"(n.)","description":"A collected series of benedictions."},{"word":"Benedictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to bless."},{"word":"Benedictory","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer."},{"word":"Benedictus","type":"(a.)","description":"The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version."},{"word":"Benedight","type":"(a.)","description":"Blessed."},{"word":"Benefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of conferring a benefit."},{"word":"Benefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation."},{"word":"Benefactor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confers a benefit or benefits."},{"word":"Benefactress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who confers a benefit."},{"word":"Benefic","type":"(a.)","description":"Favorable; beneficent."},{"word":"Benefice","type":"(n.)","description":"A favor or benefit."},{"word":"Benefice","type":"(n.)","description":"An estate in lands; a fief."},{"word":"Benefice","type":"(n.)","description":"An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson."},{"word":"Beneficed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Benefice"},{"word":"Benefice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endow with a benefice."},{"word":"Beneficed","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of a benefice or church preferment."},{"word":"Beneficeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no benefice."},{"word":"Beneficence","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness."},{"word":"Beneficent","type":"(a.)","description":"Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence."},{"word":"Beneficential","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to beneficence."},{"word":"Beneficently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a beneficent manner; with beneficence."},{"word":"Beneficial","type":"(a.)","description":"Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Beneficial","type":"(a.)","description":"Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate."},{"word":"Beneficial","type":"(a.)","description":"King."},{"word":"Beneficially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully."},{"word":"Beneficialness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being beneficial; profitableness."},{"word":"Beneficiary","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession."},{"word":"Beneficiary","type":"(a.)","description":"Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts."},{"word":"Beneficiaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Beneficiary"},{"word":"Beneficiary","type":"(n.)","description":"A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds."},{"word":"Beneficiary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate."},{"word":"Beneficiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce (ores)."},{"word":"Beneficient","type":"(a.)","description":"Beneficent."},{"word":"Benefit","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of kindness; a favor conferred."},{"word":"Benefit","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit."},{"word":"Benefit","type":"(n.)","description":"A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use."},{"word":"Benefit","type":"(n.)","description":"Beneficence; liberality."},{"word":"Benefit","type":"(n.)","description":"Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments."},{"word":"Benefited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Benefit"},{"word":"Benefitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Benefit"},{"word":"Benefit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit."},{"word":"Benefit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change."},{"word":"Benefiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit."},{"word":"Beneme","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive (of), or take away (from)."},{"word":"Benempt","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Promised; vowed."},{"word":"Benempt","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Named; styled."},{"word":"Bene","type":"()","description":"At or during pleasure."},{"word":"Bene","type":"()","description":"At pleasure; ad libitum."},{"word":"Benetted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Benet"},{"word":"Benet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch in a net; to insnare."},{"word":"Benevolence","type":"(n.)","description":"The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness."},{"word":"Benevolence","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of kindness; good done; charity given."},{"word":"Benevolence","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity."},{"word":"Benevolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable."},{"word":"Benevolous","type":"(a.)","description":"Kind; benevolent."},{"word":"Bengal","type":"(n.)","description":"A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc."},{"word":"Bengal","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal."},{"word":"Bengal","type":"(n.)","description":"Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes."},{"word":"Bengalee","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bengali"},{"word":"Bengali","type":"(n.)","description":"The language spoken in Bengal."},{"word":"Bengalese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bengal."},{"word":"Bengalese","type":"(n. sing. & pl)","description":"A native or natives of Bengal."},{"word":"Bengola","type":"(n.)","description":"A Bengal light."},{"word":"Benighted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Benight"},{"word":"Benighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Benight"},{"word":"Benight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure."},{"word":"Benight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task."},{"word":"Benight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light."},{"word":"Benightment","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being benighted."},{"word":"Benign","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant."},{"word":"Benign","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome."},{"word":"Benign","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease."},{"word":"Benignancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Benignant quality; kindliness."},{"word":"Benignant","type":"(a.)","description":"Kind; gracious; favorable."},{"word":"Benignity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness."},{"word":"Benignity","type":"(n.)","description":"Mildness; gentleness."},{"word":"Benignity","type":"(n.)","description":"Salubrity; wholesome quality."},{"word":"Benignly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a benign manner."},{"word":"Benim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away."},{"word":"Benison","type":"(n.)","description":"Blessing; beatitude; benediction."},{"word":"Benitier","type":"(n.)","description":"A holy-water stoup."},{"word":"Benjamin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Benzoin."},{"word":"Benjamin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of upper coat for men."},{"word":"Benjamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin."},{"word":"Benne","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy."},{"word":"Bennet","type":"(a.)","description":"The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc."},{"word":"Benshee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Banshee."},{"word":"Bent","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bend."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(a. & p. p.)","description":"Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(a. & p. p.)","description":"Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(v.)","description":"The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(v.)","description":"A declivity or slope, as of a hill."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(v.)","description":"A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(v.)","description":"Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(v.)","description":"A transverse frame of a framed structure."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(v.)","description":"Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(n.)","description":"A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(n.)","description":"A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America."},{"word":"Bent","type":"(n.)","description":"Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor."},{"word":"Bent","type":"()","description":"Same as Bent, a kind of grass."},{"word":"Benthal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean."},{"word":"Benthamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism."},{"word":"Benthamism","type":"(n.)","description":"That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions."},{"word":"Benthamite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in Benthamism."},{"word":"Benting","type":"()","description":"The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe."},{"word":"Benty","type":"(a.)","description":"A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields."},{"word":"Benty","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling bent."},{"word":"Benumbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Benumb"},{"word":"Benumbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Benumb"},{"word":"Benumb","type":"(a.)","description":"To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold."},{"word":"Benumbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind."},{"word":"Benumbment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor."},{"word":"Benzal","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination."},{"word":"Benzamide","type":"(n.)","description":"A transparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds."},{"word":"Benzene","type":"(n.)","description":"A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum."},{"word":"Benzile","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical."},{"word":"Benzine","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc."},{"word":"Benzine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Benzene."},{"word":"Benzoate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base."},{"word":"Benzoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin."},{"word":"Benzoin","type":"(n.)","description":"A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume."},{"word":"Benzoin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance, C14H12O2, obtained from benzoic aldehyde and some other sources."},{"word":"Benzoin","type":"(n.)","description":"The spicebush (Lindera benzoin)."},{"word":"Benzoinated","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as, benzoinated lard."},{"word":"Benzole","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Benzol"},{"word":"Benzol","type":"(n.)","description":"An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene."},{"word":"Benzoline","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Benzole."},{"word":"Benzoline","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Amarine."},{"word":"Benzoyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds."},{"word":"Benzyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively."},{"word":"Bepaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint."},{"word":"Bepelt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pelt roundly."},{"word":"Bepinched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bepinch"},{"word":"Bepinch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pinch, or mark with pinches."},{"word":"Beplastered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beplaster"},{"word":"Beplastering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beplaster"},{"word":"Beplaster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub."},{"word":"Beplumed","type":"(a.)","description":"Decked with feathers."},{"word":"Bepommeled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bepommel"},{"word":"Bepommeling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bepommel"},{"word":"Bepommel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing."},{"word":"Bepowder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder."},{"word":"Bepraise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise greatly or extravagantly."},{"word":"Beprose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to prose."},{"word":"Bepuffed","type":"(a.)","description":"Puffed; praised."},{"word":"Bepurple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tinge or dye with a purple color."},{"word":"Bequeathed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bequeath"},{"word":"Bequeathing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bequeath"},{"word":"Bequeath","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property."},{"word":"Bequeath","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hand down; to transmit."},{"word":"Bequeath","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give; to offer; to commit."},{"word":"Bequeathable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being bequeathed."},{"word":"Bequeathal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest."},{"word":"Bequeathment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest."},{"word":"Bequest","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B."},{"word":"Bequest","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift."},{"word":"Bequest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bequeath, or leave as a legacy."},{"word":"Bequethen","type":"()","description":"old p. p. of Bequeath."},{"word":"Bequote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quote constantly or with great frequency."},{"word":"Berained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Berain"},{"word":"Beraining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Berain"},{"word":"Berain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rain upon; to wet with rain."},{"word":"Berated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Berate"},{"word":"Berating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Berate"},{"word":"Berate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rate or chide vehemently; to scold."},{"word":"Berattle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down."},{"word":"Beray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make foul; to soil; to defile."},{"word":"Berbe","type":"(n.)","description":"An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet."},{"word":"Berber","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people."},{"word":"Berberine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants."},{"word":"Berberry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barberry."},{"word":"Berdash","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of neckcloth."},{"word":"Bere","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce."},{"word":"Bere","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bear, barley."},{"word":"Bereaved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bereave"},{"word":"Bereft","type":"()","description":"of Bereave"},{"word":"Bereaving.","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bereave"},{"word":"Bereave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away."},{"word":"Bereave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away from."},{"word":"Bereave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away."},{"word":"Bereavement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death."},{"word":"Bereaver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bereaves."},{"word":"Bereft","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bereave."},{"word":"Beretta","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Berretta."},{"word":"Berg","type":"(n.)","description":"A large mass or hill, as of ice."},{"word":"Bergamot","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit."},{"word":"Bergamot","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata)."},{"word":"Bergamot","type":"(n.)","description":"The essence or perfume made from the fruit."},{"word":"Bergamot","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pear."},{"word":"Bergamot","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot."},{"word":"Bergamot","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit."},{"word":"Bergander","type":"(n.)","description":"A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake."},{"word":"Bergeret","type":"(n.)","description":"A pastoral song."},{"word":"Bergh","type":"(n.)","description":"A hill."},{"word":"Bergmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barmaster."},{"word":"Bergmeal","type":"(n.)","description":"An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite."},{"word":"Bergmote","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barmote."},{"word":"Bergomask","type":"(n.)","description":"A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness."},{"word":"Bergylt","type":"(n.)","description":"The Norway haddock. See Rosefish."},{"word":"Berhymed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Berhyme"},{"word":"Berhyming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Berhyme"},{"word":"Berhyme","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about."},{"word":"Beriberi","type":"(n.)","description":"An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy."},{"word":"Berime","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To berhyme."},{"word":"Berkeleian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy."},{"word":"Berlin","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin."},{"word":"Berlin","type":"(n.)","description":"Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool."},{"word":"Berm","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Berme"},{"word":"Berme","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch."},{"word":"Berme","type":"(n.)","description":"A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank."},{"word":"Bermuda","type":"()","description":"A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass."},{"word":"Bernacle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barnacle."},{"word":"Berna","type":"()","description":"A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae do great injury."},{"word":"Bernardine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks."},{"word":"Bernardine","type":"(n.)","description":"A Cistercian monk."},{"word":"Bernese","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Bernese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or natives of Bern."},{"word":"Bernicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bernicle goose."},{"word":"Bernouse","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Burnoose."},{"word":"Berob","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rob; to plunder."},{"word":"Beroe","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora."},{"word":"Berretta","type":"(n.)","description":"A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green."},{"word":"Berried","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub."},{"word":"Berries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Berry"},{"word":"Berry","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc."},{"word":"Berry","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry."},{"word":"Berry","type":"(n.)","description":"The coffee bean."},{"word":"Berry","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ova or eggs of a fish."},{"word":"Berried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Berry"},{"word":"Berrying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Berry"},{"word":"Berry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bear or produce berries."},{"word":"Berry","type":"(n.)","description":"A mound; a hillock."},{"word":"Berrying","type":"(n.)","description":"A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild."},{"word":"Berserk","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Berserker"},{"word":"Berserker","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds."},{"word":"Berserker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker."},{"word":"Berstle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bristle."},{"word":"Berth","type":"(n.)","description":"Convenient sea room."},{"word":"Berth","type":"(n.)","description":"A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside."},{"word":"Berth","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf."},{"word":"Berth","type":"(n.)","description":"An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment."},{"word":"Berth","type":"(n.)","description":"A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in."},{"word":"Berthed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Berth"},{"word":"Berthing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Berth"},{"word":"Berth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide."},{"word":"Berth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company."},{"word":"Bertha","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies."},{"word":"Berthage","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor."},{"word":"Berthierite","type":"(n.)","description":"A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color."},{"word":"Berthing","type":"(n.)","description":"The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake."},{"word":"Bertram","type":"(n.)","description":"Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum)."},{"word":"Berycoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes."},{"word":"Beryl","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium."},{"word":"Berylline","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color."},{"word":"Beryllium","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum."},{"word":"Berylloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl."},{"word":"Besaiel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Besayle"},{"word":"Besaile","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Besayle"},{"word":"Besayle","type":"(n.)","description":"A great-grandfather."},{"word":"Besayle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished."},{"word":"Besaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a saint of."},{"word":"Besant","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bezant."},{"word":"Bes-antler","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bez-antler."},{"word":"Bescatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter over."},{"word":"Bescatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew."},{"word":"Bescorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with scorn."},{"word":"Bescratch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches."},{"word":"Bescrawl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with scrawls; to scribble over."},{"word":"Bescreen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal."},{"word":"Bescribble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scribble over."},{"word":"Bescumber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Bescummer"},{"word":"Bescummer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discharge ordure or dung upon."},{"word":"Besee","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To see; to look; to mind."},{"word":"Besought","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beseech"},{"word":"Beseeching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beseech"},{"word":"Beseech","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore."},{"word":"Beseech","type":"(n.)","description":"Solicitation; supplication."},{"word":"Beseecher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who beseeches."},{"word":"Beseeching","type":"(a.)","description":"Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look."},{"word":"Beseechment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly."},{"word":"Beseek","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beseech."},{"word":"Beseemed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beseem"},{"word":"Beseeming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beseem"},{"word":"Beseem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit."},{"word":"Beseem","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seem; to appear; to be fitting."},{"word":"Beseeming","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance; look; garb."},{"word":"Beseeming","type":"(n.)","description":"Comeliness."},{"word":"Beseeming","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming; suitable."},{"word":"Beseemly","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit; suitable; becoming."},{"word":"Beseen","type":"(a.)","description":"Seen; appearing."},{"word":"Beseen","type":"(a.)","description":"Decked or adorned; clad."},{"word":"Beseen","type":"(a.)","description":"Accomplished; versed."},{"word":"Beset","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beset"},{"word":"Besetting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beset"},{"word":"Beset","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects."},{"word":"Beset","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade."},{"word":"Beset","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc."},{"word":"Beset","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To occupy; to employ; to use up."},{"word":"Besetment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin."},{"word":"Besetter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, besets."},{"word":"Besetting","type":"(a.)","description":"Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin."},{"word":"Beshone","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beshine"},{"word":"Beshining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beshine"},{"word":"Beshine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shine upon; to illumine."},{"word":"Beshow","type":"(n.)","description":"A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish."},{"word":"Beshrew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To curse; to execrate."},{"word":"Beshroud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen."},{"word":"Beshut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up or out."},{"word":"Beside","type":"(n.)","description":"At the side of; on one side of."},{"word":"Beside","type":"(n.)","description":"Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of."},{"word":"Beside","type":"(n.)","description":"Over and above; distinct from; in addition to."},{"word":"Besides","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Beside"},{"word":"Beside","type":"(adv.)","description":"On one side."},{"word":"Beside","type":"(adv.)","description":"More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition."},{"word":"Besides","type":"(prep.)","description":"Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside."},{"word":"Besieged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Besiege"},{"word":"Besieging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Besiege"},{"word":"Besiege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset."},{"word":"Besiegement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged."},{"word":"Besieger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged."},{"word":"Besieging","type":"(a.)","description":"That besieges; laying siege to."},{"word":"Besit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suit; to fit; to become."},{"word":"Beslabber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beslobber."},{"word":"Beslave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enslave."},{"word":"Beslavered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beslaver"},{"word":"Beslavering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beslaver"},{"word":"Beslaver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defile with slaver; to beslobber."},{"word":"Beslime","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daub with slime; to soil."},{"word":"Beslobber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise."},{"word":"Beslubber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beslobber."},{"word":"Besmeared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Besmear"},{"word":"Besmearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Besmear"},{"word":"Besmear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil."},{"word":"Besmearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One that besmears."},{"word":"Besmirched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Besmirch"},{"word":"Besmirching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Besmirch"},{"word":"Besmirch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully."},{"word":"Besmoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foul with smoke."},{"word":"Besmoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harden or dry in smoke."},{"word":"Besmutted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Besmut"},{"word":"Besmutting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Besmut"},{"word":"Besmut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blacken with smut; to foul with soot."},{"word":"Besnowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Besnow"},{"word":"Besnow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes."},{"word":"Besnow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow."},{"word":"Besnuff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To befoul with snuff."},{"word":"Besogne","type":"(n.)","description":"A worthless fellow; a bezonian."},{"word":"Besom","type":"(n.)","description":"A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys."},{"word":"Besomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Besom"},{"word":"Besom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sweep, as with a besom."},{"word":"Besomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses a besom."},{"word":"Besort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become."},{"word":"Besort","type":"(n.)","description":"Befitting associates or attendants."},{"word":"Besotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Besot"},{"word":"Besotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Besot"},{"word":"Besot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate."},{"word":"Besotted","type":"(a.)","description":"Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied."},{"word":"Besottingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a besotting manner."},{"word":"Besought","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Beseech."},{"word":"Bespangled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bespangle"},{"word":"Bespangling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bespangle"},{"word":"Bespangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering."},{"word":"Bespattered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bespatter"},{"word":"Bespattering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bespatter"},{"word":"Bespatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains."},{"word":"Bespatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To asperse with calumny or reproach."},{"word":"Bespawl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle."},{"word":"Bespoke","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Bespeak"},{"word":"Bespake","type":"()","description":"of Bespeak"},{"word":"Bespoke","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bespeak"},{"word":"Bespoken","type":"()","description":"of Bespeak"},{"word":"Bespeaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bespeak"},{"word":"Bespeak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor."},{"word":"Bespeak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate."},{"word":"Bespeak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances."},{"word":"Bespeak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To speak to; to address."},{"word":"Bespeak","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak."},{"word":"Bespeak","type":"(n.)","description":"A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)"},{"word":"Bespeaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bespeaks."},{"word":"Bespeckled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bespeckle"},{"word":"Bespeckling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bespeckle"},{"word":"Bespeckle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with speckles or spots."},{"word":"Bespew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on."},{"word":"Bespice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To season with spice, or with some spicy drug."},{"word":"Bespirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Bespurt."},{"word":"Bespit","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Bespit"},{"word":"Bespit","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bespit"},{"word":"Bespitten","type":"()","description":"of Bespit"},{"word":"Bespitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bespit"},{"word":"Bespit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daub or soil with spittle."},{"word":"Bespoke","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bespeak."},{"word":"Bespotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bespot"},{"word":"Bespotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bespot"},{"word":"Bespot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with spots, or as with spots."},{"word":"Bespread","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bespread"},{"word":"Bespreading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bespread"},{"word":"Bespread","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread or cover over."},{"word":"Besprent","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Sprinkled over; strewed."},{"word":"Besprinkled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Besprinkle"},{"word":"Besprinkling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Besprinkle"},{"word":"Besprinkle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle over; to scatter over."},{"word":"Besprinkler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, besprinkles."},{"word":"Besprinkling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over."},{"word":"Bespurt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spurt on or over; to asperse."},{"word":"Bessemer","type":"()","description":"Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process."},{"word":"Best","type":"(a.)","description":"Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities."},{"word":"Best","type":"(a.)","description":"Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject."},{"word":"Best","type":"(a.)","description":"Most; largest; as, the best part of a week."},{"word":"Best","type":"(n.)","description":"Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability."},{"word":"Best","type":"(superl.)","description":"In the highest degree; beyond all others."},{"word":"Best","type":"(superl.)","description":"To the most advantage; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety."},{"word":"Best","type":"(superl.)","description":"Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself."},{"word":"Best","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get the better of."},{"word":"Bestad","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"Beset; put in peril."},{"word":"Bestain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stain."},{"word":"Bestarred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bestar"},{"word":"Bestar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud."},{"word":"Bestead","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bestead"},{"word":"Bested","type":"()","description":"of Bestead"},{"word":"Bestad","type":"()","description":"of Bestead"},{"word":"Besteaded","type":"()","description":"of Bestead"},{"word":"Bestead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place."},{"word":"Bestead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in peril; to beset."},{"word":"Bestead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail."},{"word":"Bestial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts."},{"word":"Bestial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual."},{"word":"Bestial","type":"(n.)","description":"A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial."},{"word":"Bestiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being bestial."},{"word":"Bestiality","type":"(n.)","description":"Unnatural connection with a beast."},{"word":"Bestialized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bestialize"},{"word":"Bestializing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bestialize"},{"word":"Bestialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize."},{"word":"Bestially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bestial manner."},{"word":"Bestuck","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bestick"},{"word":"Besticking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bestick"},{"word":"Bestick","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce."},{"word":"Bestill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make still."},{"word":"Bestirred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bestir"},{"word":"Bestirring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bestir"},{"word":"Bestir","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun."},{"word":"Bestorm","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To storm."},{"word":"Bestowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bestow"},{"word":"Bestowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bestow"},{"word":"Bestow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put."},{"word":"Bestow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation."},{"word":"Bestow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expend, as money."},{"word":"Bestow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon."},{"word":"Bestow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give in marriage."},{"word":"Bestow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Bestowal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bestowing; disposal."},{"word":"Bestower","type":"(n.)","description":"One that bestows."},{"word":"Bestowment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal."},{"word":"Bestowment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is given or bestowed."},{"word":"Bestraddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestride."},{"word":"Bestraught","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of one's senses; distracted; mad."},{"word":"Bestreak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To streak."},{"word":"Bestrewed","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Bestrew"},{"word":"Bestrewed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bestrew"},{"word":"Bestrown","type":"()","description":"of Bestrew"},{"word":"Bestrewing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bestrew"},{"word":"Bestrew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle."},{"word":"Bestrode","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Bestride"},{"word":"Bestrid","type":"()","description":"of Bestride"},{"word":"Bestridden","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bestride"},{"word":"Bestrid","type":"()","description":"of Bestride"},{"word":"Bestrode","type":"()","description":"of Bestride"},{"word":"Bestriding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bestride"},{"word":"Bestride","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over"},{"word":"Bestride","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold."},{"word":"Bestrode","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bestride."},{"word":"Bestrown","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Bestrew."},{"word":"Bestuck","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. Bestick."},{"word":"Bestudded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bestud"},{"word":"Bestudding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bestud"},{"word":"Bestud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars."},{"word":"Beswike","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lure; to cheat."},{"word":"Bet","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager."},{"word":"Bet","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bet"},{"word":"Betted","type":"()","description":"of Bet"},{"word":"Betting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bet"},{"word":"Bet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager."},{"word":"Bet","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Beat."},{"word":"Bet","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"An early form of Better."},{"word":"Betaine","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste."},{"word":"Betook","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Betake"},{"word":"Betaken","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Betake"},{"word":"Betaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Betake"},{"word":"Betake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or seize."},{"word":"Betake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Betake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To commend or intrust to; to commit to."},{"word":"Betaught","type":"(a.)","description":"Delivered; committed in trust."},{"word":"Bete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To better; to mend. See Beete."},{"word":"Beteela","type":"(n.)","description":"An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc."},{"word":"Beteem","type":"(a.)","description":"To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent."},{"word":"Beteem","type":"(a.)","description":"To allow; to permit; to suffer."},{"word":"Betel","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves."},{"word":"Betelguese","type":"(n.)","description":"A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion."},{"word":"Betel","type":"()","description":"The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime."},{"word":"Bete","type":"()","description":"Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear."},{"word":"Bethabara","type":"()","description":"A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian."},{"word":"Bethel","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of worship; a hallowed spot."},{"word":"Bethel","type":"(n.)","description":"A chapel for dissenters."},{"word":"Bethel","type":"(n.)","description":"A house of worship for seamen."},{"word":"Bethought","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bethink"},{"word":"Bethinking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bethink"},{"word":"Bethink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought."},{"word":"Bethink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To think; to recollect; to consider."},{"word":"Bethlehem","type":"(n.)","description":"A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam."},{"word":"Bethlehem","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made."},{"word":"Bethlehemite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bethlemite"},{"word":"Bethlemite","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea."},{"word":"Bethlemite","type":"(n.)","description":"An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite."},{"word":"Bethlemite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an extinct English order of monks."},{"word":"Bethought","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bethink."},{"word":"Bethrall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall."},{"word":"Bethumb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books."},{"word":"Bethumped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bethump"},{"word":"Bethumpt","type":"()","description":"of Bethump"},{"word":"Bethumping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bethump"},{"word":"Bethump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat or thump soundly."},{"word":"Betided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betide"},{"word":"Betid","type":"(Obs)","description":"of Betide"},{"word":"Betiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Betide"},{"word":"Betide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer."},{"word":"Betide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to pass; to happen; to occur."},{"word":"Betime","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Betimes"},{"word":"Betimes","type":"(adv.)","description":"In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early."},{"word":"Betimes","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with."},{"word":"Betitle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle."},{"word":"Betokened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betoken"},{"word":"Betokening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Betoken"},{"word":"Betoken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens."},{"word":"Betoken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm."},{"word":"Beton","type":"(n.)","description":"The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion."},{"word":"Betongue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult."},{"word":"Betonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Betony"},{"word":"Betony","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.)."},{"word":"Betook","type":"()","description":"imp. of Betake."},{"word":"Betorn","type":"(a.)","description":"Torn in pieces; tattered."},{"word":"Betossed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betoss"},{"word":"Betoss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss."},{"word":"Betrapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betrap"},{"word":"Betrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent."},{"word":"Betrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck."},{"word":"Betrayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betray"},{"word":"Betraying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Betray"},{"word":"Betray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city."},{"word":"Betray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause."},{"word":"Betray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known."},{"word":"Betray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally."},{"word":"Betray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin."},{"word":"Betray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon."},{"word":"Betray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed."},{"word":"Betrayal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the result of betraying."},{"word":"Betrayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, betrays."},{"word":"Betrayment","type":"(n.)","description":"Betrayal."},{"word":"Betrimmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betrim"},{"word":"Betrimming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Betrim"},{"word":"Betrim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim."},{"word":"Betrothed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betroth"},{"word":"Betrothing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Betroth"},{"word":"Betroth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman."},{"word":"Betroth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to."},{"word":"Betroth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration."},{"word":"Betrothal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance."},{"word":"Betrothment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal."},{"word":"Betrust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trust or intrust."},{"word":"Betrustment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted."},{"word":"Betso","type":"(n.)","description":"A small brass Venetian coin."},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air."},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect."},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"Greater in amount; larger; more."},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better."},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject."},{"word":"Better","type":"(n.)","description":"Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy."},{"word":"Better","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Better","type":"(compar.)","description":"In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits."},{"word":"Better","type":"(compar.)","description":"More correctly or thoroughly."},{"word":"Better","type":"(compar.)","description":"In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another."},{"word":"Better","type":"(compar.)","description":"More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better."},{"word":"Bettered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Better"},{"word":"Bettering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Better"},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of."},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise."},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel."},{"word":"Better","type":"(a.)","description":"To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of."},{"word":"Better","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become better; to improve."},{"word":"Better","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bets or lays a wager."},{"word":"Betterment","type":"(n.)","description":"A making better; amendment; improvement."},{"word":"Betterment","type":"(n.)","description":"An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural."},{"word":"Bettermost","type":"(a.)","description":"Best."},{"word":"Betterness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being better or superior; superiority."},{"word":"Betterness","type":"(n.)","description":"The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard."},{"word":"Bettong","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo."},{"word":"Bettor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bets; a better."},{"word":"Betty","type":"(n.)","description":"A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open."},{"word":"Betty","type":"(n.)","description":"A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters."},{"word":"Betty","type":"(n.)","description":"A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask."},{"word":"Betulin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor."},{"word":"Betumbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betumble"},{"word":"Betumble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into disorder; to tumble."},{"word":"Betutored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Betutor"},{"word":"Betutor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tutor; to instruct."},{"word":"Between","type":"(prep.)","description":"In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia."},{"word":"Between","type":"(prep.)","description":"Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two."},{"word":"Between","type":"(prep.)","description":"Belonging in common to two; shared by both."},{"word":"Between","type":"(prep.)","description":"Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion."},{"word":"Between","type":"(prep.)","description":"With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations."},{"word":"Between","type":"(prep.)","description":"In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock."},{"word":"Between","type":"(n.)","description":"Intermediate time or space; interval."},{"word":"Betwixt","type":"(prep.)","description":"In the space which separates; between."},{"word":"Betwixt","type":"(prep.)","description":"From one to another of; mutually affecting."},{"word":"Beurre","type":"(n.)","description":"A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau."},{"word":"Bevel","type":"(n.)","description":"Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber."},{"word":"Bevel","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square."},{"word":"Bevel","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the slant of a bevel; slanting."},{"word":"Bevel","type":"(a.)","description":"Hence: Morally distorted; not upright."},{"word":"Beveled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bevel"},{"word":"Bevelled","type":"()","description":"of Bevel"},{"word":"Beveling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bevel"},{"word":"Bevelling","type":"()","description":"of Bevel"},{"word":"Bevel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of."},{"word":"Bevel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deviate or incline from an angle of 90�, as a surface; to slant."},{"word":"Beveled","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bevelled"},{"word":"Bevelled","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table."},{"word":"Bevelled","type":"(a.)","description":"Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid."},{"word":"Bevel","type":"()","description":"A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet."},{"word":"Bevelment","type":"(n.)","description":"The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes."},{"word":"Bever","type":"(n.)","description":"A light repast between meals; a lunch."},{"word":"Bevered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bever"},{"word":"Bever","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take a light repast between meals."},{"word":"Beverage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage."},{"word":"Beverage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink."},{"word":"Beverage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A treat, or drink money."},{"word":"Bevile","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel."},{"word":"Beviled","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bevilled"},{"word":"Bevilled","type":"(a.)","description":"Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield."},{"word":"Bevies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bevy"},{"word":"Bevy","type":"(n.)","description":"A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies."},{"word":"Bevy","type":"(n.)","description":"A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes."},{"word":"Bewailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bewail"},{"word":"Bewailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bewail"},{"word":"Bewail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over."},{"word":"Bewail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To express grief; to lament."},{"word":"Bewailable","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable."},{"word":"Bewailer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bewails or laments."},{"word":"Bewailing","type":"(a.)","description":"Wailing over; lamenting."},{"word":"Bewailment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bewailing."},{"word":"Bewake","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To keep watch over; to keep awake."},{"word":"Beware","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided."},{"word":"Beware","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a special regard; to heed."},{"word":"Beware","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for."},{"word":"Bewash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drench or souse with water."},{"word":"Bewept","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Beweep"},{"word":"Beweeping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Beweep"},{"word":"Beweep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears."},{"word":"Beweep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To weep."},{"word":"Bewet","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bewet"},{"word":"Bewetted","type":"()","description":"of Bewet"},{"word":"Bewet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wet or moisten."},{"word":"Bewhore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of."},{"word":"Bewhore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce or characterize as a whore."},{"word":"Bewigged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bewig"},{"word":"Bewig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover (the head) with a wig."},{"word":"Bewildered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bewilder"},{"word":"Bewildering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bewilder"},{"word":"Bewilder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly."},{"word":"Bewildered","type":"(a.)","description":"Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind."},{"word":"Bewilderedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bewildered; bewilderment."},{"word":"Bewildering","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties."},{"word":"Bewilderment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bewildered."},{"word":"Bewilderment","type":"(n.)","description":"A bewildering tangle or confusion."},{"word":"Bewinter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make wintry."},{"word":"Bewit","type":"(n.)","description":"A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs."},{"word":"Bewitched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bewitch"},{"word":"Bewitching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bewitch"},{"word":"Bewitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery."},{"word":"Bewitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant."},{"word":"Bewitchedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bewitched."},{"word":"Bewitcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bewitches."},{"word":"Bewitchery","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination."},{"word":"Bewitching","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming."},{"word":"Bewitchment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched."},{"word":"Bewitchment","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of bewitching or charming."},{"word":"Bewondered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bewonder"},{"word":"Bewonder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with wonder."},{"word":"Bewonder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wonder at; to admire."},{"word":"Bewrapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bewrap"},{"word":"Bewrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wrap up; to cover."},{"word":"Bewray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil. See Beray."},{"word":"Bewrayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bewray"},{"word":"Bewraying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bewray"},{"word":"Bewray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray."},{"word":"Bewrayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer."},{"word":"Bewrayment","type":"(n.)","description":"Betrayal."},{"word":"Bewreck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wreck."},{"word":"Bewreke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wreak; to avenge."},{"word":"Bewrought","type":"(a.)","description":"Embroidered."},{"word":"Bey","type":"(n.)","description":"A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis."},{"word":"Beylic","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory ruled by a bey."},{"word":"Beyond","type":"(prep.)","description":"On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than."},{"word":"Beyond","type":"(prep.)","description":"At a place or time not yet reached; before."},{"word":"Beyond","type":"(prep.)","description":"Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength."},{"word":"Beyond","type":"(prep.)","description":"In a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind."},{"word":"Beyond","type":"(adv.)","description":"Further away; at a distance; yonder."},{"word":"Bezant","type":"(n.)","description":"A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants."},{"word":"Bezant","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant."},{"word":"Bezant","type":"(n.)","description":"A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another."},{"word":"Bez-antler","type":"(n.)","description":"The second branch of a stag's horn."},{"word":"Bezel","type":"(n.)","description":"The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set."},{"word":"Bezique","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points."},{"word":"Bezoar","type":"(n.)","description":"A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea."},{"word":"Bezoardic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar."},{"word":"Bezoardic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine containing bezoar."},{"word":"Bezoartic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bezoartical"},{"word":"Bezoartical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing."},{"word":"Bezonian","type":"(n.)","description":"A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar."},{"word":"Bezzled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bezzle"},{"word":"Bezzling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bezzle"},{"word":"Bezzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunder; to waste in riot."},{"word":"Bezzle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drink to excess; to revel."},{"word":"Bhang","type":"(n.)","description":"An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh."},{"word":"Bhunder","type":"(n.)","description":"An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus."},{"word":"Bi-","type":"()","description":"In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc."},{"word":"Bi-","type":"()","description":"In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably."},{"word":"Biacid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid."},{"word":"Biacuminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having points in two directions."},{"word":"Biangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two angles or corners."},{"word":"Biangulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Biangulated"},{"word":"Biangulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Biangular."},{"word":"Biangulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Biangular."},{"word":"Biantheriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two anthers."},{"word":"Biarticulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or consisting of, tow joints."},{"word":"Biases","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bias"},{"word":"Bias","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line."},{"word":"Bias","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination."},{"word":"Bias","type":"(n.)","description":"A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference."},{"word":"Bias","type":"(n.)","description":"A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias."},{"word":"Bias","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to one side; swelled on one side."},{"word":"Bias","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth."},{"word":"Bias","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias."},{"word":"Biased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bias"},{"word":"Biasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bias"},{"word":"Bias","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess."},{"word":"Biauriculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles."},{"word":"Biauriculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf."},{"word":"Biaxal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Biaxial"},{"word":"Biaxial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization."},{"word":"Bib","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes."},{"word":"Bib","type":"(n.)","description":"An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout."},{"word":"Bib","type":"(n.)","description":"A bibcock."},{"word":"Bib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Bibbe"},{"word":"Bibbe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drink; to tipple."},{"word":"Bib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drink; to sip; to tipple."},{"word":"Bibacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Addicted to drinking."},{"word":"Bibacity","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling."},{"word":"Bibasic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic."},{"word":"Bibb","type":"(n.)","description":"A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3."},{"word":"Bibber","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber."},{"word":"Bibble-babble","type":"(n.)","description":"Idle talk; babble."},{"word":"Bibbs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees."},{"word":"Bibcock","type":"(n.)","description":"A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle."},{"word":"Bibirine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bebeerine."},{"word":"Bibitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling."},{"word":"Bible","type":"(n.)","description":"A book."},{"word":"Bible","type":"(n.)","description":"The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible."},{"word":"Bible","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible."},{"word":"Bible","type":"(n.)","description":"A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field."},{"word":"Bibler","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A great drinker; a tippler."},{"word":"Biblical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority."},{"word":"Biblicality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject."},{"word":"Biblically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the Bible."},{"word":"Biblicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Learning or literature relating to the Bible."},{"word":"Biblicist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures."},{"word":"Bibliograph","type":"(n.)","description":"Bibliographer."},{"word":"Bibliographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography."},{"word":"Bibliographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bibliographical"},{"word":"Bibliographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books."},{"word":"Bibliographies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bibliography"},{"word":"Bibliography","type":"(n.)","description":"A history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc."},{"word":"Bibliolater","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bibliolatrist"},{"word":"Bibliolatrist","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration."},{"word":"Bibliolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures."},{"word":"Bibliological","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to bibliology."},{"word":"Bibliology","type":"(n.)","description":"An account of books; book lore; bibliography."},{"word":"Bibliology","type":"(n.)","description":"The literature or doctrine of the Bible."},{"word":"Bibliomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events."},{"word":"Bibliomania","type":"(n.)","description":"A mania for acquiring books."},{"word":"Bibliomaniac","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has a mania for books."},{"word":"Bibliomaniac","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a bibliomaniac."},{"word":"Bibliomaniacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac."},{"word":"Bibliopegic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the binding of books."},{"word":"Bibliopegist","type":"(n.)","description":"A bookbinder."},{"word":"Bibliopegistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the art of binding books."},{"word":"Bibliopegy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of binding books."},{"word":"Bibliophile","type":"(n.)","description":"A lover of books."},{"word":"Bibliophilism","type":"(n.)","description":"Love of books."},{"word":"Bibliophilist","type":"(n.)","description":"A lover of books."},{"word":"Bibliophobia","type":"(n.)","description":"A dread of books."},{"word":"Bibliopole","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sells books."},{"word":"Bibliopolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bibliopolar"},{"word":"Bibliopolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the sale of books."},{"word":"Bibliopolism","type":"(n.)","description":"The trade or business of selling books."},{"word":"Bibliopolist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bibliopole."},{"word":"Bibliopolistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bibliopolism."},{"word":"Bibliotaph","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bibliotaphist"},{"word":"Bibliotaphist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hides away books, as in a tomb."},{"word":"Bibliothec","type":"(n.)","description":"A librarian."},{"word":"Bibliotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"A library."},{"word":"Bibliothecal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a library."},{"word":"Bibliothecary","type":"(n.)","description":"A librarian."},{"word":"Bibliotheke","type":"(n.)","description":"A library."},{"word":"Biblist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith."},{"word":"Biblist","type":"(n.)","description":"A biblical scholar; a biblicist."},{"word":"Bibracteate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, or having, two bracts."},{"word":"Bibulous","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper."},{"word":"Bibulous","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling."},{"word":"Bibulously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption."},{"word":"Bicalcarate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird."},{"word":"Bicallose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bicallous"},{"word":"Bicallous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two callosities or hard spots."},{"word":"Bicameral","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches."},{"word":"Bicapsular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp."},{"word":"Bicarbonate","type":"(n.)","description":"A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate."},{"word":"Bicarbureted","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of -retted"},{"word":"-retted","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule."},{"word":"Bicarinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses."},{"word":"Bicaudal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or terminating in, two tails."},{"word":"Bicaudate","type":"(a.)","description":"Two-tailed; bicaudal."},{"word":"Bicched","type":"(a.)","description":"Pecked; pitted; notched."},{"word":"Bice","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bise"},{"word":"Bise","type":"(n.)","description":"A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice."},{"word":"Bicentenary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration."},{"word":"Bicentenary","type":"(n.)","description":"The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration."},{"word":"Bicentennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two hundred years."},{"word":"Bicentennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Occurring every two hundred years."},{"word":"Bicentennial","type":"(n.)","description":"The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration."},{"word":"Bicephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two heads."},{"word":"Biceps","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh."},{"word":"Bichir","type":"(n.)","description":"A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei."},{"word":"Bichloride","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride."},{"word":"Bicho","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jigger."},{"word":"Bichromate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate."},{"word":"Bichromatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine."},{"word":"Bicipital","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two heads or origins, as a muscle."},{"word":"Bicipital","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm."},{"word":"Bicipital","type":"(a.)","description":"Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree."},{"word":"Bicipitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two heads; bicipital."},{"word":"Bicker","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub."},{"word":"Bickered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bicker"},{"word":"Bickering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bicker"},{"word":"Bicker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight."},{"word":"Bicker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle."},{"word":"Bicker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame."},{"word":"Bicker","type":"(n.)","description":"A skirmish; an encounter."},{"word":"Bicker","type":"(n.)","description":"A fight with stones between two parties of boys."},{"word":"Bicker","type":"(n.)","description":"A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention."},{"word":"Bickerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bickers."},{"word":"Bickering","type":"(n.)","description":"A skirmishing."},{"word":"Bickering","type":"(n.)","description":"Altercation; wrangling."},{"word":"Bickerment","type":"(n.)","description":"Contention."},{"word":"Bickern","type":"(n.)","description":"An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself."},{"word":"Bicolligate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web."},{"word":"Bicolor","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bicolored"},{"word":"Bicolored","type":"(a.)","description":"Of two colors."},{"word":"Biconcave","type":"(a.)","description":"Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae."},{"word":"Biconjugate","type":"(a.)","description":"Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice."},{"word":"Biconvex","type":"(a.)","description":"Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens."},{"word":"Bicorn","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bicornous"},{"word":"Bicorned","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bicornous"},{"word":"Bicornous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike."},{"word":"Bicorporal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two bodies."},{"word":"Bicorporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies."},{"word":"Bicostate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf."},{"word":"Bicrenate","type":"(a.)","description":"Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate."},{"word":"Bicrescentic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a double crescent."},{"word":"Bicrural","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two legs."},{"word":"Bicuspid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bicuspidate"},{"word":"Bicuspidate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc."},{"word":"Bicuspid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n."},{"word":"Bicyanide","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dicyanide."},{"word":"Bicycle","type":"(n.)","description":"A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers."},{"word":"Bicycler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rides a bicycle."},{"word":"Bicyclic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to bicycles."},{"word":"Bicycling","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle."},{"word":"Bicyclism","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of riding a bicycle."},{"word":"Bicyclist","type":"(n.)","description":"A bicycler."},{"word":"Bicycular","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to bicycling."},{"word":"Bade","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Bid"},{"word":"Bid","type":"()","description":"of Bid"},{"word":"Bad","type":"()","description":"of Bid"},{"word":"Bidden","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bid"},{"word":"Bid","type":"()","description":"of Bid"},{"word":"Bidding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bid"},{"word":"Bid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract)."},{"word":"Bid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc."},{"word":"Bid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known."},{"word":"Bid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command."},{"word":"Bid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invite; to call in; to request to come."},{"word":"Bid","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bid."},{"word":"Bid","type":"(n.)","description":"An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered."},{"word":"Bid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pray."},{"word":"Bid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take."},{"word":"Bidale","type":"(n.)","description":"An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief."},{"word":"Biddable","type":"(a.)","description":"Obedient; docile."},{"word":"Bidden","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Bid."},{"word":"Bidder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bids or offers a price."},{"word":"Biddery","type":"()","description":"A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened."},{"word":"Bidding","type":"(n.)","description":"Command; order; a proclamation or notifying."},{"word":"Bidding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction."},{"word":"Bidding","type":"()","description":"The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon."},{"word":"Bidding","type":"()","description":"The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons."},{"word":"Biddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A name used in calling a hen or chicken."},{"word":"Biddy","type":"(n.)","description":"An Irish serving woman or girl."},{"word":"Bided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bide"},{"word":"Biding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bide"},{"word":"Bide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay."},{"word":"Bide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be."},{"word":"Bide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo."},{"word":"Bide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide."},{"word":"Bident","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or weapon with two prongs."},{"word":"Bidental","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two teeth."},{"word":"Bidentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed."},{"word":"Bidet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage."},{"word":"Bidet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath."},{"word":"Bidigitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two fingers or fingerlike projections."},{"word":"Biding","type":"(n.)","description":"Residence; habitation."},{"word":"Bield","type":"(n.)","description":"A shelter. Same as Beild."},{"word":"Bield","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shelter."},{"word":"Biennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election."},{"word":"Biennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second."},{"word":"Biennial","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination."},{"word":"Biennial","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant which exists or lasts for two years."},{"word":"Biennially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Once in two years."},{"word":"Bier","type":"(n.)","description":"A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave."},{"word":"Bier","type":"(n.)","description":"A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth."},{"word":"Bierbalk","type":"(n.)","description":"A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals."},{"word":"Biestings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Beestings"},{"word":"Beestings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The first milk given by a cow after calving."},{"word":"Bifacial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the opposite surfaces alike."},{"word":"Bifarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Twofold; arranged in two rows."},{"word":"Bifarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows."},{"word":"Bifariously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bifarious manner."},{"word":"Biferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing fruit twice a year."},{"word":"Biffin","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng."},{"word":"Biffin","type":"(n.)","description":"A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple."},{"word":"Bifid","type":"(a.)","description":"Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins."},{"word":"Bifidate","type":"(a.)","description":"See Bifid."},{"word":"Bifilar","type":"(a.)","description":"Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance."},{"word":"Biflabellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Flabellate on both sides."},{"word":"Biflagellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages."},{"word":"Biflorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Biflorous"},{"word":"Biflorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing two flowers; two-flowered."},{"word":"Bifold","type":"(a.)","description":"Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc."},{"word":"Bifoliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two leaves; two-leaved."},{"word":"Bifoliolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves."},{"word":"Biforate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two perforations."},{"word":"Biforine","type":"(n.)","description":"An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged."},{"word":"Biforked","type":"(a.)","description":"Bifurcate."},{"word":"Biform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two forms, bodies, or shapes."},{"word":"Biformed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two forms."},{"word":"Biformity","type":"(n.)","description":"A double form."},{"word":"Biforn","type":"(prep. & adv.)","description":"Before."},{"word":"Biforous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Biforate."},{"word":"Bifronted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two fronts."},{"word":"Bifurcate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bifurcated"},{"word":"Bifurcated","type":"(a.)","description":"Two-pronged; forked."},{"word":"Bifurcate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To divide into two branches."},{"word":"Bifurcation","type":"(n.)","description":"A forking, or division into two branches."},{"word":"Bifurcous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Bifurcate, a."},{"word":"Big","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large."},{"word":"Big","type":"(superl.)","description":"Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively."},{"word":"Big","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride."},{"word":"Big","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bigg"},{"word":"Bigg","type":"(n.)","description":"Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind."},{"word":"Big","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Bigg"},{"word":"Bigg","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To build."},{"word":"Biga","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-horse chariot."},{"word":"Bigam","type":"(n.)","description":"A bigamist."},{"word":"Bigamist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is guilty of bigamy."},{"word":"Bigamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage."},{"word":"Bigamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another."},{"word":"Bigarreau","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bigaroon"},{"word":"Bigaroon","type":"(n.)","description":"The large white-heart cherry."},{"word":"Big-bellied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy."},{"word":"Bigeminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf."},{"word":"Bigential","type":"(a.)","description":"Including two tribes or races of men."},{"word":"Bigeye","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye."},{"word":"Bigg","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Big, n. & v."},{"word":"Biggen","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make or become big; to enlarge."},{"word":"Bigger","type":"(a.)","description":"compar. of Big."},{"word":"Biggest","type":"(a.)","description":"superl. of Big."},{"word":"Biggin","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head."},{"word":"Biggin","type":"(n.)","description":"A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor."},{"word":"Biggin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Bigging"},{"word":"Bigging","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A building."},{"word":"Biggon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Biggonnet"},{"word":"Biggonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears."},{"word":"Bigha","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre."},{"word":"Bighorn","type":"(n.)","description":"The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana)."},{"word":"Bight","type":"(v.)","description":"A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow."},{"word":"Bight","type":"(v.)","description":"A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin."},{"word":"Bight","type":"(v.)","description":"The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop."},{"word":"Biglandular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two glands, as a plant."},{"word":"Bigly","type":"(a.)","description":"In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently."},{"word":"Bigness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk."},{"word":"Bignonia","type":"(n.)","description":"A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus."},{"word":"Bignoniaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example."},{"word":"Bigot","type":"(n.)","description":"A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite."},{"word":"Bigot","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion."},{"word":"Bigot","type":"(a.)","description":"Bigoted."},{"word":"Bigoted","type":"(a.)","description":"Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others."},{"word":"Bigotedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a bigot."},{"word":"Bigotry","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them."},{"word":"Bigotry","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or tenets of a bigot."},{"word":"Bigwig","type":"(a.)","description":"A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society."},{"word":"Big-wigged","type":"(a.)","description":"characterized by pomposity of manner."},{"word":"Bihydroguret","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance."},{"word":"Bijoux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bijou"},{"word":"Bijou","type":"(n.)","description":"A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship."},{"word":"Bijoutry","type":"(n.)","description":"Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc."},{"word":"Bijugate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two pairs, as of leaflets."},{"word":"Bijugous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bijugate."},{"word":"Bike","type":"(n.)","description":"A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm."},{"word":"Bikh","type":"(n.)","description":"The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself."},{"word":"Bilabiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers."},{"word":"Bilaciniate","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubly fringed."},{"word":"Bilalo","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila."},{"word":"Bilamellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bilamellated"},{"word":"Bilamellated","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers."},{"word":"Bilaminar","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bilaminate"},{"word":"Bilaminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates."},{"word":"Biland","type":"(n.)","description":"A byland."},{"word":"Bilander","type":"(n.)","description":"A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland."},{"word":"Bilateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties."},{"word":"Bilateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body."},{"word":"Bilaterality","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being bilateral."},{"word":"Bilberries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bilberry"},{"word":"Bilberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit."},{"word":"Bilberry","type":"(n.)","description":"Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum."},{"word":"Bilboes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bilbo"},{"word":"Bilbo","type":"(n.)","description":"A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain."},{"word":"Bilbo","type":"(n.)","description":"A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships."},{"word":"Bilboquet","type":"(n.)","description":"The toy called cup and ball."},{"word":"Bilcock","type":"(n.)","description":"The European water rail."},{"word":"Bildstein","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Agalmatolite."},{"word":"Bile","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters."},{"word":"Bile","type":"(n.)","description":"Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile."},{"word":"Bile","type":"(n.)","description":"A boil."},{"word":"Bilection","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection."},{"word":"Bilestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary."},{"word":"Bilge","type":"(n.)","description":"The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle."},{"word":"Bilge","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground."},{"word":"Bilge","type":"(n.)","description":"Bilge water."},{"word":"Bilged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bilge"},{"word":"Bilging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bilge"},{"word":"Bilge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge."},{"word":"Bilge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bulge."},{"word":"Bilge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)."},{"word":"Bilge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to bulge."},{"word":"Bilgy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the smell of bilge water."},{"word":"Biliary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts."},{"word":"Biliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The production and excretion of bile."},{"word":"Biliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Generating bile."},{"word":"Bilifuscin","type":"(n.)","description":"A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin."},{"word":"Bilimbi","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bilimbing"},{"word":"Bilimbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases."},{"word":"Biliment","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman's ornament; habiliment."},{"word":"Bilin","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids."},{"word":"Bilinear","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates."},{"word":"Bilingual","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary."},{"word":"Bilingualism","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being bilingual."},{"word":"Bilinguar","type":"(a.)","description":"See Bilingual."},{"word":"Bilinguist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in two languages."},{"word":"Bilinguous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two tongues, or speaking two languages."},{"word":"Bilious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the bile."},{"word":"Bilious","type":"(a.)","description":"Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms."},{"word":"Bilious","type":"(a.)","description":"Choleric; passionate; ill tempered."},{"word":"Biliousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bilious."},{"word":"Biliprasin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones."},{"word":"Bilirubin","type":"(n.)","description":"A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment."},{"word":"Biliteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb."},{"word":"Biliteral","type":"(n.)","description":"A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters."},{"word":"Biliteralism","type":"(n.)","description":"The property or state of being biliteral."},{"word":"Biliverdin","type":"(n.)","description":"A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation."},{"word":"Bilked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bilk"},{"word":"Bilking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bilk"},{"word":"Bilk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor."},{"word":"Bilk","type":"(n.)","description":"A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk."},{"word":"Bilk","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheat; a trick; a hoax."},{"word":"Bilk","type":"(n.)","description":"Nonsense; vain words."},{"word":"Bilk","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal."},{"word":"Billed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bill"},{"word":"Billing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bill"},{"word":"Bill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike; to peck."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"The bell, or boom, of the bittern"},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wields a bill; a billman."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A pickax, or mattock."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(n.)","description":"Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advertise by a bill or public notice."},{"word":"Bill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods."},{"word":"Billage","type":"(n. / v. t. & i.)","description":"Same as Bilge."},{"word":"Billard","type":"(n.)","description":"An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish."},{"word":"Billbeetle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Billbug"},{"word":"Billbug","type":"(n.)","description":"A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio."},{"word":"Billboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on."},{"word":"Billboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board."},{"word":"Bill","type":"()","description":"A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives."},{"word":"Bill","type":"()","description":"One who negotiates the discount of bills."},{"word":"Billed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed."},{"word":"Billet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small paper; a note; a short letter."},{"word":"Billet","type":"(n.)","description":"A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence."},{"word":"Billeted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Billet"},{"word":"Billeting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Billet"},{"word":"Billet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses."},{"word":"Billet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small stick of wood, as for firewood."},{"word":"Billet","type":"(n.)","description":"A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron."},{"word":"Billet","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round."},{"word":"Billet","type":"(n.)","description":"A strap which enters a buckle."},{"word":"Billet","type":"(n.)","description":"A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap."},{"word":"Billet","type":"(n.)","description":"A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle."},{"word":"Billets-doux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Billet-doux"},{"word":"Billet-doux","type":"(n.)","description":"A love letter or note."},{"word":"Billethead","type":"(n.)","description":"A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off."},{"word":"Billfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied to several distinct fishes"},{"word":"Billfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species."},{"word":"Billfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus)."},{"word":"Billfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish."},{"word":"Billfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus)."},{"word":"Billhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts."},{"word":"Bill","type":"()","description":"A person who holds a bill or acceptance."},{"word":"Bill","type":"()","description":"A device by means of which bills, etc., are held."},{"word":"Billhook","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter."},{"word":"Billiard","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the game of billiards."},{"word":"Billiards","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished."},{"word":"Billing","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Caressing; kissing."},{"word":"Billingsgate","type":"(n.)","description":"A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language."},{"word":"Billingsgate","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry."},{"word":"Billion","type":"(n.)","description":"According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration."},{"word":"Billmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Billman"},{"word":"Billman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax."},{"word":"Billon","type":"(n.)","description":"An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage."},{"word":"Billot","type":"(n.)","description":"Bullion in the bar or mass."},{"word":"Billow","type":"(n.)","description":"A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind."},{"word":"Billow","type":"(n.)","description":"A great wave or flood of anything."},{"word":"Billowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Billow"},{"word":"Billowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Billow"},{"word":"Billow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate."},{"word":"Billowy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows."},{"word":"Billposter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Billsticker"},{"word":"Billsticker","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places."},{"word":"Billy","type":"(n.)","description":"A club; esp., a policeman's club."},{"word":"Billy","type":"(n.)","description":"A slubbing or roving machine."},{"word":"Billyboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel."},{"word":"Billy","type":"()","description":"A male goat."},{"word":"Bilobate","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into two lobes or segments."},{"word":"Bilobed","type":"(a.)","description":"Bilobate."},{"word":"Bilocation","type":"(n.)","description":"Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints."},{"word":"Bilocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp."},{"word":"Bilsted","type":"(n.)","description":"See Sweet gum."},{"word":"Biltong","type":"(n.)","description":"Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried."},{"word":"Bimaculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or marked with, two spots."},{"word":"Bimana","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia."},{"word":"Bimanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two hands; two-handed."},{"word":"Bimarginate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a double margin, as certain shells."},{"word":"Bimastism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of having two mammae or teats."},{"word":"Bimedial","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square)."},{"word":"Bimembral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence."},{"word":"Bimensal","type":"(a.)","description":"See Bimonthly, a."},{"word":"Bimestrial","type":"(a.)","description":"Continuing two months."},{"word":"Bimetallic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency."},{"word":"Bimetallism","type":"(n.)","description":"The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism."},{"word":"Bimetallist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate of bimetallism."},{"word":"Bimonthly","type":"(a.)","description":"Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications."},{"word":"Bimonthly","type":"(n.)","description":"A bimonthly publication."},{"word":"Bimonthly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Once in two months."},{"word":"Bimuscular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk."},{"word":"Bin","type":"(n.)","description":"A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin."},{"word":"Binned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bin"},{"word":"Binning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bin"},{"word":"Bin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a bin; as, to bin wine."},{"word":"Bin","type":"()","description":"An old form of Be and Been."},{"word":"Bin-","type":"()","description":"A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-."},{"word":"Binal","type":"(a.)","description":"Twofold; double."},{"word":"Binarseniate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base."},{"word":"Binary","type":"(a.)","description":"Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things)."},{"word":"Binary","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality."},{"word":"Binate","type":"(a.)","description":"Double; growing in pairs or couples."},{"word":"Binaural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Bind"},{"word":"Bound","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bind"},{"word":"Bounden","type":"()","description":"of Bind"},{"word":"Binding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bind"},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tie; to confine by any ligature."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exert a binding or restraining influence."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(n.)","description":"That which binds or ties."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(n.)","description":"Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(n.)","description":"Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron."},{"word":"Bind","type":"(n.)","description":"A ligature or tie for grouping notes."},{"word":"Binder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books."},{"word":"Binder","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building."},{"word":"Bindery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment."},{"word":"Bindheimite","type":"(n.)","description":"An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite."},{"word":"Binding","type":"(a.)","description":"That binds; obligatory."},{"word":"Binding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of one who, or that which, binds."},{"word":"Binding","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling."},{"word":"Binding","type":"(pl.)","description":"The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel."},{"word":"Bindingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to bind."},{"word":"Bindingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality."},{"word":"Bindweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed."},{"word":"Bine","type":"(n.)","description":"The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant."},{"word":"Binervate","type":"(a.)","description":"Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves."},{"word":"Binervate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects."},{"word":"Bing","type":"(n.)","description":"A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood."},{"word":"Biniodide","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Diiodide."},{"word":"Bink","type":"(n.)","description":"A bench."},{"word":"Binnacle","type":"(n.)","description":"A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night."},{"word":"Binny","type":"(n.)","description":"A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food."},{"word":"Binocle","type":"(n.)","description":"A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass."},{"word":"Binocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two eyes."},{"word":"Binocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision."},{"word":"Binocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope."},{"word":"Binocular","type":"(n.)","description":"A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope."},{"word":"Binocularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a binocular manner."},{"word":"Binoculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two eyes."},{"word":"Binomial","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3."},{"word":"Binomial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root."},{"word":"Binomial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs."},{"word":"Binominal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to two names; binomial."},{"word":"Binominous","type":"(a.)","description":"Binominal."},{"word":"Binotonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry."},{"word":"Binous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Binate."},{"word":"Binoxalate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate."},{"word":"Binoxide","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dioxide."},{"word":"Binturong","type":"(n.)","description":"A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis."},{"word":"Binuclear","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Binucleate"},{"word":"Binucleate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells."},{"word":"Binucleolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two nucleoli."},{"word":"Bioblast","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bioplast."},{"word":"Biocellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc."},{"word":"Biochemistry","type":"(n.)","description":"The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life."},{"word":"Biodynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of vital forces or energy."},{"word":"Biogen","type":"(n.)","description":"Bioplasm."},{"word":"Biogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Biogeny"},{"word":"Biogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis."},{"word":"Biogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"Life development generally."},{"word":"Biogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to biogenesis."},{"word":"Biogenist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in the theory of biogenesis."},{"word":"Biognosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The investigation of life."},{"word":"Biographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch."},{"word":"Biographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Biographical"},{"word":"Biographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography."},{"word":"Biographize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write a history of the life of."},{"word":"Biographies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Biography"},{"word":"Biography","type":"(n.)","description":"The written history of a person's life."},{"word":"Biography","type":"(n.)","description":"Biographical writings in general."},{"word":"Biologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Biological"},{"word":"Biological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to biology."},{"word":"Biologist","type":"(n.)","description":"A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology."},{"word":"Biology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants."},{"word":"Biolysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The destruction of life."},{"word":"Biolytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the destruction of life."},{"word":"Biomagnetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to biomagnetism."},{"word":"Biomagnetism","type":"(n.)","description":"Animal magnetism."},{"word":"Biometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life."},{"word":"Bion","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon."},{"word":"Bionomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Physiology."},{"word":"Biophor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement."},{"word":"Bioplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm."},{"word":"Bioplasmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm."},{"word":"Bioplast","type":"(n.)","description":"A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast."},{"word":"Bioplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Bioplasmic."},{"word":"Biorgan","type":"(n.)","description":"A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan."},{"word":"Biostatics","type":"(n.)","description":"The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena."},{"word":"Biostatistics","type":"(n.)","description":"Vital statistics."},{"word":"Biotaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy."},{"word":"Biotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to life; as, the biotic principle."},{"word":"Biotite","type":"(n.)","description":"Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica."},{"word":"Bipalmate","type":"(a.)","description":"Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated."},{"word":"Biparietal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other."},{"word":"Biparous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bringing forth two at a birth."},{"word":"Bipartible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being divided into two parts."},{"word":"Bipartient","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Dividing into two parts."},{"word":"Bipartient","type":"(n.)","description":"A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder."},{"word":"Bipartile","type":"(a.)","description":"Divisible into two parts."},{"word":"Bipartite","type":"(a.)","description":"Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty."},{"word":"Bipartite","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions."},{"word":"Bipartition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided."},{"word":"Bipectinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bipectinated"},{"word":"Bipectinated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two margins toothed like a comb."},{"word":"Biped","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-footed animal, as man."},{"word":"Biped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two feet; two-footed."},{"word":"Bipedal","type":"(n.)","description":"Having two feet; biped."},{"word":"Bipedal","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to a biped."},{"word":"Bipeltate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a shell or covering like a double shield."},{"word":"Bipennate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bipennated"},{"word":"Bipennated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two wings."},{"word":"Bipennis","type":"(n.)","description":"An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle."},{"word":"Bipetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two petals."},{"word":"Bipinnaria","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage."},{"word":"Bipinnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bipinnated"},{"word":"Bipinnated","type":"(a.)","description":"Twice pinnate."},{"word":"Bipinnatifid","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubly pinnatifid."},{"word":"Biplicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Twice folded together."},{"word":"Biplicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being twice folded; reduplication."},{"word":"Bipolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle."},{"word":"Bipolarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Bipolar quality."},{"word":"Bipont","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bipontine"},{"word":"Bipontine","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium (Zweibrucken), in Bavaria."},{"word":"Bipunctate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two punctures, or spots."},{"word":"Bipunctual","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two points."},{"word":"Bipupillate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies."},{"word":"Bipyramidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals."},{"word":"Biquadrate","type":"(n.)","description":"The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4."},{"word":"Biquadratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power."},{"word":"Biquadratic","type":"(n.)","description":"A biquadrate."},{"word":"Biquadratic","type":"(n.)","description":"A biquadratic equation."},{"word":"Biquintile","type":"(n.)","description":"An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees."},{"word":"Biradiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Biradiated"},{"word":"Biradiated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin."},{"word":"Biramous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or consisting of, two branches."},{"word":"Birches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Birch"},{"word":"Birch","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta)."},{"word":"Birch","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood or timber of the birch."},{"word":"Birch","type":"(n.)","description":"A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging."},{"word":"Birch","type":"(n.)","description":"A birch-bark canoe."},{"word":"Birch","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen."},{"word":"Birched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Birch"},{"word":"Birching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Birch"},{"word":"Birch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog."},{"word":"Birchen","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to birch."},{"word":"Bird","type":"(n.)","description":"Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2)."},{"word":"Bird","type":"(n.)","description":"A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves."},{"word":"Bird","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird."},{"word":"Bird","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A girl; a maiden."},{"word":"Bird","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To catch or shoot birds."},{"word":"Bird","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve."},{"word":"Birdbolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them."},{"word":"Birdbolt","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which smites without penetrating."},{"word":"Bird","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Birdcage"},{"word":"Birdcage","type":"(n.)","description":"A cage for confining birds."},{"word":"Birdcall","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate."},{"word":"Birdcall","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall."},{"word":"Birdcatcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler."},{"word":"Birdcatching","type":"(n.)","description":"The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls."},{"word":"Bird","type":"()","description":"A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries."},{"word":"Birder","type":"(n.)","description":"A birdcatcher."},{"word":"Bird-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes."},{"word":"Bird","type":"()","description":"One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds."},{"word":"Bird","type":"()","description":"One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages."},{"word":"Birdie","type":"(n.)","description":"A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name."},{"word":"Birdikin","type":"(n.)","description":"A young bird."},{"word":"Birding","type":"(n.)","description":"Birdcatching or fowling."},{"word":"Birdlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little bird; a nestling."},{"word":"Birdlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a bird."},{"word":"Birdlime","type":"(n.)","description":"An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares."},{"word":"Birdlime","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare."},{"word":"Birdling","type":"(n.)","description":"A little bird; a nestling."},{"word":"Birdman","type":"(n.)","description":"A fowler or birdcatcher."},{"word":"Bird","type":"()","description":"The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers."},{"word":"Bird","type":"()","description":"A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers."},{"word":"Bird's-beak","type":"(n.)","description":"A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak."},{"word":"Birdseed","type":"(n.)","description":"Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds."},{"word":"Bird's-eye","type":"(a.)","description":"Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a bird's-eye view."},{"word":"Bird's-eye","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple."},{"word":"Bird's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc."},{"word":"Bird's-eye","type":"()","description":"See under Maple."},{"word":"Bird's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point."},{"word":"Bird's-mouth","type":"(n.)","description":"An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States."},{"word":"Bird's","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bird's-nest"},{"word":"Bird's-nest","type":"(n.)","description":"The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young."},{"word":"Bird's-nest","type":"(n.)","description":"The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups."},{"word":"Bird's-nest","type":"(n.)","description":"An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.)"},{"word":"Bird's-nesting","type":"(n.)","description":"Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents."},{"word":"Bird's-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare)."},{"word":"Bird-witted","type":"(a.)","description":"Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention."},{"word":"Birectangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle."},{"word":"Bireme","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars."},{"word":"Biretta","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Berretta."},{"word":"Birgander","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bergander."},{"word":"Birk","type":"(n.)","description":"A birch tree."},{"word":"Birk","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus)."},{"word":"Birken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whip with a birch or rod."},{"word":"Birken","type":"(a.)","description":"Birchen; as, birken groves."},{"word":"Birkie","type":"(n.)","description":"A lively or mettlesome fellow."},{"word":"Birl","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin."},{"word":"Birl","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse."},{"word":"Birlaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law."},{"word":"Birostrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Birostrated"},{"word":"Birostrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks."},{"word":"Birred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Birr"},{"word":"Birring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Birr"},{"word":"Birr","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion."},{"word":"Birr","type":"(n.)","description":"A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel."},{"word":"Birr","type":"(n.)","description":"A rush or impetus; force."},{"word":"Birrus","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head."},{"word":"Birse","type":"(n.)","description":"A bristle or bristles."},{"word":"Birt","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the turbot kind; the brill."},{"word":"Birth","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son."},{"word":"Birth","type":"(n.)","description":"Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction."},{"word":"Birth","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency."},{"word":"Birth","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth."},{"word":"Birth","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable."},{"word":"Birth","type":"(n.)","description":"Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire."},{"word":"Birth","type":"(n.)","description":"See Berth."},{"word":"Birthday","type":"(n.)","description":"The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement."},{"word":"Birthday","type":"(n.)","description":"The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth."},{"word":"Birthday","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities."},{"word":"Birthdom","type":"(n.)","description":"The land of one's birth; one's inheritance."},{"word":"Birthing","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything added to raise the sides of a ship."},{"word":"Birthless","type":"(a.)","description":"Of mean extraction."},{"word":"Birthmark","type":"(n.)","description":"Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth."},{"word":"Birthnight","type":"(n.)","description":"The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years."},{"word":"Birthplace","type":"(n.)","description":"The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense."},{"word":"Birthright","type":"(n.)","description":"Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born."},{"word":"Birthroot","type":"(n.)","description":"An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties."},{"word":"Birthwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties."},{"word":"Bis","type":"(adv.)","description":"Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts."},{"word":"Bis-","type":"(pref.)","description":"A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel."},{"word":"Bisa","type":"()","description":"See Oryx."},{"word":"Bisaccate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches."},{"word":"Biscayan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain."},{"word":"Biscayan","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Biscay."},{"word":"Biscotin","type":"(n.)","description":"A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit."},{"word":"Biscuit","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit."},{"word":"Biscuit","type":"(n.)","description":"A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card."},{"word":"Biscuit","type":"(n.)","description":"Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing."},{"word":"Biscuit","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature."},{"word":"Biscutate","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling two bucklers placed side by side."},{"word":"Bise","type":"(n.)","description":"A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral."},{"word":"Bise","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bice."},{"word":"Bisected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bisect"},{"word":"Bisecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bisect"},{"word":"Bisect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut or divide into two parts."},{"word":"Bisect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into two equal parts."},{"word":"Bisection","type":"(n.)","description":"Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts."},{"word":"Bisector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle."},{"word":"Bisectrix","type":"(n.)","description":"The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal."},{"word":"Bisegment","type":"(n.)","description":"One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude."},{"word":"Biseptate","type":"(a.)","description":"With two partitions or septa."},{"word":"Biserial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Biseriate"},{"word":"Biseriate","type":"(a.)","description":"In two rows or series."},{"word":"Biserrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves."},{"word":"Biserrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Serrate on both sides, as some antennae."},{"word":"Bisetose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bisetous"},{"word":"Bisetous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two bristles."},{"word":"Bisexous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bisexual."},{"word":"Bisexual","type":"(a.)","description":"Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes."},{"word":"Bisexuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bisexual."},{"word":"Biseye","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Besee."},{"word":"Bish","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bikh."},{"word":"Bishop","type":"(n.)","description":"A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director."},{"word":"Bishop","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see."},{"word":"Bishop","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents."},{"word":"Bishop","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer."},{"word":"Bishop","type":"(n.)","description":"A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar."},{"word":"Bishop","type":"(n.)","description":"An old name for a woman's bustle."},{"word":"Bishoped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bishop"},{"word":"Bishoping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bishop"},{"word":"Bishop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor."},{"word":"Bishoped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bishop"},{"word":"Bishoping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bishop"},{"word":"Bishop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth."},{"word":"Bishopdom","type":"(n.)","description":"Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate."},{"word":"Bishoplike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop."},{"word":"Bishoply","type":"(a.)","description":"Bishoplike; episcopal."},{"word":"Bishoply","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a bishop."},{"word":"Bishopric","type":"(n.)","description":"A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends."},{"word":"Bishopric","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter."},{"word":"Bishop's","type":"()","description":"A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort."},{"word":"Bishop","type":"()","description":"A wide sleeve, once worn by women."},{"word":"Bishop's","type":"()","description":"A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56."},{"word":"Bishop-stool","type":"(n.)","description":"A bishop's seat or see."},{"word":"Bishop's-weed","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi."},{"word":"Bishop's-weed","type":"(n.)","description":"Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)."},{"word":"Bishop's-wort","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush."},{"word":"Bisie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To busy; to employ."},{"word":"Bisilicate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals."},{"word":"Bisk","type":"(n.)","description":"Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together."},{"word":"Bisk","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bisque."},{"word":"Bismare","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bismer"},{"word":"Bismer","type":"(n.)","description":"Shame; abuse."},{"word":"Bismer","type":"(n.)","description":"A rule steelyard."},{"word":"Bismer","type":"(n.)","description":"The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia)."},{"word":"Bismillah","type":"(interj.)","description":"An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans."},{"word":"Bismite","type":"(n.)","description":"Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher."},{"word":"Bismuth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507� Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi."},{"word":"Bismuthal","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing bismuth."},{"word":"Bismuthic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide."},{"word":"Bismuthiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing bismuth."},{"word":"Bismuthine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bismuthinite"},{"word":"Bismuthinite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite."},{"word":"Bismuthous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence."},{"word":"Bismuthyl","type":"(n.)","description":"Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color."},{"word":"Bison","type":"(n.)","description":"The aurochs or European bison."},{"word":"Bison","type":"(n.)","description":"The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers."},{"word":"Bispinose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two spines."},{"word":"Bisque","type":"(n.)","description":"Unglazed white porcelain."},{"word":"Bisque","type":"(n.)","description":"A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet."},{"word":"Bisque","type":"(n.)","description":"A white soup made of crayfish."},{"word":"Bissextile","type":"(n.)","description":"Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400."},{"word":"Bissextile","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to leap year."},{"word":"Bisson","type":"(a.)","description":"Purblind; blinding."},{"word":"Bister","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bistre"},{"word":"Bistre","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood."},{"word":"Bistipuled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two stipules."},{"word":"Bistort","type":"(n.)","description":"An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent."},{"word":"Bistouries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bistoury"},{"word":"Bistoury","type":"(n.)","description":"A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface."},{"word":"Bistre","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bister."},{"word":"Bisulcate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two grooves or furrows."},{"word":"Bisulcate","type":"(a.)","description":"Cloven; said of a foot or hoof."},{"word":"Bisulcous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bisulcate."},{"word":"Bisulphate","type":"(n.)","description":"A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate."},{"word":"Bisulphide","type":"(n.)","description":"A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret."},{"word":"Bisulphite","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite."},{"word":"Bisulphuret","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bisulphide."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v.)","description":"The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v.)","description":"Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains."},{"word":"Bitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bit"},{"word":"Bitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bit"},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of."},{"word":"Bit","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bite."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v.)","description":"A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v.)","description":"Somewhat; something, but not very great."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v.)","description":"A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v.)","description":"The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v.)","description":"The cutting iron of a plane."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(v.)","description":"In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents."},{"word":"Bit","type":"()","description":"3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth."},{"word":"Bitake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To commend; to commit."},{"word":"Bitangent","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing the property of touching at two points."},{"word":"Bitangent","type":"(n.)","description":"A line that touches a curve in two points."},{"word":"Bitartrate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar."},{"word":"Bitch","type":"(n.)","description":"The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox."},{"word":"Bitch","type":"(n.)","description":"An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman."},{"word":"Bit","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Bite"},{"word":"Bitten","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Bite"},{"word":"Bit","type":"()","description":"of Bite"},{"word":"Biting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bite"},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat; to trick; to take in."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?"},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v.)","description":"The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v.)","description":"The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v.)","description":"The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v.)","description":"A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v.)","description":"The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v.)","description":"A cheat; a trick; a fraud."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v.)","description":"A sharper; one who cheats."},{"word":"Bite","type":"(v.)","description":"A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper."},{"word":"Biter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish."},{"word":"Biter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cheats; a sharper."},{"word":"Biternate","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets."},{"word":"Bitheism","type":"(n.)","description":"Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism."},{"word":"Biting","type":"(a.)","description":"That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic."},{"word":"Biting","type":"()","description":"The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch."},{"word":"Bitingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a biting manner."},{"word":"Bitless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having a bit or bridle."},{"word":"Bitstock","type":"(n.)","description":"A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace."},{"word":"Bitt","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bitts."},{"word":"Bitt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away."},{"word":"Bittacle","type":"(n.)","description":"A binnacle."},{"word":"Bitten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Bite."},{"word":"Bitten","type":"(a.)","description":"Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"(n.)","description":"AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bitter."},{"word":"Bitterbump","type":"(n.)","description":"the butterbump or bittern."},{"word":"Bitterful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of bitterness."},{"word":"Bittering","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern."},{"word":"Bitterish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat bitter."},{"word":"Bitterling","type":"(n.)","description":"A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus)."},{"word":"Bitterly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bitter manner."},{"word":"Bittern","type":"(n.)","description":"A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species."},{"word":"Bittern","type":"(a.)","description":"The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains."},{"word":"Bittern","type":"(a.)","description":"A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer."},{"word":"Bitterness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind."},{"word":"Bitterness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God."},{"word":"Bitterness","type":"(n.)","description":"Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy."},{"word":"Bitternut","type":"(n.)","description":"The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter."},{"word":"Bitterroot","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum."},{"word":"Bitters","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped."},{"word":"Bitter","type":"()","description":"A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite."},{"word":"Bittersweet","type":"(a.)","description":"Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful."},{"word":"Bittersweet","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which is bittersweet."},{"word":"Bittersweet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of apple so called."},{"word":"Bittersweet","type":"(n.)","description":"A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara."},{"word":"Bittersweet","type":"(n.)","description":"An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork."},{"word":"Bitterweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood."},{"word":"Bitterwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained."},{"word":"Bitterwort","type":"(n.)","description":"The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste."},{"word":"Bittock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance."},{"word":"Bittor","type":"(n.)","description":"The bittern."},{"word":"Bitts","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc."},{"word":"Bitume","type":"(n.)","description":"Bitumen."},{"word":"Bitumed","type":"(a.)","description":"Smeared with bitumen."},{"word":"Bitumen","type":"(n.)","description":"Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt."},{"word":"Bitumen","type":"(n.)","description":"By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas."},{"word":"Bituminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bituminate"},{"word":"Bituminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bituminate"},{"word":"Bituminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen."},{"word":"Bituminiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing bitumen."},{"word":"Bituminization","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of bituminizing."},{"word":"Bituminized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bituminize"},{"word":"Bituminizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bituminize"},{"word":"Bituminize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen."},{"word":"Bituminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen."},{"word":"Biuret","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid."},{"word":"Bivalency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being bivalent."},{"word":"Bivalent","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad."},{"word":"Bivalve","type":"(n.)","description":"A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca."},{"word":"Bivalve","type":"(n.)","description":"A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves."},{"word":"Bivalve","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels."},{"word":"Bivalved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve."},{"word":"Bivalvous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bivalvular."},{"word":"Bivalvular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two valves."},{"word":"Bivaulted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two vaults or arches."},{"word":"Bivector","type":"(n.)","description":"A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1 are vectors."},{"word":"Biventral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum."},{"word":"Bivial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the bivium."},{"word":"Bivious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or leading, two ways."},{"word":"Bivium","type":"(n.)","description":"One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra."},{"word":"Bivouac","type":"(n.)","description":"The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack."},{"word":"Bivouac","type":"(n.)","description":"An encampment for the night without tents or covering."},{"word":"Bivouacked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bivouac"},{"word":"Bivouacking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bivouac"},{"word":"Bivouac","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army."},{"word":"Bivouac","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To encamp for the night without tents or covering."},{"word":"Biweekly","type":"(a.)","description":"Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly."},{"word":"Biweekly","type":"(n.)","description":"A publication issued every two weeks."},{"word":"Biwreye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bewray; to reveal."},{"word":"Bizantine","type":"()","description":"See Byzantine."},{"word":"Bizarre","type":"(a.)","description":"Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque."},{"word":"Bizet","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n."},{"word":"Blabbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blab"},{"word":"Blabbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blab"},{"word":"Blab","type":"(v.)","description":"To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion."},{"word":"Blab","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales."},{"word":"Blab","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale."},{"word":"Blabber","type":"(n.)","description":"A tattler; a telltale."},{"word":"Black","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes."},{"word":"Black","type":"(a.)","description":"In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds."},{"word":"Black","type":"(a.)","description":"Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible."},{"word":"Black","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks."},{"word":"Black","type":"(adv.)","description":"Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness."},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black."},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"A black pigment or dye."},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races."},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"A black garment or dress; as, she wears black"},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery."},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black."},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"A stain; a spot; a smooch."},{"word":"Blacked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Black"},{"word":"Blacking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Black"},{"word":"Black","type":"(a.)","description":"To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully."},{"word":"Black","type":"(a.)","description":"To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush."},{"word":"Blackamoor","type":"(n.)","description":"A negro or negress."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic."},{"word":"Black-a-vised","type":"(a.)","description":"Dark-visaged; swart."},{"word":"Blackball","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work."},{"word":"Blackball","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words."},{"word":"Blackballed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blackball"},{"word":"Blackballing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blackball"},{"word":"Blackball","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize."},{"word":"Blackball","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking."},{"word":"Blackband","type":"(n.)","description":"An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3."},{"word":"Blackberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds."},{"word":"Blackbird","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing."},{"word":"Blackboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"Any book which treats of necromancy."},{"word":"Black-browed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding."},{"word":"Blackburnian","type":"()","description":"A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast."},{"word":"Blackcap","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale."},{"word":"Blackcap","type":"(n.)","description":"An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee."},{"word":"Blackcap","type":"(n.)","description":"An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard."},{"word":"Blackcap","type":"(n.)","description":"The black raspberry."},{"word":"Blackcoat","type":"(n.)","description":"A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat."},{"word":"Blackcock","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century."},{"word":"Blackened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blacken"},{"word":"Blackening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blacken"},{"word":"Blacken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or render black."},{"word":"Blacken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dark; to darken; to cloud."},{"word":"Blacken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character."},{"word":"Blacken","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow black or dark."},{"word":"Blackener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blackens."},{"word":"Black-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having black eyes."},{"word":"Black-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect."},{"word":"Blackfeet","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers."},{"word":"Blackfin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bluefin."},{"word":"Blackfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size."},{"word":"Blackfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The tautog of New England (Tautoga)."},{"word":"Blackfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry."},{"word":"Blackfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family."},{"word":"Blackfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The female salmon in the spawning season."},{"word":"Blackfoot","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian."},{"word":"Blackfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A Blackfoot Indian."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine."},{"word":"Blackguard","type":"(n.)","description":"The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the \"black guard\"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army."},{"word":"Blackguard","type":"(n.)","description":"The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively."},{"word":"Blackguard","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough."},{"word":"Blackguard","type":"(n.)","description":"A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin."},{"word":"Blackguarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blackguard"},{"word":"Blackguarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blackguard"},{"word":"Blackguard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To revile or abuse in scurrilous language."},{"word":"Blackguard","type":"(a.)","description":"Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language."},{"word":"Blackguardism","type":"(n.)","description":"The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism."},{"word":"Blackguardly","type":"(adv. & a.)","description":"In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly."},{"word":"Blackhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The scaup duck."},{"word":"Blackheart","type":"(n.)","description":"A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin."},{"word":"Black-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air."},{"word":"Blacking","type":"(n.)","description":"Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves."},{"word":"Blacking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making black."},{"word":"Blackish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat black."},{"word":"Black-jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende."},{"word":"Black-jack","type":"(n.)","description":"Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc."},{"word":"Black-jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A large leather vessel for beer, etc."},{"word":"Black-jack","type":"(n.)","description":"The Quercus nigra, or barren oak."},{"word":"Black-jack","type":"(n.)","description":"The ensign of a pirate."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite."},{"word":"Blacklead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To coat or to polish with black lead."},{"word":"Blackleg","type":"(n.)","description":"A notorious gambler."},{"word":"Blackleg","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type."},{"word":"Black-letter","type":"(a.)","description":"Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book."},{"word":"Black-letter","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date."},{"word":"Black-letter","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious."},{"word":"Blacklist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a."},{"word":"Blackly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously."},{"word":"Blackmail","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage."},{"word":"Blackmail","type":"(n.)","description":"Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure."},{"word":"Blackmail","type":"(n.)","description":"Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to \"white rent\", which paid in silver."},{"word":"Blackmailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blackmail"},{"word":"Blackmailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blackmail"},{"word":"Blackmail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud."},{"word":"Blackmailer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing."},{"word":"Blackmailing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A Benedictine monk."},{"word":"Blackmoor","type":"(n.)","description":"See Blackamoor."},{"word":"Black-mouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous."},{"word":"Blackness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness."},{"word":"Blackpoll","type":"(n.)","description":"A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata)."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"An usher in the legislature of British colonies."},{"word":"Blackroot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Colicroot."},{"word":"Blacks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press."},{"word":"Blacks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Soot flying in the air."},{"word":"Blacks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4."},{"word":"Blacksalter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes crude potash, or black salts."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"Crude potash."},{"word":"Blacksmith","type":"(n.)","description":"A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc."},{"word":"Blacksmith","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color."},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Blacksnake"},{"word":"Blacksnake","type":"(n.)","description":"A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long."},{"word":"Blackstrap","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses."},{"word":"Blackstrap","type":"(n.)","description":"Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors."},{"word":"Blacktail","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish; the ruff or pope."},{"word":"Blacktail","type":"(n.)","description":"The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer."},{"word":"Blackthorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe."},{"word":"Blackthorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges."},{"word":"Black","type":"()","description":"A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever."},{"word":"Black","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Blackwash"},{"word":"Blackwash","type":"(n.)","description":"A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water."},{"word":"Blackwash","type":"(n.)","description":"A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny."},{"word":"Blackwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia."},{"word":"Blackwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths."},{"word":"Bladder","type":"(n.)","description":"A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air."},{"word":"Bladder","type":"(n.)","description":"Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid."},{"word":"Bladder","type":"(n.)","description":"A distended, membranaceous pericarp."},{"word":"Bladder","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything inflated, empty, or unsound."},{"word":"Bladdered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bladder"},{"word":"Bladdering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bladder"},{"word":"Bladder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate."},{"word":"Bladder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard."},{"word":"Bladderwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium."},{"word":"Bladdery","type":"(a.)","description":"Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(n.)","description":"Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(n.)","description":"The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(n.)","description":"The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(n.)","description":"The scapula or shoulder blade."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal rafters of a roof."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(n.)","description":"The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a blade."},{"word":"Blade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put forth or have a blade."},{"word":"Bladebone","type":"(n.)","description":"The scapula. See Blade, 4."},{"word":"Bladed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife."},{"word":"Bladed","type":"(a.)","description":"Divested of blades; as, bladed corn."},{"word":"Bladed","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife."},{"word":"Bladefish","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish."},{"word":"Bladesmith","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword cutler."},{"word":"Blady","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of blades."},{"word":"Blae","type":"(a.)","description":"Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored."},{"word":"Blaeberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The bilberry."},{"word":"Blague","type":"(n.)","description":"Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug."},{"word":"Blain","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister."},{"word":"Blain","type":"(n.)","description":"A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath."},{"word":"Blamable","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy."},{"word":"Blamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blame"},{"word":"Blaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blame"},{"word":"Blame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach."},{"word":"Blame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring reproach upon; to blemish."},{"word":"Blame","type":"(v.)","description":"An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure."},{"word":"Blame","type":"(v.)","description":"That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin."},{"word":"Blame","type":"(v.)","description":"Hurt; injury."},{"word":"Blameful","type":"(a.)","description":"Faulty; meriting blame."},{"word":"Blameful","type":"(a.)","description":"Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious."},{"word":"Blameless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of."},{"word":"Blamelessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blameless manner."},{"word":"Blamelessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being blameless; innocence."},{"word":"Blamer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blames."},{"word":"Blameworthy","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible."},{"word":"Blancard","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven."},{"word":"Blanched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blanch"},{"word":"Blanching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blanch"},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(a.)","description":"To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(a.)","description":"To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(a.)","description":"To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(a.)","description":"To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(a.)","description":"To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.)."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(a.)","description":"To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(a.)","description":"Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use evasion."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"(n.)","description":"Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals."},{"word":"Blancher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose."},{"word":"Blancher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside."},{"word":"Blanch","type":"()","description":"A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise."},{"word":"Blanchimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer."},{"word":"Blancmange","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold."},{"word":"Blancmanger","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc."},{"word":"Bland","type":"(a.)","description":"Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant."},{"word":"Bland","type":"(a.)","description":"Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet."},{"word":"Blandation","type":"(n.)","description":"Flattery."},{"word":"Blandiloquence","type":"(n.)","description":"Mild, flattering speech."},{"word":"Blandiloquous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Blandiloquious"},{"word":"Blandiloquious","type":"(a.)","description":"Fair-spoken; flattering."},{"word":"Blandise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To blandish any one."},{"word":"Blandished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blandish"},{"word":"Blandishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blandish"},{"word":"Blandish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole."},{"word":"Blandish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make agreeable and enticing."},{"word":"Blandisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses blandishments."},{"word":"Blandishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement."},{"word":"Blandly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bland manner; mildly; suavely."},{"word":"Blandness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being bland."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a white or pale color; without color."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(a.)","description":"Utterly confounded or discomfited."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(a.)","description":"Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(a.)","description":"Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"Aim; shot; range."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the \"double blank\"; the \"six blank.\""},{"word":"Blanked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blank"},{"word":"Blanking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blank"},{"word":"Blank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make void; to annul."},{"word":"Blank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse."},{"word":"Blanket","type":"(a.)","description":"A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse."},{"word":"Blanket","type":"(a.)","description":"A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic."},{"word":"Blanket","type":"(a.)","description":"A streak or layer of blubber in whales."},{"word":"Blanketed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blanket"},{"word":"Blanketing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blanket"},{"word":"Blanket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a blanket."},{"word":"Blanket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To toss in a blanket by way of punishment."},{"word":"Blanket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her."},{"word":"Blanketing","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth for blankets."},{"word":"Blanketing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket."},{"word":"Blankly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly."},{"word":"Blankly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Directly; flatly; point blank."},{"word":"Blankness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being blank."},{"word":"Blanquette","type":"(n.)","description":"A white fricassee."},{"word":"Blanquillo","type":"(n.)","description":"A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (Caulolatilus chrysops). It is red, marked with yellow."},{"word":"Blared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blare"},{"word":"Blaring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blare"},{"word":"Blare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound loudly and somewhat harshly."},{"word":"Blare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly."},{"word":"Blare","type":"(n.)","description":"The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing."},{"word":"Blarney","type":"(n.)","description":"Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery."},{"word":"Blarneyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blarney"},{"word":"Blarneying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blarney"},{"word":"Blarney","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney."},{"word":"Blase","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up."},{"word":"Blasphemed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blaspheme"},{"word":"Blaspheming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blaspheme"},{"word":"Blaspheme","type":"(v.)","description":"To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit."},{"word":"Blaspheme","type":"(v.)","description":"Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse."},{"word":"Blaspheme","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter blasphemy."},{"word":"Blasphemer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blasphemes."},{"word":"Blasphemous","type":"(a.)","description":"Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature."},{"word":"Blasphemously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blasphemous manner."},{"word":"Blasphemy","type":"(n.)","description":"An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity."},{"word":"Blasphemy","type":"(n.)","description":"Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification."},{"word":"-blast","type":"()","description":"A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent gust of wind."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(n.)","description":"A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(n.)","description":"The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(n.)","description":"The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(n.)","description":"A flatulent disease of sheep."},{"word":"Blasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blast"},{"word":"Blasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blast"},{"word":"Blast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confound by a loud blast or din."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom."},{"word":"Blast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To blow; to blow on a trumpet."},{"word":"Blasted","type":"(a.)","description":"Blighted; withered."},{"word":"Blasted","type":"(a.)","description":"Confounded; accursed; detestable."},{"word":"Blasted","type":"(a.)","description":"Rent open by an explosive."},{"word":"Blastemata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Blastema"},{"word":"Blastema","type":"(n.)","description":"The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows."},{"word":"Blastemal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the blastema; rudimentary."},{"word":"Blastematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal."},{"word":"Blaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blasts or destroys."},{"word":"Blastide","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus."},{"word":"Blasting","type":"(n.)","description":"A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause."},{"word":"Blasting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts."},{"word":"Blastment","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause."},{"word":"Blastocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove."},{"word":"Blastocoele","type":"(n.)","description":"The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity."},{"word":"Blastocyst","type":"(n.)","description":"The germinal vesicle."},{"word":"Blastoderm","type":"(n.)","description":"The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed."},{"word":"Blastodermatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Blastodermic"},{"word":"Blastodermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the blastoderm."},{"word":"Blastogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding."},{"word":"Blastoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Blastoidea."},{"word":"Blastoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form."},{"word":"Blastomere","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum."},{"word":"Blastophoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Blastophoric"},{"word":"Blastophoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the blastophore."},{"word":"Blastophore","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them."},{"word":"Blastopore","type":"(n.)","description":"The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron."},{"word":"Blastosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum."},{"word":"Blastostyle","type":"(n.)","description":"In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata."},{"word":"Blast","type":"()","description":"The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast."},{"word":"Blastula","type":"(n.)","description":"That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm."},{"word":"Blastule","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Blastula."},{"word":"Blasty","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected by blasts; gusty."},{"word":"Blasty","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing blast or injury."},{"word":"Blat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately."},{"word":"Blat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter inconsiderately."},{"word":"Blatancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Blatant quality."},{"word":"Blatant","type":"(a.)","description":"Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly."},{"word":"Blatantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blatant manner."},{"word":"Blatherskite","type":"(n.)","description":"A blustering, talkative fellow."},{"word":"Blattered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blatter"},{"word":"Blatter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter."},{"word":"Blatteration","type":"(n.)","description":"Blattering."},{"word":"Blatterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster."},{"word":"Blattering","type":"(n.)","description":"Senseless babble or boasting."},{"word":"Blatteroon","type":"(n.)","description":"A senseless babbler or boaster."},{"word":"Blaubok","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue."},{"word":"Blay","type":"(a.)","description":"A fish. See Bleak, n."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(n.)","description":"Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(n.)","description":"A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(n.)","description":"A white spot on the forehead of a horse."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(n.)","description":"A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark."},{"word":"Blazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blaze"},{"word":"Blazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blaze"},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be resplendent."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous."},{"word":"Blaze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To blazon."},{"word":"Blazer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad."},{"word":"Blazing","type":"(a.)","description":"Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches."},{"word":"Blazon","type":"(n.)","description":"A shield."},{"word":"Blazon","type":"(n.)","description":"An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings."},{"word":"Blazon","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner."},{"word":"Blazon","type":"(n.)","description":"Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record."},{"word":"Blazoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blazon"},{"word":"Blazoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blazon"},{"word":"Blazon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide."},{"word":"Blazon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deck; to embellish; to adorn."},{"word":"Blazon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon."},{"word":"Blazon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine; to be conspicuous."},{"word":"Blazoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald."},{"word":"Blazonment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment."},{"word":"Blazonry","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Blazon, 3."},{"word":"Blazonry","type":"(n.)","description":"A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings."},{"word":"Blazonry","type":"(n.)","description":"Artistic representation or display."},{"word":"Blea","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood."},{"word":"Bleaberry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Blaeberry."},{"word":"Bleached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bleach"},{"word":"Bleaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bleach"},{"word":"Bleach","type":"(a.)","description":"To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten."},{"word":"Bleach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow white or lose color; to whiten."},{"word":"Bleached","type":"(a.)","description":"Whitened; make white."},{"word":"Bleacher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching."},{"word":"Bleacheries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bleachery"},{"word":"Bleachery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or an establishment where bleaching is done."},{"word":"Bleaching","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents."},{"word":"Bleak","type":"(a.)","description":"Without color; pale; pallid."},{"word":"Bleak","type":"(a.)","description":"Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds."},{"word":"Bleak","type":"(a.)","description":"Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast."},{"word":"Bleak","type":"(a.)","description":"A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay."},{"word":"Bleaky","type":"(a.)","description":"Bleak."},{"word":"Blear","type":"(v.)","description":"Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes."},{"word":"Blear","type":"(v.)","description":"Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim."},{"word":"Bleared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blear"},{"word":"Blearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blear"},{"word":"Blear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink."},{"word":"Bleared","type":"(a.)","description":"Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum."},{"word":"Bleareye","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter."},{"word":"Blear-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted."},{"word":"Blear-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear-eyed bigot."},{"word":"Bleareyedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being blear-eyed."},{"word":"Bleary","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat blear."},{"word":"Bleated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bleat"},{"word":"Bleating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bleat"},{"word":"Bleat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf."},{"word":"Bleat","type":"(n.)","description":"A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep."},{"word":"Bleater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bleats; a sheep."},{"word":"Bleating","type":"(a.)","description":"Crying as a sheep does."},{"word":"Bleating","type":"(n.)","description":"The cry of, or as of, a sheep."},{"word":"Bleb","type":"(n.)","description":"A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc."},{"word":"Blebby","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass."},{"word":"Bleck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Blek"},{"word":"Blek","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blacken; also, to defile."},{"word":"Bled","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bleed."},{"word":"Blee","type":"(n.)","description":"Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form."},{"word":"Bled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bleed"},{"word":"Bleeding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bleed"},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose."},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers."},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence."},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision."},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded."},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause."},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein."},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap."},{"word":"Bleed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund."},{"word":"Bleeder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, draws blood."},{"word":"Bleeder","type":"(n.)","description":"One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding."},{"word":"Bleeding","type":"(a.)","description":"Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion."},{"word":"Bleeding","type":"(n.)","description":"A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant."},{"word":"Blemished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blemish"},{"word":"Blemishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blemish"},{"word":"Blemish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind."},{"word":"Blemish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame."},{"word":"Blemishes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Blemish"},{"word":"Blemish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation."},{"word":"Blemishless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without blemish; spotless."},{"word":"Blemishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment."},{"word":"Blenched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blench"},{"word":"Blenching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blench"},{"word":"Blench","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail."},{"word":"Blench","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fly off; to turn aside."},{"word":"Blench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder."},{"word":"Blench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw back from; to deny from fear."},{"word":"Blench","type":"(n.)","description":"A looking aside or askance."},{"word":"Blench","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To grow or make pale."},{"word":"Blencher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher."},{"word":"Blencher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back."},{"word":"Blench","type":"()","description":"See Blanch holding."},{"word":"Blended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blend"},{"word":"Blent","type":"()","description":"of Blend"},{"word":"Blending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blend"},{"word":"Blend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound."},{"word":"Blend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain."},{"word":"Blend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors."},{"word":"Blend","type":"(n.)","description":"A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins."},{"word":"Blend","type":"(a.)","description":"To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive."},{"word":"Blende","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous."},{"word":"Blende","type":"(n.)","description":"A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster."},{"word":"Blender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending."},{"word":"Blending","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of mingling."},{"word":"Blending","type":"(n.)","description":"The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly."},{"word":"Blendous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende."},{"word":"Blendwater","type":"(n.)","description":"A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected."},{"word":"Blenheim","type":"()","description":"A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet."},{"word":"Blenk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To blink; to shine; to look."},{"word":"Blennioid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Blenniid"},{"word":"Blenniid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies."},{"word":"Blennogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Generating mucus."},{"word":"Blennorrhea","type":"(n.)","description":"An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus."},{"word":"Blennorrhea","type":"(n.)","description":"Gonorrhea."},{"word":"Blennies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Blenny"},{"word":"Blenny","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous."},{"word":"Blent","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained."},{"word":"Blent","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth."},{"word":"Blesbok","type":"(n.)","description":"A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead."},{"word":"Blessed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bless"},{"word":"Blest","type":"()","description":"of Bless"},{"word":"Blessing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bless"},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate"},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to."},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons."},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food."},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self)."},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To guard; to keep; to protect."},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences."},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To esteem or account happy; to felicitate."},{"word":"Bless","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wave; to brandish."},{"word":"Blessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy."},{"word":"Blessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored."},{"word":"Blessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful."},{"word":"Blessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven."},{"word":"Blessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Beatified."},{"word":"Blessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively."},{"word":"Blessedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Happily; fortunately; joyfully."},{"word":"Blessedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God."},{"word":"Blessed","type":"()","description":"See under Thistle."},{"word":"Blesser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing."},{"word":"Blessing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of one who blesses."},{"word":"Blessing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces."},{"word":"Blessing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift."},{"word":"Blessing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A gift."},{"word":"Blessing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Grateful praise or worship."},{"word":"Blest","type":"(a.)","description":"Blessed."},{"word":"Blet","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of decay in fruit which is overripe."},{"word":"Bletonism","type":"(n.)","description":"The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France."},{"word":"Bletting","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit."},{"word":"Blew","type":"()","description":"imp. of Blow."},{"word":"Bleyme","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone."},{"word":"Bleynte","type":"()","description":"imp. of Blench."},{"word":"Blickey","type":"(n.)","description":"A tin dinner pail."},{"word":"Blighted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blight"},{"word":"Blighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blight"},{"word":"Blight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of."},{"word":"Blight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects."},{"word":"Blight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights."},{"word":"Blight","type":"(n.)","description":"Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences."},{"word":"Blight","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc."},{"word":"Blight","type":"(n.)","description":"That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys."},{"word":"Blight","type":"(n.)","description":"A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects."},{"word":"Blight","type":"(n.)","description":"A rashlike eruption on the human skin."},{"word":"Blighting","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing blight."},{"word":"Blightingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to cause blight."},{"word":"Blimbi","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Blimbing"},{"word":"Blimbing","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bilimbi, etc."},{"word":"Blin","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To stop; to cease; to desist."},{"word":"Blin","type":"(n.)","description":"Cessation; end."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers."},{"word":"Blinded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blind"},{"word":"Blinding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blind"},{"word":"Blind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(n.)","description":"Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(n.)","description":"Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(n.)","description":"A blindage. See Blindage."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(n.)","description":"A halting place."},{"word":"Blind","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Blinde"},{"word":"Blinde","type":"(n.)","description":"See Blende."},{"word":"Blindage","type":"(n.)","description":"A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework."},{"word":"Blinder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blinds."},{"word":"Blinder","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker."},{"word":"Blindfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name."},{"word":"Blindfolded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blindfold"},{"word":"Blindfolding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blindfold"},{"word":"Blindfold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing."},{"word":"Blindfold","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury."},{"word":"Blinding","type":"(a.)","description":"Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow."},{"word":"Blinding","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4."},{"word":"Blindly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own."},{"word":"Blindman's","type":"()","description":"A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is."},{"word":"Blindman's","type":"()","description":"The time between daylight and candle light."},{"word":"Blindness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively."},{"word":"Blindstory","type":"(n.)","description":"The triforium as opposed to the clearstory."},{"word":"Blindworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder."},{"word":"Blinked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blink"},{"word":"Blinking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blink"},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trick; to deceive."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A glimpse or glance."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Gleam; glimmer; sparkle."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink."},{"word":"Blink","type":"(pl.)","description":"Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them."},{"word":"Blinkard","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes."},{"word":"Blinkard","type":"(n.)","description":"That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears."},{"word":"Blink","type":"()","description":"Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp."},{"word":"Blinker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blinks."},{"word":"Blinker","type":"(n.)","description":"A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment."},{"word":"Blinker","type":"(pl.)","description":"A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc."},{"word":"Blink-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Habitually winking."},{"word":"Blirt","type":"(n.)","description":"A gust of wind and rain."},{"word":"Blisses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bliss"},{"word":"Bliss","type":"(n.)","description":"Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy."},{"word":"Blissful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree."},{"word":"Blissless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of bliss."},{"word":"Blissom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be lustful; to be lascivious."},{"word":"Blissom","type":"(a.)","description":"Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes."},{"word":"Blister","type":"(n.)","description":"A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle."},{"word":"Blister","type":"(n.)","description":"Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel."},{"word":"Blister","type":"(n.)","description":"A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister."},{"word":"Blistered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blister"},{"word":"Blistering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blister"},{"word":"Blister","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on."},{"word":"Blister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise a blister or blisters upon."},{"word":"Blister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister."},{"word":"Blistery","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of blisters."},{"word":"Blite","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite."},{"word":"Blithe","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit."},{"word":"Blitheful","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; full of gayety; joyous."},{"word":"Blithely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blithe manner."},{"word":"Blitheness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being blithe."},{"word":"Blithesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Cheery; gay; merry."},{"word":"Blive","type":"(adv.)","description":"Quickly; forthwith."},{"word":"Blizzard","type":"(n.)","description":"A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast."},{"word":"Bloated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bloat"},{"word":"Bloating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bloat"},{"word":"Bloat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness."},{"word":"Bloat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflate; to puff up; to make vain."},{"word":"Bloat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell."},{"word":"Bloat","type":"(a.)","description":"Bloated."},{"word":"Bloat","type":"(n.)","description":"A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow."},{"word":"Bloat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote."},{"word":"Bloated","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous."},{"word":"Bloatedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bloated."},{"word":"Bloater","type":"(n.)","description":"The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring."},{"word":"Blob","type":"(n.)","description":"Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister."},{"word":"Blob","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb."},{"word":"Blobber","type":"(n.)","description":"A bubble; blubber."},{"word":"Blobber-lipped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having thick lips."},{"word":"Blocage","type":"(n.)","description":"The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The pattern or shape of a hat."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The perch on which a bird of prey is kept."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt."},{"word":"Block","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below."},{"word":"Blocked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Block"},{"word":"Blocking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Block"},{"word":"Block","type":"(n.)","description":"To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor."},{"word":"Block","type":"(n.)","description":"To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each."},{"word":"Block","type":"(n.)","description":"To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat."},{"word":"Blockade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy."},{"word":"Blockade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An obstruction to passage."},{"word":"Blockaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blockade"},{"word":"Blockading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blockade"},{"word":"Blockade","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n."},{"word":"Blockade","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress."},{"word":"Blockade","type":"(n.)","description":"To obstruct entrance to or egress from."},{"word":"Blockader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blockades."},{"word":"Blockader","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel employed in blockading."},{"word":"Blockage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up."},{"word":"Block","type":"()","description":"A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types."},{"word":"Blockhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding."},{"word":"Blockheaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; dull."},{"word":"Blockheadism","type":"(n.)","description":"That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity."},{"word":"Blockhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany."},{"word":"Blockhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house of squared logs."},{"word":"Blocking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks."},{"word":"Blocking","type":"(n.)","description":"Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily."},{"word":"Blocking","type":"()","description":"The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice."},{"word":"Blockish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull."},{"word":"Blocklike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a block; stupid."},{"word":"Block","type":"()","description":"See under Tin."},{"word":"Bloedite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium."},{"word":"Blomary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bloomery."},{"word":"Bloncket","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Blonket"},{"word":"Blonket","type":"(a.)","description":"Gray; bluish gray."},{"word":"Blond","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Blonde"},{"word":"Blonde","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion."},{"word":"Blonde","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes."},{"word":"Blonde","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace."},{"word":"Blond","type":"()","description":"A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools."},{"word":"Blondness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being blond."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"The fleshy nature of man."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(n.)","description":"The juice of anything, especially if red."},{"word":"Blooded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blood"},{"word":"Blooding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blood"},{"word":"Blood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bleed."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stain, smear or wet, with blood."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war."},{"word":"Blood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heat the blood of; to exasperate."},{"word":"Bloodbird","type":"(n.)","description":"An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird."},{"word":"Blood-boltered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the hair matted with clotted blood."},{"word":"Blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock."},{"word":"Bloodflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Haemanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows."},{"word":"Bloodguilty","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty of murder or bloodshed."},{"word":"Bloodhound","type":"(n.)","description":"A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff."},{"word":"Bloodily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood."},{"word":"Bloodiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bloody."},{"word":"Bloodiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness."},{"word":"Bloodless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead."},{"word":"Bloodless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory."},{"word":"Bloodless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without spirit or activity."},{"word":"Bloodlet","type":"(v. t. )","description":"bleed; to let blood."},{"word":"Bloodletter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist."},{"word":"Bloodletting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection."},{"word":"Blood","type":"()","description":"Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another."},{"word":"Blood","type":"()","description":"Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser."},{"word":"Bloodroot","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria."},{"word":"Bloodshed","type":"(n.)","description":"The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder."},{"word":"Bloodshedder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer."},{"word":"Bloodshedding","type":"(n.)","description":"Bloodshed."},{"word":"Bloodshot","type":"(a.)","description":"Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated."},{"word":"Blood-shotten","type":"(a.)","description":"Bloodshot."},{"word":"Bloodstick","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein."},{"word":"Bloodstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope."},{"word":"Bloodstone","type":"(n.)","description":"Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or \"streak.\""},{"word":"Bloodstroke","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain."},{"word":"Bloodsucker","type":"(n.)","description":"Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species."},{"word":"Bloodsucker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer."},{"word":"Bloodsucker","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner."},{"word":"Bloodthirsty","type":"(a.)","description":"Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous."},{"word":"Bloodulf","type":"(n.)","description":"The European bullfinch."},{"word":"Blood","type":"()","description":"Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein."},{"word":"Bloodwite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bloodwit"},{"word":"Bloodwit","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled."},{"word":"Bloodwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood."},{"word":"Bloodwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"(a.)","description":"Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"(a.)","description":"Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"(a.)","description":"Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet."},{"word":"Bloodied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bloody"},{"word":"Bloodying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bloody"},{"word":"Bloody","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stain with blood."},{"word":"Bloodybones","type":"(n.)","description":"A terrible bugbear."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"()","description":"The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"()","description":"A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"()","description":"A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom."},{"word":"Bloody-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty."},{"word":"Bloody","type":"()","description":"A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom."},{"word":"Bloomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bloom"},{"word":"Blooming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bloom"},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to blossom; to make flourish."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling."},{"word":"Bloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working."},{"word":"Bloomary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bloomery."},{"word":"Bloomer","type":"(n.)","description":"A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat."},{"word":"Bloomer","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who wears a Bloomer costume."},{"word":"Bloomery","type":"(n.)","description":"A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron."},{"word":"Blooming","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron."},{"word":"Blooming","type":"(a.)","description":"Opening in blossoms; flowering."},{"word":"Blooming","type":"(a.)","description":"Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health."},{"word":"Bloomingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blooming manner."},{"word":"Bloomingness","type":"(n.)","description":"A blooming condition."},{"word":"Bloomless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without bloom or flowers."},{"word":"Bloomy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray."},{"word":"Bloomy","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with bloom, as fruit."},{"word":"Blooth","type":"(n.)","description":"Bloom; a blossoming."},{"word":"Blore","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast."},{"word":"Blosmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Blossomy."},{"word":"Blossom","type":"(n.)","description":"The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom."},{"word":"Blossom","type":"(n.)","description":"A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise."},{"word":"Blossom","type":"(n.)","description":"The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color."},{"word":"Blossomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blossom"},{"word":"Blossoming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blossom"},{"word":"Blossom","type":"(n.)","description":"To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower."},{"word":"Blossom","type":"(n.)","description":"To flourish and prosper."},{"word":"Blossomless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without blossoms."},{"word":"Blossomy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of blossoms; flowery."},{"word":"Blotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blot"},{"word":"Blotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blot"},{"word":"Blot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stain with infamy; to disgrace."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry, as writing, with blotting paper."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(n.)","description":"A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(n.)","description":"An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(n.)","description":"A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(n.)","description":"An exposure of a single man to be taken up."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(n.)","description":"A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up."},{"word":"Blot","type":"(n.)","description":"A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark."},{"word":"Blotch","type":"(a.)","description":"A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch."},{"word":"Blotch","type":"(a.)","description":"A large pustule, or a coarse eruption."},{"word":"Blotched","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked or covered with blotches."},{"word":"Blotchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having blotches."},{"word":"Bloted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blote"},{"word":"Bloting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blote"},{"word":"Blote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat."},{"word":"Blotless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without blot."},{"word":"Blotter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink."},{"word":"Blotter","type":"(n.)","description":"A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place."},{"word":"Blottesque","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation."},{"word":"Blotting","type":"()","description":"A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots."},{"word":"Blouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army."},{"word":"Blew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Blow"},{"word":"Blown","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Blow"},{"word":"Blowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blow"},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flower; to blossom; to bloom."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers)."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet."},{"word":"Blew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Blow"},{"word":"Blown","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Blow"},{"word":"Blowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blow"},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk loudly; to boast; to storm."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread by report; to publish; to disclose."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflate, as with pride; to puff up."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.)."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"The spouting of a whale."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter."},{"word":"Blow","type":"(n.)","description":"An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it."},{"word":"Blowball","type":"(n.)","description":"The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away."},{"word":"Blowen","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Blowess"},{"word":"Blowess","type":"(n.)","description":"A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet."},{"word":"Blower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blows."},{"word":"Blower","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc."},{"word":"Blower","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine."},{"word":"Blower","type":"(n.)","description":"The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water."},{"word":"Blower","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer."},{"word":"Blower","type":"(n.)","description":"A braggart, or loud talker."},{"word":"Blowfly","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products."},{"word":"Blowgun","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan."},{"word":"Blowhole","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity."},{"word":"Blowhole","type":"(n.)","description":"A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean."},{"word":"Blowhole","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe."},{"word":"Blowhole","type":"(n.)","description":"An air hole in a casting."},{"word":"Blown","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas."},{"word":"Blown","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Stale; worthless."},{"word":"Blown","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Out of breath; tired; exhausted."},{"word":"Blown","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown."},{"word":"Blown","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower."},{"word":"Blow-off","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowing off steam, water, etc.;"},{"word":"Blow-off","type":"(adj.)","description":"as, a blow-off cock or pipe."},{"word":"Blow-off","type":"(adj.)","description":"An outburst of temper or excitement."},{"word":"Blow-out","type":"(n.)","description":"The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam."},{"word":"Blowpipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object."},{"word":"Blowpipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowgun; a blowtube."},{"word":"Blowpoint","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's game."},{"word":"Blowse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Blowze."},{"word":"Blowth","type":"(n.)","description":"A blossoming; a bloom."},{"word":"Blowtube","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowgun."},{"word":"Blowtube","type":"(n.)","description":"A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles."},{"word":"Blowtube","type":"(n.)","description":"A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of \"metal\" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe."},{"word":"Blow","type":"()","description":"See Snifting valve."},{"word":"Blowy","type":"(a.)","description":"Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland."},{"word":"Blowze","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench."},{"word":"Blowzed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered."},{"word":"Blowzy","type":"(a.)","description":"Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy."},{"word":"Blub","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To swell; to puff out, as with weeping."},{"word":"Blubber","type":"(n.)","description":"A bubble."},{"word":"Blubber","type":"(n.)","description":"The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh."},{"word":"Blubber","type":"(n.)","description":"A large sea nettle or medusa."},{"word":"Blubbered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blubber"},{"word":"Blubbering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blubber"},{"word":"Blubber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner."},{"word":"Blubber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears."},{"word":"Blubber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out."},{"word":"Blubbered","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip."},{"word":"Blubbering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of weeping noisily."},{"word":"Blubbery","type":"(a.)","description":"Swollen; protuberant."},{"word":"Blubbery","type":"(a.)","description":"Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass."},{"word":"Blucher","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blucher."},{"word":"Bludgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(superl.)","description":"Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(superl.)","description":"Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(superl.)","description":"Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(superl.)","description":"Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(n.)","description":"A pedantic woman; a bluestocking."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(pl.)","description":"Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy."},{"word":"Blued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blue"},{"word":"Bluing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blue"},{"word":"Blue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc."},{"word":"Blueback","type":"(n.)","description":"A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine."},{"word":"Blueback","type":"(n.)","description":"A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward."},{"word":"Blueback","type":"(n.)","description":"An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife."},{"word":"Bluebeard","type":"(n.)","description":"The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate."},{"word":"Bluebell","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell."},{"word":"Bluebell","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans)."},{"word":"Blueberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry."},{"word":"Bluebill","type":"(n.)","description":"A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck."},{"word":"Bluebird","type":"(n.)","description":"A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin."},{"word":"Blue","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Blue-bonnet"},{"word":"Blue-bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman."},{"word":"Blue-bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant. Same as Bluebottle."},{"word":"Blue-bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus); the bluecap."},{"word":"Blue","type":"()","description":"A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers."},{"word":"Blue","type":"()","description":"The United States official \"Biennial Register.\""},{"word":"Bluebottle","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers."},{"word":"Bluebottle","type":"(n.)","description":"A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue."},{"word":"Bluebreast","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler."},{"word":"Bluecap","type":"(n.)","description":"The bluepoll."},{"word":"Bluecap","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue bonnet or blue titmouse."},{"word":"Bluecap","type":"(n.)","description":"A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet."},{"word":"Bluecoat","type":"(n.)","description":"One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc."},{"word":"Blue-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia."},{"word":"Blue-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having blue eyes."},{"word":"Blue-eyed","type":"()","description":"a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color."},{"word":"Bluefin","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan."},{"word":"Bluefish","type":"(n.)","description":"A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack."},{"word":"Bluefish","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae."},{"word":"Bluegown","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman."},{"word":"Blue","type":"()","description":"A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass."},{"word":"Blue","type":"()","description":"The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue."},{"word":"Blue-john","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes."},{"word":"Bluely","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a blue color."},{"word":"Blueness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being blue; a blue color."},{"word":"Bluenose","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname for a Nova Scotian."},{"word":"Bluepoll","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales."},{"word":"Blueprint","type":"()","description":"See under Print."},{"word":"Bluestocking","type":"(n.)","description":"A literary lady; a female pedant."},{"word":"Bluestocking","type":"(n.)","description":"The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana)."},{"word":"Bluestockingism","type":"(n.)","description":"The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry."},{"word":"Bluestone","type":"(n.)","description":"Blue vitriol."},{"word":"Bluestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States."},{"word":"Bluethroat","type":"(n.)","description":"A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler."},{"word":"Bluets","type":"(a.)","description":"A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium."},{"word":"Blue-veined","type":"(a.)","description":"Having blue veins or blue streaks."},{"word":"Bluewing","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue-winged teal. See Teal."},{"word":"Bluey","type":"(a.)","description":"Bluish."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(a.)","description":"Surly; churlish; gruff; rough."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(a.)","description":"Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(n.)","description":"A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards; poker."},{"word":"Bluffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bluff"},{"word":"Bluffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bluff"},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off."},{"word":"Bluff","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as in the game of bluff."},{"word":"Bluff-bowed","type":"(a.)","description":"Built with the stem nearly straight up and down."},{"word":"Bluffer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bluffs."},{"word":"Bluff-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Built with the stem nearly straight up and down."},{"word":"Bluffness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being bluff."},{"word":"Bluffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks."},{"word":"Bluffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to bo bluff; brusque."},{"word":"Bluing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel."},{"word":"Bluing","type":"(n.)","description":"Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen."},{"word":"Bluish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins."},{"word":"Blundered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blunder"},{"word":"Blundering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blunder"},{"word":"Blunder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription."},{"word":"Blunder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble."},{"word":"Blunder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to blunder."},{"word":"Blunder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse."},{"word":"Blunder","type":"(n.)","description":"Confusion; disturbance."},{"word":"Blunder","type":"(n.)","description":"A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance."},{"word":"Blunderbuss","type":"(n.)","description":"A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim."},{"word":"Blunderbuss","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid, blundering fellow."},{"word":"Blunderer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is apt to blunder."},{"word":"Blunderhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid, blundering fellow."},{"word":"Blundering","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by blunders."},{"word":"Blunderingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blundering manner."},{"word":"Blunge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay."},{"word":"Blunger","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger."},{"word":"Blunging","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger."},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp."},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute."},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(a.)","description":"Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech."},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard to impress or penetrate."},{"word":"Blunted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blunt"},{"word":"Blunting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blunt"},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt."},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings."},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A fencer's foil."},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A short needle with a strong point. See Needle."},{"word":"Blunt","type":"(n.)","description":"Money."},{"word":"Bluntish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat blunt."},{"word":"Bluntly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility."},{"word":"Bluntness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness."},{"word":"Bluntness","type":"(n.)","description":"Abruptness of address; rude plainness."},{"word":"Blunt-witted","type":"(n.)","description":"Dull; stupid."},{"word":"Blurred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blur"},{"word":"Blurring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blur"},{"word":"Blur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink."},{"word":"Blur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken."},{"word":"Blur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation."},{"word":"Blur","type":"(n.)","description":"That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance."},{"word":"Blur","type":"(n.)","description":"A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur."},{"word":"Blur","type":"(n.)","description":"A moral stain or blot."},{"word":"Blurry","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of blurs; blurred."},{"word":"Blurted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blurt"},{"word":"Blurting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blurt"},{"word":"Blurt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out."},{"word":"Blushed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Blush"},{"word":"Blushing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Blush"},{"word":"Blush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face."},{"word":"Blush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow red; to have a red or rosy color."},{"word":"Blush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers."},{"word":"Blush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate."},{"word":"Blush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express or make known by blushing."},{"word":"Blush","type":"(n.)","description":"A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty."},{"word":"Blush","type":"(n.)","description":"A red or reddish color; a rosy tint."},{"word":"Blusher","type":"(n.)","description":"One that blushes."},{"word":"Blushet","type":"(n.)","description":"A modest girl."},{"word":"Blushful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of blushes."},{"word":"Blushing","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate."},{"word":"Blushing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks."},{"word":"Blushingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly."},{"word":"Blushless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent."},{"word":"Blushy","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy."},{"word":"Blustered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bluster"},{"word":"Blustering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bluster"},{"word":"Bluster","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather."},{"word":"Bluster","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage."},{"word":"Bluster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully."},{"word":"Bluster","type":"(n.)","description":"Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness."},{"word":"Bluster","type":"(n.)","description":"Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language."},{"word":"Blusterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer."},{"word":"Blustering","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous."},{"word":"Blustering","type":"(a.)","description":"Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous."},{"word":"Blusteringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a blustering manner."},{"word":"Blusterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering."},{"word":"Blustrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Blusterous."},{"word":"Bo","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation used to startle or frighten."},{"word":"Boas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boa"},{"word":"Boa","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques)."},{"word":"Boa","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor."},{"word":"Boa","type":"()","description":"A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Boanerges","type":"()","description":"Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator."},{"word":"Boar","type":"(n.)","description":"The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"A table to put food upon."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"The border or side of anything."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of a ship."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"The stretch which a ship makes in one tack."},{"word":"Boarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Board"},{"word":"Boarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Board"},{"word":"Board","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"To enter, as a railway car."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals."},{"word":"Board","type":"(n.)","description":"To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable."},{"word":"Board","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel."},{"word":"Board","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo."},{"word":"Boardable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can be boarded, as a ship."},{"word":"Boarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind."},{"word":"Boarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship."},{"word":"Boarding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose."},{"word":"Boarding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards."},{"word":"Boarding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay."},{"word":"Boarfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout."},{"word":"Boarfish","type":"(n.)","description":"An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish."},{"word":"Boarish","type":"(a.)","description":"Swinish; brutal; cruel."},{"word":"Boasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boast"},{"word":"Boasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boast"},{"word":"Boast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth."},{"word":"Boast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult."},{"word":"Boast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol."},{"word":"Boast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To display vaingloriously."},{"word":"Boast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To possess or have; as, to boast a name."},{"word":"Boast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel."},{"word":"Boast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required."},{"word":"Boast","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging."},{"word":"Boast","type":"(n.)","description":"The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation."},{"word":"Boastance","type":"(n.)","description":"Boasting."},{"word":"Boaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who boasts; a braggart."},{"word":"Boaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone mason's broad-faced chisel."},{"word":"Boastful","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising."},{"word":"Boasting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display."},{"word":"Boastingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Boastfully; with boasting."},{"word":"Boastive","type":"(a.)","description":"Presumptuous."},{"word":"Boastless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without boasting or ostentation."},{"word":"Boat","type":"(n.)","description":"A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail."},{"word":"Boat","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats."},{"word":"Boat","type":"(n.)","description":"A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat."},{"word":"Boated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boat"},{"word":"Boating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boat"},{"word":"Boat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods."},{"word":"Boat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a boat; as, to boat oars."},{"word":"Boat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go or row in a boat."},{"word":"Boatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as can be transported in a boat."},{"word":"Boatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Navigable for boats, or small river craft."},{"word":"Boatage","type":"(n.)","description":"Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance."},{"word":"Boatbill","type":"(n.)","description":"A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost."},{"word":"Boatbill","type":"(n.)","description":"A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus."},{"word":"Boat","type":"()","description":"An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman."},{"word":"Boatfuls","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boatful"},{"word":"Boatful","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity or amount that fills a boat."},{"word":"Boathouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house for sheltering boats."},{"word":"Boating","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats."},{"word":"Boating","type":"(n.)","description":"In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish."},{"word":"Boation","type":"(n.)","description":"A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation."},{"word":"Boatmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boatman"},{"word":"Boatman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat."},{"word":"Boatman","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat bug. See Boat bug."},{"word":"Boatmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of managing a boat."},{"word":"Boat-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cymbiform."},{"word":"Boat","type":"()","description":"A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck."},{"word":"Boat","type":"()","description":"A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba."},{"word":"Boatsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A boatman."},{"word":"Boatswain","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties."},{"word":"Boatswain","type":"(n.)","description":"The jager gull."},{"word":"Boatswain","type":"(n.)","description":"The tropic bird."},{"word":"Boat-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States."},{"word":"Boatwomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boatwoman"},{"word":"Boatwoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who manages a boat."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A working beam."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"The refrain of a song."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"A shilling."},{"word":"Bobbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bob"},{"word":"Bobbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bob"},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"To mock or delude; to cheat."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(n.)","description":"To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything."},{"word":"Bob","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3."},{"word":"Bobac","type":"(n.)","description":"The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac)."},{"word":"Bobance","type":"(n.)","description":"A boasting."},{"word":"Bobber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bobs."},{"word":"Bobbery","type":"(n.)","description":"A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery."},{"word":"Bobbin","type":"(n.)","description":"A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension."},{"word":"Bobbin","type":"(n.)","description":"A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc."},{"word":"Bobbin","type":"(n.)","description":"The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch."},{"word":"Bobbin","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine cord or narrow braid."},{"word":"Bobbin","type":"(n.)","description":"A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current."},{"word":"Bobbinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand."},{"word":"Bobbinwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work woven with bobbins."},{"word":"Bobbish","type":"(a.)","description":"Hearty; in good spirits."},{"word":"Bobby","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler."},{"word":"Bob-cherry","type":"(n.)","description":"A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth."},{"word":"Bobfly","type":"(n.)","description":"The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly."},{"word":"Bobolink","type":"(n.)","description":"An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln."},{"word":"Bobsled","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bobsleigh"},{"word":"Bobsleigh","type":"(n.)","description":"A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed."},{"word":"Bobstay","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl."},{"word":"Bobtail","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail."},{"word":"Bobtail","type":"(a.)","description":"Bobtailed."},{"word":"Bobtailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat."},{"word":"Bobwhite","type":"(n.)","description":"The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note."},{"word":"Bob","type":"()","description":"A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig."},{"word":"Bocal","type":"(n.)","description":"A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck."},{"word":"Bocardo","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative."},{"word":"Bocardo","type":"(n.)","description":"A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison."},{"word":"Bocasine","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of fine buckram."},{"word":"Bocca","type":"(n.)","description":"The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out."},{"word":"Boce","type":"(n.)","description":"A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue."},{"word":"Bock","type":"()","description":"A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria."},{"word":"Bockelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret."},{"word":"Bockey","type":"(n.)","description":"A bowl or vessel made from a gourd."},{"word":"Bocking","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made."},{"word":"Bockland","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bookland."},{"word":"Boddice","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bodick."},{"word":"Boded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bode"},{"word":"Boding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bode"},{"word":"Bode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow."},{"word":"Bode","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To foreshow something; to augur."},{"word":"Bode","type":"(n.)","description":"An omen; a foreshadowing."},{"word":"Bode","type":"(n.)","description":"A bid; an offer."},{"word":"Bode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A messenger; a herald."},{"word":"Bode","type":"(n.)","description":"A stop; a halting; delay."},{"word":"Bode","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"Abode."},{"word":"Bode","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Bid or bidden."},{"word":"Bodeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Portentous; ominous."},{"word":"Bodement","type":"(n.)","description":"An omen; a prognostic."},{"word":"Bodge","type":"(n.)","description":"A botch; a patch."},{"word":"Bodged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bodge"},{"word":"Bodge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch."},{"word":"Bodge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Budge."},{"word":"Bodian","type":"(n.)","description":"A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies."},{"word":"Bodice","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays."},{"word":"Bodice","type":"(n.)","description":"A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it."},{"word":"Bodiced","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a bodice."},{"word":"Bodied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied."},{"word":"Bodiless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no body."},{"word":"Bodiless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without material form; incorporeal."},{"word":"Bodiliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Corporeality."},{"word":"Bodily","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter."},{"word":"Bodily","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind."},{"word":"Bodily","type":"(a.)","description":"Real; actual; put in execution."},{"word":"Bodily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body."},{"word":"Bodily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. \"Leapt bodily below.\""},{"word":"Boding","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreshowing; presaging; ominous."},{"word":"Boding","type":"(n.)","description":"A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding."},{"word":"Bodkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dagger."},{"word":"Bodkin","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer."},{"word":"Bodkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections."},{"word":"Bodkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle."},{"word":"Bodkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair."},{"word":"Bodkin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Baudekin."},{"word":"Bodle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny."},{"word":"Bodleian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century."},{"word":"Bodock","type":"(n.)","description":"The Osage orange."},{"word":"Bodrage","type":"(n.)","description":"A raid."},{"word":"Bodies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Body"},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"Amount; quantity; extent."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure."},{"word":"Body","type":"(n.)","description":"Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body."},{"word":"Bodied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Body"},{"word":"Bodying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Body"},{"word":"Body","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody."},{"word":"Bodyguard","type":"(n.)","description":"A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard."},{"word":"Bodyguard","type":"(n.)","description":"Retinue; attendance; following."},{"word":"Boeotian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse."},{"word":"Boeotian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant."},{"word":"Boer","type":"(n.)","description":"A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent."},{"word":"Boes","type":"(3d sing. pr.)","description":"Behoves or behooves."},{"word":"Bog","type":"(n.)","description":"A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass."},{"word":"Bog","type":"(n.)","description":"A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp."},{"word":"Bogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bog"},{"word":"Bogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bog"},{"word":"Bog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire."},{"word":"Bogberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places."},{"word":"Bogey","type":"(n.)","description":"A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy."},{"word":"Boggard","type":"(n.)","description":"A bogey."},{"word":"Boggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boggle"},{"word":"Boggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boggle"},{"word":"Boggle","type":"(n.)","description":"To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision."},{"word":"Boggle","type":"(n.)","description":"To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully."},{"word":"Boggle","type":"(n.)","description":"To play fast and loose; to dissemble."},{"word":"Boggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of."},{"word":"Boggler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who boggles."},{"word":"Bogglish","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubtful; skittish."},{"word":"Boggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land."},{"word":"Bogie","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track."},{"word":"Bogle","type":"(n.)","description":"A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear."},{"word":"Bogsucker","type":"(n.)","description":"The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs."},{"word":"Bogtrotter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish."},{"word":"Bogtrotting","type":"(a.)","description":"Living among bogs."},{"word":"Bogue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft."},{"word":"Bogue","type":"(n.)","description":"The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce."},{"word":"Bogus","type":"(a.)","description":"Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit."},{"word":"Bogus","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquor made of rum and molasses."},{"word":"Bogwood","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments."},{"word":"Bogies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bogy"},{"word":"Bogy","type":"(n.)","description":"A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear."},{"word":"Bohea","type":"(n.)","description":"Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea."},{"word":"Bohemia","type":"(n.)","description":"A country of central Europe."},{"word":"Bohemia","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3."},{"word":"Bohemian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2."},{"word":"Bohemian","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or \"Bohemian\" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy."},{"word":"Bohemian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Bohemia."},{"word":"Bohemian","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family."},{"word":"Bohemian","type":"(n.)","description":"A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals."},{"word":"Bohemianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian."},{"word":"Bohun","type":"()","description":"See Upas."},{"word":"Boiar","type":"(n.)","description":"See Boyar."},{"word":"Boiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boil"},{"word":"Boiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boil"},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v.)","description":"To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v.)","description":"To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v.)","description":"To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v.)","description":"To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v.)","description":"To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steep or soak in warm water."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(n.)","description":"Act or state of boiling."},{"word":"Boil","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core."},{"word":"Boilary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Boilery."},{"word":"Boiled","type":"(a.)","description":"Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes."},{"word":"Boiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who boils."},{"word":"Boiler","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel in which any thing is boiled."},{"word":"Boiler","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes."},{"word":"Boilery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making."},{"word":"Boiling","type":"(a.)","description":"Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion."},{"word":"Boiling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation."},{"word":"Boiling","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposure to the action of a hot liquid."},{"word":"Boilingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With boiling or ebullition."},{"word":"Bois","type":"()","description":"The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca)."},{"word":"Bois","type":"()","description":"A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed."},{"word":"Boist","type":"(n.)","description":"A box."},{"word":"Boisterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful."},{"word":"Boisterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy."},{"word":"Boisterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior."},{"word":"Boisterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Vehement; excessive."},{"word":"Boisterously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a boisterous manner."},{"word":"Boisterousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness."},{"word":"Boistous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy."},{"word":"Bojanus","type":"()","description":"A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney."},{"word":"Bokadam","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cerberus."},{"word":"Boke","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To poke; to thrust."},{"word":"Bolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey."},{"word":"Bolas","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal."},{"word":"Bold","type":"(n.)","description":"Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous."},{"word":"Bold","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous."},{"word":"Bold","type":"(n.)","description":"In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent."},{"word":"Bold","type":"(n.)","description":"Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold."},{"word":"Bold","type":"(n.)","description":"Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief."},{"word":"Bold","type":"(n.)","description":"Steep; abrupt; prominent."},{"word":"Bold","type":"()","description":"an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo."},{"word":"Bold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bold or daring."},{"word":"Bold","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or become bold."},{"word":"Boldened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bolden"},{"word":"Bolden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bold; to encourage; to embolden."},{"word":"Bold-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman."},{"word":"Bold-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a conspicuous or heavy face."},{"word":"Boldly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bold manner."},{"word":"Boldness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being bold."},{"word":"Boldo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Boldu"},{"word":"Boldu","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten."},{"word":"Bole","type":"(n.)","description":"The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it."},{"word":"Bole","type":"(n.)","description":"An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet."},{"word":"Bole","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure. See Boll, n., 2."},{"word":"Bole","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba."},{"word":"Bole","type":"(n.)","description":"A bolus; a dose."},{"word":"Bolection","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection."},{"word":"Bolero","type":"(n.)","description":"A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it."},{"word":"bolete","type":"(n.)","description":"any fungus of the family Boletaceae."},{"word":"Boletic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus."},{"word":"Boletus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous."},{"word":"Boley","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bolye"},{"word":"Bolye","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Booly."},{"word":"Bolide","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of bright meteor; a bolis."},{"word":"Bolis","type":"(n.)","description":"A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes."},{"word":"Bolivian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bolivia."},{"word":"Bolivian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Bolivia."},{"word":"Boll","type":"(n.)","description":"The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form."},{"word":"Boll","type":"(n.)","description":"A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels."},{"word":"Bolled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boll"},{"word":"Boll","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed."},{"word":"Bollandists","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Jesuit editors of the \"Acta Sanctorum\", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work."},{"word":"Bollard","type":"(n.)","description":"An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes."},{"word":"Bollen","type":"(a.)","description":"See Boln, a."},{"word":"Bolling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard."},{"word":"Bollworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops."},{"word":"Boln","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell; to puff."},{"word":"Boln","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bollen"},{"word":"Bollen","type":"(a.)","description":"Swollen; puffed out."},{"word":"Bologna","type":"(n.)","description":"A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects."},{"word":"Bologna","type":"(n.)","description":"A Bologna sausage."},{"word":"Bolognese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bologna."},{"word":"Bolognese","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Bologna."},{"word":"Bolognian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Bolognese."},{"word":"Bolometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything used to prevent chafing."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"The metallic end of a pocketknife handle."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(n.)","description":"A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation."},{"word":"Bolstered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bolster"},{"word":"Bolstering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bolster"},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support with a bolster or pillow."},{"word":"Bolster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up."},{"word":"Bolstered","type":"(a.)","description":"Supported; upheld."},{"word":"Bolstered","type":"(a.)","description":"Swelled out."},{"word":"Bolsterer","type":"(n.)","description":"A supporter."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(n.)","description":"Lightning; a thunderbolt."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle, as of oziers."},{"word":"Bolted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bolt"},{"word":"Bolting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bolt"},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shoot; to discharge or drive forth."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A sudden flight, as to escape creditors."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party."},{"word":"Bolted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bolt"},{"word":"Bolting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bolt"},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law."},{"word":"Bolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter."},{"word":"Boltel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Boultel."},{"word":"Bolter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party."},{"word":"Bolter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sifts flour or meal."},{"word":"Bolter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve."},{"word":"Bolter","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fishing line. See Boulter."},{"word":"Bolthead","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver."},{"word":"Bolthead","type":"(n.)","description":"The head of a bolt."},{"word":"Bolting","type":"(n.)","description":"A darting away; a starting off or aside."},{"word":"Bolting","type":"(n.)","description":"A sifting, as of flour or meal."},{"word":"Bolting","type":"(n.)","description":"A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court."},{"word":"Boltonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family."},{"word":"Boltrope","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail."},{"word":"Boltsprit","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bowsprit."},{"word":"Bolty","type":"(n.)","description":"An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis)."},{"word":"Boluses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bolus"},{"word":"Bolus","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill."},{"word":"Bom","type":"(n.)","description":"A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes."},{"word":"Bomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A great noise; a hollow sound."},{"word":"Bomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell."},{"word":"Bomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A bomb ketch."},{"word":"Bomb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bombard."},{"word":"Bomb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound."},{"word":"Bombace","type":"(n.)","description":"Cotton; padding."},{"word":"Bombard","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon."},{"word":"Bombard","type":"(n.)","description":"A bombardment."},{"word":"Bombard","type":"(n.)","description":"A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer."},{"word":"Bombard","type":"(n.)","description":"Padded breeches."},{"word":"Bombard","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bombardo."},{"word":"Bombarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bombard"},{"word":"Bombarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bombard"},{"word":"Bombard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into."},{"word":"Bombardier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner."},{"word":"Bombardier","type":"(n.)","description":"A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery."},{"word":"Bombardman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard."},{"word":"Bombardment","type":"(n.)","description":"An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place."},{"word":"Bombardo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bombardon"},{"word":"Bombardon","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide."},{"word":"Bombasine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bombazine."},{"word":"Bombast","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, cotton, or cotton wool."},{"word":"Bombast","type":"(n.)","description":"Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding."},{"word":"Bombast","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian."},{"word":"Bombast","type":"(a.)","description":"High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic."},{"word":"Bombast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate."},{"word":"Bombastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bombastical"},{"word":"Bombastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated."},{"word":"Bombastry","type":"(n.)","description":"Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian."},{"word":"Bombax","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax."},{"word":"Bombazet","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled."},{"word":"Bombazine","type":"(n.)","description":"A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments."},{"word":"Bombic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid."},{"word":"Bombilate","type":"(n.)","description":"To hum; to buzz."},{"word":"Bombilation","type":"(n.)","description":"A humming sound; a booming."},{"word":"Bombinate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hum; to boom."},{"word":"Bombination","type":"(n.)","description":"A humming or buzzing."},{"word":"Bomboloes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bombolo"},{"word":"Bombolo","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor."},{"word":"Bombproof","type":"(a.)","description":"Secure against the explosive force of bombs."},{"word":"Bombproof","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate."},{"word":"Bombshell","type":"(n.)","description":"A bomb. See Bomb, n."},{"word":"Bombycid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidae."},{"word":"Bombycinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Silken; made of silk."},{"word":"Bombycinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint."},{"word":"Bombylious","type":"(a.)","description":"Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly."},{"word":"Bombyx","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm."},{"word":"Bon","type":"(a.)","description":"Good; valid as security for something."},{"word":"Bon-accord","type":"(n.)","description":"Good will; good fellowship; agreement."},{"word":"Bona","type":"()","description":"In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction."},{"word":"Bonair","type":"(a.)","description":"Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding."},{"word":"Bonanza","type":"(n.)","description":"In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income."},{"word":"Bonapartean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family."},{"word":"Bonapartism","type":"(n.)","description":"The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes."},{"word":"Bonapartist","type":"(n.)","description":"One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes."},{"word":"Bona","type":"()","description":"Perishable goods."},{"word":"Bona","type":"()","description":"A showy wanton; a courtesan."},{"word":"Bonasus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bonassus"},{"word":"Bonassus","type":"(n.)","description":"The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs."},{"word":"Bonbon","type":"(n.)","description":"Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty."},{"word":"Bonce","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy's game played with large marbles."},{"word":"Bonchretien","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett."},{"word":"Boncilate","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"Moral or political duty or obligation."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence."},{"word":"Bonded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bond"},{"word":"Bonding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bond"},{"word":"Bond","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(n.)","description":"A vassal or serf; a slave."},{"word":"Bond","type":"(a.)","description":"In a state of servitude or slavery; captive."},{"word":"Bondage","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity."},{"word":"Bondage","type":"(a.)","description":"Obligation; tie of duty."},{"word":"Bondage","type":"(a.)","description":"Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner."},{"word":"Bondager","type":"(n.)","description":"A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field."},{"word":"Bondar","type":"(n.)","description":"A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat."},{"word":"Bonded","type":"(a.)","description":"Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations."},{"word":"Bonder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse."},{"word":"Bonder","type":"(n.)","description":"A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone."},{"word":"Bonder","type":"(n.)","description":"A freeholder on a small scale."},{"word":"Bondholder","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time."},{"word":"Bondmaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant."},{"word":"Bondmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bondman"},{"word":"Bondman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man slave, or one bound to service without wages."},{"word":"Bondman","type":"(n.)","description":"A villain, or tenant in villenage."},{"word":"Bond","type":"()","description":"A slave; one who is bound to service without wages."},{"word":"Bond","type":"()","description":"The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery."},{"word":"Bondslave","type":"(n.)","description":"A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master."},{"word":"Bondsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bondsman"},{"word":"Bondsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman."},{"word":"Bondsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another."},{"word":"Bondstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone."},{"word":"Bondswoman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bondwoman."},{"word":"Bonduc","type":"(n.)","description":"See Nicker tree."},{"word":"Bondwomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bondwoman"},{"word":"Bondwoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who is a slave, or in bondage."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(n.)","description":"The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(n.)","description":"Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(n.)","description":"Dice."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(n.)","description":"Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: The framework of anything."},{"word":"Boned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bone"},{"word":"Boning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bone"},{"word":"Bone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fertilize with bone."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steal; to take possession of."},{"word":"Bone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying."},{"word":"Boneache","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain in the bones."},{"word":"Boneblack","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bone black, under Bone, n."},{"word":"Boned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned."},{"word":"Boned","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish."},{"word":"Boned","type":"(a.)","description":"Manured with bone; as, boned land."},{"word":"Bonedog","type":"(n.)","description":"The spiny dogfish."},{"word":"Bonefish","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ladyfish."},{"word":"Boneless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without bones."},{"word":"Boneset","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic."},{"word":"Bonesetter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones."},{"word":"Boneshaw","type":"(n.)","description":"Sciatica."},{"word":"Bonetta","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bonito."},{"word":"Bonfire","type":"(n.)","description":"A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement."},{"word":"Bongrace","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat."},{"word":"Bonhomie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bonhommie"},{"word":"Bonhommie","type":"(n.)","description":"good nature; pleasant and easy manner."},{"word":"Bonibell","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bonnibel."},{"word":"Boniface","type":"(n.)","description":"An innkeeper."},{"word":"Boniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence."},{"word":"Bonify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into, or make, good."},{"word":"Boniness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being bony."},{"word":"Boning","type":"(n.)","description":"The clearing of bones from fish or meat."},{"word":"Boning","type":"(n.)","description":"The manuring of land with bones."},{"word":"Boning","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t."},{"word":"Bonitary","type":"(a.)","description":"Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land."},{"word":"Bonitoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bonito"},{"word":"Bonito","type":"(n.)","description":"A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast."},{"word":"Bonito","type":"(n.)","description":"The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes."},{"word":"Bonito","type":"(n.)","description":"The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies."},{"word":"Bonito","type":"(n.)","description":"The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States."},{"word":"Bonsmots","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bonmot"},{"word":"Bonmot","type":"(n.)","description":"A witty repartee; a jest."},{"word":"Bonne","type":"(n.)","description":"A female servant charged with the care of a young child."},{"word":"Bonnes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bonne bouche"},{"word":"Bonne","type":"()","description":"A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A headdress for men and boys; a cap."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use"},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"The second stomach of a ruminating animal."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy."},{"word":"Bonnet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover."},{"word":"Bonneted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a bonnet."},{"word":"Bonneted","type":"(a.)","description":"Protected by a bonnet. See Bonnet, 4 (a)."},{"word":"Bonnetless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a bonnet."},{"word":"Bonnibel","type":"(n.)","description":"A handsome girl."},{"word":"Bonnie","type":"(a.)","description":"See Bonny, a."},{"word":"Bonnilass","type":"(n.)","description":"A \"bonny lass\"; a beautiful girl."},{"word":"Bonnily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Gayly; handsomely."},{"word":"Bonniness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness."},{"word":"Bonny","type":"(a.)","description":"Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful."},{"word":"Bonny","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe."},{"word":"Bonny","type":"(n.)","description":"A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein."},{"word":"Bonnyclabber","type":"(n.)","description":"Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber."},{"word":"Bon","type":"()","description":"A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink."},{"word":"Bonspiel","type":"(n.)","description":"A cur/ing match between clubs."},{"word":"Bontebok","type":"(n.)","description":"The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni."},{"word":"Bon","type":"()","description":"The height of the fashion; fashionable society."},{"word":"Bonuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bonus"},{"word":"Bonus","type":"(n.)","description":"A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter."},{"word":"Bonus","type":"(n.)","description":"An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits."},{"word":"Bonus","type":"(n.)","description":"Money paid in addition to a stated compensation."},{"word":"Bons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bon vivant"},{"word":"Bon","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver."},{"word":"Bony","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones."},{"word":"Bony","type":"(a.)","description":"Having large or prominent bones."},{"word":"Bonze","type":"(n.)","description":"A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun."},{"word":"Boobies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Booby"},{"word":"Booby","type":"(n.)","description":"A dunce; a stupid fellow."},{"word":"Booby","type":"(n.)","description":"A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby."},{"word":"Booby","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of penguin of the antarctic seas."},{"word":"Booby","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid."},{"word":"Boobyish","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; dull."},{"word":"Boodh","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Buddha."},{"word":"Boodhism","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Buddhism."},{"word":"Boodhist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Buddhist."},{"word":"Boodle","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole collection or lot; caboodle."},{"word":"Boodle","type":"(n.)","description":"Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag."},{"word":"Boohooed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boohoe"},{"word":"Boohooing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boohoe"},{"word":"Boohoe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bawl; to cry loudly."},{"word":"Boohoo","type":"(n.)","description":"The sailfish; -- called also woohoo."},{"word":"Book","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing."},{"word":"Book","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition, written or printed; a treatise."},{"word":"Book","type":"(n.)","description":"A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of \"Paradise Lost.\""},{"word":"Book","type":"(n.)","description":"A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc."},{"word":"Book","type":"(n.)","description":"Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set."},{"word":"Booked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Book"},{"word":"Booking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Book"},{"word":"Book","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter, write, or register in a book or list."},{"word":"Book","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater."},{"word":"Book","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory."},{"word":"Bookbinder","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to bind books."},{"word":"Bookbindery","type":"(n.)","description":"A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books."},{"word":"Bookbinding","type":"(n.)","description":"The art, process, or business of binding books."},{"word":"Bookcase","type":"(n.)","description":"A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors."},{"word":"Bookcraft","type":"(n.)","description":"Authorship; literary skill."},{"word":"Booked","type":"(a.)","description":"Registered."},{"word":"Booked","type":"(a.)","description":"On the way; destined."},{"word":"Booker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper."},{"word":"Bookful","type":"(n.)","description":"As much as will fill a book; a book full."},{"word":"Bookful","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled with book learning."},{"word":"Bookholder","type":"(n.)","description":"A prompter at a theater."},{"word":"Bookholder","type":"(n.)","description":"A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it."},{"word":"Booking","type":"()","description":"A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office."},{"word":"Booking","type":"()","description":"An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship."},{"word":"Booking","type":"()","description":"An office where passage tickets are sold."},{"word":"Bookish","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books."},{"word":"Bookish","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences."},{"word":"Bookkeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office."},{"word":"Bookkeeping","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger."},{"word":"Bookland","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bockland"},{"word":"Bockland","type":"(n.)","description":"Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds."},{"word":"Book-learned","type":"(a.)","description":"Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books."},{"word":"Bookless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without books; unlearned."},{"word":"Booklet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little book."},{"word":"Bookmaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler."},{"word":"Bookmaker","type":"(n.)","description":"A betting man who \"makes a book.\" See To make a book, under Book, n."},{"word":"Bookmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bookman"},{"word":"Bookman","type":"(n.)","description":"A studious man; a scholar."},{"word":"Bookmark","type":"(n.)","description":"Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate."},{"word":"Bookmate","type":"(n.)","description":"A schoolfellow; an associate in study."},{"word":"Bookmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in books."},{"word":"Book","type":"()","description":"A kind of muslin used for the covers of books."},{"word":"Book","type":"()","description":"A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses."},{"word":"Bookplate","type":"(n.)","description":"A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library."},{"word":"Bookseller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sells books."},{"word":"Bookselling","type":"(n.)","description":"The employment of selling books."},{"word":"Bookshelves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bookshelf"},{"word":"Bookshelf","type":"(n.)","description":"A shelf to hold books."},{"word":"Bookshop","type":"(n.)","description":"A bookseller's shop."},{"word":"Bookstall","type":"(n.)","description":"A stall or stand where books are sold."},{"word":"Bookstand","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall."},{"word":"Bookstand","type":"(n.)","description":"A stand to hold books for reading or reference."},{"word":"Bookstore","type":"(n.)","description":"A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop."},{"word":"Bookwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work."},{"word":"Bookwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Study; application to books."},{"word":"Bookworm","type":"(n.)","description":"Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known."},{"word":"Bookworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation."},{"word":"Booky","type":"(a.)","description":"Bookish."},{"word":"Boolies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Booly"},{"word":"Booly","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(n.)","description":"A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(n.)","description":"A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(n.)","description":"A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(n.)","description":"A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat."},{"word":"Boomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boom"},{"word":"Booming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boom"},{"word":"Boom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee."},{"word":"Boom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a \"boom\" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator."},{"word":"Boomdas","type":"(n.)","description":"A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman."},{"word":"Boomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, booms."},{"word":"Boomer","type":"(n.)","description":"A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel."},{"word":"Boomer","type":"(n.)","description":"A large male kangaroo."},{"word":"Boomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works up a \"boom\"."},{"word":"Boomerang","type":"(n.)","description":"A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it."},{"word":"Booming","type":"(a.)","description":"Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding."},{"word":"Booming","type":"(a.)","description":"Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity."},{"word":"Booming","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns."},{"word":"Boomkin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bumkin."},{"word":"Boomorah","type":"(n.)","description":"A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer."},{"word":"Boomslange","type":"(n.)","description":"A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs."},{"word":"Boon","type":"(n.)","description":"A prayer or petition."},{"word":"Boon","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present."},{"word":"Boon","type":"(n.)","description":"Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage."},{"word":"Boon","type":"(n.)","description":"Kind; bountiful; benign."},{"word":"Boon","type":"(n.)","description":"Gay; merry; jovial; convivial."},{"word":"Boon","type":"(n.)","description":"The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching."},{"word":"Boor","type":"(n.)","description":"A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman."},{"word":"Boor","type":"(n.)","description":"A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer."},{"word":"Boor","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners."},{"word":"Boorish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly."},{"word":"Boort","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bort."},{"word":"Boose","type":"(n.)","description":"A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal."},{"word":"Boose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drink excessively. See Booze."},{"word":"Booser","type":"(n.)","description":"A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer."},{"word":"Boosted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boost"},{"word":"Boosting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boost"},{"word":"Boost","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement."},{"word":"Boost","type":"(n.)","description":"A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"Profit; gain; advantage; use."},{"word":"Booted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boot"},{"word":"Booting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boot"},{"word":"Boot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?"},{"word":"Boot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof."},{"word":"Booted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boot"},{"word":"Booting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boot"},{"word":"Boot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put boots on, esp. for riding."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish by kicking with a booted foot."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To boot one's self; to put on one's boots."},{"word":"Boot","type":"(n.)","description":"Booty; spoil."},{"word":"Bootblack","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blacks boots."},{"word":"Booted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire."},{"word":"Booted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds."},{"word":"Bootee","type":"(n.)","description":"A half boot or short boot."},{"word":"Bootes","type":"(n.)","description":"A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus."},{"word":"Booth","type":"(n.)","description":"A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation."},{"word":"Booth","type":"(n.)","description":"A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place."},{"word":"Boothale","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To forage for booty; to plunder."},{"word":"Boothose","type":"(n.)","description":"Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots."},{"word":"Boothose","type":"(n.)","description":"Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback."},{"word":"Boothy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bothy."},{"word":"Bootikin","type":"(n.)","description":"A little boot, legging, or gaiter."},{"word":"Bootikin","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout."},{"word":"Booting","type":"(n.)","description":"Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty."},{"word":"Booting","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2."},{"word":"Booting","type":"(n.)","description":"A kicking, as with a booted foot."},{"word":"Bootjack","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for pulling off boots."},{"word":"Bootless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success."},{"word":"Bootlick","type":"(n.)","description":"A toady."},{"word":"Bootmaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes boots."},{"word":"Boots","type":"(n.)","description":"A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes."},{"word":"Boottopping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off."},{"word":"Boottopping","type":"(n.)","description":"Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt."},{"word":"Boottree","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven."},{"word":"Booty","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage."},{"word":"Boozed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Booze"},{"word":"Boozing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Booze"},{"word":"Booze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple."},{"word":"Booze","type":"(n.)","description":"A carouse; a drinking."},{"word":"Boozer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser."},{"word":"Boozy","type":"(a.)","description":"A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy."},{"word":"Bopeep","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened."},{"word":"Borable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being bored."},{"word":"Borachte","type":"(n.)","description":"A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard."},{"word":"Boracic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid."},{"word":"Boracite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride."},{"word":"Boracous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax."},{"word":"Borage","type":"(n.)","description":"A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic."},{"word":"Boragewort","type":"(n.)","description":"Plant of the Borage family."},{"word":"Boraginaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants."},{"word":"Boragineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous."},{"word":"Boramez","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barometz."},{"word":"Borate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical."},{"word":"Borax","type":"(n.)","description":"A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O."},{"word":"Borborygm","type":"(n.)","description":"A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels."},{"word":"Bord","type":"(n.)","description":"A board; a table."},{"word":"Bord","type":"(n.)","description":"The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures."},{"word":"Bord","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bourd."},{"word":"Bordage","type":"(n.)","description":"The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage."},{"word":"Bordar","type":"(n.)","description":"A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier."},{"word":"Bordeaux","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France."},{"word":"Bordeaux","type":"(n.)","description":"A claret wine from Bordeaux."},{"word":"Bordel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bordello"},{"word":"Bordello","type":"(n.)","description":"A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution."},{"word":"Bordelais","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux."},{"word":"Bordeller","type":"(n.)","description":"A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel."},{"word":"Border","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink."},{"word":"Border","type":"(n.)","description":"A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district."},{"word":"Border","type":"(n.)","description":"A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish."},{"word":"Border","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow flower bed."},{"word":"Bordered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Border"},{"word":"Bordering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Border"},{"word":"Border","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts."},{"word":"Border","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To approach; to come near to; to verge."},{"word":"Border","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden."},{"word":"Border","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest."},{"word":"Border","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine within bounds; to limit."},{"word":"Borderer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region."},{"word":"Bordland","type":"(n.)","description":"Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table."},{"word":"Bordlode","type":"(n.)","description":"The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house."},{"word":"Bordman","type":"(n.)","description":"A bordar; a tenant in bordage."},{"word":"Bordrag","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bordraging"},{"word":"Bordraging","type":"(n.)","description":"An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid."},{"word":"Bord","type":"()","description":"Service due from a bordar; bordage."},{"word":"Bordure","type":"(n.)","description":"A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged."},{"word":"Bored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bore"},{"word":"Boring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bore"},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To befool; to trick."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects)."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole made by boring; a perforation."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(n.)","description":"The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(n.)","description":"The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(n.)","description":"Caliber; importance."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(n.)","description":"A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China."},{"word":"Bore","type":"(n.)","description":"Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel."},{"word":"Bore","type":"()","description":"imp. of 1st & 2d Bear."},{"word":"Boreal","type":"(a.)","description":"Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast."},{"word":"Boreas","type":"(n.)","description":"The north wind; -- usually a personification."},{"word":"Borecole","type":"(n.)","description":"A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale."},{"word":"Boredom","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui."},{"word":"Boredom","type":"(n.)","description":"The realm of bores; bores, collectively."},{"word":"Boree","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as BourrEe."},{"word":"Borel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Borrel."},{"word":"Borele","type":"(n.)","description":"The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis)."},{"word":"Borer","type":"(n.)","description":"One that bores; an instrument for boring."},{"word":"Borer","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo."},{"word":"Borer","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances."},{"word":"Borer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple."},{"word":"Borer","type":"(n.)","description":"The hagfish (Myxine)."},{"word":"Boric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron."},{"word":"Boride","type":"(n.)","description":"A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret."},{"word":"Boring","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks."},{"word":"Boring","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole made by boring."},{"word":"Boring","type":"(n.)","description":"The chips or fragments made by boring."},{"word":"Born","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth."},{"word":"Born","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar."},{"word":"Borne","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t."},{"word":"Borneol","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol."},{"word":"Bornite","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface."},{"word":"Borofluoride","type":"(n.)","description":"A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate."},{"word":"Boroglyceride","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic."},{"word":"Boron","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B."},{"word":"Borosilicate","type":"(n.)","description":"A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc."},{"word":"Borough","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut."},{"word":"Borough","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax."},{"word":"Borough","type":"(n.)","description":"An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other."},{"word":"Borough","type":"(n.)","description":"The pledge or surety thus given."},{"word":"Borough-English","type":"(n.)","description":"A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother."},{"word":"Boroughhead","type":"(n.)","description":"See Headborough."},{"word":"Boroughholder","type":"(n.)","description":"A headborough; a borsholder."},{"word":"Boroughmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough."},{"word":"Boroughmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs."},{"word":"Boroughmongering","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Boroughmongery"},{"word":"Boroughmongery","type":"(n.)","description":"The practices of a boroughmonger."},{"word":"Borracho","type":"(n.)","description":"See Borachio."},{"word":"Borrage","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Borraginaceous"},{"word":"Borraginaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Borage, n., etc."},{"word":"Borrel","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment."},{"word":"Borrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool."},{"word":"Borrel","type":"(n.)","description":"Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity."},{"word":"Borrowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Borrow"},{"word":"Borrowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Borrow"},{"word":"Borrow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend."},{"word":"Borrow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend."},{"word":"Borrow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another."},{"word":"Borrow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feign or counterfeit."},{"word":"Borrow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive; to take; to derive."},{"word":"Borrow","type":"(n.)","description":"Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage."},{"word":"Borrow","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of borrowing."},{"word":"Borrower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who borrows."},{"word":"Borsholder","type":"(a.)","description":"The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable."},{"word":"Bort","type":"(n.)","description":"Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work."},{"word":"Boruret","type":"(n.)","description":"A boride."},{"word":"Borwe","type":"(n.)","description":"Pledge; borrow."},{"word":"Bos","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck."},{"word":"Bosa","type":"(n.)","description":"A drink, used in the East. See Boza."},{"word":"Boscage","type":"(n.)","description":"A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape."},{"word":"Boscage","type":"(n.)","description":"Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood."},{"word":"Bosh","type":"(n.)","description":"Figure; outline; show."},{"word":"Bosh","type":"(n.)","description":"Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug."},{"word":"Boshes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bosh"},{"word":"Bosh","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace."},{"word":"Bosh","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part."},{"word":"Bosh","type":"(n.)","description":"In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled."},{"word":"Boshbok","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of antelope. See Bush buck."},{"word":"Boshvark","type":"(n.)","description":"The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket."},{"word":"Bosjesman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bushman."},{"word":"Bosk","type":"(n.)","description":"A thicket; a small wood."},{"word":"Boskage","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Boscage."},{"word":"Bosket","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bosquet"},{"word":"Bosquet","type":"(n.)","description":"A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed."},{"word":"Boskiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky."},{"word":"Bosky","type":"(a.)","description":"Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets."},{"word":"Bosky","type":"(a.)","description":"Caused by boscage."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(n.)","description":"The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(n.)","description":"The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(n.)","description":"Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(n.)","description":"Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclination; desire."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(n.)","description":"A depression round the eye of a millstone."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the bosom."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(a.)","description":"Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend."},{"word":"Bosomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bosom"},{"word":"Bosoming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bosom"},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish."},{"word":"Bosom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom."},{"word":"Bosomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden."},{"word":"Bosomy","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows."},{"word":"Boson","type":"(n.)","description":"See Boatswain."},{"word":"Bosporian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus."},{"word":"Bosporus","type":"(n.)","description":"A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof."},{"word":"Bosquet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bosket."},{"word":"Bosses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boss"},{"word":"Boss","type":"(n.)","description":"Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood."},{"word":"Boss","type":"(n.)","description":"A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus."},{"word":"Boss","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations."},{"word":"Boss","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder."},{"word":"Boss","type":"(n.)","description":"The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another."},{"word":"Boss","type":"(n.)","description":"A swage or die used for shaping metals."},{"word":"Boss","type":"(n.)","description":"A head or reservoir of water."},{"word":"Bossed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boss"},{"word":"Bossing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boss"},{"word":"Boss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with bosses; to stud."},{"word":"Boss","type":"(n.)","description":"A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator."},{"word":"Bossage","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape."},{"word":"Bossage","type":"(n.)","description":"Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings."},{"word":"Bossed","type":"(a.)","description":"Embossed; also, bossy."},{"word":"Bosset","type":"(n.)","description":"A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer."},{"word":"Bossism","type":"(n.)","description":"The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses."},{"word":"Bossy","type":"(a.)","description":"Ornamented with bosses; studded."},{"word":"Bossy","type":"(n.)","description":"A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called."},{"word":"Boston","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war."},{"word":"Boswellian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson."},{"word":"Boswellism","type":"(n.)","description":"The style of Boswell."},{"word":"Bot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bots."},{"word":"Botanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Botanical"},{"word":"Botanical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition."},{"word":"Botanist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants."},{"word":"Botanized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Botanize"},{"word":"Botanizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Botanize"},{"word":"Botanize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants."},{"word":"Botanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To explore for botanical purposes."},{"word":"Botanizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who botanizes."},{"word":"Botanologer","type":"(n.)","description":"A botanist."},{"word":"Botanology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of botany."},{"word":"Botanomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves."},{"word":"Botanies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Botany"},{"word":"Botany","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant."},{"word":"Botany","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"A book which treats of the science of botany."},{"word":"Botany","type":"()","description":"A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770."},{"word":"Botargo","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink."},{"word":"Botches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Botch"},{"word":"Botch","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease."},{"word":"Botch","type":"(n.)","description":"A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner."},{"word":"Botch","type":"(n.)","description":"Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle."},{"word":"Botched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Botch"},{"word":"Botching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Botch"},{"word":"Botch","type":"(n.)","description":"To mark with, or as with, botches."},{"word":"Botch","type":"(n.)","description":"To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up."},{"word":"Botch","type":"(n.)","description":"To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work."},{"word":"Botchedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a clumsy manner."},{"word":"Botcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler."},{"word":"Botcher","type":"(n.)","description":"A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler."},{"word":"Botcher","type":"(n.)","description":"A young salmon; a grilse."},{"word":"Botcherly","type":"(a.)","description":"Bungling; awkward."},{"word":"Botchery","type":"(n.)","description":"A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship."},{"word":"Botchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done."},{"word":"Bote","type":"(n.)","description":"Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain."},{"word":"Bote","type":"(n.)","description":"Payment of any kind."},{"word":"Bote","type":"(n.)","description":"A privilege or allowance of necessaries."},{"word":"Boteless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless."},{"word":"Botfly","type":"(n.)","description":"A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly."},{"word":"Both","type":"(a. or pron.)","description":"The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either."},{"word":"Both","type":"(conj.)","description":"As well; not only; equally."},{"word":"Bothered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bother"},{"word":"Bothering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bother"},{"word":"Bother","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother."},{"word":"Bother","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome."},{"word":"Bother","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother."},{"word":"Botheration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation."},{"word":"Botherer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bothers."},{"word":"Bothersome","type":"(a.)","description":"Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome."},{"word":"Both-hands","type":"(n.)","description":"A factotum."},{"word":"Bothie","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bothy."},{"word":"Bothnian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bothnic"},{"word":"Bothnic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea."},{"word":"Bothrenchyma","type":"(n.)","description":"Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood."},{"word":"-ies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boothy"},{"word":"Bothy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Boothy"},{"word":"Boothy","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth."},{"word":"Botocudos","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymbores."},{"word":"Bo","type":"()","description":"The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha."},{"word":"Botryogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form."},{"word":"Botryoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Botryoidal"},{"word":"Botryoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences."},{"word":"Botryolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure."},{"word":"Botryose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a cluster of grapes."},{"word":"Botryose","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence."},{"word":"Bots","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments."},{"word":"Bottine","type":"(n.)","description":"A small boot; a lady's boot."},{"word":"Bottine","type":"(n.)","description":"An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children."},{"word":"Bottle","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids."},{"word":"Bottle","type":"(n.)","description":"The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine."},{"word":"Bottle","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle."},{"word":"Bottled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bottle"},{"word":"Bottling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bottle"},{"word":"Bottle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath."},{"word":"Bottle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle, esp. of hay."},{"word":"Bottled","type":"(a.)","description":"Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle."},{"word":"Bottled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant."},{"word":"Bottle","type":"()","description":"A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass."},{"word":"Bottlehead","type":"(n.)","description":"A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale."},{"word":"Bottleholder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge."},{"word":"Bottleholder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer."},{"word":"Bottle-nose","type":"(n.)","description":"A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe."},{"word":"Bottle-nose","type":"(n.)","description":"The puffin."},{"word":"Bottle-nosed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end."},{"word":"Bottler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc."},{"word":"Bottlescrew","type":"(n.)","description":"A corkscrew."},{"word":"Bottling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"The fundament; the buttocks."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"An abyss."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices."},{"word":"Bottomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bottom"},{"word":"Bottoming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bottom"},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach or get to the bottom of."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon."},{"word":"Bottom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread."},{"word":"Bottomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed."},{"word":"Bottomless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss."},{"word":"Bottomry","type":"(n.)","description":"A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation."},{"word":"Bottony","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bottone"},{"word":"Bottone","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons."},{"word":"Botts","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Bots."},{"word":"Botuliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of a sausage."},{"word":"Bouche","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bush, a lining."},{"word":"Bouche","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Bush, to line."},{"word":"Bouche","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bouch"},{"word":"Bouch","type":"(n.)","description":"A mouth."},{"word":"Bouch","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court."},{"word":"Bouchees","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Small patties."},{"word":"Boud","type":"(n.)","description":"A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc."},{"word":"Boudoir","type":"(n.)","description":"A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room."},{"word":"Bouffe","type":"(n.)","description":"Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe."},{"word":"Bougainvillaea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts."},{"word":"Bouged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bouge"},{"word":"Bouge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell out."},{"word":"Bouge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bilge."},{"word":"Bouge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stave in; to bilge."},{"word":"Bouge","type":"(n.)","description":"Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions."},{"word":"Bouget","type":"(n.)","description":"A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget."},{"word":"Bough","type":"(n.)","description":"An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch."},{"word":"Bough","type":"(n.)","description":"A gallows."},{"word":"Bought","type":"(n.)","description":"A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent."},{"word":"Bought","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a sling that contains the stone."},{"word":"Bought","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Buy."},{"word":"Bought","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Purchased; bribed."},{"word":"Boughten","type":"(a.)","description":"Purchased; not obtained or produced at home."},{"word":"Boughty","type":"(a.)","description":"Bending."},{"word":"Bougie","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, flexible instrument, that is"},{"word":"Bougie","type":"(n.)","description":"A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc."},{"word":"Bouilli","type":"(n.)","description":"Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made."},{"word":"Bouillon","type":"(n.)","description":"A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth."},{"word":"Bouillon","type":"(n.)","description":"An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog."},{"word":"Bouk","type":"(n.)","description":"The body."},{"word":"Bouk","type":"(n.)","description":"Bulk; volume."},{"word":"Boul","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved handle."},{"word":"Boulangerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead."},{"word":"Boulder","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bowlder."},{"word":"Bouldery","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by bowlders."},{"word":"Boule","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Boulework"},{"word":"Boulework","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Buhl, Buhlwork."},{"word":"Boulevard","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town."},{"word":"Boulevard","type":"(n.)","description":"A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city."},{"word":"Bouleversement","type":"(n.)","description":"Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down."},{"word":"Buolt","type":"(n.)","description":"Corrupted form Bolt."},{"word":"Boultel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Boultin"},{"word":"Boultin","type":"(n.)","description":"A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo."},{"word":"Boultin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the shafts of a clustered column."},{"word":"Boulter","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached."},{"word":"Boun","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready; prepared; destined; tending."},{"word":"Boun","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or get ready."},{"word":"Bounced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bounce"},{"word":"Bouncing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bounce"},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To boast; to talk big; to bluster."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bully; to scold."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden leap or bound; a rebound."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(n.)","description":"An explosion, or the noise of one."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(n.)","description":"Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(n.)","description":"A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus)."},{"word":"Bounce","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a sudden leap; suddenly."},{"word":"Bouncer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving."},{"word":"Bouncer","type":"(n.)","description":"A boaster; a bully."},{"word":"Bouncer","type":"(n.)","description":"A bold lie; also, a liar."},{"word":"Bouncer","type":"(n.)","description":"Something big; a good stout example of the kind."},{"word":"Bouncing","type":"(a.)","description":"Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom."},{"word":"Bouncing","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessive; big."},{"word":"Bouncingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a bounce."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(n.)","description":"The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary."},{"word":"Bounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bound"},{"word":"Bounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bound"},{"word":"Bound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rebound, as an elastic ball."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(n.)","description":"A leap; an elastic spring; a jump."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(n.)","description":"Rebound; as, the bound of a ball."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(n.)","description":"Spring from one foot to the other."},{"word":"Bound","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Bind."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Under legal or moral restraint or obligation."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Resolved; as, I am bound to do it."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Constipated; costive."},{"word":"Bound","type":"(v.)","description":"Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz."},{"word":"Boundaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boundary"},{"word":"Boundary","type":"(n.)","description":"That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit."},{"word":"Bounden","type":"(p. p & a.)","description":"Bound; fastened by bonds."},{"word":"Bounden","type":"(p. p & a.)","description":"Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden."},{"word":"Bounden","type":"(p. p & a.)","description":"Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding."},{"word":"Bounder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, limits; a boundary."},{"word":"Bounding","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving with a bound or bounds."},{"word":"Boundless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited."},{"word":"Bounteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production."},{"word":"Bountiful","type":"(a.)","description":"Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors."},{"word":"Bountiful","type":"(a.)","description":"Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food."},{"word":"Bountihead","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bountyhood"},{"word":"Bountyhood","type":"(n.)","description":"Goodness; generosity."},{"word":"Bounties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bounty"},{"word":"Bounty","type":"(n.)","description":"Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth."},{"word":"Bounty","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence."},{"word":"Bounty","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is given generously or liberally."},{"word":"Bounty","type":"(n.)","description":"A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures."},{"word":"Bouquet","type":"(n.)","description":"A nosegay; a bunch of flowers."},{"word":"Bouquet","type":"(n.)","description":"A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine."},{"word":"Bouquetin","type":"(n.)","description":"The ibex."},{"word":"Bour","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamber or a cottage."},{"word":"Bourbon","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France."},{"word":"Bourbon","type":"(n.)","description":"A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative."},{"word":"Bourbonism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism."},{"word":"Bourbonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist."},{"word":"Bourbon","type":"()","description":"See under Whisky."},{"word":"Bourd","type":"(n.)","description":"A jest."},{"word":"Bourd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jest."},{"word":"Bourder","type":"(n.)","description":"A jester."},{"word":"Bourdon","type":"(n.)","description":"A pilgrim's staff."},{"word":"Bourdon","type":"(n.)","description":"A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)"},{"word":"Bourdon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of organ stop."},{"word":"Bourgeois","type":"(n.)","description":"A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type."},{"word":"Bourgeois","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class."},{"word":"Bourgeois","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of the middle class, as in France."},{"word":"Bourgeoisie","type":"(n.)","description":"The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade."},{"word":"Bourgeon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch."},{"word":"Bouri","type":"(n.)","description":"A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa."},{"word":"Bourn","type":"(v.)","description":"Alt. of Bourne"},{"word":"Bourne","type":"(v.)","description":"A stream or rivulet; a burn."},{"word":"Bourn","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bourne"},{"word":"Bourne","type":"(n.)","description":"A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal."},{"word":"Bournless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a bourn or limit."},{"word":"Bournonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper."},{"word":"Bournous","type":"(n.)","description":"See Burnoose."},{"word":"Bourree","type":"(n.)","description":"An old French dance tune in common time."},{"word":"Bourse","type":"(n.)","description":"An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris."},{"word":"Bouse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze."},{"word":"Bouse","type":"(n.)","description":"Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze."},{"word":"Bouser","type":"(n.)","description":"A toper; a boozer."},{"word":"Boustrophedon","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite."},{"word":"Boustrophedonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing."},{"word":"Boustorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Boustrophedonic."},{"word":"Bousy","type":"(a.)","description":"Drunken; sotted; boozy."},{"word":"Bout","type":"(n.)","description":"As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round."},{"word":"Bout","type":"(n.)","description":"A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout."},{"word":"Boutade","type":"(n.)","description":"An outbreak; a caprice; a whim."},{"word":"Boutefeu","type":"(n.)","description":"An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels."},{"word":"Boutonniere","type":"(n.)","description":"A bouquet worn in a buttonhole."},{"word":"Bouts-rimes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered."},{"word":"Bovate","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres."},{"word":"Bovey","type":"()","description":"A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era."},{"word":"Bovid","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type."},{"word":"Boviform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped."},{"word":"Bovine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope."},{"word":"Bovine","type":"(a.)","description":"Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament."},{"word":"Bowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bow"},{"word":"Bowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bow"},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend; to curve."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stop."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An arcograph."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(sing. or pl.)","description":"Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree."},{"word":"Bowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bow"},{"word":"Bowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bow"},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play (music) with a bow."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(v. i. )","description":"To manage the bow."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(n.)","description":"The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow."},{"word":"Bow","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar."},{"word":"Bowable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding."},{"word":"Bowbell","type":"(n.)","description":"One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney."},{"word":"Bow-bells","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom."},{"word":"Bowbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent, like a bow."},{"word":"Bow-compasses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bow-compass"},{"word":"Bow-compass","type":"(n.)","description":"An arcograph."},{"word":"Bow-compass","type":"(n.)","description":"A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint."},{"word":"Bow-compass","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other."},{"word":"Bowel","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural."},{"word":"Bowel","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth."},{"word":"Bowel","type":"(n.)","description":"The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion."},{"word":"Bowel","type":"(n.)","description":"Offspring."},{"word":"Boweled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bowel"},{"word":"Bowelled","type":"()","description":"of Bowel"},{"word":"Boweling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bowel"},{"word":"Bowelling","type":"()","description":"of Bowel"},{"word":"Bowel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel."},{"word":"Boweled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having bowels; hollow."},{"word":"Bowelless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without pity."},{"word":"Bowenite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"One who bows or bends."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"An anchor carried at the bow of a ship."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(n.)","description":"Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(n.)","description":"A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(n.)","description":"A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embower; to inclose."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lodge."},{"word":"Bower","type":"(n.)","description":"A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest."},{"word":"Bower","type":"()","description":"An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects; the satin bird."},{"word":"Bowery","type":"(a.)","description":"Shading, like a bower; full of bowers."},{"word":"Boweries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bowery"},{"word":"Bowery","type":"(n.)","description":"A farm or plantation with its buildings."},{"word":"Bowery","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy."},{"word":"Bowess","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bower."},{"word":"Bowfin","type":"(n.)","description":"A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish."},{"word":"Bowge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell out. See Bouge."},{"word":"Bowge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to leak."},{"word":"Bowgrace","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice."},{"word":"Bow","type":"()","description":"The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand."},{"word":"Bow","type":"()","description":"The hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand."},{"word":"Bowhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale."},{"word":"Bowie","type":"()","description":"A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife."},{"word":"Bowing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments."},{"word":"Bowing","type":"(n.)","description":"In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting."},{"word":"Bowingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bending manner."},{"word":"Bowknot","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(n.)","description":"A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(n.)","description":"The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(n.)","description":"The game of tenpins or bowling."},{"word":"Bowled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bowl"},{"word":"Bowling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bowl"},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pelt or strike with anything rolled."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play with bowls."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc."},{"word":"Bowl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along."},{"word":"Bowlder","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Boulder"},{"word":"Boulder","type":"(n.)","description":"A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble."},{"word":"Boulder","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift."},{"word":"Bowldery","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by bowlders."},{"word":"Bowleg","type":"(n.)","description":"A crooked leg."},{"word":"Bowl-legged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward."},{"word":"Bowler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game."},{"word":"Bowless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a bow."},{"word":"Bowline","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled."},{"word":"Bowling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins."},{"word":"Bowls","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Bowl, a ball, a game."},{"word":"Bowmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bowman"},{"word":"Bowman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who uses a bow; an archer."},{"word":"Bowman","type":"(n.)","description":"The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar."},{"word":"Bowne","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make ready; to prepare; to dress."},{"word":"Bow","type":"()","description":"A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end."},{"word":"Bow","type":"()","description":"A net for catching birds."},{"word":"Bow","type":"()","description":"The oar used by the bowman."},{"word":"Bow","type":"()","description":"One who rows at the bow of a boat."},{"word":"Bow-pen","type":"(n.)","description":"Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass."},{"word":"Bow-pencil","type":"(n.)","description":"Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil."},{"word":"Bow-saw","type":"(n.)","description":"A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame."},{"word":"Bowse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To carouse; to bouse; to booze."},{"word":"Bowse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together."},{"word":"Bowse","type":"(n.)","description":"A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze."},{"word":"Bowshot","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow."},{"word":"Bowsprit","type":"(n.)","description":"A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward."},{"word":"Bowssen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties)."},{"word":"Bowstring","type":"(n.)","description":"The string of a bow."},{"word":"Bowstring","type":"(n.)","description":"A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders."},{"word":"Bowstringed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bowstring"},{"word":"Bowstrung","type":"()","description":"of Bowstring"},{"word":"Bowstringing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bowstring"},{"word":"Bowstring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strangle with a bowstring."},{"word":"Bowstringed","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Furnished with bowstring."},{"word":"Bowstringed","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Put to death with a bowstring; strangled."},{"word":"Bowtel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Boultel."},{"word":"Bowwow","type":"(n.)","description":"An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark."},{"word":"Bowwow","type":"(a.)","description":"Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word."},{"word":"Bowyer","type":"(n.)","description":"An archer; one who uses bow."},{"word":"Bowyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or sells bows."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc."},{"word":"Boxes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Box"},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity that a box contain."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A small country house."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"The driver's seat on a carriage or coach."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"The square in which the pitcher stands."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue."},{"word":"Boxed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Box"},{"word":"Boxing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Box"},{"word":"Box","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a box."},{"word":"Box","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with boxes, as a wheel."},{"word":"Box","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form."},{"word":"Box","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow on the head or ear with the hand."},{"word":"Box","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar."},{"word":"Box","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head."},{"word":"Box","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To boxhaul."},{"word":"Boxberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens)."},{"word":"Boxen","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus)."},{"word":"Boxer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who packs boxes."},{"word":"Boxer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who boxes; a pugilist."},{"word":"Boxfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The trunkfish."},{"word":"Boxhauled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boxhaul"},{"word":"Boxhaul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind)."},{"word":"Boxhauling","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul."},{"word":"Boxing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation."},{"word":"Boxing","type":"(n.)","description":"Material used in making boxes or casings."},{"word":"Boxing","type":"(n.)","description":"Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing."},{"word":"Boxing","type":"(n.)","description":"The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form."},{"word":"Boxing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring."},{"word":"Box-iron","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within."},{"word":"Boxkeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes."},{"word":"Boxthorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum."},{"word":"Boxwood","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood of the box (Buxus)."},{"word":"Boy","type":"(n.)","description":"A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son."},{"word":"Boy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage."},{"word":"Boyar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Boyard"},{"word":"Boyard","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania."},{"word":"Boyaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boyau"},{"word":"Boyaus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Boyau"},{"word":"Boyau","type":"(n.)","description":"A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc."},{"word":"Boycotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Boycott"},{"word":"Boycotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Boycott"},{"word":"Boycott","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott."},{"word":"Boycott","type":"(n.)","description":"The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion."},{"word":"Boycotter","type":"(n.)","description":"A participant in boycotting."},{"word":"Boycottism","type":"(n.)","description":"Methods of boycotters."},{"word":"Boydekin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dagger; a bodkin."},{"word":"Boyer","type":"(n.)","description":"A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end."},{"word":"Boyhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy."},{"word":"Boyish","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile."},{"word":"Boyishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a boyish manner; like a boy."},{"word":"Boyishness","type":"(n.)","description":"The manners or behavior of a boy."},{"word":"Boyism","type":"(n.)","description":"Boyhood."},{"word":"Boyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The nature of a boy; childishness."},{"word":"Boyle's","type":"()","description":"See under Law."},{"word":"Boza","type":"(n.)","description":"An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water."},{"word":"Brabantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands."},{"word":"Brabble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To clamor; to contest noisily."},{"word":"Brabble","type":"(n.)","description":"A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle."},{"word":"Brabblement","type":"(n.)","description":"A brabble."},{"word":"Brabbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler."},{"word":"Braccate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being braced or tight; tension."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"Harness; warlike preparation."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor for the arm; vantbrace."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(n.)","description":"The mouth of a shaft."},{"word":"Braced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brace"},{"word":"Bracing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brace"},{"word":"Brace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards."},{"word":"Brace","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up."},{"word":"Bracelet","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls."},{"word":"Bracelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of defensive armor for the arm."},{"word":"Bracer","type":"(n.)","description":"That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage."},{"word":"Bracer","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart."},{"word":"Bracer","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body."},{"word":"Brach","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitch of the hound kind."},{"word":"Brachelytra","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles."},{"word":"Brachia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Brachium."},{"word":"Brachial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve."},{"word":"Brachial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm."},{"word":"Brachiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea."},{"word":"Brachiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac."},{"word":"Brachioganoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Brachioganoidei."},{"word":"Brachioganoidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii."},{"word":"Brachiolaria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia."},{"word":"Brachiopod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell."},{"word":"Brachiopoda","type":"(n.)","description":"A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle."},{"word":"Bracchia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brachium"},{"word":"Brachium","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow."},{"word":"Brachman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brahman."},{"word":"Brachycatalectic","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse wanting two syllables at its termination."},{"word":"Brachycephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Brachycephalous"},{"word":"Brachycephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic."},{"word":"Brachycephaly","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brachycephalism"},{"word":"Brachycephalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head."},{"word":"Brachyceral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having short antennae, as certain insects."},{"word":"Brachydiagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism."},{"word":"Brachydiagonal","type":"(n.)","description":"The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism."},{"word":"Brachydome","type":"(n.)","description":"A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome."},{"word":"Brachygrapher","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer in short hand; a stenographer."},{"word":"Brachygraphy","type":"(n.)","description":"Stenography."},{"word":"Brachylogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Conciseness of expression; brevity."},{"word":"Brachypinacoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis."},{"word":"Brachyptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles."},{"word":"Brachypteres","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins."},{"word":"Brachypterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having short wings."},{"word":"Brachystochrone","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid."},{"word":"Brachytypous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a short form."},{"word":"Brachyura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Brachyural","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Brachyurous"},{"word":"Brachyurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Brachyura."},{"word":"Brachyuran","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Brachyura."},{"word":"Bracing","type":"(a.)","description":"Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind."},{"word":"Bracing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced."},{"word":"Bracing","type":"(n.)","description":"Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss."},{"word":"Brack","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw."},{"word":"Brack","type":"(n.)","description":"Salt or brackish water."},{"word":"Bracken","type":"(n.)","description":"A brake or fern."},{"word":"Bracket","type":"(n.)","description":"An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office."},{"word":"Bracket","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles."},{"word":"Bracket","type":"(n.)","description":"A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support."},{"word":"Bracket","type":"(n.)","description":"The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage."},{"word":"Bracket","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet."},{"word":"Bracket","type":"(n.)","description":"A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like."},{"word":"Bracketed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bracket"},{"word":"Bracketing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bracket"},{"word":"Bracket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets."},{"word":"Bracketing","type":"(n.)","description":"A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively."},{"word":"Brackish","type":"(a.)","description":"Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil."},{"word":"Brackishness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt."},{"word":"Bracky","type":"(a.)","description":"Brackish."},{"word":"Bract","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises."},{"word":"Bract","type":"(n.)","description":"Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower."},{"word":"Bractea","type":"(n.)","description":"A bract."},{"word":"Bracteal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature or appearance of a bract."},{"word":"Bracteate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bract or bracts."},{"word":"Bracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with bracts."},{"word":"Bracteolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets."},{"word":"Bracteole","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bractlet."},{"word":"Bractless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of bracts."},{"word":"Bractlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers."},{"word":"Brad","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head."},{"word":"Brad","type":"()","description":"A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc."},{"word":"Bradoon","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bridoon."},{"word":"Brae","type":"(n.)","description":"A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill."},{"word":"Bragged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brag"},{"word":"Bragging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brag"},{"word":"Brag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do."},{"word":"Brag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To boast of."},{"word":"Brag","type":"(n.)","description":"A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification."},{"word":"Brag","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing which is boasted of."},{"word":"Brag","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards similar to bluff."},{"word":"Brag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited."},{"word":"Brag","type":"(adv.)","description":"Proudly; boastfully."},{"word":"Braggadocio","type":"(n.)","description":"A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer."},{"word":"Braggadocio","type":"(n.)","description":"Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension."},{"word":"Braggardism","type":"(n.)","description":"Boastfulness; act of bragging."},{"word":"Braggart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A boaster."},{"word":"Braggart","type":"(a.)","description":"Boastful."},{"word":"Bragger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who brags; a boaster."},{"word":"Bragget","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc."},{"word":"Braggingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Boastingly."},{"word":"Bragless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without bragging."},{"word":"Bragly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly."},{"word":"Brahma","type":"(n.)","description":"The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer."},{"word":"Brahma","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra."},{"word":"Brahmans","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brahmin"},{"word":"Brahmins","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brahmin"},{"word":"Brahman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brahmin"},{"word":"Brahmin","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos."},{"word":"Brahmaness","type":"(n.)","description":"A Brahmani."},{"word":"Brahmani","type":"(n.)","description":"Any Brahman woman."},{"word":"Brahmanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of ical"},{"word":"-ical","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of ical"},{"word":"Brahminic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of ical"},{"word":"ical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship."},{"word":"Brahmanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brahminism"},{"word":"Brahminism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma."},{"word":"Brahmanist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brahminist"},{"word":"Brahminist","type":"(n.)","description":"An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans."},{"word":"Brahmoism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religious system of Brahmo-somaj."},{"word":"Brahmo-somaj","type":"(n.)","description":"A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindoos."},{"word":"Braided","type":"(imp. &. p. p.)","description":"of Braid"},{"word":"Braiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Braid"},{"word":"Braid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait."},{"word":"Braid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations."},{"word":"Braid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid."},{"word":"Braid","type":"(n.)","description":"A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands."},{"word":"Braid","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc."},{"word":"Braid","type":"(n.)","description":"A quick motion; a start."},{"word":"Braid","type":"(n.)","description":"A fancy; freak; caprice."},{"word":"Braid","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To start; to awake."},{"word":"Braid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Deceitful."},{"word":"Braiding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making or using braids."},{"word":"Braiding","type":"(n.)","description":"Braids, collectively; trimming."},{"word":"Brail","type":"(n.)","description":"A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing."},{"word":"Brail","type":"(n.)","description":"Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling."},{"word":"Brail","type":"(n.)","description":"A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched."},{"word":"Brail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail."},{"word":"Brain","type":"(n.)","description":"The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain."},{"word":"Brain","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates."},{"word":"Brain","type":"(n.)","description":"The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding."},{"word":"Brain","type":"(n.)","description":"The affections; fancy; imagination."},{"word":"Brained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brain"},{"word":"Braining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brain"},{"word":"Brain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat."},{"word":"Brain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conceive; to understand."},{"word":"Brained","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Supplied with brains."},{"word":"Brainish","type":"(a.)","description":"Hot-headed; furious."},{"word":"Brainless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless."},{"word":"Brainpan","type":"(n.)","description":"The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium."},{"word":"Brainsick","type":"(a.)","description":"Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless."},{"word":"Brainsickly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a brainsick manner."},{"word":"Brainy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an active or vigorous mind."},{"word":"Braise","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Braize"},{"word":"Braize","type":"(n.)","description":"A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species."},{"word":"Braise","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Braize"},{"word":"Braize","type":"(n.)","description":"Charcoal powder; breeze."},{"word":"Braize","type":"(n.)","description":"Braised meat."},{"word":"Braise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan."},{"word":"Braiser","type":"(n.)","description":"A kettle or pan for braising."},{"word":"Brait","type":"(n.)","description":"A rough diamond."},{"word":"Braize","type":"(n.)","description":"See Braise."},{"word":"Brake","type":"()","description":"imp. of Break."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(n.)","description":"A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(n.)","description":"A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A baker's kneading though."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A sharp bit or snaffle."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses."},{"word":"Brake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An ancient instrument of torture."},{"word":"Brakemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brakeman"},{"word":"Brakeman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man in charge of a brake or brakes."},{"word":"Brakeman","type":"(n.)","description":"The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine."},{"word":"Braky","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny."},{"word":"Brama","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brahma."},{"word":"Bramah","type":"()","description":"A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic."},{"word":"Bramble","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub."},{"word":"Bramble","type":"(n.)","description":"The brambling or bramble finch."},{"word":"Bramble","type":"()","description":"The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together."},{"word":"Brambled","type":"(a.)","description":"Overgrown with brambles."},{"word":"Bramble","type":"()","description":"A net to catch birds."},{"word":"Brambling","type":"(n.)","description":"The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble."},{"word":"Brambly","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles."},{"word":"Brame","type":"(n.)","description":"Sharp passion; vexation."},{"word":"Bramin","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Braminic"},{"word":"Braminic","type":"()","description":"See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc."},{"word":"Bran","type":"(n.)","description":"The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain."},{"word":"Bran","type":"(n.)","description":"The European carrion crow."},{"word":"Brancard","type":"(n.)","description":"A litter on which a person may be carried."},{"word":"Branches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Branch"},{"word":"Branch","type":"(n.)","description":"A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(n.)","description":"Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(n.)","description":"Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(n.)","description":"A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(n.)","description":"A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(a.)","description":"Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store."},{"word":"Branched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Branch"},{"word":"Branching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Branch"},{"word":"Branch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To divide into separate parts or subdivision."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in."},{"word":"Branch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs."},{"word":"Brancher","type":"(n.)","description":"That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions."},{"word":"Brancher","type":"(n.)","description":"A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches."},{"word":"Branchery","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of branches."},{"word":"Branchiae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Branchia"},{"word":"Branchia","type":"(n.)","description":"A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have."},{"word":"Branchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills."},{"word":"Branchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments."},{"word":"Branchiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods."},{"word":"Branchiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fullness of branches."},{"word":"Branching","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches."},{"word":"Branching","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch."},{"word":"Branchiogastropoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata."},{"word":"Branchiomerism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being made up of branchiate segments."},{"word":"Branchiopod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Branchiopoda."},{"word":"Branchiopoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense."},{"word":"Branchiostegal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes."},{"word":"Branchiostegal","type":"(n.)","description":"A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix."},{"word":"Branchiostege","type":"()","description":"The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Branchiostegous","type":"(a.)","description":"Branchiostegal."},{"word":"Branchiostoma","type":"(n.)","description":"The lancelet. See Amphioxus."},{"word":"Branchiura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus)."},{"word":"Branchless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked."},{"word":"Branchlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little branch; a twig."},{"word":"Branch","type":"()","description":"A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation."},{"word":"Branchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An instrument to brand with; a branding iron."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei."},{"word":"Branded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brand"},{"word":"Branding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brand"},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict)."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon."},{"word":"Brand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron."},{"word":"Brander","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron."},{"word":"Brander","type":"(n.)","description":"A gridiron."},{"word":"Brand","type":"()","description":"A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant."},{"word":"Brandied","type":"(a.)","description":"Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches."},{"word":"Branding","type":"()","description":"An iron to brand with."},{"word":"Brand","type":"()","description":"A branding iron."},{"word":"Brand","type":"()","description":"A trivet to set a pot on."},{"word":"Brand","type":"()","description":"The horizontal bar of an andiron."},{"word":"Brandished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brandish"},{"word":"Brandishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brandish"},{"word":"Brandish","type":"(n.)","description":"To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish."},{"word":"Brandish","type":"(n.)","description":"To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms."},{"word":"Brandish","type":"(n.)","description":"A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc."},{"word":"Brandisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who brandishes."},{"word":"Brandle","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To shake; to totter."},{"word":"Brandling","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brandlin"},{"word":"Brandlin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Branlin, fish and worm."},{"word":"Brand-new","type":"(a.)","description":"Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge."},{"word":"Brand","type":"()","description":"One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand."},{"word":"Brandies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brandy"},{"word":"Brandy","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain."},{"word":"Brandywine","type":"(n.)","description":"Brandy."},{"word":"Brangle","type":"(n.)","description":"A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute."},{"word":"Brangled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brangle"},{"word":"Brangling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brangle"},{"word":"Brangle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble."},{"word":"Branglement","type":"(n.)","description":"Wrangle; brangle."},{"word":"Brangler","type":"(n.)","description":"A quarrelsome person."},{"word":"Brangling","type":"(n.)","description":"A quarrel."},{"word":"Brank","type":"(n.)","description":"Buckwheat."},{"word":"Brank","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Branks"},{"word":"Branks","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces."},{"word":"Branks","type":"(n.)","description":"A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold."},{"word":"Brank","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit."},{"word":"Brank","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prance; to caper."},{"word":"Brankursine","type":"(n.)","description":"Bear's-breech, or Acanthus."},{"word":"Branlin","type":"(n.)","description":"A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron."},{"word":"Branlin","type":"(n.)","description":"A small red worm or larva, used as bait for small fresh-water fish; -- so called from its red color."},{"word":"Bran-new","type":"(a.)","description":"See Brand-new."},{"word":"Branny","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran."},{"word":"Bransle","type":"(n.)","description":"A brawl or dance."},{"word":"Brant","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species."},{"word":"Brant","type":"(a.)","description":"Steep."},{"word":"Brantail","type":"(n.)","description":"The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail."},{"word":"Brant-fox","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it."},{"word":"Branular","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the brain; cerebral."},{"word":"Brasen","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Brazen."},{"word":"Brash","type":"(a.)","description":"Hasty in temper; impetuous."},{"word":"Brash","type":"(a.)","description":"Brittle, as wood or vegetables."},{"word":"Brash","type":"(n.)","description":"A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness."},{"word":"Brash","type":"(n.)","description":"Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges."},{"word":"Brash","type":"(n.)","description":"Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits."},{"word":"Brash","type":"(n.)","description":"Broken fragments of ice."},{"word":"Brasier","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brazier"},{"word":"Brazier","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificer who works in brass."},{"word":"Brasier","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brazier"},{"word":"Brazier","type":"(n.)","description":"A pan for holding burning coals."},{"word":"Brasses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brass"},{"word":"Brass","type":"(n.)","description":"An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals."},{"word":"Brass","type":"(n.)","description":"A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing."},{"word":"Brass","type":"(n.)","description":"Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze."},{"word":"Brass","type":"(n.)","description":"Impudence; a brazen face."},{"word":"Brass","type":"(n.)","description":"Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass."},{"word":"Brass","type":"(n.)","description":"A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc."},{"word":"Brass","type":"(n.)","description":"Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass."},{"word":"Brassage","type":"(n.)","description":"A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage."},{"word":"Brassart","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts."},{"word":"Brasse","type":"(n.)","description":"A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch."},{"word":"Brassets","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brassart."},{"word":"Brassica","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc."},{"word":"Brassicaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family."},{"word":"Brassiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, condition, or quality of being brassy."},{"word":"Brass-visaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Impudent; bold."},{"word":"Brassy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass."},{"word":"Brassy","type":"(a.)","description":"Impudent; impudently bold."},{"word":"Brast","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To burst."},{"word":"Brat","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general."},{"word":"Brat","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib."},{"word":"Brat","type":"(n.)","description":"A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense."},{"word":"Brat","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of an animal."},{"word":"Brat","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime."},{"word":"Bratsche","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenor viola, or viola."},{"word":"Brattice","type":"(n.)","description":"A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation."},{"word":"Brattice","type":"(n.)","description":"Planking to support a roof or wall."},{"word":"Brattishing","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brattice, n."},{"word":"Brattishing","type":"(n.)","description":"Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet."},{"word":"Braunite","type":"(n.)","description":"A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha."},{"word":"Bravade","type":"(n.)","description":"Bravado."},{"word":"Bravadoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bravado"},{"word":"Bravado","type":"(n.)","description":"Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace."},{"word":"Brave","type":"(superl.)","description":"Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act."},{"word":"Brave","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous."},{"word":"Brave","type":"(superl.)","description":"Making a fine show or display."},{"word":"Brave","type":"(n.)","description":"A brave person; one who is daring."},{"word":"Brave","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, an Indian warrior."},{"word":"Brave","type":"(n.)","description":"A man daring beyond discretion; a bully."},{"word":"Brave","type":"(n.)","description":"A challenge; a defiance; bravado."},{"word":"Braved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brave"},{"word":"Braving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brave"},{"word":"Brave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare."},{"word":"Brave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn; to make fine or showy."},{"word":"Bravely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly."},{"word":"Bravely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily."},{"word":"Bravely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Well; thrivingly; prosperously."},{"word":"Braveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of state or being brave."},{"word":"Bravery","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity."},{"word":"Bravery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of braving; defiance; bravado."},{"word":"Bravery","type":"(n.)","description":"Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress."},{"word":"Bravery","type":"(n.)","description":"A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau."},{"word":"Braving","type":"(n.)","description":"A bravado; a boast."},{"word":"Bravingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a defiant manner."},{"word":"Bravoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bravo"},{"word":"Bravo","type":"(a.)","description":"A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer."},{"word":"Bravo","type":"(interj.)","description":"Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause."},{"word":"Bravura","type":"(n.)","description":"A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music."},{"word":"Brawled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brawl"},{"word":"Brawling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brawl"},{"word":"Brawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To quarrel noisily and outrageously."},{"word":"Brawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To complain loudly; to scold."},{"word":"Brawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones."},{"word":"Brawl","type":"(n.)","description":"A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl."},{"word":"Brawler","type":"(n.)","description":"One that brawls; wrangler."},{"word":"Brawling","type":"(a.)","description":"Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy."},{"word":"Brawling","type":"(a.)","description":"Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3."},{"word":"Brawlingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a brawling manner."},{"word":"Brawn","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle; flesh."},{"word":"Brawn","type":"(n.)","description":"Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm."},{"word":"Brawn","type":"(n.)","description":"The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar."},{"word":"Brawn","type":"(n.)","description":"A boar."},{"word":"Brawned","type":"(a.)","description":"Brawny; strong; muscular."},{"word":"Brawner","type":"(n.)","description":"A boor killed for the table."},{"word":"Brawniness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being brawny."},{"word":"Brawny","type":"(a.)","description":"Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong."},{"word":"Braxy","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities."},{"word":"Braxy","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased sheep, or its mutton."},{"word":"Brayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bray"},{"word":"Braying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bray"},{"word":"Bray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine."},{"word":"Bray","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass."},{"word":"Bray","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise."},{"word":"Bray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound."},{"word":"Bray","type":"(n.)","description":"The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound."},{"word":"Bray","type":"(n.)","description":"A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling."},{"word":"Brayer","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing."},{"word":"Brayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One that brays like an ass."},{"word":"Braying","type":"(a.)","description":"Making a harsh noise; blaring."},{"word":"Brazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Braze"},{"word":"Brazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Braze"},{"word":"Braze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe."},{"word":"Braze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To harden."},{"word":"Braze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or ornament with brass."},{"word":"Brazen","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass."},{"word":"Brazen","type":"(a.)","description":"Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass."},{"word":"Brazen","type":"(a.)","description":"Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance."},{"word":"Brazened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brazen"},{"word":"Brazening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brazen"},{"word":"Brazen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through."},{"word":"Brazen-browed","type":"(a.)","description":"Shamelessly impudent."},{"word":"Brazenface","type":"(n.)","description":"An impudent or shameless person."},{"word":"Brazenfaced","type":"(a.)","description":"Impudent; shameless."},{"word":"Brazenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a bold, impudent manner."},{"word":"Brazenness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being brazen."},{"word":"Brazier","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Brasier."},{"word":"Braziletto","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brazil wood."},{"word":"Brazilian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Brazil."},{"word":"Brazilian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Brazil."},{"word":"Brazilin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies."},{"word":"Brazil","type":"()","description":"An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut."},{"word":"Brazil","type":"()","description":"The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America."},{"word":"Brazil","type":"()","description":"A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An inferior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breaking, in a figurative sense."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(n.)","description":"A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(n.)","description":"A bruise; a wound."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(n.)","description":"A hernia; a rupture."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaking out upon; an assault."},{"word":"Breached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Breach"},{"word":"Breaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Breach"},{"word":"Breach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city."},{"word":"Breach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale."},{"word":"Breachy","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle."},{"word":"Bread","type":"(a.)","description":"To spread."},{"word":"Bread","type":"(n.)","description":"An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking."},{"word":"Bread","type":"(n.)","description":"Food; sustenance; support of life, in general."},{"word":"Bread","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets."},{"word":"Breadbasket","type":"(n.)","description":"The stomach."},{"word":"Breadcorn","type":"()","description":"Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc."},{"word":"Breaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Braided"},{"word":"Breaden","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of bread."},{"word":"Breadfruit","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name."},{"word":"Breadfruit","type":"(n.)","description":"The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree."},{"word":"Breadless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without bread; destitute of food."},{"word":"Breadroot","type":"(n.)","description":"The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food."},{"word":"Breadstuff","type":"(n.)","description":"Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made."},{"word":"Breadth","type":"(a.)","description":"Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width."},{"word":"Breadthless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without breadth."},{"word":"Breadthways","type":"(ads.)","description":"Breadthwise."},{"word":"Breadthwise","type":"(ads.)","description":"In the direction of the breadth."},{"word":"Breadthwinner","type":"(n.)","description":"The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living."},{"word":"broke","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Break"},{"word":"Brake","type":"()","description":"of Break"},{"word":"Broken","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Break"},{"word":"Broke","type":"()","description":"of Break"},{"word":"Breaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Break"},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst forth violently, as a storm."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in business; to become bankrupt."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall out; to terminate friendship."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An opening made by fracture or disruption."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A projection or recess from the face of a building."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind."},{"word":"Break","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10."},{"word":"Break","type":"(n.)","description":"See Commutator."},{"word":"Breakable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being broken."},{"word":"Breakage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken."},{"word":"Breakage","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use."},{"word":"Breakbone","type":"()","description":"See Dengue."},{"word":"Break-circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit."},{"word":"Breakdown","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall."},{"word":"Breakdown","type":"(n.)","description":"A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down."},{"word":"Breakdown","type":"(n.)","description":"Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time."},{"word":"Breaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, breaks."},{"word":"Breaker","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed."},{"word":"Breaker","type":"(n.)","description":"A small water cask."},{"word":"Breaker","type":"(n.)","description":"A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface."},{"word":"Breakfast","type":"(n.)","description":"The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal."},{"word":"Breakfast","type":"(n.)","description":"A meal after fasting, or food in general."},{"word":"breakfasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Breakfast"},{"word":"Breakfasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Breakfast"},{"word":"Breakfast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day."},{"word":"Breakfast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with breakfast."},{"word":"Breakman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brakeman."},{"word":"Breakneck","type":"(n.)","description":"A fall that breaks the neck."},{"word":"Breakneck","type":"(n.)","description":"A steep place endangering the neck."},{"word":"Breakneck","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed."},{"word":"Break-up","type":"(n.)","description":"Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government."},{"word":"Breakwater","type":"(n.)","description":"Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence."},{"word":"Bream","type":"(n.)","description":"A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known."},{"word":"Bream","type":"(n.)","description":"An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish."},{"word":"Bream","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream."},{"word":"Breamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bream"},{"word":"Breaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bream"},{"word":"Bream","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping."},{"word":"Breast","type":"(n.)","description":"The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse."},{"word":"Breast","type":"(n.)","description":"Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat."},{"word":"Breast","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill."},{"word":"Breast","type":"(n.)","description":"The face of a coal working."},{"word":"Breast","type":"(n.)","description":"The front of a furnace."},{"word":"Breast","type":"(n.)","description":"The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart."},{"word":"Breast","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast."},{"word":"Breasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Breast"},{"word":"Breasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Breast"},{"word":"Breast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves."},{"word":"Breastband","type":"(n.)","description":"A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding."},{"word":"Breastbeam","type":"(n.)","description":"The front transverse beam of a locomotive."},{"word":"Breastbone","type":"(n.)","description":"The bone of the breast; the sternum."},{"word":"Breast-deep","type":"(a.)","description":"Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast."},{"word":"Breasted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat."},{"word":"Breastfast","type":"(n.)","description":"A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel."},{"word":"Breastheight","type":"(n.)","description":"The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing."},{"word":"Breast-high","type":"(a.)","description":"High as the breast."},{"word":"Breasthook","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side."},{"word":"Breasting","type":"(n.)","description":"The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel."},{"word":"Breastknot","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot of ribbons worn on the breast."},{"word":"Breastpin","type":"(n.)","description":"A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch."},{"word":"Breastplate","type":"(n.)","description":"A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor."},{"word":"Breastplate","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool."},{"word":"Breastplate","type":"(n.)","description":"A strap that runs across a horse's breast."},{"word":"Breastplate","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod."},{"word":"Breastplow","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Breastplough"},{"word":"Breastplough","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf."},{"word":"Breastrail","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc."},{"word":"Breastrope","type":"(n.)","description":"See Breastband."},{"word":"Breastsummer","type":"(n.)","description":"A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows."},{"word":"Breastwheel","type":"(n.)","description":"A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight."},{"word":"Breastwork","type":"(n.)","description":"A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material."},{"word":"Breastwork","type":"(n.)","description":"A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of respiration, and hence, life."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"Time to breathe; respite; pause."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume."},{"word":"Breath","type":"(n.)","description":"Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration."},{"word":"Breathable","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as can be breathed."},{"word":"Breathableness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being breathable."},{"word":"Breathed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Breathe"},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Breathe"},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take breath; to rest from action."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express; to manifest; to give forth."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To promote free respiration in; to exercise."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of breath; to exhaust."},{"word":"Breathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants."},{"word":"Breather","type":"(n.)","description":"One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires."},{"word":"Breather","type":"(n.)","description":"That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise."},{"word":"Breathful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Air in gentle motion."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Aspiration; secret prayer."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Exercising; promotion of respiration."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Utterance; communication or publicity by words."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Breathing place; vent."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Stop; pause; delay."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h."},{"word":"Breathing","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below."},{"word":"Breathless","type":"(a.)","description":"Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath."},{"word":"Breathless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention."},{"word":"Breathless","type":"(a.)","description":"Dead; as, a breathless body."},{"word":"Breathlessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a breathless manner."},{"word":"Breathlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being breathless or out of breath."},{"word":"Breccia","type":"(n.)","description":"A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors."},{"word":"Brecciated","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance."},{"word":"Bred","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Breed."},{"word":"Brede","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Breede"},{"word":"Breede","type":"(n.)","description":"Breadth."},{"word":"Brede","type":"(n.)","description":"A braid."},{"word":"Breech","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks."},{"word":"Breech","type":"(n.)","description":"Breeches."},{"word":"Breech","type":"(n.)","description":"The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber."},{"word":"Breech","type":"(n.)","description":"The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat."},{"word":"Breeched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Breech"},{"word":"Breeching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Breech"},{"word":"Breech","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into, or clothe with, breeches."},{"word":"Breech","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover as with breeches."},{"word":"Breech","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun."},{"word":"Breech","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whip on the breech."},{"word":"Breech","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten with breeching."},{"word":"Breechblock","type":"(n.)","description":"The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired."},{"word":"Breechcloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth worn around the breech."},{"word":"Breeches","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes."},{"word":"Breeches","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Trousers; pantaloons."},{"word":"Breeching","type":"(n.)","description":"A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech."},{"word":"Breeching","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle."},{"word":"Breeching","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged."},{"word":"Breeching","type":"(n.)","description":"The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack."},{"word":"Breechloader","type":"(n.)","description":"A firearm which receives its load at the breech."},{"word":"Breech-loading","type":"(a.)","description":"Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle."},{"word":"Breech","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Breech screw"},{"word":"Breech","type":"()","description":"A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore."},{"word":"Breech","type":"()","description":"A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim."},{"word":"Bred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Breed"},{"word":"Breeding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Breed"},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise, as any kind of stock."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce or obtain by any natural process."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have birth; to be produced or multiplied."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To raise a breed; to get progeny."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(n.)","description":"A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(n.)","description":"Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities."},{"word":"Breed","type":"(n.)","description":"A number produced at once; a brood."},{"word":"Breedbate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who breeds or originates quarrels."},{"word":"Breeder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc."},{"word":"Breeder","type":"(n.)","description":"A cause."},{"word":"Breeding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of generating or bearing."},{"word":"Breeding","type":"(n.)","description":"The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding."},{"word":"Breeding","type":"(n.)","description":"Nurture; education; formation of manners."},{"word":"Breeding","type":"(n.)","description":"Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society."},{"word":"Breeding","type":"(n.)","description":"Descent; pedigree; extraction."},{"word":"Breeze","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Breeze fly"},{"word":"Breeze","type":"(n.)","description":"A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies."},{"word":"Breeze","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind."},{"word":"Breeze","type":"(n.)","description":"An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze."},{"word":"Breeze","type":"(n.)","description":"Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal."},{"word":"Breeze","type":"(n.)","description":"Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks."},{"word":"Breeze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To blow gently."},{"word":"Breezeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Motionless; destitute of breezes."},{"word":"Breeziness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being breezy."},{"word":"Breezy","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy."},{"word":"Breezy","type":"(a.)","description":"Fresh; brisk; full of life."},{"word":"Bregma","type":"(n.)","description":"The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull."},{"word":"Bregmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the bregma."},{"word":"Brehon","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient Irish or Scotch judge."},{"word":"Breme","type":"(a.)","description":"Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel."},{"word":"Breme","type":"(a.)","description":"Famous; renowned; well known."},{"word":"Brent","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brenne"},{"word":"Brenning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brenne"},{"word":"Bren","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Alt. of Brenne"},{"word":"Brenne","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To burn."},{"word":"Bren","type":"(n.)","description":"Bran."},{"word":"Brennage","type":"(n.)","description":"A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds."},{"word":"Brenningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Burningly; ardently."},{"word":"Brent","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Brant"},{"word":"Brant","type":"(a.)","description":"Steep; high."},{"word":"Brant","type":"(a.)","description":"Smooth; unwrinkled."},{"word":"Brent","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"Burnt."},{"word":"Brent","type":"(n.)","description":"A brant. See Brant."},{"word":"Brequet","type":"()","description":"A watch-guard."},{"word":"Brere","type":"(n.)","description":"A brier."},{"word":"Brest","type":"(3d sing.pr.)","description":"for Bursteth."},{"word":"Brest","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Breast"},{"word":"Breast","type":"(n.)","description":"A torus."},{"word":"Brast","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Breste"},{"word":"Brusten","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Breste"},{"word":"Borsten","type":"()","description":"of Breste"},{"word":"Bursten","type":"()","description":"of Breste"},{"word":"Breste","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To burst."},{"word":"Brestsummer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Breastsummer."},{"word":"Bret","type":"(n.)","description":"See Birt."},{"word":"Bretful","type":"(a.)","description":"Brimful."},{"word":"Brethren","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. of Brother."},{"word":"Breton","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France."},{"word":"Breton","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican."},{"word":"Brett","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Britzska."},{"word":"Brettices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brettice"},{"word":"Brettice","type":"(n.)","description":"The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice."},{"word":"Bretwalda","type":"(n.)","description":"The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes."},{"word":"Bretzel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Pretzel."},{"word":"Breve","type":"(n.)","description":"A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service."},{"word":"Breve","type":"(n.)","description":"Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court."},{"word":"Breve","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel."},{"word":"Breve","type":"(n.)","description":"The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail."},{"word":"Brevet","type":"(n.)","description":"A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage]."},{"word":"Brevet","type":"(n.)","description":"A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer."},{"word":"Brevetted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brevet"},{"word":"Brevetting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brevet"},{"word":"Brevet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confer rank upon by brevet."},{"word":"Brevet","type":"(a.)","description":"Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission."},{"word":"Brevetcies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brevetcy"},{"word":"Brevetcy","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank or condition of a brevet officer."},{"word":"Breviaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Breviary"},{"word":"Breviary","type":"(n.)","description":"An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary."},{"word":"Breviary","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal."},{"word":"Breviate","type":"(n.)","description":"A short compend; a summary; a brief statement."},{"word":"Breviate","type":"(n.)","description":"A lawyer's brief."},{"word":"Breviate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To abbreviate."},{"word":"Breviature","type":"(n.)","description":"An abbreviature; an abbreviation."},{"word":"Brevier","type":"(n.)","description":"A size of type between bourgeois and minion."},{"word":"Breviloquence","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief and pertinent mode of speaking."},{"word":"Breviped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having short legs."},{"word":"Breviped","type":"(n.)","description":"A breviped bird."},{"word":"Brevipen","type":"(n.)","description":"A brevipennate bird."},{"word":"Brevipennate","type":"(a.)","description":"Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu."},{"word":"Brevirostral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Brevirostrate"},{"word":"Brevirostrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Short-billed; having a short beak."},{"word":"Brevities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brevity"},{"word":"Brevity","type":"(n.)","description":"Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life."},{"word":"Brevity","type":"(n.)","description":"Contraction into few words; conciseness."},{"word":"Brewed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brew"},{"word":"Brewing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brew"},{"word":"Brew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To boil or seethe; to cook."},{"word":"Brew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation."},{"word":"Brew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct."},{"word":"Brew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief."},{"word":"Brew","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer."},{"word":"Brew","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west."},{"word":"Brew","type":"(n.)","description":"The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed."},{"word":"Brewage","type":"(n.)","description":"Malt liquor; drink brewed."},{"word":"Brewer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors."},{"word":"Brewery","type":"(n.)","description":"A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on."},{"word":"Brewhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery."},{"word":"Brewing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale."},{"word":"Brewing","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity brewed at once."},{"word":"Brewing","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixing together."},{"word":"Brewing","type":"(n.)","description":"A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds."},{"word":"Brewis","type":"(n.)","description":"Broth or pottage."},{"word":"Brewis","type":"(n.)","description":"Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter."},{"word":"Brewsterite","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia."},{"word":"Brezilin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brazilin."},{"word":"Briar","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Brier."},{"word":"Briarean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed."},{"word":"Bribable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being bribed."},{"word":"Bribe","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift begged; a present."},{"word":"Bribe","type":"(n.)","description":"A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust."},{"word":"Bribe","type":"(n.)","description":"That which seduces; seduction; allurement."},{"word":"Bribed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bribe"},{"word":"Bribing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bribe"},{"word":"Bribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rob or steal."},{"word":"Bribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to."},{"word":"Bribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe."},{"word":"Bribe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To commit robbery or theft."},{"word":"Bribe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise."},{"word":"Bribeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes."},{"word":"Briber","type":"(n.)","description":"A thief."},{"word":"Briber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices."},{"word":"Briber","type":"(n.)","description":"That which bribes; a bribe."},{"word":"Briberies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bribery"},{"word":"Bribery","type":"(n.)","description":"Robbery; extortion."},{"word":"Bribery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements."},{"word":"Bric-a","type":"(n.)","description":"Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively."},{"word":"Brick","type":"(n.)","description":"A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp."},{"word":"Brick","type":"(n.)","description":"Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick."},{"word":"Brick","type":"(n.)","description":"Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread)."},{"word":"Brick","type":"(n.)","description":"A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick."},{"word":"Bricked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brick"},{"word":"Bricking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brick"},{"word":"Brick","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks."},{"word":"Brick","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them."},{"word":"Brickbat","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4."},{"word":"Brickkiln","type":"(n.)","description":"A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them."},{"word":"Bricklayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to build with bricks."},{"word":"Bricklaying","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks."},{"word":"Brickle","type":"(a.)","description":"Brittle; easily broken."},{"word":"Brickleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Brittleness."},{"word":"Brickmaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to make bricks."},{"word":"Brickwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything made of bricks."},{"word":"Brickwork","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of building with or laying bricks."},{"word":"Bricky","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust."},{"word":"Brickyard","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place."},{"word":"Bricole","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used."},{"word":"Brid","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird."},{"word":"Bridal","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber."},{"word":"Bridal","type":"(n.)","description":"A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage."},{"word":"Bridalty","type":"(n.)","description":"Celebration of the nuptial feast."},{"word":"Bride","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman newly married, or about to be married."},{"word":"Bride","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: An object ardently loved."},{"word":"Bride","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a bride of."},{"word":"Bride-ale","type":"(n.)","description":"A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale."},{"word":"Bridebed","type":"(n.)","description":"The marriage bed."},{"word":"Bridecake","type":"(n.)","description":"Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding."},{"word":"Bridechamber","type":"(n.)","description":"The nuptial apartment."},{"word":"Bridegroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A man newly married, or just about to be married."},{"word":"Brideknot","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor."},{"word":"Bridemaid","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brideman"},{"word":"Brideman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bridesmaid, Bridesman."},{"word":"Bridesmaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding."},{"word":"Bridesmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bridesman"},{"word":"Bridesman","type":"(n.)","description":"A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the \"best man.\""},{"word":"Bridestake","type":"(n.)","description":"A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round."},{"word":"Bridewell","type":"(n.)","description":"A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse."},{"word":"Bridge","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other."},{"word":"Bridge","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed."},{"word":"Bridge","type":"(n.)","description":"The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument."},{"word":"Bridge","type":"(n.)","description":"A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit."},{"word":"Bridge","type":"(n.)","description":"A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall."},{"word":"Bridged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bridge"},{"word":"Bridging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bridge"},{"word":"Bridge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river."},{"word":"Bridge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To open or make a passage, as by a bridge."},{"word":"Bridge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over."},{"word":"Bridgeboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened."},{"word":"Bridgeboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board or plank used as a bridge."},{"word":"Bridgehead","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont."},{"word":"Bridgeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no bridge; not bridged."},{"word":"Bridgepot","type":"(n.)","description":"The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle."},{"word":"Bridgetree","type":"(n.)","description":"The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill."},{"word":"Bridge-ward","type":"(n.)","description":"A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge."},{"word":"Bridge-ward","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal ward of a key."},{"word":"Bridgeing","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight."},{"word":"Bridgey","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of bridges."},{"word":"Bridle","type":"(n.)","description":"The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages."},{"word":"Bridle","type":"(n.)","description":"A restraint; a curb; a check."},{"word":"Bridle","type":"(n.)","description":"The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc."},{"word":"Bridle","type":"(n.)","description":"A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle."},{"word":"Bridle","type":"(n.)","description":"A mooring hawser."},{"word":"Bridled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bridle"},{"word":"Bridling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bridle"},{"word":"Bridle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse."},{"word":"Bridle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse."},{"word":"Bridle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up."},{"word":"Bridle","type":"()","description":"A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger."},{"word":"Bridler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle."},{"word":"Bridoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(a.)","description":"Short in duration."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(a.)","description":"Concise; terse; succinct."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(a.)","description":"Rife; common; prevalent."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(adv.)","description":"Briefly."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(adv.)","description":"Soon; quickly."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(a.)","description":"A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(a.)","description":"An epitome."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(a.)","description":"An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(a.)","description":"A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(n.)","description":"A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose."},{"word":"Brief","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings."},{"word":"Briefless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister."},{"word":"Briefly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Concisely; in few words."},{"word":"Briefman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a brief."},{"word":"Briefman","type":"(n.)","description":"A copier of a manuscript."},{"word":"Briefness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing."},{"word":"Brier","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Briar"},{"word":"Briar","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax."},{"word":"Briar","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings."},{"word":"Briered","type":"(a.)","description":"Set with briers."},{"word":"Briery","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of briers; thorny."},{"word":"Briery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where briers grow."},{"word":"Brig","type":"(n.)","description":"A bridge."},{"word":"Brig","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-masted, square-rigged vessel."},{"word":"Brigade","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general."},{"word":"Brigade","type":"(n.)","description":"Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade."},{"word":"Brigaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brigade"},{"word":"Brigading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brigade"},{"word":"Brigade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a brigade, or into brigades."},{"word":"Brigadier","type":"()","description":"An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier."},{"word":"Brigand","type":"(n.)","description":"A light-armed, irregular foot soldier."},{"word":"Brigand","type":"(n.)","description":"A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter."},{"word":"Brigandage","type":"(n.)","description":"Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder."},{"word":"Brigandine","type":"(n.)","description":"A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages."},{"word":"Brigandish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike."},{"word":"Brigandism","type":"(n.)","description":"Brigandage."},{"word":"Brigantine","type":"(n.)","description":"A practical vessel."},{"word":"Brigantine","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail."},{"word":"Brigantine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brigandine."},{"word":"Brigge","type":"(n.)","description":"A bridge."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Brite, v. i."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(a.)","description":"Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(a.)","description":"Transmitting light; clear; transparent."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(a.)","description":"Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(a.)","description":"Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(a.)","description":"Illustrious; glorious."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(a.)","description":"Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(a.)","description":"Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(n.)","description":"Splendor; brightness."},{"word":"Bright","type":"(adv.)","description":"Brightly."},{"word":"Brightened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brighten"},{"word":"Brightening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brighten"},{"word":"Brighten","type":"(a.)","description":"To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to."},{"word":"Brighten","type":"(a.)","description":"To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to."},{"word":"Brighten","type":"(a.)","description":"To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects."},{"word":"Brighten","type":"(a.)","description":"To make acute or witty; to enliven."},{"word":"Brighten","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful."},{"word":"Bright-harnessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having glittering armor."},{"word":"Brightly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor."},{"word":"Brightly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With lively intelligence; intelligently."},{"word":"Brightness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness."},{"word":"Brightness","type":"(n.)","description":"Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit."},{"word":"Bright's","type":"()","description":"An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process."},{"word":"Brightsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant."},{"word":"Brigose","type":"(n.)","description":"Contentious; quarrelsome."},{"word":"Brigue","type":"(n.)","description":"A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel."},{"word":"Brigue","type":"(n.)","description":"To contend for; to canvass; to solicit."},{"word":"Brike","type":"(n.)","description":"A breach; ruin; downfall; peril."},{"word":"Brill","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret."},{"word":"Brillante","type":"(a.)","description":"In a gay, showy, and sparkling style."},{"word":"Brillance","type":"(n.)","description":"Brilliancy."},{"word":"Brillancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense."},{"word":"Brilliant","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star."},{"word":"Brilliant","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents."},{"word":"Brilliant","type":"(a.)","description":"A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below."},{"word":"Brilliant","type":"(a.)","description":"The smallest size of type used in England printing."},{"word":"Brilliant","type":"(a.)","description":"A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving."},{"word":"Brilliantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a brilliant manner."},{"word":"Brilliantness","type":"(n.)","description":"Brilliancy; splendor; glitter."},{"word":"Brills","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The hair on the eyelids of a horse."},{"word":"Brim","type":"(n.)","description":"The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything."},{"word":"Brim","type":"(n.)","description":"The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border."},{"word":"Brim","type":"(n.)","description":"The rim of a hat."},{"word":"Brimmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brim"},{"word":"Brimming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brim"},{"word":"Brim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be full to the brim."},{"word":"Brim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top."},{"word":"Brim","type":"(a.)","description":"Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme."},{"word":"Brimful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow."},{"word":"Brimless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no brim; as, brimless caps."},{"word":"Brimmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a brim; -- usually in composition."},{"word":"Brimmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Full to, or level with, the brim."},{"word":"Brimmer","type":"(n.)","description":"A brimful bowl; a bumper."},{"word":"Brimming","type":"(a.)","description":"Full to the brim; overflowing."},{"word":"Brimstone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Sulphur; See Sulphur."},{"word":"Brimstone","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches."},{"word":"Brimstony","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous."},{"word":"Brin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches."},{"word":"Brinded","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled."},{"word":"Brindle","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being brindled."},{"word":"Brindle","type":"(n.)","description":"A brindled color; also, that which is brindled."},{"word":"Brindle","type":"(a.)","description":"Brindled."},{"word":"Brindled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded."},{"word":"Brine","type":"(n.)","description":"Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters."},{"word":"Brine","type":"(n.)","description":"The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake."},{"word":"Brine","type":"(n.)","description":"Tears; -- so called from their saltness."},{"word":"Brine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steep or saturate in brine."},{"word":"Brine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay."},{"word":"Brought","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bring"},{"word":"Bringing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bring"},{"word":"Bring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch."},{"word":"Bring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to."},{"word":"Bring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey; to move; to carry or conduct."},{"word":"Bring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide."},{"word":"Bring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?"},{"word":"Bringer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who brings."},{"word":"Brininess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness."},{"word":"Brinish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish."},{"word":"Brinishness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being brinish."},{"word":"Brinjaree","type":"(n.)","description":"A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound."},{"word":"Brink","type":"(n.)","description":"The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig."},{"word":"Briny","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood."},{"word":"Briony","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bryony."},{"word":"Brisk","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick."},{"word":"Brisk","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider."},{"word":"Bricked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brisk"},{"word":"Bricking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brisk"},{"word":"Brisk","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up."},{"word":"Brisket","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest."},{"word":"Briskly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a brisk manner; nimbly."},{"word":"Briskness","type":"(n.)","description":"Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence."},{"word":"Bristle","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine."},{"word":"Bristle","type":"(n.)","description":"A stiff, sharp, roundish hair."},{"word":"Bristled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bristle"},{"word":"Bristling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bristle"},{"word":"Bristle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up."},{"word":"Bristle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread."},{"word":"Bristle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise or stand erect, like bristles."},{"word":"Bristle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles."},{"word":"Bristle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To show defiance or indignation."},{"word":"Bristle-pointed","type":"(a.)","description":"Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves."},{"word":"Bristle-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf."},{"word":"Bristletail","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura."},{"word":"Bristliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of having bristles."},{"word":"Bristly","type":"(a.)","description":"Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough."},{"word":"Bristol","type":"(n.)","description":"A seaport city in the west of England."},{"word":"Brisure","type":"(n.)","description":"Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction."},{"word":"Brisure","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark of cadency or difference."},{"word":"Brit","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Britt"},{"word":"Britt","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat."},{"word":"Britt","type":"(n.)","description":"The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed."},{"word":"Britannia","type":"(n.)","description":"A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal."},{"word":"Britannic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty."},{"word":"Brite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Bright"},{"word":"Bright","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops."},{"word":"Briticism","type":"(n.)","description":"A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain."},{"word":"British","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants."},{"word":"British","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"People of Great Britain."},{"word":"Britisher","type":"(n.)","description":"An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service."},{"word":"Briton","type":"(a.)","description":"British."},{"word":"Briton","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Great Britain."},{"word":"Brittle","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious."},{"word":"Brittlely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a brittle manner."},{"word":"Brittleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Aptness to break; fragility."},{"word":"Brittle","type":"()","description":"Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea."},{"word":"Britzska","type":"(n.)","description":"A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey."},{"word":"Brize","type":"(n.)","description":"The breeze fly. See Breeze."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"A spit."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad chisel for stonecutting."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"A spire rising from a tower."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key."},{"word":"Broached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Broach"},{"word":"Broaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Broach"},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"To spit; to pierce as with a spit."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"To open for the first time, as stores."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause to begin or break out."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool."},{"word":"Broach","type":"(n.)","description":"To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach."},{"word":"Broacher","type":"(n.)","description":"A spit; a broach."},{"word":"Broacher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Plain; evident; as, a broad hint."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free; unrestrained; unconfined."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Characterized by breadth. See Breadth."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(n.)","description":"The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(n.)","description":"The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen."},{"word":"Broad","type":"(n.)","description":"A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders."},{"word":"Broadax","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax."},{"word":"Broadax","type":"(n.)","description":"An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber."},{"word":"Broadbill","type":"(n.)","description":"A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck."},{"word":"Broadbill","type":"(n.)","description":"The shoveler. See Shoveler."},{"word":"Broadbrim","type":"(n.)","description":"A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends."},{"word":"Broadbrim","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the society of Friends; a Quaker."},{"word":"Broad-brimmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a broad brim."},{"word":"Broadcast","type":"(n.)","description":"A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing."},{"word":"Broadcast","type":"(a.)","description":"Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused."},{"word":"Broadcast","type":"(a.)","description":"Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows."},{"word":"Broadcast","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press."},{"word":"Broad","type":"()","description":"A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship."},{"word":"Broadcloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide."},{"word":"Broadened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Broaden"},{"word":"Broadening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Broaden"},{"word":"Broaden","type":"(a.)","description":"To grow broad; to become broader or wider."},{"word":"Broaden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive."},{"word":"Broad","type":"()","description":"A wider distance between the rails than the \"standard\" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge."},{"word":"Broad-horned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having horns spreading widely."},{"word":"Broadish","type":"(a.)","description":"Rather broad; moderately broad."},{"word":"Broadleaf","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit."},{"word":"Broad-leaved","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Broad-leafed"},{"word":"Broad-leafed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves."},{"word":"Broadly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a broad manner."},{"word":"Broadmouth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds."},{"word":"Broadness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness."},{"word":"Broadpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus."},{"word":"Broad","type":"()","description":"The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state."},{"word":"Broadseal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant."},{"word":"Broadside","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter."},{"word":"Broadside","type":"(n.)","description":"A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time."},{"word":"Broadside","type":"(n.)","description":"A volley of abuse or denunciation."},{"word":"Broadside","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet."},{"word":"Broadspread","type":"(a.)","description":"Widespread."},{"word":"Broadspreading","type":"(a.)","description":"Spreading widely."},{"word":"Broadsword","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore."},{"word":"Broadwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Breadthwise."},{"word":"Brob","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping."},{"word":"Brobdingnagian","type":"(a.)","description":"Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic."},{"word":"Brobdingnagian","type":"(n.)","description":"A giant."},{"word":"Brocade","type":"(n.)","description":"Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched."},{"word":"Brocaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc."},{"word":"Brocaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Dressed in brocade."},{"word":"Brocage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brokkerage."},{"word":"Brocard","type":"(n.)","description":"An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics."},{"word":"Brocatel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc."},{"word":"Brocatel","type":"(n.)","description":"A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality."},{"word":"Brocatello","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Brocatel."},{"word":"Broccoli","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The \"curd,\" or flowering head, is the part used for food."},{"word":"Brochantite","type":"(n.)","description":"A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals."},{"word":"Broche","type":"(a.)","description":"Woven with a figure; as, broche goods."},{"word":"Broche","type":"(n.)","description":"See Broach, n."},{"word":"Brochure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet."},{"word":"Brock","type":"(n.)","description":"A badger."},{"word":"Brock","type":"(n.)","description":"A brocket."},{"word":"Brocket","type":"(n.)","description":"A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock."},{"word":"Brocket","type":"(n.)","description":"A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus)."},{"word":"Brockish","type":"(a.)","description":"Beastly; brutal."},{"word":"Brodekin","type":"(n.)","description":"A buskin or half-boot."},{"word":"Brog","type":"(n.)","description":"A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick."},{"word":"Brog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle."},{"word":"Brogan","type":"(n.)","description":"A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue."},{"word":"Broggle","type":"(n.)","description":"To sniggle, or fish with a brog."},{"word":"Brogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan."},{"word":"Brogue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English."},{"word":"Brogues","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Breeches."},{"word":"Broid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To braid."},{"word":"Broidered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Broider"},{"word":"Broider","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embroider."},{"word":"Broiderer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embroiders."},{"word":"Broidery","type":"(n.)","description":"Embroidery."},{"word":"Broil","type":"(n.)","description":"A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state."},{"word":"Broiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Broil"},{"word":"Broiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Broil"},{"word":"Broil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals."},{"word":"Broil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to great (commonly direct) heat."},{"word":"Broil","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat."},{"word":"Broiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels."},{"word":"Broiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who broils, or cooks by broiling."},{"word":"Broiler","type":"(n.)","description":"A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling."},{"word":"Broiler","type":"(n.)","description":"A chicken or other bird fit for broiling."},{"word":"Broiling","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun."},{"word":"Broiling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of causing anything to broil."},{"word":"Brokage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Brokerage."},{"word":"Broke","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To transact business for another."},{"word":"Broke","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp."},{"word":"Broke","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Break."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Subdued; humbled; contrite."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman."},{"word":"Broken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting."},{"word":"Broken-backed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair."},{"word":"Broken-backed","type":"(a.)","description":"Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship."},{"word":"Broken-bellied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a ruptured belly."},{"word":"Broken-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair."},{"word":"Brokenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language."},{"word":"Brokenness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being broken; unevenness."},{"word":"Brokenness","type":"(n.)","description":"Contrition; as, brokenness of heart."},{"word":"Broken","type":"()","description":"The heaves."},{"word":"Broken-winded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse."},{"word":"Broker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who transacts business for another; an agent."},{"word":"Broker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own."},{"word":"Broker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc."},{"word":"Broker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A dealer in secondhand goods."},{"word":"Broker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A pimp or procurer."},{"word":"Brokerage","type":"(n.)","description":"The business or employment of a broker."},{"word":"Brokerage","type":"(n.)","description":"The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker."},{"word":"Brokerly","type":"(a.)","description":"Mean; servile."},{"word":"Brokery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a broker."},{"word":"Broking","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage."},{"word":"Broma","type":"(n.)","description":"Aliment; food."},{"word":"Broma","type":"(n.)","description":"A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it."},{"word":"Bromal","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol."},{"word":"Bromate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of bromic acid."},{"word":"Bromate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor."},{"word":"Bromatologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the science of foods."},{"word":"Bromatology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of aliments."},{"word":"Brome","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bromine."},{"word":"Brome","type":"()","description":"A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat."},{"word":"Bromeliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family."},{"word":"Bromic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid."},{"word":"Bromide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of bromine with a positive radical."},{"word":"Brominate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Bromate, v. t."},{"word":"Bromine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite."},{"word":"Bromism","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness."},{"word":"Bromize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate."},{"word":"Bromlife","type":"(n.)","description":"A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite."},{"word":"Bromoform","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects."},{"word":"Brompicrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin."},{"word":"Bromuret","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bromide."},{"word":"Bromyrite","type":"(n.)","description":"Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite."},{"word":"Bronchi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Bronchus."},{"word":"Bronchia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi."},{"word":"Bronchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs."},{"word":"Bronchic","type":"(a.)","description":"Bronchial."},{"word":"Bronchiole","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute bronchial tube."},{"word":"Bronchitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation."},{"word":"Bronchitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them."},{"word":"Broncho","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or a Mexican horse of small size."},{"word":"Bronchocele","type":"(n.)","description":"See Goiter."},{"word":"Bronchophony","type":"(n.)","description":"A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease."},{"word":"Broncho-pneumonia","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia."},{"word":"Bronchotome","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes."},{"word":"Bronchotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy."},{"word":"Bronchi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bronchus"},{"word":"Bronchus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions."},{"word":"Bronco","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Broncho."},{"word":"Brond","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword."},{"word":"Brontolite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Brontolith"},{"word":"Brontolith","type":"(n.)","description":"An aerolite."},{"word":"Brontology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise upon thunder."},{"word":"Brontosaurus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles."},{"word":"Brontotherium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Brontozoum","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone."},{"word":"Bronze","type":"(a.)","description":"An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal."},{"word":"Bronze","type":"(a.)","description":"A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze."},{"word":"Bronze","type":"(a.)","description":"A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze."},{"word":"Bronze","type":"(a.)","description":"Boldness; impudence; \"brass.\""},{"word":"Bronzed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bronze"},{"word":"Bronzing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bronze"},{"word":"Bronze","type":"(n.)","description":"To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals."},{"word":"Bronze","type":"(n.)","description":"To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen."},{"word":"Bronzewing","type":"(n.)","description":"An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage."},{"word":"Bronzine","type":"(n.)","description":"A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze."},{"word":"Bronzine","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike."},{"word":"Bronzing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes."},{"word":"Bronzing","type":"(n.)","description":"A material for bronzing."},{"word":"Bronzist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes."},{"word":"Bronzite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family."},{"word":"Bronzy","type":"(a.)","description":"Like bronze."},{"word":"Brooch","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat."},{"word":"Brooch","type":"(n.)","description":"A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting."},{"word":"Brooch","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"To adorn as with a brooch."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is bred or produced; breed; species."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Heavy waste in tin and copper ores."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(a.)","description":"Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(a.)","description":"Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow."},{"word":"Brooded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brood"},{"word":"Brooding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brood"},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cherish with care."},{"word":"Brood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To think anxiously or moodily upon."},{"word":"Broody","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to brood."},{"word":"Brook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek."},{"word":"Brooked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brook"},{"word":"Brooking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brook"},{"word":"Brook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use; to enjoy."},{"word":"Brook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint."},{"word":"Brook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deserve; to earn."},{"word":"Brookite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system."},{"word":"Brooklet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small brook."},{"word":"Brooklime","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana."},{"word":"Brook","type":"()","description":"See Water mint."},{"word":"Brookside","type":"(n.)","description":"The bank of a brook."},{"word":"Brookweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel."},{"word":"Broom","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers."},{"word":"Broom","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom."},{"word":"Broom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Bream."},{"word":"Broom","type":"()","description":"A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made."},{"word":"Broom","type":"()","description":"A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum."},{"word":"Broomstaff","type":"(n.)","description":"A broomstick."},{"word":"Broomstick","type":"(n.)","description":"A stick used as a handle of a broom."},{"word":"Broomy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom."},{"word":"Brose","type":"(n.)","description":"Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used."},{"word":"Brotel","type":"(a.)","description":"Brittle."},{"word":"Brotelness","type":"(n.)","description":"Brittleness."},{"word":"Broth","type":"(n.)","description":"Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup."},{"word":"Brothel","type":"(n.)","description":"A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse."},{"word":"Brotheler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frequents brothels."},{"word":"Brothelry","type":"(n.)","description":"Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel."},{"word":"Brothers","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brother"},{"word":"Brethren","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brother"},{"word":"Brothers","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brother"},{"word":"Brethren","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brother"},{"word":"Brother","type":"(n.)","description":"A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood."},{"word":"Brother","type":"(n.)","description":"One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc."},{"word":"Brother","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character."},{"word":"Brothered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brother"},{"word":"Brother","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood."},{"word":"Brother","type":"()","description":"A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only."},{"word":"Brotherhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being brothers or a brother."},{"word":"Brotherhood","type":"(n.)","description":"An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity."},{"word":"Brotherhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood."},{"word":"Brotherhood","type":"(n.)","description":"Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind."},{"word":"Brothers-in-law","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brother-in-law"},{"word":"Brother-in-law","type":"(n.)","description":"The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister."},{"word":"Brotherliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being brotherly."},{"word":"Brotherly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love."},{"word":"Brotherly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Like a brother; affectionately; kindly."},{"word":"Brouded","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Braided; broidered."},{"word":"Brougham","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short."},{"word":"Brow","type":"(n.)","description":"The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit."},{"word":"Brow","type":"(n.)","description":"The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow."},{"word":"Brow","type":"(n.)","description":"The forehead; as, a feverish brow."},{"word":"Brow","type":"(n.)","description":"The general air of the countenance."},{"word":"Brow","type":"(n.)","description":"The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill."},{"word":"Brow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of."},{"word":"Browbeat","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Browbeat"},{"word":"Browbeaten","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Browbeat"},{"word":"Browbeating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Browbeat"},{"word":"Browbeat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses."},{"word":"Browbeating","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions."},{"word":"Browbound","type":"(a.)","description":"Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem."},{"word":"Browdyng","type":"(n.)","description":"Embroidery."},{"word":"Browed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed."},{"word":"Browless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without shame."},{"word":"Brown","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow."},{"word":"Brown","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue."},{"word":"Browned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brown"},{"word":"Browning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brown"},{"word":"Brown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make brown or dusky."},{"word":"Brown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour."},{"word":"Brown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface."},{"word":"Brown","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become brown."},{"word":"Brownback","type":"(n.)","description":"The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher."},{"word":"Brown","type":"()","description":"A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill."},{"word":"Brownian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below."},{"word":"Brownie","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping."},{"word":"Browning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc."},{"word":"Browning","type":"(n.)","description":"A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster."},{"word":"Brownish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat brown."},{"word":"Brownism","type":"(n.)","description":"The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists."},{"word":"Brownism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian."},{"word":"Brownist","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers."},{"word":"Brownist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine."},{"word":"Brownness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being brown."},{"word":"Brownstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes."},{"word":"Brown","type":"()","description":"A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher."},{"word":"Brownwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers."},{"word":"Browny","type":"(a.)","description":"Brown or, somewhat brown."},{"word":"Browpost","type":"(n.)","description":"A beam that goes across a building."},{"word":"Browse","type":"(n.)","description":"The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food."},{"word":"Browsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Browse"},{"word":"Browsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Browse"},{"word":"Browse","type":"(n.)","description":"To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals."},{"word":"Browse","type":"(n.)","description":"To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze."},{"word":"Browse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer."},{"word":"Browse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pasture; to feed; to nibble."},{"word":"Browser","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal that browses."},{"word":"Browsewood","type":"(n.)","description":"Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse."},{"word":"Browsing","type":"(n.)","description":"Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse."},{"word":"Browspot","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland."},{"word":"Bruang","type":"(n.)","description":"The Malayan sun bear."},{"word":"Brucine","type":"(n.)","description":"A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina."},{"word":"Brucite","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate."},{"word":"Brucite","type":"(n.)","description":"The mineral chondrodite."},{"word":"Bruckeled","type":"(a.)","description":"Wet and dirty; begrimed."},{"word":"Bruh","type":"(n.)","description":"The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus."},{"word":"Bruin","type":"(a.)","description":"A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables."},{"word":"Bruised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bruise"},{"word":"Bruising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bruise"},{"word":"Bruise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall."},{"word":"Bruise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush."},{"word":"Bruise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fight with the fists; to box."},{"word":"Bruise","type":"(n.)","description":"An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit."},{"word":"Bruiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, bruises."},{"word":"Bruiser","type":"(n.)","description":"A boxer; a pugilist."},{"word":"Bruiser","type":"(n.)","description":"A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes."},{"word":"Bruisewort","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey."},{"word":"Bruit","type":"(n.)","description":"Report; rumor; fame."},{"word":"Bruit","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation."},{"word":"Bruited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bruit"},{"word":"Bruiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bruit"},{"word":"Bruit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To report; to noise abroad."},{"word":"Brumaire","type":"(n.)","description":"The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire."},{"word":"Brumal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to winter."},{"word":"Brume","type":"(n.)","description":"Mist; fog; vapors."},{"word":"Brummagem","type":"(a.)","description":"Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham."},{"word":"Brumous","type":"(a.)","description":"Foggy; misty."},{"word":"Brun","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Brun, a brook."},{"word":"Brunette","type":"(a.)","description":"A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion."},{"word":"Brunette","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a dark tint."},{"word":"Brunion","type":"(n.)","description":"A nectarine."},{"word":"Brunonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation."},{"word":"Brunswick","type":"()","description":"See Japan black."},{"word":"Brunswick","type":"()","description":"An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed."},{"word":"Brunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle."},{"word":"Brunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The force of a blow; shock; collision."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"The bushy tail of a fox."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft of hair on the mandibles."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"A short contest, or trial, of speed."},{"word":"Brushed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brush"},{"word":"Brushing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brush"},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(n.)","description":"To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off."},{"word":"Brush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by."},{"word":"Brusher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, brushes."},{"word":"Brushiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess."},{"word":"Brushing","type":"(a.)","description":"Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine."},{"word":"Brushing","type":"(a.)","description":"Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop."},{"word":"Brushite","type":"(n.)","description":"A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium."},{"word":"Brush","type":"()","description":"A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea."},{"word":"Brush","type":"()","description":"A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference."},{"word":"Brush","type":"()","description":"A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing."},{"word":"Brushwood","type":"(n.)","description":"Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs."},{"word":"Brushwood","type":"(n.)","description":"Small branches of trees cut off."},{"word":"Brushy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough."},{"word":"Brusk","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Brusque."},{"word":"Brusque","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style."},{"word":"Brusqueness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness."},{"word":"Brussels","type":"(n.)","description":"A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc."},{"word":"Brustled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brustle"},{"word":"Brustling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brustle"},{"word":"Brustle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment."},{"word":"Brustle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle."},{"word":"Brustle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bristle."},{"word":"Brut","type":"(n.)","description":"To browse."},{"word":"Brut","type":"(n.)","description":"See Birt."},{"word":"Bruta","type":"(n.)","description":"See Edentata."},{"word":"Brutal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature."},{"word":"Brutal","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners."},{"word":"Brutalism","type":"(n.)","description":"Brutish quality; brutality."},{"word":"Brutalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Brutality"},{"word":"Brutality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness."},{"word":"Brutality","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhuman act."},{"word":"Brutalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized."},{"word":"Brutalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brutalize"},{"word":"Brutalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brutalize"},{"word":"Brutalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman."},{"word":"Brutalize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty."},{"word":"Brutally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a brutal manner; cruelly."},{"word":"Brute","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature."},{"word":"Brute","type":"(a.)","description":"Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation."},{"word":"Brute","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence."},{"word":"Brute","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent."},{"word":"Brute","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling."},{"word":"Brute","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast."},{"word":"Brute","type":"(n.)","description":"A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person."},{"word":"Brute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To report; to bruit."},{"word":"Brutely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a rude or violent manner."},{"word":"Bruteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Brutality."},{"word":"Bruteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Insensibility."},{"word":"Brutified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Brutify"},{"word":"Brutifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Brutify"},{"word":"Brutify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize."},{"word":"Brutish","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent."},{"word":"Brutism","type":"(n.)","description":"The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity."},{"word":"Bruting","type":"(n.)","description":"Browsing."},{"word":"Bryological","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies."},{"word":"Bryologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in bryology."},{"word":"Bryology","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of botany which relates to mosses."},{"word":"Bryonin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic."},{"word":"Bryony","type":"(n.)","description":"The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic."},{"word":"Bryophyta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Cryptogamia."},{"word":"Bryozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa."},{"word":"Bryozoan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa."},{"word":"Bryozoan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Bryozoa."},{"word":"Bryozoum","type":"(n.)","description":"An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.)."},{"word":"Buansuah","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog."},{"word":"Buat","type":"(n.)","description":"A lantern; also, the moon."},{"word":"Bub","type":"(n.)","description":"Strong malt liquor."},{"word":"Bub","type":"(n.)","description":"A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy."},{"word":"Bub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out in bubbles; to bubble."},{"word":"Bubale","type":"(n.)","description":"A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible."},{"word":"Bubaline","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a buffalo."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"A person deceived by an empty project; a gull."},{"word":"Bubbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bubble"},{"word":"Bubbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bubble"},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound."},{"word":"Bubbler","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat; to deceive."},{"word":"Bubbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cheats."},{"word":"Bubbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes."},{"word":"Bubble","type":"()","description":"A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata."},{"word":"Bubbling","type":"()","description":"The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes."},{"word":"Bubbly","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in bubbles; bubbling."},{"word":"Bubby","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman's breast."},{"word":"Bubby","type":"(n.)","description":"Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy."},{"word":"Buboes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bubo"},{"word":"Bubo","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis."},{"word":"Bubonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes."},{"word":"Bubonocele","type":"(n.)","description":"An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo."},{"word":"Bubukle","type":"(n.)","description":"A red pimple."},{"word":"Buccal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks."},{"word":"Buccaneer","type":"(n.)","description":"A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries."},{"word":"Buccaneer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber."},{"word":"Buccaneerish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a buccaneer; piratical."},{"word":"Buccinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike."},{"word":"Buccinator","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments."},{"word":"Buccinoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata."},{"word":"Buccinum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum)."},{"word":"Bucentaur","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous monster, half ox, half man."},{"word":"Bucentaur","type":"(n.)","description":"The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic."},{"word":"Buceros","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills."},{"word":"Bucholzite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fibrolite."},{"word":"Buchu","type":"(n.)","description":"A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(n.)","description":"Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(n.)","description":"The cloth or clothes soaked or washed."},{"word":"Bucked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Buck"},{"word":"Bucking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Buck"},{"word":"Buck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break up or pulverize, as ores."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(n.)","description":"A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(n.)","description":"A male Indian or negro."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To copulate, as bucks and does."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck."},{"word":"Buck","type":"(n.)","description":"The beech tree."},{"word":"Buck-basket","type":"(n.)","description":"A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash."},{"word":"Buck","type":"()","description":"A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean."},{"word":"Buckboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon."},{"word":"Bucker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bucks ore."},{"word":"Bucker","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore."},{"word":"Bucker","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse or mule that bucks."},{"word":"Bucket","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids."},{"word":"Bucket","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc."},{"word":"Bucket","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel."},{"word":"Bucket","type":"(n.)","description":"The valved piston of a lifting pump."},{"word":"Bucket","type":"()","description":"An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc."},{"word":"Buckety","type":"(n.)","description":"Paste used by weavers to dress their webs."},{"word":"Buckeye","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut."},{"word":"Buckeye","type":"(n.)","description":"A cant name for a native in Ohio."},{"word":"Buck-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having bad or speckled eyes."},{"word":"Buckhound","type":"(n.)","description":"A hound for hunting deer."},{"word":"Buckie","type":"(n.)","description":"A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum."},{"word":"Bucking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used."},{"word":"Bucking","type":"(n.)","description":"A washing."},{"word":"Bucking","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores."},{"word":"Buckish","type":"(a.)","description":"Dandified; foppish."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(n.)","description":"A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(n.)","description":"A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(n.)","description":"A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(n.)","description":"A contorted expression, as of the face."},{"word":"Buckled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Buckle"},{"word":"Buckling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Buckle"},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(n.)","description":"To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(n.)","description":"To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(n.)","description":"To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(n.)","description":"To join in marriage."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield; to give way; to cease opposing."},{"word":"Buckle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend."},{"word":"Buckler","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body."},{"word":"Buckler","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes."},{"word":"Buckler","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites."},{"word":"Buckler","type":"(n.)","description":"A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches."},{"word":"Buckler","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shield; to defend."},{"word":"Buckler-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a head like a buckler."},{"word":"Buckling","type":"(a.)","description":"Wavy; curling, as hair."},{"word":"Buckra","type":"(n.)","description":"A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc."},{"word":"Buckra","type":"(a.)","description":"White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam."},{"word":"Buckram","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise."},{"word":"Buckram","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant. See Ramson."},{"word":"Buckram","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit."},{"word":"Buckram","type":"(a.)","description":"Stiff; precise."},{"word":"Buckram","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff."},{"word":"Buck's-horn","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia."},{"word":"Buckshot","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game."},{"word":"Buckskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of a buck."},{"word":"Buckskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin."},{"word":"Buckskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war."},{"word":"Buckskin","type":"(n.)","description":"Breeches made of buckskin."},{"word":"Buckstall","type":"(n.)","description":"A toil or net to take deer."},{"word":"Buckthorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus."},{"word":"Bucktooth","type":"(n.)","description":"Any tooth that juts out."},{"word":"Buckwheat","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food."},{"word":"Buckwheat","type":"(n.)","description":"The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc."},{"word":"Bucolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic."},{"word":"Bucolic","type":"(n.)","description":"A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil."},{"word":"Bucolical","type":"(a.)","description":"Bucolic."},{"word":"Bucrania","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bucranium"},{"word":"Bucranium","type":"(n.)","description":"A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc."},{"word":"Bud","type":"(n.)","description":"A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower."},{"word":"Bud","type":"(n.)","description":"A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra."},{"word":"Budded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bud"},{"word":"Budding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bud"},{"word":"Bud","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot."},{"word":"Bud","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn."},{"word":"Bud","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin."},{"word":"Bud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear."},{"word":"Buddha","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism."},{"word":"Buddhism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, \"the awakened or enlightened,\" in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000."},{"word":"Buddhist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism."},{"word":"Buddhist","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists."},{"word":"Buddhistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Buddhist, a."},{"word":"Budding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of producing buds."},{"word":"Budding","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea."},{"word":"Budding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark."},{"word":"Buddle","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions."},{"word":"Buddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wash ore in a buddle."},{"word":"Bude","type":"()","description":"A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied."},{"word":"Bude","type":"()","description":"A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil."},{"word":"Budged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Budge"},{"word":"Budging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Budge"},{"word":"Budge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move off; to stir; to walk away."},{"word":"Budge","type":"(v.)","description":"Brisk; stirring; jocund."},{"word":"Budge","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits."},{"word":"Budge","type":"(a.)","description":"Lined with budge; hence, scholastic."},{"word":"Budge","type":"(a.)","description":"Austere or stiff, like scholastics."},{"word":"Budgeness","type":"(n.)","description":"Sternness; severity."},{"word":"Budger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who budges."},{"word":"budgerow","type":"(n.)","description":"A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges."},{"word":"Budget","type":"(n.)","description":"A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions."},{"word":"Budget","type":"(n.)","description":"The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries."},{"word":"Budgy","type":"(n.)","description":"Consisting of fur."},{"word":"Budlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little bud springing from a parent bud."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(n.)","description":"The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(n.)","description":"A military coat, made of buff leather."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(n.)","description":"The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(a.)","description":"A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(a.)","description":"The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of buff leather."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of buff."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike."},{"word":"Buff","type":"(n.)","description":"A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase \"Blindman's buff.\""},{"word":"Buff","type":"(a.)","description":"Firm; sturdy."},{"word":"Buffa","type":"(n. fem.)","description":"The comic actress in an opera."},{"word":"Buffa","type":"(a.)","description":"Comic, farcical."},{"word":"Buffaloes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Buffalo"},{"word":"Buffalo","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers."},{"word":"Buffalo","type":"(n.)","description":"A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo."},{"word":"Buffalo","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of wild ox."},{"word":"Buffalo","type":"(n.)","description":"The bison of North America."},{"word":"Buffalo","type":"(n.)","description":"A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below."},{"word":"Buffalo","type":"(n.)","description":"The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below."},{"word":"Buffel","type":"()","description":"A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead."},{"word":"Buffer","type":"(n.)","description":"An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car."},{"word":"Buffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus."},{"word":"Buffer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who polishes with a buff."},{"word":"Buffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A wheel for buffing; a buff."},{"word":"Buffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man."},{"word":"Bufferhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(n.)","description":"A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(n.)","description":"A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter."},{"word":"Buffeted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Buffet"},{"word":"Buffeting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Buffet"},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend."},{"word":"Buffet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make one's way by blows or struggling."},{"word":"Buffeter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who buffets; a boxer."},{"word":"Buffeting","type":"(n.)","description":"A striking with the hand."},{"word":"Buffeting","type":"(n.)","description":"A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity."},{"word":"Buffin","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns."},{"word":"Buffing","type":"()","description":"See Buffer, 1."},{"word":"Buffle","type":"(n.)","description":"The buffalo."},{"word":"Buffle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To puzzle; to be at a loss."},{"word":"Bufflehead","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow."},{"word":"Bufflehead","type":"(n.)","description":"The buffel duck. See Buffel duck."},{"word":"Buffle-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering."},{"word":"Buffo","type":"(n.masc.)","description":"The comic actor in an opera."},{"word":"Buffoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew."},{"word":"Buffoon","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon."},{"word":"Buffoon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act the part of a buffoon."},{"word":"Buffoon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with buffoonery."},{"word":"Buffooneries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Buffoonery"},{"word":"Buffoonery","type":"(n.)","description":"The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures."},{"word":"Buffoonish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures."},{"word":"Buffoonism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery."},{"word":"Buffoonly","type":"(a.)","description":"Low; vulgar."},{"word":"Buffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or characterized by, buff."},{"word":"Bufo","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads."},{"word":"Bufonite","type":"(n.)","description":"An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad."},{"word":"Bug","type":"(n.)","description":"A bugbear; anything which terrifies."},{"word":"Bug","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc."},{"word":"Bug","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug."},{"word":"Bug","type":"(n.)","description":"One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle."},{"word":"Bug","type":"(n.)","description":"One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc."},{"word":"Bugaboo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bugbear"},{"word":"Bugbear","type":"(n.)","description":"Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc."},{"word":"Bugbane","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species."},{"word":"Bugbear","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bugaboo."},{"word":"Bugbear","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing needless fright."},{"word":"Bugbear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alarm with idle phantoms."},{"word":"Bugfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The menhaden."},{"word":"Bugger","type":"(n.)","description":"One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite."},{"word":"Bugger","type":"(n.)","description":"A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement."},{"word":"Buggery","type":"(n.)","description":"Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy."},{"word":"Bugginess","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being infested with bugs."},{"word":"Buggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Infested or abounding with bugs."},{"word":"Buggies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Buggy"},{"word":"Buggy","type":"(n.)","description":"A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle."},{"word":"Buggy","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top."},{"word":"Bugle","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of wild ox; a buffalo."},{"word":"Bugle","type":"(n.)","description":"A horn used by hunters."},{"word":"Bugle","type":"(n.)","description":"A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle."},{"word":"Bugle","type":"(n.)","description":"An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black."},{"word":"Bugle","type":"(a.)","description":"Jet black."},{"word":"Bugle","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World."},{"word":"Bugled","type":"(a.)","description":"Ornamented with bugles."},{"word":"Bugle","type":"()","description":"A bugle."},{"word":"Bugle","type":"()","description":"A drinking vessel made of horn."},{"word":"Bugler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays on a bugle."},{"word":"Bugleweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage."},{"word":"Buglosses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bugloss"},{"word":"Bugloss","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue."},{"word":"Bugwort","type":"(n.)","description":"Bugbane."},{"word":"Buhl","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Buhlwork"},{"word":"Buhlwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc."},{"word":"Buhlbuhl","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bulbul."},{"word":"Buhrstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones."},{"word":"Built","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Build"},{"word":"Building","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Build"},{"word":"Builded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Build"},{"word":"Build","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise."},{"word":"Build","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means."},{"word":"Build","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution."},{"word":"Build","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building."},{"word":"Build","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others."},{"word":"Build","type":"(n.)","description":"Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship."},{"word":"Builder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason."},{"word":"Building","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing."},{"word":"Building","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture."},{"word":"Building","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc."},{"word":"Built","type":"(n.)","description":"Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship."},{"word":"Built","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc."},{"word":"Buke","type":"()","description":"See Book muslin."},{"word":"Bukshish","type":"(n.)","description":"See Backsheesh."},{"word":"Bulau","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog."},{"word":"Bulb","type":"(n.)","description":"A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid."},{"word":"Bulb","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta."},{"word":"Bulb","type":"(n.)","description":"An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc."},{"word":"Bulb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take the shape of a bulb; to swell."},{"word":"Bulbaceous","type":"(n.)","description":"Bulbous."},{"word":"Bulbar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis."},{"word":"Bulbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bulb; round-headed."},{"word":"Bulbel","type":"(n.)","description":"A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants."},{"word":"Bulbiferous","type":"(n.)","description":"Producing bulbs."},{"word":"Bulblet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion."},{"word":"Bulbose","type":"(a.)","description":"Bulbous."},{"word":"Bulbo-tuber","type":"(n.)","description":"A corm."},{"word":"Bulbous","type":"(n.)","description":"Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure."},{"word":"Bulbul","type":"(n.)","description":"The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera."},{"word":"Bulbule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bulb; a bulblet."},{"word":"Bulchin","type":"(n.)","description":"A little bull."},{"word":"Bulge","type":"(n.)","description":"The bilge or protuberant part of a cask."},{"word":"Bulge","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall."},{"word":"Bulge","type":"(n.)","description":"The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2."},{"word":"Bulged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bulge"},{"word":"Bulging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bulge"},{"word":"Bulge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges."},{"word":"Bulge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bilge, as a ship; to founder."},{"word":"Bulgy","type":"(a.)","description":"Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward."},{"word":"Bulimia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bulimy"},{"word":"Bulimy","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite."},{"word":"Bulimus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America."},{"word":"Bulk","type":"(n.)","description":"Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk."},{"word":"Bulk","type":"(n.)","description":"The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt."},{"word":"Bulk","type":"(n.)","description":"The cargo of a vessel when stowed."},{"word":"Bulk","type":"(n.)","description":"The body."},{"word":"Bulked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bulk"},{"word":"Bulking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bulk"},{"word":"Bulk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell."},{"word":"Bulk","type":"(v.)","description":"A projecting part of a building."},{"word":"Bulker","type":"(n.)","description":"A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them."},{"word":"Bulkhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck."},{"word":"Bulkhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front."},{"word":"Bulkiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Greatness in bulk; size."},{"word":"Bulky","type":"(a.)","description":"Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(n.)","description":"Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(n.)","description":"One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A seal. See Bulla."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated \"a die Incarnationis,\" i. e., \"from the day of the Incarnation.\" See Apostolical brief, under Brief."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility."},{"word":"Bullae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bulla"},{"word":"Bulla","type":"(n.)","description":"A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid."},{"word":"Bulla","type":"(n.)","description":"The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla."},{"word":"Bulla","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it."},{"word":"Bulla","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell."},{"word":"Bullace","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum."},{"word":"Bullace","type":"(n.)","description":"The bully tree."},{"word":"Bullantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls."},{"word":"Bullary","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of papal bulls."},{"word":"Bullaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bullary"},{"word":"Bullary","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery."},{"word":"Bullate","type":"(a.)","description":"Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered."},{"word":"Bullbeggar","type":"(n.)","description":"Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear."},{"word":"Bull","type":"()","description":"A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier."},{"word":"Bullcomber","type":"(n.)","description":"A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typhaeus vulgaris of Europe."},{"word":"Bulldog","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls."},{"word":"Bulldog","type":"(n.)","description":"A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill."},{"word":"Bulldog","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity."},{"word":"Bulldozed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bulldoze"},{"word":"Bulldozing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bulldoze"},{"word":"Bulldoze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana."},{"word":"Bulldozer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bulldozes."},{"word":"Bulled","type":"(a.)","description":"Swollen."},{"word":"Bullen-bullen","type":"(n.)","description":"The lyre bird."},{"word":"Bullen-nail","type":"(n.)","description":"A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered."},{"word":"Bullet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ball."},{"word":"Bullet","type":"(n.)","description":"A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm."},{"word":"Bullet","type":"(n.)","description":"A cannon ball."},{"word":"Bullet","type":"(n.)","description":"The fetlock of a horse."},{"word":"Bullet-proof","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of resisting the force of a bullet."},{"word":"Bulletin","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public."},{"word":"Bulletin","type":"(n.)","description":"Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received."},{"word":"Bulletin","type":"(n.)","description":"A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society."},{"word":"Bullfaced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a large face."},{"word":"Bullfeast","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bullfight."},{"word":"Bullfight","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bullfighting"},{"word":"Bullfighting","type":"(n.)","description":"A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain."},{"word":"Bullfinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red."},{"word":"Bullfist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bullfice"},{"word":"Bullfice","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fungus. See Puffball."},{"word":"Bull","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bullfly"},{"word":"Bullfly","type":"(n.)","description":"Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies."},{"word":"Bullfrog","type":"(n.)","description":"A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring."},{"word":"Bullhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb."},{"word":"Bullhead","type":"(n.)","description":"In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout."},{"word":"Bullhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin."},{"word":"Bullhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead."},{"word":"Bullhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The golden plover."},{"word":"Bullhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid fellow; a lubber."},{"word":"Bullhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A small black water insect."},{"word":"Bullheaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged."},{"word":"Bullion","type":"(n.)","description":"Uncoined gold or silver in the mass."},{"word":"Bullion","type":"(n.)","description":"Base or uncurrent coin."},{"word":"Bullion","type":"(n.)","description":"Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc."},{"word":"Bullion","type":"(n.)","description":"Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent."},{"word":"Bullionist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold."},{"word":"Bullirag","type":"(n.)","description":"To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger."},{"word":"Bullish","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder."},{"word":"Bullist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer or drawer up of papal bulls."},{"word":"Bullition","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition."},{"word":"Bull-necked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull."},{"word":"Bullock","type":"(n.)","description":"A young bull, or any male of the ox kind."},{"word":"Bullock","type":"(n.)","description":"An ox, steer, or stag."},{"word":"Bullock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bully."},{"word":"Bullock's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bull's-eye, 3."},{"word":"Bullon","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis)."},{"word":"Bullpout","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bullhead, 1 (b)."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular or oval opening for air or light."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The center of a target."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown."},{"word":"Bull's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A small and thick old-fashioned watch."},{"word":"Bull's-nose","type":"(n.)","description":"An external angle when obtuse or rounded."},{"word":"Bull","type":"()","description":"A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier."},{"word":"Bull","type":"()","description":"In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout."},{"word":"Bull","type":"()","description":"Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout."},{"word":"Bull","type":"()","description":"The huso or salmon of the Danube."},{"word":"Bullweed","type":"(n.)","description":"Knapweed."},{"word":"Bullwort","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bishop's-weed."},{"word":"Bullies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bully"},{"word":"Bully","type":"(n.)","description":"A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow."},{"word":"Bully","type":"(n.)","description":"A brisk, dashing fellow."},{"word":"Bully","type":"(a.)","description":"Jovial and blustering; dashing."},{"word":"Bully","type":"(a.)","description":"Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse."},{"word":"Bullied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bully"},{"word":"Bullying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bully"},{"word":"Bully","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward."},{"word":"Bully","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a bully."},{"word":"Bullyrag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Bullirag."},{"word":"Bullyrock","type":"(n.)","description":"A bully."},{"word":"Bully","type":"()","description":"The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha."},{"word":"Bulrush","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water."},{"word":"Bulse","type":"(n.)","description":"A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc."},{"word":"Bultel","type":"(n.)","description":"A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran."},{"word":"Bulti","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bolty."},{"word":"Bultow","type":"(n.)","description":"A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller."},{"word":"Bulwark","type":"(n.)","description":"A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork."},{"word":"Bulwark","type":"(n.)","description":"That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection."},{"word":"Bulwark","type":"(n.)","description":"The sides of a ship above the upper deck."},{"word":"Bulwarked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bulwark"},{"word":"Bulwarking","type":"(n.)","description":"of Bulwark"},{"word":"Bulwark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect."},{"word":"Bum","type":"(n.)","description":"The buttock."},{"word":"Bummed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bum"},{"word":"Bumming","type":"(n.)","description":"of Bum"},{"word":"Bum","type":"(v. i.,)","description":"To make murmuring or humming sound."},{"word":"Bum","type":"(n.)","description":"A humming noise."},{"word":"Bumbailiff","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a."},{"word":"Bumbard","type":"()","description":"See Bombard."},{"word":"Bumbarge","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bumboat."},{"word":"Bumbast","type":"()","description":"See Bombast."},{"word":"Bumbeloes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bumbelo"},{"word":"Bumbelo","type":"(n.)","description":"A glass used in subliming camphor."},{"word":"Bumble","type":"(n.)","description":"The bittern."},{"word":"Bumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern."},{"word":"Bumblebee","type":"(n.)","description":"A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound."},{"word":"Bumboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore."},{"word":"Bumkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen."},{"word":"Bummalo","type":"(n.)","description":"A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck."},{"word":"Bummer","type":"(n.)","description":"An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger."},{"word":"Bummery","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bottomery."},{"word":"Bumped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bump"},{"word":"Bumping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bump"},{"word":"Bump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall."},{"word":"Bump","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come in violent contact with something; to thump."},{"word":"Bump","type":"(n.)","description":"A thump; a heavy blow."},{"word":"Bump","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance."},{"word":"Bump","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of \"veneration;\" the bump of \"acquisitiveness.\""},{"word":"Bump","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following."},{"word":"Bump","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom."},{"word":"Bump","type":"(n.)","description":"The noise made by the bittern."},{"word":"Bumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast."},{"word":"Bumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer."},{"word":"Bumper","type":"(n.)","description":"That which bumps or causes a bump."},{"word":"Bumper","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer."},{"word":"Bumpkin","type":"(n.)","description":"An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout."},{"word":"Bumptious","type":"(a.)","description":"Self-conceited; forward; pushing."},{"word":"Bumptiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Conceitedness."},{"word":"Bun","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bunn"},{"word":"Bunn","type":"(n.)","description":"A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust."},{"word":"Bunch","type":"(n.)","description":"A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump."},{"word":"Bunch","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys."},{"word":"Bunch","type":"(n.)","description":"A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein."},{"word":"Bunched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bunch"},{"word":"Bunching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bunch"},{"word":"Bunch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round."},{"word":"Bunch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a bunch or bunches."},{"word":"Bunch-backed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bunch on the back; crooked."},{"word":"Bunchberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries."},{"word":"Bunch","type":"()","description":"A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass."},{"word":"Bunchiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness."},{"word":"Bunchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Swelling out in bunches."},{"word":"Bunchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail."},{"word":"Bunchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine."},{"word":"Buncombe","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bunkum"},{"word":"Bunkum","type":"(n.)","description":"Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show."},{"word":"Bund","type":"(n.)","description":"League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states."},{"word":"Bund","type":"(n.)","description":"An embankment against inundation."},{"word":"Bunder","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods."},{"word":"Bundesrath","type":"(n.)","description":"The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called."},{"word":"Bundle","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes."},{"word":"Bundled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bundle"},{"word":"Bundling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bundle"},{"word":"Bundle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tie or bind in a bundle or roll."},{"word":"Bundle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send off abruptly or without ceremony."},{"word":"Bundle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony."},{"word":"Bundle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping."},{"word":"Bung","type":"(n.)","description":"The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask."},{"word":"Bung","type":"(n.)","description":"The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole."},{"word":"Bung","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharper or pickpocket."},{"word":"Bunged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bung"},{"word":"Bunging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bung"},{"word":"Bung","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up."},{"word":"Bungalow","type":"(n.)","description":"A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda."},{"word":"Bungarum","type":"(n.)","description":"A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood."},{"word":"Bunghole","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bung, n., 2."},{"word":"Bungled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bungle"},{"word":"Bungling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bungle"},{"word":"Bungle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner."},{"word":"Bungle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up."},{"word":"Bungle","type":"(n.)","description":"A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder."},{"word":"Bungler","type":"(n.)","description":"A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles."},{"word":"Bungling","type":"(a.)","description":"Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman."},{"word":"Bunglingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Clumsily; awkwardly."},{"word":"Bungo","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States."},{"word":"Bunion","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bunyon."},{"word":"Bunk","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night."},{"word":"Bunk","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers."},{"word":"Bunk","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers."},{"word":"Bunked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bunk"},{"word":"Bunking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bunk"},{"word":"Bunk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in."},{"word":"Bunker","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat."},{"word":"Bunker","type":"(n.)","description":"A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker."},{"word":"Bunko","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery."},{"word":"Bunkum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Buncombe."},{"word":"Bunn","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bun."},{"word":"Bunnian","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bunyon."},{"word":"Bunny","type":"(n.)","description":"A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it."},{"word":"Bunny","type":"(n.)","description":"A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel."},{"word":"Bunodonta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Bunodonts"},{"word":"Bunodonts","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated."},{"word":"Bunsen's","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Bunsen's burner"},{"word":"Bunsen's","type":"()","description":"See under Battery, and Burner."},{"word":"Bunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand."},{"word":"Bunt","type":"(n.)","description":"The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard."},{"word":"Bunt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell out; as, the sail bunts."},{"word":"Bunt","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy."},{"word":"Bunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman."},{"word":"Bunting","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae)."},{"word":"Bunting","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Buntine"},{"word":"Buntine","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals."},{"word":"Buntline","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in."},{"word":"Bunyon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Bunion"},{"word":"Bunion","type":"(n.)","description":"An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe."},{"word":"Buoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc."},{"word":"Buoyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Buoy"},{"word":"Buoying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Buoy"},{"word":"Buoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up."},{"word":"Buoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency."},{"word":"Buoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel."},{"word":"Buoy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To float; to rise like a buoy."},{"word":"Buoyage","type":"(n.)","description":"Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys."},{"word":"Buoyance","type":"(n.)","description":"Buoyancy."},{"word":"Buoyancies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Buoyancy"},{"word":"Buoyancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water."},{"word":"Buoyancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced."},{"word":"Buoyancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits."},{"word":"Buoyant","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury."},{"word":"Buoyant","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier."},{"word":"Buoyant","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits."},{"word":"Buprestidan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees."},{"word":"Bur","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Burr"},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"The sweetbread."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A clinker; a partially vitrified brick."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A small circular saw."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A triangular chisel."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head."},{"word":"Burbolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A birdbolt."},{"word":"Burbot","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin."},{"word":"Burdelais","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of grape."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is borne or carried; a load."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"A birth."},{"word":"Burdened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burden"},{"word":"Burdening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burden"},{"word":"Burden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable)."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"The drone of a bagpipe."},{"word":"Burden","type":"(n.)","description":"A club."},{"word":"Burdener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who loads; an oppressor."},{"word":"Burdenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Burdensome."},{"word":"Burdensome","type":"(a.)","description":"Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive."},{"word":"Burdock","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals."},{"word":"Burdon","type":"(n.)","description":"A pilgrim's staff."},{"word":"Bureaus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bureau"},{"word":"Bureaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bureau"},{"word":"Bureau","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers."},{"word":"Bureau","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted."},{"word":"Bureau","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief."},{"word":"Bureau","type":"(n.)","description":"A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture."},{"word":"Bureaucracy","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system."},{"word":"Bureaucracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government officials, collectively."},{"word":"Bureaucrat","type":"(n.)","description":"An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine."},{"word":"Bureaucratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Bureaucratical"},{"word":"Bureaucratical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy."},{"word":"Bureaucratist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy."},{"word":"Burel","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"Same as Borrel."},{"word":"Burette","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock."},{"word":"Bur","type":"()","description":"A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish."},{"word":"Burg","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortified town."},{"word":"Burg","type":"(n.)","description":"A borough."},{"word":"Burgage","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft."},{"word":"Burgall","type":"(n.)","description":"A small marine fish; -- also called cunner."},{"word":"Burgamot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bergamot."},{"word":"Burganet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Burgonet."},{"word":"Burgee","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of small coat."},{"word":"Burgee","type":"(n.)","description":"A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels."},{"word":"Burgeois","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Bourgeois."},{"word":"Burgeois","type":"(n.)","description":"A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois."},{"word":"Burgeon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bud. See Bourgeon."},{"word":"Burgess","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough."},{"word":"Burgess","type":"(n.)","description":"One who represents a borough in Parliament."},{"word":"Burgess","type":"(n.)","description":"A magistrate of a borough."},{"word":"Burgess","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers."},{"word":"Burgess-ship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of privilege of a burgess."},{"word":"Burggrave","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached."},{"word":"Burgh","type":"(n.)","description":"A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough."},{"word":"Burghal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a burgh."},{"word":"Burghbote","type":"(n.)","description":"A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town."},{"word":"Burghbrech","type":"(n.)","description":"The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace."},{"word":"Burgher","type":"(n.)","description":"A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough."},{"word":"Burgher","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess \"the true religion professed within the realm\"), the opposite party being called antiburghers."},{"word":"Burghermaster","type":"(n.)","description":"See Burgomaster."},{"word":"Burghership","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or privileges of a burgher."},{"word":"Burghmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A burgomaster."},{"word":"Burghmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster."},{"word":"Burghmote","type":"(n.)","description":"A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly."},{"word":"Burglar","type":"(n.)","description":"One guilty of the crime of burglary."},{"word":"Burglarer","type":"(n.)","description":"A burglar."},{"word":"Burglarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary."},{"word":"Burglariously","type":"(adv.)","description":"With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar."},{"word":"Burglaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Burglary"},{"word":"Burglary","type":"(n.)","description":"Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not."},{"word":"Burgomaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster."},{"word":"Burgomaster","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions."},{"word":"Burgonet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of helmet."},{"word":"Burgoo","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen."},{"word":"Burgrass","type":"(n.)","description":"Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit."},{"word":"Burgrave","type":"(n.)","description":"See Burggrave."},{"word":"Burgundy","type":"(n.)","description":"An old province of France (in the eastern central part)."},{"word":"Burgundy","type":"(n.)","description":"A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France."},{"word":"Burh","type":"(n.)","description":"See Burg."},{"word":"Burhel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Burrhel"},{"word":"Burrhel","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel)."},{"word":"Burial","type":"(n.)","description":"A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture."},{"word":"Burial","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment."},{"word":"Burier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, buries."},{"word":"Burin","type":"(n.)","description":"The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble."},{"word":"Burin","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin."},{"word":"Burinist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works with the burin."},{"word":"Burion","type":"(n.)","description":"The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch."},{"word":"Burked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burke"},{"word":"Burking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burke"},{"word":"Burke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection."},{"word":"Burke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question."},{"word":"Burkism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection."},{"word":"Burled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burl"},{"word":"Burling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burl"},{"word":"Burl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth."},{"word":"Burl","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot or lump in thread or cloth."},{"word":"Burl","type":"(n.)","description":"An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences."},{"word":"Burlap","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc."},{"word":"Burler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who burls or dresses cloth."},{"word":"Burlesque","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical."},{"word":"Burlesque","type":"(n.)","description":"Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire."},{"word":"Burlesque","type":"(n.)","description":"An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything."},{"word":"Burlesque","type":"(n.)","description":"A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion."},{"word":"Burlesqued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burlesque"},{"word":"Burlesquing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burlesque"},{"word":"Burlesque","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language."},{"word":"Burlesque","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To employ burlesque."},{"word":"Burlesquer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who burlesques."},{"word":"Burletta","type":"(a.)","description":"A comic operetta; a music farce."},{"word":"Burliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being burly."},{"word":"Burly","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky."},{"word":"Burly","type":"(a.)","description":"Coarse and rough; boisterous."},{"word":"Burmans","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Burman"},{"word":"Burman","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese."},{"word":"Burman","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah."},{"word":"Bur","type":"()","description":"See Beggar's ticks."},{"word":"Burmese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants."},{"word":"Burmese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans."},{"word":"Burned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burn"},{"word":"Burnt","type":"()","description":"of Burn"},{"word":"Burning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burn"},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply a cautery to; to cauterize."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be of fire; to flame."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(n.)","description":"A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6."},{"word":"Burn","type":"(n.)","description":"A small stream."},{"word":"Burnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Combustible."},{"word":"Burned","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"See Burnt."},{"word":"Burned","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Burnished."},{"word":"Burner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything."},{"word":"Burner","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced."},{"word":"Burnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet."},{"word":"Burnettized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burnettize"},{"word":"Burnettizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burnettize"},{"word":"Burnettize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett."},{"word":"Burnie","type":"(n.)","description":"A small brook."},{"word":"Burniebee","type":"(n.)","description":"The ladybird."},{"word":"Burning","type":"(a.)","description":"That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery."},{"word":"Burning","type":"(a.)","description":"Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal."},{"word":"Burning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated."},{"word":"Burnished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burnish"},{"word":"Burnishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burnish"},{"word":"Burnish","type":"(a.)","description":"To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper."},{"word":"Burnish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large."},{"word":"Burnish","type":"(n.)","description":"The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster."},{"word":"Burnisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who burnishes."},{"word":"Burnisher","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses."},{"word":"Burnoose","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Burnous"},{"word":"Burnous","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs."},{"word":"Burnous","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination cloak and hood worn by women."},{"word":"Burnstickle","type":"(n.)","description":"A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)."},{"word":"Burnt","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"The lobe or lap of the ear."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr."},{"word":"Burr","type":"(n.)","description":"The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8."},{"word":"Burred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burr"},{"word":"Burring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burr"},{"word":"Burr","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur."},{"word":"Burrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp."},{"word":"Burrel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Borrel."},{"word":"Burrel","type":"()","description":"The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly."},{"word":"Burrel","type":"()","description":"A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency."},{"word":"Burring","type":"()","description":"A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances."},{"word":"Burr","type":"()","description":"See Buhrstone."},{"word":"Burro","type":"(n.)","description":"A donkey."},{"word":"Burrock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed."},{"word":"Burrow","type":"(n.)","description":"An incorporated town. See 1st Borough."},{"word":"Burrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation."},{"word":"Burrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse."},{"word":"Burrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5."},{"word":"Burrowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burrow"},{"word":"Burrowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burrow"},{"word":"Burrow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits."},{"word":"Burrow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide."},{"word":"Burrower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it."},{"word":"Burrstone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Buhrstone."},{"word":"Burry","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool."},{"word":"Bursae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bursa"},{"word":"Bursa","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences."},{"word":"Bursal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae."},{"word":"Bursar","type":"(n.)","description":"A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery."},{"word":"Bursar","type":"(n.)","description":"A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support."},{"word":"Bursarship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a bursar."},{"word":"-ries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bursary"},{"word":"Bursary","type":"(n.)","description":"The treasury of a college or monastery."},{"word":"Bursary","type":"(n.)","description":"A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies."},{"word":"Burschen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bursch"},{"word":"Bursch","type":"(n.)","description":"A youth; especially, a student in a german university."},{"word":"Burse","type":"(n.)","description":"A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull."},{"word":"Burse","type":"(n.)","description":"A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries."},{"word":"Burse","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use."},{"word":"Burse","type":"(n.)","description":"An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse."},{"word":"Burse","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of bazaar."},{"word":"Bursiculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Bursiform."},{"word":"Bursiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a purse."},{"word":"Bursitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of a bursa."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Burst"},{"word":"Bursting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Burst"},{"word":"Burst","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(n.)","description":"Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse."},{"word":"Burst","type":"(n.)","description":"A rupture or hernia; a breach."},{"word":"Bursten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Burst, v. i."},{"word":"Burster","type":"(n.)","description":"One that bursts."},{"word":"Burstwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture."},{"word":"Burt","type":"(n.)","description":"See Birt."},{"word":"Burthen","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"See Burden."},{"word":"Burton","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part."},{"word":"Bury","type":"(n.)","description":"A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's"},{"word":"Bury","type":"(n.)","description":"A manor house; a castle."},{"word":"Buried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bury"},{"word":"Burying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bury"},{"word":"Bury","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands."},{"word":"Bury","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume."},{"word":"Bury","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife."},{"word":"Burying","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Burying place"},{"word":"Burying","type":"()","description":"The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place."},{"word":"Bus","type":"(n.)","description":"An omnibus."},{"word":"Busbies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Busby"},{"word":"Busby","type":"(n.)","description":"A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder."},{"word":"Buscon","type":"(n.)","description":"One who searches for ores; a prospector."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(n.)","description":"A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(n.)","description":"The tail, or brush, of a fox."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To branch thickly in the manner of a bush."},{"word":"Bushed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bush"},{"word":"Bushing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bush"},{"word":"Bush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(n.)","description":"A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored."},{"word":"Bush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole."},{"word":"Bushboy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bushman."},{"word":"Bushel","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts."},{"word":"Bushel","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure."},{"word":"Bushel","type":"(n.)","description":"A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples."},{"word":"Bushel","type":"(n.)","description":"A large indefinite quantity."},{"word":"Bushel","type":"(n.)","description":"The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush."},{"word":"Bushelage","type":"(n.)","description":"A duty payable on commodities by the bushel."},{"word":"Bushelman","type":"(n.)","description":"A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler."},{"word":"Bushet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bush."},{"word":"Bushfighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One accustomed to bushfighting."},{"word":"Bushfighting","type":"(n.)","description":"Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets."},{"word":"Bushhammer","type":"(n.)","description":"A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone."},{"word":"Bushhammer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite."},{"word":"Bushiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being bushy."},{"word":"Bushing","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc."},{"word":"Bushing","type":"(n.)","description":"A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush."},{"word":"Bushless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from bushes; bare."},{"word":"Bushmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bushman"},{"word":"Bushman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woodsman; a settler in the bush."},{"word":"Bushman","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people."},{"word":"Bushment","type":"(n.)","description":"A thicket; a cluster of bushes."},{"word":"Bushment","type":"(n.)","description":"An ambuscade."},{"word":"Bushranger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush."},{"word":"Bushwhacker","type":"(n.)","description":"One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes."},{"word":"Bushwhacker","type":"(n.)","description":"A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers."},{"word":"Bushwhacking","type":"(n.)","description":"Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream."},{"word":"Bushwhacking","type":"(n.)","description":"The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers."},{"word":"Bushy","type":"(a.)","description":"Thick and spreading, like a bush."},{"word":"Bushy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs."},{"word":"Busily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a busy manner."},{"word":"Businesses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Business"},{"word":"Business","type":"(n.)","description":"That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure."},{"word":"Business","type":"(n.)","description":"Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession."},{"word":"Business","type":"(n.)","description":"Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions."},{"word":"Business","type":"(n.)","description":"That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission."},{"word":"Business","type":"(n.)","description":"Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words."},{"word":"Business","type":"(n.)","description":"The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal."},{"word":"Business","type":"(n.)","description":"Care; anxiety; diligence."},{"word":"Businesslike","type":"(a.)","description":"In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods."},{"word":"Busk","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset."},{"word":"Busked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Busk"},{"word":"Busk","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress."},{"word":"Busk","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To go; to direct one's course."},{"word":"Busked","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a busk."},{"word":"Busket","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet."},{"word":"Busket","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a garden devoted to shrubs."},{"word":"Buskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg."},{"word":"Buskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy."},{"word":"Buskined","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing buskins."},{"word":"Buskined","type":"(a.)","description":"Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy."},{"word":"Busky","type":"(a.)","description":"See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n."},{"word":"Buss","type":"(n.)","description":"A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack."},{"word":"Bussed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Buss"},{"word":"Bussing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Buss"},{"word":"Buss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely."},{"word":"Buss","type":"(n.)","description":"A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery."},{"word":"Bust","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast."},{"word":"Bust","type":"(n.)","description":"The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body."},{"word":"Bustard","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the genus Otis."},{"word":"Buster","type":"(n.)","description":"Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree."},{"word":"Bustled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bustle"},{"word":"Bustling","type":"(n.)","description":"of Bustle"},{"word":"Bustle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd."},{"word":"Bustle","type":"(n.)","description":"Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement."},{"word":"Bustle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure."},{"word":"Bustler","type":"(n.)","description":"An active, stirring person."},{"word":"Bustling","type":"(a.)","description":"Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd."},{"word":"Bustoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Busto"},{"word":"Busto","type":"(n.)","description":"A bust; a statue."},{"word":"Busy","type":"(a.)","description":"Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant."},{"word":"Busy","type":"(a.)","description":"Constantly at work; diligent; active."},{"word":"Busy","type":"(a.)","description":"Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street."},{"word":"Busy","type":"(a.)","description":"Officious; meddling; foolish active."},{"word":"Busy","type":"(a.)","description":"Careful; anxious."},{"word":"Busied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Busy"},{"word":"Busying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Busy"},{"word":"Busy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books."},{"word":"Busybodies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Busybody"},{"word":"Busybody","type":"(n.)","description":"One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person."},{"word":"But","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Except with; unless with; without."},{"word":"But","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Except; besides; save."},{"word":"But","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that."},{"word":"But","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that."},{"word":"But","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Only; solely; merely."},{"word":"But","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind."},{"word":"But","type":"(prep., adv. & conj.)","description":"The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room."},{"word":"But","type":"(n.)","description":"A limit; a boundary."},{"word":"But","type":"(n.)","description":"The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt."},{"word":"Butted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of But"},{"word":"Butting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of But"},{"word":"But","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Butt, v., and Abut, v."},{"word":"Butane","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series."},{"word":"Butcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food."},{"word":"Butcher","type":"(n.)","description":"A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle."},{"word":"Butchered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Butcher"},{"word":"Butchering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Butcher"},{"word":"Butcher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs."},{"word":"Butcher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner."},{"word":"Butchering","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a butcher."},{"word":"Butchering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly."},{"word":"Butcherliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Butchery quality."},{"word":"Butcherly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell."},{"word":"Butcher's","type":"()","description":"A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll."},{"word":"Butchery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a butcher."},{"word":"Butchery","type":"(n.)","description":"Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter."},{"word":"Butchery","type":"(n.)","description":"A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed."},{"word":"Butler","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house."},{"word":"Butlerage","type":"(n.)","description":"A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king."},{"word":"Butlership","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a butler."},{"word":"Butment","type":"(n.)","description":"A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier."},{"word":"Butment","type":"(n.)","description":"The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported."},{"word":"Butt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of But"},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The thicker end of anything. See But."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A mark to be shot at; a target."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A thrust in fencing."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The joint where two planks in a strake meet."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks."},{"word":"But","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice."},{"word":"Butted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Butt"},{"word":"Butting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Butt"},{"word":"Butt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut."},{"word":"Butt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]"},{"word":"Butt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head."},{"word":"Butt","type":"(n.)","description":"A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads."},{"word":"Butt","type":"(n.)","description":"The common English flounder."},{"word":"Butte","type":"(n.)","description":"A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region."},{"word":"Butter","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning."},{"word":"Butter","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter."},{"word":"Buttered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Butter"},{"word":"Buttering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Butter"},{"word":"Butter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or spread with butter."},{"word":"Butter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game."},{"word":"Butter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, butts."},{"word":"Butterball","type":"(n.)","description":"The buffel duck."},{"word":"Butterbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica."},{"word":"Butterbump","type":"(n.)","description":"The European bittern."},{"word":"Butterbur","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter."},{"word":"Buttercup","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare."},{"word":"Butter-fingered","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless."},{"word":"Butterfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand."},{"word":"Butterflies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Butterfly"},{"word":"Butterfly","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera."},{"word":"Butterine","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter."},{"word":"Butteris","type":"(n.)","description":"A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses."},{"word":"Buttermen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Butterman"},{"word":"Butterman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who makes or sells butter."},{"word":"Buttermilk","type":"(n.)","description":"The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream."},{"word":"Butternut","type":"(n.)","description":"An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut."},{"word":"Butternut","type":"(n.)","description":"The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut."},{"word":"Butter-scotch","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter."},{"word":"Butterweed","type":"(n.)","description":"An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus)."},{"word":"Butterweight","type":"(n.)","description":"Over weight."},{"word":"Butterwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone."},{"word":"Buttery","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter."},{"word":"Butteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Buttery"},{"word":"Buttery","type":"(n.)","description":"An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept."},{"word":"Buttery","type":"(n.)","description":"A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students."},{"word":"Buttery","type":"(n.)","description":"A cellar in which butts of wine are kept."},{"word":"Butt","type":"()","description":"See 1st Butt, 10."},{"word":"But-thorn","type":"(n.)","description":"The common European starfish (Asterias rubens)."},{"word":"Butting","type":"(n.)","description":"An abuttal; a boundary."},{"word":"Butting","type":"()","description":"A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint."},{"word":"Butt","type":"()","description":"A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8."},{"word":"Buttock","type":"(n.)","description":"The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump."},{"word":"Buttock","type":"(n.)","description":"The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern."},{"word":"Button","type":"(n.)","description":"A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass."},{"word":"Button","type":"(n.)","description":"A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament."},{"word":"Button","type":"(n.)","description":"A bud; a germ of a plant."},{"word":"Button","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door."},{"word":"Button","type":"(n.)","description":"A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion."},{"word":"Buttoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Button"},{"word":"Buttoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Button"},{"word":"Button","type":"(n.)","description":"To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up."},{"word":"Button","type":"(n.)","description":"To dress or clothe."},{"word":"Button","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button."},{"word":"Buttonball","type":"(n.)","description":"See Buttonwood."},{"word":"Buttonbush","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum."},{"word":"Buttonhole","type":"(n.)","description":"The hole or loop in which a button is caught."},{"word":"Buttonhole","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour."},{"word":"Buttonmold","type":"(n.)","description":"A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth."},{"word":"Buttons","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery."},{"word":"Buttonweed","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family."},{"word":"Buttonwood","type":"(n.)","description":"The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa."},{"word":"Buttony","type":"(a.)","description":"Ornamented with a large number of buttons."},{"word":"Buttress","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry."},{"word":"Buttress","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which supports or strengthens."},{"word":"Buttressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Buttress"},{"word":"Buttressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Buttress"},{"word":"Buttress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly."},{"word":"Butt","type":"()","description":"An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow."},{"word":"Butt","type":"()","description":"See Butt weld, under Butt."},{"word":"Buttweld","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite by a butt weld."},{"word":"Butty","type":"(n.)","description":"One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore."},{"word":"Butyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen."},{"word":"Butylene","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable."},{"word":"Butyraceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter."},{"word":"Butyrate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of butyric acid."},{"word":"Butyric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, butter."},{"word":"Butyrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor."},{"word":"Butyrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk."},{"word":"Butyrone","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate."},{"word":"Butyrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Butyraceous."},{"word":"Buxeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the box tree."},{"word":"Buxine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina."},{"word":"Buxom","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble."},{"word":"Buxom","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome."},{"word":"Bought","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Buy"},{"word":"Buying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Buy"},{"word":"Buy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell."},{"word":"Buy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain."},{"word":"Buy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To negotiate or treat about a purchase."},{"word":"Buyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who buys; a purchaser."},{"word":"Buz","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"See Buzz."},{"word":"Buzzed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Buzz"},{"word":"Buzzing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Buzz"},{"word":"Buzz","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice."},{"word":"Buzz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sound forth by buzzing."},{"word":"Buzz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly."},{"word":"Buzz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice."},{"word":"Buzz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sound with a \"buzz\"."},{"word":"Buzz","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation."},{"word":"Buzz","type":"(n.)","description":"A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously."},{"word":"Buzz","type":"(n.)","description":"The audible friction of voice consonants."},{"word":"Buzzard","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera."},{"word":"Buzzard","type":"(n.)","description":"A blockhead; a dunce."},{"word":"Buzzard","type":"(a.)","description":"Senseless; stupid."},{"word":"Buzzardet","type":"(n.)","description":"A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer."},{"word":"Buzzer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer."},{"word":"Buzzingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound."},{"word":"Buzzsaw","type":"()","description":"A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed."},{"word":"By","type":"(pref.)","description":"In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me."},{"word":"By","type":"(pref.)","description":"On; along; in traversing. Compare 5."},{"word":"By","type":"(pref.)","description":"Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church."},{"word":"By","type":"(pref.)","description":"Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty."},{"word":"By","type":"(pref.)","description":"Against."},{"word":"By","type":"(pref.)","description":"With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force."},{"word":"By","type":"(adv.)","description":"Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time."},{"word":"By","type":"(adv.)","description":"Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by."},{"word":"By","type":"(adv.)","description":"Aside; as, to lay by; to put by."},{"word":"By","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc."},{"word":"Byard","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines."},{"word":"By-bidder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles."},{"word":"By-blow","type":"(n.)","description":"A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow."},{"word":"By-blow","type":"(n.)","description":"An illegitimate child; a bastard."},{"word":"By-corner","type":"(n.)","description":"A private corner."},{"word":"By-dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory."},{"word":"By-drinking","type":"(n.)","description":"A drinking between meals."},{"word":"Bye","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication."},{"word":"Bye","type":"(n.)","description":"A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye."},{"word":"Bye","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwelling."},{"word":"Bye","type":"(n.)","description":"In certain games, a station or place of an individual player."},{"word":"By-election","type":"(n.)","description":"An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election."},{"word":"By-end","type":"(n.)","description":"Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage."},{"word":"Bygone","type":"(a.)","description":"Past; gone by."},{"word":"Bygone","type":"(n.)","description":"Something gone by or past; a past event."},{"word":"By-interest","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-interest; private advantage."},{"word":"Byland","type":"(n.)","description":"A peninsula."},{"word":"Bylander","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bilander."},{"word":"By-lane","type":"(n.)","description":"A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road."},{"word":"By-law","type":"(n.)","description":"A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government."},{"word":"By-law","type":"(n.)","description":"A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside."},{"word":"By-name","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname."},{"word":"Byname","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a nickname to."},{"word":"By-pass","type":"(n.)","description":"A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course."},{"word":"By-passage","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage different from the usual one; a byway."},{"word":"By-past","type":"(a.)","description":"Past; gone by."},{"word":"Bypaths","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Bypath"},{"word":"Bypath","type":"(n.)","description":"A private path; an obscure way; indirect means."},{"word":"By-place","type":"(n.)","description":"A retired or private place."},{"word":"Byplay","type":"(n.)","description":"Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds."},{"word":"By-product","type":"(n.)","description":"A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product."},{"word":"Byre","type":"(n.)","description":"A cow house."},{"word":"By-respect","type":"(n.)","description":"Private end or view; by-interest."},{"word":"Byroad","type":"(n.)","description":"A private or obscure road."},{"word":"Byronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron."},{"word":"By-room","type":"(n.)","description":"A private room or apartment."},{"word":"Bysmottered","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Bespotted with mud or dirt."},{"word":"By-speech","type":"(n.)","description":"An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point."},{"word":"By-spell","type":"(n.)","description":"A proverb."},{"word":"Byss","type":"(n.)","description":"See Byssus, n., 1."},{"word":"Byssaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algae."},{"word":"Byssiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a byssus or tuft."},{"word":"Byssin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Byssus, n., 1."},{"word":"Byssine","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance."},{"word":"Byssoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Byssaceous."},{"word":"Byssolite","type":"(n.)","description":"An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende."},{"word":"Byssuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Byssus"},{"word":"Byssi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Byssus"},{"word":"Byssus","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk."},{"word":"Byssus","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc."},{"word":"Byssus","type":"(n.)","description":"An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads."},{"word":"Byssus","type":"(n.)","description":"Asbestus."},{"word":"Bystander","type":"(n.)","description":"One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting."},{"word":"By-street","type":"(n.)","description":"A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street."},{"word":"By-stroke","type":"(n.)","description":"An accidental or a slyly given stroke."},{"word":"By-turning","type":"(n.)","description":"An obscure road; a way turning from the main road."},{"word":"By-view","type":"(n.)","description":"A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose."},{"word":"By-walk","type":"(n.)","description":"A secluded or private walk."},{"word":"By-wash","type":"(n.)","description":"The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water."},{"word":"Byway","type":"(n.)","description":"A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one."},{"word":"By-wipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm."},{"word":"Byword","type":"(n.)","description":"A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency."},{"word":"Byword","type":"(n.)","description":"The object of a contemptuous saying."},{"word":"Bywork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business."},{"word":"Byzant","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Byzantine"},{"word":"Byzantine","type":"(n.)","description":"A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant."},{"word":"Byzantian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Byzantine."},{"word":"Byzantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Byzantium."},{"word":"Byzantine","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople."},{"word":"C","type":"()","description":"C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Etymologically C is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. acutus, E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eager, vinegar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search."},{"word":"C","type":"()","description":"The keynote of the normal or \"natural\" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same."},{"word":"C","type":"()","description":"C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written /."},{"word":"C","type":"()","description":"The \"C clef,\" a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C."},{"word":"C","type":"()","description":"As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc."},{"word":"Caaba","type":"(n.)","description":"The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray."},{"word":"Caas","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"Case."},{"word":"Cab","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle."},{"word":"Cab","type":"(n.)","description":"The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station."},{"word":"Cab","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints."},{"word":"Cabal","type":"(n.)","description":"Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala"},{"word":"Cabal","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret."},{"word":"Cabal","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto."},{"word":"Cabal","type":"(n.)","description":"The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue."},{"word":"Caballed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cabal"},{"word":"Caballing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cabal"},{"word":"Cabal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot."},{"word":"Cabala","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means."},{"word":"Cabala","type":"(n.)","description":"Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery."},{"word":"Cabalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The secret science of the cabalists."},{"word":"Cabalism","type":"(n.)","description":"A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes."},{"word":"Cabalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions."},{"word":"Cabalistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cabalistical"},{"word":"Cabalistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic."},{"word":"Cabalistically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cabalistic manner."},{"word":"Cabalize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use cabalistic language."},{"word":"Caballer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cabals."},{"word":"Caballine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a horse."},{"word":"Caballine","type":"(n.)","description":"Caballine aloes."},{"word":"Cabaret","type":"(n.)","description":"A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed."},{"word":"Cabaret","type":"(n.)","description":"a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment."},{"word":"Cabaret","type":"(n.)","description":"the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret{2}."},{"word":"Cabas","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba."},{"word":"Cabassou","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X. unicinctus and X. hispidus); the tatouay."},{"word":"Cabbage","type":"(n.)","description":"An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages."},{"word":"Cabbage","type":"(n.)","description":"The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below."},{"word":"Cabbage","type":"(n.)","description":"The cabbage palmetto. See below."},{"word":"Cabbage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage."},{"word":"Cabbaged","type":"(imp. & p. p)","description":"of Cabbage"},{"word":"Cabbaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cabbage"},{"word":"Cabbage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer."},{"word":"Cabbage","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments."},{"word":"Cabbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works at cabbling."},{"word":"Cabbling","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron."},{"word":"Cabeca","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cabesse"},{"word":"Cabesse","type":"(n.)","description":"The finest kind of silk received from India."},{"word":"Caber","type":"(n.)","description":"A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength."},{"word":"Cabezon","type":"(n.)","description":"A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin."},{"word":"Cabiai","type":"(n.)","description":"The capybara. See Capybara."},{"word":"Cabin","type":"(n.)","description":"A cottage or small house; a hut."},{"word":"Cabin","type":"(n.)","description":"A small room; an inclosed place."},{"word":"Cabin","type":"(n.)","description":"A room in ship for officers or passengers."},{"word":"Cabined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cabin"},{"word":"Cabining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cabin"},{"word":"Cabin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge."},{"word":"Cabin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine in, or as in, a cabin."},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A hut; a cottage; a small house."},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small room, or retired apartment; a closet."},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A private room in which consultations are held."},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(n.)","description":"The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council."},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:"},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere."},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(n.)","description":"Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself."},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable for a cabinet; small."},{"word":"Cabineting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cabinet"},{"word":"Cabinet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To inclose"},{"word":"Cabinetmaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc."},{"word":"Cabinetmaking","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture."},{"word":"Cabinetwork","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture."},{"word":"Cabirean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cabiri."},{"word":"Cabbiri","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals."},{"word":"Cabirian","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Cabiric."},{"word":"Cabiric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship."},{"word":"Cable","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links."},{"word":"Cable","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable."},{"word":"Cable","type":"(n.)","description":"A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding."},{"word":"Cable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten with a cable."},{"word":"Cable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with cabling. See Cabling."},{"word":"Cabled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cable"},{"word":"Cabling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cable"},{"word":"Cable","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To telegraph by a submarine cable"},{"word":"Cabled","type":"(a.)","description":"Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope."},{"word":"Cabled","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with cabling."},{"word":"Cablegram","type":"(n.)","description":"A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable."},{"word":"Cablelaid","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable."},{"word":"Cablelaid","type":"(a.)","description":"Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain."},{"word":"Cablet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little cable less than ten inches in circumference."},{"word":"Cabling","type":"(n.)","description":"The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft."},{"word":"Cabmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cabman"},{"word":"Cabman","type":"(n.)","description":"The driver of a cab."},{"word":"Cabob","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia."},{"word":"Cabob","type":"(n.)","description":"A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs."},{"word":"Cabob","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roast, as a cabob."},{"word":"Caboched","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing."},{"word":"Caboodle","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle."},{"word":"Caboose","type":"(n.)","description":"A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley."},{"word":"Caboose","type":"(n.)","description":"A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car."},{"word":"Cabotage","type":"(n.)","description":"Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage."},{"word":"Cabree","type":"(n.)","description":"The pronghorn antelope."},{"word":"Cabrerite","type":"(n.)","description":"An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain."},{"word":"Cabrilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon."},{"word":"Cabriole","type":"(n.)","description":"A curvet; a leap. See Capriole."},{"word":"Cabriolet","type":"(n.)","description":"A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top."},{"word":"Cabrit","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cabree."},{"word":"Caburn","type":"(n.)","description":"A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc."},{"word":"Cacaemia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cachaemia"},{"word":"Cachaemia","type":"(n.)","description":"A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood."},{"word":"Cacaine","type":"(n.)","description":"The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine."},{"word":"Cacajao","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (/ Brachyurus) melanocephala)."},{"word":"Cacao","type":"(n.)","description":"A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared."},{"word":"Cachalot","type":"(n.)","description":"The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale."},{"word":"Cache","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry."},{"word":"Cachectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cachectical"},{"word":"Cachectical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood."},{"word":"Cachepot","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc."},{"word":"Cachet","type":"(n.)","description":"A seal, as of a letter."},{"word":"Cachexia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cachexy"},{"word":"Cachexy","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle)."},{"word":"Cachinnation","type":"(n.)","description":"Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections."},{"word":"Cachinnatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter."},{"word":"Cachiri","type":"(n.)","description":"A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry."},{"word":"Cacholong","type":"(n.)","description":"An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal."},{"word":"Cachou","type":"(n.)","description":"A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath."},{"word":"Cachucha","type":"(n.)","description":"An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero."},{"word":"Cachunde","type":"(n.)","description":"A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic."},{"word":"Cacique","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cazique."},{"word":"Cack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ease the body by stool; to go to stool."},{"word":"Cackerel","type":"(n.)","description":"The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole."},{"word":"Cackled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cackle"},{"word":"Cackling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cackle"},{"word":"Cackle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does."},{"word":"Cackle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle."},{"word":"Cackle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk in a silly manner; to prattle."},{"word":"Cackle","type":"(n.)","description":"The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg."},{"word":"Cackle","type":"(n.)","description":"Idle talk; silly prattle."},{"word":"Cackler","type":"(n.)","description":"A fowl that cackles."},{"word":"Cackler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler."},{"word":"Cackling","type":"(n.)","description":"The broken noise of a goose or a hen."},{"word":"Cacochymia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cacochymy"},{"word":"Cacochymy","type":"(n.)","description":"A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood."},{"word":"Cacochymic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cacochymical"},{"word":"Cacochymical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood."},{"word":"Cacodemon","type":"(n.)","description":"An evil spirit; a devil or demon."},{"word":"Cacodemon","type":"(n.)","description":"The nightmare."},{"word":"Cacodoxical","type":"(a.)","description":"Heretical."},{"word":"Cacodoxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy."},{"word":"Cacodyl","type":"(n.)","description":"Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines."},{"word":"Cacodylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, cacodyl."},{"word":"Cacoethes","type":"(n.)","description":"A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, \"The itch for writing\"."},{"word":"Cacoethes","type":"(n.)","description":"A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer."},{"word":"Cacogastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Troubled with bad digestion."},{"word":"Cacographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled."},{"word":"Cacography","type":"(n.)","description":"Incorrect or bad writing or spelling."},{"word":"Cacolet","type":"(n.)","description":"A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army."},{"word":"Cacology","type":"(n.)","description":"Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words."},{"word":"Cacomixle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cacomixl"},{"word":"Cacomixtle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cacomixl"},{"word":"Cacomixl","type":"(n.)","description":"A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California."},{"word":"Cacoon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc."},{"word":"Cacophonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cacophonious"},{"word":"Cacophonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cacophonious"},{"word":"Cacophonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cacophonious"},{"word":"Cacophonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Harsh-sounding."},{"word":"Cacophonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cacophony"},{"word":"Cacophony","type":"(n.)","description":"An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables."},{"word":"Cacophony","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of discordant sounds."},{"word":"Cacophony","type":"(n.)","description":"An unhealthy state of the voice."},{"word":"Cacotechny","type":"(n.)","description":"A corruption or corrupt state of art."},{"word":"Cacoxene","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cacoxenite"},{"word":"Cacoxenite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore."},{"word":"Cactaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example."},{"word":"Cactuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cactus"},{"word":"Cacti","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cactus"},{"word":"Cactus","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America."},{"word":"Cacuminal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters."},{"word":"Cacuminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make sharp or pointed."},{"word":"Cad","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards."},{"word":"Cad","type":"(n.)","description":"A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow."},{"word":"Cadastral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to landed property."},{"word":"Cadastre","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cadaster"},{"word":"Cadaster","type":"(n.)","description":"An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property."},{"word":"Cadaver","type":"(n.)","description":"A dead human body; a corpse."},{"word":"Cadaveric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity."},{"word":"Cadaverous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look."},{"word":"Cadaverous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body."},{"word":"Cadbait","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caddice."},{"word":"Caddice","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caddis"},{"word":"Caddis","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm."},{"word":"Caddis","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of worsted lace or ribbon."},{"word":"Caddish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a cad; lowbred and presuming."},{"word":"Caddow","type":"(n.)","description":"A jackdaw."},{"word":"Caddies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caddy"},{"word":"Caddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in."},{"word":"Cade","type":"(a.)","description":"Bred by hand; domesticated; petted."},{"word":"Cade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame."},{"word":"Cade","type":"(n.)","description":"A barrel or cask, as of fish."},{"word":"Cade","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of declining or sinking."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cadency."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"A uniform time and place in marching."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(n.)","description":"A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy."},{"word":"Cadence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regulate by musical measure."},{"word":"Cadency","type":"(n.)","description":"Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages."},{"word":"Cadene","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant."},{"word":"Cadent","type":"(a.)","description":"Falling."},{"word":"Cadenza","type":"(n.)","description":"A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence."},{"word":"Cader","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cadre."},{"word":"Cadet","type":"(n.)","description":"The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son."},{"word":"Cadet","type":"(n.)","description":"A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission."},{"word":"Cadet","type":"(n.)","description":"A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich."},{"word":"Cadetship","type":"(n.)","description":"The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship."},{"word":"Cadew","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cadeworm"},{"word":"Cadeworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A caddice. See Caddice."},{"word":"Cadged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cadge"},{"word":"Cadging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cadge"},{"word":"Cadge","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To carry, as a burden."},{"word":"Cadge","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc."},{"word":"Cadge","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg."},{"word":"Cadge","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale."},{"word":"Cadger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A packman or itinerant huckster."},{"word":"Cadger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who gets his living by trickery or begging."},{"word":"Cadger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries hawks on a cadge."},{"word":"Cadgy","type":"(a.)","description":"Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton."},{"word":"Cadi","type":"(n.)","description":"An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village."},{"word":"Cadie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caddie"},{"word":"Caddie","type":"(n.)","description":"A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger."},{"word":"Cadilesker","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers."},{"word":"Cadillac","type":"(n.)","description":"A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking."},{"word":"Cadis","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coarse serge."},{"word":"Cadmean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters."},{"word":"Cadmia","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine."},{"word":"Cadmian","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cadmean."},{"word":"Cadmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide."},{"word":"Cadmium","type":"(n.)","description":"A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore."},{"word":"Cadrans","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing."},{"word":"Cadre","type":"(n.)","description":"The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff."},{"word":"Caducary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation."},{"word":"Caducean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand."},{"word":"Caduceus","type":"(n.)","description":"The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top."},{"word":"Caducibranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life."},{"word":"Caducity","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility."},{"word":"Caducous","type":"()","description":"Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole."},{"word":"Caduke","type":"(a.)","description":"Perishable; frail; transitory."},{"word":"Cady","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cadie."},{"word":"Caeca","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Caecum."},{"word":"Caecal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut."},{"word":"Caecal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct."},{"word":"Caecias","type":"(n.)","description":"A wind from the northeast."},{"word":"Caecilian","type":"(n.)","description":"A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha."},{"word":"Caecums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caecum"},{"word":"Caeca","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caecum"},{"word":"Caecum","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct."},{"word":"Caecum","type":"(n.)","description":"The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut."},{"word":"Caenozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cenozoic."},{"word":"Caen","type":"()","description":"A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France."},{"word":"Caesar","type":"(n.)","description":"A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar."},{"word":"Caesarean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Caesarian"},{"word":"Caesarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial."},{"word":"Caesarism","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government."},{"word":"Caesious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray."},{"word":"Caesium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6."},{"word":"Caespitose","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Cespitose."},{"word":"Caesuras","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caesura"},{"word":"Caesurae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caesura"},{"word":"Caesura","type":"(n.)","description":"A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot."},{"word":"Caesural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a caesura."},{"word":"Cafe","type":"(n.)","description":"A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served."},{"word":"Cafenet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cafeneh"},{"word":"Cafeneh","type":"(n.)","description":"A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold."},{"word":"Caffeic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, coffee."},{"word":"Caffeine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana."},{"word":"Caffetannic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee."},{"word":"Caffila","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cafila."},{"word":"Caffre","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kaffir."},{"word":"Cafila","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cafileh"},{"word":"Cafileh","type":"(n.)","description":"A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses."},{"word":"Caftan","type":"(n.)","description":"A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash."},{"word":"Caftan","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe with a caftan."},{"word":"Cag","type":"(n.)","description":"See Keg."},{"word":"Cage","type":"(n.)","description":"A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals."},{"word":"Cage","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of confinement for malefactors"},{"word":"Cage","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase."},{"word":"Cage","type":"(n.)","description":"A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve."},{"word":"Cage","type":"(n.)","description":"A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes."},{"word":"Cage","type":"(n.)","description":"The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft."},{"word":"Cage","type":"(n.)","description":"The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim."},{"word":"Cage","type":"(n.)","description":"The catcher's wire mask."},{"word":"Caged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cage"},{"word":"Caging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cage"},{"word":"Cage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine."},{"word":"Caged","type":"(a.)","description":"Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison."},{"word":"Cageling","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird."},{"word":"Cagit","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands."},{"word":"Cagmag","type":"(n.)","description":"A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind."},{"word":"Cagot","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths."},{"word":"Cahier","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers."},{"word":"Cahier","type":"(n.)","description":"A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc."},{"word":"Cahincic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as, cahincic acid."},{"word":"Cahoot","type":"(n.)","description":"Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person."},{"word":"Caimacam","type":"(n.)","description":"The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey."},{"word":"Caiman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cayman."},{"word":"Cainozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cenozic."},{"word":"Caique","type":"(n.)","description":"A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size."},{"word":"Ca","type":"()","description":"The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution."},{"word":"Caird","type":"(n.)","description":"A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar."},{"word":"Cairn","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument."},{"word":"Cairn","type":"(n.)","description":"A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc."},{"word":"Cairngormstone","type":"()","description":"A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland."},{"word":"Caisson","type":"(n.)","description":"A chest to hold ammunition."},{"word":"Caisson","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber."},{"word":"Caisson","type":"(n.)","description":"A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach."},{"word":"Caisson","type":"(n.)","description":"A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level."},{"word":"Caisson","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins."},{"word":"Caisson","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it."},{"word":"Caisson","type":"(n.)","description":"A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits."},{"word":"Caitiff","type":"(a.)","description":"Captive; wretched; unfortunate."},{"word":"Caitiff","type":"(a.)","description":"Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable."},{"word":"Caitiff","type":"(n.)","description":"A captive; a prisoner."},{"word":"Caitiff","type":"(n.)","description":"A wretched or unfortunate man."},{"word":"Caitiff","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet."},{"word":"Cajeput","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cajuput."},{"word":"Cajoled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cajole"},{"word":"Cajoling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cajole"},{"word":"Cajole","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle."},{"word":"Cajolement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery."},{"word":"Cajoler","type":"(n.)","description":"A flatterer; a wheedler."},{"word":"Cajoleries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cajolery"},{"word":"Cajolery","type":"(n.)","description":"A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery."},{"word":"Cajuput","type":"(n.)","description":"A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste."},{"word":"Cajuputene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput."},{"word":"Cake","type":"(n.)","description":"A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake."},{"word":"Cake","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape."},{"word":"Cake","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes."},{"word":"Cake","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake."},{"word":"Cake","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form into a cake, or mass."},{"word":"Caked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cake"},{"word":"Caking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cake"},{"word":"Cake","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate."},{"word":"Cake","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cackle as a goose."},{"word":"Caking","type":"()","description":"See Coal."},{"word":"Cal","type":"(n.)","description":"Wolfram, an ore of tungsten."},{"word":"Calabar","type":"(n.)","description":"A district on the west coast of Africa."},{"word":"Calabarine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean."},{"word":"Calabash","type":"(n.)","description":"The common gourd (plant or fruit)."},{"word":"Calabash","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the calabash tree."},{"word":"Calabash","type":"(n.)","description":"A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd."},{"word":"Calaboose","type":"(n.)","description":"A prison; a jail."},{"word":"Calade","type":"(n.)","description":"A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches."},{"word":"Caladium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food."},{"word":"Calaite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral. See Turquoise."},{"word":"Calamanco","type":"(n.)","description":"A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked."},{"word":"Calamander","type":"()","description":"A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood."},{"word":"Calamar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Calamary"},{"word":"Calamary","type":"(n.)","description":"A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid."},{"word":"Calambac","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant wood; agalloch."},{"word":"Calambour","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers."},{"word":"Calamiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing reeds; reedy."},{"word":"Calamine","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc."},{"word":"Calamint","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme."},{"word":"Calamist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays upon a reed or pipe."},{"word":"Calamistrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To curl or friz, as the hair."},{"word":"Calamistration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of curling the hair."},{"word":"Calamistrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs."},{"word":"Calamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite."},{"word":"Calamitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable."},{"word":"Calamitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy."},{"word":"Calamities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calamity"},{"word":"Calamity","type":"(n.)","description":"Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals."},{"word":"Calamity","type":"(n.)","description":"A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery."},{"word":"Calami","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calamus"},{"word":"Calamus","type":"(n.)","description":"The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood."},{"word":"Calamus","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors."},{"word":"Calamus","type":"(n.)","description":"The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill."},{"word":"Calando","type":"(a.)","description":"Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness."},{"word":"Calash","type":"(n.)","description":"A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage."},{"word":"Calash","type":"(n.)","description":"In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front."},{"word":"Calash","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure."},{"word":"Calash","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage."},{"word":"Calaverite","type":"(n.)","description":"A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California."},{"word":"Calcaneal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries."},{"word":"-neums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calcaneum"},{"word":"-nea","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calcaneum"},{"word":"Calcaneum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare."},{"word":"Calcar","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit."},{"word":"Calcaria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calcar"},{"word":"Calcar","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla."},{"word":"Calcar","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight."},{"word":"Calcar","type":"(n.)","description":"A spur, or spurlike prominence."},{"word":"Calcar","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot."},{"word":"Calcarate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Calcarated"},{"word":"Calcarated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred."},{"word":"Calcarated","type":"(a.)","description":"Armed with a spur."},{"word":"Calcareo-argillaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths."},{"word":"Calcareo-bituminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen."},{"word":"Calcareo-siliceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths."},{"word":"Calcareous","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime."},{"word":"Calcareousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being calcareous."},{"word":"Calcariferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Lime-yielding; calciferous"},{"word":"Calcarine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain."},{"word":"Calcavella","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos."},{"word":"Calceated","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted with, or wearing, shoes."},{"word":"Calced","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites."},{"word":"Calcedon","type":"(n.)","description":"A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones."},{"word":"Calcedonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Calcedonian"},{"word":"Calcedonian","type":"(a.)","description":"See Chalcedonic."},{"word":"Calceiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate."},{"word":"Calceolaria","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name."},{"word":"Calceolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform."},{"word":"Calces","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Calx."},{"word":"Calcic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime."},{"word":"Calciferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime."},{"word":"Calcific","type":"(a.)","description":"Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles."},{"word":"Calcification","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue."},{"word":"Calcified","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous."},{"word":"Calciform","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form of chalk or lime."},{"word":"Calcified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calcify"},{"word":"Calcifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calcify"},{"word":"Calcify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime."},{"word":"Calcify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth."},{"word":"Calcigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc."},{"word":"Calcigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth."},{"word":"Calcimine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water."},{"word":"Calcimined","type":"(imp. &p. p.)","description":"of Calcimine"},{"word":"Calcimining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calcimine"},{"word":"Calcimine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls."},{"word":"Calciminer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who calcimines."},{"word":"Calcinable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil."},{"word":"Calcinate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To calcine."},{"word":"Calcination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime."},{"word":"Calcination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation."},{"word":"Calcinatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel used in calcination."},{"word":"Calciden","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calcine"},{"word":"Calcining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calcine"},{"word":"Calcine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones."},{"word":"Calcine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx."},{"word":"Calcine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat."},{"word":"Calciner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, calcines."},{"word":"Calcispongiae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera."},{"word":"Calcite","type":"(n.)","description":"Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar."},{"word":"Calcitrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory."},{"word":"Calcitrate","type":"(v. i. & i.)","description":"To kick."},{"word":"Calcitration","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of kicking."},{"word":"Calcium","type":"(n.)","description":"An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca."},{"word":"Calcivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eroding, or eating into, limestone."},{"word":"Calcographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices calcography."},{"word":"Calcographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Calcographical"},{"word":"Calcographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or in the style of, calcography."},{"word":"Calcography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of drawing with chalk."},{"word":"Calc-sinter","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Calcite."},{"word":"Calc-spar","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Calcite."},{"word":"Calc-tufa","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Calcite."},{"word":"Calculable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation."},{"word":"Calculary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to calculi."},{"word":"Calculary","type":"(n.)","description":"A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits."},{"word":"Calculater","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calculate"},{"word":"Calculating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calculate"},{"word":"Calculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute."},{"word":"Calculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity."},{"word":"Calculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people."},{"word":"Calculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To plan; to expect; to think."},{"word":"Calculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute."},{"word":"Calculated","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball."},{"word":"Calculated","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people."},{"word":"Calculated","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited."},{"word":"Calculating","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations."},{"word":"Calculating","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition."},{"word":"Calculating","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results."},{"word":"Calculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate."},{"word":"Calculation","type":"(n.)","description":"An expectation based on circumstances."},{"word":"Calculative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation."},{"word":"Calculator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects."},{"word":"Calculatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to calculation."},{"word":"Calcule","type":"(n.)","description":"Reckoning; computation."},{"word":"Calcule","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To calculate"},{"word":"Calculi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Calculus."},{"word":"Calculous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion."},{"word":"Calculous","type":"(a.)","description":"Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person."},{"word":"Calculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calculus"},{"word":"Calculus","type":"(n.)","description":"Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc."},{"word":"Calculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation."},{"word":"Caldron","type":"(n.)","description":"A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]"},{"word":"Caleche","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calash."},{"word":"Caledonia","type":"(n.)","description":"The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry."},{"word":"Caledonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch."},{"word":"Caledonian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland."},{"word":"Caledonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland."},{"word":"Calefacient","type":"(a.)","description":"Making warm; heating."},{"word":"Calefacient","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard."},{"word":"Calefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies."},{"word":"Calefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being heated."},{"word":"Calefactive","type":"(a.)","description":"See Calefactory."},{"word":"Calefactor","type":"(n.)","description":"A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc."},{"word":"Calefactory","type":"(a.)","description":"Making hot; producing or communicating heat."},{"word":"Calefactory","type":"(n.)","description":"An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room."},{"word":"Calefactory","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with."},{"word":"Calefied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calefy"},{"word":"Calefying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calefy"},{"word":"Calefy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make warm or hot."},{"word":"Calefy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow hot or warm."},{"word":"Calembour","type":"(n.)","description":"A pun."},{"word":"Calendar","type":"(n.)","description":"An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac."},{"word":"Calendar","type":"(n.)","description":"A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter."},{"word":"Calendar","type":"(n.)","description":"An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy."},{"word":"Calendared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calendar"},{"word":"Calendaring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calendar"},{"word":"Calendar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter or write in a calendar; to register."},{"word":"Calendarial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar."},{"word":"Calendary","type":"(a.)","description":"Calendarial."},{"word":"Calender","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating."},{"word":"Calender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pursues the business of calendering."},{"word":"Calendered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calender"},{"word":"Calendering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calender"},{"word":"Calender","type":"(n.)","description":"To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc."},{"word":"Calender","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes."},{"word":"Calendographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes calendars."},{"word":"Calendrer","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who calenders cloth; a calender."},{"word":"Calendric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Calendrical"},{"word":"Calendrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a calendar."},{"word":"Calends","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar."},{"word":"Calendula","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name."},{"word":"Calendulin","type":"(n.)","description":"A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin."},{"word":"Calenture","type":"(n.)","description":"A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it."},{"word":"Calenture","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture."},{"word":"Calescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Growing warmth; increasing heat."},{"word":"Calves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calf"},{"word":"Calf","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale."},{"word":"Calf","type":"(n.)","description":"Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf."},{"word":"Calf","type":"(n.)","description":"An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt."},{"word":"Calf","type":"(n.)","description":"A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man."},{"word":"Calf","type":"(n.)","description":"A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface."},{"word":"Calf","type":"(n.)","description":"The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee."},{"word":"Calfskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin."},{"word":"Cali","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu."},{"word":"Caliber","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Calibre"},{"word":"Calibre","type":"(n.)","description":"The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber."},{"word":"Calibre","type":"(n.)","description":"The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column."},{"word":"Calibre","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind."},{"word":"Calibrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments."},{"word":"Calibration","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument."},{"word":"Calice","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chalice."},{"word":"Calicle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian."},{"word":"Calicoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calico"},{"word":"Calico","type":"(n.)","description":"Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc."},{"word":"Calico","type":"(n.)","description":"Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern."},{"word":"Calico","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color."},{"word":"Calicoback","type":"(n.)","description":"The calico bass."},{"word":"Calicoback","type":"(n.)","description":"An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug."},{"word":"Calicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Caliculate"},{"word":"Caliculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate."},{"word":"Calid","type":"(a.)","description":"Hot; burning; ardent."},{"word":"Calidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat."},{"word":"Caliduct","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam."},{"word":"Calif","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Califate"},{"word":"Califate","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc."},{"word":"Californian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to California."},{"word":"Californian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of California."},{"word":"Caligation","type":"(n.)","description":"Dimness; cloudiness."},{"word":"Caliginosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Darkness."},{"word":"Caliginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure."},{"word":"Caligo","type":"(n.)","description":"Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself."},{"word":"Caligraphic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Calligraphic."},{"word":"Caligraphy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caligraphy."},{"word":"Calin","type":"(n.)","description":"An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters."},{"word":"Calipash","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle."},{"word":"Calipee","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy."},{"word":"Calipers","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses."},{"word":"Caliph","type":"(n.)","description":"Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey."},{"word":"Caliphate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs."},{"word":"Calippic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer."},{"word":"Calisaya","type":"()","description":"A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species."},{"word":"Calistheneum","type":"(n.)","description":"A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children."},{"word":"Calisthenis","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to calisthenics."},{"word":"Calisthenics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics."},{"word":"Caliver","type":"(n.)","description":"An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore."},{"word":"Calix","type":"(n.)","description":"A cup. See Calyx."},{"word":"Calked","type":"(imp. &p. p.)","description":"of Calk"},{"word":"Calking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calk"},{"word":"Calk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch."},{"word":"Calk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice."},{"word":"Calk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held."},{"word":"Calk","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin."},{"word":"Calk","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping."},{"word":"Calk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox."},{"word":"Calk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet."},{"word":"Calker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who calks."},{"word":"Calker","type":"(n.)","description":"A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1."},{"word":"Calkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1."},{"word":"Calking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing."},{"word":"Called","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Call"},{"word":"Calling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Call"},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invoke; to appeal to."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rouse from sleep; to awaken."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a demand, requirement, or request."},{"word":"Call","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"A divine vocation or summons."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"Vocation; employment."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on."},{"word":"Call","type":"(n.)","description":"See Assessment, 4."},{"word":"Calla","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, of the order Araceae."},{"word":"Callat","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Callet."},{"word":"Calle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of head covering; a caul."},{"word":"Caller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who calls."},{"word":"Caller","type":"(a.)","description":"Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air."},{"word":"Caller","type":"(a.)","description":"Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings."},{"word":"Callet","type":"(n.)","description":"A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip."},{"word":"Callet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rail or scold."},{"word":"Callid","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty."},{"word":"Callidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness."},{"word":"Calligrapher","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman."},{"word":"Calligraphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Calligraphical"},{"word":"Calligraphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to calligraphy."},{"word":"Calligraphist","type":"(n.)","description":"A calligrapher"},{"word":"Calligraphy","type":"(n.)","description":"Fair or elegant penmanship."},{"word":"Calling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one."},{"word":"Calling","type":"(n.)","description":"A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament."},{"word":"Calling","type":"(n.)","description":"A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called."},{"word":"Calling","type":"(n.)","description":"A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies."},{"word":"Calling","type":"(n.)","description":"One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade."},{"word":"Calling","type":"(n.)","description":"The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment."},{"word":"Calling","type":"(n.)","description":"Title; appellation; name."},{"word":"Calliope","type":"(n.)","description":"The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses."},{"word":"Calliope","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the asteroids. See Solar."},{"word":"Calliope","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers."},{"word":"Calliope","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions."},{"word":"Calliopsis","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas."},{"word":"Callipash","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calipash."},{"word":"Callipee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calipee."},{"word":"Callipers","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Calipers."},{"word":"Callisection","type":"(n.)","description":"Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection."},{"word":"Callisthenic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Callisthenics"},{"word":"Callisthenics","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calisthenic, Calisthenics."},{"word":"Callithump","type":"(n.)","description":"A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari."},{"word":"Callithumpian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump."},{"word":"Callosan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the callosum."},{"word":"Callose","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots."},{"word":"Callosities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Callosity"},{"word":"Callosity","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction."},{"word":"Callosum","type":"(n.)","description":"The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus."},{"word":"Callot","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte."},{"word":"Callous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hardened; indurated."},{"word":"Callous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible."},{"word":"Callow","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged."},{"word":"Callow","type":"(a.)","description":"Immature; boyish; \"green\"; as, a callow youth."},{"word":"Callow","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of duck. See Old squaw."},{"word":"Callus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Callosity"},{"word":"Callus","type":"(n.)","description":"The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece."},{"word":"Callus","type":"(n.)","description":"The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets."},{"word":"Calm","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity."},{"word":"Calmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calm"},{"word":"Calming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calm"},{"word":"Calm","type":"(n.)","description":"To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds."},{"word":"Calm","type":"(n.)","description":"To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions."},{"word":"Calm","type":"(super.)","description":"Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed."},{"word":"Calm","type":"(super.)","description":"Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech."},{"word":"Calmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, makes calm."},{"word":"Calmly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a calm manner."},{"word":"Calmness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose."},{"word":"Calmucks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks."},{"word":"Calmy","type":"(n.)","description":"Tranquil; peaceful; calm."},{"word":"Calomel","type":"(n.)","description":"Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver."},{"word":"Calorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility."},{"word":"Caloric","type":"(n.)","description":"The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat."},{"word":"Caloric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to caloric."},{"word":"Caloricity","type":"(n.)","description":"A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat."},{"word":"Caloriduct","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct."},{"word":"Calorie","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0� to 1�. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound."},{"word":"Calorifacient","type":"(a.)","description":"See Calorificient."},{"word":"Calorifere","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes."},{"word":"Calorifiant","type":"(a.)","description":"See Calorificient."},{"word":"Calorific","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating."},{"word":"Calorification","type":"(n.)","description":"Production of heat, esp. animal heat."},{"word":"Calorificient","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation."},{"word":"Calorimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc."},{"word":"Calorimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam."},{"word":"Calorimetric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter."},{"word":"Calorimetry","type":"(n.)","description":"Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies."},{"word":"Calorimotor","type":"(n.)","description":"A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects."},{"word":"Calotte","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Callot"},{"word":"Callot","type":"(n.)","description":"A close cap without visor or brim."},{"word":"Callot","type":"(n.)","description":"Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law."},{"word":"Callot","type":"(n.)","description":"Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets."},{"word":"Callot","type":"(n.)","description":"Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church."},{"word":"Calotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot."},{"word":"Caloyer","type":"(n.)","description":"A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos."},{"word":"Calque","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See 2d Calk, v. t."},{"word":"Caltrop","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caltrap"},{"word":"Caltrap","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle."},{"word":"Caltrap","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet."},{"word":"Calumba","type":"(n.)","description":"The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic."},{"word":"Calumbin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root."},{"word":"Calumet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers."},{"word":"Calumniated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calumniate"},{"word":"Calumniating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calumniate"},{"word":"Calumniate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel."},{"word":"Calumniate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime."},{"word":"Calumniation","type":"(n.)","description":"False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name."},{"word":"Calumniator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who calumniates."},{"word":"Calumniatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing calumny; slanderous."},{"word":"Calumnious","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports."},{"word":"Calumnies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calumny"},{"word":"Calumny","type":"(n.)","description":"False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction."},{"word":"Calvaria","type":"(n.)","description":"The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion."},{"word":"Calvary","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem."},{"word":"Calvary","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion."},{"word":"Calvary","type":"(n.)","description":"A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary."},{"word":"Calved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Calve"},{"word":"Calving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Calve"},{"word":"Calve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bring forth a calf."},{"word":"Calve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bring forth young; to produce offspring."},{"word":"Calver","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon."},{"word":"Calver","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crimp; as, calvered salmon."},{"word":"Calver","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver."},{"word":"Calvessnout","type":"(n.)","description":"Snapdragon."},{"word":"Calvinism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches."},{"word":"Calvinist","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism."},{"word":"Calvinistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Calvinistical"},{"word":"Calvinistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Calvin, or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism."},{"word":"Calvinize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert to Calvinism."},{"word":"Calvish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a calf; stupid."},{"word":"Calxes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calx"},{"word":"Calces","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calx"},{"word":"Calx","type":"(n.)","description":"Quicklime."},{"word":"Calx","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder."},{"word":"Calx","type":"(n.)","description":"Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post."},{"word":"Calycifloral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of callyciflorous"},{"word":"Callyciflorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle."},{"word":"Calyciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or appearance of a calyx."},{"word":"Calycinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Calycine"},{"word":"Calycine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx."},{"word":"Calycle","type":"(n.)","description":"A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside."},{"word":"Calycled","type":"(a.)","description":"Calyculate."},{"word":"Calycozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida."},{"word":"Calycular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle."},{"word":"Calyculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Calyculated"},{"word":"Calyculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx."},{"word":"Calymene","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age."},{"word":"Calyon","type":"(n.)","description":"Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc."},{"word":"Calypso","type":"(n.)","description":"A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68� N."},{"word":"Calyptra","type":"(n.)","description":"A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body."},{"word":"Calyptriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher."},{"word":"Calyxes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calyx"},{"word":"Calyces","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Calyx"},{"word":"Calyx","type":"(n.)","description":"The covering of a flower. See Flower."},{"word":"Calyx","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae."},{"word":"Calzoons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Drawers."},{"word":"Cam","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it."},{"word":"Cam","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together."},{"word":"Cam","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts."},{"word":"Cam","type":"(n.)","description":"A ridge or mound of earth."},{"word":"Cam","type":"(a.)","description":"Crooked."},{"word":"Camaieu","type":"(n.)","description":"A cameo."},{"word":"Camaieu","type":"(n.)","description":"Painting in shades of one color; monochrome."},{"word":"Camail","type":"(n.)","description":"A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece."},{"word":"Camail","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood of other material than mail;"},{"word":"Camail","type":"(n.)","description":"a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like."},{"word":"Camarasaurus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae."},{"word":"Camarilla","type":"(n.)","description":"The private audience chamber of a king."},{"word":"Camarilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique."},{"word":"Camass","type":"(n.)","description":"A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians."},{"word":"Camber","type":"(n.)","description":"An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck)."},{"word":"Camber","type":"(n.)","description":"An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback."},{"word":"Cambered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Camber"},{"word":"Cambering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Camber"},{"word":"Camber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve."},{"word":"Camber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To curve upward."},{"word":"Camberkeeled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship."},{"word":"Cambial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange."},{"word":"Cambist","type":"(n.)","description":"A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange."},{"word":"Cambistry","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc."},{"word":"Cambium","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft."},{"word":"Cambium","type":"(n.)","description":"A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase."},{"word":"Camblet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Camlet."},{"word":"Camboge","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gamboge."},{"word":"Camboose","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caboose."},{"word":"Cambrasine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric."},{"word":"Cambrel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gambrel, n., 2."},{"word":"Cambria","type":"(n.)","description":"The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets."},{"word":"Cambrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales."},{"word":"Cambrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology."},{"word":"Cambrian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Cambria or Wales."},{"word":"Cambrian","type":"(n.)","description":"The Cambrian formation."},{"word":"Cambric","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen."},{"word":"Cambric","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin."},{"word":"Cambro-Briton","type":"(n.)","description":"A Welshman."},{"word":"Came","type":"()","description":"imp. of Come."},{"word":"Came","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass."},{"word":"Camel","type":"(n.)","description":"A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicu�a, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia)."},{"word":"Camel","type":"(n.)","description":"A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted."},{"word":"Camel-backed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a back like a camel; humpbacked."},{"word":"Cameleon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chaceleon."},{"word":"Camellia","type":"(n.)","description":"An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea."},{"word":"Camelopard","type":"(n.)","description":"An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe."},{"word":"Camelot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Camelet."},{"word":"Camelshair","type":"(a.)","description":"Of camel's hair."},{"word":"Cameos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cameo"},{"word":"Cameo","type":"(n.)","description":"A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like."},{"word":"Cameras","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Camera"},{"word":"Camerae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Camera"},{"word":"Camera","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura."},{"word":"Camerade","type":"(n.)","description":"See Comrade."},{"word":"Cameralistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue."},{"word":"Cameralistics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of finance or public revenue."},{"word":"Camera","type":"()","description":"An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope."},{"word":"Camera","type":"()","description":"An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced."},{"word":"Camera","type":"()","description":"An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modified; -- commonly called simply the camera."},{"word":"Camerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Camerate"},{"word":"Camerzting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Camerate"},{"word":"Camerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To build in the form of a vault; to arch over."},{"word":"Camerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To divide into chambers."},{"word":"Cameration","type":"(n.)","description":"A vaulting or arching over."},{"word":"Camerlingo","type":"(n.)","description":"The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power."},{"word":"Cameronian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II."},{"word":"Camis","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, loose dress or robe."},{"word":"Camisade","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Camisado"},{"word":"Camisado","type":"(n.)","description":"A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack."},{"word":"Camisado","type":"(n.)","description":"An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado."},{"word":"Camisard","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore."},{"word":"Camisated","type":"(a.)","description":"Dressed with a shirt over the other garments."},{"word":"Camisole","type":"(n.)","description":"A short dressing jacket for women."},{"word":"Camisole","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of straitjacket."},{"word":"Camlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton."},{"word":"Camleted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined."},{"word":"Cammas","type":"(n.)","description":"See Camass."},{"word":"Cammock","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock."},{"word":"Camomile","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chamomile"},{"word":"Chamomile","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative."},{"word":"Camonflet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners."},{"word":"Camous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Camoys"},{"word":"Camoys","type":"(a.)","description":"Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose."},{"word":"Camoused","type":"(a.)","description":"Depressed; flattened."},{"word":"Camously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Awry."},{"word":"Camp","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc."},{"word":"Camp","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner."},{"word":"Camp","type":"(n.)","description":"A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp."},{"word":"Camp","type":"(n.)","description":"The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc."},{"word":"Camp","type":"(n.)","description":"A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie."},{"word":"Camp","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England."},{"word":"Camped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Camp"},{"word":"Camping","type":"(p. pr. & vb n.)","description":"of Camp"},{"word":"Camp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers."},{"word":"Camp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out."},{"word":"Camp","type":"(n.)","description":"To play the game called camp."},{"word":"Campagna","type":"(n.)","description":"An open level tract of country; especially \"Campagna di Roma.\" The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome."},{"word":"Campagnol","type":"(n.)","description":"A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds."},{"word":"Campaign","type":"(n.)","description":"An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign."},{"word":"Campaign","type":"(n.)","description":"A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field."},{"word":"Campaign","type":"(n.)","description":"Political operations preceding an election; a canvass."},{"word":"Campaign","type":"(n.)","description":"The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation."},{"word":"Campaign","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To serve in a campaign."},{"word":"Campaigner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran."},{"word":"Campana","type":"(n.)","description":"A church bell."},{"word":"Campana","type":"(n.)","description":"The pasque flower."},{"word":"Campana","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gutta."},{"word":"Campaned","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells."},{"word":"Campanero","type":"(n.)","description":"The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird."},{"word":"Campanes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Bells."},{"word":"Campania","type":"(n.)","description":"Open country."},{"word":"Campaniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Bell-shaped."},{"word":"Campanile","type":"(n.)","description":"A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church."},{"word":"Campaniliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform."},{"word":"Campanologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer."},{"word":"Campanology","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art."},{"word":"Campanula","type":"(n.)","description":"A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower."},{"word":"Campanulaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceae) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass."},{"word":"Campanularian","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae."},{"word":"Campanulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Bell-shaped."},{"word":"Campbellite","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3."},{"word":"Campeachy","type":"()","description":"Logwood."},{"word":"Camper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp."},{"word":"Campestral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Campestrian"},{"word":"Campestrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground."},{"word":"Camptight","type":"(n.)","description":"A duel; the decision of a case by a duel."},{"word":"Camphene","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes."},{"word":"Camphine","type":"(n.)","description":"Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes."},{"word":"Camphire","type":"(n.)","description":"An old spelling of Camphor."},{"word":"Camphogen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cymene."},{"word":"Camphol","type":"(n.)","description":"See Borneol."},{"word":"Camphor","type":"(n.)","description":"A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative."},{"word":"Camphor","type":"(n.)","description":"A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol."},{"word":"Camphor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate."},{"word":"Camphoraceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor."},{"word":"Camphorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate or treat with camphor."},{"word":"Camphorate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of camphoric acid."},{"word":"Camphorate","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Camporated"},{"word":"Camporated","type":"()","description":"Combined or impregnated with camphor."},{"word":"Camphoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor."},{"word":"Camphretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from camphor."},{"word":"Camping","type":"(n.)","description":"Lodging in a camp."},{"word":"Camping","type":"(n.)","description":"A game of football."},{"word":"Campion","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous."},{"word":"Campus","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus."},{"word":"Campylospermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely."},{"word":"Campylotropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together."},{"word":"Camus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Camis."},{"word":"Camwood","type":"(n.)","description":"See Barwood."},{"word":"Can","type":"()","description":"an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]"},{"word":"Can","type":"(n.)","description":"A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids."},{"word":"Can","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can."},{"word":"Canned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Can"},{"word":"Canning","type":"(p. pr. &vb. n.)","description":"of Can"},{"word":"Can","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preserve by putting in sealed cans"},{"word":"Could","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Can"},{"word":"Can","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To know; to understand."},{"word":"Can","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To be able to do; to have power or influence."},{"word":"Can","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to."},{"word":"Canaanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah."},{"word":"Canaanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt."},{"word":"Canaanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A zealot."},{"word":"Canaanitish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites."},{"word":"Ca�ada","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ca�on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley."},{"word":"Canada","type":"(n.)","description":"A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals."},{"word":"Canadian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Canada."},{"word":"Canadian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Canada."},{"word":"Canaille","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar."},{"word":"Canaille","type":"(n.)","description":"Shorts or inferior flour."},{"word":"Canakin","type":"(n.)","description":"A little can or cup."},{"word":"Canal","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc."},{"word":"Canal","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear."},{"word":"Canal","type":"()","description":"See Cannel coal."},{"word":"Canaliculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Canaliculated"},{"word":"Canaliculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms."},{"word":"Canaliculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canaliculus"},{"word":"Canaliculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute canal."},{"word":"Canalization","type":"(n.)","description":"Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals."},{"word":"Canard","type":"(n.)","description":"An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public."},{"word":"Canarese","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India."},{"word":"Canary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds."},{"word":"Canary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone."},{"word":"Canaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canary"},{"word":"Canary","type":"(n.)","description":"Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack."},{"word":"Canary","type":"(n.)","description":"A canary bird."},{"word":"Canary","type":"(n.)","description":"A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird."},{"word":"Canary","type":"(n.)","description":"A quick and lively dance."},{"word":"Canary","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper."},{"word":"Canary","type":"()","description":"A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch."},{"word":"Canaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America."},{"word":"Can","type":"()","description":"See under Buoy, n."},{"word":"Cancan","type":"(n.)","description":"A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures."},{"word":"Canceled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cancel"},{"word":"Cancelled","type":"()","description":"of Cancel"},{"word":"Canceling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cancel"},{"word":"Cancelling","type":"()","description":"of Cancel"},{"word":"Cancel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework."},{"word":"Cancel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude."},{"word":"Cancel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate."},{"word":"Cancel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall."},{"word":"Cancel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type."},{"word":"Cancel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"An inclosure; a boundary; a limit."},{"word":"Cancel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages."},{"word":"Cancel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The part thus suppressed."},{"word":"Cancelier","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk."},{"word":"Cancelier","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Canceleer"},{"word":"Canceleer","type":"(n.)","description":"The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop."},{"word":"Cancellarean","type":"(a.)","description":"Cancellarean."},{"word":"Cancellate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike."},{"word":"Cancellate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles."},{"word":"Cancellated","type":"(a.)","description":"Crossbarred; marked with cross lines."},{"word":"Cancellated","type":"(a.)","description":"Open or spongy, as some porous bones."},{"word":"Cancellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself."},{"word":"Cancellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor."},{"word":"Cancelli","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window."},{"word":"Cancelli","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities."},{"word":"Cancellous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones."},{"word":"Cancer","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab."},{"word":"Cancer","type":"(n.)","description":"The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic."},{"word":"Cancer","type":"(n.)","description":"A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo."},{"word":"Cancer","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework."},{"word":"Cancerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cancerate"},{"word":"Cancerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow into a canser; to become cancerous."},{"word":"Canceration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer."},{"word":"Cancerite","type":"(n.)","description":"Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer."},{"word":"Cancriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped."},{"word":"Cancriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a cancer; cancerous."},{"word":"Cancrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of a crab; crablike."},{"word":"Cancrinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide."},{"word":"Cancroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer."},{"word":"Cancroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor."},{"word":"Cand","type":"(n.)","description":"Fluor spar. See Kand."},{"word":"Candelabra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Candelabrum"},{"word":"Candelabrums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Candelabrum"},{"word":"Candelabrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A lamp stand of any sort."},{"word":"Candelabrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple."},{"word":"Candelabrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A large candlestick, having several branches."},{"word":"Candent","type":"(a.)","description":"Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat."},{"word":"Canderos","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made."},{"word":"Candescence","type":"(n.)","description":"See Incandescence."},{"word":"Candicant","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing white."},{"word":"Candid","type":"(a.)","description":"White."},{"word":"Candid","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion."},{"word":"Candid","type":"(a.)","description":"Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken."},{"word":"Candidacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship."},{"word":"Candidate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors."},{"word":"Candidateship","type":"(n.)","description":"Candidacy."},{"word":"Candidating","type":"(n.)","description":"The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement."},{"word":"Candidature","type":"(n.)","description":"Candidacy."},{"word":"Candidly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a candid manner."},{"word":"Candidness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being candid."},{"word":"Candied","type":"(a.)","description":"Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits."},{"word":"Candied","type":"(a.)","description":"Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup."},{"word":"Candied","type":"(a.)","description":"Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins"},{"word":"Candied","type":"(a.)","description":"Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering."},{"word":"Candied","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or candy."},{"word":"Candify","type":"(v. t. / v. i.)","description":"To make or become white, or candied."},{"word":"Candiot","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary."},{"word":"Candite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon."},{"word":"Candle","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light."},{"word":"Candle","type":"(n.)","description":"That which gives light; a luminary."},{"word":"Candleberry","type":"()","description":"A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry."},{"word":"Candlebomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam."},{"word":"Candlebomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes."},{"word":"Candle","type":"()","description":"See Cannel coal."},{"word":"Candlefish","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it"},{"word":"Candlefish","type":"(n.)","description":"The beshow."},{"word":"Candleholder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance."},{"word":"Candlelight","type":"(n.)","description":"The light of a candle."},{"word":"Candlemas","type":"(n.)","description":"The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day."},{"word":"Candlestick","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle."},{"word":"Candlewaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation."},{"word":"Candock","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum)."},{"word":"Candor","type":"(n.)","description":"Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence."},{"word":"Candor","type":"(n.)","description":"A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity."},{"word":"Candroy","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing."},{"word":"Candied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Candy"},{"word":"Candying","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Candy"},{"word":"Candy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger."},{"word":"Candy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup."},{"word":"Candy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy."},{"word":"Candy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time."},{"word":"Candy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass."},{"word":"Candy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc."},{"word":"Candy","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds."},{"word":"Candytuft","type":"(n.)","description":"An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia."},{"word":"Cane","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans."},{"word":"Cane","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane."},{"word":"Cane","type":"(n.)","description":"Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry."},{"word":"Cane","type":"(n.)","description":"A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane."},{"word":"Cane","type":"(n.)","description":"A lance or dart made of cane."},{"word":"Cane","type":"(n.)","description":"A local European measure of length. See Canna."},{"word":"Caned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cane"},{"word":"Caning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cane"},{"word":"Cane","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a cane."},{"word":"Cane","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs."},{"word":"Canebrake","type":"(n.)","description":"A thicket of canes."},{"word":"Caned","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother."},{"word":"Canella","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies."},{"word":"Canescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white."},{"word":"Can","type":"()","description":"A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves."},{"word":"Cannicula","type":"(n.)","description":"The Dog Star; Sirius."},{"word":"Canicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star."},{"word":"Canicule","type":"(n.)","description":"Canicula."},{"word":"Caninal","type":"(a.)","description":"See Canine, a."},{"word":"Canine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog."},{"word":"Canine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors."},{"word":"Canine","type":"(n.)","description":"A canine tooth."},{"word":"Canes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canis"},{"word":"Canis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves."},{"word":"Canister","type":"(n.)","description":"A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc."},{"word":"Canister","type":"(n.)","description":"A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc."},{"word":"Canister","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot."},{"word":"Canker","type":"(n.)","description":"A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma."},{"word":"Canker","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy."},{"word":"Canker","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off."},{"word":"Canker","type":"(n.)","description":"An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush."},{"word":"Canker","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose."},{"word":"Cankered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Canker"},{"word":"Cankering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Canker"},{"word":"Canker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume."},{"word":"Canker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infect or pollute; to corrupt."},{"word":"Canker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral."},{"word":"Canker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous."},{"word":"Canker-bit","type":"(a.)","description":"Eaten out by canker, or as by canker."},{"word":"Canker","type":"()","description":"The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose."},{"word":"Canker","type":"()","description":"That which blasts a blossom as a canker does."},{"word":"Cankered","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth."},{"word":"Cankered","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured."},{"word":"Cankeredly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fretfully; spitefully."},{"word":"Canker","type":"()","description":"A fly that preys on fruit."},{"word":"Cankerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Affecting like a canker."},{"word":"Canker","type":"()","description":"A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat."},{"word":"Cankerworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms."},{"word":"Cankery","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a canker; full of canker."},{"word":"Cankery","type":"(a.)","description":"Surly; sore; malignant."},{"word":"Canna","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4."},{"word":"Canna","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States."},{"word":"Cannabene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties."},{"word":"Cannabin","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin."},{"word":"Cannabine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to hemp; hempen."},{"word":"Cannabis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp."},{"word":"Cannel","type":"()","description":"A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles."},{"word":"Cannery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on."},{"word":"Cannibal","type":"(n.)","description":"A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind."},{"word":"Cannibal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to cannibals or cannibalism."},{"word":"Cannibalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity."},{"word":"Cannibally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of cannibal."},{"word":"Cannikin","type":"(n.)","description":"A small can or drinking vessel."},{"word":"Cannily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a canny manner."},{"word":"Canniness","type":"(n.)","description":"Caution; crafty management."},{"word":"Cannons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cannon"},{"word":"Cannon","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cannon"},{"word":"Cannon","type":"(n.)","description":"A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force."},{"word":"Cannon","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently."},{"word":"Cannon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of type. See Canon."},{"word":"Cannon","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Carom."},{"word":"Cannonade","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance."},{"word":"Cannonade","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming."},{"word":"Cannonade","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cannonade"},{"word":"Cannonading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cannonade"},{"word":"Cannonade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot."},{"word":"Cannonade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day."},{"word":"Cannon","type":"()","description":"See Canon Bone."},{"word":"Cannoned","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with cannon."},{"word":"Cannoneer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cannonier"},{"word":"Cannonier","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who manages, or fires, cannon."},{"word":"Cannonering","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of cannon."},{"word":"Cannonry","type":"(n.)","description":"Cannon, collectively; artillery."},{"word":"Cannot","type":"()","description":"Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two."},{"word":"Cannula","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar."},{"word":"Cannular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a tube; tubular."},{"word":"Cannulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle."},{"word":"Canny","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cannei"},{"word":"Cannei","type":"(a.)","description":"Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary."},{"word":"Cannei","type":"(a.)","description":"Skillful; knowing; capable."},{"word":"Cannei","type":"(a.)","description":"Cautious; prudent; safe.."},{"word":"Cannei","type":"(a.)","description":"Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle."},{"word":"Cannei","type":"(a.)","description":"Reputed to have magical powers."},{"word":"Canoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canoe"},{"word":"Canoe","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder."},{"word":"Canoe","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages."},{"word":"Canoe","type":"(n.)","description":"A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast."},{"word":"Canoed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Canoe"},{"word":"Canoeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Canoe"},{"word":"Canoe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe."},{"word":"Canoeing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of using a canoe."},{"word":"Canoeist","type":"(n.)","description":"A canoeman."},{"word":"Canoemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canoeman"},{"word":"Canoeman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"A law or rule."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank."},{"word":"Canon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carom."},{"word":"Ca�on","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses."},{"word":"Canon","type":"()","description":"That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth."},{"word":"Canon","type":"()","description":"The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse."},{"word":"Canoness","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter."},{"word":"Canonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cannonical"},{"word":"Cannonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons."},{"word":"Canonically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a canonical manner; according to the canons."},{"word":"Canonicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being canonical; canonicity."},{"word":"Canonicals","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress."},{"word":"Canonicate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a canon; a canonry."},{"word":"Canonicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon."},{"word":"Canonist","type":"(n.)","description":"A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law."},{"word":"Canonistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a canonist."},{"word":"Canonization","type":"(n.)","description":"The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation."},{"word":"Canonization","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being canonized or sainted."},{"word":"Canonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Canonize"},{"word":"Canonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Canonize"},{"word":"Canonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized."},{"word":"Canonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor."},{"word":"Canonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rate as inspired; to include in the canon."},{"word":"Canonry","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon."},{"word":"Canonship","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming."},{"word":"Canopus","type":"(n.)","description":"A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo."},{"word":"Canopies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canopy"},{"word":"Canopy","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor."},{"word":"Canopy","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc."},{"word":"Canopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc."},{"word":"Canopes","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Canopy"},{"word":"Canopying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Canopy"},{"word":"Canopy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or as with, a canopy."},{"word":"Canorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Melodious; musical."},{"word":"Canorousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being musical."},{"word":"Canstick","type":"(n.)","description":"Candlestick."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"A corner; angle; niche."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer or external angle."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads."},{"word":"Canted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cant"},{"word":"Canting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cant"},{"word":"Cant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"An affected, singsong mode of speaking."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(n.)","description":"A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction."},{"word":"Cant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction."},{"word":"Can't","type":"()","description":"A colloquial contraction for can not."},{"word":"Cantab","type":"(n.)","description":"A Cantabrigian."},{"word":"Cantabile","type":"(a.)","description":"In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando."},{"word":"Cantabile","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena."},{"word":"Cantabrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain."},{"word":"Cantabrigian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England."},{"word":"Cantalever","type":"(n.)","description":"A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like."},{"word":"Cantalever","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs."},{"word":"Cantaloupe","type":"(n.)","description":"A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color."},{"word":"Cantankerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious."},{"word":"Cantar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cantarro"},{"word":"Cantarro","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds."},{"word":"Cantarro","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons."},{"word":"Cantata","type":"(n.)","description":"A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody."},{"word":"Cantation","type":"(n.)","description":"A singing."},{"word":"Cantatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing."},{"word":"Cantatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A female professional singer."},{"word":"Canted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window."},{"word":"Canted","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping."},{"word":"Canteen","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink."},{"word":"Canteen","type":"(n.)","description":"The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers."},{"word":"Cantel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cantle."},{"word":"Canter","type":"(n.)","description":"A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding."},{"word":"Canter","type":"(n.)","description":"A rapid or easy passing over."},{"word":"Cantered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Canter"},{"word":"Cantering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Canter"},{"word":"Canter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move in a canter."},{"word":"Canter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter."},{"word":"Canter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cants or whines; a beggar."},{"word":"Canter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language."},{"word":"Canterbury","type":"(n.)","description":"A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made."},{"word":"Canterbury","type":"(n.)","description":"A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc."},{"word":"Cantharidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster."},{"word":"Cantharides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Cantharis."},{"word":"Cantharidin","type":"(n.)","description":"The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms."},{"word":"Cantharides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cantharis"},{"word":"Cantharis","type":"(n.)","description":"A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine."},{"word":"Cant","type":"()","description":"A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc."},{"word":"Canthoplasty","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease."},{"word":"Canthi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canthus"},{"word":"Canthus","type":"(n.)","description":"The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye."},{"word":"Canticles","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canticle"},{"word":"Canticle","type":"(n.)","description":"A song; esp. a little song or hymn."},{"word":"Canticle","type":"(n.)","description":"The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament."},{"word":"Canticle","type":"(n.)","description":"A canto or division of a poem"},{"word":"Canticle","type":"(n.)","description":"A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service."},{"word":"Canticoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A social gathering; usually, one for dancing."},{"word":"Cantile","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Same as Cantle, v. t."},{"word":"Cantilena","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cantabile."},{"word":"Cantilever","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cantalever."},{"word":"Cantillate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chant; to recite with musical tones."},{"word":"Cantillation","type":"(n.)","description":"A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations."},{"word":"Cantine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Canteen."},{"word":"Canting","type":"(a.)","description":"Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone."},{"word":"Canting","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of cant; hypocrisy."},{"word":"Cantiniere","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandiere."},{"word":"Cantion","type":"(n.)","description":"A song or verses."},{"word":"Cantle","type":"(n.)","description":"A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part."},{"word":"Cantle","type":"(n.)","description":"The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel."},{"word":"Cantle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut in pieces; to cut out from."},{"word":"Cantlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece; a fragment; a corner."},{"word":"Cantos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Canto"},{"word":"Canto","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book."},{"word":"Canto","type":"(n.)","description":"The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano."},{"word":"Canton","type":"(n.)","description":"A song or canto"},{"word":"Canton","type":"(n.)","description":"A small portion; a division; a compartment."},{"word":"Canton","type":"(n.)","description":"A small community or clan."},{"word":"Canton","type":"(n.)","description":"A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement."},{"word":"Canton","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side."},{"word":"Cantoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Canton"},{"word":"Cantoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Canton"},{"word":"Canton","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division."},{"word":"Canton","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops."},{"word":"Cantonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton."},{"word":"Canton","type":"()","description":"A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape."},{"word":"Cantoned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself."},{"word":"Cantoned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster."},{"word":"Canton","type":"()","description":"See Cotton flannel."},{"word":"Cantonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To divide into cantons or small districts."},{"word":"Cantonment","type":"(n.)","description":"A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters."},{"word":"Cantoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other."},{"word":"Cantor","type":"(n.)","description":"A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor."},{"word":"Cantoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to a cantor."},{"word":"Cantoris","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall."},{"word":"Cantrap","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cantrip"},{"word":"Cantrip","type":"(n.)","description":"A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief."},{"word":"Cantred","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cantref"},{"word":"Cantref","type":"(n.)","description":"A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales."},{"word":"Canty","type":"(a.)","description":"Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry."},{"word":"Canuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A Canadian."},{"word":"Canuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A small or medium-sized hardy horse, common in Canada."},{"word":"Canula","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Canulated"},{"word":"Canular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Canulated"},{"word":"Canulated","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cannula, Cannular, and Cannulated."},{"word":"Canvas","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc."},{"word":"Canvas","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work."},{"word":"Canvas","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil."},{"word":"Canvas","type":"(n.)","description":"Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas."},{"word":"Canvas","type":"(n.)","description":"A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make."},{"word":"Canvas","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent."},{"word":"Canvasback","type":"(n.)","description":"A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back."},{"word":"Canvassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Canvass"},{"word":"Canvassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Canvass"},{"word":"Canvass","type":"(n.)","description":"To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote."},{"word":"Canvass","type":"(n.)","description":"To examine by discussion; to debate."},{"word":"Canvass","type":"(n.)","description":"To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions."},{"word":"Canvass","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; -- commonly followed by for."},{"word":"Canvass","type":"(n.)","description":"Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a canvass of votes."},{"word":"Canvass","type":"(n.)","description":"Examination in the way of discussion or debate."},{"word":"Canvass","type":"(n.)","description":"Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to obtain votes, subscribers, etc."},{"word":"Canvasser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who canvasses."},{"word":"Cany","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes."},{"word":"Canyon","type":"(n.)","description":"The English form of the Spanish word Ca�on."},{"word":"Canzone","type":"(n.)","description":"A song or air for one or more voices, of Provencal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal."},{"word":"Canzone","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrumental piece in the madrigal style."},{"word":"Canzonet","type":"(n.)","description":"A short song, in one or more parts."},{"word":"Caoutchin","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc."},{"word":"Caoutchouc","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization."},{"word":"Caoutchoucin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caoutchin."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for the head"},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys"},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants"},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"The top, or uppermost part; the chief."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"A respectful uncovering of the head."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use"},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"A percussion cap. See under Percussion."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"The removable cover of a journal box."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of a spherical or other convex surface."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(n.)","description":"A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap."},{"word":"Capped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cap"},{"word":"Capping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cap"},{"word":"Cap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of cap."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To salute by removing the cap."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs."},{"word":"Cap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To uncover the head respectfully."},{"word":"Capabilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Capability"},{"word":"Capability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability."},{"word":"Capability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity of being used or improved."},{"word":"Capable","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault."},{"word":"Capable","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations."},{"word":"Capable","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will."},{"word":"Capable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capacious; large; comprehensive."},{"word":"Capableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency."},{"word":"Capacified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Capacify"},{"word":"Capacify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quality."},{"word":"Capacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor."},{"word":"Capacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal."},{"word":"Capaciosly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively."},{"word":"Capaciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc."},{"word":"Capacitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Capacitate"},{"word":"Capacitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Capacitate"},{"word":"Capacitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render capable; to enable; to qualify."},{"word":"Capacities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Capacity"},{"word":"Capacity","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things."},{"word":"Capacity","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling."},{"word":"Capacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing."},{"word":"Capacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter."},{"word":"Capacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency."},{"word":"Capape","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Cap-a-pie."},{"word":"Capapie","type":"(adv.)","description":"From head to foot; at all points."},{"word":"Caparison","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative."},{"word":"Caparison","type":"(n.)","description":"Gay or rich clothing."},{"word":"Caparisoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caparison"},{"word":"Caparisoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caparison"},{"word":"Caparison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse."},{"word":"Caparison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To aborn with rich dress; to dress."},{"word":"Caparro","type":"(n.)","description":"A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail."},{"word":"Capcase","type":"(n.)","description":"A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest."},{"word":"Cape","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland."},{"word":"Cape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south."},{"word":"Cape","type":"(n.)","description":"A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak."},{"word":"Cape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gape."},{"word":"Capel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caple"},{"word":"Caple","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse; a nag."},{"word":"Capel","type":"(n.)","description":"A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes."},{"word":"Capelan","type":"(n.)","description":"See Capelin."},{"word":"Capelin","type":"(n.)","description":"A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod."},{"word":"Cappeline","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb."},{"word":"Capella","type":"(n.)","description":"A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga."},{"word":"Capellane","type":"(n.)","description":"The curate of a chapel; a chaplain."},{"word":"Capelle","type":"(n.)","description":"The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church."},{"word":"Capellet","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down."},{"word":"Capellmeister","type":"(n.)","description":"The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master."},{"word":"Capered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caper"},{"word":"Capering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caper"},{"word":"Caper","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance."},{"word":"Caper","type":"(n.)","description":"A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank."},{"word":"Caper","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer."},{"word":"Caper","type":"(n.)","description":"The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles."},{"word":"Caper","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree."},{"word":"Caperberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment."},{"word":"Caperberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado)."},{"word":"Caper","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Caper tree"},{"word":"Caper","type":"()","description":"See Capper, a plant, 2."},{"word":"Capercailzie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Capercally"},{"word":"Capercally","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods."},{"word":"Caperclaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse."},{"word":"Caperer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances."},{"word":"Capful","type":"(n.)","description":"As much as will fill a cap."},{"word":"Capias","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias."},{"word":"Capibara","type":"(n.)","description":"See Capybara."},{"word":"Capillaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary."},{"word":"Capillaire","type":"(n.)","description":"A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties."},{"word":"Capillaire","type":"(n.)","description":"Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers."},{"word":"Capillament","type":"(n.)","description":"A filament."},{"word":"Capillament","type":"(n.)","description":"Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves."},{"word":"Capillariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being capillary."},{"word":"Capillarity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being capillary."},{"word":"Capillarity","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction."},{"word":"Capillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants."},{"word":"Capillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action."},{"word":"Capillary","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute."},{"word":"Capillary","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels."},{"word":"Capillation","type":"(n.)","description":"A capillary blood vessel."},{"word":"Capillature","type":"(n.)","description":"A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair."},{"word":"Capilliform","type":"(a.)","description":"In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs."},{"word":"Capillose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having much hair; hairy."},{"word":"Capistrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Hooded; cowled."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the head."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(n.)","description":"Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(n.)","description":"First in importance; chief; principal."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(n.)","description":"Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(n.)","description":"Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(n.)","description":"The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(n.)","description":"The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(n.)","description":"Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(a.)","description":"That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(a.)","description":"Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(a.)","description":"An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(a.)","description":"A chapter, or section, of a book."},{"word":"Capital","type":"(a.)","description":"See Capital letter, under Capital, a."},{"word":"Capitalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business."},{"word":"Capitalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of capitalizing."},{"word":"Capitalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Capitalize"},{"word":"Capitalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Capitalize"},{"word":"Capitalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into capital, or to use as capital."},{"word":"Capitalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)"},{"word":"Capitalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital."},{"word":"Capitally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally."},{"word":"Capitally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a capital manner; excellently."},{"word":"Capitalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being capital; preeminence."},{"word":"Capitan","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Pacha"},{"word":"Pacha","type":"()","description":"The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet."},{"word":"Capitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers."},{"word":"Capitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the flowers gathered into a head."},{"word":"Capitatim","type":"(a.)","description":"Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant."},{"word":"Capitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A numbering of heads or individuals."},{"word":"Capitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax."},{"word":"Capite","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Tenant."},{"word":"Capitellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula."},{"word":"Capitibranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola."},{"word":"Capitol","type":"()","description":"The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met."},{"word":"Capitol","type":"()","description":"The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse."},{"word":"Capitolian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Capitoline"},{"word":"Capitoline","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome."},{"word":"Capitula","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Capitulum."},{"word":"Capitular","type":"(n.)","description":"An act passed in a chapter."},{"word":"Capitular","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a chapter."},{"word":"Capitular","type":"(n.)","description":"The head or prominent part."},{"word":"Capitular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary."},{"word":"Capitular","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum."},{"word":"Capitular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib."},{"word":"Capitularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter."},{"word":"Capitularies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Capitulary"},{"word":"Capitulary","type":"(n.)","description":"A capitular."},{"word":"Capitulary","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council."},{"word":"Capitulary","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections."},{"word":"Capitulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular."},{"word":"Capitulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Capitulate"},{"word":"Capitulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Capitulate"},{"word":"Capitulate","type":"(n.)","description":"To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree."},{"word":"Capitulate","type":"(n.)","description":"To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates."},{"word":"Capitulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions."},{"word":"Capitulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement."},{"word":"Capitulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms."},{"word":"Capitulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender."},{"word":"Capitulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who capitulates."},{"word":"Capitule","type":"(n.)","description":"A summary."},{"word":"Capitulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat."},{"word":"Capitulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]"},{"word":"Capivi","type":"(n.)","description":"A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba."},{"word":"Caple","type":"(n.)","description":"See Capel."},{"word":"Caplin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Capelin."},{"word":"Caplin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Capling"},{"word":"Capling","type":"(n.)","description":"The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel."},{"word":"Capnomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke."},{"word":"Capnomor","type":"(n.)","description":"A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar."},{"word":"Capoc","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc."},{"word":"Capoches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Capoch"},{"word":"Capoch","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk."},{"word":"Capoched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Capoch"},{"word":"Capoch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind."},{"word":"Capon","type":"(n.)","description":"A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table."},{"word":"Capon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To castrate; to make a capon of."},{"word":"Caponet","type":"(n.)","description":"A young capon."},{"word":"Caponiere","type":"(n.)","description":"A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway."},{"word":"Caponize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To castrate, as a fowl."},{"word":"Capot","type":"(n.)","description":"A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points."},{"word":"Capotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Capot"},{"word":"Capot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet."},{"word":"Capote","type":"(n.)","description":"A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood."},{"word":"Capouch","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"Same as Capoch."},{"word":"Cappadine","type":"(n.)","description":"A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag."},{"word":"Cappaper","type":"()","description":"See cap, n., also Paper, n."},{"word":"Cappeak","type":"(n.)","description":"The front piece of a cap; -- now more commonly called visor."},{"word":"Cappella","type":"(n.)","description":"See A cappella."},{"word":"Capper","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose business is to make or sell caps."},{"word":"Capper","type":"(n.)","description":"A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.]."},{"word":"Capper","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge."},{"word":"Capping","type":"()","description":"A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails."},{"word":"Capra","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ruminants, including the common goat."},{"word":"Caprate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of capric acid."},{"word":"Capreolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a tendril or tendrils."},{"word":"Capreoline","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the roebuck."},{"word":"Capric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives."},{"word":"Cariccio","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice."},{"word":"Cariccio","type":"(n.)","description":"A caprice; a freak; a fancy."},{"word":"Capricioso","type":"(a.)","description":"In a free, fantastic style."},{"word":"Caprice","type":"(v. i.)","description":"An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion."},{"word":"Caprice","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Capriccio."},{"word":"Capricious","type":"(a.)","description":"Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable."},{"word":"Capricorn","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic."},{"word":"Capricorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish."},{"word":"Caprid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type."},{"word":"Caprification","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects."},{"word":"Caprifole","type":"(n.)","description":"The woodbine or honeysuckle."},{"word":"Caprifoliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacae."},{"word":"Capriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a goat."},{"word":"Caprigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the goat kind."},{"word":"Caprine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols."},{"word":"Capriole","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap."},{"word":"Capriole","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A leap or caper, as in dancing."},{"word":"Capriole","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform a capriole."},{"word":"Capriped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having feet like those of a goat."},{"word":"Caproate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of caproic acid."},{"word":"Caproic","type":"(a.)","description":"See under Capric."},{"word":"Caprylate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of caprylic acid."},{"word":"Caprylic","type":"(a.)","description":"See under Capric."},{"word":"Capsaicin","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity."},{"word":"Capsheaf","type":"(n.)","description":"The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing."},{"word":"Capsicin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum."},{"word":"Capsicine","type":"(n.)","description":"A volatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or from capsicin."},{"word":"Capsicum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce."},{"word":"Capsized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Capsize"},{"word":"Capsizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Capsize"},{"word":"Capsize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body."},{"word":"Capsize","type":"(n.)","description":"An upset or overturn."},{"word":"Capsquare","type":"(n.)","description":"A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place."},{"word":"Capstan","type":"(n.)","description":"A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket."},{"word":"Capstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap."},{"word":"Capsular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Capsulary"},{"word":"Capsulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous."},{"word":"Capsulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Capsulated"},{"word":"Capsulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box."},{"word":"Capsule","type":"(n.)","description":"a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc."},{"word":"Capsule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier."},{"word":"Capsule","type":"(n.)","description":"a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain."},{"word":"Capsule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed."},{"word":"Capsule","type":"(n.)","description":"A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ."},{"word":"Capsule","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle."},{"word":"Capsule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"A head, or chief officer"},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"The foreman of a body of workmen."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(n.)","description":"A military leader; a warrior."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act as captain of; to lead."},{"word":"Captain","type":"(a.)","description":"Chief; superior."},{"word":"Captaincy","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank, post, or commission of a captain."},{"word":"Captainry","type":"(n.)","description":"Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship."},{"word":"Captainship","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander."},{"word":"Captainship","type":"(n.)","description":"Military skill; as, to show good captainship."},{"word":"Captation","type":"(n.)","description":"A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction."},{"word":"Caption","type":"(n.)","description":"A caviling; a sophism."},{"word":"Caption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process."},{"word":"Caption","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed."},{"word":"Caption","type":"(n.)","description":"The heading of a chapter, section, or page."},{"word":"Captious","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please."},{"word":"Captious","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome."},{"word":"Captiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a captious manner."},{"word":"Captiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Captious disposition or manner."},{"word":"Captivated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Captivate"},{"word":"Captivating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Captivate"},{"word":"Captivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue."},{"word":"Captivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts."},{"word":"Captivate","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed."},{"word":"Captivating","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to captivate or charm; fascinating; as, captivating smiles."},{"word":"Captivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of captivating."},{"word":"Captive","type":"(n.)","description":"A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another."},{"word":"Captive","type":"(n.)","description":"One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated."},{"word":"Captive","type":"(a.)","description":"Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement."},{"word":"Captive","type":"(a.)","description":"Subdued by love; charmed; captivated."},{"word":"Captive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours."},{"word":"Captived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Captive"},{"word":"Captiving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Captive"},{"word":"Captive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take prisoner; to capture."},{"word":"Captivity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a captive or a prisoner."},{"word":"Captivity","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage."},{"word":"Captor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize."},{"word":"Capture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal."},{"word":"Capture","type":"(n.)","description":"The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction."},{"word":"Capture","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey."},{"word":"Captured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Capture"},{"word":"Capturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Capture"},{"word":"Capture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort."},{"word":"Capuccio","type":"(n.)","description":"A capoch or hood."},{"word":"Capuched","type":"(a.)","description":"Cover with, or as with, a hood."},{"word":"Capuchin","type":"(n.)","description":"A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis."},{"word":"Capuchin","type":"(n.)","description":"A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks."},{"word":"Capuchin","type":"(n.)","description":"A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai."},{"word":"Capuchin","type":"(n.)","description":"Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella."},{"word":"Capuchin","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck."},{"word":"Capucine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Capuchin, 3."},{"word":"Capulet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Capellet."},{"word":"Capulin","type":"(n.)","description":"The Mexican cherry (Prunus Capollin)."},{"word":"Capita","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caput"},{"word":"Caput","type":"(n.)","description":"The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum."},{"word":"Caput","type":"(n.)","description":"The top or superior part of a thing."},{"word":"Caput","type":"(n.)","description":"The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856."},{"word":"Capybara","type":"(n.)","description":"A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog."},{"word":"Car","type":"(n.)","description":"A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart."},{"word":"Car","type":"(n.)","description":"A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad."},{"word":"Car","type":"(n.)","description":"A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity."},{"word":"Car","type":"(n.)","description":"The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper."},{"word":"Car","type":"(n.)","description":"The cage of a lift or elevator."},{"word":"Car","type":"(n.)","description":"The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc."},{"word":"Car","type":"(n.)","description":"A floating perforated box for living fish."},{"word":"Carabid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidae."},{"word":"Carabid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles."},{"word":"Carabine","type":"(n.)","description":"A carbine."},{"word":"Carabineer","type":"(n.)","description":"A carbineer."},{"word":"Caraboid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus."},{"word":"Carabus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects."},{"word":"Carac","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carack."},{"word":"Caracal","type":"(n.)","description":"A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs."},{"word":"Caracara","type":"(n.)","description":"A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards."},{"word":"Carack","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon."},{"word":"Caracole","type":"(n.)","description":"A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left."},{"word":"Caracole","type":"(n.)","description":"A staircase in a spiral form."},{"word":"Caracoled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caracole"},{"word":"Caracole","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel."},{"word":"Caracoly","type":"(n.)","description":"An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made."},{"word":"Caracore","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caracora"},{"word":"Caracora","type":"(n.)","description":"A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies."},{"word":"Carafe","type":"(n.)","description":"A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft."},{"word":"Carageen","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caragheen"},{"word":"Caragheen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carrageen."},{"word":"Carambola","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry."},{"word":"Caramel","type":"(n.)","description":"Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc."},{"word":"Caramel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor."},{"word":"Carangoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish."},{"word":"Caranx","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel."},{"word":"Carapace","type":"(n.)","description":"The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals."},{"word":"Carapato","type":"(n.)","description":"A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast."},{"word":"Carapax","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carapace."},{"word":"Carat","type":"(n.)","description":"The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed."},{"word":"Carat","type":"(n.)","description":"A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold."},{"word":"Caravan","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa."},{"word":"Caravan","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts."},{"word":"Caravan","type":"(n.)","description":"A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van."},{"word":"Caravaneer","type":"(n.)","description":"The leader or driver of the camels in caravan."},{"word":"Caravansaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caravansary"},{"word":"Caravansary","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court."},{"word":"Caravel","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several kinds of vessels."},{"word":"Caravel","type":"(n.)","description":"The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage."},{"word":"Caravel","type":"(n.)","description":"A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden."},{"word":"Caravel","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fishing boat used on the French coast."},{"word":"Caravel","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish man-of-war."},{"word":"Caraway","type":"(n.)","description":"A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative."},{"word":"Caraway","type":"(n.)","description":"A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds."},{"word":"Carbamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an acid so called."},{"word":"Carbamide","type":"(n.)","description":"The technical name for urea."},{"word":"Carbamine","type":"(n.)","description":"An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor."},{"word":"Carbanil","type":"(n.)","description":"A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid."},{"word":"Carbazol","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines."},{"word":"Carbazotate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate."},{"word":"Carbazotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen."},{"word":"Carbide","type":"(n.)","description":"A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet."},{"word":"Carbimide","type":"(n.)","description":"The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic."},{"word":"Carbine","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry."},{"word":"Carbineer","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier armed with a carbine."},{"word":"Carbinol","type":"(n.)","description":"Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type."},{"word":"Carbohydrate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6."},{"word":"Carbohydride","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon."},{"word":"Carbolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol."},{"word":"Carbolize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid."},{"word":"Carbon","type":"(n.)","description":"An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite."},{"word":"Carbonaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon."},{"word":"Carbonade","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Carbonado"},{"word":"Carbonado","type":"(n.)","description":"Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop."},{"word":"Carbonadoed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carbonade"},{"word":"Carbonadoing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carbonade"},{"word":"Carbonado","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Carbonade"},{"word":"Carbonade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil."},{"word":"Carbonade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut or hack, as in fighting."},{"word":"Carbonadoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carbonado"},{"word":"Carbonado","type":"(n.)","description":"A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous."},{"word":"Carbonarism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari."},{"word":"Carbonari","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carbonaro"},{"word":"Carbonaro","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic."},{"word":"Carbonatation","type":"(n.)","description":"The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas."},{"word":"Carbonate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc."},{"word":"Carbonated","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid."},{"word":"Carbone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To broil. [Obs.] \"We had a calf's head carboned\"."},{"word":"Carbonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide."},{"word":"Carbonide","type":"(n.)","description":"A carbide."},{"word":"Carboniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing or containing carbon or coal."},{"word":"Carbonization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of carbonizing."},{"word":"Carbonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carbonize"},{"word":"Carbonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carbonize"},{"word":"Carbonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char."},{"word":"Carbonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation."},{"word":"Carbonometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means."},{"word":"Carbonyl","type":"(n.)","description":"The radical (CO)'', occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc."},{"word":"Carbostyril","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids."},{"word":"Carboxide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide."},{"word":"Carboxyl","type":"(n.)","description":"The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl."},{"word":"Carboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc."},{"word":"Carbuncle","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet."},{"word":"Carbuncle","type":"(n.)","description":"A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax."},{"word":"Carbuncle","type":"(n.)","description":"A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle."},{"word":"Carbuncled","type":"(a.)","description":"Set with carbuncles."},{"word":"Carbuncled","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched."},{"word":"Carbuncular","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed."},{"word":"Carbunculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold."},{"word":"Carburet","type":"(n.)","description":"A carbide. See Carbide"},{"word":"Carbureted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carburet"},{"word":"Carburetted","type":"()","description":"of Carburet"},{"word":"Carbureting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carburet"},{"word":"Carburetting","type":"()","description":"of Carburet"},{"word":"Carburet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize."},{"word":"Carburetant","type":"(n.)","description":"Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases."},{"word":"Carbureted","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide."},{"word":"Carbureted","type":"(a.)","description":"Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power."},{"word":"Carburetor","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power."},{"word":"Carburization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or result of carburizing."},{"word":"Carburized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carburize"},{"word":"Carburizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carburize"},{"word":"Carburize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons."},{"word":"Carcajou","type":"(n.)","description":"The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene."},{"word":"Carcanet","type":"(n.)","description":"A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar."},{"word":"Carcase","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carcass."},{"word":"Carcasses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carcass"},{"word":"Carcass","type":"(n.)","description":"A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast."},{"word":"Carcass","type":"(n.)","description":"The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule."},{"word":"Carcass","type":"(n.)","description":"The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing."},{"word":"Carcass","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc."},{"word":"Carcavelhos","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet wine. See Calcavella."},{"word":"Carcelage","type":"(n.)","description":"Prison fees."},{"word":"Carcel","type":"()","description":"A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork."},{"word":"Carceral","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a prison."},{"word":"Carcinological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to carcinology."},{"word":"Carcinology","type":"(n.)","description":"The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology."},{"word":"Carcinoma","type":"(n.)","description":"A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer."},{"word":"Carcinomatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to carcinoma."},{"word":"Carcinosys","type":"(n.)","description":"The affection of the system with cancer."},{"word":"Card","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards."},{"word":"Card","type":"(n.)","description":"A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair."},{"word":"Card","type":"(n.)","description":"A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass."},{"word":"Card","type":"(n.)","description":"A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard."},{"word":"Card","type":"(n.)","description":"An indicator card. See under Indicator."},{"word":"Carded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Card"},{"word":"Carding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Card"},{"word":"Card","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play at cards; to game."},{"word":"Card","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back."},{"word":"Card","type":"(n.)","description":"A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine."},{"word":"Card","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse."},{"word":"Card","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clean or clear, as if by using a card."},{"word":"Card","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article."},{"word":"Cardamine","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc."},{"word":"Cardamom","type":"(n.)","description":"The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine."},{"word":"Cardamom","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum."},{"word":"Cardboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface."},{"word":"Cardcase","type":"(n.)","description":"A case for visiting cards."},{"word":"Cardecu","type":"(n.)","description":"A quarter of a crown."},{"word":"Carder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc."},{"word":"Cardia","type":"(n.)","description":"The heart."},{"word":"Cardia","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it."},{"word":"Cardiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach."},{"word":"Cardiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant."},{"word":"Cardiac","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial."},{"word":"Cardiacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Cardiac."},{"word":"Cardiacle","type":"(n.)","description":"A pain about the heart."},{"word":"Cardiagraph","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cardiograph."},{"word":"Cardialgla","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cardialgy"},{"word":"Cardialgy","type":"(n.)","description":"A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion."},{"word":"Cardigan","type":"()","description":"A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves."},{"word":"Cardinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal."},{"word":"Cardinal","type":"(a.)","description":"One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college."},{"word":"Cardinal","type":"(a.)","description":"A woman's short cloak with a hood."},{"word":"Cardinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Mulled red wine."},{"word":"Cardinalate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal."},{"word":"Cardinalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exalt to the office of a cardinal."},{"word":"Cardinalship","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal"},{"word":"Carding","type":"(a.)","description":"The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t."},{"word":"Carding","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine."},{"word":"Cardiograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements."},{"word":"Cardiographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph."},{"word":"Cardioid","type":"(n.)","description":"An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart."},{"word":"Cardioinhibitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Checking or arresting the heart's action."},{"word":"Cardiolgy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the heart and its functions."},{"word":"Cardiometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation."},{"word":"Cardiosphygmograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph."},{"word":"Carditis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis."},{"word":"Cardines","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cardo"},{"word":"Cardo","type":"(n.)","description":"The basal joint of the maxilla in insects."},{"word":"Cardo","type":"(n.)","description":"The hinge of a bivalve shell."},{"word":"Cardol","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut."},{"word":"Cardoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad."},{"word":"Care","type":"(n.)","description":"A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude."},{"word":"Care","type":"(n.)","description":"Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity."},{"word":"Care","type":"(n.)","description":"Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care."},{"word":"Care","type":"(n.)","description":"The object of watchful attention or anxiety."},{"word":"Cared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Care"},{"word":"Caring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Care"},{"word":"Care","type":"(n.)","description":"To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure."},{"word":"Careened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Careen"},{"word":"Careening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Careen"},{"word":"Careen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel."},{"word":"Careen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel."},{"word":"Careenage","type":"(n.)","description":"Expense of careening ships."},{"word":"Careenage","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for careening."},{"word":"Career","type":"(n.)","description":"A race course: the ground run over."},{"word":"Career","type":"(n.)","description":"A running; full speed; a rapid course."},{"word":"Career","type":"(n.)","description":"General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier."},{"word":"Career","type":"(n.)","description":"The flight of a hawk."},{"word":"Careered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Career"},{"word":"Careering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Career"},{"word":"Career","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move or run rapidly."},{"word":"Careful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of care; anxious; solicitous."},{"word":"Careful","type":"(a.)","description":"Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful."},{"word":"Careful","type":"(a.)","description":"Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right."},{"word":"Carefully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a careful manner."},{"word":"Carefulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality or state of being careful."},{"word":"Careless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted."},{"word":"Careless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless."},{"word":"Careless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression."},{"word":"Careless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not receiving care; uncared for."},{"word":"Carelessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a careless manner."},{"word":"Carelessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention."},{"word":"Carene","type":"(n.)","description":"A fast of forty days on bread and water."},{"word":"Caress","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness."},{"word":"Caressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caress"},{"word":"Caressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caress"},{"word":"Caress","type":"(n.)","description":"To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle."},{"word":"Caressingly","type":"(ad.)","description":"In caressing manner."},{"word":"Caret","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret."},{"word":"Caret","type":"(n.)","description":"The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill."},{"word":"Caretuned","type":"(a.)","description":"Weary; mournful."},{"word":"Careworn","type":"(a.)","description":"Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face."},{"word":"Carex","type":"(n.)","description":"A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges."},{"word":"Carf","type":"()","description":"pret. of Carve."},{"word":"Cargason","type":"(n.)","description":"A cargo."},{"word":"Cargoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cargo"},{"word":"Cargo","type":"(n.)","description":"The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight."},{"word":"Cargoose","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe."},{"word":"Cariama","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema."},{"word":"Caries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carib"},{"word":"Carib","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands."},{"word":"Caribbean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Caribbee"},{"word":"Caribbee","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lying between those islands and Central America."},{"word":"Caribbee","type":"(n.)","description":"A Carib."},{"word":"Caribe","type":"(n.)","description":"A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results."},{"word":"Caribou","type":"(n.)","description":"The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland species (Rangifer Caribou)."},{"word":"Caricature","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture."},{"word":"Caricature","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody."},{"word":"Caricatured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caricature"},{"word":"Caricaturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caricature"},{"word":"Caricature","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque."},{"word":"Caricaturist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who caricatures."},{"word":"Caricous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor."},{"word":"Caries","type":"(n.)","description":"Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses."},{"word":"Carillon","type":"(n.)","description":"A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys."},{"word":"Carillon","type":"(n.)","description":"A tune adapted to be played by musical bells."},{"word":"Carina","type":"(n.)","description":"A keel"},{"word":"Carina","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification"},{"word":"Carina","type":"(n.)","description":"A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat."},{"word":"Carina","type":"(n.)","description":"The keel of the breastbone of birds."},{"word":"Carinaria","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills."},{"word":"Carinatae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone."},{"word":"Carinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Carinated"},{"word":"Carinated","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird)."},{"word":"Cariole","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, light, open one-horse carriage"},{"word":"Cariole","type":"(n.)","description":"A covered cart"},{"word":"Cariole","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of calash. See Carryall."},{"word":"Cariopsis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caryopsis."},{"word":"Cariosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Caries."},{"word":"Carious","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth."},{"word":"Cark","type":"(n.)","description":"A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry."},{"word":"Cark","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve."},{"word":"Cark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry."},{"word":"Carkanet","type":"(n.)","description":"A carcanet."},{"word":"Carking","type":"(a.)","description":"Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares."},{"word":"Carl","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude, rustic man; a churl."},{"word":"Carl","type":"(n.)","description":"Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp."},{"word":"Carl","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of food. See citation, below."},{"word":"Carlin","type":"(n.)","description":"An old woman."},{"word":"Carline","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caroline"},{"word":"Caroline","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents."},{"word":"Carline","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Carling"},{"word":"Carling","type":"(n.)","description":"A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl."},{"word":"Carline","type":"()","description":"A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia."},{"word":"Carlings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Carl, 3."},{"word":"Carlist","type":"(n.)","description":"A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain."},{"word":"Carlock","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine."},{"word":"Carlot","type":"(n.)","description":"A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman."},{"word":"Carlovingian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from, Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings."},{"word":"Carmagnole","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution."},{"word":"Carmagnole","type":"(n.)","description":"A bombastic report from the French armies."},{"word":"Carman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car."},{"word":"Carmelite","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Carmelin"},{"word":"Carmelin","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites."},{"word":"Carmelite","type":"(n.)","description":"A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar."},{"word":"Carmelite","type":"(n.)","description":"A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel."},{"word":"Carminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake."},{"word":"Carminative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic."},{"word":"Carminative","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence."},{"word":"Carmine","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple."},{"word":"Carmine","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting."},{"word":"Carmine","type":"(n.)","description":"The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid."},{"word":"Carminic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine."},{"word":"Carmot","type":"(n.)","description":"The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed."},{"word":"Carnage","type":"(n.)","description":"Flesh of slain animals or men."},{"word":"Carnage","type":"(n.)","description":"Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc."},{"word":"Carnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual."},{"word":"Carnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody."},{"word":"Carnalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism."},{"word":"Carnalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A sensualist."},{"word":"Carnality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind."},{"word":"Carnalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carnalize"},{"word":"Carnalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carnalize"},{"word":"Carnalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make carnal; to debase to carnality."},{"word":"Carnallite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt."},{"word":"Carnally","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually."},{"word":"Carnal-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Worldly-minded."},{"word":"Carnal-mindedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Grossness of mind."},{"word":"Carnary","type":"(n.)","description":"A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house."},{"word":"Carnassial","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to eating flesh."},{"word":"Carnassial","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in many carnivores."},{"word":"Carnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Invested with, or embodied in, flesh."},{"word":"Carnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The natural color of flesh; rosy pink."},{"word":"Carnation","type":"(n.)","description":"Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints."},{"word":"Carnation","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent."},{"word":"Carnationed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a flesh color."},{"word":"Carnauba","type":"(n.)","description":"The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm."},{"word":"Carnelian","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals."},{"word":"Carneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy."},{"word":"Carney","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat."},{"word":"Carnifex","type":"(n.)","description":"The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman."},{"word":"Carnification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh."},{"word":"Carnify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form flesh; to become like flesh."},{"word":"Carnin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin."},{"word":"Carnival","type":"(n.)","description":"A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday."},{"word":"Carnival","type":"(n.)","description":"Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess."},{"word":"Carnivora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful."},{"word":"Carnivoracity","type":"(n.)","description":"Greediness of appetite for flesh."},{"word":"Carnivore","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Carnivora."},{"word":"Carnivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics."},{"word":"Carnose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Carnous"},{"word":"Carnous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy."},{"word":"Carnous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc."},{"word":"Carnosity","type":"(n.)","description":"A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth."},{"word":"Carnosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering."},{"word":"Carob","type":"(n.)","description":"An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree."},{"word":"Carob","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean."},{"word":"Caroche","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach."},{"word":"Caroched","type":"(a.)","description":"Placed in a caroche."},{"word":"Caroigne","type":"(n.)","description":"Dead body; carrion."},{"word":"Carol","type":"(n.)","description":"A round dance."},{"word":"Carol","type":"(n.)","description":"A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay."},{"word":"Carol","type":"(n.)","description":"A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol."},{"word":"Carol","type":"(n.)","description":"Joyful music, as of a song."},{"word":"Caroled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carol"},{"word":"Carolled","type":"()","description":"of Carol"},{"word":"Caroling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carol"},{"word":"Carolling","type":"()","description":"of Carol"},{"word":"Carol","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise or celebrate in song."},{"word":"Carol","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sing, especially with joyful notes."},{"word":"Carol","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble."},{"word":"Carol","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Carrol"},{"word":"Carrol","type":"(n.)","description":"A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century."},{"word":"Carolin","type":"(n.)","description":"A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars."},{"word":"Carolina","type":"()","description":"See Pinkboot."},{"word":"Caroline","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin. See Carline."},{"word":"Caroling","type":"(n.)","description":"A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols."},{"word":"Carolinian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina."},{"word":"Carolitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches."},{"word":"Caroluses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carolus"},{"word":"Caroli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carolus"},{"word":"Carolus","type":"(n.)","description":"An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I."},{"word":"Carom","type":"(n.)","description":"A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon."},{"word":"Carom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a carom."},{"word":"Caromel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caramel."},{"word":"Caroteel","type":"(n.)","description":"A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs."},{"word":"Carotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state."},{"word":"Carotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Carotid; as, the carotic arteries."},{"word":"Carotid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head. [See Illust. of Aorta.]"},{"word":"Carotid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Carotidal"},{"word":"Carotidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland."},{"word":"Carotin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot."},{"word":"Carousal","type":"(n.)","description":"A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse."},{"word":"Carouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A large draught of liquor."},{"word":"Carouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A drinking match; a carousal."},{"word":"Caroused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carouse"},{"word":"Carousing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carouse"},{"word":"Carouse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels."},{"word":"Carouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially."},{"word":"Carouser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carouses; a reveler."},{"word":"Carousing","type":"(a.)","description":"That carouses; relating to a carouse."},{"word":"Carousingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a carouser."},{"word":"Carped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carp"},{"word":"Carping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carp"},{"word":"Carp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk; to speak; to prattle."},{"word":"Carp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at."},{"word":"Carp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To say; to tell."},{"word":"Carp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To find fault with; to censure."},{"word":"Carp","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carp"},{"word":"Carps","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carp"},{"word":"Carp","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See Cruclan carp."},{"word":"Carpal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist."},{"word":"Carpal","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale."},{"word":"Carpalia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carpale"},{"word":"Carpale","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals."},{"word":"Carpathian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east, and south."},{"word":"Carpel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Carpellum"},{"word":"Carpellum","type":"(n.)","description":"A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore."},{"word":"Carpellary","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels."},{"word":"Carpenter","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc."},{"word":"Carpentering","type":"(n.)","description":"The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry."},{"word":"Carpentry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings."},{"word":"Carpentry","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter."},{"word":"Carper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carps; a caviler."},{"word":"Carpet","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables."},{"word":"Carpet","type":"(n.)","description":"A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet."},{"word":"Carpeted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carpet"},{"word":"Carpeting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carpet"},{"word":"Carpet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets."},{"word":"Carpetbag","type":"(n.)","description":"A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet."},{"word":"Carpetbagger","type":"(n.)","description":"An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865)."},{"word":"Carpeting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of covering with carpets."},{"word":"Carpeting","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general."},{"word":"Carpetless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a carpet."},{"word":"Carpetmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets."},{"word":"Carpetmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"One fond of pleasure; a gallant."},{"word":"Carpetway","type":"(n.)","description":"A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field."},{"word":"Carphology","type":"(n.)","description":"See Floccillation."},{"word":"Carping","type":"(a.)","description":"Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious."},{"word":"Carpintero","type":"(n.)","description":"A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird."},{"word":"Carpogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed."},{"word":"Carpolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed."},{"word":"Carpological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to carpology."},{"word":"Carpologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology."},{"word":"Carpology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit."},{"word":"Carpophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Living on fruits; fruit-consuming."},{"word":"Carpophore","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants."},{"word":"Carpophyll","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]"},{"word":"Carpophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc."},{"word":"Carpospore","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae."},{"word":"Carpi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carpus"},{"word":"Carpus","type":"(n.)","description":"The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows."},{"word":"Carrack","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carack."},{"word":"Carrageen","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Carrigeen"},{"word":"Carrigeen","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce."},{"word":"Carrancha","type":"(n.)","description":"The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes."},{"word":"Carraway","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caraway."},{"word":"Carrel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Quarrel, an arrow."},{"word":"Carrel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as 4th Carol."},{"word":"Carriable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being carried."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is carried; burden; baggage."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"The price or expense of carrying."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"That which carries of conveys,"},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners."},{"word":"Carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management."},{"word":"Carriageable","type":"(a.)","description":"Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages."},{"word":"Carriboo","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caribou."},{"word":"Carrick","type":"(n.)","description":"A carack. See Carack."},{"word":"Carrier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger."},{"word":"Carrier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster."},{"word":"Carrier","type":"(n.)","description":"That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel."},{"word":"Carrion","type":"(n.)","description":"The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food."},{"word":"Carrion","type":"(n.)","description":"A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach."},{"word":"Carrion","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion."},{"word":"Carrol","type":"(n.)","description":"See 4th Carol."},{"word":"Carrom","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carom."},{"word":"Carronade","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side."},{"word":"Carron","type":"()","description":"A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland."},{"word":"Carrot","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties."},{"word":"Carrot","type":"(n.)","description":"The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color."},{"word":"Carroty","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc."},{"word":"Carrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A strolling gamester."},{"word":"Carried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carry"},{"word":"Carrying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carry"},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get possession of by force; to capture."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck."},{"word":"Carry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare."},{"word":"Carries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carry"},{"word":"Carry","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage."},{"word":"Carryall","type":"(n.)","description":"A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse."},{"word":"Carrying","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or business of transporting from one place to another."},{"word":"Carryk","type":"(n.)","description":"A carack."},{"word":"Carrytale","type":"(n.)","description":"A talebearer."},{"word":"Carse","type":"(n.)","description":"Low, fertile land; a river valley."},{"word":"Cart","type":"(n.)","description":"A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot."},{"word":"Cart","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles."},{"word":"Cart","type":"(n.)","description":"A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc."},{"word":"Cart","type":"(n.)","description":"An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage."},{"word":"Carted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cart"},{"word":"Carting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cart"},{"word":"Cart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry or convey in a cart."},{"word":"Cart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose in a cart by way of punishment."},{"word":"Cart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter."},{"word":"Cartage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of carrying in a cart."},{"word":"Cartage","type":"(n.)","description":"The price paid for carting."},{"word":"Cartbote","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry."},{"word":"Carte","type":"(n.)","description":"Bill of fare."},{"word":"Carte","type":"(n.)","description":"Short for Carte de visite."},{"word":"Carte","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Quarte"},{"word":"Quarte","type":"(n.)","description":"A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast."},{"word":"Carte","type":"()","description":"A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority."},{"word":"Cartes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Carte de visite"},{"word":"Carte","type":"()","description":"A visiting card."},{"word":"Carte","type":"()","description":"A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card."},{"word":"Cartel","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners."},{"word":"Cartel","type":"(n.)","description":"A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat."},{"word":"Cartel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defy or challenge."},{"word":"Carter","type":"(n.)","description":"A charioteer."},{"word":"Carter","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who drives a cart; a teamster."},{"word":"Carter","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman"},{"word":"Carter","type":"(n.)","description":"A British fish; the whiff."},{"word":"Cartesian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Rene Descartes, or his philosophy."},{"word":"Cartesian","type":"(n.)","description":"An adherent of Descartes."},{"word":"Cartesianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The philosophy of Descartes."},{"word":"Carthaginian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa."},{"word":"Carthaginian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Carthage."},{"word":"Carthamin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius."},{"word":"Carthusian","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086."},{"word":"Carthusian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Carthusian."},{"word":"Cartilage","type":"(n.)","description":"A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle."},{"word":"Cartilagineous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cartilaginous."},{"word":"Cartilaginification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of forming cartilage."},{"word":"Cartilaginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage."},{"word":"Cartilaginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks."},{"word":"Cartman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter."},{"word":"Cartographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes charts or maps."},{"word":"Cartographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cartographical"},{"word":"Cartographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cartography."},{"word":"Cartographically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By cartography."},{"word":"Cartography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or business of forming charts or maps."},{"word":"Cartomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of telling fortunes with cards."},{"word":"Carton","type":"(n.)","description":"Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box."},{"word":"Cartoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael."},{"word":"Cartoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of \"Puck.\""},{"word":"Cartoonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in drawing cartoons."},{"word":"Cartouches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cartouch"},{"word":"Cartouch","type":"(n.)","description":"A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge"},{"word":"Cartouch","type":"(n.)","description":"A cartridge box."},{"word":"Cartouch","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon."},{"word":"Cartouch","type":"(n.)","description":"A gunner's bag for ammunition"},{"word":"Cartouch","type":"(n.)","description":"A military pass for a soldier on furlough."},{"word":"Cartouch","type":"(n.)","description":"A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper"},{"word":"Cartouch","type":"(n.)","description":"A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form."},{"word":"Cartouch","type":"(n.)","description":"An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign."},{"word":"Cartridge","type":"(n.)","description":"A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material."},{"word":"Cartularies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cartulary"},{"word":"Cartulary","type":"(n.)","description":"A register, or record, as of a monastery or church."},{"word":"Cartulary","type":"(n.)","description":"An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers."},{"word":"Cartway","type":"(n.)","description":"A way or road for carts."},{"word":"Cartwright","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker."},{"word":"Carucage","type":"(n.)","description":"A tax on every plow or plowland."},{"word":"Carucage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of plowing."},{"word":"Carucate","type":"(n.)","description":"A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres."},{"word":"Caruncle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caruncula"},{"word":"Caruncula","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye."},{"word":"Caruncula","type":"(n.)","description":"An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed."},{"word":"Caruncula","type":"(n.)","description":"A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc."},{"word":"Caruncular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Carunculous"},{"word":"Carunculous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles."},{"word":"Carunculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Carunculated"},{"word":"Carunculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular."},{"word":"Carus","type":"(n.)","description":"Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy."},{"word":"Carvacrol","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui)."},{"word":"Carved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Carve"},{"word":"Carving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Carve"},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or make, as by cutting; to provide."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests."},{"word":"Carve","type":"(n.)","description":"A carucate."},{"word":"Carvel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Caravel."},{"word":"Carvel","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of jellyfish; sea blubber."},{"word":"Carvelbuilt","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel."},{"word":"Carven","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved."},{"word":"Carvene","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway."},{"word":"Carver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc."},{"word":"Carver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carves or divides meat at table."},{"word":"Carver","type":"(n.)","description":"A large knife for carving."},{"word":"Carving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of one who carves."},{"word":"Carving","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material."},{"word":"Carving","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century."},{"word":"Carvist","type":"(n.)","description":"A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year."},{"word":"Carvol","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol."},{"word":"Car","type":"()","description":"A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck."},{"word":"Caryatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Caryatid"},{"word":"Caryatid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a caryatid."},{"word":"Caryatids","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caryatid"},{"word":"Caryatid","type":"(n.)","description":"A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster."},{"word":"Caryatides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Caryatids."},{"word":"Caryophyllaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink"},{"word":"Caryophyllaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types."},{"word":"Caryophyllin","type":"(n.)","description":"A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor."},{"word":"Caryophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Caryophyllaceous."},{"word":"Caryopses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caryopsis"},{"word":"Caryopsis","type":"(n.)","description":"A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc."},{"word":"Casal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending."},{"word":"Cascabel","type":"(n.)","description":"The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.]"},{"word":"Cascade","type":"(n.)","description":"A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract."},{"word":"Cascade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in a cascade."},{"word":"Cascade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vomit."},{"word":"Cascalho","type":"(n.)","description":"A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found."},{"word":"Cascara","type":"()","description":"Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative."},{"word":"Cascarilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark."},{"word":"Cascarillin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"A shallow tray divided into compartments or \"boxes\" for holding type."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fissure which admits water to the workings."},{"word":"Cased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Case"},{"word":"Casing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Case"},{"word":"Case","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose."},{"word":"Case","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip the skin from; as, to case a box."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"Chance; accident; hap; opportunity."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause."},{"word":"Case","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word."},{"word":"Case","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To propose hypothetical cases."},{"word":"Caseation","type":"(n.)","description":"A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass."},{"word":"Case-bay","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between two principals or girders"},{"word":"Case-bay","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring."},{"word":"Caseharden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel."},{"word":"Caseharden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render insensible to good influences."},{"word":"Casehardened","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the surface hardened, as iron tools."},{"word":"Casehardened","type":"(a.)","description":"Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons."},{"word":"Casehardening","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel."},{"word":"Caseic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid."},{"word":"Casein","type":"(n.)","description":"A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin."},{"word":"Case","type":"()","description":"A knife carried in a sheath or case."},{"word":"Case","type":"()","description":"A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case."},{"word":"Casemate","type":"(n.)","description":"A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops."},{"word":"Casemate","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices."},{"word":"Casemated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate."},{"word":"Casement","type":"(n.)","description":"A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window."},{"word":"Casemented","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a casement or casements."},{"word":"Caseous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy."},{"word":"Casern","type":"(n.)","description":"A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks."},{"word":"Case","type":"()","description":"A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister."},{"word":"Caseum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Casein."},{"word":"Caseworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice."},{"word":"Cash","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box."},{"word":"Cash","type":"(n.)","description":"Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money"},{"word":"Cash","type":"(n.)","description":"Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash."},{"word":"Cashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cash"},{"word":"Casing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cash"},{"word":"Cash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order."},{"word":"Cash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disband."},{"word":"Cash","type":"(n.sing & pl.)","description":"A Chinese coin."},{"word":"Cashbook","type":"(n.)","description":"A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out."},{"word":"Cashew","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long."},{"word":"Cashier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company."},{"word":"Cahiered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cashier"},{"word":"Cashiering","type":"(p. pr. &vb. n.)","description":"of Cashier"},{"word":"Cashier","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust."},{"word":"Cashier","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put away or reject; to disregard."},{"word":"Cashierer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs."},{"word":"Cashmere","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans."},{"word":"Cashmere","type":"(n.)","description":"A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere."},{"word":"Cashmerette","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere."},{"word":"Cashoo","type":"(n.)","description":"See Catechu."},{"word":"Casing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc."},{"word":"Casing","type":"(n.)","description":"An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat."},{"word":"Casing","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4."},{"word":"Casings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Dried dung of cattle used as fuel."},{"word":"Casinos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Casino"},{"word":"Casini","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Casino"},{"word":"Casino","type":"(n.)","description":"A small country house."},{"word":"Casino","type":"(n.)","description":"A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc."},{"word":"Casino","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards. See Cassino."},{"word":"Cask","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Casque."},{"word":"Cask","type":"(n.)","description":"A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel."},{"word":"Cask","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity contained in a cask."},{"word":"Cask","type":"(n.)","description":"A casket; a small box for jewels."},{"word":"Cask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a cask."},{"word":"Casket","type":"(n.)","description":"A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc."},{"word":"Casket","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of burial case."},{"word":"Casket","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed"},{"word":"Casket","type":"(n.)","description":"The body."},{"word":"Casket","type":"(n.)","description":"The tomb."},{"word":"Casket","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of selections."},{"word":"Casket","type":"(n.)","description":"A gasket. See Gasket."},{"word":"Casket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into, or preserve in, a casket."},{"word":"Casque","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet."},{"word":"Cass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away."},{"word":"Cassada","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cassava."},{"word":"Cassareep","type":"(n.)","description":"A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot."},{"word":"Cassate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render void or useless; to vacate or annul."},{"word":"Cassation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of annulling."},{"word":"Cassava","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc."},{"word":"Cassava","type":"(n.)","description":"A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca."},{"word":"Casse","type":"()","description":"Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream."},{"word":"Casserole","type":"(n.)","description":"A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain."},{"word":"Casserole","type":"(n.)","description":"A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat."},{"word":"Cassia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine."},{"word":"Cassia","type":"(n.)","description":"The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached."},{"word":"Cassican","type":"(n.)","description":"An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird."},{"word":"Cassideous","type":"(a.)","description":"Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite."},{"word":"Cassidony","type":"(n.)","description":"The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas)"},{"word":"Cassidony","type":"(n.)","description":"The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed."},{"word":"Cassimere","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments."},{"word":"Cassinette","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk."},{"word":"Cassinian","type":"()","description":"See under Oval."},{"word":"Cassino","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points."},{"word":"Cassioberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida."},{"word":"Cassiopeia","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia."},{"word":"Cassiterite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black."},{"word":"Cassius","type":"(n.)","description":"A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius."},{"word":"Cassock","type":"(n.)","description":"A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform."},{"word":"Cassock","type":"(n.)","description":"A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment."},{"word":"Cassocked","type":"(a.)","description":"Clothed with a cassock."},{"word":"Cassolette","type":"(n.)","description":"a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes."},{"word":"Cassonade","type":"(n.)","description":"Raw sugar; sugar not refined."},{"word":"Cassowaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cassowary"},{"word":"Cassowary","type":"(n.)","description":"A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc."},{"word":"Cassumunar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cassumuniar"},{"word":"Cassumuniar","type":"(n.)","description":"A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cast"},{"word":"Casting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cast"},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct or turn, as the eyes."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw down, as in wrestling."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw up, as a mound, or rampart."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring forth prematurely; to slink."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out or emit; to exhale."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impose; to bestow; to rest."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dismiss; to discard; to cashier."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contrive; to plan."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stereotype or electrotype."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To calculate; to compute."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To receive form or shape in a mold."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To warp; to become twisted out of shape."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vomit."},{"word":"Cast","type":"()","description":"3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of casting or throwing; a throw."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing thrown."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of casting in a mold."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"The assignment of parts in a play to the actors."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"A stoke, touch, or trick."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp."},{"word":"Cast","type":"(n.)","description":"Contrivance; plot, design."},{"word":"Castalian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses."},{"word":"Castanea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin."},{"word":"Castanet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Castanets."},{"word":"Castanets","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars."},{"word":"Castaway","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked."},{"word":"Castaway","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate."},{"word":"Castaway","type":"(a.)","description":"Of no value; rejected; useless."},{"word":"Caste","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism."},{"word":"Caste","type":"(n.)","description":"A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves."},{"word":"Castellan","type":"(n.)","description":"A governor or warden of a castle."},{"word":"Castellanies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Castellany"},{"word":"Castellany","type":"(n.)","description":"The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle."},{"word":"Castellated","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated."},{"word":"Castellated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle."},{"word":"Castellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making into a castle."},{"word":"Caster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts."},{"word":"Caster","type":"(n.)","description":"A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters."},{"word":"Caster","type":"(n.)","description":"A stand to hold a set of cruets."},{"word":"Caster","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved."},{"word":"Castigated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Castigate"},{"word":"Castigating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Castigate"},{"word":"Castigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely."},{"word":"Castigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emend; to correct."},{"word":"Castigation","type":"(n.)","description":"Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism."},{"word":"Castigation","type":"(n.)","description":"Emendation; correction."},{"word":"Castigator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who castigates or corrects."},{"word":"Castigatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Punitive in order to amendment; corrective."},{"word":"Castigatory","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket."},{"word":"Castile","type":"()","description":"A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap."},{"word":"Castilian","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain."},{"word":"Castilian","type":"(n.)","description":"The Spanish language as spoken in Castile."},{"word":"Castillan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain."},{"word":"Casting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing."},{"word":"Casting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold."},{"word":"Casting","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting."},{"word":"Casting","type":"(n.)","description":"The warping of a board."},{"word":"Casting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc."},{"word":"Cast","type":"()","description":"Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc."},{"word":"Cast-iron","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding."},{"word":"Castle","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress."},{"word":"Castle","type":"(n.)","description":"Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion."},{"word":"Castle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back."},{"word":"Castle","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook."},{"word":"Castled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Castle"},{"word":"Castling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Castle"},{"word":"Castle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king."},{"word":"Castlebuilder","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes."},{"word":"Castled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag."},{"word":"Castled","type":"(a.)","description":"Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls."},{"word":"Castle-guard","type":"(n.)","description":"The guard or defense of a castle."},{"word":"Castle-guard","type":"(n.)","description":"A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward."},{"word":"Castle-guard","type":"(n.)","description":"A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time."},{"word":"Castlery","type":"(n.)","description":"The government of a castle."},{"word":"Castlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small castle."},{"word":"Castleward","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Castleguard."},{"word":"Castling","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion."},{"word":"Castling","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound move of the king and castle. See Castle, v. i."},{"word":"Cast-off","type":"(a.)","description":"Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes."},{"word":"Castor","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver."},{"word":"Castor","type":"(n.)","description":"Castoreum. See Castoreum."},{"word":"Castor","type":"(n.)","description":"A hat, esp. one made of beaver fur; a beaver."},{"word":"Castor","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats."},{"word":"Castor","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caster, a small wheel."},{"word":"Castor","type":"(n.)","description":"the northernmost of the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini, the other being Pollux."},{"word":"Castor","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Castorite"},{"word":"Castorite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba."},{"word":"Castor","type":"()","description":"See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint."},{"word":"Castor","type":"()","description":"The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)"},{"word":"Castoreum","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers."},{"word":"Castorin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum."},{"word":"Castor","type":"()","description":"A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorous and insipid."},{"word":"Castrametation","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp."},{"word":"Castrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Castrate"},{"word":"Castrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Castrate"},{"word":"Castrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter."},{"word":"Castrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate."},{"word":"Castration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of castrating."},{"word":"Castrato","type":"(n.)","description":"A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano."},{"word":"Castrel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kestrel."},{"word":"Castrensial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a camp."},{"word":"Castrensian","type":"(a.)","description":"Castrensial."},{"word":"Cast","type":"()","description":"See Cast steel, under Steel."},{"word":"Casual","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance."},{"word":"Casual","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses."},{"word":"Casual","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant."},{"word":"Casualism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance."},{"word":"Casualist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in casualism."},{"word":"Casually","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally."},{"word":"Casualness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being casual."},{"word":"Casualties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Casualty"},{"word":"Casualty","type":"(n.)","description":"That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency."},{"word":"Casualty","type":"(n.)","description":"Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty."},{"word":"Casualty","type":"(n.)","description":"Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion."},{"word":"Casuarina","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color."},{"word":"Casuist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry."},{"word":"Casuist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the casuist."},{"word":"Casuistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Casuistieal"},{"word":"Casuistieal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry."},{"word":"Casuistry","type":"(a.)","description":"The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases."},{"word":"Casuistry","type":"(a.)","description":"Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals."},{"word":"Casus","type":"(n.)","description":"An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident."},{"word":"Cat","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat."},{"word":"Cat","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade."},{"word":"Cat","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship."},{"word":"Cat","type":"(n.)","description":"A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed."},{"word":"Cat","type":"(n.)","description":"An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc."},{"word":"Cat","type":"(n.)","description":"A cat o' nine tails. See below."},{"word":"tted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cat"},{"word":"Catting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cat"},{"word":"Cat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor."},{"word":"Cata","type":"()","description":"The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic."},{"word":"Catabaptist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who opposes baptism, especially of infants."},{"word":"Catabasion","type":"(n.)","description":"A vault under altar of a Greek church."},{"word":"Catabiotic","type":"(a.)","description":"See under Force."},{"word":"Catacaustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a."},{"word":"Catacaustic","type":"(n.)","description":"A caustic curve formed by reflection of light."},{"word":"Catachresis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, \"To take arms against a sea of troubles\". Shak. \"Her voice was but the shadow of a sound.\" Young."},{"word":"Catachrestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Catachrestical"},{"word":"Catachrestical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched."},{"word":"Cataclysm","type":"(n.)","description":"An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge."},{"word":"Cataclysm","type":"(n.)","description":"Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface."},{"word":"Cataclysmal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cataclysmic"},{"word":"Cataclysmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cataclysm."},{"word":"Cataclysmist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms."},{"word":"Catacomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural."},{"word":"Catacoustic","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics."},{"word":"Catadioptric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Catadioptrical"},{"word":"Catadioptrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light."},{"word":"Catadioptrics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments."},{"word":"Catadrome","type":"(n.)","description":"A race course."},{"word":"Catadrome","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights."},{"word":"Catadromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous."},{"word":"Catadromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel."},{"word":"Catafalco","type":"(n.)","description":"See Catafalque."},{"word":"Catafalque","type":"(n.)","description":"A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial."},{"word":"Catagmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of consolidating broken bones."},{"word":"Cataian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach."},{"word":"Catalan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Catalonia."},{"word":"Catalan","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia."},{"word":"Catalectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse."},{"word":"Catalectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance."},{"word":"Catalepsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Catalepsis"},{"word":"Catalepsis","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues."},{"word":"Cataleptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit."},{"word":"Catallacta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies."},{"word":"Catallactics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy."},{"word":"Catalog","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"Catalogue."},{"word":"Catalogize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue."},{"word":"Catalogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars."},{"word":"Catalogued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Catalogue"},{"word":"Cataloguing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Catalogue"},{"word":"Catalogue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue."},{"word":"Cataloguer","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues."},{"word":"Catalpa","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean."},{"word":"Catalyse","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Catalysis"},{"word":"Catalysis","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissolution; degeneration; decay."},{"word":"Catalysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyalin) on starch."},{"word":"Catalysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The catalytic force."},{"word":"Catalytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or causing, catalysis."},{"word":"Catalytic","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black, aluminium chloride, etc."},{"word":"Catamaran","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations."},{"word":"Catamaran","type":"(n.)","description":"Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed."},{"word":"Catamaran","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat."},{"word":"Catamaran","type":"(n.)","description":"A quarrelsome woman; a scold."},{"word":"Catamenia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses."},{"word":"Catamenial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges."},{"word":"Catamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy kept for unnatural purposes."},{"word":"Catamount","type":"(n.)","description":"The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx."},{"word":"Catanadromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous."},{"word":"Catapasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc."},{"word":"Catapeltic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a catapult."},{"word":"Catapetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow."},{"word":"Cataphonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic."},{"word":"Cataphonics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics."},{"word":"Cataphract","type":"(n.)","description":"Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations."},{"word":"Cataphract","type":"(n.)","description":"A horseman covered with a cataphract."},{"word":"Cataphract","type":"(n.)","description":"The armor or plate covering some fishes."},{"word":"Cataphracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc."},{"word":"Cataphractic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract."},{"word":"Cataphysical","type":"(a.)","description":"Unnatural; contrary to nature."},{"word":"Cataplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice."},{"word":"Catapuce","type":"(n.)","description":"Spurge."},{"word":"Catapult","type":"(n.)","description":"An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc."},{"word":"Catapult","type":"(n.)","description":"A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc."},{"word":"Cataract","type":"(n.)","description":"A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall."},{"word":"Cataract","type":"(n.)","description":"An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight."},{"word":"Cataract","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot."},{"word":"Cataractous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract."},{"word":"Catarrh","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder."},{"word":"Catarrhal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh."},{"word":"Catarrhine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey."},{"word":"Catarrhous","type":"(a.)","description":"Catarrhal."},{"word":"Catastaltic","type":"(a.)","description":"Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities."},{"word":"Catastasis","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed."},{"word":"Catastasis","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body."},{"word":"Catasterism","type":"(n.)","description":"A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars."},{"word":"Catastrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune."},{"word":"Catastrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy."},{"word":"Catastrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes."},{"word":"Catastrophic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a pertaining to a catastrophe."},{"word":"Catastrophism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism."},{"word":"Catastrophist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the theory or catastrophism."},{"word":"Catawba","type":"(n.)","description":"A well known light red variety of American grape."},{"word":"Catawba","type":"(n.)","description":"A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape."},{"word":"Catawbas","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee."},{"word":"Catbird","type":"(n.)","description":"An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat."},{"word":"Catboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Catcall","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise."},{"word":"Caught","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Catch"},{"word":"Catched","type":"()","description":"of Catch"},{"word":"Catching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Catch"},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence: To insnare; to entangle."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage and attach; to please; to charm."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get possession of; to attain."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To attain possession."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of seizing; a grasp."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(n.)","description":"The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(n.)","description":"Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(n.)","description":"Passing opportunities seized; snatches."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight remembrance; a trace."},{"word":"Catch","type":"(n.)","description":"A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words."},{"word":"Catchable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being caught."},{"word":"Catch-basin","type":"(n.)","description":"A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer."},{"word":"Catchdrain","type":"(n.)","description":"A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water."},{"word":"Catcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, catches."},{"word":"Catcher","type":"(n.)","description":"The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball."},{"word":"Catchfly","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly."},{"word":"Catching","type":"(a.)","description":"Infectious; contagious."},{"word":"Catching","type":"(a.)","description":"Captivating; alluring."},{"word":"Catching","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of seizing or taking hold of."},{"word":"Catch-meadow","type":"(n.)","description":"A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill."},{"word":"Catchment","type":"(n.)","description":"A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir."},{"word":"Catchpenny","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show."},{"word":"Catchpenny","type":"(n.)","description":"Some worthless catchpenny thing."},{"word":"Catchpoll","type":"(n.)","description":"A bailiff's assistant."},{"word":"Catchup","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Catsup"},{"word":"Catsup","type":"(n.)","description":"A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc."},{"word":"Catchwater","type":"(n.)","description":"A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain."},{"word":"Catchweed","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cleavers."},{"word":"Catchweight","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight."},{"word":"Catchword","type":"(n.)","description":"Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue."},{"word":"Catchword","type":"(n.)","description":"The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing."},{"word":"Catchword","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc."},{"word":"Catchwork","type":"(n.)","description":"A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain."},{"word":"Cate","type":"(n.)","description":"Food. [Obs.] See Cates."},{"word":"Catechetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Catechetical"},{"word":"Catechetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching."},{"word":"Catechetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a catechetical manner; by question and answer."},{"word":"Catechetics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers."},{"word":"Catechin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin."},{"word":"Catechisation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of catechising."},{"word":"Catechised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Catechise"},{"word":"Catechising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Catechise"},{"word":"Catechise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith."},{"word":"Catechise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct."},{"word":"Catechiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who catechises."},{"word":"Catechism","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of instruction by means of questions and answers."},{"word":"Catechism","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers."},{"word":"Catechismal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical."},{"word":"Catechist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters."},{"word":"Catechistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Catechistical"},{"word":"Catechistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism."},{"word":"Catechize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Catechise."},{"word":"Catechu","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc."},{"word":"Catechuic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin."},{"word":"Catechumen","type":"(L. catechunenus, Gr. / instructed, from /. See)","description":"One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church."},{"word":"Catechumenate","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen."},{"word":"Catechumenical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions."},{"word":"Catechumenist","type":"(n.)","description":"A catechumen."},{"word":"Categorematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word."},{"word":"Categorical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a category."},{"word":"Categorical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer."},{"word":"Categorically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically."},{"word":"Categoricalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute."},{"word":"Categorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies."},{"word":"Categorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue."},{"word":"Categories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Category"},{"word":"Category","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament."},{"word":"Category","type":"(n.)","description":"Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category."},{"word":"Catel","type":"(n.)","description":"Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income."},{"word":"Catelectrode","type":"(n.)","description":"The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery."},{"word":"Catelectrotonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus."},{"word":"Catelectrotonus","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it."},{"word":"Catene","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Catena"},{"word":"Catena","type":"(n.)","description":"A chain or series of things connected with each other."},{"word":"Catenary","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Catenarian"},{"word":"Catenarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve."},{"word":"Catenary","type":"(n.)","description":"The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line."},{"word":"Catenated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Catenate"},{"word":"Catenating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Catenate"},{"word":"Catenate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain."},{"word":"Catenation","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation."},{"word":"Catenulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of little links or chains."},{"word":"Catenulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc."},{"word":"Cater","type":"(n.)","description":"A provider; a purveyor; a caterer."},{"word":"Catered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cater"},{"word":"Catering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cater"},{"word":"Cater","type":"(n.)","description":"To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions."},{"word":"Cater","type":"(n.)","description":"By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to."},{"word":"Cater","type":"(n.)","description":"The four of cards or dice."},{"word":"Cater","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut diagonally."},{"word":"Cateran","type":"(n.)","description":"A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier."},{"word":"Cater-cornered","type":"(a.)","description":"Diagonal."},{"word":"Cater-cousin","type":"(n.)","description":"A remote relation. See Quater-cousin."},{"word":"Caterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who caters."},{"word":"Cateress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who caters."},{"word":"Caterpillar","type":"(n.)","description":"The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm."},{"word":"Caterpillar","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars."},{"word":"Caterwauled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caterwaul"},{"word":"Caterwauling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caterwaul"},{"word":"Caterwaul","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise."},{"word":"Caterwaul","type":"(n.)","description":"A caterwauling."},{"word":"Caterwauling","type":"(n.)","description":"The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats."},{"word":"Catery","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where provisions are deposited."},{"word":"Cates","type":"(n.)","description":"Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties."},{"word":"Cat-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark."},{"word":"Catfall","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead."},{"word":"Catfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad."},{"word":"Catgut","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc."},{"word":"Catgut","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices."},{"word":"Catharine","type":"()","description":"See catherine wheel."},{"word":"Catharist","type":"(n.)","description":"One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses."},{"word":"Cat-harpin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cat-harping."},{"word":"Cat-harping","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards."},{"word":"Catharsis","type":"(n.)","description":"A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc."},{"word":"Cathartic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Catharical"},{"word":"Catharical","type":"(a.)","description":"Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative."},{"word":"Catharical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid."},{"word":"Cathartic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity."},{"word":"Cathartin","type":"(n.)","description":"The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina."},{"word":"Cathay","type":"(n.)","description":"China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)"},{"word":"Cathead","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured."},{"word":"Cathedra","type":"(n.)","description":"The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority."},{"word":"Cathedral","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne."},{"word":"Cathedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service."},{"word":"Cathedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative."},{"word":"Cathedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks."},{"word":"Cathedralic","type":"(a.)","description":"Cathedral."},{"word":"Cathedrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the chair or office of a teacher."},{"word":"Catheretic","type":"(n.)","description":"A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences."},{"word":"Catherine","type":"()","description":"Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window."},{"word":"Catherine","type":"()","description":"A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name."},{"word":"Catheter","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine."},{"word":"Catheterism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Catheterization"},{"word":"Catheterization","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of introducing a catheter."},{"word":"Catheterized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Catheterize"},{"word":"Catheterizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Catheterize"},{"word":"Catheterize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To operate on with a catheter."},{"word":"Cathetometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard."},{"word":"Catheti","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cathetus"},{"word":"Cathetus","type":"(n.)","description":"One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle."},{"word":"Cathode","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode."},{"word":"Cathodic","type":"(a.)","description":"A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence."},{"word":"Cat-hole","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed."},{"word":"Catholic","type":"(a.)","description":"Universal or general; as, the catholic faith."},{"word":"Catholic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes."},{"word":"Catholic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act."},{"word":"Catholic","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church."},{"word":"Catholic","type":"(n.)","description":"An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic."},{"word":"Catholical","type":"(a.)","description":"Catholic."},{"word":"Catholicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity."},{"word":"Catholicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view."},{"word":"Catholicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto."},{"word":"Catholicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto."},{"word":"Catholicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being catholic; universality."},{"word":"Catholicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberality of sentiments; catholicism."},{"word":"Catholicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy."},{"word":"Catholicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves."},{"word":"Catholicize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic."},{"word":"Catholicly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a catholic manner; generally; universally."},{"word":"Catholicness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity."},{"word":"Catholicon","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for all diseases; a panacea."},{"word":"Catholicos","type":"(n.)","description":"The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis."},{"word":"Catilinarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy."},{"word":"Cation","type":"(n.)","description":"An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion."},{"word":"Catkin","type":"(n.)","description":"An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament."},{"word":"Catlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly."},{"word":"Catling","type":"(n.)","description":"A little cat; a kitten."},{"word":"Catling","type":"(n.)","description":"Catgut; a catgut string."},{"word":"Catling","type":"(n.)","description":"A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife."},{"word":"Catlinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes."},{"word":"Catnip","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Catmint"},{"word":"Catmint","type":"(n.)","description":"A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it."},{"word":"Cato-cathartic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy that purges by alvine discharges."},{"word":"Catonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible."},{"word":"Cat","type":"()","description":"See under Cat."},{"word":"Catopter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Catoptron"},{"word":"Catoptron","type":"(n.)","description":"A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror."},{"word":"Catoptric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Catoptrical"},{"word":"Catoptrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection."},{"word":"Catoptrics","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies; -- formerly called anacamptics."},{"word":"Catoptromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable."},{"word":"Catopron","type":"(n.)","description":"See Catopter."},{"word":"Catpipe","type":"(n.)","description":"See Catcall."},{"word":"Cat-rigged","type":"(a.)","description":"Rigged like a catboat."},{"word":"Cat-salt","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine."},{"word":"Cat's-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl."},{"word":"Cat's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy."},{"word":"Cat-silver","type":"(n.)","description":"Mica."},{"word":"Catskill","type":"()","description":"The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology."},{"word":"Catsos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Catso"},{"word":"Catso","type":"(n.)","description":"A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat."},{"word":"Cat's-paw","type":"(n.)","description":"A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air."},{"word":"Cat's-paw","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked."},{"word":"Cat's-paw","type":"(n.)","description":"A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes."},{"word":"Cat's-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus."},{"word":"Catstick","type":"(n.)","description":"A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat."},{"word":"Catstitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch."},{"word":"Catsup","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Catchup, and Ketchup."},{"word":"Cat-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin."},{"word":"Cattish","type":"(a.)","description":"Catlike; feline"},{"word":"Cattle","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine."},{"word":"Catty","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds."},{"word":"Caucasian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas."},{"word":"Caucasian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type."},{"word":"Caucasian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian."},{"word":"Caucasian","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of any of the white races of mankind."},{"word":"Caucus","type":"(n.)","description":"A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting."},{"word":"Caucused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caucus"},{"word":"Caucusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caucus"},{"word":"Caucus","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses."},{"word":"Caudad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part."},{"word":"Cauda","type":"()","description":"A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit."},{"word":"Caudal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage."},{"word":"Caudata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Urodela."},{"word":"Caudate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Caudated"},{"word":"Caudated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a tail; having a termination like a tail."},{"word":"Caudices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caudex"},{"word":"Caudexes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caudex"},{"word":"Caudex","type":"(n.)","description":"The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant."},{"word":"Caudicle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caudicula"},{"word":"Caudicula","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached."},{"word":"Caudle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices."},{"word":"Caudled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caudle"},{"word":"Caudling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caudle"},{"word":"Caudle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into caudle."},{"word":"Caudle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh."},{"word":"Cauf","type":"(n.)","description":"A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water."},{"word":"Caufle","type":"(n.)","description":"A gang of slaves. Same as Coffle."},{"word":"Caught","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Catch."},{"word":"Cauk","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cauker"},{"word":"Cauker","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cawk, Calker."},{"word":"Caul","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net."},{"word":"Caul","type":"(n.)","description":"The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum."},{"word":"Caul","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth."},{"word":"Caulescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a leafy stem."},{"word":"Caulicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle."},{"word":"Cauliculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cauliculus"},{"word":"Cauliculus","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian."},{"word":"Cauliflower","type":"(n.)","description":"An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable."},{"word":"Cauliflower","type":"(n.)","description":"The edible head or \"curd\" of a cauliflower plant."},{"word":"Cauliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a caulis."},{"word":"Cauline","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis."},{"word":"Caules","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Caulis"},{"word":"Caulis","type":"(n.)","description":"An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers."},{"word":"Caulk","type":"(v. t. & n.)","description":"See Calk."},{"word":"Caulocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs."},{"word":"Cauma","type":"(n.)","description":"Great heat, as of the body in fever."},{"word":"Cauponize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sell wine or victuals."},{"word":"Causable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being caused."},{"word":"Causal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative."},{"word":"Causal","type":"(n.)","description":"A causal word or form of speech."},{"word":"Causality","type":"(n.)","description":"The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect."},{"word":"Causality","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty of tracing effects to their causes."},{"word":"Causally","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes."},{"word":"Causally","type":"(n.)","description":"The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing."},{"word":"Causation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced."},{"word":"Causationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in the law of universal causation."},{"word":"Causative","type":"(a.)","description":"Effective, as a cause or agent; causing."},{"word":"Causative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case."},{"word":"Causative","type":"(n.)","description":"A word which expresses or suggests a cause."},{"word":"Causatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a causative manner."},{"word":"Causator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who causes."},{"word":"Cause","type":"(v.)","description":"That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist."},{"word":"Cause","type":"(v.)","description":"That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing."},{"word":"Cause","type":"(v.)","description":"Sake; interest; advantage."},{"word":"Cause","type":"(v.)","description":"A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action."},{"word":"Cause","type":"(v.)","description":"Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general."},{"word":"Cause","type":"(v.)","description":"The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain."},{"word":"Caused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cause"},{"word":"Causing","type":"(p. pr. & v. n.)","description":"of Cause"},{"word":"Cause","type":"(n.)","description":"To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb."},{"word":"Cause","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse."},{"word":"Cause","type":"(conj.)","description":"Abbreviation of Because."},{"word":"Causeful","type":"(n.)","description":"Having a cause."},{"word":"Causeless","type":"(a.)","description":"1. Self-originating; uncreated."},{"word":"Causeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without just or sufficient reason; groundless."},{"word":"Causeless","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without cause or reason."},{"word":"Causelessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being causeless."},{"word":"Causer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who or that which causes."},{"word":"Causeuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of sofa for two persons. A tete-/-tete."},{"word":"Causeway","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Causey"},{"word":"Causey","type":"(n.)","description":"A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground."},{"word":"Causewayed","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Causeyed"},{"word":"Causeyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved."},{"word":"Causidical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits."},{"word":"Caustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Caustical"},{"word":"Caustical","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing."},{"word":"Caustical","type":"(a.)","description":"Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark."},{"word":"Caustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic."},{"word":"Caustic","type":"(a.)","description":"A caustic curve or caustic surface."},{"word":"Caustically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a caustic manner."},{"word":"Causticily","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash."},{"word":"Causticily","type":"(n.)","description":"Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark."},{"word":"Causticness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being caustic; causticity."},{"word":"Cautel","type":"(n.)","description":"Caution; prudence; wariness."},{"word":"Cautel","type":"(n.)","description":"Craft; deceit; falseness."},{"word":"Cautelous","type":"(a.)","description":"Caution; prudent; wary."},{"word":"Cautelous","type":"(a.)","description":"Crafty; deceitful; false."},{"word":"Cauter","type":"(n.)","description":"A hot iron for searing or cauterizing."},{"word":"Cauterant","type":"(n.)","description":"A cauterizing substance."},{"word":"Cauterism","type":"(n.)","description":"The use or application of a caustic; cautery."},{"word":"Cauterization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application."},{"word":"Cauterized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cauterize"},{"word":"Cauterizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cauterize"},{"word":"Cauterize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic."},{"word":"Cauterize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sear, as the conscience."},{"word":"Cauteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cautery"},{"word":"Cautery","type":"(n.)","description":"A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue."},{"word":"Cautery","type":"(n.)","description":"The iron of other agent in cauterizing."},{"word":"Caution","type":"(n.)","description":"A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness."},{"word":"Caution","type":"(n.)","description":"Security; guaranty; bail."},{"word":"Caution","type":"(n.)","description":"Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction."},{"word":"Cautioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caution"},{"word":"Cautioning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caution"},{"word":"Caution","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed."},{"word":"Cautionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals."},{"word":"Cautionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Given as a pledge or as security."},{"word":"Cautionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Wary; cautious."},{"word":"Cautioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cautions or advises."},{"word":"Cautioner","type":"(n.)","description":"A surety or sponsor."},{"word":"Cautionry","type":"(n.)","description":"Suretyship."},{"word":"Cautious","type":"(a.)","description":"Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general."},{"word":"Cautiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cautious manner."},{"word":"Cautiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cautious."},{"word":"Cavalcade","type":"(n.)","description":"A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade."},{"word":"Cavalero","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cavaliero"},{"word":"Cavaliero","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine."},{"word":"Cavalier","type":"(n.)","description":"A military man serving on horseback; a knight."},{"word":"Cavalier","type":"(n.)","description":"A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant."},{"word":"Cavalier","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament."},{"word":"Cavalier","type":"(n.)","description":"A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts."},{"word":"Cavalier","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; easy; offhand; frank."},{"word":"Cavalier","type":"(a.)","description":"High-spirited."},{"word":"Cavalier","type":"(a.)","description":"Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque."},{"word":"Cavalier","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I."},{"word":"Cavalierish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat like a cavalier."},{"word":"Cavalierism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or principles of cavaliers."},{"word":"Cavalierly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly."},{"word":"Cavalierness","type":"(n.)","description":"A disdainful manner."},{"word":"Cavally","type":"(n.)","description":"A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]"},{"word":"Cavalry","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of military force which serves on horseback."},{"word":"Cavalryman","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a body of cavalry."},{"word":"Cavatina","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used."},{"word":"Cave","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den."},{"word":"Cave","type":"(n.)","description":"Any hollow place, or part; a cavity."},{"word":"Caved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cave"},{"word":"Caving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cave"},{"word":"Cave","type":"(n.)","description":"To make hollow; to scoop out."},{"word":"Cave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dwell in a cave."},{"word":"Cave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter."},{"word":"Caveat","type":"(n.)","description":"A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc."},{"word":"Caveat","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention."},{"word":"Caveat","type":"(n.)","description":"Intimation of caution; warning; protest."},{"word":"Caveating","type":"(n.)","description":"Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other."},{"word":"Caveator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enters a caveat."},{"word":"Cavendish","type":"(n.)","description":"Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes."},{"word":"Cavern","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave."},{"word":"Caverned","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing caverns."},{"word":"Caverned","type":"(a.)","description":"Living in a cavern."},{"word":"Cavernous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow."},{"word":"Cavernous","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled with small cavities or cells."},{"word":"Cavernous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sound caused by a cavity."},{"word":"Cavernulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal."},{"word":"Cavesson","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cavezon"},{"word":"Cavezon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses."},{"word":"Cavetto","type":"(n.)","description":"A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column."},{"word":"Caviare","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caviar"},{"word":"Caviar","type":"(n.)","description":"The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia."},{"word":"Cavicorn","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hollow horns."},{"word":"Cavicornia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox."},{"word":"Caviled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cavil"},{"word":"Cavilled","type":"()","description":"of Cavil"},{"word":"Caviling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cavil"},{"word":"Cavilling","type":"()","description":"of Cavil"},{"word":"Cavil","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason."},{"word":"Cavil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cavil at."},{"word":"Cavil","type":"(n.)","description":"A captious or frivolous objection."},{"word":"Caviler","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Caviller"},{"word":"Caviller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cavils."},{"word":"Caviling","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious."},{"word":"Cavilingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a caviling manner."},{"word":"Cavillation","type":"(n.)","description":"Frivolous or sophistical objection."},{"word":"Cavilous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cavillous"},{"word":"Cavillous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing."},{"word":"Cavin","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place."},{"word":"Cavitary","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms."},{"word":"Cavities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cavity"},{"word":"Cavity","type":"(n.)","description":"Hollowness."},{"word":"Cavity","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity."},{"word":"Cavo-relievo","type":"(n.)","description":"Cavo-rilievo."},{"word":"Cavo-rilievo","type":"(n.)","description":"Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around."},{"word":"Cavorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cavort"},{"word":"Cavorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cavort"},{"word":"Cavort","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider."},{"word":"Cavies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cavy"},{"word":"Cavy","type":"(n.)","description":"A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America."},{"word":"Cawed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Caw"},{"word":"Cawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Caw"},{"word":"Caw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry like a crow, rook, or raven."},{"word":"Caw","type":"(n.)","description":"The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven."},{"word":"Cawk","type":"(n.)","description":"An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar."},{"word":"Cawker","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calker."},{"word":"Cawky","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk."},{"word":"Caxon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of wig."},{"word":"Caxton","type":"(n.)","description":"Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer."},{"word":"Cay","type":"(n.)","description":"See Key, a ledge."},{"word":"Cayenne","type":"(n.)","description":"Cayenne pepper."},{"word":"Cayman","type":"(n.)","description":"The south America alligator. See Alligator."},{"word":"Cayugas","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations."},{"word":"Cayuse","type":"(n.)","description":"An Indian pony."},{"word":"Cazique","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cazic"},{"word":"Cazic","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America."},{"word":"Ceased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cease"},{"word":"Ceasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cease"},{"word":"Cease","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased."},{"word":"Cease","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be wanting; to fail; to pass away."},{"word":"Cease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a stop to; to bring to an end."},{"word":"Cease","type":"(n.)","description":"Extinction."},{"word":"Ceaseless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without pause or end; incessant."},{"word":"Ceaseless","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without intermission or end."},{"word":"Cecidomyia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly."},{"word":"Cecity","type":"(n.)","description":"Blindness."},{"word":"Cecutiency","type":"(n.)","description":"Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness."},{"word":"Cedar","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor."},{"word":"Cedar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cedar."},{"word":"Cedared","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered, or furnished with, cedars."},{"word":"Cedarn","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood."},{"word":"Ceded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cede"},{"word":"Ceding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cede"},{"word":"Cede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty."},{"word":"Cedilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark placed under the letter c [thus, c], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in facade."},{"word":"Cedrat","type":"(n.)","description":"Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume."},{"word":"Cedrene","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type."},{"word":"Cedrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree."},{"word":"Cedriret","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Coerulignone."},{"word":"Cedry","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of cedar."},{"word":"Cedule","type":"(n.)","description":"A scroll; a writing; a schedule."},{"word":"Ceduous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit to be felled."},{"word":"Ceiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ceil"},{"word":"Ceiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ceil"},{"word":"Ceil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room."},{"word":"Ceil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like."},{"word":"Ceiling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor."},{"word":"Ceiling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done."},{"word":"Ceiling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The inner planking of a vessel."},{"word":"Ceint","type":"(n.)","description":"A girdle."},{"word":"Celadon","type":"(n.)","description":"A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint."},{"word":"Celandine","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort."},{"word":"Celature","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of engraving or embossing."},{"word":"Celature","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is engraved."},{"word":"Celebrant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants."},{"word":"Celebrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Celebrate"},{"word":"Celebrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Celebrate"},{"word":"Celebrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High."},{"word":"Celebrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday."},{"word":"Celebrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage."},{"word":"Celebrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned."},{"word":"Celebration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or time of celebrating."},{"word":"Celebrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who celebrates; a praiser."},{"word":"Celebrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Famous."},{"word":"Celebrities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Celebrity"},{"word":"Celebrity","type":"(n.)","description":"Celebration; solemnization."},{"word":"Celebrity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington."},{"word":"Celebrity","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place."},{"word":"Celeriac","type":"(n.)","description":"Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food."},{"word":"Celerity","type":"(n.)","description":"Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness."},{"word":"Celery","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad."},{"word":"Celestial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens."},{"word":"Celestial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine."},{"word":"Celestial","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of heaven."},{"word":"Celestial","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of China."},{"word":"Celestialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make celestial."},{"word":"Celestially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a celestial manner."},{"word":"Celestify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make like heaven."},{"word":"Celestine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Celestite"},{"word":"Celestite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms."},{"word":"Celestine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Celestinian"},{"word":"Celestinian","type":"(n.)","description":"A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry."},{"word":"Celiac","type":"(a.)","description":"See Coellac."},{"word":"Celibacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry."},{"word":"Celibate","type":"(n.)","description":"Celibate state; celibacy."},{"word":"Celibate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry."},{"word":"Celibate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state."},{"word":"Celibatist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives unmarried."},{"word":"Celidography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets."},{"word":"Cell","type":"(n.)","description":"A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit."},{"word":"Cell","type":"(n.)","description":"A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent."},{"word":"Cell","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small cavity, or hollow place."},{"word":"Cell","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof."},{"word":"Cell","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cella."},{"word":"Cell","type":"(n.)","description":"A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery."},{"word":"Cell","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed."},{"word":"Celled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cell"},{"word":"Cell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place or inclose in a cell."},{"word":"Cella","type":"(n.)","description":"The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes."},{"word":"Cellar","type":"(n.)","description":"A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept."},{"word":"Cellarage","type":"(n.)","description":"The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar."},{"word":"Cellarage","type":"(n.)","description":"Chare for storage in a cellar."},{"word":"Cellarer","type":"(n.)","description":"A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions."},{"word":"Cellaret","type":"(n.)","description":"A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal."},{"word":"Cellarist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cellarer."},{"word":"Celled","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing a cell or cells."},{"word":"Cellepore","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa."},{"word":"Celliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or producing cells."},{"word":"Cellos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cello"},{"word":"Celli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cello"},{"word":"Cello","type":"(n.)","description":"A contraction for Violoncello."},{"word":"Cellular","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells."},{"word":"Cellulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Cellular."},{"word":"Cellule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cell."},{"word":"Celluliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or producing little cells."},{"word":"Cellulitis","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin."},{"word":"Celluloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite."},{"word":"Cellulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing, cells."},{"word":"Cellulose","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin."},{"word":"Celotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia."},{"word":"Celsiture","type":"(n.)","description":"Height; altitude."},{"word":"Celsius","type":"(n.)","description":"The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale."},{"word":"Celt","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France."},{"word":"Celt","type":"(n.)","description":"A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations."},{"word":"Celtiberian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus)."},{"word":"Celtiberian","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of Celtiberia."},{"word":"Celtic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue."},{"word":"Celtic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Celts."},{"word":"Celticism","type":"(n.)","description":"A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language."},{"word":"Celticize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts."},{"word":"Cembalo","type":"(n.)","description":"An old name for the harpsichord."},{"word":"Cement","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc."},{"word":"Cement","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water."},{"word":"Cement","type":"(n.)","description":"The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2."},{"word":"Cement","type":"(n.)","description":"Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society."},{"word":"Cement","type":"(n.)","description":"The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum."},{"word":"Cemented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cement"},{"word":"Cementing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cement"},{"word":"Cement","type":"(n.)","description":"To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement."},{"word":"Cement","type":"(n.)","description":"To unite firmly or closely."},{"word":"Cement","type":"(n.)","description":"To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom."},{"word":"Cement","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere."},{"word":"Cemental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes."},{"word":"Cementation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of cementing."},{"word":"Cementation","type":"(n.)","description":"A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand."},{"word":"Cementatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly."},{"word":"Cementer","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing that cements."},{"word":"Cementitious","type":"(n.)","description":"Of the nature of cement."},{"word":"Cemeterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cemetery."},{"word":"Cemeteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cemetery"},{"word":"Cemetery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis."},{"word":"Cenanthy","type":"(n.)","description":"The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower."},{"word":"Cenation","type":"(n.)","description":"Meal-taking; dining or supping."},{"word":"Cenatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dinner or supper."},{"word":"Cenobite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude."},{"word":"Cenobitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cenobitical"},{"word":"Cenobitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cenobite."},{"word":"Cenobitism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite."},{"word":"Cenogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism."},{"word":"Cenotaph","type":"(n.)","description":"An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere."},{"word":"Cenotaphy","type":"(n.)","description":"A cenotaph."},{"word":"Cenozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology."},{"word":"Cense","type":"(n.)","description":"A census; -- also, a public rate or tax."},{"word":"Cense","type":"(n.)","description":"Condition; rank."},{"word":"Censed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cense"},{"word":"Censing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cense"},{"word":"Cense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices."},{"word":"Cense","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burn or scatter incense."},{"word":"Censer","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned."},{"word":"Censor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct."},{"word":"Censor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries."},{"word":"Censor","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to fault-finding; a censurer."},{"word":"Censor","type":"(n.)","description":"A critic; a reviewer."},{"word":"Censorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals."},{"word":"Censorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of censure; censorious."},{"word":"Censorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Censorial."},{"word":"Censorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners."},{"word":"Censorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks."},{"word":"Censorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship."},{"word":"Censual","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or containing, a census."},{"word":"Censurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct."},{"word":"Censure","type":"(n.)","description":"Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion."},{"word":"Censure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame."},{"word":"Censure","type":"(n.)","description":"Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment."},{"word":"Censured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Censure"},{"word":"Censuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Censure"},{"word":"Censure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge."},{"word":"Censure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of."},{"word":"Censure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence."},{"word":"Censure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To judge."},{"word":"Censurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who censures."},{"word":"Census","type":"(n.)","description":"A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years."},{"word":"Census","type":"(n.)","description":"An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country."},{"word":"Cent","type":"(n.)","description":"A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred."},{"word":"Cent","type":"(n.)","description":"A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc."},{"word":"Cent","type":"(n.)","description":"An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game."},{"word":"Centage","type":"(n.)","description":"Rate by the hundred; percentage."},{"word":"Cental","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight."},{"word":"Cental","type":"(n.)","description":"Relating to a hundred."},{"word":"Centare","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards."},{"word":"Centaur","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse."},{"word":"Centaur","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross."},{"word":"Centaurea","type":"(n.)","description":"A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa)."},{"word":"Centaury","type":"(n.)","description":"A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea."},{"word":"Centenarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a hundred years."},{"word":"Centenarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A person a hundred years old."},{"word":"Centenary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred."},{"word":"Centenary","type":"(a.)","description":"Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial."},{"word":"Centenaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Centenary"},{"word":"Centenary","type":"(n.)","description":"The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century."},{"word":"Centenary","type":"(n.)","description":"A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before."},{"word":"Centennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode."},{"word":"Centennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration."},{"word":"Centennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Lasting or aged a hundred years."},{"word":"Centennial","type":"(n.)","description":"The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary."},{"word":"Centennially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Once in a hundred years."},{"word":"Center","type":"(n.)","description":"A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place."},{"word":"Center","type":"(n.)","description":"The middle or central portion of anything."},{"word":"Center","type":"(n.)","description":"A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction."},{"word":"Center","type":"(n.)","description":"The earth."},{"word":"Center","type":"(n.)","description":"Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left."},{"word":"Center","type":"(n.)","description":"A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting."},{"word":"Center","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves."},{"word":"Center","type":"(n.)","description":"A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe."},{"word":"Centered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Centre"},{"word":"Centred","type":"()","description":"of Centre"},{"word":"Centering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Centre"},{"word":"Centring","type":"()","description":"of Centre"},{"word":"Center","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Centre"},{"word":"Centre","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be placed in a center; to be central."},{"word":"Centre","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center."},{"word":"Center","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Centre"},{"word":"Centre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place or fix in the center or on a central point."},{"word":"Centre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect to a point; to concentrate."},{"word":"Centre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center."},{"word":"Centerbit","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Centrebit"},{"word":"Centrebit","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3."},{"word":"Centerboard","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Centreboard"},{"word":"Centreboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States"},{"word":"Centerfire","type":"()","description":"See under Cartridge."},{"word":"Centering","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Center, n., 6."},{"word":"Centerpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Centrepiece"},{"word":"Centrepiece","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure."},{"word":"Centesimal","type":"(a.)","description":"Hundredth."},{"word":"Centesimal","type":"(n.)","description":"A hundredth part."},{"word":"Centesimation","type":"(n.)","description":"The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny."},{"word":"Centesm","type":"(n.)","description":"Hundredth."},{"word":"-mi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Centesimo"},{"word":"Centesimo","type":"(n.)","description":"A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime."},{"word":"Centiare","type":"(n.)","description":"See centare."},{"word":"Centicipitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hundred-headed."},{"word":"Centifidous","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into a hundred parts."},{"word":"Centifolious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a hundred leaves."},{"word":"Centigrade","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts."},{"word":"Centigrade","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10� centigrade (or 10� C.)."},{"word":"Centigram","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Centigramme"},{"word":"Centigramme","type":"(n.)","description":"The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram."},{"word":"Centiliter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Centilitre"},{"word":"Centilitre","type":"(n.)","description":"The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce."},{"word":"Centiloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"A work divided into a hundred parts."},{"word":"Centime","type":"(n.)","description":"The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account."},{"word":"Centimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Centimetre"},{"word":"Centimetre","type":"(n.)","description":"The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter."},{"word":"Centinel","type":"(n.)","description":"Sentinel."},{"word":"Centinody","type":"(n.)","description":"A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass."},{"word":"Centiped","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet."},{"word":"Centistere","type":"(n.)","description":"The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet."},{"word":"Centner","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts."},{"word":"Centner","type":"(n.)","description":"The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds."},{"word":"Centos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cento"},{"word":"Cento","type":"(n.)","description":"A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order."},{"word":"Centonism","type":"(n.)","description":"The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos."},{"word":"Central","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points."},{"word":"Central","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Centrale"},{"word":"Centrale","type":"(n.)","description":"The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular."},{"word":"Centralism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization."},{"word":"Centralism","type":"(n.)","description":"The system by which power is centralized, as in a government."},{"word":"Centralities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Centrality"},{"word":"Centrality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being central; tendency towards a center."},{"word":"Centralization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city."},{"word":"Centralized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Centralize"},{"word":"Centralizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Centralize"},{"word":"Centralize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control."},{"word":"Centrally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a central manner or situation."},{"word":"Centre","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Center."},{"word":"Centric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Centrical"},{"word":"Centrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Placed in the center or middle; central."},{"word":"Centricity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being centric; centricalness."},{"word":"Centrifugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending, or causing, to recede from the center."},{"word":"Centrifugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster."},{"word":"Centrifugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos."},{"word":"Centrifugal","type":"(n.)","description":"A centrifugal machine."},{"word":"Centrifugence","type":"(n.)","description":"The property or quality of being centrifugal."},{"word":"Centring","type":"(n.)","description":"See Centring."},{"word":"Centripetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending, or causing, to approach the center."},{"word":"Centripetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit."},{"word":"Centripetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos."},{"word":"Centripetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone."},{"word":"Centripetence","type":"(n.)","description":"Centripetency."},{"word":"Centripetency","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency toward the center."},{"word":"Centriscoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example."},{"word":"Centrobaric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it."},{"word":"Centrode","type":"(n.)","description":"In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center."},{"word":"Centroid","type":"(n.)","description":"The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies."},{"word":"Centrolecithal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal."},{"word":"Centrolinead","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center."},{"word":"Centrolineal","type":"(a.)","description":"Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center."},{"word":"Centrosome","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized."},{"word":"Centrostaltic","type":"(a.)","description":"A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center."},{"word":"Centrums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Centrum"},{"word":"Centra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Centrum"},{"word":"Centrum","type":"(n.)","description":"The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra."},{"word":"Centry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Sentry."},{"word":"Centumviri","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Centumvir"},{"word":"Centumvir","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections."},{"word":"Centumviral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir."},{"word":"Centumvirate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri."},{"word":"Centuple","type":"(a.)","description":"Hundredfold."},{"word":"Centuple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To increase a hundredfold."},{"word":"Centuplicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Centuplicate"},{"word":"Centuplicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Centuplicate"},{"word":"Centuplicate","type":"(a.)","description":"To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times."},{"word":"Centurial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon."},{"word":"Centuriate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds."},{"word":"Centuriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into hundreds."},{"word":"Centuriator","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Centurist"},{"word":"Centurist","type":"(n.)","description":"An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the \"Magdeburg Centuries.\" See under Century."},{"word":"Centurion","type":"(n.)","description":"A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century."},{"word":"Centuries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Century"},{"word":"Century","type":"(n.)","description":"A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things."},{"word":"Century","type":"(n.)","description":"A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago."},{"word":"Century","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers."},{"word":"Century","type":"(n.)","description":"One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion."},{"word":"Cepevorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding upon onions."},{"word":"Cephalad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad."},{"word":"Cephalalgia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cephalalgy"},{"word":"Cephalalgy","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain in the head; headache."},{"word":"Cephalalgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or affected with, headache."},{"word":"Cephalalgic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for the headache."},{"word":"Cephalanthium","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anthodium."},{"word":"Cephalaspis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points."},{"word":"Cephalata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Cephalate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a head."},{"word":"Cephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior."},{"word":"Cephalic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head."},{"word":"Cephalitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Phrenitis."},{"word":"Cephalization","type":"(n.)","description":"Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development."},{"word":"Cephalo","type":"()","description":"A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod."},{"word":"Cephalocercal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the long axis of the body."},{"word":"Cephaloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like the head."},{"word":"Cephalology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the head."},{"word":"Cephalomere","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods."},{"word":"Cephalometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery."},{"word":"Cephalon","type":"(n.)","description":"The head."},{"word":"Cephalophora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The cephalata."},{"word":"Cephalopod","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cephalopode"},{"word":"Cephalopode","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cephalopoda."},{"word":"Cephalopoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The highest class of Mollusca."},{"word":"Cephalopodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cephalopodous"},{"word":"Cephalopodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods."},{"word":"Cephaloptera","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton."},{"word":"Cephalosome","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods."},{"word":"Cephalostyle","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania."},{"word":"Cephalothorax","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax."},{"word":"Cephalotome","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery."},{"word":"Cephalotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissection or opening of the head."},{"word":"Cephalotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw."},{"word":"Cephalotribe","type":"(n.)","description":"An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy."},{"word":"Cephalotripsy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery."},{"word":"Cephalotrocha","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head."},{"word":"Cephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks."},{"word":"Cepheus","type":"(n.)","description":"A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia."},{"word":"Ceraceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy."},{"word":"Cerago","type":"(n.)","description":"Beebread."},{"word":"Ceramic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings."},{"word":"Ceramics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc."},{"word":"Ceramics","type":"(n.)","description":"Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc."},{"word":"Cerargyrite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver)."},{"word":"Cerasin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid."},{"word":"Cerasin","type":"(n.)","description":"A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc."},{"word":"Cerasinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin."},{"word":"Cerasinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a cherry color."},{"word":"Cerastes","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper."},{"word":"Cerate","type":"(n.)","description":"An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin."},{"word":"Cerated","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Covered with wax."},{"word":"Ceratine","type":"(a.)","description":"Sophistical."},{"word":"Ceratobranchia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills."},{"word":"Ceratobranchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch."},{"word":"Ceratobranchial","type":"(n.)","description":"A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage."},{"word":"Ceratodus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium."},{"word":"Ceratohyal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch."},{"word":"Ceratohyal","type":"(n.)","description":"A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid."},{"word":"Ceratosaurus","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Ceratospongiae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges."},{"word":"Ceraunics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity."},{"word":"Ceraunoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning."},{"word":"Cerberean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus."},{"word":"Cerberus","type":"(n.)","description":"A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly."},{"word":"Cerberus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam."},{"word":"Cercal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the tail."},{"word":"Cercarle","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cercaria"},{"word":"Cercaria","type":"(n.)","description":"The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage."},{"word":"Cercarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, like, or pertaining to, the Cercariae."},{"word":"Cercarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cercariae."},{"word":"Cercopod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects."},{"word":"Cerci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cercus"},{"word":"Cercus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cercopod."},{"word":"Cere","type":"(n.)","description":"The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak."},{"word":"Cered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cere"},{"word":"Cering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cere"},{"word":"Cere","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wax; to cover or close with wax."},{"word":"Cereal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain."},{"word":"Cereal","type":"(n.)","description":"Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Cerealia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Public festivals in honor of Ceres."},{"word":"Cerealia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The cereals."},{"word":"Cerealin","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid."},{"word":"Cerebel","type":"(n.)","description":"The cerebellum."},{"word":"Cerebellar","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cerebellous"},{"word":"Cerebellous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the cerebellum."},{"word":"Cerebellums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cerebellum"},{"word":"Cerebella","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cerebellum"},{"word":"Cerebellum","type":"(n.)","description":"The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain."},{"word":"Cerebral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cerebrum."},{"word":"Cerebral","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n."},{"word":"Cerebralism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only."},{"word":"Cerebralist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accepts cerebralism."},{"word":"Cerebrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action."},{"word":"Cerebration","type":"(n.)","description":"Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious."},{"word":"Cerebric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain."},{"word":"Cerebricity","type":"(n.)","description":"Brain power."},{"word":"Cerebriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the brain in form or substance."},{"word":"Cerebrifugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards."},{"word":"Cerebrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance."},{"word":"Cerebripetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards."},{"word":"Cerebritis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the cerebrum."},{"word":"Cerebroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or analogous to, the cerebrum or brain."},{"word":"Cerebrology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the cerebrum or brain."},{"word":"Cerebropathy","type":"(n.)","description":"A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag."},{"word":"Cerebroscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope)."},{"word":"Cerebrose","type":"(n.)","description":"A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain."},{"word":"Cerebro-spinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord."},{"word":"Cerebrums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cerebrum"},{"word":"Cerebra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cerebrum"},{"word":"Cerebrum","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain."},{"word":"Cerecloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter."},{"word":"Cerement","type":"(n.)","description":"A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed."},{"word":"Cerement","type":"(n.)","description":"Any shroud or wrapping for the dead."},{"word":"Ceremonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites."},{"word":"Ceremonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense ceremonious is now preferred.]"},{"word":"Ceremonial","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form."},{"word":"Ceremonial","type":"(n.)","description":"The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions."},{"word":"Ceremonialism","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony."},{"word":"Ceremonially","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean."},{"word":"Ceremonialness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being ceremonial."},{"word":"Ceremonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [In this sense ceremonial is now preferred.]"},{"word":"Ceremonious","type":"(a.)","description":"According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious."},{"word":"Ceremoniously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a ceremonious way."},{"word":"Ceremoniousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious."},{"word":"Ceremonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ceremony"},{"word":"Ceremony","type":"(n.)","description":"Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies."},{"word":"Ceremony","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority."},{"word":"Ceremony","type":"(n.)","description":"A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter, garland, etc."},{"word":"Ceremony","type":"(n.)","description":"A sign or prodigy; a portent."},{"word":"Cereous","type":"(a.)","description":"Waxen; like wax."},{"word":"Ceres","type":"(n.)","description":"The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage."},{"word":"Ceres","type":"(n.)","description":"The first discovered asteroid."},{"word":"Ceresin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax."},{"word":"Cereus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili."},{"word":"Cerial","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Cerrial."},{"word":"Ceriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing wax."},{"word":"Cerin","type":"(n.)","description":"A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol."},{"word":"Cerin","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the mineral allanite."},{"word":"Cerinthian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an ancient religious sect, so called from Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics."},{"word":"Ceriph","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters."},{"word":"Cerise","type":"(a.)","description":"Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk."},{"word":"Cerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form."},{"word":"Cerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals."},{"word":"Cerium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air."},{"word":"Cernuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss."},{"word":"Cero","type":"(n.)","description":"A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis)."},{"word":"Cerograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing on wax."},{"word":"Cerographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cerographical"},{"word":"Cerographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cerography."},{"word":"Cerographist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices cerography."},{"word":"Cerography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax."},{"word":"Cerography","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax."},{"word":"Cerolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color."},{"word":"Ceroma","type":"(n.)","description":"The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans."},{"word":"Ceroma","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves."},{"word":"Ceroma","type":"(n.)","description":"The cere of birds."},{"word":"Ceromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by dropping melted wax in water."},{"word":"Ceroon","type":"(n.)","description":"A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc."},{"word":"Ceroplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the art of modeling in wax."},{"word":"Ceroplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure."},{"word":"Ceroplastics","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ceroplasty"},{"word":"Ceroplasty","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of modeling in wax."},{"word":"Cerosin","type":"(n.)","description":"A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae."},{"word":"Cerote","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cerate."},{"word":"Cerotene","type":"(n.)","description":"A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin."},{"word":"Cerotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol."},{"word":"Cerotin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol."},{"word":"Cerrial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cerris."},{"word":"Cerris","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(a.)","description":"Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(a.)","description":"Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(a.)","description":"Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfailing; infallible."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(a.)","description":"Fixed or stated; regular; determinate."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(a.)","description":"Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(n.)","description":"Certainty."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain number or quantity."},{"word":"Certain","type":"(adv.)","description":"Certainly."},{"word":"Certainly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without doubt or question; unquestionably."},{"word":"Certainness","type":"(n.)","description":"Certainty."},{"word":"Certainties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Certainty"},{"word":"Certainty","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality, state, or condition, of being certain."},{"word":"Certainty","type":"(n.)","description":"A fact or truth unquestionable established."},{"word":"Certainty","type":"(n.)","description":"Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity."},{"word":"Certes","type":"(adv.)","description":"Certainly; in truth; verily."},{"word":"Certificate","type":"(n.)","description":"A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior."},{"word":"Certificate","type":"(n.)","description":"A written declaration legally authenticated."},{"word":"Certificated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Certificate"},{"word":"Certificating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Certificate"},{"word":"Certificate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To verify or vouch for by certificate."},{"word":"Certificate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher."},{"word":"Certification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of certifying."},{"word":"Certifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who certifies or assures."},{"word":"Certified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Certify"},{"word":"Certifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Certify"},{"word":"Certify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain."},{"word":"Certify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify."},{"word":"Certify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal."},{"word":"Certiorari","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court."},{"word":"Certitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty."},{"word":"Cerule","type":"(a.)","description":"Blue; cerulean."},{"word":"Cerulean","type":"(a.)","description":"Sky-colored; blue; azure."},{"word":"Ceruleous","type":"(a.)","description":"Cerulean."},{"word":"Cerulific","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing a blue or sky color."},{"word":"Cerumen","type":"(n.)","description":"The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax."},{"word":"Ceruminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands."},{"word":"Ceruse","type":"(n.)","description":"White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White."},{"word":"Ceruse","type":"(n.)","description":"A cosmetic containing white lead."},{"word":"Ceruse","type":"(n.)","description":"The native carbonate of lead."},{"word":"Cerused","type":"(a.)","description":"Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face."},{"word":"Cerusite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cerussite"},{"word":"Cerussite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact."},{"word":"Cervantite","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Antimony."},{"word":"Cervelat","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone."},{"word":"Cervical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae."},{"word":"Cervicide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of killing deer; deer-slaying."},{"word":"Cervine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidae."},{"word":"Cervixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cervix"},{"word":"Cervices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cervix"},{"word":"Cervix","type":"(n.)","description":"The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird."},{"word":"Cervus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species."},{"word":"Ceryl","type":"(n.)","description":"A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc."},{"word":"Cesarean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cesarian"},{"word":"Cesarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Caesarean, Caesarian."},{"word":"Cesarism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caesarism."},{"word":"Cespitine","type":"(n.)","description":"An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series."},{"word":"Cespititious","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Cespitious."},{"word":"Cespitose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots."},{"word":"Cespitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy."},{"word":"Cess","type":"(n.)","description":"A rate or tax."},{"word":"Cess","type":"(n.)","description":"Bound; measure."},{"word":"Cessed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cess"},{"word":"Cessing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cess"},{"word":"Cess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rate; to tax; to assess."},{"word":"Cess","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cease; to neglect."},{"word":"Cessant","type":"(a.)","description":"Inactive; dormant"},{"word":"Cessation","type":"(n.)","description":"A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war."},{"word":"Cessavit","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure."},{"word":"Cesser","type":"(v. i.)","description":"a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years."},{"word":"Cessible","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving way; yielding."},{"word":"Cession","type":"(n.)","description":"A yielding to physical force."},{"word":"Cession","type":"(n.)","description":"Concession; compliance."},{"word":"Cession","type":"(n.)","description":"A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding."},{"word":"Cession","type":"(n.)","description":"The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation."},{"word":"Cession","type":"(n.)","description":"The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment."},{"word":"Cessionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt."},{"word":"Cessment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An assessment or tax."},{"word":"Cessor","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit."},{"word":"Cessor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An assessor."},{"word":"Cesspipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool."},{"word":"Cesspool","type":"(n.)","description":"A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth."},{"word":"Cest","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman's girdle; a cestus."},{"word":"Cestode","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea."},{"word":"Cestode","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cestoidea."},{"word":"Cestoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea."},{"word":"Cestoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cestoidea."},{"word":"Cestoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm."},{"word":"Cestoldean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cestoidea."},{"word":"Cestraciont","type":"(n.)","description":"A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples."},{"word":"Cestraciont","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion."},{"word":"Cestus","type":"(n.)","description":"A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love."},{"word":"Cestus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form."},{"word":"Cestus","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron."},{"word":"Cestuy","type":"(pron.)","description":"Alt. of Cestui"},{"word":"Cestui","type":"(pron.)","description":"He; the one."},{"word":"Cesura","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caesura."},{"word":"Cesural","type":"(a.)","description":"See Caesural."},{"word":"Cetacea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:"},{"word":"Cetacean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cetacea."},{"word":"Cetaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cetacea."},{"word":"Cete","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea."},{"word":"Cetene","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti."},{"word":"Ceterach","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach)."},{"word":"Cetewale","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Zedoary."},{"word":"Cetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a whale."},{"word":"Cetin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti."},{"word":"Cetological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cetology."},{"word":"Cetologist","type":"(a.)","description":"One versed in cetology."},{"word":"Cetology","type":"(n.)","description":"The description or natural history of cetaceous animals."},{"word":"Cetraric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica)."},{"word":"Cetrarin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance."},{"word":"Cetyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived from spermaceti."},{"word":"Cetylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti."},{"word":"Ceylanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste."},{"word":"Ceylonese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Ceylon."},{"word":"Ceylonese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or natives of Ceylon."},{"word":"C.","type":"()","description":"An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time."},{"word":"Chab","type":"(n.)","description":"The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus)."},{"word":"Chabasite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cabazite"},{"word":"Cabazite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie."},{"word":"Chablis","type":"(n.)","description":"A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France."},{"word":"Chablis","type":"(n.)","description":"a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California."},{"word":"Chabouk","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chabuk"},{"word":"Chabuk","type":"(n.)","description":"A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment."},{"word":"Chace","type":"(n.)","description":"See 3d Chase, n., 3."},{"word":"Chace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pursue. See Chase v. t."},{"word":"Chachalaca","type":"(n.)","description":"The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula)."},{"word":"Chak","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle."},{"word":"Chacma","type":"(n.)","description":"A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]"},{"word":"Chaconne","type":"(n.)","description":"An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations."},{"word":"Chad","type":"(n.)","description":"See Shad."},{"word":"Chaetetes","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones."},{"word":"Chaetiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing setae."},{"word":"Chaetodont","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. The chaetodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors."},{"word":"Chaetodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Chaetodonts or the family Chaetodontidae."},{"word":"Chaetognath","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha."},{"word":"Chaetognatha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head."},{"word":"Chaetopod","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Chaetopoda."},{"word":"Chaetopod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Chaetopoda."},{"word":"Chaetopoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species."},{"word":"Chaetotaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement of bristles on an insect."},{"word":"Chafed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chafe"},{"word":"Chafing","type":"(p pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chafe"},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm."},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate."},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable."},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction."},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes."},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated."},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat excited by friction."},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(n.)","description":"Injury or wear caused by friction."},{"word":"Chafe","type":"(n.)","description":"Vexation; irritation of mind; rage."},{"word":"Chafer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chafes."},{"word":"Chafer","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan."},{"word":"Chafer","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer."},{"word":"Chafery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars."},{"word":"Chafewax","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chaffwax"},{"word":"Chaffwax","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents."},{"word":"Chafeweed","type":"(n.)","description":"The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing."},{"word":"Chaff","type":"(n.)","description":"The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc."},{"word":"Chaff","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything."},{"word":"Chaff","type":"(n.)","description":"Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle."},{"word":"Chaff","type":"(n.)","description":"Light jesting talk; banter; raillery."},{"word":"Chaff","type":"(n.)","description":"The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower."},{"word":"Chaffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chaff"},{"word":"Chaffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chaff"},{"word":"Chaff","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter."},{"word":"Chaff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz."},{"word":"Chaffer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chaffs."},{"word":"Chaffer","type":"(n.)","description":"Bargaining; merchandise."},{"word":"Chaffered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chaffer"},{"word":"Chaffering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chaffer"},{"word":"Chaffer","type":"(n.)","description":"To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate."},{"word":"Chaffer","type":"(n.)","description":"To talk much and idly; to chatter."},{"word":"Chaffer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To buy or sell; to trade in."},{"word":"Chaffer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exchange; to bandy, as words."},{"word":"Chafferer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chaffers; a bargainer."},{"word":"Chaffern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A vessel for heating water."},{"word":"Chaffery","type":"(n.)","description":"Traffic; bargaining."},{"word":"Chaffinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch."},{"word":"Chaffing","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter."},{"word":"Chaffless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without chaff."},{"word":"Chaffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in, or resembling, chaff."},{"word":"Chaffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Light or worthless as chaff."},{"word":"Chaffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales."},{"word":"Chaffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers."},{"word":"Chafing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing."},{"word":"Chagreen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Shagreen."},{"word":"Chagrin","type":"(n.)","description":"Vexation; mortification."},{"word":"Chagrined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chagrin"},{"word":"Chargrining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chagrin"},{"word":"Chagrin","type":"(n.)","description":"To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined."},{"word":"Chagrin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be vexed or annoyed."},{"word":"Chagrin","type":"(a.)","description":"Chagrined."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(n.)","description":"That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(n.)","description":"Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(n.)","description":"The warp threads of a web."},{"word":"Chained","type":"(imp. p. p.)","description":"of Chain"},{"word":"Chaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chain"},{"word":"Chain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep in slavery; to enslave."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite closely and strongly."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To measure with the chain."},{"word":"Chain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor."},{"word":"Chainless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no chain; not restrained or fettered."},{"word":"Chainlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small chain."},{"word":"Chain","type":"()","description":"A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge."},{"word":"Chain","type":"()","description":"An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery."},{"word":"Chain","type":"()","description":"A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch."},{"word":"Chain","type":"()","description":"A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel."},{"word":"Chain","type":"()","description":"An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water."},{"word":"Chainwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work."},{"word":"Chair","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable single seat with a back."},{"word":"Chair","type":"(n.)","description":"An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself."},{"word":"Chair","type":"(n.)","description":"The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair."},{"word":"Chair","type":"(n.)","description":"A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig."},{"word":"Chair","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers."},{"word":"Chaired","type":"(imp. & p. pr.)","description":"of Chair"},{"word":"Chairing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chair"},{"word":"Chair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a chair."},{"word":"Chair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry publicly in a chair in triumph."},{"word":"Chairmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chairman"},{"word":"Chairman","type":"(n.)","description":"The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body."},{"word":"Chairman","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan."},{"word":"Chairmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body."},{"word":"Chaise","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse."},{"word":"Chaise","type":"(n.)","description":"a carriage in general."},{"word":"Chaja","type":"(n.)","description":"The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi."},{"word":"Chalazas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chalaza"},{"word":"Chalazae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chalaza"},{"word":"Chalaza","type":"(n.)","description":"The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus."},{"word":"Chalaza","type":"(n.)","description":"A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle."},{"word":"Chalazal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the chalaza."},{"word":"Chalaze","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chalaza."},{"word":"Chalaziferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or bearing chalazas."},{"word":"Chalazion","type":"(n.)","description":"A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands."},{"word":"Chalcanthite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue."},{"word":"Chalcedonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to chalcedony."},{"word":"Chalcedonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chalcedony"},{"word":"Chalcedony","type":"(n.)","description":"A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax."},{"word":"Chalchihuitl","type":"(n.)","description":"The Mexican name for turquoise. See Turquoise."},{"word":"Chalcid","type":"()","description":"One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididae. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects."},{"word":"Chalcidian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidae), having four small or rudimentary legs."},{"word":"Chalcocite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster."},{"word":"Chalcographer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chalcographist"},{"word":"Chalcographist","type":"(n.)","description":"An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper."},{"word":"Chalcography","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing."},{"word":"Chalcopyrite","type":"(n.)","description":"Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color."},{"word":"Chaldaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Chaldea."},{"word":"Chaldaic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee."},{"word":"Chaldaism","type":"(n.)","description":"An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect."},{"word":"Chaldean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Chaldea."},{"word":"Chaldean","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Chaldea."},{"word":"Chaldean","type":"(n.)","description":"A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans."},{"word":"Chaldean","type":"(n.)","description":"Nestorian."},{"word":"Chaldee","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Chaldea."},{"word":"Chaldee","type":"(n.)","description":"The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea."},{"word":"Chaldrich","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chalder"},{"word":"Chalder","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of bird; the oyster catcher."},{"word":"Chaldron","type":"(n.)","description":"An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke."},{"word":"Chalet","type":"(n.)","description":"A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland."},{"word":"Chalet","type":"(n.)","description":"A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages."},{"word":"Chalice","type":"(n.)","description":"A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper."},{"word":"Chaliced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped."},{"word":"Chalk","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone."},{"word":"Chalk","type":"(n.)","description":"Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon."},{"word":"Chalked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chalk"},{"word":"Chalking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chalk"},{"word":"Chalk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub or mark with chalk."},{"word":"Chalk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manure with chalk, as land."},{"word":"Chalk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach."},{"word":"Chalkcutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who digs chalk."},{"word":"Chalkiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being chalky."},{"word":"Chalkstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of chalk."},{"word":"Chalkstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus."},{"word":"Chalky","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"A claim or demand."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered."},{"word":"Challenged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Challenge"},{"word":"Challenging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Challenge"},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"To claim as due; to demand as a right."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"To censure; to blame."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with \"Who comes there?\""},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(n.)","description":"To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter."},{"word":"Challenge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assert a right; to claim a place."},{"word":"Challengeable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be challenged."},{"word":"Challenger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who challenges."},{"word":"Challis","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses."},{"word":"Chalon","type":"(n.)","description":"A bed blanket."},{"word":"Chalybean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel."},{"word":"Chalybean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel."},{"word":"Chalybeate","type":"(a.)","description":"Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs."},{"word":"Chalybeate","type":"(n.)","description":"Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient."},{"word":"Chalybeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel."},{"word":"Chalybite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite."},{"word":"Cham","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chew."},{"word":"Cham","type":"(n.)","description":"The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan."},{"word":"Chamade","type":"(n.)","description":"A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum."},{"word":"Chamal","type":"(n.)","description":"The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"Apartments in a lodging house."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamber pot."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(n.)","description":"A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades."},{"word":"Chambered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chamber"},{"word":"Chambering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chamber"},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be lascivious."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up, as in a chamber."},{"word":"Chamber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun."},{"word":"Chambered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun."},{"word":"Chamberer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid."},{"word":"Chamberer","type":"(n.)","description":"A civilian; a carpetmonger."},{"word":"Chambering","type":"(n.)","description":"Lewdness."},{"word":"Chamberlain","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers."},{"word":"Chamberlain","type":"(n.)","description":"An upper servant of an inn."},{"word":"Chamberlain","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court."},{"word":"Chamberlain","type":"(n.)","description":"A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc."},{"word":"Chamberlainship","type":"(n.)","description":"Office of a chamberlain."},{"word":"Chambermaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc."},{"word":"Chambermaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A lady's maid."},{"word":"Chambertin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy."},{"word":"Chambrel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gambrel."},{"word":"Chameck","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail."},{"word":"Chameleon","type":"(n.)","description":"A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back."},{"word":"Chameleonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change into various colors."},{"word":"Chamfer","type":"(n.)","description":"The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc."},{"word":"Chamfered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chamfer"},{"word":"Chamfering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chamfer"},{"word":"Chamfer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute."},{"word":"Chamfer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a chamfer on."},{"word":"Chamfret","type":"(n.)","description":"A small gutter; a furrow; a groove."},{"word":"Chamfret","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamfer."},{"word":"Chamfron","type":"(n.)","description":"The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse."},{"word":"Chamlet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Camlet."},{"word":"Chamois","type":"(n.)","description":"A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase."},{"word":"Chamois","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy."},{"word":"Chamomile","type":"(n.)","description":"See Camomile."},{"word":"Champed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Champ"},{"word":"Champing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Champ"},{"word":"Champ","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard."},{"word":"Champ","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bite into small pieces; to crunch."},{"word":"Champ","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bite or chew impatiently."},{"word":"Champ","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Champe"},{"word":"Champe","type":"(n.)","description":"The field or ground on which carving appears in relief."},{"word":"Champagne","type":"(n.)","description":"A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France."},{"word":"Champaign","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat, open country."},{"word":"Champaign","type":"(a.)","description":"Flat; open; level."},{"word":"Champer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who champs, or bites."},{"word":"Champertor","type":"(n.)","description":"One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain."},{"word":"Champerty","type":"(n.)","description":"Partnership in power; equal share of authority."},{"word":"Champerty","type":"(n.)","description":"The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance."},{"word":"Champignon","type":"(n.)","description":"An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris)."},{"word":"Chappion","type":"(n.)","description":"One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero."},{"word":"Chappion","type":"(n.)","description":"One who by defeating all rivals, has obtained an acknowledged supremacy in any branch of athetics or game of skill, and is ready to contend with any rival; as, the champion of England."},{"word":"Championed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Champion"},{"word":"Championing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Champion"},{"word":"Champion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect."},{"word":"Championness","type":"(n.)","description":"A female champion."},{"word":"Championship","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being champion; leadership; supremacy."},{"word":"Champlain","type":"()","description":"A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain."},{"word":"Chamsin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kamsin."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation or activity of such agent."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(n.)","description":"The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(n.)","description":"A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(n.)","description":"Probability."},{"word":"Chanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chance"},{"word":"Chancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chance"},{"word":"Chance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To befall; to happen to."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening by chance; casual."},{"word":"Chance","type":"(adv.)","description":"By chance; perchance."},{"word":"Chanceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fortuitous; casual."},{"word":"Chanceably","type":"(adv.)","description":"By chance."},{"word":"Chanceful","type":"(a.)","description":"Hazardous."},{"word":"Chancel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed."},{"word":"Chancel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front."},{"word":"Chancellery","type":"(n.)","description":"Chancellorship."},{"word":"Chancellor","type":"(n.)","description":"A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction."},{"word":"Chancellorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor."},{"word":"Chance-medley","type":"(n.)","description":"The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley."},{"word":"Chance-medley","type":"(n.)","description":"Luck; chance; accident."},{"word":"Chancery","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity."},{"word":"Chancery","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity."},{"word":"Chancre","type":"(n.)","description":"A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre."},{"word":"Chancroid","type":"(n.)","description":"A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre."},{"word":"Chancrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre."},{"word":"Chandelier","type":"(n.)","description":"A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling."},{"word":"Chandelier","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers."},{"word":"Chandler","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker or seller of candles."},{"word":"Chandler","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler."},{"word":"Chandlerly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a chandler; in a petty way."},{"word":"Chandlery","type":"(n.)","description":"Commodities sold by a chandler."},{"word":"Chandoo","type":"(n.)","description":"An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking."},{"word":"Chandry","type":"(n.)","description":"Chandlery."},{"word":"Chanfrin","type":"(n.)","description":"The fore part of a horse's head."},{"word":"Changed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Change"},{"word":"Changing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Change"},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alteration in the order of a series; permutation."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A public house; an alehouse."},{"word":"Change","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale."},{"word":"Changeability","type":"(n.)","description":"Changeableness."},{"word":"Changeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor."},{"word":"Changeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk."},{"word":"Changeableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability."},{"word":"Changeably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a changeable manner."},{"word":"Changeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain."},{"word":"Changeless","type":"(a.)","description":"That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose."},{"word":"Changeling","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies."},{"word":"Changeling","type":"(n.)","description":"A simpleton; an idiot."},{"word":"Changeling","type":"(n.)","description":"One apt to change; a waverer."},{"word":"Changeling","type":"(a.)","description":"Taken or left in place of another; changed."},{"word":"Changeling","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to change; inconstant."},{"word":"Changer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who changes or alters the form of anything."},{"word":"Changer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in or changes money."},{"word":"Changer","type":"(n.)","description":"One apt to change; an inconstant person."},{"word":"Chank","type":"(n.)","description":"The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell."},{"word":"Channel","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run."},{"word":"Channel","type":"(n.)","description":"The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels."},{"word":"Channel","type":"(n.)","description":"A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel."},{"word":"Channel","type":"(n.)","description":"That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels."},{"word":"Channel","type":"(n.)","description":"A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column."},{"word":"Channel","type":"(n.)","description":"Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks."},{"word":"Channeled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Channel"},{"word":"Channelled","type":"()","description":"of Channel"},{"word":"Channeling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Channel"},{"word":"Channelling","type":"()","description":"of Channel"},{"word":"Channel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove."},{"word":"Channel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To course through or over, as in a channel."},{"word":"Channeling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of forming a channel or channels."},{"word":"Channeling","type":"(n.)","description":"A channel or a system of channels; a groove."},{"word":"Chanson","type":"(n.)","description":"A song."},{"word":"Chansonnettes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chansonnette"},{"word":"Chansonnette","type":"(n.)","description":"A little song."},{"word":"Chanted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chant"},{"word":"Chanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chant"},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter with a melodious voice; to sing."},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To celebrate in song."},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant."},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make melody with the voice; to sing."},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sing, as in reciting a chant."},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Song; melody."},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music."},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting."},{"word":"Chant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone."},{"word":"Chantant","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed in a melodious and singing style."},{"word":"Chanter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chants; a singer or songster."},{"word":"Chanter","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief singer of the chantry."},{"word":"Chanter","type":"(n.)","description":"The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe."},{"word":"Chanter","type":"(n.)","description":"The hedge sparrow."},{"word":"Chanterelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous."},{"word":"Chanticleer","type":"(n.)","description":"A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing."},{"word":"Chanting","type":"(n.)","description":"Singing, esp. as a chant is sung."},{"word":"Chantor","type":"(n.)","description":"A chanter."},{"word":"Chantress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female chanter or singer."},{"word":"Chantries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chantry"},{"word":"Chantry","type":"(n.)","description":"An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder."},{"word":"Chantry","type":"(n.)","description":"A chapel or altar so endowed."},{"word":"Chaomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of appearances in the air."},{"word":"Chaos","type":"(n.)","description":"An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm."},{"word":"Chaos","type":"(n.)","description":"The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms."},{"word":"Chaos","type":"(n.)","description":"Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder."},{"word":"Chaotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling chaos; confused."},{"word":"Chaotically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a chaotic manner."},{"word":"Chapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chap"},{"word":"Chapping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chap"},{"word":"Chap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike; to beat."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike; to knock; to rap."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(n.)","description":"A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(n.)","description":"A division; a breach, as in a party."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow; a rap."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(n.)","description":"A buyer; a chapman."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(n.)","description":"A man or boy; a youth; a fellow."},{"word":"Chap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bargain; to buy."},{"word":"Chaparral","type":"(n.)","description":"A thicket of low evergreen oaks."},{"word":"Chaparral","type":"(n.)","description":"An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles."},{"word":"Chapbook","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book."},{"word":"Chape","type":"(n.)","description":"The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap."},{"word":"Chape","type":"(n.)","description":"The transverse guard of a sword or dagger."},{"word":"Chape","type":"(n.)","description":"The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc."},{"word":"Chapeux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chapeau"},{"word":"Chapeau","type":"(n.)","description":"A hat or covering for the head."},{"word":"Chapeau","type":"(n.)","description":"A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance."},{"word":"Chaped","type":"(p. p. / a.)","description":"Furnished with a chape or chapes."},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"A subordinate place of worship"},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial"},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"a small building attached to a church"},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"a room or recess in a church, containing an altar."},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison."},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse."},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman."},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey."},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(n.)","description":"An association of workmen in a printing office."},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine."},{"word":"Chapel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing."},{"word":"Chapeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a chape."},{"word":"Chapelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider."},{"word":"Chapelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine."},{"word":"Chapellanies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chapellany"},{"word":"Chapellany","type":"(n.)","description":"A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation."},{"word":"Chapelry","type":"(n.)","description":"The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel."},{"word":"Chaperon","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood."},{"word":"Chaperon","type":"(n.)","description":"A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals."},{"word":"Chaperon","type":"(n.)","description":"A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector."},{"word":"Chaperoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chaperon"},{"word":"Chaperoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chaperon"},{"word":"Chaperon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize."},{"word":"Chaperonage","type":"(n.)","description":"Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon."},{"word":"Chapfallen","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen."},{"word":"Chapiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A capital [Obs.] See Chapital."},{"word":"Chapiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles."},{"word":"Chaplain","type":"(n.)","description":"An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel."},{"word":"Chaplain","type":"(n.)","description":"A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service."},{"word":"Chaplain","type":"(n.)","description":"Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge."},{"word":"Chaplaincy","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, position, or station of a chaplain."},{"word":"Chaplainship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or business of a chaplain."},{"word":"Chaplainship","type":"(n.)","description":"The possession or revenue of a chapel."},{"word":"Chapless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless."},{"word":"Chaplet","type":"(n.)","description":"A garland or wreath to be worn on the head."},{"word":"Chaplet","type":"(n.)","description":"A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads."},{"word":"Chaplet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc."},{"word":"Chaplet","type":"(n.)","description":"A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1."},{"word":"Chaplet","type":"(n.)","description":"A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold."},{"word":"Chaplet","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head."},{"word":"Chaplet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small chapel or shrine."},{"word":"Chapleted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chaplet"},{"word":"Chaplet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers."},{"word":"Chapmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chapman"},{"word":"Chapman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller."},{"word":"Chapman","type":"(n.)","description":"A peddler; a hawker."},{"word":"Chappy","type":"()","description":"Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open."},{"word":"Chaps","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A community of canons or canonesses."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A bishop's council."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A business meeting of any religious community."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A meeting of certain organized societies or orders."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A chapter house."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A decretal epistle."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(n.)","description":"A location or compartment."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into chapters, as a book."},{"word":"Chapter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse."},{"word":"Chaptrel","type":"(n.)","description":"An impost."},{"word":"Char","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Charr"},{"word":"Charr","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char."},{"word":"Char","type":"(n.)","description":"A car; a chariot."},{"word":"Char","type":"(n.)","description":"Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore."},{"word":"Char","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Chare"},{"word":"Chare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform; to do; to finish."},{"word":"Chare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To work or hew, as stone."},{"word":"Char","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Chare"},{"word":"Chare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs."},{"word":"Charred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Char"},{"word":"Charring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Char"},{"word":"Char","type":"(n.)","description":"To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder."},{"word":"Char","type":"(n.)","description":"To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood."},{"word":"Chara","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places."},{"word":"Chars-a-banc","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Char-a-bancs"},{"word":"Char-a-bancs","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise."},{"word":"Charact","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc., given to a servant."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a great historical character."},{"word":"Character","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the persons of a drama or novel."},{"word":"Charactered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Character"},{"word":"Character","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engrave; to inscribe."},{"word":"Character","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize."},{"word":"Characterism","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinction of character; a characteristic."},{"word":"Characteristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive."},{"word":"Characteristic","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized."},{"word":"Characteristic","type":"(n.)","description":"The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm."},{"word":"Characteristical","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic."},{"word":"Characteristically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes."},{"word":"Characterization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of characterizing."},{"word":"Characterized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Characterize"},{"word":"Characterizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Characterize"},{"word":"Characterize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features."},{"word":"Characterize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engrave or imprint."},{"word":"Characterize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indicate the character of; to describe."},{"word":"Characterize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of."},{"word":"Characterless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force."},{"word":"Charactery","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark."},{"word":"Charactery","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is charactered; the meaning."},{"word":"Charade","type":"(n.)","description":"A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations."},{"word":"Charbocle","type":"(n.)","description":"Carbuncle."},{"word":"Charbon","type":"(n.)","description":"A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated."},{"word":"Charbon","type":"(n.)","description":"A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule."},{"word":"Charcoal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes."},{"word":"Charcoal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement."},{"word":"Chard","type":"(n.)","description":"The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use."},{"word":"Chard","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks."},{"word":"Chare","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow street."},{"word":"Chare","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"A chore; to chore; to do. See Char."},{"word":"Charged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Charge"},{"word":"Charging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Charge"},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call to account; to challenge."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A load or burder laid upon a person or thing."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Heed; care; anxiety; trouble."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Harm."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An order; a mandate or command; an injunction."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The price demanded for a thing or service."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time"},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A soft of plaster or ointment."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(n.)","description":"Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre."},{"word":"Charge","type":"(n.)","description":"Weight; import; value."},{"word":"Chargeable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man."},{"word":"Chargeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder."},{"word":"Chargeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome."},{"word":"Chargeableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being chargeable or expensive."},{"word":"Chargeably","type":"(adv.)","description":"At great cost; expensively."},{"word":"Chargeant","type":"(a.)","description":"Burdensome; troublesome."},{"word":"Charges","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Charge d'affaires"},{"word":"Charge","type":"(n.)","description":"A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary."},{"word":"Chargeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Costly; expensive."},{"word":"Chargehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A schoolhouse."},{"word":"Chargeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from, or with little, charge."},{"word":"Chargeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Burdensome."},{"word":"Charger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which charges."},{"word":"Charger","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge."},{"word":"Charger","type":"(n.)","description":"A large dish."},{"word":"Charger","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse for battle or parade."},{"word":"Chargeship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a charge d'affaires."},{"word":"Charily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally."},{"word":"Chariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being chary."},{"word":"Chariot","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc."},{"word":"Chariot","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat."},{"word":"Charioted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chariot"},{"word":"Charioting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chariot"},{"word":"Chariot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey in a chariot."},{"word":"Chariotee","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats."},{"word":"Charioteer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drives a chariot."},{"word":"Charioteer","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones."},{"word":"Charism","type":"(n.)","description":"A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians."},{"word":"Charismatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a charism."},{"word":"Charitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind."},{"word":"Charitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment."},{"word":"Charitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent."},{"word":"Charitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution."},{"word":"Charitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient."},{"word":"Charitableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity."},{"word":"Charitably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a charitable manner."},{"word":"Charities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Charity"},{"word":"Charity","type":"(n.)","description":"Love; universal benevolence; good will."},{"word":"Charity","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others."},{"word":"Charity","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity."},{"word":"Charity","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness."},{"word":"Charity","type":"(n.)","description":"A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity."},{"word":"Charity","type":"(n.)","description":"Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions."},{"word":"Charivari","type":"(n.)","description":"A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult."},{"word":"Chark","type":"(n.)","description":"Charcoal; a cinder."},{"word":"Charked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chark"},{"word":"Chark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burn to a coal; to char."},{"word":"Charlatan","type":"(n.)","description":"One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank."},{"word":"Charlatanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Charlatanical"},{"word":"Charlatanical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish."},{"word":"Charlatanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Charlatanry."},{"word":"Charlatanry","type":"(n.)","description":"Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism."},{"word":"Charles's","type":"()","description":"The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa."},{"word":"Charlock","type":"(n.)","description":"A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock."},{"word":"Charlotte","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"A melody; a song."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain."},{"word":"Charmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Charm"},{"word":"Charming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Charm"},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"To make music upon; to tune."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(n.)","description":"To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating."},{"word":"Charm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a musical sound."},{"word":"Charmel","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruitful field."},{"word":"Charmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician."},{"word":"Charmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who delights and attracts the affections."},{"word":"Charmeress","type":"(n.)","description":"An enchantress."},{"word":"Charmful","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with charms."},{"word":"Charming","type":"(a.)","description":"Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive."},{"word":"Charmless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of charms."},{"word":"Charneco","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Charnico"},{"word":"Charnico","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of sweet wine."},{"word":"Charnel","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing the bodies of the dead."},{"word":"Charnel","type":"(n.)","description":"A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery."},{"word":"Charon","type":"(n.)","description":"The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions."},{"word":"Charpie","type":"(n.)","description":"Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings."},{"word":"Charqui","type":"(n.)","description":"Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun."},{"word":"Charr","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Char."},{"word":"Charras","type":"(n.)","description":"The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus."},{"word":"Charre","type":"(n.)","description":"See Charge, n., 17."},{"word":"Charry","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities."},{"word":"Chart","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart."},{"word":"Chart","type":"(n.)","description":"A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts."},{"word":"Chart","type":"(n.)","description":"A written deed; a charter."},{"word":"Charted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chart"},{"word":"Chart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast."},{"word":"Charta","type":"(n.)","description":"Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper."},{"word":"Charta","type":"(n.)","description":"A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta."},{"word":"Chartaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery."},{"word":"Charte","type":"(n.)","description":"The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814."},{"word":"Charter","type":"(n.)","description":"A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance."},{"word":"Charter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges."},{"word":"Charter","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers."},{"word":"Charter","type":"(n.)","description":"A special privilege, immunity, or exemption."},{"word":"Charter","type":"(n.)","description":"The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below."},{"word":"Chartered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Charter"},{"word":"Chartering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Charter"},{"word":"Charter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To establish by charter."},{"word":"Charter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n."},{"word":"Chartered","type":"(a.)","description":"Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter."},{"word":"Chartered","type":"(a.)","description":"Hired or let by charter, as a ship."},{"word":"Charterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage."},{"word":"Charterhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London."},{"word":"Charterist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chartist."},{"word":"Chartism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter."},{"word":"Chartist","type":"(n.)","description":"A supporter or partisan of chartism."},{"word":"Chartless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a chart; having no guide."},{"word":"Chartless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not mapped; uncharted; vague."},{"word":"Chartographer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chartography"},{"word":"Chartographic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chartography"},{"word":"Chartography","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc."},{"word":"Chartomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by written paper or by cards."},{"word":"Chartometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring charts or maps."},{"word":"Chartreuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France."},{"word":"Chartreuse","type":"(n.)","description":"An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse."},{"word":"Chartreux","type":"(n.)","description":"A Carthusian."},{"word":"Chartulary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cartulary."},{"word":"Charwomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Charwoman"},{"word":"Charwoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman hired for odd work or for single days."},{"word":"Chary","type":"(a.)","description":"Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal."},{"word":"Charybdis","type":"(n.)","description":"A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla."},{"word":"Chasable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being chased; fit for hunting."},{"word":"Chased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chase"},{"word":"Chasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chase"},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v.)","description":"Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v.)","description":"That which is pursued or hunted."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v.)","description":"An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v.)","description":"A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(n.)","description":"A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(n.)","description":"A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like."},{"word":"Chase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut, so as to make a screw thread."},{"word":"Chaser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter."},{"word":"Chaser","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern."},{"word":"Chaser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase."},{"word":"Chaser","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe."},{"word":"Chasible","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chasuble."},{"word":"Chasing","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way."},{"word":"Chasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure."},{"word":"Chasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men."},{"word":"Chasmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having gaps or a chasm."},{"word":"Chasmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms."},{"word":"Chasse","type":"(n.)","description":"A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left."},{"word":"Chasse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse; chasse to the right or left."},{"word":"Chasselas","type":"(n.)","description":"A white grape, esteemed for the table."},{"word":"Chassepot","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun."},{"word":"Chasseur","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements."},{"word":"Chasseur","type":"(n.)","description":"An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword."},{"word":"Chassis","type":"(n.)","description":"A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]"},{"word":"Chast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to chasten."},{"word":"Chaste","type":"(a.)","description":"Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent."},{"word":"Chaste","type":"(a.)","description":"Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes."},{"word":"Chaste","type":"(a.)","description":"Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art."},{"word":"Chaste","type":"(a.)","description":"Unmarried."},{"word":"Chastely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a chaste manner; with purity."},{"word":"Chastened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chasten"},{"word":"Chastening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chasten"},{"word":"Chasten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod."},{"word":"Chasten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purify from errors or faults; to refine."},{"word":"Chastened","type":"(a.)","description":"Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down."},{"word":"Chastener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chastens."},{"word":"Chasteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Chastity; purity."},{"word":"Chasteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design."},{"word":"Chastisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable."},{"word":"Chastised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chastise"},{"word":"Chastising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chastise"},{"word":"Chastise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes."},{"word":"Chastise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses."},{"word":"Chastisement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment."},{"word":"Chastiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector."},{"word":"Chastity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse."},{"word":"Chastity","type":"(n.)","description":"Moral purity."},{"word":"Chastity","type":"(n.)","description":"The unmarried life; celibacy."},{"word":"Chastity","type":"(n.)","description":"Chasteness."},{"word":"Chasuble","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle."},{"word":"Chatted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chat"},{"word":"Chatting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chat"},{"word":"Chat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip."},{"word":"Chat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To talk of."},{"word":"Chat","type":"(n.)","description":"Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip."},{"word":"Chat","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat."},{"word":"Chat","type":"(n.)","description":"A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit."},{"word":"Chat","type":"(n.)","description":"Small stones with ore."},{"word":"Chateux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chateau"},{"word":"Chateau","type":"(n.)","description":"A castle or a fortress in France."},{"word":"Chateau","type":"(n.)","description":"A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg."},{"word":"Chatelaine","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain."},{"word":"Chatelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little castle."},{"word":"Chatellany","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Castellany."},{"word":"Chati","type":"(n.)","description":"A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis)."},{"word":"Chatoyant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark."},{"word":"Chatoyant","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light."},{"word":"Chatoyment","type":"(n.)","description":"Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors."},{"word":"Chattel","type":"(n.)","description":"Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects."},{"word":"Chattelism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel."},{"word":"Chattered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chatter"},{"word":"Chattering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chatter"},{"word":"Chatter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct."},{"word":"Chatter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate."},{"word":"Chatter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a noise by rapid collisions."},{"word":"Chatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly."},{"word":"Chatter","type":"(n.)","description":"Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle."},{"word":"Chatter","type":"(n.)","description":"Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering."},{"word":"Chatteration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or habit of chattering."},{"word":"Chatterer","type":"(n.)","description":"A prater; an idle talker."},{"word":"Chatterer","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the family Ampelidae -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird."},{"word":"Chattering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter."},{"word":"Chattiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly."},{"word":"Chatty","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to light, familiar talk; talkative."},{"word":"Chatty","type":"(n.)","description":"A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc."},{"word":"Chatwood","type":"(n.)","description":"Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel."},{"word":"Chaud-medley","type":"(n.)","description":"The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray."},{"word":"Chaudron","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chawdron."},{"word":"Chauffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top."},{"word":"Chauldron","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chawdron."},{"word":"Chaun","type":"(n.)","description":"A gap."},{"word":"Chaun","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To open; to yawn."},{"word":"Chaunt","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Chant."},{"word":"Chaunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A street seller of ballads and other broadsides."},{"word":"Chaunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey."},{"word":"Chaunter","type":"(n.)","description":"The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3."},{"word":"Chaunterie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chantry."},{"word":"Chaus","type":"(n.)","description":"a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus)."},{"word":"Chausses","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail."},{"word":"Chaussure","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot covering of any kind."},{"word":"Chauvinism","type":"(n.)","description":"Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism."},{"word":"Chavender","type":"(n.)","description":"The chub."},{"word":"Chawed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chaw"},{"word":"Chawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chaw"},{"word":"Chaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit."},{"word":"Chaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over."},{"word":"Chaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid."},{"word":"Chaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The jaw."},{"word":"Chawdron","type":"(n.)","description":"Entrails."},{"word":"Chay","type":"()","description":"The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff."},{"word":"Chazy","type":"()","description":"An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology."},{"word":"Cheap","type":"(n.)","description":"A bargain; a purchase; cheapness."},{"word":"Cheap","type":"(n.)","description":"Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value."},{"word":"Cheap","type":"(n.)","description":"Of comparatively small value; common; mean."},{"word":"Cheap","type":"(adv.)","description":"Cheaply."},{"word":"Cheap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To buy; to bargain."},{"word":"Cheapened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cheapen"},{"word":"Cheapening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cheapen"},{"word":"Cheapen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for."},{"word":"Cheapen","type":"(a.)","description":"To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate."},{"word":"Cheapener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cheapens."},{"word":"Cheap-jack","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cheap-john"},{"word":"Cheap-john","type":"(n.)","description":"A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker."},{"word":"Cheaply","type":"(adv.)","description":"At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner."},{"word":"Cheapness","type":"(n.)","description":"Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value."},{"word":"Chear","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Cheer."},{"word":"Cheat","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture."},{"word":"Cheat","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater."},{"word":"Cheat","type":"(n.)","description":"A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess."},{"word":"Cheat","type":"(n.)","description":"The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth."},{"word":"Cheated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cheat"},{"word":"Cheating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cheat"},{"word":"Cheat","type":"(n.)","description":"To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle."},{"word":"Cheat","type":"(n.)","description":"To beguile."},{"word":"Cheat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards."},{"word":"Cheat","type":"(n.)","description":"Wheat, or bread made from wheat."},{"word":"Cheatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being cheated."},{"word":"Cheatableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being cheated."},{"word":"Cheater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cheats."},{"word":"Cheater","type":"(n.)","description":"An escheator."},{"word":"Chebacco","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec."},{"word":"Chebec","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chebacco."},{"word":"Chebec","type":"(n.)","description":"A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher."},{"word":"Check","type":"(n.)","description":"A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move."},{"word":"Check","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check."},{"word":"Check","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff."},{"word":"Check","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad."},{"word":"Check","type":"(n.)","description":"A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below."},{"word":"Check","type":"(n.)","description":"A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure."},{"word":"Check","type":"(n.)","description":"The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds."},{"word":"Check","type":"(n.)","description":"Small chick or crack."},{"word":"Checked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Check"},{"word":"Checking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Check"},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chide, rebuke, or reprove."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a stop; to pause; -- with at."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To clash or interfere."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a curb or restraint."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc."},{"word":"Check","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds."},{"word":"Check","type":"(a.)","description":"Checkered; designed in checks."},{"word":"Checkage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list."},{"word":"Checkage","type":"(n.)","description":"The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks."},{"word":"Checker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who checks."},{"word":"Checkered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Checker"},{"word":"Checkering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Checker"},{"word":"Checker","type":"(n.)","description":"To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors."},{"word":"Checker","type":"(n.)","description":"To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity."},{"word":"Checker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A piece in the game of draughts or checkers."},{"word":"Checker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A pattern in checks; a single check."},{"word":"Checker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Checkerwork."},{"word":"Checkerberries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Checkerberry"},{"word":"Checkerberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens)."},{"word":"Checkerboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts."},{"word":"Checkered","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material."},{"word":"Checkered","type":"(a.)","description":"Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc."},{"word":"Checkers","type":"(v.)","description":"A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them."},{"word":"Checkerwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials."},{"word":"Checkerwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes."},{"word":"Checklaton","type":"(n.)","description":"Ciclatoun."},{"word":"Checklaton","type":"(n.)","description":"Gilded leather."},{"word":"Checkless","type":"(a.)","description":"That can not be checked or restrained."},{"word":"Checkmate","type":"(n.)","description":"The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game."},{"word":"Checkmate","type":"(n.)","description":"A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow."},{"word":"Checkmated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Checkmate"},{"word":"Checkmating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Checkmate"},{"word":"Checkmate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape."},{"word":"Checkmate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart."},{"word":"Checkrein","type":"(n.)","description":"A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein."},{"word":"Checkrein","type":"(n.)","description":"A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse."},{"word":"Checkroll","type":"(n.)","description":"A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll."},{"word":"Checkstring","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver."},{"word":"Checkwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard."},{"word":"Checky","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing."},{"word":"Cheddar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese."},{"word":"Cheek","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of the face below the eye."},{"word":"Cheek","type":"(n.)","description":"The cheek bone."},{"word":"Cheek","type":"(n.)","description":"Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc."},{"word":"Cheek","type":"(n.)","description":"The branches of a bridle bit."},{"word":"Cheek","type":"(n.)","description":"A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask."},{"word":"Cheek","type":"(n.)","description":"Cool confidence; assurance; impudence."},{"word":"Cheek","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be impudent or saucy to."},{"word":"Cheeked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cheek; -- used in composition."},{"word":"Cheeky","type":"()","description":"a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold."},{"word":"Cheeped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cheep"},{"word":"Cheep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chirp, as a young bird."},{"word":"Cheep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give expression to in a chirping tone."},{"word":"Cheep","type":"(n.)","description":"A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(n.)","description":"The face; the countenance or its expression."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(n.)","description":"Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(n.)","description":"Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(n.)","description":"That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(n.)","description":"A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc."},{"word":"Cheered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cheer"},{"word":"Cheering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cheer"},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in any state or temper of mind."},{"word":"Cheer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc."},{"word":"Cheerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens."},{"word":"Cheerful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing."},{"word":"Cheerfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cheerful manner, gladly."},{"word":"Cheerfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity."},{"word":"Cheerily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cheery manner."},{"word":"Cheeriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being cheery."},{"word":"Cheeringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to cheer or encourage."},{"word":"Cheerisness","type":"(n.)","description":"Cheerfulness."},{"word":"Cheerless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without joy, gladness, or comfort."},{"word":"Cheerly","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; cheerful."},{"word":"Cheerly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Cheerily."},{"word":"Cheerry","type":"(a.)","description":"Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person."},{"word":"Cheese","type":"(n.)","description":"The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold."},{"word":"Cheese","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese."},{"word":"Cheese","type":"(n.)","description":"The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia)."},{"word":"Cheese","type":"(n.)","description":"A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration."},{"word":"Cheeselep","type":"(n.)","description":"A bag in which rennet is kept."},{"word":"Cheesemonger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in cheese."},{"word":"Cheeseparing","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin portion of the rind of a cheese."},{"word":"Cheeseparing","type":"(a.)","description":"Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy."},{"word":"Cheesiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cheesy."},{"word":"Cheesy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese."},{"word":"Cheetah","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus."},{"word":"Chef","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief of head person."},{"word":"Chef","type":"(n.)","description":"The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc."},{"word":"Chef","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chief."},{"word":"Chefs-d'oeuvre","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chef-d'oeuvre"},{"word":"Chef-d'oeuvre","type":"(n.)","description":"A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc."},{"word":"Chegoe","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chegre"},{"word":"Chegre","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chigoe."},{"word":"Cheiloplasty","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part."},{"word":"Cheilopoda","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ch/lopoda."},{"word":"Cheirepter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cheiroptera."},{"word":"Cheiroptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat."},{"word":"Cheiropterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family."},{"word":"Cheiropterygia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cheiropterygium"},{"word":"Cheiropterygium","type":"(n.)","description":"The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates."},{"word":"Cheirosophy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand."},{"word":"Cheirotherium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Chekelatoun","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ciclatoun."},{"word":"Chekmak","type":"(n.)","description":"A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven."},{"word":"Chelae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chela"},{"word":"Chela","type":"(n.)","description":"The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida."},{"word":"Chelate","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Cheliferous."},{"word":"Chelerythrine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine."},{"word":"Chelicerae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chelicera"},{"word":"Chelicera","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects."},{"word":"Chelidon","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow at the flexure of the arm."},{"word":"Chelidonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine."},{"word":"Chelidonius","type":"(n.)","description":"A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm."},{"word":"Chelifer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Book scorpion, under Book."},{"word":"Cheliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having cheliform claws, like a crab."},{"word":"Cheliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike."},{"word":"Chelone","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc."},{"word":"Chelonia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix."},{"word":"Chelonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind."},{"word":"Chelonian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Chelonia."},{"word":"Chelura","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber."},{"word":"Chely","type":"(n.)","description":"A claw. See Chela."},{"word":"Chemic","type":"(n.)","description":"A chemist; an alchemist."},{"word":"Chemic","type":"(n.)","description":"A solution of chloride of lime."},{"word":"Chemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Chemical."},{"word":"Chemical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations."},{"word":"Chemical","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent."},{"word":"Chemically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation."},{"word":"Chemiglyphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Engraved by a voltaic battery."},{"word":"Chemiloon","type":"(n.)","description":"A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one."},{"word":"Chemise","type":"(n.)","description":"A shift, or undergarment, worn by women."},{"word":"Chemise","type":"(n.)","description":"A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork."},{"word":"Chemisette","type":"(n.)","description":"An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast."},{"word":"Chemism","type":"(n.)","description":"The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship."},{"word":"Chemist","type":"(n.)","description":"A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs."},{"word":"Chemistry","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule."},{"word":"Chemistry","type":"(n.)","description":"An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo."},{"word":"Chemistry","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on chemistry."},{"word":"Chemitype","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press."},{"word":"Chemolysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone."},{"word":"Chemosmosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane."},{"word":"Chemosmotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis."},{"word":"Chemung","type":"()","description":"A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology."},{"word":"Cheng","type":"(n.)","description":"A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth."},{"word":"Chenille","type":"(n.)","description":"Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs."},{"word":"Chenomorphae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers."},{"word":"Chepster","type":"(n.)","description":"The European starling."},{"word":"Cheque","type":"(n.)","description":"See Check."},{"word":"Chequer","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"Same as Checker."},{"word":"Chequing","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin. See Sequin."},{"word":"Chequy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Checky."},{"word":"Cherif","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cherif."},{"word":"Cherimoyer","type":"(n.)","description":"A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru."},{"word":"Cherimoyer","type":"(n.)","description":"Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies."},{"word":"Cherished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cherish"},{"word":"Cherising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cherish"},{"word":"Cherish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid."},{"word":"Cherish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle."},{"word":"Cherisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cherishes."},{"word":"Cherishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Encouragement; comfort."},{"word":"Chermes","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kermes."},{"word":"Cherogril","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cony."},{"word":"Cherokees","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes."},{"word":"Cheroot","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco."},{"word":"Cherry","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;"},{"word":"Cherry","type":"(n.)","description":"The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France)."},{"word":"Cherry","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry)."},{"word":"Cherry","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors."},{"word":"Cherry","type":"(n.)","description":"The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc."},{"word":"Cherry","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry."},{"word":"Cherry","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks."},{"word":"Chersonese","type":"(n.)","description":"A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea."},{"word":"Chert","type":"(n.)","description":"An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color."},{"word":"Cherty","type":"(a.)","description":"Like chert; containing chert; flinty."},{"word":"Cherubs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cherub"},{"word":"Cherubim","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cherub"},{"word":"Cherub","type":"(n.)","description":"A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x."},{"word":"Cherub","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple."},{"word":"Cherub","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs."},{"word":"Cherub","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children."},{"word":"Cherubic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cherubical"},{"word":"Cherubical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic."},{"word":"Cherubim","type":"(n.)","description":"The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim."},{"word":"Cherubin","type":"(a.)","description":"Cherubic; angelic."},{"word":"Cherubin","type":"(n.)","description":"A cherub."},{"word":"Cherup","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup."},{"word":"Cherup","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup."},{"word":"Cherup","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket."},{"word":"Chervil","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads."},{"word":"Ches","type":"()","description":"pret. of Chese."},{"word":"Chese","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To choose"},{"word":"Chesible","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chasuble."},{"word":"Cheslip","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood louse."},{"word":"Chess","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns."},{"word":"Chess","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus."},{"word":"Chess-apple","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis)."},{"word":"Chessboard","type":"(n.)","description":"The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard."},{"word":"Chessel","type":"(n.)","description":"The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed."},{"word":"Chesses","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge."},{"word":"Chessil","type":"(n.)","description":"Gravel or pebbles."},{"word":"Chessmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chessman"},{"word":"Chessman","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece used in the game of chess."},{"word":"Chessom","type":"(n.)","description":"Mellow earth; mold."},{"word":"Chesstree","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail."},{"word":"Chessy","type":"()","description":"The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite."},{"word":"Chest","type":"(n.)","description":"A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth."},{"word":"Chest","type":"(n.)","description":"A coffin."},{"word":"Chest","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax."},{"word":"Chest","type":"(n.)","description":"A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains."},{"word":"Chest","type":"(n.)","description":"A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ."},{"word":"Chested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chest"},{"word":"Chest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deposit in a chest; to hoard."},{"word":"Chest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To place in a coffin."},{"word":"Chest","type":"(n.)","description":"Strife; contention; controversy."},{"word":"Chested","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested."},{"word":"Chesterlite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania."},{"word":"Chesteyn","type":"(n.)","description":"The chestnut tree."},{"word":"Chest","type":"()","description":"A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration."},{"word":"Chestnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur."},{"word":"Chestnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc."},{"word":"Chestnut","type":"(n.)","description":"A bright brown color, like that of the nut."},{"word":"Chestnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The horse chestnut (often so used in England)."},{"word":"Chestnut","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals."},{"word":"Chestnut","type":"(n.)","description":"An old joke or story."},{"word":"Chestnut","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls."},{"word":"Chetah","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cheetah."},{"word":"Chetvert","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels."},{"word":"Chevachie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chivachie."},{"word":"Chevage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chiefage."},{"word":"Chevaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cheval"},{"word":"Cheval","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse; hence, a support or frame."},{"word":"Chevaux-de-frise","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cheval-de-frise"},{"word":"Cheval-de-frise","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc."},{"word":"Chevalier","type":"(n.)","description":"A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man."},{"word":"Chevalier","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of certain orders of knighthood."},{"word":"Chevaux","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Cheval."},{"word":"Cheve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise."},{"word":"Chevelure","type":"(n.)","description":"A hairlike envelope."},{"word":"Cheven","type":"(n.)","description":"A river fish; the chub."},{"word":"Cheventein","type":"(n.)","description":"A variant of Chieftain."},{"word":"Cheveril","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility."},{"word":"Cheveril","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of cheveril; pliant."},{"word":"Cheverliize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make as pliable as kid leather."},{"word":"Chevet","type":"(n.)","description":"The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part."},{"word":"Cheviot","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills."},{"word":"Cheviot","type":"(n.)","description":"A woolen fabric, for men's clothing."},{"word":"Chevisance","type":"(n.)","description":"Achievement; deed; performance."},{"word":"Chevisance","type":"(n.)","description":"A bargain; profit; gain."},{"word":"Chevisance","type":"(n.)","description":"A making of contracts."},{"word":"Chevisance","type":"(n.)","description":"A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact."},{"word":"Chevisance","type":"(n.)","description":"An unlawful agreement or contract."},{"word":"Chevrette","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages."},{"word":"Chevron","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center."},{"word":"Chevron","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat."},{"word":"Chevron","type":"(n.)","description":"A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture."},{"word":"Chevroned","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from."},{"word":"Chevronel","type":"(n.)","description":"A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width."},{"word":"Chevronwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise."},{"word":"Chevrotain","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil."},{"word":"Chevy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Chivy, v. t."},{"word":"Chewed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chew"},{"word":"Chewing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chew"},{"word":"Chew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate."},{"word":"Chew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ruminate mentally; to meditate on."},{"word":"Chew","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate."},{"word":"Chew","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud."},{"word":"Chewer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chews."},{"word":"Chewet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of meat pie."},{"word":"Chewink","type":"(n.)","description":"An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin."},{"word":"Cheyennes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A warlike tribe of indians, related to the blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship."},{"word":"Chian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea."},{"word":"Chiaroscurist","type":"(n.)","description":"A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color."},{"word":"Chiaroscuro","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro"},{"word":"Chiaro-oscuro","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color."},{"word":"Chiaro-oscuro","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur."},{"word":"Chiasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chiasma"},{"word":"Chiasma","type":"(n.)","description":"A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves."},{"word":"Chiasmus","type":"(n.)","description":"An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence"},{"word":"Chiastolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal."},{"word":"Chibbal","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cibol."},{"word":"Chibouque","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chibouk"},{"word":"Chibouk","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay."},{"word":"Chic","type":"(n.)","description":"Good form; style."},{"word":"Chica","type":"(n.)","description":"A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin."},{"word":"Chica","type":"(n.)","description":"A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize."},{"word":"Chica","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc."},{"word":"Chicane","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry."},{"word":"Chicane","type":"(n.)","description":"To use shifts, cavils, or artifices."},{"word":"Chicaner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses chicanery."},{"word":"Chicanery","type":"(n.)","description":"Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry."},{"word":"Chiccory","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chicory."},{"word":"Chiches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chich"},{"word":"Chich","type":"(n.)","description":"The chick-pea."},{"word":"Chicha","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chica."},{"word":"Chichevache","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition."},{"word":"Chichling","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chichling vetch"},{"word":"Chichling","type":"(n.)","description":"A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food."},{"word":"Chick","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate."},{"word":"Chick","type":"(n.)","description":"A chicken."},{"word":"Chick","type":"(n.)","description":"A child or young person; -- a term of endearment."},{"word":"Chickabiddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child."},{"word":"Chickadee","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note."},{"word":"Chickaree","type":"(n.)","description":"The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry."},{"word":"Chickasaws","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory."},{"word":"Chicken","type":"(n.)","description":"A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl."},{"word":"Chicken","type":"(n.)","description":"A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden."},{"word":"Chicken-breasted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column."},{"word":"Chicken-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Timid; fearful; cowardly."},{"word":"Chicken","type":"()","description":"A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella."},{"word":"Chickling","type":"(n.)","description":"A small chick or chicken."},{"word":"Chick-pea","type":"(n.)","description":"A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram."},{"word":"Chick-pea","type":"(n.)","description":"Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts."},{"word":"Chickweed","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds."},{"word":"Chicky","type":"(n.)","description":"A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls."},{"word":"Chicory","type":"(n.)","description":"A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive."},{"word":"Chicory","type":"(n.)","description":"The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee."},{"word":"Chide","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with."},{"word":"Chide","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against."},{"word":"Chide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily."},{"word":"Chide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a clamorous noise; to chafe."},{"word":"Chide","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous noise or murmur."},{"word":"Chider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chides or quarrels."},{"word":"Chideress","type":"(n.)","description":"She who chides."},{"word":"Chidester","type":"(n.)","description":"A female scold."},{"word":"Chidingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a chiding or reproving manner."},{"word":"Chief","type":"(n.)","description":"The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent."},{"word":"Chief","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal part; the most valuable portion."},{"word":"Chief","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs."},{"word":"Chief","type":"(a.)","description":"Highest in office or rank; principal; head."},{"word":"Chief","type":"(a.)","description":"Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man."},{"word":"Chief","type":"(a.)","description":"Very intimate, near, or close."},{"word":"Chiefage","type":"(n.)","description":"A tribute by the head; a capitation tax."},{"word":"Chief","type":"()","description":"The presiding judge of the court of exchequer."},{"word":"Chiefest","type":"(a.)","description":"First or foremost; chief; principal."},{"word":"Chief","type":"()","description":"A small rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare."},{"word":"Chief","type":"()","description":"The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court."},{"word":"Chief-justiceship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of chief justice."},{"word":"Chiefless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a chief or leader."},{"word":"Chiefly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially."},{"word":"Chiefly","type":"(adv.)","description":"For the most part; mostly."},{"word":"Chiefrie","type":"(n.)","description":"A small rent paid to the lord paramount."},{"word":"Chieftain","type":"(n.)","description":"A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan."},{"word":"Chieftaincy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chieftainship"},{"word":"Chieftainship","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain."},{"word":"Chierte","type":"(n.)","description":"Love; tender regard."},{"word":"Chievance","type":"(n.)","description":"An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount."},{"word":"Chieve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Cheve, v. i."},{"word":"Chiff-chaff","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps."},{"word":"Chiffonier","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of niere"},{"word":"Chiffo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of niere"},{"word":"niere","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker."},{"word":"niere","type":"(n.)","description":"A receptacle for rags or shreds."},{"word":"niere","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers."},{"word":"Chignon","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head."},{"word":"Chigoe","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chigre"},{"word":"Chigre","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger."},{"word":"Chikara","type":"(n.)","description":"The goat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) of India."},{"word":"Chikara","type":"(n.)","description":"The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis)."},{"word":"Chilblain","type":"(n.)","description":"A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration."},{"word":"Chilblain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce chilblains upon."},{"word":"Children","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Child"},{"word":"Child","type":"(n.)","description":"A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants."},{"word":"Child","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom."},{"word":"Child","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people."},{"word":"Child","type":"(n.)","description":"A noble youth. See Childe."},{"word":"Child","type":"(n.)","description":"A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc."},{"word":"Child","type":"(n.)","description":"A female infant."},{"word":"Childed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Child"},{"word":"Childing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Child"},{"word":"Child","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give birth; to produce young."},{"word":"Childbearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition."},{"word":"Childbed","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition."},{"word":"Childbirth","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor."},{"word":"Childcrowing","type":"(n.)","description":"The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup."},{"word":"Childe","type":"(n.)","description":"A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland."},{"word":"Childed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a child."},{"word":"Childermas","type":"()","description":"A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day."},{"word":"Childhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty."},{"word":"Childhood","type":"(n.)","description":"Children, taken collectively."},{"word":"Childhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The commencement; the first period."},{"word":"Childing","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful."},{"word":"Childish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child."},{"word":"Childish","type":"(a.)","description":"Puerile; trifling; weak."},{"word":"Childishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner."},{"word":"Childishness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect."},{"word":"Childlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being childless."},{"word":"Childlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful."},{"word":"Childly","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child."},{"word":"Childly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Like a child."},{"word":"Childness","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner characteristic of a child."},{"word":"Children","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. of Child."},{"word":"Childship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or relation of being a child."},{"word":"Chili","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum"},{"word":"Chiliad","type":"(n.)","description":"A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years."},{"word":"Chiliagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides."},{"word":"Chiliahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces"},{"word":"Chilian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Chili."},{"word":"Chilian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or citizen of Chili."},{"word":"Chilian","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chiliarch"},{"word":"Chiliarch","type":"(n.)","description":"The commander or chief of a thousand men."},{"word":"Chiliarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A body consisting of a thousand men."},{"word":"Chiliasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The millennium."},{"word":"Chiliasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium."},{"word":"Chiliast","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian."},{"word":"Chiliastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Millenarian."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(n.)","description":"A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(n.)","description":"A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(n.)","description":"A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(n.)","description":"The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(a.)","description":"Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected by cold."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(a.)","description":"Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting."},{"word":"Chilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chill"},{"word":"Chilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chill"},{"word":"Chill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron."},{"word":"Chill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others."},{"word":"Chilled","type":"(a.)","description":"Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel."},{"word":"Chilled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called \"blooming.\""},{"word":"Chilli","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chili."},{"word":"Chilliness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness."},{"word":"Chilliness","type":"(n.)","description":"A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air."},{"word":"Chilliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Formality; lack of warmth."},{"word":"Chilling","type":"(a.)","description":"Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner."},{"word":"Chillness","type":"(n.)","description":"Coolness; coldness; a chill."},{"word":"Chilly","type":"(a.)","description":"Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering."},{"word":"Chilognath","type":"(n.)","description":"A myriapod of the order Chilognatha."},{"word":"Chilognatha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together."},{"word":"Chiloma","type":"(n.)","description":"The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel."},{"word":"Chilopod","type":"(n.)","description":"A myriapod of the order Chilopoda."},{"word":"Chilopoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot."},{"word":"Chilostoma","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Chilostomata"},{"word":"Chilostomata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells."},{"word":"Chilostomatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma."},{"word":"Chiltern","type":"()","description":"A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats."},{"word":"Chimaera","type":"(n.)","description":"A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point."},{"word":"Chimaeroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to, or like, the chimaera."},{"word":"Chimango","type":"()","description":"A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara."},{"word":"Chimb","type":"(n.)","description":"The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3."},{"word":"Chimb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Chime."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chine, n., 3."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(n.)","description":"The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(n.)","description":"A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(n.)","description":"Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound."},{"word":"Chimed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chime"},{"word":"Chiming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chime"},{"word":"Chime","type":"(n.)","description":"To sound in harmonious accord, as bells."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(n.)","description":"To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(n.)","description":"To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(n.)","description":"To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony."},{"word":"Chime","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically."},{"word":"Chimer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chimes."},{"word":"Chimeras","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chimera"},{"word":"Chimera","type":"(n.)","description":"A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon."},{"word":"Chimera","type":"(n.)","description":"A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author."},{"word":"Chimere","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached."},{"word":"Chimeric","type":"(a.)","description":"Chimerical."},{"word":"Chimerical","type":"(a.)","description":"Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects."},{"word":"Chimerically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Wildy; vainly; fancifully."},{"word":"Chiminage","type":"(n.)","description":"A toll for passage through a forest."},{"word":"Chimneys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chimney"},{"word":"Chimney","type":"(n.)","description":"A fireplace or hearth."},{"word":"Chimney","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft."},{"word":"Chimney","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion."},{"word":"Chimney","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein."},{"word":"Chimney-breast","type":"(n.)","description":"The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only."},{"word":"Chimney-piece","type":"(n.)","description":"A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace."},{"word":"Chimpanzee","type":"(n.)","description":"An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high."},{"word":"Chin","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw."},{"word":"Chin","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds."},{"word":"China","type":"(n.)","description":"A country in Eastern Asia."},{"word":"China","type":"(n.)","description":"China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain."},{"word":"Chinaldine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Quinaldine."},{"word":"Chinamen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chinaman"},{"word":"Chinaman","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of China; a Chinese."},{"word":"Chincapin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chinquapin."},{"word":"Chinch","type":"(n.)","description":"The bedbug (Cimex lectularius)."},{"word":"Chinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor."},{"word":"Chincha","type":"(n.)","description":"A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis."},{"word":"Chinche","type":"(a.)","description":"Parsimonious; niggardly."},{"word":"Chincherie","type":"(n.)","description":"Penuriousness."},{"word":"Chinchilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili."},{"word":"Chinchilla","type":"(n.)","description":"The fur of the chinchilla."},{"word":"Chinchilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth."},{"word":"Chinchona","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Chincona"},{"word":"Chincona","type":"()","description":"See Cinchona."},{"word":"Chin","type":"()","description":"Whooping cough."},{"word":"Chine","type":"(n.)","description":"A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep."},{"word":"Chine","type":"(n.)","description":"The backbone or spine of an animal; the back."},{"word":"Chine","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]"},{"word":"Chine","type":"(n.)","description":"The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave."},{"word":"Chined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chine"},{"word":"Chine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces."},{"word":"Chine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.."},{"word":"Chined","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition."},{"word":"Chined","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken in the back."},{"word":"Chinese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China."},{"word":"Chinese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China."},{"word":"Chinese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"The language of China, which is monosyllabic."},{"word":"Chink","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall."},{"word":"Chinked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chink"},{"word":"Chinking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chink"},{"word":"Chink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crack; to open."},{"word":"Chink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to open in cracks or fissures."},{"word":"Chink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall."},{"word":"Chink","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence."},{"word":"Chink","type":"(n.)","description":"Money; cash."},{"word":"Chink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other."},{"word":"Chink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies."},{"word":"Chinky","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts."},{"word":"Chinned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned."},{"word":"Chinoidine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Quinodine."},{"word":"Chinoline","type":"(n.)","description":"See Quinoline."},{"word":"Chinone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Quinone."},{"word":"Chinook","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians."},{"word":"Chinook","type":"(n.)","description":"A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory."},{"word":"Chinook","type":"(n.)","description":"A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States."},{"word":"Chinquapin","type":"(n.)","description":"A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat."},{"word":"Chinsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chinse"},{"word":"Chinsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chinse"},{"word":"Chinse","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly."},{"word":"Chintzes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chintz"},{"word":"Chintz","type":"(n.)","description":"Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed."},{"word":"Chioppine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chopine, n."},{"word":"Chipped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chip"},{"word":"Chipping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chip"},{"word":"Chip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bet, as with chips in the game of poker."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To break or fly off in small pieces."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the counters used in poker and other games."},{"word":"Chip","type":"(n.)","description":"The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line."},{"word":"Chipmunk","type":"(n.)","description":"A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus."},{"word":"Chipper","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chirp or chirrup."},{"word":"Chipper","type":"(a.)","description":"Lively; cheerful; talkative."},{"word":"Chippeways","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways."},{"word":"Chipping","type":"(n.)","description":"A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment."},{"word":"Chipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape."},{"word":"Chipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc."},{"word":"Chipping","type":"()","description":"The chippy."},{"word":"Chipping","type":"()","description":"See Chipmunk."},{"word":"Chippy","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless."},{"word":"Chippy","type":"(n.)","description":"A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note."},{"word":"Chips","type":"(n.)","description":"A ship's carpenter."},{"word":"Chiragra","type":"(n.)","description":"Gout in the hand."},{"word":"Chiragrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease."},{"word":"Chiretta","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge."},{"word":"Chirk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries."},{"word":"Chirk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chirp like a bird."},{"word":"Chirk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up."},{"word":"Chirk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Lively; cheerful; in good spirits."},{"word":"Chirm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird."},{"word":"Chirognomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand."},{"word":"Chirograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party."},{"word":"Chirograph","type":"(n.)","description":"The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine."},{"word":"Chirographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing."},{"word":"Chirographer","type":"(n.)","description":"See chirographist, 2."},{"word":"Chirographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Chirographical"},{"word":"Chirographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to chirography."},{"word":"Chirographist","type":"(n.)","description":"A chirographer; a writer or engrosser."},{"word":"Chirographist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who tells fortunes by examining the hand."},{"word":"Chirography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography."},{"word":"Chirography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand."},{"word":"Chirogymnast","type":"(n.)","description":"A mechanical contrivance for exercising the fingers of a pianist."},{"word":"Chirological","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to chirology."},{"word":"Chirologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers."},{"word":"Chirology","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy."},{"word":"Chiromancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices chiromancy."},{"word":"Chiromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry."},{"word":"Chiromanist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chiromantist"},{"word":"Chiromantist","type":"(n.)","description":"A chiromancer."},{"word":"Chiromantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Chiromantical"},{"word":"Chiromantical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to chiromancy."},{"word":"Chiromonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to chironomy."},{"word":"Chironomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture"},{"word":"Chiroplast","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc."},{"word":"Chiropodist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions."},{"word":"Chiropody","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of treating diseases of the hands and feet."},{"word":"Chirosophist","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortune teller."},{"word":"Chirped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chirp"},{"word":"Chirping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chirp"},{"word":"Chirp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets."},{"word":"Chirp","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect."},{"word":"Chirper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chirps, or is cheerful."},{"word":"Chirping","type":"(a.)","description":"Cheering; enlivening."},{"word":"Chirpingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a chirping manner."},{"word":"Chirre","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To coo, as a pigeon."},{"word":"Chirruped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chirrup"},{"word":"Chirruping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chirrup"},{"word":"Chirrup","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup."},{"word":"Chirrup","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chirp."},{"word":"Chirrup","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of chirping; a chirp."},{"word":"Chirrupy","type":"(a.)","description":"Cheerful; joyous; chatty."},{"word":"Chirurgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A surgeon."},{"word":"Chirurgeonly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Surgically."},{"word":"Chirurgery","type":"(n.)","description":"Surgery."},{"word":"Chirurgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Chirurgical"},{"word":"Chirurgical","type":"(a.)","description":"Surgical"},{"word":"Chisel","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer."},{"word":"Chiseled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chisel"},{"word":"Chiselled","type":"()","description":"of Chisel"},{"word":"Chiseling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chisel"},{"word":"Chiselling","type":"()","description":"of Chisel"},{"word":"Chisel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue."},{"word":"Chisel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat."},{"word":"Chisleu","type":"(n.)","description":"The ninth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of November with a part of December."},{"word":"Chisley","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil."},{"word":"Chit","type":"(n.)","description":"The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes."},{"word":"Chit","type":"(n.)","description":"A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal."},{"word":"Chit","type":"(n.)","description":"An excrescence on the body, as a wart."},{"word":"Chit","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tool used in cleaving laths."},{"word":"Chit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot out; to sprout."},{"word":"Chit","type":"(3d sing.)","description":"Chideth."},{"word":"Chitchat","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiar or trifling talk; prattle."},{"word":"Chitin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin."},{"word":"Chitinization","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of becoming chitinous."},{"word":"Chitinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin."},{"word":"Chiton","type":"(n.)","description":"An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt."},{"word":"Chiton","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora."},{"word":"Chitter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird."},{"word":"Chitter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shiver or chatter with cold."},{"word":"Chitterling","type":"(n.)","description":"The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings."},{"word":"Chitterlings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food."},{"word":"Chittra","type":"(n.)","description":"The axis deer of India."},{"word":"Chitty","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of chits or sprouts."},{"word":"Chitty","type":"(a.)","description":"Childish; like a babe."},{"word":"Chivachie","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition."},{"word":"Chivalric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous."},{"word":"Chivalrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous."},{"word":"Chivalrously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously."},{"word":"Chivalry","type":"(n.)","description":"A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry."},{"word":"Chivalry","type":"(n.)","description":"The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry."},{"word":"Chivalry","type":"(n.)","description":"The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc."},{"word":"Chivalry","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord."},{"word":"Chivalry","type":"(n.)","description":"Exploit."},{"word":"Chive","type":"(n.)","description":"A filament of a stamen."},{"word":"Chive","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc."},{"word":"Chivied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chivy"},{"word":"Chivying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chivy"},{"word":"Chivy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch."},{"word":"Chlamydate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods."},{"word":"Chlamyphore","type":"(n.)","description":"A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine."},{"word":"Chlamyses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chlamys"},{"word":"Chlamydes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chlamys"},{"word":"Chlamys","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak."},{"word":"Chloasma","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots."},{"word":"Chloral","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol."},{"word":"Chloral","type":"(n.)","description":"Chloral hydrate."},{"word":"Chloralamide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep."},{"word":"Chloralism","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral."},{"word":"Chloralum","type":"(n.)","description":"An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant."},{"word":"Chloranil","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline."},{"word":"Chlorate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium."},{"word":"Chloraurate","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aurochloride."},{"word":"Chlorhydric","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hydrochloric."},{"word":"Chlorhydrin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups."},{"word":"Chloric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3."},{"word":"Chloridate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography."},{"word":"Chloride","type":"(n.)","description":"A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt)."},{"word":"Chloridic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride."},{"word":"Chloridize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Chloridate."},{"word":"Chlorimetry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chlorometry."},{"word":"Chlorinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chlorinate"},{"word":"Chlorinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chlorinate"},{"word":"Chlorinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine."},{"word":"Chlorination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas."},{"word":"Chlorine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4."},{"word":"Chloriodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine."},{"word":"Chloriodine","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of chlorine and iodine."},{"word":"Chlorite","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia."},{"word":"Chlorite","type":"(n.)","description":"Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium."},{"word":"Chloritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand."},{"word":"Chlormethane","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride."},{"word":"Chloro-","type":"()","description":"A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named."},{"word":"Chlorocruorin","type":"(n.)","description":"A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms."},{"word":"Chlorodyne","type":"(n.)","description":"A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc."},{"word":"Chloroform","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain."},{"word":"Chloroformed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chloroform"},{"word":"Chloroforming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chloroform"},{"word":"Chloroform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence."},{"word":"Chloroleucite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chloroplastid."},{"word":"Chlorometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime."},{"word":"Chlorometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine."},{"word":"Chloropal","type":"(n.)","description":"A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron."},{"word":"Chloropeptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid."},{"word":"Chlorophane","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light."},{"word":"Chlorophane","type":"(n.)","description":"The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane."},{"word":"Chlorophyll","type":"(n.)","description":"Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals."},{"word":"Chloroplastid","type":"(n.)","description":"A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite."},{"word":"Chloroplatinic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Platinichloric."},{"word":"Chlorosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc."},{"word":"Chlorosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color."},{"word":"Chlorotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis."},{"word":"Chlorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2."},{"word":"Chlorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous."},{"word":"Chlorpicrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine."},{"word":"Chloruret","type":"(n.)","description":"A chloride."},{"word":"Choak","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Choke."},{"word":"Choanoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals."},{"word":"Chocard","type":"(n.)","description":"The chough."},{"word":"Chocked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chock"},{"word":"Chocking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chock"},{"word":"Chock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask."},{"word":"Chock","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fill up, as a cavity."},{"word":"Chock","type":"(n.)","description":"A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it."},{"word":"Chock","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc."},{"word":"Chock","type":"(adv.)","description":"Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft."},{"word":"Chock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encounter."},{"word":"Chock","type":"(n.)","description":"An encounter."},{"word":"Chockablock","type":"(a.)","description":"Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting."},{"word":"Chock-full","type":"(a.)","description":"Quite full; choke-full."},{"word":"Chocolate","type":"(n.)","description":"A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla."},{"word":"Chocolate","type":"(n.)","description":"The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk."},{"word":"Choctaws","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory."},{"word":"Chode","type":"()","description":"the old imp. of chide. See Chide."},{"word":"Chogset","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cunner."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or opportunity of choosing; option."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(n.)","description":"Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(n.)","description":"A sufficient number to choose among."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(n.)","description":"The best part; that which is preferable."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(superl.)","description":"Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(superl.)","description":"Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money."},{"word":"Choice","type":"(superl.)","description":"Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen."},{"word":"Choiceful","type":"(a.)","description":"Making choices; fickle."},{"word":"Choicely","type":"(adv.)","description":"With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference."},{"word":"Choicely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently."},{"word":"Choiceness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence."},{"word":"Choir","type":"(n.)","description":"A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service."},{"word":"Choir","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a church appropriated to the singers."},{"word":"Choir","type":"(n.)","description":"The chancel."},{"word":"Choked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Choke"},{"word":"Choking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Choke"},{"word":"Choke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be checked, as if by choking; to stick."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(n.)","description":"A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(n.)","description":"The tied end of a cartridge."},{"word":"Choke","type":"(n.)","description":"A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc."},{"word":"Chokeberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub."},{"word":"Chokecherry","type":"(n.)","description":"The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit."},{"word":"Choke","type":"()","description":"See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic."},{"word":"Chokedar","type":"(n.)","description":"A watchman; an officer of customs or police."},{"word":"Choke-full","type":"(a.)","description":"Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full."},{"word":"Choke","type":"()","description":"A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth."},{"word":"Choke","type":"()","description":"A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered."},{"word":"Choker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, chokes."},{"word":"Choker","type":"(n.)","description":"A stiff wide cravat; a stock."},{"word":"Choke-strap","type":"(n.)","description":"A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place."},{"word":"Choking","type":"(a.)","description":"That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation."},{"word":"Choking","type":"(a.)","description":"Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion."},{"word":"Choky","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate."},{"word":"Choky","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion."},{"word":"Cholaemaa","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood."},{"word":"Cholagogue","type":"(a.)","description":"Promoting the discharge of bile from the system."},{"word":"Cholagogue","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system."},{"word":"Cholate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate."},{"word":"Cholecystis","type":"(n.)","description":"The gall bladder."},{"word":"Cholecystotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone."},{"word":"Choledology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on the bile and bilary organs."},{"word":"Choleic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid."},{"word":"Choler","type":"(n.)","description":"The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility."},{"word":"Choler","type":"(n.)","description":"Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath."},{"word":"Cholera","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera."},{"word":"Choleraic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera."},{"word":"Choleric","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile."},{"word":"Choleric","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger."},{"word":"Choleric","type":"(a.)","description":"Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger."},{"word":"Cholericly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a choleric manner; angrily."},{"word":"Choleriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling cholera."},{"word":"Cholerine","type":"(n.)","description":"The precursory symptoms of cholera."},{"word":"Cholerine","type":"(n.)","description":"The first stage of epidemic cholera."},{"word":"Cholerine","type":"(n.)","description":"A mild form of cholera."},{"word":"Choleroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Choleriform."},{"word":"Cholesteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid."},{"word":"Cholesterin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones."},{"word":"Choliamb","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Choliambic"},{"word":"Choliambic","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last."},{"word":"Cholic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cholinic"},{"word":"Cholinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile."},{"word":"Choline","type":"(n.)","description":"See Neurine."},{"word":"Cholochrome","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bilirubin."},{"word":"Cholophaein","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bilirubin."},{"word":"Choltry","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hindoo caravansary."},{"word":"Chomp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chew loudly and greedily; to champ."},{"word":"Chondrification","type":"(n.)","description":"Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage."},{"word":"Chondrify","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To convert, or be converted, into cartilage."},{"word":"Chondrigen","type":"(n.)","description":"The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin."},{"word":"Chondrigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording chondrin."},{"word":"Chondrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin."},{"word":"Chondrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules."},{"word":"Chondritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites."},{"word":"Chondritis","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammation of cartilage."},{"word":"Chondro-","type":"()","description":"A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos."},{"word":"Chondrodite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone."},{"word":"Chondroganoidea","type":"(n.)","description":"An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton."},{"word":"Chondrogen","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chondrigen."},{"word":"Chondrogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The development of cartilage."},{"word":"Chondroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling cartilage."},{"word":"Chondrology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of cartilages."},{"word":"Chondromata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chondroma"},{"word":"Chondroma","type":"(n.)","description":"A cartilaginous tumor or growth."},{"word":"Chondrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A steelyard for weighting grain."},{"word":"Chondropterygian","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cartilaginous skeleton."},{"word":"Chondropterygian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Chondropterygii."},{"word":"Chondropterygii","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter."},{"word":"Chondrostei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous."},{"word":"Chondrotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The dissection of cartilages."},{"word":"Chondrule","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites."},{"word":"Chose","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Choose"},{"word":"Chosen","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Choose"},{"word":"Chose","type":"()","description":"of Choose"},{"word":"Choosing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Choose"},{"word":"Choose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils."},{"word":"Choose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wish; to desire; to prefer."},{"word":"Choose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a selection; to decide."},{"word":"Choose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do otherwise."},{"word":"Chooser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector."},{"word":"Chopped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chop"},{"word":"Chopping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chop"},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize or devour greedily; -- with up."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interrupt; -- with in or out."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To barter or truck."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exchange; substitute one thing for another."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To purchase by way of truck."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"A change; a vicissitude."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of chopping; a stroke."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"A crack or cleft. See Chap."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop."},{"word":"Chop","type":"(n.)","description":"A permit or clearance."},{"word":"Chopboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels."},{"word":"Chopchurch","type":"(n.)","description":"An exchanger or an exchange of benefices."},{"word":"Chopfallen","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen."},{"word":"Chophouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house."},{"word":"Chophouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A customhouse where transit duties are levied."},{"word":"Chopin","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart."},{"word":"Chopin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chopine."},{"word":"Chopine","type":"(n.)","description":"A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more."},{"word":"Chop-logic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bandies words or is very argumentative."},{"word":"Chopness","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of spade."},{"word":"Chopper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, chops."},{"word":"Chopping","type":"(a.)","description":"Stout or plump; large."},{"word":"Chopping","type":"(a.)","description":"Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea."},{"word":"Chopping","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of cutting by strokes."},{"word":"Choppy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of cracks."},{"word":"Choppy","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea."},{"word":"Chops","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth."},{"word":"Chops","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel."},{"word":"Chopstick","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth."},{"word":"Choragic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a choragus."},{"word":"Choragi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Choragus"},{"word":"Choragus","type":"(n.)","description":"A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens."},{"word":"Choral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony."},{"word":"Choral","type":"(n.)","description":"A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals."},{"word":"Choralist","type":"(n.)","description":"A singer or composer of chorals."},{"word":"Chorally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony."},{"word":"Chord","type":"(n.)","description":"The string of a musical instrument."},{"word":"Chord","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord."},{"word":"Chord","type":"(n.)","description":"A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve."},{"word":"Chord","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord. See Cord, n., 4."},{"word":"Chord","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension."},{"word":"Chorded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chord"},{"word":"Chording","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chord"},{"word":"Chord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune."},{"word":"Chord","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that."},{"word":"Chorda","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord."},{"word":"Chordal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chord."},{"word":"Chordata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord."},{"word":"Chordee","type":"(n.)","description":"A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea."},{"word":"Chore","type":"(n.)","description":"A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors."},{"word":"Chored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chore"},{"word":"Choring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chore"},{"word":"Chore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do chores."},{"word":"Chore","type":"(n.)","description":"A choir or chorus."},{"word":"Chorea","type":"(n.)","description":"St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs."},{"word":"Choree","type":"(n.)","description":"See Choreus."},{"word":"Choregraphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Choregraphical"},{"word":"Choregraphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to choregraphy."},{"word":"Choregraphy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes."},{"word":"Choreic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive."},{"word":"Chorepiscopal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority."},{"word":"Chorepiscopi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chorepiscopus"},{"word":"Chorepiscopus","type":"(n.)","description":"A \"country\" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district."},{"word":"Choreus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Choree"},{"word":"Choree","type":"(n.)","description":"a trochee."},{"word":"Choree","type":"(n.)","description":"A tribrach."},{"word":"Choriambs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Choriamb"},{"word":"Choriamb","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Choriambus."},{"word":"Choriambic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a choriamb."},{"word":"Choriambic","type":"(n.)","description":"A choriamb."},{"word":"Choriambi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Choriambus"},{"word":"Choriambuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Choriambus"},{"word":"Choriambus","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united."},{"word":"Choric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chorus."},{"word":"Chorion","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development."},{"word":"Chorion","type":"(n.)","description":"The true skin, or cutis."},{"word":"Chorion","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer membrane of seeds of plants."},{"word":"Chorisis","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts."},{"word":"Chorist","type":"(n.)","description":"A singer in a choir; a chorister."},{"word":"Chorister","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a choir; a singer in a chorus."},{"word":"Chorister","type":"(n.)","description":"One who leads a choir in church music."},{"word":"Choristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Choric; choral."},{"word":"Chorograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc."},{"word":"Chorographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes or makes a map of a district or region."},{"word":"Chorographer","type":"(n.)","description":"A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places."},{"word":"Chorographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to chorography."},{"word":"Chorography","type":"(n.)","description":"the mapping or description of a region or district."},{"word":"Choroid","type":"(a.)","description":"resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball."},{"word":"Choroid","type":"(n.)","description":"The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye."},{"word":"Choroidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the choroid coat."},{"word":"Chorology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc."},{"word":"Chorometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of surveying a region or district."},{"word":"Choruses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chorus"},{"word":"Chorus","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of singers and dancers."},{"word":"Chorus","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus."},{"word":"Chorus","type":"(n.)","description":"An interpreter in a dumb show or play."},{"word":"Chorus","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of singers singing in concert."},{"word":"Chorus","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices."},{"word":"Chorus","type":"(n.)","description":"Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts."},{"word":"Chorus","type":"(n.)","description":"The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls."},{"word":"Chorused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chorus"},{"word":"Chorusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chorus"},{"word":"Chorus","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously."},{"word":"Choses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chose"},{"word":"Chose","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing; personal property."},{"word":"Chose","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Choose."},{"word":"Chosen","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Selected from a number; picked out; choice."},{"word":"Chosen","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor."},{"word":"Chouan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution."},{"word":"Chough","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough."},{"word":"Chouicha","type":"(n.)","description":"The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat."},{"word":"Chouka","type":"(n.)","description":"The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara."},{"word":"Choule","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jowl."},{"word":"Choultry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Choltry."},{"word":"Choused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chouse"},{"word":"Chousing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chouse"},{"word":"Chouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money."},{"word":"Chouse","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull."},{"word":"Chouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A trick; sham; imposition."},{"word":"Chouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A swindler."},{"word":"Chout","type":"(n.)","description":"An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue."},{"word":"Chowchow","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together)."},{"word":"Chowchow","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of mixed pickles."},{"word":"Chowder","type":"(n.)","description":"A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together."},{"word":"Chowder","type":"(n.)","description":"A seller of fish."},{"word":"Chowder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a chowder of."},{"word":"Chowry","type":"(n.)","description":"A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies."},{"word":"Chowter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grumble or mutter like a froward child."},{"word":"Choy","type":"()","description":"See Chay root."},{"word":"Chrematistics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy."},{"word":"Chreotechnics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce."},{"word":"Chrestomathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Teaching what is useful."},{"word":"Chrestomathy","type":"(n.)","description":"A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy."},{"word":"Chrism","type":"(n.)","description":"Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc."},{"word":"Chrism","type":"(n.)","description":"The same as Chrisom."},{"word":"Chrismal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to or used in chrism."},{"word":"Chrismation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil."},{"word":"Chrismatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept."},{"word":"Chrisom","type":"(n.)","description":"A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened."},{"word":"Chrisom","type":"(n.)","description":"A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it."},{"word":"Christ","type":"(n.)","description":"The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah."},{"word":"Christcross","type":"(n.)","description":"The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial."},{"word":"Christcross","type":"(n.)","description":"The beginning and the ending."},{"word":"Christcross-row","type":"()","description":"The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm."},{"word":"Christened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Christen"},{"word":"Christening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Christen"},{"word":"Christen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To baptize and give a Christian name to."},{"word":"Christen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a name; to denominate."},{"word":"Christen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To Christianize."},{"word":"Christen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use for the first time."},{"word":"Christendom","type":"(n.)","description":"The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it."},{"word":"Christendom","type":"(n.)","description":"The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation."},{"word":"Christendom","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands."},{"word":"Christendom","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of Christians."},{"word":"Christian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ."},{"word":"Christian","type":"(n.)","description":"One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system."},{"word":"Christian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites."},{"word":"Christian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice."},{"word":"Christian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people."},{"word":"Christian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court."},{"word":"Christian","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent."},{"word":"Christianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The Christian religion."},{"word":"Christianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The Christian world; Christendom."},{"word":"Christianite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anorthite."},{"word":"Christianite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Phillipsite."},{"word":"Christianity","type":"(n.)","description":"The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ."},{"word":"Christianity","type":"(n.)","description":"Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion"},{"word":"Christianity","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of Christian believers."},{"word":"Christianization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity."},{"word":"Christianized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Christianize"},{"word":"Christianizing","type":"(p. pr. vb. n.)","description":"of Christianize"},{"word":"Christianize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans."},{"word":"Christianize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles."},{"word":"Christianize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian."},{"word":"Christianlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming to a Christian."},{"word":"Christianly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion."},{"word":"Christianly","type":"(a.)","description":"Christianlike."},{"word":"Christianness","type":"(n.)","description":"Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity."},{"word":"Christless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without faith in Christ; unchristian."},{"word":"Christlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc."},{"word":"Christly","type":"(a.)","description":"Christlike."},{"word":"Christmas","type":"(n.)","description":"An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality."},{"word":"Christmastide","type":"(n.)","description":"The season of Christmas."},{"word":"Christocentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion."},{"word":"Christology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ."},{"word":"Christom","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chrisom."},{"word":"Christophany","type":"(n.)","description":"An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion."},{"word":"Christ's-thorn","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns."},{"word":"Chromascope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for showing the optical effects of color."},{"word":"Chromate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of chromic acid."},{"word":"Chromatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to color, or to colors."},{"word":"Chromatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale."},{"word":"Chromatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Chromatic."},{"word":"Chromatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a chromatic manner."},{"word":"Chromatics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors."},{"word":"Chromatin","type":"(n.)","description":"Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes."},{"word":"Chromatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens."},{"word":"Chromatism","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormal coloring of plants."},{"word":"Chromatogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing color."},{"word":"Chromatography","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on colors"},{"word":"Chromatology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on colors."},{"word":"Chromatophore","type":"(n.)","description":"A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods."},{"word":"Chromatophore","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them."},{"word":"Chromatoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars."},{"word":"Chromatosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"A chromosphere."},{"word":"Chromatrope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored."},{"word":"Chromatrope","type":"(n.)","description":"A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects."},{"word":"Chromatype","type":"(n.)","description":"A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium."},{"word":"Chromatype","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which such picture is made."},{"word":"Chrome","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chromium."},{"word":"Chromic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence."},{"word":"Chromid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile."},{"word":"Chromidrosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration."},{"word":"Chromism","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chromatism."},{"word":"Chromite","type":"(n.)","description":"A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron."},{"word":"Chromite","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid."},{"word":"Chromium","type":"(n.)","description":"A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome."},{"word":"Chromos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chromo"},{"word":"Chromo","type":"(n.)","description":"A chromolithograph."},{"word":"Chromoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell."},{"word":"Chromogen","type":"()","description":"Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule."},{"word":"Chromogen","type":"()","description":"Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores."},{"word":"Chromogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria."},{"word":"Chromograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph."},{"word":"Chromoleucite","type":"(n.)","description":"A chromoplastid."},{"word":"Chromolithograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process."},{"word":"Chromolithographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is engaged in chromolithography."},{"word":"Chromolithographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography."},{"word":"Chromolithography","type":"(n.)","description":"Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors."},{"word":"Chromophane","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina."},{"word":"Chromophore","type":"(n.)","description":"Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient."},{"word":"Chromophotography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of producing photographs in colors."},{"word":"Chromophotolithograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A photolithograph printed in colors."},{"word":"Chromoplastid","type":"(n.)","description":"A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite."},{"word":"Chromosome","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann."},{"word":"Chromosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame."},{"word":"Chromospheric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the chromosphere."},{"word":"Chromotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph."},{"word":"Chromotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A photographic picture in the natural colors."},{"word":"Chromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds."},{"word":"Chromule","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals."},{"word":"Chronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to time; according to time."},{"word":"Chronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual."},{"word":"Chronical","type":"(a.)","description":"Chronic."},{"word":"Chronicle","type":"(n.)","description":"An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time."},{"word":"Chronicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrative of events; a history; a record."},{"word":"Chronicle","type":"(n.)","description":"The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings."},{"word":"Chronicled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chronicle"},{"word":"Chronicling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chronicle"},{"word":"Chronicle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register."},{"word":"Chronicler","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian."},{"word":"Chronique","type":"(n.)","description":"A chronicle."},{"word":"Chronogram","type":"(n.)","description":"An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632."},{"word":"Chronogram","type":"(n.)","description":"The record or inscription made by a chronograph."},{"word":"Chronogrammatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Chronogrammatical"},{"word":"Chronogrammatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one."},{"word":"Chronogrammatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of chronograms."},{"word":"Chronograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity."},{"word":"Chronograph","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chronogram, 1."},{"word":"Chronograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A chronoscope."},{"word":"Chronographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes a chronography; a chronologer."},{"word":"Chronographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chronograph."},{"word":"Chronography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description or record of past time; history."},{"word":"Chronologer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chronologist."},{"word":"Chronologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Chronological"},{"word":"Chronological","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables."},{"word":"Chronologist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chronologer"},{"word":"Chronologer","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology."},{"word":"Chronologies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chronology"},{"word":"Chronology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates."},{"word":"Chronometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper."},{"word":"Chronometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc."},{"word":"Chronometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A metronome."},{"word":"Chronometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Chronometrical"},{"word":"Chronometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer."},{"word":"Chronometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions."},{"word":"Chronopher","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity."},{"word":"Chronoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc."},{"word":"Chrysalid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis."},{"word":"Chrysalids","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chrysalid"},{"word":"Chrysalid","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chrysalis."},{"word":"Chrysalides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Chrysalis"},{"word":"Chrysalis","type":"(n.)","description":"The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a)."},{"word":"Chrysaniline","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color."},{"word":"Chrysanthemum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy."},{"word":"Chrysarobin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid."},{"word":"Chrysaurin","type":"(n.)","description":"An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production."},{"word":"Chryselephantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory."},{"word":"Chrysene","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities."},{"word":"Chrysoberyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem."},{"word":"Chrysochlore","type":"(n.)","description":"A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold."},{"word":"Chrysocolla","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color."},{"word":"Chrysogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene."},{"word":"Chrysography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of writing in letters of gold."},{"word":"Chrysography","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing executed in letters of gold."},{"word":"Chrysoidine","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial, yellow, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoidine proper."},{"word":"Chrysolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz."},{"word":"Chrysology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth."},{"word":"Chrysopa","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing."},{"word":"Chrysophane","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition."},{"word":"Chrysophanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane."},{"word":"Chrysoprase","type":"(n.)","description":"An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry."},{"word":"Chrysoprasus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chrysoprase."},{"word":"Chrysosperm","type":"(n.)","description":"The seed of gold; a means of creating gold."},{"word":"Chrysotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold."},{"word":"Chrysotype","type":"(n.)","description":"2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel."},{"word":"Chthonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions."},{"word":"Chthonophagia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chthonophagy"},{"word":"Chthonophagy","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc."},{"word":"Chub","type":"(n.)","description":"A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc."},{"word":"Chubbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Chubby."},{"word":"Chubbedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being chubby."},{"word":"Chubby","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a chub; plump, short, and thick."},{"word":"Chub-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a plump, short face."},{"word":"Chucked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chuck"},{"word":"Chucking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chuck"},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chuckle; to laugh."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call, as a hen her chickens."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"The chuck or call of a hen."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden, small noise."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick."},{"word":"Chucked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chuck"},{"word":"Chucking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chuck"},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight blow or pat under the chin."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A short throw; a toss."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones."},{"word":"Chuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast."},{"word":"Chuckled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Chuckle"},{"word":"Chuckling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chuckle"},{"word":"Chuckle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck."},{"word":"Chuckle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fondle; to cocker."},{"word":"Chuckle","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision."},{"word":"Chuckle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision."},{"word":"Chucklehead","type":"(n.)","description":"A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce."},{"word":"Chuckleheaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid."},{"word":"Chuck-Will's-widow","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note."},{"word":"Chud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To champ; to bite."},{"word":"Chuet","type":"(n.)","description":"Minced meat."},{"word":"Chufa","type":"(n.)","description":"A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond."},{"word":"Chuff","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse or stupid fellow."},{"word":"Chuff","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; churlish."},{"word":"Chuffily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Clownishly; surlily."},{"word":"Chuffiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being chuffy."},{"word":"Chuffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Fat or puffed out in the cheeks."},{"word":"Chuffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough; clownish; surly."},{"word":"Chulan","type":"(n.)","description":"The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea."},{"word":"Chum","type":"(n.)","description":"A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend."},{"word":"Chummed","type":"(imp. p. p.)","description":"of Chum"},{"word":"Chumming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Chum"},{"word":"Chum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college."},{"word":"Chum","type":"(n.)","description":"Chopped pieces of fish used as bait."},{"word":"Chump","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, thick, heavy piece of wood."},{"word":"Chunam","type":"(n.)","description":"Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar."},{"word":"Chunk","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, thick piece of anything."},{"word":"Chunky","type":"(a.)","description":"Short and thick."},{"word":"Church","type":"(n.)","description":"A building set apart for Christian worship."},{"word":"Church","type":"(n.)","description":"A Jewish or heathen temple."},{"word":"Church","type":"(n.)","description":"A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together."},{"word":"Church","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church."},{"word":"Church","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective body of Christians."},{"word":"Church","type":"(n.)","description":"Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm."},{"word":"Church","type":"(n.)","description":"The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil."},{"word":"Churched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Church"},{"word":"Churching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Church"},{"word":"Church","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women."},{"word":"Church-ale","type":"(n.)","description":"A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used."},{"word":"Church-bench","type":"(n.)","description":"A seat in the porch of a church."},{"word":"Churchdom","type":"(n.)","description":"The institution, government, or authority of a church."},{"word":"Churchgoer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attends church."},{"word":"Churchgoing","type":"(a.)","description":"Habitually attending church."},{"word":"Churchgoing","type":"(a.)","description":"Summoning to church."},{"word":"Church-haw","type":"(n.)","description":"Churchyard."},{"word":"Churchism","type":"(n.)","description":"Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism."},{"word":"Churchless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a church."},{"word":"Churchlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman."},{"word":"Churchliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Regard for the church."},{"word":"Churchly","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical."},{"word":"Churchmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Churchman"},{"word":"Churchman","type":"(n.)","description":"An ecclesiastic or clergyman."},{"word":"Churchman","type":"(n.)","description":"An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England."},{"word":"Churchman","type":"(n.)","description":"One was is attached to, or attends, church."},{"word":"Churchmanly","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman."},{"word":"Churchmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church."},{"word":"Church","type":"()","description":"The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian."},{"word":"Churchship","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being a church."},{"word":"Churchwarden","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service."},{"word":"Churchwarden","type":"(n.)","description":"A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube."},{"word":"Churchwardenship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a churchwarden."},{"word":"Churchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms."},{"word":"Churchyard","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery."},{"word":"Churl","type":"(n.)","description":"A rustic; a countryman or laborer."},{"word":"Churl","type":"(n.)","description":"A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor."},{"word":"Churl","type":"(n.)","description":"A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard."},{"word":"Churl","type":"(a.)","description":"Churlish; rough; selfish."},{"word":"Churlish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly."},{"word":"Churlish","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals."},{"word":"Churlishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a churlish manner."},{"word":"Churlishness","type":"(n.)","description":"Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy."},{"word":"Churly","type":"(a.)","description":"Rude; churlish; violent."},{"word":"Churme","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chirm"},{"word":"Chirm","type":"(n.)","description":"Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing."},{"word":"Churn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter."},{"word":"Churned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Churn"},{"word":"Churning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Churn"},{"word":"Churn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter."},{"word":"Churn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shake or agitate with violence."},{"word":"Churn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the operation of churning."},{"word":"Churning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who churns."},{"word":"Churning","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of butter made at one operation."},{"word":"Churrus","type":"(n.)","description":"A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp."},{"word":"Churrworm","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket."},{"word":"Chuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Choose."},{"word":"Chute","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel."},{"word":"Chute","type":"(n.)","description":"See Shoot."},{"word":"Chutney","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Chutnee"},{"word":"Chutnee","type":"(n.)","description":"A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc."},{"word":"Chylaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle."},{"word":"Chylaqueous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals."},{"word":"Chyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct."},{"word":"Chylifaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process."},{"word":"Chylifactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle."},{"word":"Chyliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels."},{"word":"Chylific","type":"(a.)","description":"Chylifactive."},{"word":"Chylification","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction."},{"word":"Chylificatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Chylifactive."},{"word":"Chylify","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle."},{"word":"Chylopoetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs."},{"word":"Chylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or similar to, chyle."},{"word":"Chyluria","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance."},{"word":"Chyme","type":"(n.)","description":"The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle."},{"word":"Chymic","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Chymistry"},{"word":"Chymist","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Chymistry"},{"word":"Chymistry","type":"()","description":"See Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry."},{"word":"Chymiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or containing chyme."},{"word":"Chymification","type":"(n.)","description":"The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice."},{"word":"Chymify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into chyme."},{"word":"Chymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to chyme."},{"word":"Chyometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod."},{"word":"Cibarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to food; edible."},{"word":"Cibation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking food."},{"word":"Cibation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material."},{"word":"Cibol","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery."},{"word":"Ciboria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ciborium"},{"word":"Ciborium","type":"(n.)","description":"A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar."},{"word":"Ciborium","type":"(n.)","description":"The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx."},{"word":"Cicadas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cicada"},{"word":"Cicadae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cicada"},{"word":"Cicada","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada."},{"word":"Cicala","type":"(n.)","description":"A cicada. See Cicada."},{"word":"Cicatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A cicatrix."},{"word":"Cicatricial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix."},{"word":"Cicatricle","type":"(n.)","description":"The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins."},{"word":"Cicatrisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound."},{"word":"Cicatrices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cicatrix"},{"word":"Cicatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar."},{"word":"Cicatrizant","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix."},{"word":"Cicatrization","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized."},{"word":"Cicatrized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cicatrize"},{"word":"Cicatrizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cicatrize"},{"word":"Cicatrize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh."},{"word":"Cicatrize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To heal; to have a new skin."},{"word":"Cicatrose","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of scars."},{"word":"Cicely","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc."},{"word":"Cicero","type":"(n.)","description":"Pica type; -- so called by French printers."},{"word":"Ciceroni","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cicerone"},{"word":"Cicerones","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cicerone"},{"word":"Cicerone","type":"(n.)","description":"One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide."},{"word":"Ciceronian","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent."},{"word":"Ciceronianism","type":"(n.)","description":"Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression."},{"word":"Cichoraceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type."},{"word":"Cich-pea","type":"(n.)","description":"The chick-pea."},{"word":"Cicisbeism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or conduct of a cicisbeo."},{"word":"Cicisbei","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cicisbeo"},{"word":"Cicisbeo","type":"(n.)","description":"A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women."},{"word":"Cicisbeo","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc."},{"word":"Ciclatoun","type":"(n.)","description":"A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages."},{"word":"Cicurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tame."},{"word":"Cicuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taming."},{"word":"Cicuta","type":"(n.)","description":"a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known."},{"word":"Cicutoxin","type":"(n.)","description":"The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance."},{"word":"Cid","type":"(n.)","description":"Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century."},{"word":"Cid","type":"(n.)","description":"An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish national hero, Ruy Diaz."},{"word":"Cider","type":"(n.)","description":"The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes."},{"word":"Ciderist","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker of cider."},{"word":"Ciderkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water."},{"word":"Ci-devant","type":"(a.)","description":"Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor."},{"word":"Cierge","type":"(n.)","description":"A wax candle used in religous rites."},{"word":"Cigar","type":"(n.)","description":"A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking."},{"word":"Cigarette","type":"(n.)","description":"A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking."},{"word":"Cilia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The eyelashes."},{"word":"Cilia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs."},{"word":"Cilia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash."},{"word":"Cilia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora."},{"word":"Ciliary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc."},{"word":"Ciliary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion."},{"word":"Ciliata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth."},{"word":"Ciliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ciliated"},{"word":"Ciliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe."},{"word":"Cilice","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of haircloth undergarment."},{"word":"Cilician","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor."},{"word":"Cilician","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Cilicia."},{"word":"Cilicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Made, or consisting, of hair."},{"word":"Ciliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ciliiform"},{"word":"Ciliiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender."},{"word":"Ciliograde","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusae."},{"word":"Cilium","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cilia."},{"word":"Cill","type":"(n.)","description":"See Sill., n. a foundation."},{"word":"Cillosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid."},{"word":"Cima","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of molding. See Cyma."},{"word":"Cimar","type":"(n.)","description":"See Simar."},{"word":"Cimbal","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of confectionery or cake."},{"word":"Cimbia","type":"(n.)","description":"A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it."},{"word":"Cimbrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cimbri."},{"word":"Cimbrian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric."},{"word":"Cimbric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany."},{"word":"Cimbric","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Cimbri."},{"word":"Cimeliarch","type":"(n.)","description":"A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden."},{"word":"Cimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"See Scimiter."},{"word":"Cimices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cimex"},{"word":"Cimex","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug."},{"word":"Cimia","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cimbia."},{"word":"Cimiss","type":"(n.)","description":"The bedbug."},{"word":"Cimmerian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness."},{"word":"Cimmerian","type":"(a.)","description":"Without any light; intensely dark."},{"word":"Cimolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color."},{"word":"Cinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong saddle girth, as of canvas."},{"word":"Cinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A tight grip."},{"word":"Cinchona","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value."},{"word":"Cinchona","type":"(n.)","description":"The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark."},{"word":"Cinchonaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it."},{"word":"Cinchonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona."},{"word":"Cinchonidine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia."},{"word":"Cinchonine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia."},{"word":"Cinchonism","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc."},{"word":"Cinchonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona."},{"word":"Cincinnati","type":"()","description":"An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York."},{"word":"Cincture","type":"(n.)","description":"A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb."},{"word":"Cincture","type":"(n.)","description":"That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure."},{"word":"Cincture","type":"(n.)","description":"The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column."},{"word":"Cinctured","type":"(n.)","description":"Having or wearing a cincture or girdle."},{"word":"Cinder","type":"(n.)","description":"Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct."},{"word":"Cinder","type":"(n.)","description":"A hot coal without flame; an ember."},{"word":"Cinder","type":"(n.)","description":"A scale thrown off in forging metal."},{"word":"Cinder","type":"(n.)","description":"The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano."},{"word":"Cindery","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders."},{"word":"Cinefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Cineration; reduction to ashes."},{"word":"Cinematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cinematical"},{"word":"Cinematical","type":"(a.)","description":"See Kinematic."},{"word":"Cinematics","type":"(n. sing.)","description":"See Kinematics."},{"word":"Cineraceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous."},{"word":"Cineraria","type":"(n.)","description":"A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament."},{"word":"Cinerary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes."},{"word":"Cineration","type":"(n.)","description":"The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction."},{"word":"Cinereous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish."},{"word":"Cinerescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes."},{"word":"Cineritious","type":"(a.)","description":"Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain."},{"word":"Cinerulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of ashes."},{"word":"Cingalese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants"},{"word":"Cingalese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"the language of the Cingalese."},{"word":"Cingalese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cingalese."},{"word":"Cingle","type":"(n.)","description":"A girth."},{"word":"Cingulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells."},{"word":"Cingulum","type":"(n.)","description":"The clitellus of earthworms."},{"word":"Cingulum","type":"(n.)","description":"The base of the crown of a tooth."},{"word":"Cinnabar","type":"(n.)","description":"Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine."},{"word":"Cinnabar","type":"(n.)","description":"The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion."},{"word":"Cinnabarine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand."},{"word":"Cinnamene","type":"(n.)","description":"Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene."},{"word":"Cinnamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon."},{"word":"Cinnamomic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cinnamic."},{"word":"Cinnamon","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices."},{"word":"Cinnamon","type":"(n.)","description":"Cassia."},{"word":"Cinnamone","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid."},{"word":"Cinnamyl","type":"(n.)","description":"The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds."},{"word":"Cinnoline","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds."},{"word":"Cinque","type":"(n.)","description":"Five; the number five in dice or cards."},{"word":"Cinquecento","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style."},{"word":"Cinquefoil","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand."},{"word":"Cinquefoil","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc."},{"word":"Cinque-pace","type":"(n.)","description":"A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five."},{"word":"Cinque","type":"()","description":"Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places."},{"word":"Cinque-spotted","type":"(a.)","description":"Five-spotted."},{"word":"Cinter","type":"(n.)","description":"See Center."},{"word":"Cinura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma."},{"word":"Cion","type":"(n.)","description":"See Scion."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(n.)","description":"A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, has no weight or influence."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(n.)","description":"A character in general, as a figure or letter."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(n.)","description":"A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence."},{"word":"Ciphered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cipher"},{"word":"Ciphering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cipher"},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write in occult characters."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decipher."},{"word":"Cipher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To designate by characters."},{"word":"Cipherer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who ciphers."},{"word":"Cipherhood","type":"(n.)","description":"Nothingness."},{"word":"Cipolin","type":"(n.)","description":"A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc."},{"word":"Cippi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cippus"},{"word":"Cippus","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc."},{"word":"Circ","type":"(n.)","description":"An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus."},{"word":"Circar","type":"(n.)","description":"A district, or part of a province. See Sircar."},{"word":"Circassian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia."},{"word":"Circassian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Circassia."},{"word":"Circean","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught."},{"word":"Circensial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Circensian"},{"word":"Circensian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome."},{"word":"Circinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Circinate."},{"word":"Circinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns."},{"word":"Circinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a circle around; to encompass."},{"word":"Circination","type":"(n.)","description":"An orbicular motion."},{"word":"Circination","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle; a concentric layer."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"A round body; a sphere; an orb."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"Compass; circuit; inclosure."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular group of persons; a ring."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"Indirect form of words; circumlocution."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"A territorial division or district."},{"word":"Circled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circle"},{"word":"Circling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Circle"},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"To move around; to revolve around."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(n.)","description":"To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle."},{"word":"Circle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate."},{"word":"Circled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a circle; round."},{"word":"Circler","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a."},{"word":"Circlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband."},{"word":"Circlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A round body; an orb."},{"word":"Circlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table."},{"word":"Circocele","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cirsocele."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"A district in which an itinerant preacher labors."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(n.)","description":"Circumlocution."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate."},{"word":"Circuit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To travel around."},{"word":"Circuiteer","type":"(n.)","description":"A circuiter."},{"word":"Circuiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge."},{"word":"Circuition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of going round; circumlocution."},{"word":"Circuitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end."},{"word":"Circuity","type":"(n.)","description":"A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding."},{"word":"Circulable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be circulated."},{"word":"Circular","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round."},{"word":"Circular","type":"(a.)","description":"repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning."},{"word":"Circular","type":"(a.)","description":"Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic."},{"word":"Circular","type":"(a.)","description":"Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter."},{"word":"Circular","type":"(a.)","description":"Perfect; complete."},{"word":"Circular","type":"(a.)","description":"A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular."},{"word":"Circular","type":"(a.)","description":"A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form."},{"word":"Circularity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being circular; a circular form."},{"word":"Circularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a circular manner."},{"word":"Circulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Circular; illogical."},{"word":"Ciorculated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circulate"},{"word":"Circulating","type":"(P. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Circulate"},{"word":"Circulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body."},{"word":"Circulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates."},{"word":"Circulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit."},{"word":"Circulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began."},{"word":"Circulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission."},{"word":"Circulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin."},{"word":"Circulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper."},{"word":"Circulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants."},{"word":"Circulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Promoting circulation; circulating."},{"word":"Circulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, circulates."},{"word":"Circulatorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant."},{"word":"Circulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Circular; as, a circulatory letter."},{"word":"Circulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Circulating, or going round."},{"word":"Circulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases."},{"word":"Circulatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation."},{"word":"Circulet","type":"(n.)","description":"A circlet."},{"word":"Circuline","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding in a circle; circular."},{"word":"Circum-","type":"()","description":"A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about."},{"word":"Circumagitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To agitate on all sides."},{"word":"Circumambage","type":"(n.)","description":"A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness."},{"word":"Circumambiency","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of surrounding or encompassing."},{"word":"Circumambient","type":"(a.)","description":"Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing."},{"word":"Circumambulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To walk round about."},{"word":"Circumbendibus","type":"(n.)","description":"A roundabout or indirect way."},{"word":"Circumcenter","type":"(n.)","description":"The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle."},{"word":"Circumcised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circumcise"},{"word":"Circumcising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Circumcise"},{"word":"Circumcise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females."},{"word":"Circumcise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purify spiritually."},{"word":"Circumciser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who performs circumcision."},{"word":"Circumcision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females."},{"word":"Circumcision","type":"(n.)","description":"The Jews, as a circumcised people."},{"word":"Circumcision","type":"(n.)","description":"Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith."},{"word":"Circumclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of inclosing on all sides."},{"word":"Circumcursation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of running about; also, rambling language."},{"word":"Circumdenudation","type":"(n.)","description":"Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object."},{"word":"Circumduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence."},{"word":"Circumduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead about; to lead astray."},{"word":"Circumduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature."},{"word":"Circumduction","type":"(n.)","description":"A leading about; circumlocution."},{"word":"Circumduction","type":"(n.)","description":"An annulling; cancellation."},{"word":"Circumduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface."},{"word":"Circumesophagal","type":"(a.)","description":"Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks."},{"word":"Circumesophageal","type":"(a.)","description":"Circumesophagal."},{"word":"Circumfer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear or carry round."},{"word":"Circumference","type":"(n.)","description":"The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery."},{"word":"Circumference","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle; anything circular."},{"word":"Circumference","type":"(n.)","description":"The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body."},{"word":"Circumference","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To include in a circular space; to bound."},{"word":"Circumferential","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous."},{"word":"Circumferentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to surround or encircle."},{"word":"Circumferentor","type":"(n.)","description":"A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360�, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint."},{"word":"Circumferentor","type":"(n.)","description":"A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle."},{"word":"Circumflant","type":"(a.)","description":"Blowing around."},{"word":"Circumflected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circumflect"},{"word":"Circumflecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Circumflect"},{"word":"Circumflect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend around."},{"word":"Circumflect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel."},{"word":"Circumflection","type":"(n.)","description":"See Circumflexion."},{"word":"Circumflex","type":"(n.)","description":"A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable."},{"word":"Circumflex","type":"(n.)","description":"A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2."},{"word":"Circumflexed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circumflex"},{"word":"Circumflexing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Circumflex"},{"word":"Circumflex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark or pronounce with a circumflex."},{"word":"Circumflex","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving or turning round; circuitous."},{"word":"Circumflex","type":"(a.)","description":"Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts."},{"word":"Circumflexion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form."},{"word":"Circumflexion","type":"(n.)","description":"A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold."},{"word":"Circumfluence","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid."},{"word":"Circumfluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Circumfluous"},{"word":"Circumfluous","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid."},{"word":"Circumforanean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Circumforaneous"},{"word":"Circumforaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house."},{"word":"Circumfulgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Shining around or about."},{"word":"Circumfuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour round; to spread round."},{"word":"Circumfusile","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being poured or spread round."},{"word":"Circumfusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round."},{"word":"Circumgestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of carrying about."},{"word":"Circumgyrate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion."},{"word":"Circumgyration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round."},{"word":"Circumgyratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving in a circle; turning round."},{"word":"Circumgyre","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To circumgyrate."},{"word":"Circumincession","type":"(n.)","description":"The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity."},{"word":"Circumjacence","type":"(n.)","description":"Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side."},{"word":"Circumjacent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying round; bordering on every side."},{"word":"Circumjovial","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter."},{"word":"Circumlittoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Adjointing the shore."},{"word":"Circumlocution","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase."},{"word":"Circumlocutional","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous."},{"word":"Circumlocutory","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic."},{"word":"Circummeridian","type":"(a.)","description":"About, or near, the meridian."},{"word":"Circummure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encompass with a wall."},{"word":"Circumnavigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being sailed round."},{"word":"Circumnavigated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circumnavigate"},{"word":"Circumnavigating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Circumnavigate"},{"word":"Circumnavigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sail completely round."},{"word":"Circumnavigation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round."},{"word":"Circumnavigator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sails round."},{"word":"Circumnutate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass through the stages of circumnutation."},{"word":"Circumnutation","type":"(n.)","description":"The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants."},{"word":"Circumpolar","type":"(a.)","description":"About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars."},{"word":"Circumposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed."},{"word":"Circumrotary","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Circumrotatory"},{"word":"Circumrotatory","type":"(a.)","description":"turning, rolling, or whirling round."},{"word":"Circumrotate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To rotate about."},{"word":"Circumrotation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round."},{"word":"Circumscissile","type":"(a.)","description":"Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium."},{"word":"Circumscribable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being circumscribed."},{"word":"Circumscribed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circumscribe"},{"word":"Circumscribing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Circumscribe"},{"word":"Circumscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to write or engrave around."},{"word":"Circumscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain."},{"word":"Circumscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5."},{"word":"Circumscriber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, circumscribes."},{"word":"Circumscriptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds."},{"word":"Circumscription","type":"(n.)","description":"An inscription written around anything."},{"word":"Circumscription","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery."},{"word":"Circumscription","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit."},{"word":"Circumscriptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of."},{"word":"Circumscriptively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a limited manner."},{"word":"Circumscriptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a literal, limited, or narrow manner."},{"word":"Circumspect","type":"(a.)","description":"Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary."},{"word":"Circumspection","type":"(n.)","description":"Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness."},{"word":"Circumspective","type":"(a.)","description":"Looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger."},{"word":"Circumspectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Circumspectly."},{"word":"Circumspectly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily."},{"word":"Circumspectness","type":"(n.)","description":"Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution."},{"word":"Circumstance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things."},{"word":"Circumstance","type":"(n.)","description":"An event; a fact; a particular incident."},{"word":"Circumstance","type":"(n.)","description":"Circumlocution; detail."},{"word":"Circumstance","type":"(n.)","description":"Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings."},{"word":"Circumstance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents."},{"word":"Circumstanced","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Placed in a particular position or condition; situated."},{"word":"Circumstanced","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Governed by events or circumstances."},{"word":"Circumstant","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing or placed around; surrounding."},{"word":"Circumstantiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being circumstantiated."},{"word":"Circumstantial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents."},{"word":"Circumstantial","type":"(a.)","description":"Incidental; relating to, but not essential."},{"word":"Circumstantial","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular."},{"word":"Circumstantial","type":"(n.)","description":"Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion."},{"word":"Circumstantiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail."},{"word":"Circumstantially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally."},{"word":"Circumstantially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In every circumstance or particular; minutely."},{"word":"Circumstantiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circumstantiate"},{"word":"Circumstantiating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Circumstantiate"},{"word":"Circumstantiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts."},{"word":"Circumstantiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning."},{"word":"Circumterraneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Being or dwelling around the earth."},{"word":"Circumundulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flow round, as waves."},{"word":"Circumvallate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround with a rampart or wall."},{"word":"Circumvallate","type":"(a.)","description":"Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart."},{"word":"Circumvallate","type":"(a.)","description":"Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue."},{"word":"Circumvallation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart."},{"word":"Circumvallation","type":"(n.)","description":"A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without."},{"word":"Circumvection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried."},{"word":"Circumvented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circumvent"},{"word":"Circumventing","type":"(p. pr. vb. n.)","description":"of Circumvent"},{"word":"Circumvent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around."},{"word":"Circumvention","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion."},{"word":"Circumventive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding."},{"word":"Circumventor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning."},{"word":"Circumvest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover round, as with a garment; to invest."},{"word":"Circumvolant","type":"(a.)","description":"Flying around."},{"word":"Circumvolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flying round."},{"word":"Circumvolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled."},{"word":"Circumvolution","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing rolled round another."},{"word":"Circumvolution","type":"(n.)","description":"A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution."},{"word":"Circumvolved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Circumvolve"},{"word":"Circumvolving","type":"(p. pr. vb. n.)","description":"of Circumvolve"},{"word":"Circumvolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion."},{"word":"Circumvolve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To roll round; to revolve."},{"word":"Circuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Circus"},{"word":"Circus","type":"(n.)","description":"A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows."},{"word":"Circus","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage."},{"word":"Circus","type":"(n.)","description":"Circuit; space; inclosure."},{"word":"Cirl","type":"()","description":"A European bunting (Emberiza cirlus)."},{"word":"Cirque","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects."},{"word":"Cirque","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height."},{"word":"Cirrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ."},{"word":"Cirrhiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cirriferous."},{"word":"Cirrhose","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Cirrose."},{"word":"Cirrhosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ."},{"word":"Cirrhotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver."},{"word":"Cirrhous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cirrose."},{"word":"Cirrhus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cirrus."},{"word":"Cirri","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Cirrus."},{"word":"Cirriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals."},{"word":"Cirriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants."},{"word":"Cirrigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages."},{"word":"Cirrigrade","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages."},{"word":"Cirriped","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cirripedia."},{"word":"Cirripedia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa."},{"word":"Cirrobranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda."},{"word":"Cirro-cumulus","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Cloud."},{"word":"Cirrose","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf."},{"word":"Cirrose","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a tendril or cirrus."},{"word":"Cirrostomi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus."},{"word":"Cirro-stratus","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Cloud."},{"word":"Cirrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Cirrose."},{"word":"Cirrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds."},{"word":"Cirri","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cirrus"},{"word":"Cirrus","type":"(n.)","description":"A tendril or clasper."},{"word":"Cirrus","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri."},{"word":"Cirrus","type":"(n.)","description":"The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta."},{"word":"Cirrus","type":"(n.)","description":"The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca."},{"word":"Cirrus","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Cloud."},{"word":"Cirsocele","type":"(n.)","description":"The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein."},{"word":"Cirsoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Varicose."},{"word":"Cirsotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Any operation for the removal of varices by incision."},{"word":"Cis-","type":"()","description":"A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side."},{"word":"Cisalpine","type":"(a.)","description":"On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine."},{"word":"Cisatlantic","type":"(a.)","description":"On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer."},{"word":"Cisco","type":"(n.)","description":"The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan."},{"word":"Ciselure","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased."},{"word":"Cisleithan","type":"(a.)","description":"On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian."},{"word":"Cismontane","type":"(a.)","description":"On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane."},{"word":"Cispadane","type":"(a.)","description":"On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side."},{"word":"Cissoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines."},{"word":"Cist","type":"(n.)","description":"A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Cist","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cyst."},{"word":"Cisted","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted."},{"word":"Cistercian","type":"(n.)","description":"A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor."},{"word":"Cistercian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cistercians."},{"word":"Cistern","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids."},{"word":"Cistern","type":"(n.)","description":"A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water."},{"word":"Cistic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cystic."},{"word":"Cit","type":"(n.)","description":"A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously."},{"word":"Citable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being cited."},{"word":"Citadel","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense."},{"word":"Cital","type":"(n.)","description":"Summons to appear, as before a judge."},{"word":"Cital","type":"(n.)","description":"Citation; quotation"},{"word":"Citation","type":"(n.)","description":"An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice."},{"word":"Citation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation."},{"word":"Citation","type":"(n.)","description":"Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts."},{"word":"Citation","type":"(n.)","description":"A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law."},{"word":"Citator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cites."},{"word":"Citatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory."},{"word":"Cited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cite"},{"word":"Citing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cite"},{"word":"Cite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon."},{"word":"Cite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To urge; to enjoin."},{"word":"Cite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another."},{"word":"Cite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation."},{"word":"Cite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bespeak; to indicate."},{"word":"Cite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To notify of a proceeding in court."},{"word":"Citer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cites."},{"word":"Citess","type":"(n.)","description":"A city woman"},{"word":"Cithara","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient instrument resembling the harp."},{"word":"Citharistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara."},{"word":"Cithern","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cittern."},{"word":"Citicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The manners of a cit or citizen."},{"word":"Citied","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, a city."},{"word":"Citied","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or covered with, cities."},{"word":"Citified","type":"(a.)","description":"Aping, or having, the manners of a city."},{"word":"Citigradae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider."},{"word":"Citigrade","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Citigradae."},{"word":"Citigrade","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Citigradae."},{"word":"Citiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen."},{"word":"Citizen","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises."},{"word":"Citizen","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of a city; a townsman."},{"word":"Citizen","type":"(n.)","description":"A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it."},{"word":"Citizen","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country."},{"word":"Citizen","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery."},{"word":"Citizen","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious."},{"word":"Citizeness","type":"(n.)","description":"A female citizen."},{"word":"Citizenship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen."},{"word":"Citole","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer."},{"word":"Citraconic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids."},{"word":"Citrate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of citric acid."},{"word":"Citric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid."},{"word":"Citrination","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color."},{"word":"Citrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow."},{"word":"Citrine","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz."},{"word":"Citron","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce."},{"word":"Citron","type":"(n.)","description":"A citron tree."},{"word":"Citron","type":"(n.)","description":"A citron melon."},{"word":"Citrus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia."},{"word":"Cittern","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum."},{"word":"Cittern-head","type":"(n.)","description":"Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head."},{"word":"Cities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of City"},{"word":"City","type":"(n.)","description":"A large town."},{"word":"City","type":"(n.)","description":"A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see."},{"word":"City","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city."},{"word":"City","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a city."},{"word":"Cive","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Chive."},{"word":"Civet","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume."},{"word":"Civet","type":"(n.)","description":"The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species."},{"word":"Civet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scent or perfume with civet."},{"word":"Civic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs."},{"word":"Civicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principle of civil government."},{"word":"Civics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of civil government."},{"word":"Civil","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state."},{"word":"Civil","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community."},{"word":"Civil","type":"(a.)","description":"Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual."},{"word":"Civil","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable."},{"word":"Civil","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state."},{"word":"Civil","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings."},{"word":"Civilian","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in the civil law."},{"word":"Civilian","type":"(n.)","description":"A student of the civil law at a university or college."},{"word":"Civilian","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical."},{"word":"Civilist","type":"(n.)","description":"A civilian."},{"word":"Civilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Civillty"},{"word":"Civillty","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization."},{"word":"Civillty","type":"(n.)","description":"A civil office, or a civil process"},{"word":"Civillty","type":"(n.)","description":"Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression."},{"word":"Civilizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being civilized."},{"word":"Civilization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement."},{"word":"Civilization","type":"(n.)","description":"Rendering a criminal process civil."},{"word":"Civilized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Civilize"},{"word":"Civilizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Civilize"},{"word":"Civilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine."},{"word":"Civilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit as suitable to a civilized state."},{"word":"Civilized","type":"(a.)","description":"Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated."},{"word":"Civilizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize."},{"word":"Civily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner."},{"word":"Civism","type":"(n.)","description":"State of citizenship."},{"word":"Cizar","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To clip with scissors."},{"word":"Cizars","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Scissors."},{"word":"Cize","type":"(n.)","description":"Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size."},{"word":"Clabber","type":"(n.)","description":"Milk curdled so as to become thick."},{"word":"Clabber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become clabber; to lopper."},{"word":"Clachan","type":"(n.)","description":"A small village containing a church."},{"word":"Clacked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clack"},{"word":"Clacking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clack"},{"word":"Clack","type":"(n.)","description":"To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click."},{"word":"Clack","type":"(n.)","description":"To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run."},{"word":"Clack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click."},{"word":"Clack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter rapidly and inconsiderately."},{"word":"Clack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object."},{"word":"Clack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve."},{"word":"Clack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating."},{"word":"Clacker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill."},{"word":"Clacker","type":"(n.)","description":"A claqueur. See Claqueur."},{"word":"Clad","type":"(v.t)","description":"To clothe."},{"word":"Clad","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Clothe."},{"word":"Cladocera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of the Entomostraca."},{"word":"Cladophyll","type":"(n.)","description":"A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum)."},{"word":"Claggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings."},{"word":"Claik","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clake."},{"word":"Claimed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Claim"},{"word":"Claiming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Claim"},{"word":"Claim","type":"(v./.)","description":"To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due."},{"word":"Claim","type":"(v./.)","description":"To proclaim."},{"word":"Claim","type":"(v./.)","description":"To call or name."},{"word":"Claim","type":"(v./.)","description":"To assert; to maintain."},{"word":"Claim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim."},{"word":"Claim","type":"(n.)","description":"A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact."},{"word":"Claim","type":"(n.)","description":"A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant."},{"word":"Claim","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim."},{"word":"Claim","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud call."},{"word":"Claimable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being claimed."},{"word":"Claimant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer."},{"word":"Claimer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who claims; a claimant."},{"word":"Claimless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no claim."},{"word":"Clair-obscur","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chiaroscuro."},{"word":"Clairvoyance","type":"(n.)","description":"A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition."},{"word":"Clairvoyant","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses."},{"word":"Clairvoyant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses."},{"word":"Clake","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Claik"},{"word":"Claik","type":"(n.)","description":"The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose."},{"word":"Clam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve."},{"word":"Clam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Strong pinchers or forceps."},{"word":"Clam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A kind of vise, usually of wood."},{"word":"Clammed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clam"},{"word":"Clamming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clam"},{"word":"Clam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter."},{"word":"Clam","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere."},{"word":"Clam","type":"(n.)","description":"Claminess; moisture."},{"word":"Clam","type":"(n.)","description":"A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once."},{"word":"Clam","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang."},{"word":"Clamant","type":"(a.)","description":"Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously."},{"word":"Clamation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of crying out."},{"word":"Clamatores","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing."},{"word":"Clamatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the Clamatores."},{"word":"Clambake","type":"(n.)","description":"The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion."},{"word":"Clambered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clamber"},{"word":"Clambering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clamber"},{"word":"Clamber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively."},{"word":"Clamber","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of clambering."},{"word":"Clamber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ascend by climbing with difficulty."},{"word":"Clamjamphrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Low, worthless people; the rabble."},{"word":"Clammily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a clammy manner."},{"word":"Clamminess","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being clammy or viscous."},{"word":"Clammy","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration."},{"word":"Clamor","type":"(n.)","description":"A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation."},{"word":"Clamor","type":"(n.)","description":"Any loud and continued noise."},{"word":"Clamor","type":"(n.)","description":"A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry."},{"word":"Clamored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clamor"},{"word":"Clamoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clamor"},{"word":"Clamor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To salute loudly."},{"word":"Clamor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stun with noise."},{"word":"Clamor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout."},{"word":"Clamor","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands."},{"word":"Clamorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who clamors."},{"word":"Clamorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(n.)","description":"Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(n.)","description":"A mollusk. See Clam."},{"word":"Clamped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clamp"},{"word":"Clamping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clamp"},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover, as vegetables, with earth."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy footstep; a tramp."},{"word":"Clamp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump."},{"word":"Clamper","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper."},{"word":"Clan","type":"(n.)","description":"A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald."},{"word":"Clan","type":"(n.)","description":"A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously."},{"word":"Clancular","type":"(a.)","description":"Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed."},{"word":"Clancularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"privately; secretly."},{"word":"Clandestine","type":"(a.)","description":"Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage."},{"word":"Clandestinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Privacy or secrecy."},{"word":"Clanged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clang"},{"word":"Clanging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clang"},{"word":"Clang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound."},{"word":"Clang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give out a clang; to resound."},{"word":"Clang","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together."},{"word":"Clang","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of tone."},{"word":"Clangor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A sharp, harsh, ringing sound."},{"word":"Clangorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound."},{"word":"Clangous","type":"(a.)","description":"Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound."},{"word":"Clanjamfrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Clamjamphrie."},{"word":"Clank","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink."},{"word":"Clanked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clank"},{"word":"Clanking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clank"},{"word":"Clank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains."},{"word":"Clank","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound with a clank."},{"word":"Clankless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a clank."},{"word":"Clannish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan."},{"word":"Clanship","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain."},{"word":"Clansmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Clansman"},{"word":"Clansman","type":"(n.)","description":"One belonging to the same clan with another."},{"word":"Clapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clap"},{"word":"Clapping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clap"},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express contempt or derision."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To knock, as at a door."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike the hands together in applause."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come together suddenly with noise."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk noisily; to chatter loudly."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(n.)","description":"A burst of sound; a sudden explosion."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(n.)","description":"A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(n.)","description":"A striking of hands to express approbation."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(n.)","description":"Noisy talk; chatter."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(n.)","description":"The nether part of the beak of a hawk."},{"word":"Clap","type":"(n.)","description":"Gonorrhea."},{"word":"Clapboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses."},{"word":"Clapboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A stave for a cask."},{"word":"Clapboard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house."},{"word":"Clapbread","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Clapcake"},{"word":"Clapcake","type":"(n.)","description":"Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin."},{"word":"Clape","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird; the flicker."},{"word":"Clapper","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who claps."},{"word":"Clapper","type":"(n.)","description":"That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell."},{"word":"Clapper","type":"(n.)","description":"A rabbit burrow."},{"word":"Clapperclaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fight and scratch."},{"word":"Clapperclaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold."},{"word":"Claps","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Variant of Clasp"},{"word":"Claptrap","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for clapping in theaters."},{"word":"Claptrap","type":"(n.)","description":"A trick or device to gain applause; humbug."},{"word":"Claptrap","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal."},{"word":"Claque","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition."},{"word":"Claqueur","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater."},{"word":"Clare","type":"(n.)","description":"A nun of the order of St. Clare."},{"word":"Clarence","type":"(n.)","description":"A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver."},{"word":"Clarenceux","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Clarencieux"},{"word":"Clarencieux","type":"(n.)","description":"See King-at-arms."},{"word":"Clarendon","type":"(n.)","description":"A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes."},{"word":"Clare-obscure","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chiaroscuro."},{"word":"Claret","type":"(n.)","description":"The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name is also given to similar wines made in the United States."},{"word":"Claribella","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ."},{"word":"Clarichord","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord."},{"word":"Clarification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine."},{"word":"Clarification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of freeing from obscurities."},{"word":"Clarifier","type":"(n.)","description":"That which clarifies."},{"word":"Clarifier","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works."},{"word":"Clarified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clarify"},{"word":"Clarifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clarify"},{"word":"Clarify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup."},{"word":"Clarify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate."},{"word":"Clarify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To glorify."},{"word":"Clarify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification."},{"word":"Clarify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow clear or bright; to clear up."},{"word":"Clarigate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To declare war with certain ceremonies."},{"word":"Clarinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band."},{"word":"Clarino","type":"(n.)","description":"A reed stop in an organ."},{"word":"Clarion","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill."},{"word":"Clarionet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clarinet."},{"word":"Clarisonus","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a clear sound."},{"word":"Claritude","type":"(n.)","description":"Clearness; splendor."},{"word":"Clarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Clearness; brightness; splendor."},{"word":"Claro-obscuro","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chiaroscuro."},{"word":"Clarre","type":"(n.)","description":"Wine with a mixture of honey and species."},{"word":"Clart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc."},{"word":"Clarty","type":"(a.)","description":"Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty."},{"word":"Clary","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a loud or shrill noise."},{"word":"Clary","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups."},{"word":"Clashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clash"},{"word":"Clashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clash"},{"word":"Clash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together."},{"word":"Clash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere."},{"word":"Clash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike noisily against or together."},{"word":"Clash","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision."},{"word":"Clash","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc."},{"word":"Clashingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With clashing."},{"word":"Clasped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clasp"},{"word":"Clasping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clasp"},{"word":"Clasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp)."},{"word":"Clasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace."},{"word":"Clasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround and cling to; to entwine about."},{"word":"Clasp","type":"(n.)","description":"An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc."},{"word":"Clasp","type":"(n.)","description":"A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand."},{"word":"Clasper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril."},{"word":"Clasper","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea."},{"word":"Clasper","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera."},{"word":"Claspered","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with tendrils."},{"word":"Class","type":"(n.)","description":"A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes."},{"word":"Class","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies."},{"word":"Class","type":"(n.)","description":"A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc."},{"word":"Class","type":"(n.)","description":"A set; a kind or description, species or variety."},{"word":"Class","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader."},{"word":"Classed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Class"},{"word":"Classing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Class"},{"word":"Class","type":"(n.)","description":"To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages."},{"word":"Class","type":"(n.)","description":"To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes."},{"word":"Class","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grouped or classed."},{"word":"Classible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being classed."},{"word":"Classic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Classical"},{"word":"Classical","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art."},{"word":"Classical","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds."},{"word":"Classical","type":"(n.)","description":"Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style."},{"word":"Classic","type":"(n.)","description":"A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language."},{"word":"Classic","type":"(n.)","description":"One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature."},{"word":"Classicalism","type":"(n.)","description":"A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism."},{"word":"Classicalism","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art."},{"word":"Classicalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art."},{"word":"Classicality","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Classicalness"},{"word":"Classicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being classical."},{"word":"Classically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors."},{"word":"Classically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets."},{"word":"Classicism","type":"(n.)","description":"A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism."},{"word":"Classicist","type":"(n.)","description":"One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics."},{"word":"Classifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being classified."},{"word":"Classific","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification."},{"word":"Classification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities."},{"word":"Classificatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification."},{"word":"Classifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who classifies."},{"word":"Classified","type":"(imp. & pp.)","description":"of Classify"},{"word":"Classifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Classify"},{"word":"Classify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters."},{"word":"Classes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Classis"},{"word":"Classis","type":"(n.)","description":"A class or order; sort; kind."},{"word":"Classis","type":"(n.)","description":"An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church."},{"word":"Classmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Classman"},{"word":"Classman","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a class; a classmate."},{"word":"Classman","type":"(n.)","description":"A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified."},{"word":"Classmate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college."},{"word":"Clastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models)."},{"word":"Clastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock."},{"word":"Clathrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a lattice; cancellate."},{"word":"Clathrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells."},{"word":"Clattered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clatter"},{"word":"Clattering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clatter"},{"word":"Clatter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds."},{"word":"Clatter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue."},{"word":"Clatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a rattling noise with."},{"word":"Clatter","type":"(n.)","description":"A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds."},{"word":"Clatter","type":"(n.)","description":"Commotion; disturbance."},{"word":"Clatter","type":"(n.)","description":"Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter."},{"word":"Clatterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who clatters."},{"word":"Clatteringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With clattering."},{"word":"Claude","type":"()","description":"A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape."},{"word":"Claudent","type":"(a.)","description":"Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle."},{"word":"Claudicant","type":"(a.)","description":"Limping."},{"word":"Claudication","type":"(n.)","description":"A halting or limping."},{"word":"Clause","type":"(n.)","description":"A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document."},{"word":"Clause","type":"(n.)","description":"A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate."},{"word":"Clause","type":"(n.)","description":"See Letters clause / close, under Letter."},{"word":"Claustral","type":"(a.)","description":"Cloistral."},{"word":"Claustra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Claustrum"},{"word":"Claustrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man."},{"word":"Clausular","type":"(n.)","description":"Consisting of, or having, clauses."},{"word":"Clausure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of shutting up or confining; confinement."},{"word":"Clavate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Clavated"},{"word":"Clavated","type":"(a.)","description":"Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]"},{"word":"Clave","type":"()","description":"imp. of Cleave."},{"word":"Clavecin","type":"(n.)","description":"The harpsichord."},{"word":"Clavel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clevis."},{"word":"Clavellate","type":"(a.)","description":"See Clavate."},{"word":"Clavellated","type":"(a.)","description":"Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning."},{"word":"Claver","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clover."},{"word":"Claver","type":"(n.)","description":"Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering."},{"word":"Clavichord","type":"(n.)","description":"A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord."},{"word":"Clavicle","type":"(n.)","description":"The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone."},{"word":"Clavicorn","type":"(a.)","description":"Having club-shaped antennae. See Antennae"},{"word":"Clavicorn","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Clavicornes."},{"word":"Clavicornes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of beetles having club-shaped antennae."},{"word":"Clavicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the clavicle."},{"word":"Clavier","type":"(n.)","description":"The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium."},{"word":"Claviform","type":"(a.)","description":"Club-shaped; clavate."},{"word":"Claviger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries the keys of any place."},{"word":"Claviger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries a club; a club bearer."},{"word":"Clavigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a club or a key."},{"word":"Claves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Clavis"},{"word":"Clavises","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Clavis"},{"word":"Clavis","type":"(n.)","description":"A key; a glossary."},{"word":"Clavus","type":"(n.)","description":"A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn."},{"word":"Clavies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Clavy"},{"word":"Clavy","type":"(n.)","description":"A mantelpiece."},{"word":"Claw","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird."},{"word":"Claw","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc."},{"word":"Claw","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails."},{"word":"Claw","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink."},{"word":"Clawed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Claw"},{"word":"Clawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Claw"},{"word":"Claw","type":"(n.)","description":"To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails."},{"word":"Claw","type":"(n.)","description":"To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court."},{"word":"Claw","type":"(n.)","description":"To rail at; to scold."},{"word":"Claw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw."},{"word":"Clawback","type":"(n.)","description":"A flatterer or sycophant."},{"word":"Clawback","type":"(a.)","description":"Flattering; sycophantic."},{"word":"Clawback","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flatter."},{"word":"Clawed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with claws."},{"word":"Clawless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of claws."},{"word":"Clay","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities."},{"word":"Clay","type":"(n.)","description":"Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles."},{"word":"Clayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clay"},{"word":"Claying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clay"},{"word":"Clay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or manure with clay."},{"word":"Clay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar."},{"word":"Clay-brained","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid."},{"word":"Clayes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments."},{"word":"Clayey","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay."},{"word":"Clayish","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it."},{"word":"Claymore","type":"(n.)","description":"A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders."},{"word":"Claytonia","type":"(n.)","description":"An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty."},{"word":"Cleading","type":"(n.)","description":"A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine."},{"word":"Cleading","type":"(n.)","description":"The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from ceremonial defilement."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(superl.)","description":"Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely."},{"word":"Clean","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously."},{"word":"Cleaned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clean"},{"word":"Cleaning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clean"},{"word":"Clean","type":"(a.)","description":"To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse."},{"word":"Clean-cut","type":"(a.)","description":"See Clear-cut."},{"word":"Cleaner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, cleans."},{"word":"Cleaning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making clean."},{"word":"Cleaning","type":"(n.)","description":"The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc."},{"word":"Cleanlily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cleanly manner."},{"word":"Clean-limbed","type":"(a.)","description":"With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow."},{"word":"Cleanliness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress."},{"word":"Cleanly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Habitually clean; pure; innocent."},{"word":"Cleanly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc."},{"word":"Cleanly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful."},{"word":"Cleanly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a clean manner; neatly."},{"word":"Cleanly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Innocently; without stain."},{"word":"Cleanly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Adroitly; dexterously."},{"word":"Cleanness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being clean."},{"word":"Cleanness","type":"(n.)","description":"Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses."},{"word":"Cleansable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being cleansed."},{"word":"Cleansed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cleanse"},{"word":"Cleansing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cleanse"},{"word":"Cleanse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean."},{"word":"Cleanser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent."},{"word":"Clean-timbered","type":"(a.)","description":"Well-proportioned; symmetrical."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from guilt or stain; unblemished."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from embarrassment; detention, etc."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(n.)","description":"Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a clear manner; plainly."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off."},{"word":"Cleared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clear"},{"word":"Clearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clear"},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain without deduction; to net."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house."},{"word":"Clear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day."},{"word":"Clearage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of removing anything; clearance."},{"word":"Clearance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance."},{"word":"Clearance","type":"(n.)","description":"A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail."},{"word":"Clearance","type":"(n.)","description":"Clear or net profit."},{"word":"Clearance","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages."},{"word":"Clear-cut","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo."},{"word":"Clear-cut","type":"(a.)","description":"Concisely and distinctly expressed."},{"word":"Clearedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cleared."},{"word":"Clearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, clears."},{"word":"Clearer","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished."},{"word":"Clear-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent."},{"word":"Clearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making clear."},{"word":"Clearing","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation."},{"word":"Clearing","type":"(n.)","description":"A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts."},{"word":"Clearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house."},{"word":"Clearly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a clear manner."},{"word":"Clearness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being clear."},{"word":"Clear-seeing","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding."},{"word":"Clear-shining","type":"(a.)","description":"Shining brightly."},{"word":"Clear-sighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason"},{"word":"Clear-sightedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Acute discernment."},{"word":"Clearstarched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clearstarch"},{"word":"Clearstraching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clearstarch"},{"word":"Clearstarch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin."},{"word":"Clearstarcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who clearstarches."},{"word":"Clearstory","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Clerestory"},{"word":"Clerestory","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs."},{"word":"Clearwing","type":"(n.)","description":"A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples."},{"word":"Cleat","type":"(n.)","description":"A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc."},{"word":"Cleat","type":"(n.)","description":"A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope."},{"word":"Cleat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strengthen with a cleat."},{"word":"Cleavable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of cleaving or being divided."},{"word":"Cleavage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cleaving or splitting."},{"word":"Cleavage","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting."},{"word":"Cleavage","type":"(n.)","description":"Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure."},{"word":"Cleaved","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Clave","type":"()","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Cleaved","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Cleaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Cleave","type":"(v. i. )","description":"To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling."},{"word":"Cleave","type":"(v. i. )","description":"To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment."},{"word":"Cleave","type":"(v. i. )","description":"To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate."},{"word":"Cleft","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Clave","type":"()","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Clove","type":"()","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Cleft","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Cleaved","type":"()","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Cloven","type":"()","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Cleaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cleave"},{"word":"Cleave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut."},{"word":"Cleave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part or open naturally; to divide."},{"word":"Cleave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost."},{"word":"Cleavelandite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure."},{"word":"Cleaver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces."},{"word":"Cleavers","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc."},{"word":"Cleche","type":"(a.)","description":"Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided."},{"word":"Clechy","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cleche."},{"word":"Cledge","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper stratum of fuller's earth."},{"word":"Cledgy","type":"(a.)","description":"Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil."},{"word":"Clee","type":"(n.)","description":"A claw."},{"word":"Clee","type":"(n.)","description":"The redshank."},{"word":"Clef","type":"(n.)","description":"A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff."},{"word":"Cleft","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. from Cleave."},{"word":"Cleft","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided; split; partly divided or split."},{"word":"Cleft","type":"(a.)","description":"Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf."},{"word":"Cleft","type":"(n.)","description":"A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock."},{"word":"Cleft","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood."},{"word":"Cleft","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern."},{"word":"Cleft-footed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cloven foot."},{"word":"Cleftgraft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion."},{"word":"Cleg","type":"(n.)","description":"A small breeze or horsefly."},{"word":"Cleistogamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cleistogamous"},{"word":"Cleistogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization."},{"word":"Clem","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To starve; to famish."},{"word":"Clematis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower."},{"word":"Clemence","type":"(n.)","description":"Clemency."},{"word":"Clemencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Clemency"},{"word":"Clemency","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy."},{"word":"Clemency","type":"(n.)","description":"Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season."},{"word":"Clement","type":"(a.)","description":"Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate."},{"word":"Clementine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law."},{"word":"Clench","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"See Clinch."},{"word":"Cleped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clepe"},{"word":"Cleping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clepe"},{"word":"Ycleped","type":"()","description":"of Clepe"},{"word":"Clepe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call, or name."},{"word":"Clepe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make appeal; to cry out."},{"word":"Clepsine","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms."},{"word":"Clepsydra","type":"(n.)","description":"A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix."},{"word":"Cleptomania","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kleptomania."},{"word":"Clerestory","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Clearstory."},{"word":"Clergeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A chorister boy."},{"word":"Clergial","type":"(a.)","description":"Learned; erudite; clerical."},{"word":"Clergical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned."},{"word":"Clergy","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church."},{"word":"Clergy","type":"(n.)","description":"Learning; also, a learned profession."},{"word":"Clergy","type":"(n.)","description":"The privilege or benefit of clergy."},{"word":"Clergyable","type":"(a.)","description":"Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony."},{"word":"Clergymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Clergyman"},{"word":"Clergyman","type":"(n.)","description":"An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church."},{"word":"Cleric","type":"(n.)","description":"A clerk, a clergyman."},{"word":"Cleric","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Clerical."},{"word":"Clerical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy."},{"word":"Clerical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing."},{"word":"Clericalism","type":"(n.)","description":"An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism."},{"word":"Clericity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a clergyman."},{"word":"Clerisy","type":"(n.)","description":"The literati, or well educated class."},{"word":"Clerisy","type":"(n.)","description":"The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity."},{"word":"Clerk","type":"(n.)","description":"A clergyman or ecclesiastic."},{"word":"Clerk","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters."},{"word":"Clerk","type":"(n.)","description":"A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it."},{"word":"Clerk","type":"(n.)","description":"One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk."},{"word":"Clerk","type":"(n.)","description":"An assistant in a shop or store."},{"word":"Clerk-ale","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk."},{"word":"Clerkless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unlearned."},{"word":"Clerklike","type":"(a.)","description":"Scholarlike."},{"word":"Clerkliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Scholarship."},{"word":"Clerkly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a clerk."},{"word":"Clerkly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a scholarly manner."},{"word":"Clerkship","type":"(n.)","description":"State, quality, or business of a clerk."},{"word":"Cleromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A divination by throwing dice or casting lots."},{"word":"Cleronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Inheritance; heritage."},{"word":"Clerstory","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clearstory."},{"word":"Clever","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert."},{"word":"Clever","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick."},{"word":"Clever","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness."},{"word":"Clever","type":"(a.)","description":"Well-shaped; handsome."},{"word":"Clever","type":"(a.)","description":"Good-natured; obliging."},{"word":"Cleverish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat clever."},{"word":"Cleverly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a clever manner."},{"word":"Cleverness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness."},{"word":"Clevis","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy."},{"word":"Clew","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Clue"},{"word":"Clue","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself."},{"word":"Clue","type":"(n.)","description":"That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery."},{"word":"Clue","type":"(n.)","description":"A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail."},{"word":"Clue","type":"(n.)","description":"A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail."},{"word":"Clue","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended."},{"word":"Clewing","type":"(imp. & p. p. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clew"},{"word":"Clew","type":"(n.)","description":"To direct; to guide, as by a thread."},{"word":"Clew","type":"(n.)","description":"To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard."},{"word":"Cliche","type":"(n.)","description":"A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief."},{"word":"Clicked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Click"},{"word":"Clicking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Click"},{"word":"Click","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick."},{"word":"Click","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move with the sound of a click."},{"word":"Click","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something."},{"word":"Click","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol."},{"word":"Click","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward."},{"word":"Click","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To snatch."},{"word":"Click","type":"(n.)","description":"A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel."},{"word":"Click","type":"(n.)","description":"The latch of a door."},{"word":"Click","type":"()","description":"See Elater."},{"word":"Clicker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy."},{"word":"Clicker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who as has charge of the work of a companionship."},{"word":"Clicket","type":"(n.)","description":"The knocker of a door."},{"word":"Clicket","type":"(n.)","description":"A latch key."},{"word":"Clicky","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a click; abounding in clicks."},{"word":"Clidastes","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix."},{"word":"Cliency","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being a client."},{"word":"Client","type":"(n.)","description":"A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron."},{"word":"Client","type":"(n.)","description":"A dependent; one under the protection of another."},{"word":"Client","type":"(n.)","description":"One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management."},{"word":"Clientage","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being client."},{"word":"Clientage","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of clients."},{"word":"Cliental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a client."},{"word":"Cliented","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplied with clients."},{"word":"Clientelage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clientele, n., 2."},{"word":"Clientele","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or position of a client; clientship"},{"word":"Clientele","type":"(n.)","description":"The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron."},{"word":"Clientele","type":"(n.)","description":"The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc."},{"word":"Clientship","type":"(n.)","description":"Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron."},{"word":"Cliff","type":"(n.)","description":"A high, steep rock; a precipice."},{"word":"Cliff","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clef."},{"word":"Cliff","type":"()","description":"A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian."},{"word":"Cliffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having cliffs; broken; craggy."},{"word":"Clift","type":"(n.)","description":"A cliff."},{"word":"Clift","type":"(n.)","description":"A cleft of crack; a narrow opening."},{"word":"Clift","type":"(n.)","description":"The fork of the legs; the crotch."},{"word":"Clifted","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken; fissured."},{"word":"Climacter","type":"(n.)","description":"See Climacteric, n."},{"word":"Climacteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a climacteric; critical."},{"word":"Climacteric","type":"(n.)","description":"A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year."},{"word":"Climacteric","type":"(n.)","description":"Any critical period."},{"word":"Climacterical","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Climacteric."},{"word":"Climatal","type":"(a.)","description":"Climatic."},{"word":"Climatarchic","type":"(a.)","description":"Presiding over, or regulating, climates."},{"word":"Climate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day."},{"word":"Climate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life."},{"word":"Climate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dwell."},{"word":"Climatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate."},{"word":"Climatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Climatic."},{"word":"Climatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Climatize"},{"word":"Climatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Climatize"},{"word":"Climatize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To acclimate or become acclimated."},{"word":"Climatography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of climates."},{"word":"Climatological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to climatology."},{"word":"Climatologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in, or who studies, climatology."},{"word":"Climatology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes."},{"word":"Climature","type":"(n.)","description":"A climate."},{"word":"Climax","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent."},{"word":"Climax","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness."},{"word":"Climax","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The highest point; the greatest degree."},{"word":"Climbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Climb"},{"word":"Clomb","type":"()","description":"of Climb"},{"word":"Climbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Climb"},{"word":"Climb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet."},{"word":"Climb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point."},{"word":"Climb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface."},{"word":"Climb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount."},{"word":"Climb","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing."},{"word":"Climbable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being climbed."},{"word":"Climber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, climbs"},{"word":"Climber","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant that climbs."},{"word":"Climber","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot."},{"word":"Climber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber."},{"word":"Climbing","type":"()","description":"p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb."},{"word":"Clime","type":"(n.)","description":"A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate."},{"word":"Clinanthium","type":"(n.)","description":"The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium."},{"word":"Clinched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clinch"},{"word":"Clinching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clinch"},{"word":"Clinch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly."},{"word":"Clinch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first."},{"word":"Clinch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail."},{"word":"Clinch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument."},{"word":"Clinch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another."},{"word":"Clinch","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch."},{"word":"Clinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A pun."},{"word":"Clinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts."},{"word":"Clincher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast."},{"word":"Clincher","type":"(n.)","description":"That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument."},{"word":"Clincher-built","type":"(a.)","description":"See Clinker-built."},{"word":"Clung","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cling"},{"word":"Clong","type":"()","description":"of Cling"},{"word":"Clinging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cling"},{"word":"Cling","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together."},{"word":"Cling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing."},{"word":"Cling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make to dry up or wither."},{"word":"Cling","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence; attachment; devotion."},{"word":"Clingstone","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches."},{"word":"Clingstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone."},{"word":"Clingy","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to cling; adhesive."},{"word":"Clinic","type":"(n.)","description":"One confined to the bed by sickness."},{"word":"Clinic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives baptism on a sick bed."},{"word":"Clinic","type":"(n.)","description":"A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils."},{"word":"Clinical","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Clinic"},{"word":"Clinic","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed."},{"word":"Clinic","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject."},{"word":"Clinically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a clinical manner."},{"word":"Clinique","type":"(n.)","description":"A clinic."},{"word":"Clinium","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clinanthium."},{"word":"Clinked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clink"},{"word":"Clinking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clink"},{"word":"Clink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together."},{"word":"Clink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound."},{"word":"Clink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rhyme. [Humorous]."},{"word":"Clink","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies."},{"word":"Clinkant","type":"(a.)","description":"See Clinquant."},{"word":"Clinker","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln."},{"word":"Clinker","type":"(n.)","description":"Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag."},{"word":"Clinker","type":"(n.)","description":"A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging."},{"word":"Clinker","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch."},{"word":"Clinker-built","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak."},{"word":"Clinkstone","type":"(n.)","description":"An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite."},{"word":"Clinodiagonal","type":"(n.)","description":"That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization."},{"word":"Clinodiagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal."},{"word":"Clinodome","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Dome."},{"word":"Clinographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection."},{"word":"Clinoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone."},{"word":"Clinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level."},{"word":"Clinometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer."},{"word":"Clinometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems."},{"word":"Clinometry","type":"(n.)","description":"That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata."},{"word":"Clinopinacoid","type":"(n.)","description":"The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes."},{"word":"Clinorhombic","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic."},{"word":"Clinquant","type":"(a.)","description":"Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery."},{"word":"Clinquant","type":"(n.)","description":"Tinsel; Dutch gold."},{"word":"Clio","type":"(n.)","description":"The Muse who presided over history."},{"word":"Clione","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio."},{"word":"Clipped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clip"},{"word":"Clipping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clip"},{"word":"Clip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embrace, hence; to encompass."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To curtail; to cut short."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(n.)","description":"An embrace."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting; a shearing."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(n.)","description":"The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(n.)","description":"A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(n.)","description":"An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak."},{"word":"Clip","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip."},{"word":"Clipper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin."},{"word":"Clipper","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses."},{"word":"Clipper","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing."},{"word":"Clipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of embracing."},{"word":"Clipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins."},{"word":"Clipping","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings."},{"word":"Clique","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense."},{"word":"Clique","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together."},{"word":"Cliquish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit."},{"word":"Cliquism","type":"(n.)","description":"The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques."},{"word":"Clitellus","type":"(n.)","description":"A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes."},{"word":"Clitoris","type":"(n.)","description":"A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male."},{"word":"Clivers","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cleavers."},{"word":"Clivities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Clivity"},{"word":"Clivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient."},{"word":"Cloacae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cloaca"},{"word":"Cloaca","type":"(n.)","description":"A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome."},{"word":"Cloaca","type":"(n.)","description":"A privy."},{"word":"Cloaca","type":"(n.)","description":"The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes."},{"word":"Cloacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cloaca."},{"word":"Cloak","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women."},{"word":"Cloak","type":"(n.)","description":"That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover."},{"word":"Cloaked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cloak"},{"word":"Cloaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cloak"},{"word":"Cloak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal."},{"word":"Cloakedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a concealed manner."},{"word":"Cloaking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything."},{"word":"Cloaking","type":"(n.)","description":"The material of which of which cloaks are made."},{"word":"Cloakroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time."},{"word":"Clock","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person."},{"word":"Clock","type":"(n.)","description":"A watch, esp. one that strikes."},{"word":"Clock","type":"(n.)","description":"The striking of a clock."},{"word":"Clock","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking."},{"word":"Clock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking."},{"word":"Clock","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To call, as a hen. See Cluck."},{"word":"Clock","type":"(n.)","description":"A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius)."},{"word":"Clocklike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical."},{"word":"Clockwork","type":"(n.)","description":"The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement."},{"word":"Clod","type":"(n.)","description":"A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay."},{"word":"Clod","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf."},{"word":"Clod","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul."},{"word":"Clod","type":"(n.)","description":"A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt"},{"word":"Clod","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef."},{"word":"Clod","type":"(v.i)","description":"To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot."},{"word":"Clod","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pelt with clods."},{"word":"Clod","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw violently; to hurl."},{"word":"Cloddish","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish."},{"word":"Cloddy","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of clods; full of clods."},{"word":"Clodhopper","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude, rustic fellow."},{"word":"Clodhopping","type":"(a.)","description":"Boorish; rude."},{"word":"Clodpate","type":"(n.)","description":"A blockhead; a dolt."},{"word":"Clodpated","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; dull; doltish."},{"word":"Clodpoll","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid fellow; a dolt."},{"word":"Cloff","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight."},{"word":"Clog","type":"(v.)","description":"That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind."},{"word":"Clog","type":"(v.)","description":"A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion."},{"word":"Clog","type":"(v.)","description":"A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine."},{"word":"Clogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clog"},{"word":"Clogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clog"},{"word":"Clog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper."},{"word":"Clog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel."},{"word":"Clog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex."},{"word":"Clog","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter."},{"word":"Clog","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass."},{"word":"Clogginess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being clogged."},{"word":"Clogging","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which clogs."},{"word":"Cloggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Clogging, or having power to clog."},{"word":"Cloisonne","type":"(a.)","description":"Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champleve enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel."},{"word":"Cloister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An inclosed place."},{"word":"Cloister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;"},{"word":"Cloister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college."},{"word":"Cloister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties."},{"word":"Cloistered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cloister"},{"word":"Cloistering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cloister"},{"word":"Cloister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure."},{"word":"Cloisteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Cloistral."},{"word":"Cloistered","type":"(a.)","description":"Dwelling in cloisters; solitary."},{"word":"Cloistered","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with cloisters."},{"word":"Cloisterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse."},{"word":"Cloistral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse."},{"word":"Cloistress","type":"(n.)","description":"A nun."},{"word":"Cloke","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Cloak."},{"word":"Clomb","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Clomben"},{"word":"Clomben","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed)."},{"word":"Clomp","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clamp."},{"word":"Clong","type":"()","description":"imp. of Cling."},{"word":"Clonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an irregular, convulsive motion."},{"word":"Cloom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To close with glutinous matter."},{"word":"Cloop","type":"(n.)","description":"The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle."},{"word":"Closed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Close"},{"word":"Closing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Close"},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door."},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often used with up."},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction."},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight."},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction."},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"Conclusion; cessation; ending; end."},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"A grapple in wrestling."},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence."},{"word":"Close","type":"(n.)","description":"A double bar marking the end."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not inclosed."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; -- often followed by to."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Short; as, to cut grass or hair close."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Intimate; familiar; confidential."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Difficult to obtain; as, money is close."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Parsimonious; stingy."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as, a close translation."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer."},{"word":"Close","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open."},{"word":"Close","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a close manner."},{"word":"Close","type":"(adv.)","description":"Secretly; darkly."},{"word":"Close-banded","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely united."},{"word":"Close-barred","type":"(a.)","description":"Firmly barred or closed."},{"word":"Close-bodied","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment."},{"word":"Close-fights","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters."},{"word":"Closefisted","type":"(a.)","description":"Covetous; niggardly."},{"word":"Closehanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted."},{"word":"Closehauled","type":"(a.)","description":"Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel."},{"word":"Closely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a close manner."},{"word":"Closely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Secretly; privately."},{"word":"Closemouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative."},{"word":"Closen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make close."},{"word":"Closeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being close."},{"word":"Closer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot."},{"word":"Closer","type":"(n.)","description":"A finisher; that which finishes or terminates."},{"word":"Closer","type":"(n.)","description":"The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course."},{"word":"Closereefed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail."},{"word":"Close-stool","type":"(n.)","description":"A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover."},{"word":"Closet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy."},{"word":"Closet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc."},{"word":"Closeting","type":"(imp. & p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Closet"},{"word":"Closet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal."},{"word":"Closet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into a closet for a secret interview."},{"word":"Close-tongued","type":"(a.)","description":"Closemouthed; silent."},{"word":"Closh","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis."},{"word":"Closh","type":"(n.)","description":"The game of ninepins."},{"word":"Closure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink."},{"word":"Closure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed."},{"word":"Closure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which incloses or confines; an inclosure."},{"word":"Closure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A conclusion; an end."},{"word":"Closure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was originally applied to this proceeding."},{"word":"Clot","type":"(n.)","description":"A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum."},{"word":"Clotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clot"},{"word":"Clotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clot"},{"word":"Clot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod."},{"word":"Clot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a slimy mass."},{"word":"Clotbur","type":"(n.)","description":"The burdock."},{"word":"Clotbur","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cocklebur."},{"word":"Clote","type":"(n.)","description":"The common burdock; the clotbur."},{"word":"Cloths","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cloth"},{"word":"Clothes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cloth"},{"word":"Cloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others."},{"word":"Cloth","type":"(n.)","description":"The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes."},{"word":"Cloth","type":"(n.)","description":"The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession."},{"word":"Clothed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clothe"},{"word":"Clad","type":"()","description":"of Clothe"},{"word":"Clothing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clothe"},{"word":"Clothe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress."},{"word":"Clothe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly."},{"word":"Clothe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power."},{"word":"Clothe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wear clothes."},{"word":"Clothes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort."},{"word":"Clothes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The covering of a bed; bedclothes."},{"word":"Clotheshorse","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame to hang clothes on."},{"word":"Clothesline","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry."},{"word":"Clothespin","type":"(n.)","description":"A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line."},{"word":"Clothespress","type":"(n.)","description":"A receptacle for clothes."},{"word":"Clothier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth."},{"word":"Clothier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes."},{"word":"Clothing","type":"(n.)","description":"Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering."},{"word":"Clothing","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of process of making cloth."},{"word":"Clothing","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat."},{"word":"Clothing","type":"(n.)","description":"See Card clothing, under 3d Card."},{"word":"Clothred","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Clottered."},{"word":"Clotpoll","type":"(n.)","description":"See Clodpoll."},{"word":"Clotted","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul."},{"word":"Clotter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To concrete into lumps; to clot."},{"word":"Clotty","type":"(n.)","description":"Full of clots, or clods."},{"word":"Cloture","type":"(n.)","description":"See Closure, 5."},{"word":"Clotweed","type":"(n.)","description":"Cocklebur."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(n.)","description":"A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head."},{"word":"Clouded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cloud"},{"word":"Clouding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cloud"},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn."},{"word":"Cloud","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up."},{"word":"Cloudage","type":"(n.)","description":"Mass of clouds; cloudiness."},{"word":"Cloudberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamaemerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit."},{"word":"Cloud-built","type":"(a.)","description":"Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary."},{"word":"Cloud-burst","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once."},{"word":"Cloud-capped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains."},{"word":"Cloud-compeller","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus."},{"word":"Cloudily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely."},{"word":"Cloudiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being cloudy."},{"word":"Clouding","type":"(n.)","description":"A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing."},{"word":"Clouding","type":"(n.)","description":"A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals."},{"word":"Cloudland","type":"(n.)","description":"Dreamland."},{"word":"Cloudless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a cloud; clear; bright."},{"word":"Cloudlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little cloud."},{"word":"Cloudy","type":"(n.)","description":"Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky."},{"word":"Cloudy","type":"(n.)","description":"Consisting of a cloud or clouds."},{"word":"Cloudy","type":"(n.)","description":"Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful."},{"word":"Cloudy","type":"(n.)","description":"Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark."},{"word":"Cloudy","type":"(n.)","description":"Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster."},{"word":"Cloudy","type":"(n.)","description":"Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble."},{"word":"Clough","type":"(n.)","description":"A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley."},{"word":"Clough","type":"(n.)","description":"A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land."},{"word":"Clough","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance in weighing. See Cloff."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"A swadding cloth."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece; a fragment."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow with the hand."},{"word":"Clouted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clout"},{"word":"Clouting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clout"},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"To join or patch clumsily."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"To give a blow to; to strike."},{"word":"Clout","type":"(n.)","description":"To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole."},{"word":"Clouterly","type":"(n.)","description":"Clumsy; awkward."},{"word":"Clove","type":"(imp.)","description":"Cleft."},{"word":"Clove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove."},{"word":"Clove","type":"(n.)","description":"A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles."},{"word":"Clove","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic."},{"word":"Clove","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds."},{"word":"Cloven","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"from Cleave, v. t."},{"word":"Cloven-footed","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cloven-hoofed"},{"word":"Cloven-hoofed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox."},{"word":"Clover","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense."},{"word":"Clovered","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with growing clover."},{"word":"Clowe-gilofre","type":"(n.)","description":"Spice clove."},{"word":"Clown","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor."},{"word":"Clown","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl."},{"word":"Clown","type":"(n.)","description":"The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc."},{"word":"Clown","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a clown; -- with it."},{"word":"Clownage","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery."},{"word":"Clownery","type":"(n.)","description":"Clownishness."},{"word":"Clownish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward."},{"word":"Clownishness","type":"(n.)","description":"The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior."},{"word":"Cloyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cloy"},{"word":"Cloying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cloy"},{"word":"Cloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog."},{"word":"Cloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit."},{"word":"Cloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To penetrate or pierce; to wound."},{"word":"Cloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spike, as a cannon."},{"word":"Cloy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stroke with a claw."},{"word":"Cloyless","type":"(a.)","description":"That does not cloy."},{"word":"Cloyment","type":"(n.)","description":"Satiety."},{"word":"Club","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel."},{"word":"Club","type":"(n.)","description":"Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure."},{"word":"Club","type":"(n.)","description":"An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members."},{"word":"Club","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund."},{"word":"Clubbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Club"},{"word":"Clubbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Club"},{"word":"Club","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a club."},{"word":"Club","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion."},{"word":"Club","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions."},{"word":"Club","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense."},{"word":"Club","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite."},{"word":"Club","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution."},{"word":"Club","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drift in a current with an anchor out."},{"word":"Clubbable","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable for membership in a club; sociable."},{"word":"Clubbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club."},{"word":"Clubber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who clubs."},{"word":"Clubber","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a club."},{"word":"Clubbish","type":"(a.)","description":"Rude; clownish."},{"word":"Clubbish","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set."},{"word":"Clubbist","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs."},{"word":"Clubfist","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, heavy fist."},{"word":"Clubfist","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse, brutal fellow."},{"word":"Clubfisted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a large fist."},{"word":"Clubfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes."},{"word":"Clubfooted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a clubfoot."},{"word":"Clubhand","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand."},{"word":"Clubhaul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency."},{"word":"Clubhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house occupied by a club."},{"word":"Clubroom","type":"(n.)","description":"The apartment in which a club meets."},{"word":"Club-rush","type":"(n.)","description":"A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush."},{"word":"Club-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects."},{"word":"Clucked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cluck"},{"word":"Clucking","type":"(p pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cluck"},{"word":"Cluck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen."},{"word":"Cluck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens."},{"word":"Cluck","type":"(n.)","description":"The call of a hen to her chickens."},{"word":"Cluck","type":"(n.)","description":"A click. See 3d Click, 2."},{"word":"Clucking","type":"(n.)","description":"The noise or call of a brooding hen."},{"word":"Clue","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew."},{"word":"Clum","type":"(interj.)","description":"Silence; hush."},{"word":"Clumber","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently."},{"word":"Clump","type":"(n.)","description":"An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance."},{"word":"Clump","type":"(n.)","description":"A cluster; a group; a thicket."},{"word":"Clump","type":"(n.)","description":"The compressed clay of coal strata."},{"word":"Clump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group."},{"word":"Clump","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tread clumsily; to clamp."},{"word":"Clumper","type":"(n.)","description":"To form into clumps or masses."},{"word":"Clumps","type":"(n.)","description":"A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two \"clumps\" or groups, the \"clump\" which guesses the word winning the game."},{"word":"Clumpy","type":"(n.)","description":"Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless."},{"word":"Clumsily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily."},{"word":"Clumsiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being clumsy."},{"word":"Clumsy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Stiff or benumbed, as with cold."},{"word":"Clumsy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse."},{"word":"Clunch","type":"(n.)","description":"Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3."},{"word":"Clunch","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the hard beds of the lower chalk."},{"word":"Clung","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Cling."},{"word":"Clung","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Wasted away; shrunken."},{"word":"Cluniac","type":"(n.)","description":"A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a."},{"word":"Cluniacensian","type":"(a.)","description":"Cluniac."},{"word":"Clupeoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Herring family."},{"word":"Cluster","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch."},{"word":"Cluster","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands."},{"word":"Cluster","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob."},{"word":"Clustered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cluster"},{"word":"Clustering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cluster"},{"word":"Cluster","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters."},{"word":"Cluster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body."},{"word":"Clusteringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In clusters."},{"word":"Clustery","type":"(n.)","description":"Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters."},{"word":"Clutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp."},{"word":"Clutch","type":"(n.)","description":"The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary."},{"word":"Clutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure."},{"word":"Clutch","type":"(n.)","description":"Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle."},{"word":"Clutch","type":"(n.)","description":"The nest complement of eggs of a bird."},{"word":"Clutched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clutch"},{"word":"Clutching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clutch"},{"word":"Clutch","type":"(n.)","description":"To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power."},{"word":"Clutch","type":"(n.)","description":"To close tightly; to clinch."},{"word":"Clutch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at."},{"word":"Clutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter."},{"word":"Clutter","type":"(n.)","description":"Clatter; confused noise."},{"word":"Cluttered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Clutter"},{"word":"Cluttering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Clutter"},{"word":"Clutter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room."},{"word":"Clutter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a confused noise; to bustle."},{"word":"Clutter","type":"(n.)","description":"To clot or coagulate, as blood."},{"word":"Clypeastroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side."},{"word":"Clypeate","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate."},{"word":"Clypeate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell."},{"word":"Clypeiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shield-shaped; clypeate."},{"word":"Clypei","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Clypeus"},{"word":"Clypeus","type":"(n.)","description":"The frontal plate of the head of an insect."},{"word":"Clysmian","type":"(a.)","description":"Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes."},{"word":"Clysmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Washing; cleansing."},{"word":"Clyster","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema."},{"word":"Cnemial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the shin bone."},{"word":"Cnidae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cnida"},{"word":"Cnida","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell."},{"word":"Cnidaria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata."},{"word":"Cnidoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidae."},{"word":"Cnidocil","type":"(n.)","description":"The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast."},{"word":"Co-","type":"()","description":"A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-."},{"word":"Coacervate","type":"(a.)","description":"Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped."},{"word":"Coacervate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heap up; to pile."},{"word":"Coacervation","type":"(n.)","description":"A heaping together."},{"word":"Coach","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver."},{"word":"Coach","type":"(n.)","description":"A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race."},{"word":"Coach","type":"(n.)","description":"A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain."},{"word":"Coach","type":"(n.)","description":"A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car."},{"word":"Coached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coach"},{"word":"Coaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coach"},{"word":"Coach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey in a coach."},{"word":"Coach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction."},{"word":"Coach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with"},{"word":"Coachbox","type":"()","description":"The seat of a coachman."},{"word":"Coachdog","type":"()","description":"One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog."},{"word":"Coachee","type":"(n.)","description":"A coachman"},{"word":"Coachfellow","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade."},{"word":"Coachmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coachman"},{"word":"Coachman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage."},{"word":"Coachman","type":"(n.)","description":"A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin."},{"word":"Coachmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"Skill in driving a coach."},{"word":"Coachwhip","type":"()","description":"A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis)."},{"word":"Coact","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force; to compel; to drive."},{"word":"Coact","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act together; to work in concert; to unite."},{"word":"Coaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling."},{"word":"Coactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive."},{"word":"Coactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting in concurrence; united in action."},{"word":"Coactively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a coactive manner."},{"word":"Coactivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unity of action."},{"word":"Coadaptation","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual adaption."},{"word":"Coadapted","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth."},{"word":"Coadjument","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual help; cooperation."},{"word":"Coadjust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjust by mutual adaptations."},{"word":"Coadjustment","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual adjustment."},{"word":"Coadjutant","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutually assisting or operating; helping."},{"word":"Coadjutant","type":"(n.)","description":"An assistant."},{"word":"Coadjuting","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutually assisting."},{"word":"Coadjutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant."},{"word":"Coadjutor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker."},{"word":"Coadjutor","type":"(n.)","description":"The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice."},{"word":"Coadjutorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance."},{"word":"Coadjutress","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coadjutrix"},{"word":"Coadjutrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A female coadjutor or assistant."},{"word":"Coadjuvancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint help; cooperation."},{"word":"Coadjuvant","type":"(a.)","description":"Cooperating."},{"word":"Coadjuvant","type":"(n.)","description":"An adjuvant."},{"word":"Coadunate","type":"(a.)","description":"United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf."},{"word":"Coadunation","type":"(n.)","description":"Union, as in one body or mass; unity."},{"word":"Coadunition","type":"(n.)","description":"Coadunation."},{"word":"Coadventure","type":"(n.)","description":"An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers."},{"word":"Coadventure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To share in a venture."},{"word":"Coadventurer","type":"(n.)","description":"A fellow adventurer."},{"word":"Coafforest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into, or add to, a forest."},{"word":"Coag","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coak, a kind of tenon."},{"word":"Coagency","type":"(n.)","description":"Agency in common; joint agency or agent."},{"word":"Coagent","type":"(n.)","description":"An associate in an act; a coworker."},{"word":"Coagment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join together."},{"word":"Coagmentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union."},{"word":"Coagulability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated."},{"word":"Coagulable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being coagulated."},{"word":"Coagulant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which produces coagulation."},{"word":"Coagulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Coagulated."},{"word":"Coagulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coagulate"},{"word":"Coagulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coagulate"},{"word":"Coagulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg."},{"word":"Coagulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undergo coagulation."},{"word":"Coagulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled."},{"word":"Coagulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification."},{"word":"Coagulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance or body formed by coagulation."},{"word":"Coagulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent."},{"word":"Coagulator","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes coagulation."},{"word":"Coagulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects."},{"word":"Coagula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coagulum"},{"word":"Coagulum","type":"(a.)","description":"The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood."},{"word":"Coaita","type":"(n.)","description":"The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Coak","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coke, n."},{"word":"Coak","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers."},{"word":"Coak","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave."},{"word":"Coak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces."},{"word":"Coal","type":"(n.)","description":"A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal."},{"word":"Coal","type":"(n.)","description":"A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter."},{"word":"Coaled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coal"},{"word":"Coaling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coal"},{"word":"Coal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burn to charcoal; to char."},{"word":"Coal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark or delineate with charcoal."},{"word":"Coal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer."},{"word":"Coal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton."},{"word":"Coal-black","type":"(a.)","description":"As black as coal; jet black; very black."},{"word":"Coalery","type":"(n.)","description":"See Colliery."},{"word":"Coalesced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coalesce"},{"word":"Coalescing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coalesce"},{"word":"Coalesce","type":"(n.)","description":"To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce."},{"word":"Coalesce","type":"(n.)","description":"To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce."},{"word":"Coalescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion."},{"word":"Coalescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting."},{"word":"Coalfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock."},{"word":"Coalfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The beshow or candlefish of Alaska."},{"word":"Coalfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The cobia."},{"word":"Coalgoose","type":"(n.)","description":"The cormorant; -- so called from its black color."},{"word":"Coalite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite or coalesce."},{"word":"Coalite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to unite or coalesce."},{"word":"Coalition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms."},{"word":"Coalition","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests."},{"word":"Coalitioner","type":"(n.)","description":"A coalitionist."},{"word":"Coalitionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition."},{"word":"Co-allies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Co-ally"},{"word":"Co-ally","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint ally."},{"word":"Coal-meter","type":"(n.)","description":"A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter."},{"word":"Coalmouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit."},{"word":"Coalpit","type":"(n.)","description":"A pit where coal is dug."},{"word":"Coalpit","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where charcoal is made."},{"word":"Coal","type":"()","description":"A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series."},{"word":"Coal-whipper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship."},{"word":"Coal","type":"()","description":"A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal."},{"word":"Coaly","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal."},{"word":"Coamings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges."},{"word":"Coannex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To annex with something else."},{"word":"Coaptation","type":"(n.)","description":"The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint."},{"word":"Coarct","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Coarctate"},{"word":"Coarctate","type":"(a.)","description":"To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely."},{"word":"Coarctate","type":"(a.)","description":"To restrain; to confine."},{"word":"Coarctate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction."},{"word":"Coarctation","type":"(n.)","description":"Confinement to a narrow space."},{"word":"Coarctation","type":"(n.)","description":"Pressure; that which presses."},{"word":"Coarctation","type":"(n.)","description":"A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice."},{"word":"Coarse","type":"(superl.)","description":"Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread."},{"word":"Coarse","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language."},{"word":"Coarse-grained","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement."},{"word":"Coarsely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly."},{"word":"Coarsen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character."},{"word":"Coarseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language."},{"word":"Coarticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The union or articulation of bones to form a joint."},{"word":"Co-assessor","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint assessor."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The side of a thing."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The seashore, or land near it."},{"word":"Coasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coast"},{"word":"Coasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coast"},{"word":"Coast","type":"(n.)","description":"To draw or keep near; to approach."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(n.)","description":"To sail by or near the shore."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(n.)","description":"To sail from port to port in the same country."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(n.)","description":"To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of."},{"word":"Coast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conduct along a coast or river bank."},{"word":"Coastal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a coast."},{"word":"Coaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade."},{"word":"Coaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sails near the shore."},{"word":"Coasting","type":"(a.)","description":"Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast."},{"word":"Coasting","type":"(n.)","description":"A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade."},{"word":"Coasting","type":"(n.)","description":"Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice."},{"word":"Coastwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Coastways"},{"word":"Coastways","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of, or along, the coast."},{"word":"Coat","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men."},{"word":"Coat","type":"(n.)","description":"A petticoat."},{"word":"Coat","type":"(n.)","description":"The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth."},{"word":"Coat","type":"(n.)","description":"An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek."},{"word":"Coat","type":"(n.)","description":"A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish."},{"word":"Coat","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Coat of arms. See below."},{"word":"Coat","type":"(n.)","description":"A coat card. See below."},{"word":"Coated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coat"},{"word":"Coating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coat"},{"word":"Coat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a coat or outer garment."},{"word":"Coat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling."},{"word":"Coatee","type":"(n.)","description":"A coat with short flaps."},{"word":"Coati","type":"(n.)","description":"A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose."},{"word":"Coating","type":"(n.)","description":"A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial."},{"word":"Coating","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings."},{"word":"Coatless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat."},{"word":"Coaxed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coax"},{"word":"Coaxing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coax"},{"word":"Coax","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe."},{"word":"Coax","type":"(n.)","description":"A simpleton; a dupe."},{"word":"Coaxation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of croaking."},{"word":"Coaxer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who coaxes."},{"word":"Coaxingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a coaxing manner; by coaxing."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"The top or head of anything."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A young herring."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish; -- also called miller's thumb."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus)."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"Clay mixed with straw."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(n.)","description":"A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d."},{"word":"Cobbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cob"},{"word":"Cobbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cob"},{"word":"Cob","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike"},{"word":"Cob","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions."},{"word":"Cob","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like."},{"word":"Cobaea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers."},{"word":"Cobalt","type":"(n.)","description":"A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co."},{"word":"Cobalt","type":"(n.)","description":"A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison."},{"word":"Cobaltic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide."},{"word":"Cobaltiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing cobalt."},{"word":"Cobaltine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cobaltite"},{"word":"Cobaltite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt."},{"word":"Cobaltous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence."},{"word":"Cobbing","type":"(a.)","description":"Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2."},{"word":"Cobble","type":"(n.)","description":"A fishing boat. See Coble."},{"word":"Cobble","type":"(n.)","description":"A cobblestone."},{"word":"Cobble","type":"(n.)","description":"Cob coal. See under Cob."},{"word":"Cobbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cobble"},{"word":"Cobbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cobble"},{"word":"Cobble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes."},{"word":"Cobble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clumsily."},{"word":"Cobble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pave with cobblestones."},{"word":"Cobbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A mender of shoes."},{"word":"Cobbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A clumsy workman."},{"word":"Cobbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry."},{"word":"Cobblestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes."},{"word":"Cobby","type":"(n.)","description":"Headstrong; obstinate."},{"word":"Cobby","type":"(n.)","description":"Stout; hearty; lively."},{"word":"Cobelligerent","type":"(a.)","description":"Carrying on war in conjunction with another power."},{"word":"Cobelligerent","type":"(n.)","description":"A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another."},{"word":"Cobia","type":"(n.)","description":"An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish."},{"word":"Cobiron","type":"(n.)","description":"An andiron with a knob at the top."},{"word":"Cobishop","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint or coadjutant bishop."},{"word":"Coble","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England."},{"word":"Cobnut","type":"(n.)","description":"A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut."},{"word":"Cobnut","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played by children with nuts."},{"word":"Coboose","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caboose."},{"word":"Cobourg","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses."},{"word":"Cobra","type":"(n.)","description":"See Copra."},{"word":"Cobra","type":"(n.)","description":"The cobra de capello."},{"word":"Cobra","type":"()","description":"The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.Naja --"},{"word":"Cobstone","type":"(n.)","description":"Cobblestone."},{"word":"Cobswan","type":"(n.)","description":"A large swan."},{"word":"Cobwall","type":"(n.)","description":"A wall made of clay mixed with straw."},{"word":"Cobweb","type":"(n.)","description":"The network spread by a spider to catch its prey."},{"word":"Cobweb","type":"(n.)","description":"A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary."},{"word":"Cobweb","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish."},{"word":"Cobweb","type":"(n.)","description":"The European spotted flycatcher."},{"word":"Cobwebbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in cobwebs."},{"word":"Cobwebby","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb."},{"word":"Cobwork","type":"(a.)","description":"Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater."},{"word":"Coca","type":"(n.)","description":"The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon."},{"word":"Cocagne","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary country of idleness and luxury."},{"word":"Cocagne","type":"(n.)","description":"The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs."},{"word":"Cocaine","type":"(n.)","description":"A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain."},{"word":"Cocciferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants."},{"word":"Coccinella","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvae feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs."},{"word":"Coccobacteria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coccobacterium"},{"word":"Coccobacterium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter."},{"word":"Coccolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color."},{"word":"Coccolith","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud."},{"word":"Coccosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths."},{"word":"Coccosteus","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles."},{"word":"Cocculus","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant."},{"word":"Cocci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coccus"},{"word":"Coccus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit."},{"word":"Coccus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti)."},{"word":"Coccus","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule."},{"word":"Coccygeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebrae."},{"word":"Coccygeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Coccygeal."},{"word":"Coccyges","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coccyx"},{"word":"Coccyx","type":"(n.)","description":"The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated."},{"word":"Cochineal","type":"()","description":"A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera."},{"word":"Cochineal","type":"()","description":"A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it."},{"word":"Cochin","type":"()","description":"A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam)."},{"word":"Cochlea","type":"(n.)","description":"An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear."},{"word":"Cochlear","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cochlea."},{"word":"Cochleare","type":"(n.)","description":"A spoon."},{"word":"Cochleare","type":"(n.)","description":"A spoonful."},{"word":"Cocleariform","type":"(a.)","description":"Spoon-shaped."},{"word":"Cochleary","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Cochleate."},{"word":"Cochleate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cochleated"},{"word":"Cochleated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief man; a leader or master."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"A faucet or valve."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"The style of gnomon of a dial."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"The indicator of a balance."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch."},{"word":"Cocked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cock"},{"word":"Cocking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cock"},{"word":"Cock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set erect; to turn up."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"The notch of an arrow or crossbow."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"The hammer in the lock of a firearm."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small concial pile of hay."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into cocks or heaps, as hay."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small boat."},{"word":"Cock","type":"(n.)","description":"A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths."},{"word":"Cockade","type":"(n.)","description":"A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer."},{"word":"Cockaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a cockade."},{"word":"Cock-a-hoop","type":"(a.)","description":"Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially."},{"word":"Cockal","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice"},{"word":"Cockal","type":"(n.)","description":"The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone."},{"word":"Cockaleekie","type":"(n.)","description":"A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes."},{"word":"Cockamaroo","type":"(n.)","description":"The Russian variety of bagatelle."},{"word":"Cockateel","type":"(n.)","description":"An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novae-Hollandiae); -- so called from its note."},{"word":"Cockatoo","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, / Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus."},{"word":"Cockatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk."},{"word":"Cockatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent."},{"word":"Cockatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified."},{"word":"Cockatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"Any venomous or deadly thing."},{"word":"Cockbill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning."},{"word":"Cockboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore."},{"word":"Cock-brained","type":"(a.)","description":"Giddy; rash."},{"word":"Cockchafer","type":"(n.)","description":"A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle."},{"word":"Cockcrow","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cockcrowing"},{"word":"Cockcrowing","type":"(n.)","description":"The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning."},{"word":"Cockered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cocker"},{"word":"Cockering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cocker"},{"word":"Cocker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper."},{"word":"Cocker","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to cockfighting."},{"word":"Cocker","type":"(n.)","description":"A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc."},{"word":"Cocker","type":"(n.)","description":"A rustic high shoe or half-boots."},{"word":"Cockerel","type":"(n.)","description":"A young cock."},{"word":"Cocket","type":"(n.)","description":"Pert; saucy."},{"word":"Cocket","type":"(n.)","description":"A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty."},{"word":"Cocket","type":"(n.)","description":"An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered."},{"word":"Cocket","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure for bread."},{"word":"Cockeye","type":"(n.)","description":"A squinting eye."},{"word":"Cockeye","type":"(n.)","description":"The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead."},{"word":"Cockfight","type":"(n.)","description":"A match or contest of gamecocks."},{"word":"Cockfighting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight."},{"word":"Cockfighting","type":"(a.)","description":"Addicted to cockfighting."},{"word":"Cockhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced."},{"word":"Cockhorse","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's rocking-horse."},{"word":"Cockhorse","type":"(n.)","description":"A high or tall horse."},{"word":"Cockhorse","type":"(a.)","description":"Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse."},{"word":"Cockhorse","type":"(a.)","description":"Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart."},{"word":"Cockieleekie","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cockaleekie."},{"word":"Cocking","type":"(n.)","description":"Cockfighting."},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera."},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(n.)","description":"A cockleshell."},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(n.)","description":"The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners."},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(n.)","description":"The fire chamber of a furnace."},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(n.)","description":"A hop-drying kiln; an oast."},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(n.)","description":"The dome of a heating furnace."},{"word":"Cockled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cockle"},{"word":"Cockling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cockle"},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting."},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage)."},{"word":"Cockle","type":"(n.)","description":"The Lotium, or darnel."},{"word":"Cocklebur","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur."},{"word":"Cockled","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed in a shell."},{"word":"Cockled","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrinkled; puckered."},{"word":"Cockler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes and sells cockles."},{"word":"Cockleshell","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the shells or valves of a cockle."},{"word":"Cockleshell","type":"(n.)","description":"A light boat."},{"word":"Cockloft","type":"(n.)","description":"An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building."},{"word":"Cockmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who breeds gamecocks."},{"word":"Cockmatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A cockfight."},{"word":"Cockneys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cockney"},{"word":"Cockney","type":"(n.)","description":"An effeminate person; a spoilt child."},{"word":"Cockney","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously."},{"word":"Cockney","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to, or like, cockneys."},{"word":"Cockneydom","type":"(n.)","description":"The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively."},{"word":"Cockneyfy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form with the manners or character of a cockney."},{"word":"Cockneyish","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys."},{"word":"Cockneyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney."},{"word":"Cock-padle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Lumpfish."},{"word":"Cockpit","type":"(n.)","description":"A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights."},{"word":"Cockpit","type":"(n.)","description":"The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace."},{"word":"Cockpit","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement."},{"word":"Cockpit","type":"(n.)","description":"In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin."},{"word":"Cockroach","type":"(n.)","description":"An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera."},{"word":"Cockscomb","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coxcomb."},{"word":"Cockscomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli."},{"word":"Cockshead","type":"(n.)","description":"A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods."},{"word":"Cockshut","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of net to catch woodcock."},{"word":"Cockshy","type":"(n.)","description":"A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in \"shying\" or throwing cudgels at live cocks."},{"word":"Cockshy","type":"(n.)","description":"An object at which stones are flung."},{"word":"Cockspur","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn."},{"word":"Cocksure","type":"(a.)","description":"Perfectly safe."},{"word":"Cocksure","type":"(a.)","description":"Quite certain."},{"word":"Cockswain","type":"(n.)","description":"The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew."},{"word":"Cocktail","type":"(n.)","description":"A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened."},{"word":"Cocktail","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins."},{"word":"Cocktail","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward."},{"word":"Cocktail","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail."},{"word":"Cockup","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti."},{"word":"Cockweed","type":"(n.)","description":"Peppergrass."},{"word":"Cocky","type":"(a.)","description":"Pert."},{"word":"Coco","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Coco palm"},{"word":"Coco","type":"()","description":"See Cocoa."},{"word":"Cocoa","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Cocoa palm"},{"word":"Cocoa","type":"()","description":"A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree."},{"word":"Cocoa","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells."},{"word":"Cocoanut","type":"(n.)","description":"The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil."},{"word":"Cocobolo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cocobolas"},{"word":"Cocobolas","type":"(n.)","description":"A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles."},{"word":"Cocoon","type":"(n.)","description":"An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared."},{"word":"Cocoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa."},{"word":"Cocoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs."},{"word":"Cocoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms."},{"word":"Cocoonery","type":"(n.)","description":"A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons."},{"word":"Coctible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being cooked."},{"word":"Coctile","type":"(a.)","description":"Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick."},{"word":"Coction","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of boiling."},{"word":"Coction","type":"(n.)","description":"Digestion."},{"word":"Coction","type":"(n.)","description":"The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination."},{"word":"Cocus","type":"()","description":"A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments."},{"word":"Cod","type":"(n.)","description":"A husk; a pod; as, a peascod."},{"word":"Cod","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bag or pouch."},{"word":"Cod","type":"(n.)","description":"The scrotum."},{"word":"Cod","type":"(n.)","description":"A pillow or cushion."},{"word":"Cod","type":"(n.)","description":"An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities."},{"word":"Coda","type":"(n.)","description":"A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition."},{"word":"Codder","type":"(n.)","description":"A gatherer of cods or peas."},{"word":"Codding","type":"(a.)","description":"Lustful."},{"word":"Coddled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coddle"},{"word":"Coddling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coddle"},{"word":"Coddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To parboil, or soften by boiling."},{"word":"Coddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper."},{"word":"Coddymoddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A gull in the plumage of its first year."},{"word":"Code","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest."},{"word":"Code","type":"(n.)","description":"Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals."},{"word":"Codefendant","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint defendant."},{"word":"Codeine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia."},{"word":"Codetta","type":"(n.)","description":"A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda."},{"word":"Codices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Codex"},{"word":"Codex","type":"(n.)","description":"A book; a manuscript."},{"word":"Codex","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection or digest of laws; a code."},{"word":"Codex","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament."},{"word":"Codex","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of canons."},{"word":"Codfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fish. Same as Cod."},{"word":"Codger","type":"(n.)","description":"A miser or mean person."},{"word":"Codger","type":"(n.)","description":"A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation."},{"word":"Codical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a codex, or a code."},{"word":"Codicil","type":"(n.)","description":"A clause added to a will."},{"word":"Codicillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of a codicil."},{"word":"Codification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code."},{"word":"Codifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who codifies."},{"word":"Codified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Codify"},{"word":"Codifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Codify"},{"word":"Codify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a code, as laws."},{"word":"Codilla","type":"(n.)","description":"The coarse tow of flax and hemp."},{"word":"Codille","type":"(n.)","description":"A term at omber, signifying that the game is won."},{"word":"Codist","type":"(n.)","description":"A codifier; a maker of codes."},{"word":"Codle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Coddle."},{"word":"Codlin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Codling"},{"word":"Codling","type":"(n.)","description":"An apple fit to stew or coddle."},{"word":"Codling","type":"(n.)","description":"An immature apple."},{"word":"Codling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young cod; also, a hake."},{"word":"Cod","type":"(n.)","description":"The liver of the common cod and allied species."},{"word":"Codpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous."},{"word":"Coecilian","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caecilian."},{"word":"Coeducation","type":"(n.)","description":"An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races."},{"word":"Coefficacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint efficacy."},{"word":"Coefficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint efficiency; cooperation."},{"word":"Coefficient","type":"(a.)","description":"Cooperating; acting together to produce an effect."},{"word":"Coefficient","type":"(n.)","description":"That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect."},{"word":"Coefficient","type":"(n.)","description":"A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x."},{"word":"Coefficient","type":"(n.)","description":"A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction."},{"word":"Coehorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men."},{"word":"Coelacanth","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes."},{"word":"Coelentera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Coelenterata"},{"word":"Coelenterata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges."},{"word":"Coelenterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Coelentera."},{"word":"Coelenterate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Coelentera."},{"word":"Coelia","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity."},{"word":"Coeliac","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Celiac"},{"word":"Celiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen."},{"word":"Coelodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hollow teeth; -- said of a group lizards."},{"word":"Coelodont","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of lizards having hollow teeth."},{"word":"Coelospermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed."},{"word":"Coelum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Body cavity, under Body."},{"word":"Coemption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity."},{"word":"Coendoo","type":"(n.)","description":"The Brazilian porcupine (Cercolades, / Sphingurus, prehensiles), remarkable for its prehensile tail."},{"word":"Coenenchym","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coenenchyma"},{"word":"Coenenchyma","type":"(n.)","description":"The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral."},{"word":"Coenesthesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system."},{"word":"Coenobite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cenobite."},{"word":"Coenoecium","type":"(n.)","description":"The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan."},{"word":"Coenogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies."},{"word":"Coenosarc","type":"(n.)","description":"The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea."},{"word":"Coenurus","type":"(n.)","description":"The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid."},{"word":"Coequal","type":"(a.)","description":"Being on an equality in rank or power."},{"word":"Coequal","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is on an equality with another."},{"word":"Coequality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power."},{"word":"Coequally","type":"(adv.)","description":"With coequality."},{"word":"Coerced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coerce"},{"word":"Coercing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coerce"},{"word":"Coerce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb."},{"word":"Coerce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate."},{"word":"Coerce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience."},{"word":"Coercible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being coerced."},{"word":"Coercion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of coercing."},{"word":"Coercion","type":"(n.)","description":"The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. \"Coactus volui\" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion."},{"word":"Coercitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Coercive."},{"word":"Coercive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain."},{"word":"Coerulignone","type":"(n.)","description":"A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret."},{"word":"Coessential","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the same essence."},{"word":"Coessentiality","type":"(n.)","description":"Participation of the same essence."},{"word":"Coestablishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint establishment."},{"word":"Coestate","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint estate."},{"word":"Coetanean","type":"(n.)","description":"A person coetaneous with another; a contemporary."},{"word":"Coetaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous."},{"word":"Coeternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Equally eternal."},{"word":"Coeternity","type":"(n.)","description":"Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity."},{"word":"Coeval","type":"(n.)","description":"Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with."},{"word":"Coeval","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the same age; a contemporary."},{"word":"Coevous","type":"(a.)","description":"Coeval"},{"word":"Coexecutor","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint executor."},{"word":"Coexecutrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint executrix."},{"word":"Coexisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coexist"},{"word":"Coexisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coexist"},{"word":"Coexist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with."},{"word":"Coexistence","type":"(n.)","description":"Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence."},{"word":"Coexistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing at the same time with another."},{"word":"Coexistent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which coexists with another."},{"word":"Coexisting","type":"(a.)","description":"Coexistent."},{"word":"Coextended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coextend"},{"word":"Coextending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coextend"},{"word":"Coextend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree."},{"word":"Coextension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended."},{"word":"Coextensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive."},{"word":"Coffee","type":"(n.)","description":"The \"beans\" or \"berries\" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America."},{"word":"Coffee","type":"(n.)","description":"The coffee tree."},{"word":"Coffee","type":"(n.)","description":"The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry."},{"word":"Coffeehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation."},{"word":"Coffeeman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps a coffeehouse."},{"word":"Coffeepot","type":"(n.)","description":"A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking."},{"word":"Coffeeroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained."},{"word":"Coffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables."},{"word":"Coffer","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Coffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson."},{"word":"Coffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire."},{"word":"Coffer","type":"(n.)","description":"The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam."},{"word":"Coffer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a coffer."},{"word":"Coffer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering."},{"word":"Coffer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers."},{"word":"Cofferdam","type":"(n.)","description":"A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc."},{"word":"Cofferer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps treasures in a coffer."},{"word":"Cofferwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Rubblework faced with stone."},{"word":"Coffin","type":"(n.)","description":"The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial."},{"word":"Coffin","type":"(n.)","description":"A basket."},{"word":"Coffin","type":"(n.)","description":"A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie."},{"word":"Coffin","type":"(n.)","description":"A conical paper bag, used by grocers."},{"word":"Coffin","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone."},{"word":"Coffined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coffin"},{"word":"Coffining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coffin"},{"word":"Coffin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in, or as in, a coffin."},{"word":"Coffinless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no coffin."},{"word":"Coffle","type":"(n.)","description":"A gang of negro slaves being driven to market."},{"word":"Cogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cog"},{"word":"Cogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cog"},{"word":"Cog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(n.)","description":"A trick or deception; a falsehood."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(n.)","description":"A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a cog or cogs."},{"word":"Cog","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fishing boat."},{"word":"Cogency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force."},{"word":"Cogenial","type":"(a.)","description":"Congenial."},{"word":"Cogent","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful."},{"word":"Cogent","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted."},{"word":"Cogently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincingly; conclusively."},{"word":"Cogger","type":"(n.)","description":"A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper."},{"word":"Coggery","type":"(n.)","description":"Trick; deception."},{"word":"Coggle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fishing boat."},{"word":"Coggle","type":"(n.)","description":"A cobblestone."},{"word":"Cogitability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness."},{"word":"Cogitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being brought before the mind as a thought or idea; conceivable; thinkable."},{"word":"Cogitabund","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of thought; thoughtful."},{"word":"Cogitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cogitate"},{"word":"Cogitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cogitate"},{"word":"Cogitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in continuous thought; to think."},{"word":"Cogitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To think over; to plan."},{"word":"Cogitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation."},{"word":"Cogitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating."},{"word":"Cogitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to thought or contemplation."},{"word":"Cogman","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth."},{"word":"Cognac","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac."},{"word":"Cognate","type":"(a.)","description":"Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side."},{"word":"Cognate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language."},{"word":"Cognate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is related to another on the female side."},{"word":"Cognate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates."},{"word":"Cognateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being cognate."},{"word":"Cognati","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Relatives by the mother's side."},{"word":"Cognation","type":"(n.)","description":"Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred."},{"word":"Cognation","type":"(n.)","description":"Participation of the same nature."},{"word":"Cognation","type":"(n.)","description":"That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation."},{"word":"Cognatus","type":"(n.)","description":"A person connected through cognation."},{"word":"Cognisor","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cognisee"},{"word":"Cognisee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cognizor, Cognizee."},{"word":"Cognition","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of knowing; knowledge; perception."},{"word":"Cognition","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is known."},{"word":"Cognitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power."},{"word":"Cognizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes."},{"word":"Cognizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to be a subject of judicial investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined."},{"word":"Cognizably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cognizable manner."},{"word":"Cognizance","type":"(n.)","description":"Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation."},{"word":"Cognizance","type":"(n.)","description":"Recollection; recognition."},{"word":"Cognizance","type":"(n.)","description":"Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies."},{"word":"Cognizance","type":"(n.)","description":"The hearing a matter judicially."},{"word":"Cognizance","type":"(n.)","description":"An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done."},{"word":"Cognizance","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another."},{"word":"Cognizance","type":"(n.)","description":"The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known."},{"word":"Cognizant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having cognizance or knowledge. (of)."},{"word":"Cognize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To know or perceive; to recognize."},{"word":"Cognizee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged."},{"word":"Cognizor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant."},{"word":"Cognomen","type":"(n.)","description":"The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family."},{"word":"Cognomen","type":"(n.)","description":"A surname."},{"word":"Cognominal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname."},{"word":"Cognominal","type":"(n.)","description":"One bearing the same name; a namesake."},{"word":"Cognomination","type":"(n.)","description":"A cognomen or surname."},{"word":"Cognoscence","type":"(n.)","description":"Cognizance."},{"word":"Cognoscenti","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cognoscente"},{"word":"Cognoscente","type":"(n.)","description":"A connoisseur."},{"word":"Cognoscibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cognoscible."},{"word":"Cognoscible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being known."},{"word":"Cognoscible","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to judicial investigation."},{"word":"Cognoscitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of knowing."},{"word":"Cognovit","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just."},{"word":"Coguardian","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint guardian."},{"word":"Cogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wooden vessel; a pail."},{"word":"Cogware","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century."},{"word":"Cogwheel","type":"(n.)","description":"A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing."},{"word":"Cohabited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cohabit"},{"word":"Cohabiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cohabit"},{"word":"Cohabit","type":"(v.)","description":"To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country."},{"word":"Cohabit","type":"(v.)","description":"To dwell or live together as husband and wife."},{"word":"Cohabitant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country."},{"word":"Cohabitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another."},{"word":"Cohabitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship."},{"word":"Cohabiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A cohabitant."},{"word":"Coheir","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance."},{"word":"Coheiress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress."},{"word":"Coheirship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a coheir."},{"word":"Coherald","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint herald."},{"word":"Cohered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cohere"},{"word":"Cohering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cohere"},{"word":"Cohere","type":"(a.)","description":"To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass."},{"word":"Cohere","type":"(a.)","description":"To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent."},{"word":"Cohere","type":"(a.)","description":"To suit; to agree; to fit."},{"word":"Coherence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coherency"},{"word":"Coherency","type":"(n.)","description":"A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion."},{"word":"Coherency","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness."},{"word":"Coherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid."},{"word":"Coherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse."},{"word":"Coherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker."},{"word":"Coherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant."},{"word":"Coherently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a coherent manner."},{"word":"Cohesibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being cohesible."},{"word":"Cohesible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of cohesion."},{"word":"Cohesion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of sticking together; close union."},{"word":"Cohesion","type":"(n.)","description":"That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces."},{"word":"Cohesion","type":"(n.)","description":"Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas."},{"word":"Cohesive","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force."},{"word":"Cohesive","type":"(a.)","description":"Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay."},{"word":"Cohibited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cohibit"},{"word":"Cohibiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cohibit"},{"word":"Cohibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restrain."},{"word":"Cohibition","type":"(n.)","description":"Hindrance; restraint."},{"word":"Cohobated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cohobate"},{"word":"Cohobating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cohobate"},{"word":"Cohobate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel."},{"word":"Cohobation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of cohobating."},{"word":"Cohorn","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coehorn."},{"word":"Cohort","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion."},{"word":"Cohort","type":"(n.)","description":"Any band or body of warriors."},{"word":"Cohort","type":"(n.)","description":"A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class."},{"word":"Cohosh","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family."},{"word":"Coif","type":"(n.)","description":"A cap."},{"word":"Coif","type":"(n.)","description":"A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape."},{"word":"Coif","type":"(n.)","description":"An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England."},{"word":"Coif","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif."},{"word":"Coifed","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a coif."},{"word":"Coiffure","type":"(n.)","description":"A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair."},{"word":"Coigne","type":"(n.)","description":"A quoin."},{"word":"Coigne","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coigny"},{"word":"Coigny","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody."},{"word":"Coiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coil"},{"word":"Coiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coil"},{"word":"Coil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing."},{"word":"Coil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils."},{"word":"Coil","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around."},{"word":"Coil","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound."},{"word":"Coil","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity."},{"word":"Coil","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus."},{"word":"Coil","type":"(n.)","description":"A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion."},{"word":"Coilon","type":"(n.)","description":"A testicle."},{"word":"Coin","type":"(n.)","description":"A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin."},{"word":"Coin","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense."},{"word":"Coin","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves for payment or recompense."},{"word":"Coined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coin"},{"word":"Coining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coin"},{"word":"Coin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal."},{"word":"Coin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word."},{"word":"Coin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acquire rapidly, as money; to make."},{"word":"Coin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To manufacture counterfeit money."},{"word":"Coinage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or process of converting metal into money."},{"word":"Coinage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place."},{"word":"Coinage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The cost or expense of coining money."},{"word":"Coinage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged."},{"word":"Coincided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coincide"},{"word":"Coinciding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coincide"},{"word":"Coincide","type":"(n.)","description":"To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other."},{"word":"Coincide","type":"(n.)","description":"To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America."},{"word":"Coincide","type":"(n.)","description":"To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide."},{"word":"Coincidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc."},{"word":"Coincidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson."},{"word":"Coincidence","type":"(n.)","description":"Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement."},{"word":"Coincibency","type":"(n.)","description":"Coincidence."},{"word":"Coincident","type":"(a.)","description":"Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Coincident","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence."},{"word":"Coincidental","type":"(a.)","description":"Coincident."},{"word":"Coincidently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With coincidence."},{"word":"Coincider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who coincides with another in an opinion."},{"word":"Coindication","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease."},{"word":"Coiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money."},{"word":"Coiner","type":"(n.)","description":"An inventor or maker, as of words."},{"word":"Coinhabitant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dwells with another, or with others."},{"word":"Coinhere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To inhere or exist together, as in one substance."},{"word":"Coinheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint inheritance."},{"word":"Coinheritor","type":"(n.)","description":"A coheir."},{"word":"Coinitial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a common beginning."},{"word":"Coinquinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pollute."},{"word":"Coinquination","type":"(n.)","description":"Defilement."},{"word":"Coinstantaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening at the same instant."},{"word":"Cointense","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense."},{"word":"Cointension","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension."},{"word":"Coir","type":"(n.)","description":"A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut."},{"word":"Coir","type":"(n.)","description":"Cordage or cables, made of this material."},{"word":"Coistril","type":"(n.)","description":"An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries."},{"word":"Coistril","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean, paltry fellow; a coward."},{"word":"Coit","type":"(n.)","description":"A quoit."},{"word":"Coit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit."},{"word":"Coition","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation."},{"word":"Cojoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join; to conjoin."},{"word":"Cojuror","type":"(n.)","description":"One who swears to another's credibility."},{"word":"Coke","type":"(n.)","description":"Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required."},{"word":"Coke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into coke."},{"word":"Cokenay","type":"(n.)","description":"A cockney."},{"word":"Cokernut","type":"(n.)","description":"The cocoanut."},{"word":"Cokes","type":"(n.)","description":"A simpleton; a gull; a dupe."},{"word":"Cokewold","type":"(n.)","description":"Cuckold."},{"word":"Col-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying with, together. See Com-."},{"word":"Col","type":"(n.)","description":"A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge."},{"word":"Colaborer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who labors with another; an associate in labor."},{"word":"Colander","type":"(n.)","description":"A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like."},{"word":"Colation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of straining or filtering."},{"word":"Colatitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees."},{"word":"Colature","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer."},{"word":"Colbertine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of lace."},{"word":"Colchicine","type":"(n.)","description":"A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia."},{"word":"Colchicum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron."},{"word":"Colcothar","type":"(n.)","description":"Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Not pungent or acrid."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Not sensitive; not acute."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"The relative absence of heat or warmth."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh."},{"word":"Cold","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become cold."},{"word":"Cold-blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them."},{"word":"Cold-blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted."},{"word":"Cold-blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country."},{"word":"Coldfinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A British wagtail."},{"word":"Cold-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent."},{"word":"Coldish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat cold; cool; chilly."},{"word":"Coldly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly."},{"word":"Coldness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being cold."},{"word":"Cold-short","type":"(a.)","description":"Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron."},{"word":"Cold-shut","type":"(a.)","description":"Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting."},{"word":"Cold-shut","type":"(n.)","description":"An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding."},{"word":"Cole","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed."},{"word":"Co-legatee","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint legatee."},{"word":"Colegoose","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coalgoose."},{"word":"Colemanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California."},{"word":"Colemouse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coletit."},{"word":"Coleopter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Coleoptera."},{"word":"Coleoptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils."},{"word":"Coleopteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Coleopterous"},{"word":"Coleopterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera."},{"word":"Coleopteran","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the order of Coleoptera."},{"word":"Coleopterist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the study of the Coleoptera."},{"word":"Coleorhiza","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle."},{"word":"Coleperch","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of small black perch."},{"word":"Colera","type":"(n.)","description":"Bile; choler."},{"word":"Coleridgian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics."},{"word":"Coleseed","type":"(n.)","description":"The common rape or cole."},{"word":"Coleslaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A salad made of sliced cabbage."},{"word":"Co-lessee","type":"(n.)","description":"A partner in a lease taken."},{"word":"Co-lessor","type":"(n.)","description":"A partner in giving a lease."},{"word":"Colestaff","type":"(n.)","description":"See Colstaff."},{"word":"Colet","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Collet"},{"word":"Collet","type":"()","description":"An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte."},{"word":"Coletit","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coaltit"},{"word":"Coaltit","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse."},{"word":"Coleus","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves."},{"word":"Colewort","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head."},{"word":"Colewort","type":"(n.)","description":"Any white cabbage before the head has become firm."},{"word":"Colfox","type":"(n.)","description":"A crafty fox."},{"word":"Colic","type":"(n.)","description":"A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera."},{"word":"Colic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels."},{"word":"Colic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries."},{"word":"Colical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic."},{"word":"Colicky","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder."},{"word":"Colicroot","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root."},{"word":"Colin","type":"(n.)","description":"The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite."},{"word":"Coliseum","type":"(n.)","description":"The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world."},{"word":"Colitis","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis."},{"word":"Coll","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embrace."},{"word":"Collaborateur","type":"(n.)","description":"See Collaborator."},{"word":"Collaboration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of working together; united labor."},{"word":"Collaborator","type":"(n.)","description":"An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor."},{"word":"Collagen","type":"(n.)","description":"The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue."},{"word":"Collagenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or resembling collagen."},{"word":"Collapsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Collapse"},{"word":"Collapsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Collapse"},{"word":"Collapse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses."},{"word":"Collapse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance."},{"word":"Collapse","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel."},{"word":"Collapse","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown."},{"word":"Collapse","type":"(n.)","description":"Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance."},{"word":"Collapsion","type":"(n.)","description":"Collapse."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring or cincture."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"A collar beam."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(n.)","description":"A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft."},{"word":"Collared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Collar"},{"word":"Collaring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Collar"},{"word":"Collar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize by the collar."},{"word":"Collar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a collar on."},{"word":"Collar","type":"()","description":"The clavicle."},{"word":"Collards","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Young cabbage, used as \"greens\"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort."},{"word":"Collared","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a collar."},{"word":"Collared","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins."},{"word":"Collared","type":"(a.)","description":"Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t."},{"word":"Collatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being collated."},{"word":"Collated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Collate"},{"word":"Collating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Collate"},{"word":"Collate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement."},{"word":"Collate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding."},{"word":"Collate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Collate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestow or confer."},{"word":"Collate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary."},{"word":"Collateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure."},{"word":"Collateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting in an indirect way."},{"word":"Collateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues."},{"word":"Collateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence."},{"word":"Collateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal."},{"word":"Collateral","type":"(n.)","description":"A collateral relative."},{"word":"Collateral","type":"(n.)","description":"Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security."},{"word":"Collaterally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Side by side; by the side."},{"word":"Collaterally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly."},{"word":"Collaterally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In collateral relation; not lineally."},{"word":"Collateralness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being collateral."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of conferring or bestowing."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A conference."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The report of the act made by the proper officers."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries."},{"word":"Collation","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To partake of a collation."},{"word":"Collationer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc."},{"word":"Collatitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Brought together; contributed; done by contributions."},{"word":"Collative","type":"(a.)","description":"Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person."},{"word":"Collator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who collates manuscripts, books, etc."},{"word":"Collator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who collates to a benefice."},{"word":"Collator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confers any benefit."},{"word":"Collaud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join in praising."},{"word":"Colleague","type":"(n.)","description":"A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures."},{"word":"Colleague","type":"(v.t & i.)","description":"To unite or associate with another or with others."},{"word":"Colleagueship","type":"(n.)","description":"Partnership in office."},{"word":"Collected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Collect"},{"word":"Collecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Collect"},{"word":"Collect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering."},{"word":"Collect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes."},{"word":"Collect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises."},{"word":"Collect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks."},{"word":"Collect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To infer; to conclude."},{"word":"Collect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy."},{"word":"Collectanea","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology."},{"word":"Collected","type":"(a.)","description":"Gathered together."},{"word":"Collected","type":"(a.)","description":"Self-possessed; calm; composed."},{"word":"Collectedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Composedly; coolly."},{"word":"Collectedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A collected state of the mind; self-possession."},{"word":"Collectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being collected."},{"word":"Collection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens."},{"word":"Collection","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is collected"},{"word":"Collection","type":"(n.)","description":"A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons."},{"word":"Collection","type":"(n.)","description":"A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings."},{"word":"Collection","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is obtained in payment of demands."},{"word":"Collection","type":"(n.)","description":"An accumulation of any substance."},{"word":"Collection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred."},{"word":"Collection","type":"(n.)","description":"The jurisdiction of a collector of excise."},{"word":"Collectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to collecting."},{"word":"Collective","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation."},{"word":"Collective","type":"(a.)","description":"Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring."},{"word":"Collective","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc."},{"word":"Collective","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to collect; forming a collection."},{"word":"Collective","type":"(a.)","description":"Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note."},{"word":"Collective","type":"(n.)","description":"A collective noun or name."},{"word":"Collectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly."},{"word":"Collectiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of union; mass."},{"word":"Collectivism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism."},{"word":"Collectivist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate of collectivism."},{"word":"Collectivist","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or characteristic of, collectivism."},{"word":"Collector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins."},{"word":"Collector","type":"(n.)","description":"A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book."},{"word":"Collector","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll."},{"word":"Collector","type":"(n.)","description":"One authorized to collect debts."},{"word":"Collector","type":"(n.)","description":"A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent."},{"word":"Collectorate","type":"(n.)","description":"The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship."},{"word":"Collectorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a collector of customs or of taxes."},{"word":"Collegatary","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint legatee."},{"word":"College","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops."},{"word":"College","type":"(n.)","description":"A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges."},{"word":"College","type":"(n.)","description":"A building, or number of buildings, used by a college."},{"word":"College","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A community."},{"word":"Collegial","type":"(n.)","description":"Collegiate."},{"word":"Collegian","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college."},{"word":"Collegiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society."},{"word":"Collegiate","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a college."},{"word":"Collembola","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms."},{"word":"Collenchyma","type":"(n.)","description":"A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated."},{"word":"Collet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small collar or neckband."},{"word":"Collet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill."},{"word":"Collet","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set."},{"word":"Collet","type":"(n.)","description":"The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant."},{"word":"Colleterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects."},{"word":"Colleterium","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova."},{"word":"Colletic","type":"(a.)","description":"Agglutinant."},{"word":"Colletic","type":"(n.)","description":"An agglutinant."},{"word":"Colley","type":"(n.)","description":"See Collie."},{"word":"Collide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided."},{"word":"Collide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike or dash against."},{"word":"Collidine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids."},{"word":"Collie","type":"(n.)","description":"The Scotch shepherd dog. There are two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks."},{"word":"Collied","type":"(p. & a.)","description":"Darkened. See Colly, v. t."},{"word":"Collier","type":"(n.)","description":"One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal."},{"word":"Collier","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel employed in the coal trade."},{"word":"Collieries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Colliery"},{"word":"Colliery","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it."},{"word":"Colliery","type":"(n.)","description":"The coal trade."},{"word":"Colliflower","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cauliflower."},{"word":"Colligated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Colligate"},{"word":"Colligating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Colligate"},{"word":"Colligate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tie or bind together."},{"word":"Colligate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition."},{"word":"Colligate","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound together."},{"word":"Colligation","type":"(n.)","description":"A binding together."},{"word":"Colligation","type":"(n.)","description":"That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse."},{"word":"Collimated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Collimate"},{"word":"Collimating","type":"(p. p. & vb. n.)","description":"of Collimate"},{"word":"Collimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light."},{"word":"Collimation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument."},{"word":"Collimator","type":"(n.)","description":"A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal."},{"word":"Collimator","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used."},{"word":"Collin","type":"(n.)","description":"A very pure form of gelatin."},{"word":"Colline","type":"(n.)","description":"A small hill or mount."},{"word":"Collineation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object."},{"word":"Colling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An embrace; dalliance."},{"word":"Collingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With embraces."},{"word":"Collingual","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or pertaining to, the same language."},{"word":"Colliquable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid."},{"word":"Colliquament","type":"(n.)","description":"The first rudiments of an embryo in generation."},{"word":"Colliquated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Colliquate"},{"word":"Colliquating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Colliquate"},{"word":"Colliquate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt."},{"word":"Colliquation","type":"(n.)","description":"A melting together; the act of melting; fusion."},{"word":"Colliquation","type":"(n.)","description":"A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages."},{"word":"Colliquative","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats."},{"word":"Colliquefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion."},{"word":"Collish","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool to polish the edge of a sole."},{"word":"Collision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing."},{"word":"Collision","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of opposition; antagonism; interference."},{"word":"Collisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Colliding; clashing."},{"word":"Collitigant","type":"(a.)","description":"Disputing or wrangling."},{"word":"Collitigant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who litigates or wrangles."},{"word":"Collocate","type":"(a.)","description":"Set; placed."},{"word":"Collocated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Collocate"},{"word":"Collocating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Collocate"},{"word":"Collocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set or place; to set; to station."},{"word":"Collocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement."},{"word":"Collocution","type":"(n.)","description":"A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse."},{"word":"Collocutor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the speakers in a dialogue."},{"word":"Collodion","type":"(n.)","description":"A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography."},{"word":"Collodionize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare or treat with collodion."},{"word":"Collodiotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype."},{"word":"Collodium","type":"(n.)","description":"See Collodion."},{"word":"Collogue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief."},{"word":"Colloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors."},{"word":"Colloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid."},{"word":"Colloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer."},{"word":"Colloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids."},{"word":"Colloidality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being colloidal."},{"word":"Collop","type":"(n.)","description":"A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh."},{"word":"Collop","type":"(n.)","description":"A part or piece of anything; a portion."},{"word":"Colloped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops."},{"word":"Collophore","type":"(n.)","description":"A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola."},{"word":"Collophore","type":"(n.)","description":"An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae."},{"word":"Colloquial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style."},{"word":"Colloquialism","type":"(n.)","description":"A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing."},{"word":"Colloquialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing."},{"word":"Colloquist","type":"(n.)","description":"A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue."},{"word":"Colloquies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Colloquy"},{"word":"Colloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation."},{"word":"Colloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship."},{"word":"Collow","type":"(n.)","description":"Soot; smut. See 1st Colly."},{"word":"Colluctancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature."},{"word":"Colluctation","type":"(n.)","description":"A struggling; a contention."},{"word":"Colluded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Collude"},{"word":"Colluding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Collude"},{"word":"Collude","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert."},{"word":"Colluder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conspires in a fraud."},{"word":"Colla","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Collum"},{"word":"Collum","type":"(n.)","description":"A neck or cervix."},{"word":"Collum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Collar."},{"word":"Collusion","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning."},{"word":"Collusion","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law."},{"word":"Collusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion."},{"word":"Collusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting in collusion."},{"word":"Collusory","type":"(a.)","description":"Collusive."},{"word":"Collutory","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicated wash for the mouth."},{"word":"Colly","type":"(n.)","description":"The black grime or soot of coal."},{"word":"Collied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Colly"},{"word":"Collying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Colly"},{"word":"Colly","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime."},{"word":"Colly","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of dog. See Collie."},{"word":"Collybist","type":"(n.)","description":"A money changer."},{"word":"Collyriums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Collyrium"},{"word":"Collyria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Collyrium"},{"word":"Collyrium","type":"(n.)","description":"An application to the eye, usually an eyewater."},{"word":"Colocolo","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot."},{"word":"Colocynth","type":"(n.)","description":"The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd."},{"word":"Colocynthin","type":"(n.)","description":"The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside."},{"word":"Cologne","type":"(n.)","description":"A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne."},{"word":"Cologne","type":"()","description":"An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal."},{"word":"Colombier","type":"(n.)","description":"A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper."},{"word":"Colombin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calumbin."},{"word":"Colombo","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calumba."},{"word":"Colon","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]"},{"word":"Colon","type":"(n.)","description":"A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction."},{"word":"Colonel","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general."},{"word":"Colonelcy","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, rank, or commission of a colonel."},{"word":"Colonelship","type":"(n.)","description":"Colonelcy."},{"word":"Coloner","type":"(n.)","description":"A colonist."},{"word":"Colonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars."},{"word":"Colonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to husbandmen."},{"word":"Colonist","type":"(n.)","description":"A member or inhabitant of a colony."},{"word":"Colonitis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Colitis."},{"word":"Colonization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies."},{"word":"Colonizationist","type":"(n.)","description":"A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States."},{"word":"Colonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Colonize"},{"word":"Colonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Colonize"},{"word":"Colonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in."},{"word":"Colonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony."},{"word":"Colonizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist."},{"word":"Colonnade","type":"(n.)","description":"A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc."},{"word":"Colonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Colony"},{"word":"Colony","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America."},{"word":"Colony","type":"(n.)","description":"The district or country colonized; a settlement."},{"word":"Colony","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris."},{"word":"Colony","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range."},{"word":"Colophany","type":"(n.)","description":"See Colophony."},{"word":"Colophene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene."},{"word":"Colophon","type":"(n.)","description":"An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book."},{"word":"Colophonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarsely granular variety of garnet."},{"word":"Colophony","type":"(n.)","description":"Rosin."},{"word":"Coloquintida","type":"(n.)","description":"See Colocynth."},{"word":"Color","type":"(n.)","description":"A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc."},{"word":"Color","type":"(n.)","description":"Any hue distinguished from white or black."},{"word":"Color","type":"(n.)","description":"The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion."},{"word":"Color","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors."},{"word":"Color","type":"(n.)","description":"That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance."},{"word":"Color","type":"(n.)","description":"Shade or variety of character; kind; species."},{"word":"Color","type":"(n.)","description":"A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey)."},{"word":"Color","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court."},{"word":"Colored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Color"},{"word":"Coloring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Color"},{"word":"Color","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain."},{"word":"Color","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices."},{"word":"Color","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide."},{"word":"Color","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush."},{"word":"Colorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice."},{"word":"Colorado","type":"()","description":"A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle."},{"word":"Colorado","type":"()","description":"A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region."},{"word":"Coloradoite","type":"(n.)","description":"Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado."},{"word":"Colorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Colored."},{"word":"Coloration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored."},{"word":"Colorature","type":"(n.)","description":"Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages."},{"word":"Color-blind","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n."},{"word":"Colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained."},{"word":"Colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description."},{"word":"Colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Of some other color than black or white."},{"word":"Colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people."},{"word":"Colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Of some other color than green."},{"word":"Colorific","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies."},{"word":"Colorimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid."},{"word":"Coloring","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color."},{"word":"Coloring","type":"(n.)","description":"Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation."},{"word":"Colorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance."},{"word":"Colorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water."},{"word":"Colorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless."},{"word":"Colormen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Colorman"},{"word":"Colorman","type":"(n.)","description":"A vender of paints, etc."},{"word":"Color","type":"()","description":"See under Sergeant."},{"word":"Colossal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue."},{"word":"Colossal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic."},{"word":"Colossean","type":"(a.)","description":"Colossal."},{"word":"Colosseum","type":"(n.)","description":"The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome."},{"word":"Colossi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Colossus"},{"word":"Colossuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Colossus"},{"word":"Colossus","type":"(n.)","description":"A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes."},{"word":"Colossus","type":"(n.)","description":"Any man or beast of gigantic size."},{"word":"Colostrum","type":"(n.)","description":"The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings."},{"word":"Colostrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion."},{"word":"Colotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"An operation for opening the colon"},{"word":"Colour","type":"(n.)","description":"See Color."},{"word":"Colp","type":"(n.)","description":"See Collop."},{"word":"Colportage","type":"(n.)","description":"The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs."},{"word":"Colporter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Colporteur."},{"word":"Colporteur","type":"(n.)","description":"A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books."},{"word":"Colstaff","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders."},{"word":"Colt","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal."},{"word":"Colt","type":"(n.)","description":"A young, foolish fellow."},{"word":"Colt","type":"(n.)","description":"A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy."},{"word":"Colt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly."},{"word":"Colt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To horse; to get with young."},{"word":"Colt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To befool."},{"word":"Colter","type":"(n.)","description":"A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard."},{"word":"Coltish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a colt; wanton; frisky."},{"word":"Coltsfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine."},{"word":"Colt's","type":"()","description":"See under Colt."},{"word":"Coluber","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of harmless serpents."},{"word":"Colubrine","type":"(a.)","description":"like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber."},{"word":"Colubrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a snake; cunning; crafty."},{"word":"Colugo","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur."},{"word":"Columba","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calumba."},{"word":"Columbae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of birds, including the pigeons."},{"word":"Columbaria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Columbarium"},{"word":"Columbarium","type":"(n.)","description":"A dovecote or pigeon house."},{"word":"Columbarium","type":"(n.)","description":"A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns."},{"word":"Columbaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Columbary"},{"word":"Columbary","type":"(n.)","description":"A dovecote; a pigeon house."},{"word":"Columbate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium."},{"word":"Columbatz","type":"()","description":"See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo."},{"word":"Columbella","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money."},{"word":"Columbia","type":"(n.)","description":"America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer."},{"word":"Columbiad","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation."},{"word":"Columbian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America."},{"word":"Columbic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic."},{"word":"Columbic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root."},{"word":"Columbier","type":"(n.)","description":"See Colombier."},{"word":"Columbiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing or containing columbium."},{"word":"Columbin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin."},{"word":"Columbine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored."},{"word":"Columbine","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America."},{"word":"Columbine","type":"(n.)","description":"The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes."},{"word":"Columbite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England."},{"word":"Columbium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium."},{"word":"Columbo","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calumba."},{"word":"Columella","type":"(n.)","description":"An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens."},{"word":"Columella","type":"(n.)","description":"A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses."},{"word":"Columella","type":"(n.)","description":"A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear."},{"word":"Columella","type":"(n.)","description":"The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells."},{"word":"Columella","type":"(n.)","description":"The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals."},{"word":"Columelliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a little column, or columella."},{"word":"Column","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order."},{"word":"Column","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column."},{"word":"Column","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy."},{"word":"Column","type":"(n.)","description":"A small army."},{"word":"Column","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from \"line\", where they are side by side."},{"word":"Column","type":"(n.)","description":"A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper."},{"word":"Column","type":"(n.)","description":"A perpendicular line of figures."},{"word":"Column","type":"(n.)","description":"The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids."},{"word":"Columnar","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column."},{"word":"Columnarity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being columnar."},{"word":"Columnated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having columns; as, columnated temples."},{"word":"Columned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having columns."},{"word":"Columniation","type":"(n.)","description":"The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure."},{"word":"Colures","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Colure"},{"word":"Colure","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90� from the former, and is called the solstitial colure."},{"word":"Colies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coly"},{"word":"Coly","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa."},{"word":"Colza","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape."},{"word":"Com-","type":"()","description":"A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m, p, and sometimes f, and by assimilation becomes col- before l, cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants."},{"word":"Coma","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus."},{"word":"Coma","type":"(n.)","description":"The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet."},{"word":"Coma","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds."},{"word":"Comanches","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty."},{"word":"Comart","type":"(n.)","description":"A covenant."},{"word":"Comate","type":"(a.)","description":"Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy."},{"word":"Co-mate","type":"(n.)","description":"A companion."},{"word":"Comatose","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever."},{"word":"Comatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Comatose."},{"word":"Comatula","type":"(n.)","description":"A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars."},{"word":"Comatulid","type":"(n.)","description":"Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"The notched scale of a wire micrometer."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"The curling crest of a wave."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked."},{"word":"Combed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Comb"},{"word":"Combing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Comb"},{"word":"Comb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Combe"},{"word":"Combe","type":"(n.)","description":"That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it."},{"word":"Comb","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry measure. See Coomb."},{"word":"Combated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Combat"},{"word":"Combating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Combat"},{"word":"Combat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight."},{"word":"Combat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist."},{"word":"Combat","type":"(n.)","description":"A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy."},{"word":"Combat","type":"(n.)","description":"An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies."},{"word":"Combatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments."},{"word":"Combatant","type":"(a.)","description":"Contending; disposed to contend."},{"word":"Combatant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who engages in combat."},{"word":"Combater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who combats."},{"word":"Combative","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious."},{"word":"Combativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel."},{"word":"Combativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition."},{"word":"Combattant","type":"(a.)","description":"In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant."},{"word":"Combbroach","type":"(n.)","description":"A tooth of a wool comb."},{"word":"Combe","type":"(n.)","description":"See Comb."},{"word":"Comber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc."},{"word":"Comber","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, curling wave."},{"word":"Comber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cumber."},{"word":"Comber","type":"(n.)","description":"Encumbrance."},{"word":"Comber","type":"(n.)","description":"The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse."},{"word":"Combinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of combining; consistent with."},{"word":"Combinate","type":"(a.)","description":"United; joined; betrothed."},{"word":"Combination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things."},{"word":"Combination","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense."},{"word":"Combination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds."},{"word":"Combination","type":"(n.)","description":"The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups."},{"word":"Combined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Combine"},{"word":"Combining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Combine"},{"word":"Combine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union."},{"word":"Combine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind; to hold by a moral tie."},{"word":"Combine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate."},{"word":"Combine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third."},{"word":"Combine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played."},{"word":"Combined","type":"(a.)","description":"United closely; confederated; chemically united."},{"word":"Combinedly","type":"(adv. In combination or cooperation)","description":"; jointly."},{"word":"Combiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, combines."},{"word":"Combing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool."},{"word":"Combing","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair."},{"word":"Combing","type":"(n.)","description":"Hair arranged to be worn on the head."},{"word":"Combing","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coamings."},{"word":"Combless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock."},{"word":"Comboloio","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads."},{"word":"Comb-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Pectinate."},{"word":"Combust","type":"(a.)","description":"Burnt; consumed."},{"word":"Combust","type":"(a.)","description":"So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun."},{"word":"Combustibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being combustible."},{"word":"Combustible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable."},{"word":"Combustible","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible."},{"word":"Combustible","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn."},{"word":"Combustibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Combustibility."},{"word":"Combustion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of burning."},{"word":"Combustion","type":"(n.)","description":"The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat."},{"word":"Combustion","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent agitation; confusion; tumult."},{"word":"Combustious","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflammable."},{"word":"Came","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Come"},{"word":"Come","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Come"},{"word":"Coming","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Come"},{"word":"Come","type":"(n.)","description":"To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go."},{"word":"Come","type":"(n.)","description":"To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive."},{"word":"Come","type":"(n.)","description":"To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance."},{"word":"Come","type":"(n.)","description":"To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another."},{"word":"Come","type":"(n.)","description":"To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear."},{"word":"Come","type":"(n.)","description":"To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied."},{"word":"Come","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here."},{"word":"Come","type":"(n.)","description":"Coming."},{"word":"Co-meddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix; to mingle, to temper."},{"word":"Comedian","type":"(n.)","description":"An actor or player in comedy."},{"word":"Comedian","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of comedy."},{"word":"Comedienne","type":"(n.)","description":"A women who plays in comedy."},{"word":"Comedietta","type":"(n.)","description":"A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy."},{"word":"Comedones","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Comedo"},{"word":"Comedo","type":"(n.)","description":"A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt)."},{"word":"Comedown","type":"(n.)","description":"A downfall; an humiliation."},{"word":"Comedies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Comedy"},{"word":"Comedy","type":"(n.)","description":"A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy."},{"word":"Comelily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a suitable or becoming manner."},{"word":"Comeliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being comely."},{"word":"Comely","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good-looking; handsome."},{"word":"Comely","type":"(superl.)","description":"Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable."},{"word":"Comely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a becoming manner."},{"word":"Come-outer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer."},{"word":"Comer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present."},{"word":"Comes","type":"(n.)","description":"The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue."},{"word":"Comessation","type":"(n.)","description":"A reveling; a rioting."},{"word":"Comestible","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent."},{"word":"Comestible","type":"(n.)","description":"Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural."},{"word":"Comet","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Cometarium","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun."},{"word":"Cometary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet."},{"word":"Comet-finder","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Comet- seeker"},{"word":"Comet-","type":"(n.)","description":"A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets."},{"word":"Cometic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a comet."},{"word":"Cometographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes or writes about comets."},{"word":"Cometography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of, or a treatise concerning, comets."},{"word":"Cometology","type":"(n.)","description":"The department of astronomy relating to comets."},{"word":"Comfit","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection."},{"word":"Comfit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preserve dry with sugar."},{"word":"Comfiture","type":"(n.)","description":"See Comfit, n."},{"word":"Comforted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Comfort"},{"word":"Comforting.","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Comfort"},{"word":"Comfort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate."},{"word":"Comfort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assist or help; to aid."},{"word":"Comfort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer."},{"word":"Comfort","type":"(n.)","description":"Assistance; relief; support."},{"word":"Comfort","type":"(n.)","description":"Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation."},{"word":"Comfort","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition."},{"word":"Comfort","type":"(n.)","description":"A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable."},{"word":"Comfort","type":"(n.)","description":"Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy."},{"word":"Comfortable","type":"(a.)","description":"Strong; vigorous; valiant."},{"word":"Comfortable","type":"(a.)","description":"Serviceable; helpful."},{"word":"Comfortable","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; as, a comfortable hope."},{"word":"Comfortable","type":"(a.)","description":"In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life."},{"word":"Comfortable","type":"(a.)","description":"Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; -- used of a sick person."},{"word":"Comfortable","type":"(n.)","description":"A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort."},{"word":"Comfortableness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being comfortable."},{"word":"Comfortably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a comfortable or comforting manner."},{"word":"Comforter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who administers comfort or consolation."},{"word":"Comforter","type":"(n.)","description":"The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers."},{"word":"Comforter","type":"(n.)","description":"A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow."},{"word":"Comforter","type":"(n.)","description":"A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable."},{"word":"Comfortless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless."},{"word":"Comfortment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act or process of administering comfort."},{"word":"Comfortress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who comforts."},{"word":"Comfrey","type":"(n.)","description":"A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum."},{"word":"Comic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy."},{"word":"Comic","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing mirth; ludicrous."},{"word":"Comic","type":"(n.)","description":"A comedian."},{"word":"Comical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to comedy."},{"word":"Comical","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story."},{"word":"Comicalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Comicality"},{"word":"Comicality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being comical; something comical."},{"word":"Comicry","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of exciting mirth; 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to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge."},{"word":"Command","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead."},{"word":"Command","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook."},{"word":"Command","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price."},{"word":"Command","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct to come; to bestow."},{"word":"Command","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders."},{"word":"Command","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a view, as from a superior position."},{"word":"Command","type":"(n.)","description":"An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction."},{"word":"Command","type":"(n.)","description":"The possession or exercise of authority."},{"word":"Command","type":"(n.)","description":"Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command."},{"word":"Command","type":"(n.)","description":"Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey."},{"word":"Command","type":"(n.)","description":"Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge."},{"word":"Command","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer."},{"word":"Commandable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being commanded."},{"word":"Commandant","type":"(n.)","description":"A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard."},{"word":"Commandatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Mandatory; as, commandatory authority."},{"word":"Commander","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it."},{"word":"Commander","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army."},{"word":"Commander","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief officer of a commandery."},{"word":"Commander","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc."},{"word":"Commandership","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a commander."},{"word":"Commanderies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Commandery"},{"word":"Commandery","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or rank of a commander."},{"word":"Commandery","type":"(n.)","description":"A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory."},{"word":"Commandery","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons."},{"word":"Commandery","type":"(n.)","description":"A district under the administration of a military commander or governor."},{"word":"Commanding","type":"(a.)","description":"Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer."},{"word":"Commanding","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence."},{"word":"Commanding","type":"(a.)","description":"Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position."},{"word":"Commandingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a commanding manner."},{"word":"Commandment","type":"(n.)","description":"An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate."},{"word":"Commandment","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai."},{"word":"Commandment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of commanding; exercise of authority."},{"word":"Commandment","type":"(n.)","description":"The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law."},{"word":"Commandress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman invested with authority to command."},{"word":"Commandry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Commandery."},{"word":"Commark","type":"(n.)","description":"The frontier of a country; confines."},{"word":"Commaterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of the same material."},{"word":"Commatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise."},{"word":"Commatism","type":"(n.)","description":"Conciseness in writing."},{"word":"Commeasurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional."},{"word":"Commeasure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be commensurate with; to equal."},{"word":"Commemorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy to be commemorated."},{"word":"Commemorated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commemorate"},{"word":"Commemorating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commemorate"},{"word":"Commemorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July."},{"word":"Commemoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event."},{"word":"Commemoration","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial."},{"word":"Commemorative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or intended to commemorate."},{"word":"Commemorator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who commemorates."},{"word":"Commemoratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to commemorate; commemorative."},{"word":"Commenced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commence"},{"word":"Commencing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commence"},{"word":"Commence","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin."},{"word":"Commence","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To begin to be, or to act as."},{"word":"Commence","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take a degree at a university."},{"word":"Commence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of."},{"word":"Commencement","type":"(n.)","description":"The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start."},{"word":"Commencement","type":"(n.)","description":"The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others."},{"word":"Commended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commend"},{"word":"Commending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commend"},{"word":"Commend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation."},{"word":"Commend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention."},{"word":"Commend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mention with approbation; to praise; as, to commend a person or an act."},{"word":"Commend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will."},{"word":"Commend","type":"(n.)","description":"Commendation; praise."},{"word":"Commend","type":"(n.)","description":"Compliments; greetings."},{"word":"Commendable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy."},{"word":"Commendam","type":"(n.)","description":"A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836."},{"word":"Commendatary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds a living in commendam."},{"word":"Commendation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation."},{"word":"Commendation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is the ground of approbation or praise."},{"word":"Commendation","type":"(n.)","description":"A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting."},{"word":"Commendator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary."},{"word":"Commendatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising."},{"word":"Commendatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop."},{"word":"Commendatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A commendation; eulogy."},{"word":"Commender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who commends or praises."},{"word":"Commensal","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eats at the same table."},{"word":"Commensal","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. Both species may be benefited by the association."},{"word":"Commensal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the character of a commensal."},{"word":"Commensalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eating together; table fellowship."},{"word":"Commensality","type":"(n.)","description":"Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table."},{"word":"Commensation","type":"(n.)","description":"Commensality."},{"word":"Commensurability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being commensurable."},{"word":"Commensurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure."},{"word":"Commensurably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable."},{"word":"Commensurated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commensurate"},{"word":"Commensurating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commensurate"},{"word":"Commensurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a common measure."},{"word":"Commensurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To proportionate; to adjust."},{"word":"Commensurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities."},{"word":"Commensurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal in measure or extent; proportionate."},{"word":"Commensurately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately."},{"word":"Commensurately","type":"(adv.)","description":"With equal measure or extent."},{"word":"Commensurateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being commensurate."},{"word":"Commensuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate."},{"word":"Commented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Comment"},{"word":"Commenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Comment"},{"word":"Comment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon."},{"word":"Comment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To comment on."},{"word":"Comment","type":"(n.)","description":"A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk."},{"word":"Comment","type":"(n.)","description":"A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition."},{"word":"Commentaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Commentary"},{"word":"Commentary","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work."},{"word":"Commentary","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War."},{"word":"Commentate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To write comments or notes upon; to make comments."},{"word":"Commentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition."},{"word":"Commentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of the labors of a commentator."},{"word":"Commentator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator."},{"word":"Commentatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the making of commentaries."},{"word":"Commentatorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or occupation of a commentator."},{"word":"Commenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator."},{"word":"Commentitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion."},{"word":"Commerce","type":"(n.)","description":"The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic."},{"word":"Commerce","type":"(n.)","description":"Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity."},{"word":"Commerce","type":"(n.)","description":"Sexual intercourse."},{"word":"Commerce","type":"(n.)","description":"A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade."},{"word":"Commerced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commerce"},{"word":"Commercing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commerce"},{"word":"Commerce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To carry on trade; to traffic."},{"word":"Commerce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold intercourse; to commune."},{"word":"Commercial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations."},{"word":"Commercialism","type":"(n.)","description":"The commercial spirit or method."},{"word":"Commercially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a commercial manner."},{"word":"Commigrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To migrate together."},{"word":"Commigration","type":"(n.)","description":"Migration together."},{"word":"Commination","type":"(n.)","description":"A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance."},{"word":"Commination","type":"(n.)","description":"An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners."},{"word":"Comminatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms."},{"word":"Commingled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commingle"},{"word":"Commingling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commingle"},{"word":"Commingle","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend."},{"word":"Comminuted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Comminute"},{"word":"Comminuting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Comminute"},{"word":"Comminute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth."},{"word":"Comminution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted."},{"word":"Comminution","type":"(n.)","description":"Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces."},{"word":"Comminution","type":"(n.)","description":"Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away."},{"word":"Commiserable","type":"(a.)","description":"Pitiable."},{"word":"Commiserated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commiserate"},{"word":"Commiserating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commiserate"},{"word":"Commiserate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity."},{"word":"Commiseration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion."},{"word":"Commiserative","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeling or expressing commiseration."},{"word":"Commiserator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pities."},{"word":"Commissarial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a commissary."},{"word":"Commissariat","type":"(n.)","description":"The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries."},{"word":"Commissariat","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of officers charged with such service."},{"word":"Commissaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Commissary"},{"word":"Commissary","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner."},{"word":"Commissary","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop."},{"word":"Commissary","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters."},{"word":"Commissary","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence."},{"word":"Commissaryship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or employment of a commissary."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"The acting under authority of, or on account of, another."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(n.)","description":"The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere."},{"word":"Commissioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commission"},{"word":"Commissioning","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Commission"},{"word":"Commission","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer."},{"word":"Commission","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send out with a charge or commission."},{"word":"Commissional","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Commissionary"},{"word":"Commissionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant."},{"word":"Commissionate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To commission"},{"word":"Commissioner","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims."},{"word":"Commissioner","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service."},{"word":"Commissionnaire","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent or factor; a commission merchant."},{"word":"Commissionnaire","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers."},{"word":"Commissionship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of commissioner."},{"word":"Commissive","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission."},{"word":"Commissural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a commissure."},{"word":"Commissure","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture."},{"word":"Commissure","type":"(n.)","description":"The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc."},{"word":"Commissure","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma."},{"word":"Commissure","type":"(n.)","description":"The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc."},{"word":"Committed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commit"},{"word":"Committing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commit"},{"word":"Commit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto."},{"word":"Commit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison."},{"word":"Commit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault."},{"word":"Commit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Commit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course."},{"word":"Commit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confound."},{"word":"Commit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sin; esp., to be incontinent."},{"word":"Commitment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison."},{"word":"Commitment","type":"(n.)","description":"A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus."},{"word":"Commitment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill."},{"word":"Commitment","type":"(n.)","description":"A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission."},{"word":"Commitment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged."},{"word":"Committable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being committed."},{"word":"Committal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment."},{"word":"Committee","type":"(n.)","description":"One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together."},{"word":"Committee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian."},{"word":"Committeeman","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a committee."},{"word":"Committer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who commits; one who does or perpetrates."},{"word":"Committer","type":"(n.)","description":"A fornicator."},{"word":"Committible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being committed; liable to be committed."},{"word":"Commixed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commix"},{"word":"Commixing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commix"},{"word":"Commix","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To mix or mingle together; to blend."},{"word":"Commixion","type":"(n.)","description":"Commixture."},{"word":"Commixtion","type":"(n.)","description":"Commixture; mingling."},{"word":"Commixture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound."},{"word":"Commixture","type":"(n.)","description":"The mass formed by mingling different things; a compound; a mixture."},{"word":"Commodate","type":"(n.)","description":"A gratuitous loan."},{"word":"Commode","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height."},{"word":"Commode","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion"},{"word":"Commode","type":"(n.)","description":"A chest of drawers or a bureau."},{"word":"Commode","type":"(n.)","description":"A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel."},{"word":"Commode","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of close stool."},{"word":"Commode","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet."},{"word":"Commodious","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house."},{"word":"Commodiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a commodious manner."},{"word":"Commodiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess."},{"word":"Commodities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Commodity"},{"word":"Commodity","type":"(n.)","description":"Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness."},{"word":"Commodity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc."},{"word":"Commodity","type":"(n.)","description":"A parcel or quantity of goods."},{"word":"Commodore","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army."},{"word":"Commodore","type":"(n.)","description":"A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral."},{"word":"Commodore","type":"(n.)","description":"A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club."},{"word":"Commodore","type":"(n.)","description":"A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v.)","description":"Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v.)","description":"Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v.)","description":"Often met with; usual; frequent; customary."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v.)","description":"Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v.)","description":"Profane; polluted."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v.)","description":"Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute."},{"word":"Common","type":"(n.)","description":"The people; the community."},{"word":"Common","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons."},{"word":"Common","type":"(n.)","description":"The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To converse together; to discourse; to confer."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To participate."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a joint right with others in common ground."},{"word":"Common","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To board together; to eat at a table in common."},{"word":"Commonable","type":"(a.)","description":"Held in common."},{"word":"Commonable","type":"(a.)","description":"Allowed to pasture on public commons."},{"word":"Commonage","type":"(n.)","description":"The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others."},{"word":"Commonalties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Commonalty"},{"word":"Commonalty","type":"(n.)","description":"The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons."},{"word":"Commonalty","type":"(n.)","description":"The majority or bulk of mankind."},{"word":"Commoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility."},{"word":"Commoner","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the House of Commons."},{"word":"Commoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has a joint right in common ground."},{"word":"Commoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One sharing with another in anything."},{"word":"Commoner","type":"(n.)","description":"A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner."},{"word":"Commoner","type":"(n.)","description":"A prostitute."},{"word":"Commonish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar."},{"word":"Commonition","type":"(n.)","description":"Advice; warning; instruction."},{"word":"Commonitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Monitory."},{"word":"Commonitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Calling to mind; giving admonition."},{"word":"Commonly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life."},{"word":"Commonly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In common; familiarly."},{"word":"Commonness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight."},{"word":"Commonness","type":"(n.)","description":"Triteness; meanness."},{"word":"Commonplace","type":"(a.)","description":"Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation."},{"word":"Commonplace","type":"(n.)","description":"An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude."},{"word":"Commonplace","type":"(n.)","description":"A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to."},{"word":"Commonplace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads."},{"word":"Commonplace","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes."},{"word":"Commonplaceness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being commonplace; commonness."},{"word":"Commons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people."},{"word":"Commons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities."},{"word":"Commons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities."},{"word":"Commons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons."},{"word":"Commons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A common; public pasture ground."},{"word":"Common","type":"()","description":"See Common sense, under Sense."},{"word":"Commonty","type":"(n.)","description":"A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right."},{"word":"Commonweal","type":"(n.)","description":"Commonwealth."},{"word":"Commonwealth","type":"(n.)","description":"A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws."},{"word":"Commonwealth","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of people in a state; the public."},{"word":"Commonwealth","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659."},{"word":"Commorance","type":"(n.)","description":"See Commorancy."},{"word":"Commorancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation."},{"word":"Commorancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Residence temporarily, or for a short time."},{"word":"Commorant","type":"(n.)","description":"Ordinarily residing; inhabiting."},{"word":"Commorant","type":"(n.)","description":"Inhabiting or occupying temporarily."},{"word":"Commorant","type":"(n.)","description":"A resident."},{"word":"Commoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of staying or residing in a place."},{"word":"Commorient","type":"(a.)","description":"Dying together or at the same time."},{"word":"Commorse","type":"(n.)","description":"Remorse."},{"word":"Commote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To commove; to disturb; to stir up."},{"word":"Commotion","type":"(n.)","description":"Disturbed or violent motion; agitation."},{"word":"Commotion","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot."},{"word":"Commotion","type":"(n.)","description":"Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement."},{"word":"Commoved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commove"},{"word":"Commoving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commove"},{"word":"Commove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To urge; to persuade; to incite."},{"word":"Commove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle."},{"word":"Communal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a commune."},{"word":"Communalism","type":"(n.)","description":"A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism."},{"word":"Communalist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate of communalism."},{"word":"Communalistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to communalism."},{"word":"Communed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commune"},{"word":"Communing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commune"},{"word":"Commune","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel."},{"word":"Commune","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper."},{"word":"Commune","type":"(n.)","description":"Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends."},{"word":"Commune","type":"(n.)","description":"The commonalty; the common people."},{"word":"Commune","type":"(n.)","description":"A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement."},{"word":"Commune","type":"(n.)","description":"Absolute municipal self-government."},{"word":"Communicability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted."},{"word":"Communicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge."},{"word":"Communicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Communicative; free-speaking."},{"word":"Communicant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member."},{"word":"Communicant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who communicates."},{"word":"Communicant","type":"(a.)","description":"Communicating."},{"word":"Communicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Communicate"},{"word":"Communicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Communicate"},{"word":"Communicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To share in common; to participate in."},{"word":"Communicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank."},{"word":"Communicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one."},{"word":"Communicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To administer the communion to."},{"word":"Communicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy."},{"word":"Communicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give alms, sympathy, or aid."},{"word":"Communicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery."},{"word":"Communicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune."},{"word":"Communication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret."},{"word":"Communication","type":"(n.)","description":"Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence."},{"word":"Communication","type":"(n.)","description":"Association; company."},{"word":"Communication","type":"(n.)","description":"Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection."},{"word":"Communication","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message."},{"word":"Communication","type":"(n.)","description":"Participation in the Lord's supper."},{"word":"Communication","type":"(n.)","description":"A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you."},{"word":"Communicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others."},{"word":"Communicativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being communicative."},{"word":"Communicator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who communicates."},{"word":"Communicatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Imparting knowledge or information."},{"word":"Communion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sharing; community; participation."},{"word":"Communion","type":"(n.)","description":"Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints."},{"word":"Communion","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion."},{"word":"Communion","type":"(n.)","description":"The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion."},{"word":"Communism","type":"(n.)","description":"A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all."},{"word":"Communist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate for the theory or practice of communism."},{"word":"Communist","type":"(n.)","description":"A supporter of the commune of Paris."},{"word":"Communistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories."},{"word":"Communistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Living or having their nests in common, as certain birds."},{"word":"Communities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Community"},{"word":"Community","type":"(n.)","description":"Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods."},{"word":"Community","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests."},{"word":"Community","type":"(n.)","description":"Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general."},{"word":"Community","type":"(n.)","description":"Common character; likeness."},{"word":"Community","type":"(n.)","description":"Commonness; frequency."},{"word":"Commutability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being commutable."},{"word":"Commutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being commuted or interchanged."},{"word":"Commutableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness."},{"word":"Commutation","type":"(n.)","description":"A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation."},{"word":"Commutation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange."},{"word":"Commutation","type":"(n.)","description":"The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment."},{"word":"Commutation","type":"(n.)","description":"A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations."},{"word":"Commutative","type":"(a.)","description":"Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal."},{"word":"Commutator","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction."},{"word":"Commuted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Commute"},{"word":"Commuting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Commute"},{"word":"Commute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares."},{"word":"Commute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation."},{"word":"Commute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route."},{"word":"Commuter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling."},{"word":"Commutual","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutual; reciprocal; united."},{"word":"Comose","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed."},{"word":"Compact","type":"(p. p. & a)","description":"Joined or held together; leagued; confederated."},{"word":"Compact","type":"(p. p. & a)","description":"Composed or made; -- with of."},{"word":"Compact","type":"(p. p. & a)","description":"Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense."},{"word":"Compact","type":"(p. p. & a)","description":"Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse."},{"word":"Compacted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compact"},{"word":"Compacting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compact"},{"word":"Compact","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body."},{"word":"Compact","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite or connect firmly, as in a system."},{"word":"Compact","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract."},{"word":"Compacted","type":"(a.)","description":"Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united."},{"word":"Compactedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a compact manner."},{"word":"Compactedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being compact."},{"word":"Compacter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a compact."},{"word":"Compactible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be compacted."},{"word":"Compaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making compact, or the state of being compact."},{"word":"Compactly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely."},{"word":"Compactness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density."},{"word":"Compacture","type":"(n.)","description":"Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction."},{"word":"Compages","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A system or structure of many parts united."},{"word":"Compaginate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame."},{"word":"Compagination","type":"(n.)","description":"Union of parts; structure."},{"word":"Companable","type":"(a.)","description":"Companionable; sociable."},{"word":"Companator","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Impanator."},{"word":"Companiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Companionable; sociable."},{"word":"Companion","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner."},{"word":"Companion","type":"(n.)","description":"A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath."},{"word":"Companion","type":"(n.)","description":"A fellow; -- in contempt."},{"word":"Companion","type":"(n.)","description":"A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck."},{"word":"Companion","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch."},{"word":"Companion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany."},{"word":"Companion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To qualify as a companion; to make equal."},{"word":"Companionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable."},{"word":"Companionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a companion."},{"word":"Companionship","type":"(n.)","description":"Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one."},{"word":"Companies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Company"},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"A companion or companions."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company."},{"word":"Company","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play."},{"word":"Companied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Company"},{"word":"Companying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Company"},{"word":"Company","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accompany or go with; to be companion to."},{"word":"Company","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To associate."},{"word":"Company","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be a gay companion."},{"word":"Company","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have sexual commerce."},{"word":"Comparable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison."},{"word":"Comparate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two things compared together."},{"word":"Comparation","type":"(n.)","description":"A making ready; provision."},{"word":"Comparative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to comparison."},{"word":"Comparative","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison; as, the comparative sciences; the comparative anatomy."},{"word":"Comparative","type":"(a.)","description":"Estimated by comparison; relative; not positive or absolute, as compared with another thing or state."},{"word":"Comparative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. 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to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention."},{"word":"Compare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken."},{"word":"Compare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing \"- er\" and \"-est\" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing \"more\" and \"most\", or \"less\" and \"least\", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful."},{"word":"Compare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier."},{"word":"Compare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vie; to assume a likeness or equality."},{"word":"Compare","type":"(n.)","description":"Comparison."},{"word":"Compare","type":"(n.)","description":"Illustration by comparison; simile."},{"word":"Compare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire"},{"word":"Comparer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who compares."},{"word":"Comparison","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate."},{"word":"Comparison","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them."},{"word":"Comparison","type":"(n.)","description":"That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude."},{"word":"Comparison","type":"(n.)","description":"The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison."},{"word":"Comparison","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel."},{"word":"Comparison","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts."},{"word":"Comparison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compare."},{"word":"Comparted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compart"},{"word":"Comparting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compart"},{"word":"Compart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions."},{"word":"Compartition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment."},{"word":"Compartment","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden."},{"word":"Compartment","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads."},{"word":"Compartner","type":"(n.)","description":"See Copartner."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"A passing round; circuit; circuitous course."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosed space; an area; extent."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of compasses."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle; a continent."},{"word":"Compassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compass"},{"word":"Compassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compass"},{"word":"Compass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To curve; to bend into a circular form."},{"word":"Compass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot."},{"word":"Compassable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being compassed or accomplished."},{"word":"Compassed","type":"(a.)","description":"Rounded; arched."},{"word":"Compasses","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move."},{"word":"Compassing","type":"(a.)","description":"Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers."},{"word":"Compassion","type":"(n.)","description":"Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration."},{"word":"Compassion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pity."},{"word":"Compassionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable."},{"word":"Compassionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful."},{"word":"Compassionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable."},{"word":"Compassionated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compassionate"},{"word":"Compassionating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compassionate"},{"word":"Compassionate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with."},{"word":"Compassionately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a compassionate manner; mercifully."},{"word":"Compassionateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being compassionate."},{"word":"Compassless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no compass."},{"word":"Compaternity","type":"(n.)","description":"The relation of a godfather to a person."},{"word":"Compatibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties."},{"word":"Compatible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with."},{"word":"Compatibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement."},{"word":"Compatibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a compatible manner."},{"word":"Compatient","type":"(a.)","description":"Suffering or enduring together."},{"word":"Compatriot","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling."},{"word":"Compatriot","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism."},{"word":"Compatriotism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being compatriots."},{"word":"Compear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To appear."},{"word":"Compear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To appear in court personally or by attorney."},{"word":"Compeer","type":"()","description":"An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate."},{"word":"Compeer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be equal with; to match."},{"word":"Compeer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Compeir"},{"word":"Compeir","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Compear."},{"word":"Compelled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compel"},{"word":"Compelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n)","description":"of Compel"},{"word":"Compel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force."},{"word":"Compel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort."},{"word":"Compel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate."},{"word":"Compel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather or unite in a crowd or company."},{"word":"Compel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call forth; to summon."},{"word":"Compel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make one yield or submit."},{"word":"Compellable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being compelled or constrained."},{"word":"Compellably","type":"(adv.)","description":"By compulsion."},{"word":"Compellation","type":"(n.)","description":"Style of address or salutation; an appellation."},{"word":"Compellative","type":"(n.)","description":"The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative."},{"word":"Compellatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to compel; compulsory."},{"word":"Compeller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who compels or constrains."},{"word":"Compend","type":"(n.)","description":"A compendium; an epitome; a summary."},{"word":"Compendiarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Short; compendious."},{"word":"Compendiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sum or collect together."},{"word":"Compendious","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized."},{"word":"Compendiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a compendious manner."},{"word":"Compendiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being compendious."},{"word":"Compendiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Compendium"},{"word":"Compendia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Compendium"},{"word":"Compendium","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary."},{"word":"Compensated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compensate"},{"word":"Compensating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compensate"},{"word":"Compensate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses."},{"word":"Compensate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for."},{"word":"Compensate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation."},{"word":"Compensation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or principle of compensating."},{"word":"Compensation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense."},{"word":"Compensation","type":"(n.)","description":"The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off."},{"word":"Compensation","type":"(n.)","description":"A recompense or reward for some loss or service."},{"word":"Compensation","type":"(n.)","description":"An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation."},{"word":"Compensative","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording compensation."},{"word":"Compensative","type":"(n.)","description":"Compensation."},{"word":"Compensator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices."},{"word":"Compensator","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle."},{"word":"Compensatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving for compensation; making amends."},{"word":"Compense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compensate."},{"word":"Comperendinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delay."},{"word":"Compesce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold in check; to restrain."},{"word":"Competed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compete"},{"word":"Competing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compete"},{"word":"Compete","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another."},{"word":"Competence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Competency"},{"word":"Competency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power."},{"word":"Competency","type":"(n.)","description":"Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess."},{"word":"Competency","type":"(n.)","description":"Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence."},{"word":"Competency","type":"(n.)","description":"Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court."},{"word":"Competent","type":"(a.)","description":"Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit."},{"word":"Competent","type":"(a.)","description":"Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Competently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a competent manner; adequately; suitably."},{"word":"Competible","type":"(a.)","description":"Compatible; suitable; consistent."},{"word":"Competition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with."},{"word":"Competitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination."},{"word":"Competitor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival."},{"word":"Competitor","type":"(n.)","description":"An associate; a confederate."},{"word":"Competitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting in competition; competing; rival."},{"word":"Competitress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who competes."},{"word":"Competitrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A competitress."},{"word":"Compilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources."},{"word":"Compilation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents."},{"word":"Compilator","type":"(n.)","description":"Compiler."},{"word":"Compiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compile"},{"word":"Compiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compile"},{"word":"Compile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put together; to construct; to build."},{"word":"Compile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contain or comprise."},{"word":"Compile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents."},{"word":"Compile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write; to compose."},{"word":"Compilement","type":"(n.)","description":"Compilation."},{"word":"Compiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation."},{"word":"Compinge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compress; to shut up."},{"word":"Complacence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Complacency"},{"word":"Complacency","type":"(n.)","description":"Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification."},{"word":"Complacency","type":"(n.)","description":"The cause of pleasure or joy."},{"word":"Complacency","type":"(n.)","description":"The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability."},{"word":"Complacent","type":"(a.)","description":"Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile."},{"word":"Complacential","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked by, or causing, complacence."},{"word":"Complacently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a complacent manner."},{"word":"Complained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Complain"},{"word":"Complaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Complain"},{"word":"Complain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel."},{"word":"Complain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a formal accusation; to make a charge."},{"word":"Complain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lament; to bewail."},{"word":"Complainable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be complained of."},{"word":"Complainant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes complaint."},{"word":"Complainant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who commences a legal process by a complaint."},{"word":"Complainant","type":"(n.)","description":"The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law."},{"word":"Complainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer."},{"word":"Complaint","type":"(n.)","description":"Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding."},{"word":"Complaint","type":"(n.)","description":"Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring."},{"word":"Complaint","type":"(n.)","description":"An ailment or disease of the body."},{"word":"Complaint","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity."},{"word":"Complaintful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of complaint."},{"word":"Complaisance","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility."},{"word":"Complaisant","type":"(a.)","description":"Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman."},{"word":"Complanar","type":"(a.)","description":"See Coplanar."},{"word":"Complanate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Flattened to a level surface."},{"word":"Complanate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make level."},{"word":"Complected","type":"(a.)","description":"Complexioned."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Something added for ornamentation; an accessory."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The whole working force of a vessel."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A compliment."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply a lack; to supplement."},{"word":"Complement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compliment."},{"word":"Complemental","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing."},{"word":"Complemental","type":"(a.)","description":"Complimentary; courteous."},{"word":"Complementary","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers."},{"word":"Complementary","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in compliments."},{"word":"Complete","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate."},{"word":"Complete","type":"(a.)","description":"Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete."},{"word":"Complete","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil."},{"word":"Completed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Complete"},{"word":"Completing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Complete"},{"word":"Complete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education."},{"word":"Completely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a complete manner; fully."},{"word":"Completement","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of completing or perfecting; completion."},{"word":"Completeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being complete."},{"word":"Completion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service."},{"word":"Completion","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization."},{"word":"Completive","type":"(a.)","description":"Making complete."},{"word":"Completory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to fulfill."},{"word":"Completory","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Compline."},{"word":"Complex","type":"(n.)","description":"Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea."},{"word":"Complex","type":"(n.)","description":"Involving many parts; complicated; intricate."},{"word":"Complex","type":"(n.)","description":"Assemblage of related things; collection; complication."},{"word":"Complexed","type":"(a.)","description":"Complex, complicated."},{"word":"Complexedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication."},{"word":"Complexion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being complex; complexity."},{"word":"Complexion","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination; a complex."},{"word":"Complexion","type":"(n.)","description":"The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature."},{"word":"Complexion","type":"(n.)","description":"The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face."},{"word":"Complexion","type":"(n.)","description":"The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news."},{"word":"Complexional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion."},{"word":"Complexionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Constitutionally."},{"word":"Complexionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it."},{"word":"Complexioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person."},{"word":"Complexities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Complexity"},{"word":"Complexity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement."},{"word":"Complexity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is complex; intricacy; complication."},{"word":"Complexly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a complex manner; not simply."},{"word":"Complexness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being complex; complexity."},{"word":"Complexus","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication."},{"word":"Compliable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant."},{"word":"Compliance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission."},{"word":"Compliance","type":"(n.)","description":"A disposition to yield to others; complaisance."},{"word":"Compliancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Compliance; disposition to yield to others."},{"word":"Compliant","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive."},{"word":"Compliantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a compliant manner."},{"word":"Complicacy","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being complicate or intricate."},{"word":"Complicant","type":"(a.)","description":"Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles."},{"word":"Complicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved."},{"word":"Complicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise."},{"word":"Complicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Complicate"},{"word":"Complicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Complicate"},{"word":"Complicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult."},{"word":"Complicately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a complex manner."},{"word":"Complicateness","type":"(n.)","description":"Complexity."},{"word":"Complication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity."},{"word":"Complication","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it."},{"word":"Complices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Complice"},{"word":"Complice","type":"(n.)","description":"An accomplice."},{"word":"Complicities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Complicity"},{"word":"Complicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt."},{"word":"Complier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper."},{"word":"Compliment","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend."},{"word":"Compliment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to."},{"word":"Compliment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect."},{"word":"Complimental","type":"(a.)","description":"Complimentary."},{"word":"Complimentary","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket."},{"word":"Complimentative","type":"(a.)","description":"Complimentary."},{"word":"Complimenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer."},{"word":"Compline","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Complin"},{"word":"Complin","type":"(n.)","description":"The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset."},{"word":"Complot","type":"(n.)","description":"A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy."},{"word":"Complotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Complot"},{"word":"Complotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Complot"},{"word":"Complot","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design."},{"word":"Complotment","type":"(n.)","description":"A plotting together."},{"word":"Complotter","type":"(n.)","description":"One joined in a plot."},{"word":"Complutensian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible."},{"word":"Compluvium","type":"(n.)","description":"A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern."},{"word":"Complied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Comply"},{"word":"Complying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Comply"},{"word":"Comply","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with."},{"word":"Comply","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments."},{"word":"Comply","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fulfill; to accomplish."},{"word":"Comply","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To infold; to embrace."},{"word":"Compone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compose; to settle; to arrange."},{"word":"Compone","type":"(a.)","description":"See Compony."},{"word":"Component","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent."},{"word":"Component","type":"(n.)","description":"A constituent part; an ingredient."},{"word":"Compony","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Compone"},{"word":"Compone","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony."},{"word":"Comported","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Comport"},{"word":"Comporting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Comport"},{"word":"Comport","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury."},{"word":"Comport","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with."},{"word":"Comport","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with."},{"word":"Comport","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Comport","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment."},{"word":"Comportable","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable; consistent."},{"word":"Comportance","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior; comport."},{"word":"Comportation","type":"(n.)","description":"A bringing together."},{"word":"Comportment","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner of acting; behavior; bearing."},{"word":"Composed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compose"},{"word":"Composing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compose"},{"word":"Compose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion."},{"word":"Compose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute."},{"word":"Compose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture."},{"word":"Compose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate."},{"word":"Compose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet."},{"word":"Compose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type)."},{"word":"Compose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to terms."},{"word":"Composed","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed."},{"word":"Composer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music."},{"word":"Composer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference."},{"word":"Composing","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to compose or soothe."},{"word":"Composing","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or used in, composition."},{"word":"Compositae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples."},{"word":"Composite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language."},{"word":"Composite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital."},{"word":"Composite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion."},{"word":"Composite","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"The setting up of type and arranging it for printing."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"Consistency; accord; congruity."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment."},{"word":"Composition","type":"(n.)","description":"Synthesis as opposed to analysis."},{"word":"Compositive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded."},{"word":"Compositor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who composes or sets in order."},{"word":"Compositor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sets type and arranges it for use."},{"word":"Compositous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Compositae; composite."},{"word":"Compossible","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to exist with another thing; consistent."},{"word":"Compost","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture; a compound."},{"word":"Compost","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap."},{"word":"Compost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manure with compost."},{"word":"Compost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost."},{"word":"Composture","type":"(n.)","description":"Manure; compost."},{"word":"Composure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition."},{"word":"Composure","type":"(n.)","description":"Orderly adjustment; disposition."},{"word":"Composure","type":"(n.)","description":"Frame; make; temperament."},{"word":"Composure","type":"(n.)","description":"A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose."},{"word":"Composure","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination; a union; a bond."},{"word":"Compotation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drinking or tippling together."},{"word":"Compotator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drinks with another."},{"word":"Compote","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(n.)","description":"In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc."},{"word":"Compounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compound"},{"word":"Compounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compound"},{"word":"Compound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compose; to constitute."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition."},{"word":"Compound","type":"(n.)","description":"A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen."},{"word":"Compoundable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be compounded."},{"word":"Compounder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines."},{"word":"Compounder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises."},{"word":"Compounder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime."},{"word":"Compounder","type":"(n.)","description":"One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take."},{"word":"Compounder","type":"(n.)","description":"A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm."},{"word":"Comprador","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of steward or agent."},{"word":"Comprecation","type":"(n.)","description":"A praying together."},{"word":"Comprehended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Comprehend"},{"word":"Comprehending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Comprehend"},{"word":"Comprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire."},{"word":"Comprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply."},{"word":"Comprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand."},{"word":"Comprehensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood."},{"word":"Comprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised."},{"word":"Comprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind."},{"word":"Comprehensibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility."},{"word":"Comprehensibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With great extent of signification; comprehensively."},{"word":"Comprehensibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood."},{"word":"Comprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion."},{"word":"Comprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome."},{"word":"Comprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles."},{"word":"Comprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term."},{"word":"Comprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite."},{"word":"Comprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view."},{"word":"Comprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to comprehend or understand many things."},{"word":"Comprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups."},{"word":"Comprehensively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope."},{"word":"Comprehensiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope."},{"word":"Comprehensor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge."},{"word":"Compressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compress"},{"word":"Compressing","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Compress"},{"word":"Compress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water."},{"word":"Compress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embrace sexually."},{"word":"Compress","type":"(n.)","description":"A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part."},{"word":"Compressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure."},{"word":"Compressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Flattened lengthwise."},{"word":"Compressibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids."},{"word":"Compressible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance."},{"word":"Compressibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being compressible; compressibility."},{"word":"Compression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of compressing, or state of being compressed."},{"word":"Compressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force."},{"word":"Compressor","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which serves to compress"},{"word":"Compressor","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle that compresses certain parts."},{"word":"Compressor","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part."},{"word":"Compressor","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium."},{"word":"Compressor","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor."},{"word":"Compressure","type":"(n.)","description":"Compression."},{"word":"Comprint","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To print together."},{"word":"Comprint","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another."},{"word":"Comprint","type":"(n.)","description":"The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed."},{"word":"Comprisal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome."},{"word":"Comprised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Comprise"},{"word":"Comprising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Comprise"},{"word":"Comprise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To comprehend; to include."},{"word":"Comprobate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to concur."},{"word":"Comprobation","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint attestation; proof."},{"word":"Comprobation","type":"(n.)","description":"Approbation."},{"word":"Compromise","type":"(n.)","description":"A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators."},{"word":"Compromise","type":"(n.)","description":"A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement."},{"word":"Compromise","type":"(n.)","description":"A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right."},{"word":"Compromised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compromise"},{"word":"Compromising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compromise"},{"word":"Compromise","type":"(n.)","description":"To bind by mutual agreement; to agree."},{"word":"Compromise","type":"(n.)","description":"To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound."},{"word":"Compromise","type":"(n.)","description":"To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion."},{"word":"Compromise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to accord."},{"word":"Compromise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make concession for conciliation and peace."},{"word":"Compromiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who compromises."},{"word":"Compromissorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to compromise."},{"word":"Compromitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compromit"},{"word":"Compromitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compromit"},{"word":"Compromit","type":"(n.)","description":"To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise."},{"word":"Compromit","type":"(n.)","description":"To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation."},{"word":"Comprovincial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or associated in, the same province."},{"word":"Comprovincial","type":"(n.)","description":"One who belongs to the same province."},{"word":"Compsognathus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features."},{"word":"Compt","type":"(n.)","description":"Account; reckoning; computation."},{"word":"Compt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compute; to count."},{"word":"Compt","type":"(a.)","description":"Neat; spruce."},{"word":"Compter","type":"(n.)","description":"A counter."},{"word":"Compte","type":"()","description":"A report of an officer or agent."},{"word":"Comptible","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Accountable; responsible; sensitive."},{"word":"Comptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Neatly."},{"word":"Comptrol","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Control."},{"word":"Comptroler","type":"(n.)","description":"A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts."},{"word":"Compulsative","type":"(a.)","description":"Compulsatory."},{"word":"Compulsatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By compulsion."},{"word":"Compulsatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion."},{"word":"Compulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force."},{"word":"Compulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion."},{"word":"Compulsively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By compulsion; by force."},{"word":"Compulsorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a compulsory manner; by force or constraint."},{"word":"Compulsory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of compulsion; constraining."},{"word":"Compulsory","type":"(a.)","description":"Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion."},{"word":"Compunct","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken."},{"word":"Compunction","type":"(n.)","description":"A pricking; stimulation."},{"word":"Compunction","type":"(n.)","description":"A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience."},{"word":"Compunctionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without compunction."},{"word":"Compunctious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction."},{"word":"Compunctiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"With compunction."},{"word":"Compunctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious."},{"word":"Compurgation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager."},{"word":"Compurgation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence."},{"word":"Compurgator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager."},{"word":"Compurgatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation."},{"word":"Computable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned."},{"word":"Computation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning."},{"word":"Computation","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of computation; the amount computed."},{"word":"Computed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Compute"},{"word":"Computing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Compute"},{"word":"Compute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine calculation; to reckon; to count."},{"word":"Compute","type":"(n.)","description":"Computation."},{"word":"Computer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who computes."},{"word":"Computist","type":"(n.)","description":"A computer."},{"word":"Comrade","type":"(n.)","description":"A mate, companion, or associate."},{"word":"Comradery","type":"(n.)","description":"The spirit of comradeship; comradeship."},{"word":"Comradeship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship."},{"word":"Comrogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A fellow rogue."},{"word":"Comtism","type":"(n.)","description":"Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism."},{"word":"Comtist","type":"(n.)","description":"A disciple of Comte; a positivist."},{"word":"Con-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, fr. L. cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-."},{"word":"Con","type":"(adv.)","description":"Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro."},{"word":"Conned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Con"},{"word":"Conning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Con"},{"word":"Con","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To know; to understand; to acknowledge."},{"word":"Con","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously."},{"word":"Con","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer."},{"word":"Conacre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To underlet a portion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm."},{"word":"Conacre","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop."},{"word":"Conacre","type":"(n.)","description":"Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle."},{"word":"Conarium","type":"(n.)","description":"The pineal gland."},{"word":"Conation","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical."},{"word":"Conative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to conation."},{"word":"Conatus","type":"(n.)","description":"A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort."},{"word":"Concamerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arch over; to vault."},{"word":"Concamerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into chambers or cells."},{"word":"Concameration","type":"(n.)","description":"An arch or vault."},{"word":"Concameration","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamber of a multilocular shell."},{"word":"Concatenated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concatenate"},{"word":"Concatenating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Concatenate"},{"word":"Concatenate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another."},{"word":"Concatenation","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession."},{"word":"Concause","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint cause."},{"word":"Concavation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making concave."},{"word":"Concave","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky."},{"word":"Concave","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow; void of contents."},{"word":"Concave","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess."},{"word":"Concave","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll."},{"word":"Concaved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concave"},{"word":"Concaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Concave"},{"word":"Concave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hollow or concave."},{"word":"Concaved","type":"(a.)","description":"Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched."},{"word":"Concaveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Hollowness; concavity."},{"word":"Concavities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Concavity"},{"word":"Concavity","type":"(n.)","description":"A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave."},{"word":"Concavo-concave","type":"(a.)","description":"Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave."},{"word":"Concavo-convex","type":"(a.)","description":"Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent."},{"word":"Concavo-convex","type":"(a.)","description":"Specifically, having such a combination of concave and convex sides as makes the focal axis the shortest line between them. See Illust. under Lens."},{"word":"Concavous","type":"(a.)","description":"Concave."},{"word":"Concealed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conceal"},{"word":"Concealing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conceal"},{"word":"Conceal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of."},{"word":"Concealable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being concealed."},{"word":"Concealed","type":"(a.)","description":"Hidden; kept from sight; secreted."},{"word":"Concealer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conceals."},{"word":"Concealment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of concealing; the state of being concealed."},{"word":"Concealment","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation."},{"word":"Concealment","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret; out of the way knowledge."},{"word":"Concealment","type":"(n.)","description":"Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known."},{"word":"Conceded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concede"},{"word":"Conceding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Concede"},{"word":"Concede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question."},{"word":"Concede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of."},{"word":"Concede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit to be true; to acknowledge."},{"word":"Concede","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield or make concession."},{"word":"Conceit","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception."},{"word":"Conceit","type":"(n.)","description":"Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit."},{"word":"Conceit","type":"(n.)","description":"Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy."},{"word":"Conceit","type":"(n.)","description":"A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip."},{"word":"Conceit","type":"(n.)","description":"An overweening idea of one's self; vanity."},{"word":"Conceit","type":"(n.)","description":"Design; pattern."},{"word":"Conceit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conceive; to imagine."},{"word":"Conceit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form an idea; to think."},{"word":"Conceited","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with fancy or imagination."},{"word":"Conceited","type":"(a.)","description":"Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain."},{"word":"Conceited","type":"(a.)","description":"Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful."},{"word":"Conceitedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an egotistical manner."},{"word":"Conceitedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fancifully; whimsically."},{"word":"Conceitedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity."},{"word":"Conceitless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without wit; stupid."},{"word":"Conceivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood."},{"word":"Conceived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conceive"},{"word":"Conceiving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conceive"},{"word":"Conceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of."},{"word":"Conceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope."},{"word":"Conceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand."},{"word":"Conceive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant."},{"word":"Conceive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of."},{"word":"Conceiver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conceives."},{"word":"Concelebrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To celebrate together."},{"word":"Concent","type":"(n.)","description":"Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes."},{"word":"Concent","type":"(n.)","description":"Consistency; accordance."},{"word":"Concentered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concentre"},{"word":"Concentred","type":"()","description":"of Concentre"},{"word":"Concentering","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Concentre"},{"word":"Concentring","type":"()","description":"of Concentre"},{"word":"Concenter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Concentre"},{"word":"Concentre","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center."},{"word":"Concenter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Concentre"},{"word":"Concentre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate."},{"word":"Concentrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concentrate"},{"word":"Concentrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Concentrate"},{"word":"Concentrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention."},{"word":"Concentrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute."},{"word":"Concentrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities."},{"word":"Concentration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration."},{"word":"Concentration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation."},{"word":"Concentration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water."},{"word":"Concentrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration."},{"word":"Concentrativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of concentrating."},{"word":"Concentrativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty or propensity which has to do with concentrating the intellectual the intellectual powers."},{"word":"Concentrator","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air."},{"word":"Concentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Concentrical"},{"word":"Concentrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another."},{"word":"Concentric","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has a common center with something else."},{"word":"Concentrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a concentric manner."},{"word":"Concentricity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being concentric."},{"word":"Concentual","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing harmony; accordant."},{"word":"Concept","type":"(n.)","description":"An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal."},{"word":"Conceptacle","type":"(n.)","description":"That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle."},{"word":"Conceptacle","type":"(n.)","description":"A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles."},{"word":"Conceptacle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae."},{"word":"Conceptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness."},{"word":"Conceptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being conceived; conceivable."},{"word":"Conception","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life."},{"word":"Conception","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being conceived; beginning."},{"word":"Conception","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception."},{"word":"Conception","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension."},{"word":"Conception","type":"(n.)","description":"The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept."},{"word":"Conception","type":"(n.)","description":"Idea; purpose; design."},{"word":"Conception","type":"(n.)","description":"Conceit; affected sentiment or thought."},{"word":"Conceptional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to conception."},{"word":"Conceptionalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A conceptualist."},{"word":"Conceptious","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to conceive; fruitful."},{"word":"Conceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of conceiving."},{"word":"Conceptual","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to conception."},{"word":"Conceptualism","type":"(n.)","description":"A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects."},{"word":"Conceptualist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who maintains the theory of conceptualism."},{"word":"Concerned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concern"},{"word":"Concerning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Concern"},{"word":"Concern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to."},{"word":"Concern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects."},{"word":"Concern","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be of importance."},{"word":"Concern","type":"(n.)","description":"That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair."},{"word":"Concern","type":"(n.)","description":"That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment."},{"word":"Concern","type":"(n.)","description":"Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety."},{"word":"Concern","type":"(n.)","description":"Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern."},{"word":"Concerned","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend."},{"word":"Concernedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically."},{"word":"Concerning","type":"(prep.)","description":"Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards."},{"word":"Concerning","type":"(a.)","description":"Important."},{"word":"Concerning","type":"(n.)","description":"That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest."},{"word":"Concerning","type":"(n.)","description":"Importance; moment; consequence."},{"word":"Concerning","type":"(n.)","description":"Concern; participation; interposition."},{"word":"Concerning","type":"(n.)","description":"Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety."},{"word":"Concerted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concert"},{"word":"Concerting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Concert"},{"word":"Concert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation."},{"word":"Concert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plan; to devise; to arrange."},{"word":"Concert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans."},{"word":"Concert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action."},{"word":"Concert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Musical accordance or harmony; concord."},{"word":"Concert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part."},{"word":"Concertante","type":"(n.)","description":"A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts."},{"word":"Concertation","type":"(n.)","description":"Strife; contention."},{"word":"Concertative","type":"(a.)","description":"Contentious; quarrelsome."},{"word":"Concerted","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals."},{"word":"Concertina","type":"(n.)","description":"A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads."},{"word":"Concertino","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto."},{"word":"Concertion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of concerting; adjustment."},{"word":"Concertmeister","type":"(n.)","description":"The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master."},{"word":"Concertos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Concerto"},{"word":"Concerto","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill."},{"word":"Concession","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous."},{"word":"Concession","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal."},{"word":"Concessionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors concession."},{"word":"Concessive","type":"(a.)","description":"Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction."},{"word":"Concessively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of concession."},{"word":"Concessory","type":"(a.)","description":"Conceding; permissive."},{"word":"Concettism","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of concetti or affected conceits."},{"word":"Concetti","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Concetto"},{"word":"Concetto","type":"(n.)","description":"Affected wit; a conceit."},{"word":"Conch","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo."},{"word":"Conch","type":"(n.)","description":"In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet."},{"word":"Conch","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food."},{"word":"Conch","type":"(n.)","description":"See Concha, n."},{"word":"Conch","type":"(n.)","description":"The external ear. See Concha, n., 2."},{"word":"Concha","type":"(n.)","description":"The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse."},{"word":"Concha","type":"(n.)","description":"The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal."},{"word":"Conchal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage."},{"word":"Conchifer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Conchifera."},{"word":"Conchifera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca."},{"word":"Conchiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing or having shells."},{"word":"Conchiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped."},{"word":"Conchinine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Quinidine."},{"word":"Conchite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil or petrified conch or shell."},{"word":"Conchitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of shells; containing many shells."},{"word":"Conchoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube."},{"word":"Conchoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture."},{"word":"Conchological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology."},{"word":"Conchologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who studies, or is versed in, conchology."},{"word":"Conchology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology."},{"word":"Conchometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire."},{"word":"Conchometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry."},{"word":"Concho-spiral","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells."},{"word":"Conchylaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Conchyliaceous"},{"word":"Conchyliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions."},{"word":"Conchyliologist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Conchyliology"},{"word":"Conchyliology","type":"(n.)","description":"See Conchologist, and Conchology."},{"word":"Conchyliometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Conchometry."},{"word":"Conchylious","type":"(a.)","description":"Conchylaceous."},{"word":"Conciator","type":"(a.)","description":"The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them."},{"word":"Concierge","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female."},{"word":"Conciliable","type":"(n.)","description":"A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature."},{"word":"Conciliable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being conciliated or reconciled."},{"word":"Conciliabule","type":"(n.)","description":"An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable."},{"word":"Conciliar","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Conciliary"},{"word":"Conciliary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council."},{"word":"Conciliated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conciliate"},{"word":"Conciliating","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Conciliate"},{"word":"Conciliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease."},{"word":"Conciliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated."},{"word":"Conciliative","type":"(a.)","description":"Conciliatory."},{"word":"Conciliator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conciliates."},{"word":"Conciliatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating."},{"word":"Concinnate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear."},{"word":"Concinnity","type":"(n.)","description":"Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse."},{"word":"Concinnous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant."},{"word":"Concionate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To preach."},{"word":"Concionator","type":"(n.)","description":"An haranguer of the people; a preacher."},{"word":"Concionator","type":"(n.)","description":"A common councilman."},{"word":"Concionatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses."},{"word":"Concise","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking."},{"word":"Concisely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a concise manner; briefly."},{"word":"Conciseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being concise."},{"word":"Concision","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction."},{"word":"Concitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating."},{"word":"Concite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite or stir up."},{"word":"Conclamation","type":"(n.)","description":"An outcry or shout of many together."},{"word":"Conclave","type":"(n.)","description":"The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope."},{"word":"Conclave","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals."},{"word":"Conclave","type":"(n.)","description":"A private meeting; a close or secret assembly."},{"word":"Conclavist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave."},{"word":"Concluded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conclude"},{"word":"Concluding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conclude"},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up; to inclose."},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace."},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause."},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide."},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to an end; to close; to finish."},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain."},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument."},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate."},{"word":"Conclude","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a final judgment; to reach a decision."},{"word":"Concludency","type":"(n.)","description":"Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion."},{"word":"Concludent","type":"(a.)","description":"Bringing to a close; decisive; conclusive."},{"word":"Concluder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who concludes."},{"word":"Concludingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Conclusively."},{"word":"Conclusible","type":"(a.)","description":"Demonstrable; determinable."},{"word":"Conclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The last part of anything; close; termination; end."},{"word":"Conclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Final decision; determination; result."},{"word":"Conclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Any inference or result of reasoning."},{"word":"Conclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism."},{"word":"Conclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Drawing of inferences."},{"word":"Conclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn."},{"word":"Conclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, \"against the peace,\" etc."},{"word":"Conclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position."},{"word":"Conclusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision."},{"word":"Conclusively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively."},{"word":"Conclusiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness."},{"word":"Conclusory","type":"(a.)","description":"Conclusive."},{"word":"Concocted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concoct"},{"word":"Concocting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Concoct"},{"word":"Concoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition."},{"word":"Concoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purify or refine chemically."},{"word":"Concoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage."},{"word":"Concoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot."},{"word":"Concoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mature or perfect; to ripen."},{"word":"Concocter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who concocts."},{"word":"Concoction","type":"(n.)","description":"A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion."},{"word":"Concoction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared."},{"word":"Concoction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination."},{"word":"Concoction","type":"(n.)","description":"Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition."},{"word":"Concoction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of perfecting or maturing."},{"word":"Concoctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive."},{"word":"Concolor","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same color; of uniform color."},{"word":"Concolorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same color throughout."},{"word":"Concomitance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Concomitancy"},{"word":"Concomitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of accompanying; accompaniment."},{"word":"Concomitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only."},{"word":"Concomitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Accompanying; conjoined; attending."},{"word":"Concomitant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment."},{"word":"Concomitantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In company with others; unitedly; concurrently."},{"word":"Concord","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of agreement; harmony; union."},{"word":"Concord","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league."},{"word":"Concord","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case."},{"word":"Concord","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine."},{"word":"Concord","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony."},{"word":"Concord","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters."},{"word":"Concord","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to act together."},{"word":"Concordable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious."},{"word":"Concordance","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement; accordance."},{"word":"Concordance","type":"(n.)","description":"Concord; agreement."},{"word":"Concordance","type":"(n.)","description":"An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place."},{"word":"Concordance","type":"(n.)","description":"A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book."},{"word":"Concordancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement."},{"word":"Concordant","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant."},{"word":"Concordantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a concordant manner."},{"word":"Concordat","type":"(n.)","description":"A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything."},{"word":"Concordat","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801."},{"word":"Concordist","type":"(n.)","description":"The compiler of a concordance."},{"word":"Concorporate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate."},{"word":"Concorporate","type":"(a.)","description":"United in one body; incorporated."},{"word":"Concorporation","type":"(n.)","description":"Union of things in one mass or body."},{"word":"Concourse","type":"(n.)","description":"A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence."},{"word":"Concourse","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place."},{"word":"Concourse","type":"(n.)","description":"The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies."},{"word":"Concourse","type":"(n.)","description":"An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet."},{"word":"Concourse","type":"(n.)","description":"Concurrence; cooperation."},{"word":"Concreate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To create at the same time."},{"word":"Concremation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of burning different things together."},{"word":"Concrement","type":"(n.)","description":"A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union."},{"word":"Concrescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles."},{"word":"Concrescible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state."},{"word":"Concrescive","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing together, or into union; uniting."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(a.)","description":"United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(n.)","description":"A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(n.)","description":"Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass."},{"word":"Concreted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concrete"},{"word":"Concreting","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Concrete"},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles."},{"word":"Concrete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement."},{"word":"Concretely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a concrete manner."},{"word":"Concreteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being concrete."},{"word":"Concretion","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification."},{"word":"Concretion","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus."},{"word":"Concretion","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay."},{"word":"Concretional","type":"(a.)","description":"Concretionary."},{"word":"Concretionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions."},{"word":"Concretive","type":"(a.)","description":"Promoting concretion."},{"word":"Concretively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a concrete manner."},{"word":"Concreture","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass formed by concretion."},{"word":"Concrew","type":"(a.)","description":"To grow together."},{"word":"Concrimination","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint accusation."},{"word":"Concubinacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of concubinage."},{"word":"Concubinage","type":"(n.)","description":"The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine."},{"word":"Concubinage","type":"(n.)","description":"A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine."},{"word":"Concubinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to concubinage."},{"word":"Concubinarian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Concubinary."},{"word":"Concubinary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to concubinage; living in concubinage."},{"word":"Concubinaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Concubinary"},{"word":"Concubinary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in concubinage."},{"word":"Concubinate","type":"(n.)","description":"Concubinage."},{"word":"Concubine","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour."},{"word":"Concubine","type":"(n.)","description":"A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father."},{"word":"Concultated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conculcate"},{"word":"Conculcating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conculcate"},{"word":"Conculcate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tread or trample under foot."},{"word":"Concupiscence","type":"(n.)","description":"Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion."},{"word":"Concupiscent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious."},{"word":"Concupiscential","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to concupiscence."},{"word":"Concupiscentious","type":"(a.)","description":"Concupiscent."},{"word":"Concupiscible","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires."},{"word":"Concupiscible","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting desire, good or evil."},{"word":"Concupiscibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being concupiscible."},{"word":"Concupy","type":"(n.)","description":"Concupiscence. [Used only in \"Troilus and Cressida\"]"},{"word":"Concurred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Concur"},{"word":"Concurring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Concur"},{"word":"Concur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run together; to meet."},{"word":"Concur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect."},{"word":"Concur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond."},{"word":"Concur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assent; to consent."},{"word":"Concurrence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination."},{"word":"Concurrence","type":"(n.)","description":"A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation."},{"word":"Concurrence","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; cooperation."},{"word":"Concurrence","type":"(n.)","description":"A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts."},{"word":"Concurrency","type":"(n.)","description":"Concurrence."},{"word":"Concurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating."},{"word":"Concurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time."},{"word":"Concurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts."},{"word":"Concurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Meeting in one point."},{"word":"Concurrent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause."},{"word":"Concurrent","type":"(n.)","description":"One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent."},{"word":"Concurrent","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow."},{"word":"Concurrently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With concurrence; unitedly."},{"word":"Concurrentness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence."},{"word":"Concurring","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing."},{"word":"Concuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shake or agitate."},{"word":"Concuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce."},{"word":"Concussation","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent shock or agitation."},{"word":"Concussion","type":"(n.)","description":"A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies."},{"word":"Concussion","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain."},{"word":"Concussion","type":"(n.)","description":"The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value."},{"word":"Concussive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating."},{"word":"Cond","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To con, as a ship."},{"word":"Condemned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Condemn"},{"word":"Condemning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Condemn"},{"word":"Condemn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure."},{"word":"Condemn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt."},{"word":"Condemn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty."},{"word":"Condemn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty."},{"word":"Condemn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned."},{"word":"Condemn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain."},{"word":"Condemnable","type":"()","description":"Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable."},{"word":"Condemnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation."},{"word":"Condemnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture."},{"word":"Condemnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being condemned."},{"word":"Condemnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground or reason of condemning."},{"word":"Condemnatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree."},{"word":"Condemned","type":"(a.)","description":"Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation."},{"word":"Condemned","type":"(a.)","description":"Used for condemned persons."},{"word":"Condemner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who condemns or censures."},{"word":"Condensability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being condensed."},{"word":"Condensable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable."},{"word":"Condensate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Made dense; condensed."},{"word":"Condensated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Condensate"},{"word":"Condensating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Condensate"},{"word":"Condensate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To condense."},{"word":"Condensation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed."},{"word":"Condensation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water."},{"word":"Condensation","type":"(n.)","description":"A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene."},{"word":"Condensative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of condensing."},{"word":"Condensed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Condense"},{"word":"Condensing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Condense"},{"word":"Condense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize."},{"word":"Condense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water."},{"word":"Condense","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form."},{"word":"Condense","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products."},{"word":"Condense","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undergo polymerization."},{"word":"Condense","type":"(a.)","description":"Condensed; compact; dense."},{"word":"Condenser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, condenses."},{"word":"Condenser","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape."},{"word":"Condenser","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate."},{"word":"Condenser","type":"(n.)","description":"A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object."},{"word":"Condenser","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling."},{"word":"Condenser","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine."},{"word":"Condensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold."},{"word":"Conder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker."},{"word":"Condescended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Condescend"},{"word":"Condescending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Condescend"},{"word":"Condescend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior."},{"word":"Condescend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To consent."},{"word":"Condescendence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Condescendency"},{"word":"Condescendency","type":"(n.)","description":"Condescension."},{"word":"Condescendingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a condescending manner."},{"word":"Condescension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors."},{"word":"Condescent","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of condescension."},{"word":"Condign","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit."},{"word":"Condign","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime."},{"word":"Condignity","type":"(n.)","description":"Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence."},{"word":"Condignly","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to merit."},{"word":"Condignness","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness."},{"word":"Condiment","type":"(n.)","description":"Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning."},{"word":"Condisciple","type":"(n.)","description":"A schoolfellow; a fellow-student."},{"word":"Condite","type":"(a.)","description":"Preserved; pickled."},{"word":"Condite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"Essential quality; property; attribute."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"Temperament; disposition; character."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend."},{"word":"Conditioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Condition"},{"word":"Conditioning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Condition"},{"word":"Condition","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make terms; to stipulate."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"To contract; to stipulate; to agree."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains)."},{"word":"Condition","type":"(n.)","description":"train; acclimate."},{"word":"Conditional","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise."},{"word":"Conditional","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense."},{"word":"Conditional","type":"(n.)","description":"A limitation."},{"word":"Conditional","type":"(n.)","description":"A conditional word, mode, or proposition."},{"word":"Conditionality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms."},{"word":"Conditionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively."},{"word":"Conditionate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Conditional."},{"word":"Conditionate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To qualify by conditions; to regulate."},{"word":"Conditionate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put under conditions; to render conditional."},{"word":"Conditioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man."},{"word":"Conditioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute."},{"word":"Conditionly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Conditionally."},{"word":"Conditories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Conditory"},{"word":"Conditory","type":"(n.)","description":"A repository for holding things; a hinding place."},{"word":"Condog","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To concur; to agree."},{"word":"Condolatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing condolence."},{"word":"Condoled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Condole"},{"word":"Condoling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Condole"},{"word":"Condole","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Condole","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lament or grieve over."},{"word":"Condolement","type":"(n.)","description":"Condolence."},{"word":"Condolement","type":"(n.)","description":"Sorrow; mourning; lamentation."},{"word":"Condolence","type":"(n.)","description":"Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief."},{"word":"Condoler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who condoles."},{"word":"Condonation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of condoning or pardoning."},{"word":"Condonation","type":"(n.)","description":"Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated."},{"word":"Condoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Condone"},{"word":"Condoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Condone"},{"word":"Condone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pardon; to forgive."},{"word":"Condone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife."},{"word":"Condor","type":"(n.)","description":"A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes."},{"word":"Condottieri","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Condottiere"},{"word":"Condottiere","type":"(n.)","description":"A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest."},{"word":"Conduced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conduce"},{"word":"Conducing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conduce"},{"word":"Conduce","type":"(n.)","description":"To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward."},{"word":"Conduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conduct; to lead; to guide."},{"word":"Conducent","type":"(a.)","description":"Conducive; tending."},{"word":"Conducibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness."},{"word":"Conducible","type":"(a.)","description":"Conducive; tending; contributing."},{"word":"Conducibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being conducible."},{"word":"Conducibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to promote."},{"word":"Conducive","type":"(a.)","description":"Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote."},{"word":"Conduciveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of conducing."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or method of conducting; guidance; management."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"Skillful guidance or management; generalship."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"Convoy; escort; guard; guide."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"Plot; action; construction; manner of development."},{"word":"Conducted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conduct"},{"word":"Conducting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conduct"},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(n.)","description":"To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry."},{"word":"Conduct","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To conduct one's self; to behave."},{"word":"Conductibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity."},{"word":"Conductibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting."},{"word":"Conductible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being conducted."},{"word":"Conduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of leading or guiding."},{"word":"Conduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of training up."},{"word":"Conduction","type":"(n.)","description":"Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity."},{"word":"Conductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil."},{"word":"Conductivity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve."},{"word":"Conductor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director."},{"word":"Conductor","type":"(n.)","description":"One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car."},{"word":"Conductor","type":"(n.)","description":"The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus."},{"word":"Conductor","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod."},{"word":"Conductor","type":"(n.)","description":"A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director."},{"word":"Conductor","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Leader."},{"word":"Conductory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of conducting."},{"word":"Conductress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who leads or directs; a directress."},{"word":"Conduit","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid."},{"word":"Conduit","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure forming a reservoir for water."},{"word":"Conduit","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow passage for private communication."},{"word":"Conduplicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or aestivation."},{"word":"Conduplication","type":"(n.)","description":"A doubling together or folding; a duplication."},{"word":"Condurango","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cundurango."},{"word":"Condurrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England."},{"word":"Condylar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a condyle."},{"word":"Condyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface."},{"word":"Condyloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle."},{"word":"Condylomata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Condylome"},{"word":"Condylomes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Condylome"},{"word":"Condyloma","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Condylome"},{"word":"Condylome","type":"(n.)","description":"A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane."},{"word":"Condylopod","type":"(n.)","description":"An arthropod."},{"word":"Cone","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex."},{"word":"Cone","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form."},{"word":"Cone","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base."},{"word":"Cone","type":"(n.)","description":"A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form."},{"word":"Cone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels."},{"word":"Cone-in-cone","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks."},{"word":"Coneine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Conine."},{"word":"Conepate","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Conepatl"},{"word":"Conepatl","type":"(n.)","description":"The skunk."},{"word":"Cone","type":"()","description":"A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape."},{"word":"Coney","type":"(n.)","description":"A rabbit. See Cony."},{"word":"Coney","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish. See Cony."},{"word":"Confab","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiar talk or conversation."},{"word":"Confabulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confabulate"},{"word":"Confabulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confabulate"},{"word":"Confabulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle."},{"word":"Confabulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation."},{"word":"Confabulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue."},{"word":"Confalon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents."},{"word":"Confarreation","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses."},{"word":"Confated","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Fated or decreed with something else."},{"word":"Confected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confect"},{"word":"Confecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confect"},{"word":"Confect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of."},{"word":"Confect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To construct; to form; to mingle or mix."},{"word":"Confect","type":"(n.)","description":"A comfit; a confection."},{"word":"Confection","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition of different materials."},{"word":"Confection","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat."},{"word":"Confection","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition of drugs."},{"word":"Confection","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey."},{"word":"Confectionary","type":"(n.)","description":"A confectioner."},{"word":"Confectionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Prepared as a confection."},{"word":"Confectioner","type":"(n.)","description":"A compounder."},{"word":"Confectioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc."},{"word":"Confectionery","type":"(n.)","description":"Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies."},{"word":"Confectionery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold."},{"word":"Confectory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats."},{"word":"Confecture","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Confiture."},{"word":"Confeder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To confederate."},{"word":"Confederacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Confederacy"},{"word":"Confederacy","type":"(n.)","description":"A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance."},{"word":"Confederacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation."},{"word":"Confederacy","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy."},{"word":"Confederate","type":"(a.)","description":"United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied."},{"word":"Confederate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money."},{"word":"Confederate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense."},{"word":"Confederate","type":"(n.)","description":"A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865)."},{"word":"Confederated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confederate"},{"word":"Confederating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confederate"},{"word":"Confederate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally."},{"word":"Confederate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together."},{"word":"Confederater","type":"(n.)","description":"A confederate."},{"word":"Confederation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states."},{"word":"Confederation","type":"(n.)","description":"The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy."},{"word":"Confederative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a confederation."},{"word":"Confederator","type":"(n.)","description":"A confederate."},{"word":"Conferred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confer"},{"word":"Conferring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confer"},{"word":"Confer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring together for comparison; to compare."},{"word":"Confer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant as a possession; to bestow."},{"word":"Confer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contribute; to conduce."},{"word":"Confer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate."},{"word":"Conferee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate."},{"word":"Conferee","type":"(n.)","description":"One upon whom something is conferred."},{"word":"Conference","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison."},{"word":"Conference","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views."},{"word":"Conference","type":"(n.)","description":"A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions."},{"word":"Conference","type":"(n.)","description":"A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them."},{"word":"Conference","type":"(n.)","description":"A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters."},{"word":"Conference","type":"(n.)","description":"A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are."},{"word":"Conferential","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to conference."},{"word":"Conferrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being conferred."},{"word":"Conferree","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Conferee."},{"word":"Conferrer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confers; one who converses."},{"word":"Conferrer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bestows; a giver."},{"word":"Conferruminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Conferruminated"},{"word":"Conferruminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn."},{"word":"Confervae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Conferva"},{"word":"Conferva","type":"(n.)","description":"Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense."},{"word":"Confervaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the confervae."},{"word":"Confervoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or related to, the confervae."},{"word":"Confervous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae."},{"word":"Confessed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confess"},{"word":"Confessing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confess"},{"word":"Confess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt."},{"word":"Confess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in."},{"word":"Confess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment."},{"word":"Confess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Confess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest."},{"word":"Confess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest."},{"word":"Confess","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience."},{"word":"Confess","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To acknowledge; to admit; to concede."},{"word":"Confessant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confesses to a priest."},{"word":"Confessary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a confession."},{"word":"Confessedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By confession; without denial."},{"word":"Confesser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a confession."},{"word":"Confession","type":"(n.)","description":"Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime."},{"word":"Confession","type":"(n.)","description":"Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith."},{"word":"Confession","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution."},{"word":"Confession","type":"(n.)","description":"A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith."},{"word":"Confession","type":"(n.)","description":"An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted."},{"word":"Confessional","type":"(n.)","description":"The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others."},{"word":"Confessional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a confession of faith."},{"word":"Confessionalism","type":"(n.)","description":"An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith."},{"word":"Confessionalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession."},{"word":"Confessionary","type":"(n.)","description":"A confessional."},{"word":"Confessionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany."},{"word":"Confessionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One professing a certain faith."},{"word":"Confessor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith."},{"word":"Confessor","type":"(n.)","description":"A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution."},{"word":"Confessorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith."},{"word":"Confestly","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Cofessedly."},{"word":"Confidant","type":"(n. fem.)","description":"Alt. of Confidante"},{"word":"Confidante","type":"(n. fem.)","description":"One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend."},{"word":"Confided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confide"},{"word":"Confiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confide"},{"word":"Confide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers."},{"word":"Confide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Confidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in."},{"word":"Confidence","type":"(n.)","description":"That in which faith is put or reliance had."},{"word":"Confidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed."},{"word":"Confidence","type":"(n.)","description":"Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them."},{"word":"Confidence","type":"(n.)","description":"Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved."},{"word":"Confidence","type":"(n.)","description":"Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted."},{"word":"Confidence","type":"(n.)","description":"Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous."},{"word":"Confidence","type":"(n.)","description":"Giving occasion for confidence."},{"word":"Confident","type":"(n.)","description":"See Confidant."},{"word":"Confidential","type":"(a.)","description":"Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk."},{"word":"Confidential","type":"(a.)","description":"Communicated in confidence; secret."},{"word":"Confidentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In confidence; in reliance on secrecy."},{"word":"Confidently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With confidence; with strong assurance; positively."},{"word":"Confidentness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being confident."},{"word":"Confider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confides."},{"word":"Confiding","type":"(a.)","description":"That confides; trustful; unsuspicious."},{"word":"Configurate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern."},{"word":"Configuration","type":"(n.)","description":"Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure."},{"word":"Configuration","type":"(n.)","description":"Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time."},{"word":"Configured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Configure"},{"word":"Configuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Configure"},{"word":"Configure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape."},{"word":"Confinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited."},{"word":"Confined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confine"},{"word":"Confining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confine"},{"word":"Confine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close."},{"word":"Confine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with."},{"word":"Confine","type":"(n.)","description":"Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural."},{"word":"Confine","type":"(n.)","description":"Apartment; place of restraint; prison."},{"word":"Confineless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without limitation or end; boundless."},{"word":"Confinement","type":"(n.)","description":"Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion."},{"word":"Confinement","type":"(n.)","description":"Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in."},{"word":"Confiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, limits or restrains."},{"word":"Confiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor."},{"word":"Confinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Community of limits; contiguity."},{"word":"Confrmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confirm"},{"word":"Confirming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confirm"},{"word":"Confirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise."},{"word":"Confirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strengthen in judgment or purpose."},{"word":"Confirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor."},{"word":"Confirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty."},{"word":"Confirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3."},{"word":"Confirmable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be confirmed."},{"word":"Confirmance","type":"(n.)","description":"Confirmation."},{"word":"Confirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment."},{"word":"Confirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony."},{"word":"Confirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc."},{"word":"Confirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable."},{"word":"Confirmative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to confirm or establish."},{"word":"Confirmator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer."},{"word":"Confirmatory","type":"(a. .)","description":"Serving to confirm; corroborative."},{"word":"Confirmatory","type":"(a. .)","description":"Pertaining to the rite of confirmation."},{"word":"Confirmedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With confirmation."},{"word":"Confirmedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed state."},{"word":"Confirmee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom anything is confirmed."},{"word":"Confirmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates."},{"word":"Confirmingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a confirming manner."},{"word":"Confiscable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture."},{"word":"Confiscate","type":"(a.)","description":"Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited."},{"word":"Confiscated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confiscate"},{"word":"Confiscating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confiscate"},{"word":"Confiscate","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use."},{"word":"Confiscation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use."},{"word":"Confiscator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confiscates."},{"word":"Confiscatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations."},{"word":"Confit","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Comfit."},{"word":"Confitent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confesses his sins and faults."},{"word":"Confiteor","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made."},{"word":"Confiture","type":"(n.)","description":"Composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a sweetmeat."},{"word":"Confixed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confix"},{"word":"Confix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix; to fasten."},{"word":"Confixure","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of fastening."},{"word":"Conflagrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Burning together in a common flame."},{"word":"Conflagration","type":"(n.)","description":"A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning."},{"word":"Conflated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conflate"},{"word":"Conflating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conflate"},{"word":"Conflate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate."},{"word":"Conflation","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry."},{"word":"Conflict","type":"(v.)","description":"A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves."},{"word":"Conflict","type":"(v.)","description":"A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting."},{"word":"Conflicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conflict"},{"word":"Conflicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conflict"},{"word":"Conflict","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide."},{"word":"Conflict","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle."},{"word":"Conflict","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in opposition; to be contradictory."},{"word":"Conflicting","type":"(a.)","description":"Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing."},{"word":"Conflictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to conflict; conflicting."},{"word":"Confluence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting."},{"word":"Confluence","type":"(n.)","description":"Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage."},{"word":"Confluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another."},{"word":"Confluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction."},{"word":"Confluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules."},{"word":"Confluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox."},{"word":"Confluent","type":"(n.)","description":"A small steam which flows into a large one."},{"word":"Confluent","type":"(n.)","description":"The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc."},{"word":"Conflux","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing together; a meeting of currents."},{"word":"Conflux","type":"(n.)","description":"A large assemblage; a passing multitude."},{"word":"Confluxibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The tendency of fluids to run together."},{"word":"Confluxible","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to flow or run together."},{"word":"Confocal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics."},{"word":"Conform","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same form; similar in import; conformable."},{"word":"Conformed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conform"},{"word":"Conforming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conform"},{"word":"Conform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto."},{"word":"Conform","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; -- with to or with."},{"word":"Conform","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist."},{"word":"Conformability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being conformable."},{"word":"Conformability","type":"(n.)","description":"The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact."},{"word":"Conformable","type":"(a.)","description":"Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to."},{"word":"Conformable","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow direstions; submissive; compliant."},{"word":"Conformable","type":"(a.)","description":"Parallel, or nearly so; -- said of strata in contact."},{"word":"Conformableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being conformable; conformability."},{"word":"Conformably","type":"(adv.)","description":"With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably."},{"word":"Conformance","type":"(n.)","description":"Conformity."},{"word":"Conformate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same form."},{"word":"Conformation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity."},{"word":"Conformation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement."},{"word":"Conformer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines."},{"word":"Conformist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist."},{"word":"Conformities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Conformity"},{"word":"Conformity","type":"(n.)","description":"Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between."},{"word":"Conformity","type":"(n.)","description":"Compliance with the usages of the Established Church."},{"word":"Confortation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of strengthening."},{"word":"Confounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confound"},{"word":"Confounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confound"},{"word":"Confound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse."},{"word":"Confound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mistake for another; to identify falsely."},{"word":"Confound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay."},{"word":"Confound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy; to ruin; to waste."},{"word":"Confounded","type":"(a.)","description":"Confused; perplexed."},{"word":"Confounded","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessive; extreme; abominable."},{"word":"Confoundedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Extremely; odiously; detestable."},{"word":"Confoundedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being confounded."},{"word":"Confounder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confounds."},{"word":"Confract","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken in pieces; severed."},{"word":"Confragose","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken; uneven."},{"word":"Confraternities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Confraternity"},{"word":"Confraternity","type":"(n.)","description":"A society of body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood."},{"word":"Confrere","type":"(n.)","description":"Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate."},{"word":"Confrication","type":"(n.)","description":"A rubbing together; friction."},{"word":"Confrier","type":"(n.)","description":"A confr/re."},{"word":"Confronted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confront"},{"word":"Confronting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confront"},{"word":"Confront","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness."},{"word":"Confront","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing."},{"word":"Confront","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare."},{"word":"Confrontation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of confrontating."},{"word":"Confronte","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Affronte."},{"word":"Confronter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confronts."},{"word":"Confrontment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of confronting; the state of being face to face."},{"word":"Confrontment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of confronting; the state of being face to face."},{"word":"Confucian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher."},{"word":"Confucian","type":"(n.)","description":"A Confucianist."},{"word":"Confucianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god."},{"word":"Confucianist","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Confucius; a Confucian."},{"word":"Confus","type":"(a.)","description":"Confused, disturbed."},{"word":"Confusability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being confused."},{"word":"Confusable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being confused."},{"word":"Confuse","type":"(a.)","description":"Mixed; confounded."},{"word":"Confused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confuse"},{"word":"Confusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confuse"},{"word":"Confuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision."},{"word":"Confuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession."},{"word":"Confusedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a confused manner."},{"word":"Confusedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of confusion."},{"word":"Confusely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Confusedly; obscurely."},{"word":"Confusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult."},{"word":"Confusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame."},{"word":"Confusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Overthrow; defeat; ruin."},{"word":"Confusion","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confuses; a confounder."},{"word":"Confusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Confusing; having a tendency to confusion."},{"word":"Confutable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be confuted."},{"word":"Confutant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who undertakes to confute."},{"word":"Confutation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of confuting; refutation."},{"word":"Confutative","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted or designed to confute."},{"word":"Confuted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Confute"},{"word":"Confuting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Confute"},{"word":"Confute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence."},{"word":"Confutement","type":"(n.)","description":"Confutation."},{"word":"Confuter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confutes or disproves."},{"word":"Cong","type":"(n.)","description":"An abbreviation of Congius."},{"word":"Conge","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal."},{"word":"Conge","type":"(n.)","description":"The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy."},{"word":"Conge","type":"(n.)","description":"An apophyge."},{"word":"Conge","type":"(n.)","description":"To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy."},{"word":"Congeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable."},{"word":"Congealed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Congeal"},{"word":"Congealing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Congeal"},{"word":"Congeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze."},{"word":"Congeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill."},{"word":"Congeal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled."},{"word":"Congealable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being congealed."},{"word":"Congealedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being congealed."},{"word":"Congealment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the process of congealing; congeliation."},{"word":"Congealment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is formed by congelation; a clot."},{"word":"Congee","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Conge, Conge."},{"word":"Congee","type":"(n.)","description":"Boiled rice; rice gruel."},{"word":"Congee","type":"(n.)","description":"A jail; a lockup."},{"word":"Congelation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing."},{"word":"Congelation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being congealed."},{"word":"Congelation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is congealed."},{"word":"Congener","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action."},{"word":"Congeneracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Similarity of origin; affinity."},{"word":"Congeneric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Congenerical"},{"word":"Congenerical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action."},{"word":"Congenerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases."},{"word":"Congenial","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic."},{"word":"Congenial","type":"(a.)","description":"Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition."},{"word":"Congeniality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness."},{"word":"Congenialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make congenial."},{"word":"Congenially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed."},{"word":"Congenialness","type":"(n.)","description":"Congeniality."},{"word":"Congenious","type":"(a.)","description":"Congeneric."},{"word":"Congenital","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate."},{"word":"Congenitally","type":"(dv.)","description":"In a congenital manner."},{"word":"Congenite","type":"(a.)","description":"Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital."},{"word":"Conger","type":"(n.)","description":"The conger eel; -- called also congeree."},{"word":"Congeries","type":"(n. sing & pl.)","description":"A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation."},{"word":"Congest","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate."},{"word":"Congest","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part."},{"word":"Congested","type":"(a.)","description":"Crowded together."},{"word":"Congested","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperaemic; -- said of any part of the body."},{"word":"Congestion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation."},{"word":"Congestion","type":"(n.)","description":"Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs."},{"word":"Congestive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever."},{"word":"Congiaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Congiary"},{"word":"Congiary","type":"(n.)","description":"A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius."},{"word":"Congius","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid measure containing about three quarts."},{"word":"Congius","type":"(n.)","description":"A gallon, or four quarts."},{"word":"Conglaciate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To turn to ice; to freeze."},{"word":"Conglaciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost."},{"word":"Conglobate","type":"(a.)","description":"Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers."},{"word":"Conglobated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conglobate"},{"word":"Conglobating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conglobate"},{"word":"Conglobate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together."},{"word":"Conglobation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of forming into a ball."},{"word":"Conglobation","type":"(n.)","description":"A round body."},{"word":"Conglobed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conglobe"},{"word":"Conglobing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conglobe"},{"word":"Conglobe","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass."},{"word":"Conglobe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass."},{"word":"Conglobulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gather into a small round mass."},{"word":"Conglomerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light."},{"word":"Conglomerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers."},{"word":"Conglomerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together."},{"word":"Conglomerate","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation."},{"word":"Conglomerate","type":"(n.)","description":"A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia."},{"word":"Conglomerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conglomerate"},{"word":"Conglomerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conglomerate"},{"word":"Conglomerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass."},{"word":"Conglomeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass."},{"word":"Conglutin","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc."},{"word":"Conglutinant","type":"(a.)","description":"Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts."},{"word":"Conglutinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance."},{"word":"Conglutinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conglutinate"},{"word":"Conglutinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together."},{"word":"Conglutinate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce."},{"word":"Conglutination","type":"(n.)","description":"A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union."},{"word":"Conglutinative","type":"(a.)","description":"Conglutinant."},{"word":"Congou","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Congo"},{"word":"Congo","type":"(n.)","description":"Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea."},{"word":"Congo","type":"()","description":"An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma."},{"word":"Congratulant","type":"(a.)","description":"Rejoicing together; congratulatory."},{"word":"Congratulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Congratulate"},{"word":"Congratulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Congratulate"},{"word":"Congratulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to."},{"word":"Congratulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country."},{"word":"Congratulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure."},{"word":"Congratulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who offers congratulation."},{"word":"Congratulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter."},{"word":"Congree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree."},{"word":"Congreet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To salute mutually."},{"word":"Congregate","type":"(a.)","description":"Collected; compact; close."},{"word":"Congregated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Congregate"},{"word":"Congregating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Congregate"},{"word":"Congregate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact."},{"word":"Congregate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come together; to assemble; to meet."},{"word":"Congregation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass."},{"word":"Congregation","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection or mass of separate things."},{"word":"Congregation","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet."},{"word":"Congregation","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord."},{"word":"Congregation","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church."},{"word":"Congregation","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order."},{"word":"Congregation","type":"(n.)","description":"The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees."},{"word":"Congregation","type":"(n.)","description":"the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation."},{"word":"Congregational","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing."},{"word":"Congregational","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church."},{"word":"Congregationalism","type":"(n.)","description":"That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church."},{"word":"Congregationalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively."},{"word":"Congregationalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism."},{"word":"Congresses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Congress"},{"word":"Congress","type":"(n.)","description":"A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter."},{"word":"Congress","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things."},{"word":"Congress","type":"(n.)","description":"The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition."},{"word":"Congress","type":"(n.)","description":"A gathering or assembly; a conference."},{"word":"Congress","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest."},{"word":"Congress","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation."},{"word":"Congress","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years."},{"word":"Congression","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse."},{"word":"Congressional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates."},{"word":"Congressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Encountering, or coming together."},{"word":"Congressmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Congressman"},{"word":"Congressman","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives."},{"word":"Congreve","type":"()","description":"See under Rocket."},{"word":"Congrue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to be suitable."},{"word":"Congruence","type":"(n.)","description":"Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency."},{"word":"Congruency","type":"(n.)","description":"Congruence."},{"word":"Congruent","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding."},{"word":"Congruism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Congruity."},{"word":"Congruities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Congruity"},{"word":"Congruity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency."},{"word":"Congruity","type":"(n.)","description":"Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another."},{"word":"Congruity","type":"(n.)","description":"That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace."},{"word":"Congruous","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent."},{"word":"Congruously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a congruous manner."},{"word":"Conhydrine","type":"(n.)","description":"A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine."},{"word":"Conia","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Conine."},{"word":"Conic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Conical"},{"word":"Conical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel."},{"word":"Conical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections."},{"word":"Conic","type":"(n.)","description":"A conic section."},{"word":"Conicality","type":"(n.)","description":"Conicalness."},{"word":"Conically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form of a cone."},{"word":"Conicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being conical."},{"word":"Conico-","type":"(a.)","description":"A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico-hemispherical; conico-subulate."},{"word":"Conicoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Conoidal."},{"word":"Conics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections."},{"word":"Conics","type":"(n.)","description":"Conic sections."},{"word":"Conida","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Conidium"},{"word":"Conidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores."},{"word":"Conifer","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew."},{"word":"Coniferin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance."},{"word":"Coniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress."},{"word":"Coniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type."},{"word":"Coniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Cone-shaped; conical."},{"word":"Coniine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Conine."},{"word":"Conimene","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Olibene."},{"word":"Conine","type":"(n.)","description":"A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2."},{"word":"Coniroster","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Conirostres."},{"word":"Conirostral","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Conirostres."},{"word":"Conirostres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches."},{"word":"Conisor","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cognizor."},{"word":"Conistra","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater."},{"word":"Conite","type":"(n.)","description":"A magnesian variety of dolomite."},{"word":"Conium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (\"seeds\") and decompound leaves."},{"word":"Conium","type":"(n.)","description":"The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine."},{"word":"Conject","type":"(n.)","description":"To throw together, or to throw."},{"word":"Conject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conjecture; also, to plan."},{"word":"Conjector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who guesses or conjectures."},{"word":"Conjecturable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being conjectured or guessed."},{"word":"Conjectural","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful."},{"word":"Conjecturalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A conjecturer."},{"word":"Conjecturally","type":"(n.)","description":"That which depends upon guess; guesswork."},{"word":"Conjecturally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture."},{"word":"Conjecture","type":"(n.)","description":"An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion."},{"word":"Conjectured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conjecture"},{"word":"Conjecturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conjecture"},{"word":"Conjecture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning."},{"word":"Conjecture","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine."},{"word":"Conjecturer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conjectures."},{"word":"Conjoined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conjoin"},{"word":"Conjoining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conjoin"},{"word":"Conjoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join together; to unite."},{"word":"Conjoin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite; to join; to league."},{"word":"Conjoined","type":"(a.)","description":"Joined together or touching."},{"word":"Conjoint","type":"(a.)","description":"United; connected; associated."},{"word":"Conjointly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together."},{"word":"Conjointness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being conjoint."},{"word":"Conjubilant","type":"(a.)","description":"Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together."},{"word":"Conjugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial."},{"word":"Conjugality","type":"(n.)","description":"The conjugal state; sexual intercourse."},{"word":"Conjugally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(a.)","description":"United in pairs; yoked together; coupled."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(a.)","description":"In single pairs; coupled."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(a.)","description":"Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(n.)","description":"A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical."},{"word":"Conjugated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conjugate"},{"word":"Conjugating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conjugate"},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite in marriage; to join."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons."},{"word":"Conjugate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals."},{"word":"Conjugation","type":"(n.)","description":"the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage."},{"word":"Conjugation","type":"(n.)","description":"Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple."},{"word":"Conjugation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections."},{"word":"Conjugation","type":"(n.)","description":"A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb."},{"word":"Conjugation","type":"(n.)","description":"A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner."},{"word":"Conjugation","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed."},{"word":"Conjugational","type":"(a.)","description":"relating to conjugation."},{"word":"Conjugial","type":"(a.)","description":"Conjugal."},{"word":"Conjugium","type":"(n.)","description":"The marriage tie."},{"word":"Conjunct","type":"(a.)","description":"United; conjoined; concurrent."},{"word":"Conjunct","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Conjoined."},{"word":"Conjunction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league."},{"word":"Conjunction","type":"(n.)","description":"The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6."},{"word":"Conjunction","type":"(n.)","description":"A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if."},{"word":"Conjunctional","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a conjunction."},{"word":"Conjunctiva","type":"(n.)","description":"The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrane."},{"word":"Conjunctival","type":"(a.)","description":"Joining; connecting."},{"word":"Conjunctival","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the conjunctiva."},{"word":"Conjunctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to unite; connecting together."},{"word":"Conjunctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely united."},{"word":"Conjunctively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In conjunction or union; together."},{"word":"Conjunctiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being conjunctive."},{"word":"Conjunctivitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the conjunctiva."},{"word":"Conjunctly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In union; conjointly; unitedly; together."},{"word":"Conjuncture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination."},{"word":"Conjuncture","type":"(n.)","description":"A crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions."},{"word":"Conjuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration."},{"word":"Conjuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment."},{"word":"Conjuration","type":"(n.)","description":"A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy."},{"word":"Conjurator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator."},{"word":"Conjured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conjure"},{"word":"Conjuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conjure"},{"word":"Conjure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure."},{"word":"Conjure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate."},{"word":"Conjure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers."},{"word":"Conjure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm."},{"word":"Conjurement","type":"(n.)","description":"Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty."},{"word":"Conjurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner."},{"word":"Conjurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand."},{"word":"Conjurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity."},{"word":"Conjuror","type":"(n.)","description":"One bound by a common oath with others."},{"word":"Conjury","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of magic; enchantment."},{"word":"Conn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Con, to direct a ship."},{"word":"Connascence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Connascency"},{"word":"Connascency","type":"(n.)","description":"The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together."},{"word":"Connascency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is born or produced with another."},{"word":"Connascency","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of growing together."},{"word":"Connascent","type":"(a.)","description":"Born together; produced at the same time."},{"word":"Connate","type":"(a.)","description":"Born with another; being of the same birth."},{"word":"Connate","type":"(a.)","description":"Congenital; existing from birth."},{"word":"Connate","type":"(a.)","description":"Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate."},{"word":"Connate-perfoliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset."},{"word":"Connation","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection by birth; natural union."},{"word":"Connatural","type":"(a. )","description":"Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural."},{"word":"Connatural","type":"(a. )","description":"Partaking of the same nature."},{"word":"Connaturality","type":"(n.)","description":"Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection."},{"word":"Connaturalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt."},{"word":"Connaturally","type":"(adv.)","description":"By the act of nature; originally; from birth."},{"word":"Connaturalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Participation of the same nature; natural union."},{"word":"Connature","type":"(n.)","description":"Participation in a common nature or character."},{"word":"Connected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Connect"},{"word":"Connecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Connect"},{"word":"Connect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between."},{"word":"Connect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair."},{"word":"Connect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another."},{"word":"Connectedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a connected manner."},{"word":"Connection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship."},{"word":"Connection","type":"(n.)","description":"That which connects or joins together; bond; tie."},{"word":"Connection","type":"(n.)","description":"A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense."},{"word":"Connection","type":"(n.)","description":"The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection."},{"word":"Connective","type":"(a.)","description":"Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection."},{"word":"Connective","type":"(n.)","description":"That which connects"},{"word":"Connective","type":"(n.)","description":"A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition."},{"word":"Connective","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of an anther which connects its thecae, lobes, or cells."},{"word":"Connectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In connjunction; jointly."},{"word":"Connector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, connects"},{"word":"Connector","type":"(n.)","description":"A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments."},{"word":"Connector","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact."},{"word":"Conner","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner."},{"word":"Connex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect."},{"word":"Connexion","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection. See Connection."},{"word":"Connexive","type":"(a.)","description":"See Connective."},{"word":"Conning","type":"(n.)","description":"The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel."},{"word":"Connivance","type":"(n.)","description":"Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation."},{"word":"Connivance","type":"(n.)","description":"Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it."},{"word":"Connived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Connive"},{"word":"Conniving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Connive"},{"word":"Connive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink."},{"word":"Connive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at."},{"word":"Connive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see."},{"word":"Connivency","type":"(n.)","description":"Connivance."},{"word":"Connivent","type":"(a.)","description":"Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice."},{"word":"Connivent","type":"(a.)","description":"Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc."},{"word":"Conniver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who connives."},{"word":"Connoisseur","type":"(n.)","description":"One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts."},{"word":"Connoisseurship","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being a connoisseur."},{"word":"Connotate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply."},{"word":"Connotation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted."},{"word":"Connotative","type":"(a.)","description":"Implying something additional; illative."},{"word":"Connotative","type":"(a.)","description":"Implying an attribute. See Connote."},{"word":"Connotatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a connotative manner; expressing connotation."},{"word":"Connoted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Connote"},{"word":"Connoting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Connote"},{"word":"Connote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply."},{"word":"Connote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imply as an attribute."},{"word":"Connubial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial."},{"word":"Connubiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness."},{"word":"Connumeration","type":"(n.)","description":"A reckoning together."},{"word":"Connusance","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cognizance."},{"word":"Connusant","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cognizant."},{"word":"Connusor","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cognizor."},{"word":"Connutritious","type":"(a.)","description":"Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food."},{"word":"Conny","type":"(a.)","description":"Brave; fine; canny."},{"word":"Conodont","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids."},{"word":"Conoid","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone."},{"word":"Conoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc."},{"word":"Conoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane."},{"word":"Conoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a cone; conoidal."},{"word":"Conoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Nearly, but not exactly, conical."},{"word":"Conoidic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Conoidical"},{"word":"Conoidical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a conoid; having the form of a conoid."},{"word":"Conominee","type":"(n.)","description":"One nominated in conjunction with another; a joint nominee."},{"word":"Conquadrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into a square."},{"word":"Conquassate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shake; to agitate."},{"word":"Conquered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conquer"},{"word":"Conquering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conquer"},{"word":"Conquer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish."},{"word":"Conquer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc."},{"word":"Conquer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace."},{"word":"Conquer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gain the victory; to overcome; to prevail."},{"word":"Conquerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being conquered or subdued."},{"word":"Conqueress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who conquers."},{"word":"Conqueror","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conquers."},{"word":"Conquest","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory."},{"word":"Conquest","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral."},{"word":"Conquest","type":"(n.)","description":"The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition."},{"word":"Conquest","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace."},{"word":"Consanguineal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same blood; related by birth."},{"word":"Consanguined","type":"(a.)","description":"Of kin blood; related."},{"word":"Consanguineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor."},{"word":"Consanguinity","type":"(n.)","description":"The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity."},{"word":"Consarcination","type":"(n.)","description":"A patching together; patchwork."},{"word":"Conscience","type":"(n.)","description":"Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness."},{"word":"Conscience","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense."},{"word":"Conscience","type":"(n.)","description":"The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty."},{"word":"Conscience","type":"(n.)","description":"Tenderness of feeling; pity."},{"word":"Conscienced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a conscience."},{"word":"Conscienceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous."},{"word":"Conscient","type":"(a.)","description":"Conscious."},{"word":"Conscientious","type":"(a.)","description":"Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person."},{"word":"Conscientious","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions."},{"word":"Conscientiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely."},{"word":"Conscientiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience."},{"word":"Conscionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just."},{"word":"Conscionableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness."},{"word":"Conscionably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Reasonably; justly."},{"word":"Conscious","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations."},{"word":"Conscious","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible."},{"word":"Conscious","type":"(a.)","description":"Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt."},{"word":"Consciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions."},{"word":"Consciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc."},{"word":"Consciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention."},{"word":"Consciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence."},{"word":"Conscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enroll; to enlist."},{"word":"Conscript","type":"(a.)","description":"Enrolled; written; registered."},{"word":"Conscript","type":"(n.)","description":"One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor."},{"word":"Conscript","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enroll, by compulsion, for military service."},{"word":"Conscription","type":"(n.)","description":"An enrolling or registering."},{"word":"Conscription","type":"(n.)","description":"A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft."},{"word":"Conscription","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration."},{"word":"Consecrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred."},{"word":"Consecrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consecrate"},{"word":"Consecrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Consecrate"},{"word":"Consecrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God."},{"word":"Consecrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop."},{"word":"Consecrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor."},{"word":"Consecrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time."},{"word":"Consecrater","type":"(n.)","description":"Consecrator."},{"word":"Consecration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication."},{"word":"Consecrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes."},{"word":"Consecratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory."},{"word":"Consectaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Following as a matter of course."},{"word":"Consectary","type":"(a.)","description":"Following by consequence; consequent; deducible."},{"word":"Consectary","type":"(n.)","description":"That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary."},{"word":"Consecute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue."},{"word":"Consecution","type":"(n.)","description":"A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence."},{"word":"Consecution","type":"(n.)","description":"A succession or series of any kind."},{"word":"Consecutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years."},{"word":"Consecutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding."},{"word":"Consecutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden."},{"word":"Consecutively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively."},{"word":"Consecutiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being consecutive."},{"word":"Consension","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement; accord."},{"word":"Consensual","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties."},{"word":"Consensual","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions."},{"word":"Consensus","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement; accord; consent."},{"word":"Consented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consent"},{"word":"Consenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n)","description":"of Consent"},{"word":"Consent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur."},{"word":"Consent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply."},{"word":"Consent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit."},{"word":"Consent","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord."},{"word":"Consent","type":"(n.)","description":"Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence."},{"word":"Consent","type":"(n.)","description":"Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission."},{"word":"Consent","type":"(n.)","description":"Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action."},{"word":"Consent","type":"(n.)","description":"Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4."},{"word":"Consentaneity","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual agreement."},{"word":"Consentaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent."},{"word":"Consentant","type":"(a.)","description":"Consenting."},{"word":"Consenter","type":"(a.)","description":"One who consents."},{"word":"Consentient","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing in mind; accordant."},{"word":"Consentingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With consent; in a compliant manner."},{"word":"Consequence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result."},{"word":"Consequence","type":"(n.)","description":"A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference."},{"word":"Consequence","type":"(n.)","description":"Chain of causes and effects; consecution."},{"word":"Consequence","type":"(n.)","description":"Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction."},{"word":"Consequencing","type":"(n.)","description":"Drawing inference."},{"word":"Consequent","type":"(a.)","description":"Following as a result, inference, or natural effect."},{"word":"Consequent","type":"(a.)","description":"Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions."},{"word":"Consequent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect."},{"word":"Consequent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference."},{"word":"Consequent","type":"(n.)","description":"The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent."},{"word":"Consequential","type":"(a.)","description":"Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent."},{"word":"Consequential","type":"(a.)","description":"Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4."},{"word":"Consequentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically."},{"word":"Consequentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially."},{"word":"Consequentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously."},{"word":"Consequentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"With assumed importance; pompously."},{"word":"Consequentialness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being consequential."},{"word":"Consequently","type":"(adv.)","description":"By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection."},{"word":"Consertion","type":"(n.)","description":"Junction; adaptation"},{"word":"Conservable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being preserved from decay or injury."},{"word":"Conservancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use."},{"word":"Conservant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power or quality of conservation."},{"word":"Conservation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation."},{"word":"Conservational","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to conserve; preservative."},{"word":"Conservatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative."},{"word":"Conservative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative."},{"word":"Conservative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation."},{"word":"Conservative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical."},{"word":"Conservative","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver."},{"word":"Conservative","type":"(n.)","description":"One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical."},{"word":"Conservative","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Conservative party."},{"word":"Conservativeness","type":"(a.)","description":"The quality of being conservative."},{"word":"Conservatoire","type":"(n.)","description":"A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3]."},{"word":"Conservator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver."},{"word":"Conservator","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff."},{"word":"Conservator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate."},{"word":"Conservatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury."},{"word":"Conservatory","type":"(n.)","description":"That which preserves from injury."},{"word":"Conservatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants."},{"word":"Conservatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music."},{"word":"Conservatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc."},{"word":"Conserved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conserve"},{"word":"Conserving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conserve"},{"word":"Conserve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect."},{"word":"Conserve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of."},{"word":"Conserve","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection."},{"word":"Conserve","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection."},{"word":"Conserve","type":"(n.)","description":"A conservatory."},{"word":"Conserver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conserves."},{"word":"Considered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consider"},{"word":"Considering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Consider"},{"word":"Consider","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on."},{"word":"Consider","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look at attentively; to observe; to examine."},{"word":"Consider","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect."},{"word":"Consider","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To estimate; to think; to regard; to view."},{"word":"Consider","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate."},{"word":"Consider","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hesitate."},{"word":"Considerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to."},{"word":"Considerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable; -- said of persons."},{"word":"Considerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Of importance or value."},{"word":"Considerableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount."},{"word":"Considerably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much."},{"word":"Considerance","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of considering; consideration."},{"word":"Considerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other."},{"word":"Considerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having respect to; regardful."},{"word":"Consideration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention."},{"word":"Consideration","type":"(n.)","description":"Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence."},{"word":"Consideration","type":"(n.)","description":"Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice."},{"word":"Consideration","type":"(n.)","description":"Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence."},{"word":"Consideration","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession."},{"word":"Consideration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason."},{"word":"Consideration","type":"(n.)","description":"The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent."},{"word":"Considerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Considerate; careful; thoughtful."},{"word":"Considerator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who considers."},{"word":"Considerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker."},{"word":"Consideringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With consideration or deliberation."},{"word":"Consigned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consign"},{"word":"Consigning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Consign"},{"word":"Consign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave."},{"word":"Consign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give in charge; to commit; to intrust."},{"word":"Consign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods."},{"word":"Consign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assign; to devote; to set apart."},{"word":"Consign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stamp or impress; to affect."},{"word":"Consign","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To submit; to surrender or yield one's self."},{"word":"Consign","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce."},{"word":"Consignatary","type":"(n.)","description":"A consignee."},{"word":"Consignation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state."},{"word":"Consignation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ratifying or establishing, as if by signing; confirmation; ratification."},{"word":"Consignation","type":"(n.)","description":"A stamp; an indication; a sign."},{"word":"Consignatory","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty."},{"word":"Consignature","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint signature."},{"word":"Consigne","type":"(n.)","description":"A countersign; a watchword."},{"word":"Consigne","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is orders to keep within certain limits."},{"word":"Consignee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor."},{"word":"Consigner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who consigns. See Consignor."},{"word":"Consignificant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having joint or equal signification; synonymous."},{"word":"Consignification","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint signification."},{"word":"Consignificative","type":"(a.)","description":"Consignificant; jointly significate."},{"word":"Consignify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To signify or denote in combination with something else."},{"word":"Consignment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of consigning; consignation."},{"word":"Consignment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc."},{"word":"Consignment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance."},{"word":"Consignment","type":"(n.)","description":"The writing by which anything is consigned."},{"word":"Consignor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee."},{"word":"Consilience","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence."},{"word":"Consimilitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Consimility"},{"word":"Consimility","type":"(n.)","description":"Common resemblance."},{"word":"Consisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consist"},{"word":"Consisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Consist"},{"word":"Consist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained."},{"word":"Consist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be composed or made up; -- followed by of."},{"word":"Consist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in."},{"word":"Consist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with."},{"word":"Consist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To insist; -- followed by on."},{"word":"Consistence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Consistency"},{"word":"Consistency","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity."},{"word":"Consistency","type":"(n.)","description":"A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude."},{"word":"Consistency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which stands together as a united whole; a combination."},{"word":"Consistency","type":"(n.)","description":"Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency."},{"word":"Consistency","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character."},{"word":"Consistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid."},{"word":"Consistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory."},{"word":"Consistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions."},{"word":"Consistently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a consistent manner."},{"word":"Consistorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a consistory."},{"word":"Consistorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy."},{"word":"Consistories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Consistory"},{"word":"Consistory","type":"(n.)","description":"Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council."},{"word":"Consistory","type":"(n.)","description":"The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere."},{"word":"Consistory","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome."},{"word":"Consistory","type":"(n.)","description":"A church tribunal or governing body."},{"word":"Consistory","type":"(n.)","description":"A civil court of justice."},{"word":"Consistory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory."},{"word":"Consociate","type":"(n.)","description":"An associate; an accomplice."},{"word":"Consociated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consociate"},{"word":"Consociating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Consociate"},{"word":"Consociate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite."},{"word":"Consociate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation."},{"word":"Consociate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence."},{"word":"Consociate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form an ecclesiastical consociation."},{"word":"Consociation","type":"(n.)","description":"Intimate union; 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customary; usual."},{"word":"Consuetudinary","type":"(a.)","description":"Customary."},{"word":"Consuetudinaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cussuetudinary"},{"word":"Cussuetudinary","type":"(n.)","description":"A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises."},{"word":"Consul","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two chief magistrates of the republic."},{"word":"Consul","type":"(n.)","description":"A senator; a counselor."},{"word":"Consul","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul."},{"word":"Consul","type":"(n.)","description":"An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen."},{"word":"Consulage","type":"(n.)","description":"A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place."},{"word":"Consular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers."},{"word":"Consulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Consular."},{"word":"Consulate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a consul."},{"word":"Consulate","type":"(n.)","description":"The jurisdiction or residence of a consul."},{"word":"Consulate","type":"(n.)","description":"Consular government; term of office of a consul."},{"word":"Consulship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a consul; consulate."},{"word":"Consulship","type":"(n.)","description":"The term of office of a consul."},{"word":"Consulted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consult"},{"word":"Consulting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Consult"},{"word":"Consult","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer."},{"word":"Consult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary."},{"word":"Consult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes."},{"word":"Consult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deliberate upon; to take for."},{"word":"Consult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive."},{"word":"Consult","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision."},{"word":"Consult","type":"(n.)","description":"A council; a meeting for consultation."},{"word":"Consult","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreement; concert"},{"word":"Consultary","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by consultation; resulting from conference."},{"word":"Consultation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision."},{"word":"Consultation","type":"(n.)","description":"A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause."},{"word":"Consultative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference."},{"word":"Consultatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory."},{"word":"Consulter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who consults, or asks counsel or information."},{"word":"Consulting","type":"(a.)","description":"That consults."},{"word":"Consultive","type":"(a.)","description":"Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative."},{"word":"Consumable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent."},{"word":"Consumed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consume"},{"word":"Consuming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Consume"},{"word":"Consume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour."},{"word":"Consume","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waste away slowly."},{"word":"Consumedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Excessively."},{"word":"Consumer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food."},{"word":"Consumingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a consuming manner."},{"word":"Consummate","type":"(a.)","description":"Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect."},{"word":"Consummated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Consummate"},{"word":"Consummating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Consummate"},{"word":"Consummate","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve."},{"word":"Consummately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a consummate manner; completely."},{"word":"Consummation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life)."},{"word":"Consummative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to consummate; completing."},{"word":"Consumption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction."},{"word":"Consumption","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay."},{"word":"Consumption","type":"(n.)","description":"A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption."},{"word":"Consumptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting."},{"word":"Consumptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with, or inclined to, consumption."},{"word":"Consumptive","type":"(n.)","description":"One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives."},{"word":"Consumptively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a way tending to or indication consumption."},{"word":"Consumptiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption."},{"word":"Contabescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Wasting away gradually."},{"word":"Contact","type":"(n.)","description":"A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting."},{"word":"Contact","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction."},{"word":"Contact","type":"(n.)","description":"The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock."},{"word":"Contaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of touching."},{"word":"Contagion","type":"(n.)","description":"The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact."},{"word":"Contagion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease."},{"word":"Contagion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm."},{"word":"Contagion","type":"(n.)","description":"Venom; poison."},{"word":"Contagioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected by contagion."},{"word":"Contagionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever."},{"word":"Contagious","type":"(a.)","description":"Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease."},{"word":"Contagious","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air."},{"word":"Contagious","type":"(a.)","description":"Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others."},{"word":"Contagiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contagious manner."},{"word":"Contagiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being contagious."},{"word":"Contagium","type":"(n.)","description":"Contagion; contagious matter."},{"word":"Contained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contain"},{"word":"Containing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contain"},{"word":"Contain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold."},{"word":"Contain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks."},{"word":"Contain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds."},{"word":"Contain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity."},{"word":"Containable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being contained or comprised."},{"word":"Containant","type":"(n.)","description":"A container."},{"word":"Container","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, contains."},{"word":"Containment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is contained; the extent; the substance."},{"word":"Contaminable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being contaminated."},{"word":"Contaminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contaminate"},{"word":"Contaminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contaminate"},{"word":"Contaminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile."},{"word":"Contaminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted."},{"word":"Contamination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates."},{"word":"Contamitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or liable to contaminate."},{"word":"Contangoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Contango"},{"word":"Contango","type":"(n.)","description":"The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day."},{"word":"Contango","type":"(n.)","description":"The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation."},{"word":"Contection","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering."},{"word":"Contek","type":"(n.)","description":"Quarrel; contention; contest."},{"word":"Contek","type":"(n.)","description":"Contumely; reproach."},{"word":"Contemned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contemn"},{"word":"Contemning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contemn"},{"word":"Contemn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn."},{"word":"Contemner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner."},{"word":"Contemningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Contemptuously."},{"word":"Contemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften."},{"word":"Contemperate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To temper; to moderate."},{"word":"Contemperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of tempering or moderating."},{"word":"Contemperation","type":"(n.)","description":"Proportionate mixture or combination."},{"word":"Contemperature","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature."},{"word":"Contemplance","type":"(n.)","description":"Contemplation."},{"word":"Contemplant","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to contemplation; meditative."},{"word":"Contemplated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contemplate"},{"word":"Contemplating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contemplate"},{"word":"Contemplate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study."},{"word":"Contemplate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend."},{"word":"Contemplate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate."},{"word":"Contemplation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study."},{"word":"Contemplation","type":"(n.)","description":"Holy meditation."},{"word":"Contemplation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing."},{"word":"Contemplatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A contemplator."},{"word":"Contemplative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative."},{"word":"Contemplative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties."},{"word":"Contemplative","type":"(n.)","description":"A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity."},{"word":"Contemplatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"With contemplation; in a contemplative manner."},{"word":"Contemplativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness."},{"word":"Contemplator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contemplates."},{"word":"Contemporaneity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being contemporaneous."},{"word":"Contemporaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary."},{"word":"Contemporaneously","type":"(adv.)","description":"At the same time with some other event."},{"word":"Contemporariness","type":"(n.)","description":"Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness."},{"word":"Contemporary","type":"(a.)","description":"Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous."},{"word":"Contemporary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same age; coeval."},{"word":"Contemporaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Contemporary"},{"word":"Contemporary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries."},{"word":"Contempt","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn."},{"word":"Contempt","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being despised; disgrace; shame."},{"word":"Contempt","type":"(n.)","description":"An act or expression denoting contempt."},{"word":"Contempt","type":"(n.)","description":"Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority."},{"word":"Contemptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness."},{"word":"Contemptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable."},{"word":"Contemptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Despised; scorned; neglected; abject."},{"word":"Contemptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Insolent; scornful; contemptuous."},{"word":"Contemptibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised."},{"word":"Contemptibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contemptible manner."},{"word":"Contemptuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful."},{"word":"Contemptuously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully."},{"word":"Contemptuousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness."},{"word":"Contended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contend"},{"word":"Contending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contend"},{"word":"Contend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight."},{"word":"Contend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend."},{"word":"Contend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue."},{"word":"Contend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To struggle for; to contest."},{"word":"Contendent","type":"(n.)","description":"An antagonist; a contestant."},{"word":"Contender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contends; a contestant."},{"word":"Contendress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female contestant."},{"word":"Contenement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling; appurtenance."},{"word":"Content","type":"(a.)","description":"Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest."},{"word":"Contents","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Content"},{"word":"Content","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book."},{"word":"Content","type":"(n.)","description":"Power of containing; capacity; extent; size."},{"word":"Content","type":"(n.)","description":"Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents."},{"word":"Content","type":"(a.)","description":"To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please."},{"word":"Content","type":"(a.)","description":"To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite."},{"word":"Content","type":"(n.)","description":"Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness."},{"word":"Content","type":"(n.)","description":"Acquiescence without examination."},{"word":"Content","type":"(n.)","description":"That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy."},{"word":"Content","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes \"Content.\"."},{"word":"Contentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Content; satisfaction."},{"word":"Contented","type":"(a.)","description":"Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing."},{"word":"Contentful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of content."},{"word":"Contention","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife."},{"word":"Contention","type":"(n.)","description":"Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention."},{"word":"Contention","type":"(n.)","description":"Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal."},{"word":"Contention","type":"(n.)","description":"A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position taken or contended for."},{"word":"Contentious","type":"(a.)","description":"Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome."},{"word":"Contentious","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention."},{"word":"Contentious","type":"(a.)","description":"Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy."},{"word":"Contentless","type":"(a.)","description":"Discontented; dissatisfied."},{"word":"Contently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contented manner."},{"word":"Contentment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The state of being contented or satisfied; content."},{"word":"Contentment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible."},{"word":"Contentment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction."},{"word":"Contents","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Content, n."},{"word":"Conterminable","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous."},{"word":"Conterminal","type":"(a.)","description":"Conterminous."},{"word":"Conterminant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous."},{"word":"Conterminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same bounds; conterminous."},{"word":"Conterminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous."},{"word":"Conterranean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Conterraneous"},{"word":"Conterraneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to the same country."},{"word":"Contesseration","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union."},{"word":"Contested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contest"},{"word":"Contesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contest"},{"word":"Contest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute."},{"word":"Contest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground."},{"word":"Contest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert."},{"word":"Contest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with."},{"word":"Contest","type":"(n.)","description":"Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation."},{"word":"Contest","type":"(n.)","description":"Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter."},{"word":"Contestable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being contested; debatable."},{"word":"Contestant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another."},{"word":"Contestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute."},{"word":"Contestation","type":"(n.)","description":"Proof by witness; attestation; testimony."},{"word":"Contestingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contending manner."},{"word":"Contex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To context."},{"word":"Context","type":"(a.)","description":"Knit or woven together; close; firm."},{"word":"Context","type":"(n.)","description":"The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning."},{"word":"Context","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To knit or bind together; to unite closely."},{"word":"Contextural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven."},{"word":"Contexture","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture."},{"word":"Contextured","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed."},{"word":"Conticent","type":"(a.)","description":"Silent."},{"word":"Contignation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric."},{"word":"Contignation","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework or fabric, as of beams."},{"word":"Contiguate","type":"(a.)","description":"Contiguous; touching."},{"word":"Contiguity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity."},{"word":"Contiguous","type":"(a.)","description":"In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining."},{"word":"Continence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Continency"},{"word":"Continency","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-restraint; self-command."},{"word":"Continency","type":"(n.)","description":"The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence."},{"word":"Continency","type":"(n.)","description":"Uninterrupted course; continuity."},{"word":"Continent","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing."},{"word":"Continent","type":"(a.)","description":"Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate."},{"word":"Continent","type":"(a.)","description":"Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste."},{"word":"Continent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever."},{"word":"Continent","type":"(a.)","description":"That which contains anything; a receptacle."},{"word":"Continent","type":"(a.)","description":"One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America."},{"word":"Continental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a continent."},{"word":"Continental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition."},{"word":"Continental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money."},{"word":"Continental","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3."},{"word":"Continently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately."},{"word":"Contingence","type":"(n.)","description":"See Contingency."},{"word":"Contingencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Contingency"},{"word":"Contingency","type":"(n.)","description":"Union or connection; the state of touching or contact."},{"word":"Contingency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass."},{"word":"Contingency","type":"(n.)","description":"An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance."},{"word":"Contingency","type":"(n.)","description":"An adjunct or accessory."},{"word":"Contingency","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected."},{"word":"Contingent","type":"(a.)","description":"Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual."},{"word":"Contingent","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control."},{"word":"Contingent","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate."},{"word":"Contingent","type":"(n.)","description":"An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency."},{"word":"Contingent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops."},{"word":"Contingently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally."},{"word":"Contingentness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being contingent; fortuitousness."},{"word":"Continuable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being continued"},{"word":"Continual","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding."},{"word":"Continual","type":"(a.)","description":"Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated."},{"word":"Continually","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually."},{"word":"Continually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In regular or repeated succession; very often."},{"word":"Continuance","type":"(n.)","description":"A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay."},{"word":"Continuance","type":"(n.)","description":"Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation."},{"word":"Continuance","type":"(n.)","description":"A holding together; continuity."},{"word":"Continuance","type":"(n.)","description":"The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another."},{"word":"Continuance","type":"(n.)","description":"The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record."},{"word":"Continuant","type":"(a.)","description":"Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound."},{"word":"Continuant","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged."},{"word":"Continuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Immediately united together; intimately connected."},{"word":"Continuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued."},{"word":"Continuation","type":"(n.)","description":"That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation."},{"word":"Continuation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story."},{"word":"Continuative","type":"(n.)","description":"A term or expression denoting continuance."},{"word":"Continuative","type":"(n.)","description":"A word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction."},{"word":"Continuator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer."},{"word":"Continued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Continue"},{"word":"Continuing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Continue"},{"word":"Continue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay."},{"word":"Continue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last."},{"word":"Continue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance."},{"word":"Continue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite; to connect."},{"word":"Continue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not."},{"word":"Continue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length."},{"word":"Continue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live."},{"word":"Continued","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Having extension of time, space, order of events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story."},{"word":"Continuedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Continuously."},{"word":"Continuer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence."},{"word":"Continuities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Continuity"},{"word":"Continuity","type":"(n.)","description":"the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers."},{"word":"Continuo","type":"(n.)","description":"Basso continuo, or continued bass."},{"word":"Continuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity."},{"word":"Continuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated."},{"word":"Continuously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a continuous maner; without interruption."},{"word":"Contline","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between the strands on the outside of a rope."},{"word":"Contline","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side."},{"word":"Contorniate","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Contorniate"},{"word":"Contorniate","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors."},{"word":"Contorsion","type":"(n.)","description":"See Contortion."},{"word":"Contort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest."},{"word":"Contorted","type":"(a.)","description":"Twisted, or twisted together."},{"word":"Contorted","type":"(a.)","description":"Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants."},{"word":"Contorted","type":"(a.)","description":"Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation."},{"word":"Contortion","type":"(n.)","description":"A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face."},{"word":"Contertionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or practices contortions."},{"word":"Contortive","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing contortion."},{"word":"Contortuplicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory."},{"word":"Contour","type":"(n.)","description":"The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery."},{"word":"Contour","type":"(n.)","description":"The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification."},{"word":"Contourne'","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like."},{"word":"Contourniated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe."},{"word":"Contra","type":"()","description":"A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref."},{"word":"Contraband","type":"(n.)","description":"Illegal or prohibited traffic."},{"word":"Contraband","type":"(n.)","description":"Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden."},{"word":"Contraband","type":"(n.)","description":"A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war."},{"word":"Contraband","type":"(a.)","description":"Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade."},{"word":"Contraband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle."},{"word":"Contraband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare prohibited; to forbid."},{"word":"Contrabandism","type":"(n.)","description":"Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling."},{"word":"Contrabandist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who traffics illegally; a smuggler."},{"word":"Contrabass","type":"(n.)","description":"Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon."},{"word":"Contrabasso","type":"(n.)","description":"The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone."},{"word":"Contracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contract"},{"word":"Contracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contract"},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"To betroth; to affiance."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(a.)","description":"Contracted; as, a contract verb."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(a.)","description":"Contracted; affianced; betrothed."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation."},{"word":"Contract","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of formally betrothing a man and woman."},{"word":"Contracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun."},{"word":"Contracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views."},{"word":"Contracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace."},{"word":"Contractedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness."},{"word":"Contractibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air."},{"word":"Contractible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of contraction."},{"word":"Contractibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Contractibility."},{"word":"Contractile","type":"(a.)","description":"tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues."},{"word":"Contractility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract."},{"word":"Contractility","type":"(n.)","description":"The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening."},{"word":"Contraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold."},{"word":"Contraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of shortening an operation."},{"word":"Contraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease."},{"word":"Contraction","type":"(n.)","description":"Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc."},{"word":"Contraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is."},{"word":"Contraction","type":"(n.)","description":"A marriage contract."},{"word":"Contractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting."},{"word":"Contractor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad."},{"word":"Contracture","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles."},{"word":"Contradance","type":"(n.)","description":"A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines."},{"word":"Contradicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contradict"},{"word":"Contradicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contradict"},{"word":"Contradict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn."},{"word":"Contradict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist."},{"word":"Contradict","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something."},{"word":"Contradictable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being contradicting."},{"word":"Contradicter","type":"(n.)","description":"one who contradicts."},{"word":"Contradiction","type":"(n.)","description":"An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying."},{"word":"Contradiction","type":"(n.)","description":"Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent."},{"word":"Contradictional","type":"(a.)","description":"Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing."},{"word":"Contradictions","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled with contradictions; inconsistent."},{"word":"Contradictions","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to contradict or cavil"},{"word":"Contradictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Contradictory; inconsistent."},{"word":"Contradictor","type":"(n.)","description":"A contradicter."},{"word":"Contradictorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contradictory manner."},{"word":"Contradictoriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency."},{"word":"Contradictory","type":"(a.)","description":"Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent."},{"word":"Contradictory","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposing or opposed; repugnant."},{"word":"Contradictories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Contradictory"},{"word":"Contradictory","type":"(n.)","description":"A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety."},{"word":"Contradictory","type":"(n.)","description":"propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity."},{"word":"Contradistinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Distinguished by opposite qualities."},{"word":"Contradistinction","type":"(n.)","description":"Distinction by contrast."},{"word":"Contradistinctive","type":"(a.)","description":"having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast."},{"word":"Contradistinguished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contradistinguish"},{"word":"Contradistinguishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contradistinguish"},{"word":"Contradistinguish","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities."},{"word":"Contrafagetto","type":"(n.)","description":"The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon."},{"word":"Contrafissure","type":"(n.)","description":"A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it."},{"word":"Contrahent","type":"(a.)","description":"Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties."},{"word":"Contraindicant","type":"(n.)","description":"Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed."},{"word":"Contraindicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contraindicate"},{"word":"Contraindicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contraindicate"},{"word":"Contraindicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require."},{"word":"Contraindication","type":"(n.)","description":"An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases."},{"word":"Contralto","type":"(n.)","description":"The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor."},{"word":"Contralto","type":"(n.)","description":"the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto."},{"word":"Contralto","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice."},{"word":"Contramure","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer wall."},{"word":"Contranatural","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to or against nature; unnatural."},{"word":"Contraposition","type":"(n.)","description":"A placing over against; opposite position."},{"word":"Contraposition","type":"(n.)","description":"A so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e.g.: Every S is P; therefore, no Not-P is S."},{"word":"Contrapuntal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint."},{"word":"Contrapuntist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in counterpoint."},{"word":"Contraremonstrant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant."},{"word":"Contrariant","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory."},{"word":"Contrariantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Contrarily."},{"word":"Contraries","type":"(n.)","description":"Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other."},{"word":"Contrarieties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Contrariety"},{"word":"Contrariety","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism."},{"word":"Contrariety","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency."},{"word":"Contrarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways."},{"word":"Contrariness","type":"(n.)","description":"state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy."},{"word":"Contrarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse."},{"word":"Contrariously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Contrarily; oppositely."},{"word":"Contrariwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand."},{"word":"Contrariwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a contrary order; conversely."},{"word":"Contrarotation","type":"(n.)","description":"Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion."},{"word":"Contrary","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds."},{"word":"Contrary","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent."},{"word":"Contrary","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child."},{"word":"Contrary","type":"(a.)","description":"Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions."},{"word":"Contraries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Contrary"},{"word":"Contrary","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities."},{"word":"Contrary","type":"(n.)","description":"An opponent; an enemy."},{"word":"Contrary","type":"(n.)","description":"the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1."},{"word":"Contrary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Contraries."},{"word":"Contrarry","type":"(a.)","description":"To contradict or oppose; to thwart."},{"word":"Contrasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contrast"},{"word":"Contrasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contrast"},{"word":"Contrast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities."},{"word":"Contrast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past."},{"word":"Contrast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object."},{"word":"Contrast","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities."},{"word":"Contrast","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison."},{"word":"Contrast","type":"(n.)","description":"The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities."},{"word":"Contrastimulant","type":"(a.)","description":"Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants."},{"word":"Contrastimulant","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant."},{"word":"Contrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it."},{"word":"Contratenor","type":"(n.)","description":"Counter tenor; contralto."},{"word":"Contravallation","type":"(n.)","description":"A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged."},{"word":"Contravened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contravene"},{"word":"Contravening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contravene"},{"word":"Contravene","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat."},{"word":"Contravene","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law."},{"word":"Contravener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contravenes."},{"word":"Contravention","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation."},{"word":"Contraversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe."},{"word":"Contrayerva","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic."},{"word":"Contrecoup","type":"(n.)","description":"A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected."},{"word":"Contretemps","type":"(n.)","description":"An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch."},{"word":"Contributable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being contributed."},{"word":"Contributary","type":"(a.)","description":"Contributory."},{"word":"Contributary","type":"(a.)","description":"Tributary; contributing."},{"word":"Contributed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contribute"},{"word":"Contributing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contribute"},{"word":"Contribute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor."},{"word":"Contribute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect."},{"word":"Contribute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give or use one's power or influence for any object; to assist."},{"word":"Contribution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of contributing."},{"word":"Contribution","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals."},{"word":"Contribution","type":"(n.)","description":"An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country."},{"word":"Contribution","type":"(n.)","description":"Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit."},{"word":"Contributional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution."},{"word":"Contributive","type":"(a.)","description":"Contributing, or tending to contribute."},{"word":"Contributer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine."},{"word":"Contributory","type":"(a.)","description":"Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive."},{"word":"Contributories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Contributory"},{"word":"Contributory","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness."},{"word":"Contrist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sad."},{"word":"Contristate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make sorrowful."},{"word":"Contrite","type":"(a.)","description":"Thoroughly bruised or broken."},{"word":"Contrite","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent."},{"word":"Contrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrite person."},{"word":"Contrite","type":"(v.)","description":"In a contrite manner."},{"word":"Contriteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition."},{"word":"Contrition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing."},{"word":"Contrition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentance."},{"word":"Contriturate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To triturate; to pulverize."},{"word":"Contrivble","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised."},{"word":"Contrivance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning."},{"word":"Contrivance","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement."},{"word":"Contrived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contrive"},{"word":"Contriving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contrive"},{"word":"Contrive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan."},{"word":"Contrive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot."},{"word":"Contrivement","type":"(n.)","description":"Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan."},{"word":"Contriver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas."},{"word":"Control","type":"(n.)","description":"A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register."},{"word":"Control","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint."},{"word":"Control","type":"(n.)","description":"Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control."},{"word":"Controlled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Control"},{"word":"Controlling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Control"},{"word":"Control","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute."},{"word":"Control","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower."},{"word":"Controllability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being controlled; controllableness."},{"word":"Controllable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command."},{"word":"Controllableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being controlled."},{"word":"Controller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs."},{"word":"Controller","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts."},{"word":"Controller","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged."},{"word":"Controllership","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a controller."},{"word":"Controlment","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence."},{"word":"Controlment","type":"(n.)","description":"Opposition; resistance; hostility."},{"word":"Controversal","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning or looking opposite ways."},{"word":"Controversal","type":"(a.)","description":"Controversial."},{"word":"Controversary","type":"(a.)","description":"Controversial."},{"word":"Controverse","type":"(n.)","description":"Controversy."},{"word":"Controverse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispute; to controvert."},{"word":"Controverser","type":"(n.)","description":"A disputant."},{"word":"Controversial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity."},{"word":"Controversialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries on a controversy; a disputant."},{"word":"Controversially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a controversial manner."},{"word":"Controversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of controverting; controversy."},{"word":"Controversor","type":"(n.)","description":"A controverser."},{"word":"Controversies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Controversy"},{"word":"Controversy","type":"(n.)","description":"Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions."},{"word":"Controversy","type":"(n.)","description":"Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference."},{"word":"Controversy","type":"(n.)","description":"A suit in law or equity; a question of right."},{"word":"Controverted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Controvert"},{"word":"Controverting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Controvert"},{"word":"Controvert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate."},{"word":"Controverter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist."},{"word":"Controvertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question."},{"word":"Controvertist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist."},{"word":"Contubernal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Contubernial"},{"word":"Contubernial","type":"(a.)","description":"Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship."},{"word":"Contumacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient."},{"word":"Contumacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court."},{"word":"Contumacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Contumacy"},{"word":"Contumacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority."},{"word":"Contumacy","type":"(n.)","description":"A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned."},{"word":"Contumelious","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful."},{"word":"Contumelious","type":"(a.)","description":"Shameful; disgraceful."},{"word":"Contumely","type":"(n.)","description":"Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace."},{"word":"Contused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Contuse"},{"word":"Contusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Contuse"},{"word":"Contuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat, pound, or together."},{"word":"Contuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin."},{"word":"Contusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised."},{"word":"Contusion","type":"(n.)","description":"A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound."},{"word":"Conundrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun."},{"word":"Conundrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made."},{"word":"Conure","type":"(n.)","description":"An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet."},{"word":"Conus","type":"(n.)","description":"A cone."},{"word":"Conus","type":"(n.)","description":"A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4."},{"word":"Conusable","type":"(a.)","description":"Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged."},{"word":"Conusant","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cognizant."},{"word":"Conusor","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cognizor."},{"word":"Convalesced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convalesce"},{"word":"Convalescing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convalesce"},{"word":"Convalesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce."},{"word":"Convalesced","type":"(a.)","description":"Convalescent."},{"word":"Convalescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Convalescency"},{"word":"Convalescency","type":"(n.)","description":"The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health."},{"word":"Convalescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength."},{"word":"Convalescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to convalescence."},{"word":"Convalescent","type":"(n.)","description":"One recovering from sickness."},{"word":"Convalescently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor."},{"word":"Convallamarin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet."},{"word":"Convallaria","type":"(n.)","description":"The lily of the valley."},{"word":"Convallarin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley."},{"word":"Convection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of conveying or transmitting."},{"word":"Convection","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes."},{"word":"Convective","type":"(a.)","description":"Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity."},{"word":"Convectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a convective manner."},{"word":"Convellent","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to tear or pull up."},{"word":"Convenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being convened or assembled."},{"word":"Convenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies."},{"word":"Convenance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient."},{"word":"Convened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convene"},{"word":"Convenong","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convene"},{"word":"Convene","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come together; to meet; to unite."},{"word":"Convene","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble."},{"word":"Convene","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke."},{"word":"Convene","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To summon judicially to meet or appear."},{"word":"Convener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who convenes or meets with others."},{"word":"Convener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body."},{"word":"Convenience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Conveniency"},{"word":"Conveniency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety."},{"word":"Conveniency","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation."},{"word":"Conveniency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation."},{"word":"Conveniency","type":"(n.)","description":"A convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one's convenience."},{"word":"Convenient","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate."},{"word":"Convenient","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools."},{"word":"Convenient","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season."},{"word":"Convenient","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Near at hand; easy of access."},{"word":"Conveniently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty."},{"word":"Convent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A coming together; a meeting."},{"word":"Convent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns."},{"word":"Convent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery."},{"word":"Convent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet together; to concur."},{"word":"Convent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be convenient; to serve."},{"word":"Convent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene."},{"word":"Conventical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent."},{"word":"Conventicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly."},{"word":"Conventicle","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics."},{"word":"Conventicler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who supports or frequents conventicles."},{"word":"Conventicling","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle."},{"word":"Convention","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition."},{"word":"Convention","type":"(v. i.)","description":"General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality."},{"word":"Convention","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical."},{"word":"Convention","type":"(v. i.)","description":"An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II."},{"word":"Convention","type":"(v. i.)","description":"An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments."},{"word":"Conventional","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated."},{"word":"Conventional","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal."},{"word":"Conventional","type":"(a.)","description":"Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules."},{"word":"Conventional","type":"(a.)","description":"Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t."},{"word":"Conventionalism","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage."},{"word":"Conventionalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t."},{"word":"Conventionalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adheres to a convention or treaty."},{"word":"Conventionalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is governed by conventionalism."},{"word":"Conventionalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Conventionality"},{"word":"Conventionality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life."},{"word":"Conventionalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making conventional."},{"word":"Conventionalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being conventional."},{"word":"Conventionalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Conventionalizw"},{"word":"Conventionalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Conventionalizw"},{"word":"Conventionalizw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage."},{"word":"Conventionalizw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others."},{"word":"Conventionalizw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance."},{"word":"Conventionalize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2."},{"word":"Conventionalily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a conventional manner."},{"word":"Conventionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants."},{"word":"Conventioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who belongs to a convention or assembly."},{"word":"Conventionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract."},{"word":"Conventual","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic."},{"word":"Conventual","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse."},{"word":"Converged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Converge"},{"word":"Converging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Converge"},{"word":"Converge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge."},{"word":"Converge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together."},{"word":"Convergence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Convergency"},{"word":"Convergency","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point."},{"word":"Convergent","type":"(a.)","description":"tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging."},{"word":"Converging","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines."},{"word":"Conversable","type":"(a.)","description":"Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse."},{"word":"Conversableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability."},{"word":"Conversably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a conversable manner."},{"word":"Conversance","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy."},{"word":"Conversancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Conversance"},{"word":"Conversant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted."},{"word":"Conversant","type":"(a.)","description":"Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in."},{"word":"Conversant","type":"(a.)","description":"Concerned; occupied."},{"word":"Conversant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who converses with another; a convenser."},{"word":"Conversantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a familiar manner."},{"word":"Conversation","type":"(n.)","description":"General course of conduct; behavior."},{"word":"Conversation","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance."},{"word":"Conversation","type":"(n.)","description":"Commerce; intercourse; traffic."},{"word":"Conversation","type":"(n.)","description":"Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue."},{"word":"Conversation","type":"(n.)","description":"Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation."},{"word":"Conversational","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style."},{"word":"Conversationalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A conversationist."},{"word":"Conversationed","type":"(a.)","description":"Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved."},{"word":"Conversationism","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism."},{"word":"Conversationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who converses much, or who excels in conversation."},{"word":"Conversative","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative."},{"word":"Conversazioni","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Conversazi-one"},{"word":"Conversazi-one","type":"(n.)","description":"A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects."},{"word":"Conversed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Converse"},{"word":"Conversing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Converse"},{"word":"Converse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Converse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing."},{"word":"Converse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things."},{"word":"Converse","type":"(n.)","description":"Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association."},{"word":"Converse","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat."},{"word":"Converse","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition."},{"word":"Converse","type":"(n.)","description":"A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue."},{"word":"Converse","type":"(n.)","description":"A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal."},{"word":"Conversely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally."},{"word":"Converser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who engages in conversation."},{"word":"Conversible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being converted or reversed."},{"word":"Conversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change."},{"word":"Conversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed."},{"word":"Conversion","type":"(n.)","description":"An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse."},{"word":"Conversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary."},{"word":"Conversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions."},{"word":"Conversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank."},{"word":"Conversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles."},{"word":"Conversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life."},{"word":"Conversive","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being converted or changed."},{"word":"Conversive","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready to converse; social."},{"word":"Converted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convert"},{"word":"Converting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convert"},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to turn; to turn."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn into another language; to translate."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity."},{"word":"Convert","type":"(n.)","description":"A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir."},{"word":"Convertend","type":"(n.)","description":"Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic)."},{"word":"Converter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who converts; one who makes converts."},{"word":"Converter","type":"(n.)","description":"A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal."},{"word":"Convertibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness."},{"word":"Convertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable."},{"word":"Convertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable."},{"word":"Convertibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being convertible; convertibility."},{"word":"Convertibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a convertible manner."},{"word":"Convertite","type":"(n.)","description":"A convert."},{"word":"Convex","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave."},{"word":"Convex","type":"(n.)","description":"A convex body or surface."},{"word":"Convexed","type":"(a.)","description":"Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form."},{"word":"Convexedly","type":"(dv.)","description":"In a convex form; convexly."},{"word":"Convexedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Convexity."},{"word":"Convexities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Convexity"},{"word":"Convexity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness."},{"word":"Convexly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped."},{"word":"Convexness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being convex; convexity."},{"word":"Convexo-concave","type":"(a.)","description":"Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus."},{"word":"Convexo-convex","type":"(a.)","description":"Convex on both sides; double convex. See under Convex, a."},{"word":"Convexo-plane","type":"(a.)","description":"Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex."},{"word":"Conveyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convey"},{"word":"Conveying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convey"},{"word":"Convey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport."},{"word":"Convey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas."},{"word":"Convey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing."},{"word":"Convey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information."},{"word":"Convey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage with privacy; to carry out."},{"word":"Convey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve."},{"word":"Convey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accompany; to convoy."},{"word":"Convey","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the thief; to steal."},{"word":"Conveyable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being conveyed or transferred."},{"word":"Conveyance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage."},{"word":"Conveyance","type":"(n.)","description":"The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water."},{"word":"Conveyance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission."},{"word":"Conveyance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another."},{"word":"Conveyance","type":"(n.)","description":"Dishonest management, or artifice."},{"word":"Conveyancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc."},{"word":"Conveyancing","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another."},{"word":"Conveyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers."},{"word":"Conveyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief."},{"word":"Conveyor","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope."},{"word":"Conviciate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail."},{"word":"Convicinities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Convicinity"},{"word":"Convicinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Immediate vicinity; neighborhood."},{"word":"Convicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting."},{"word":"Convict","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Proved or found guilty; convicted."},{"word":"Convict","type":"(n.)","description":"A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime."},{"word":"Convict","type":"(n.)","description":"A criminal sentenced to penal servitude."},{"word":"Convicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convict"},{"word":"Convicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convict"},{"word":"Convict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience."},{"word":"Convict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute."},{"word":"Convict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove."},{"word":"Convict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defeat; to doom to destruction."},{"word":"Convict1ible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being convicted."},{"word":"Conviction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense."},{"word":"Conviction","type":"(n.)","description":"A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal."},{"word":"Conviction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation."},{"word":"Conviction","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience."},{"word":"Convictism","type":"(n.)","description":"The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements."},{"word":"Convictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Convincing."},{"word":"Convinced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convince"},{"word":"Convincing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convince"},{"word":"Convince","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master."},{"word":"Convince","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof."},{"word":"Convince","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confute; to prove the fallacy of."},{"word":"Convince","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove guilty; to convict."},{"word":"Convincement","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction."},{"word":"Convincer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof."},{"word":"Convincible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being convinced or won over."},{"word":"Convincible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable."},{"word":"Convincingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent."},{"word":"Convincingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing."},{"word":"Convival","type":"(a.)","description":"pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial."},{"word":"Convive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feast together; to be convivial."},{"word":"Convive","type":"(n.)","description":"A quest at a banquet."},{"word":"Convivial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial."},{"word":"Convivialist","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of convivial habits."},{"word":"Convivialities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Conviviality"},{"word":"Conviviality","type":"(n.)","description":"The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity."},{"word":"Convivially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a convivial manner."},{"word":"Convocated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convocate"},{"word":"Convocating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convocate"},{"word":"Convocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convoke; to call together."},{"word":"Convocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of calling or assembling by summons."},{"word":"Convocation","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly or meeting."},{"word":"Convocation","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs."},{"word":"Convocation","type":"(n.)","description":"An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted."},{"word":"Convocational","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a convocation."},{"word":"Convocationist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate or defender of convocation."},{"word":"Convoked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convoke"},{"word":"Convoking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convoke"},{"word":"Convoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons."},{"word":"Convolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation."},{"word":"Convoluted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having convolutions."},{"word":"Convoluted","type":"(a.)","description":"Folded in tortuous windings."},{"word":"Convolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion."},{"word":"Convolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself."},{"word":"Convolution","type":"(n.)","description":"An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain."},{"word":"Convolved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convolve"},{"word":"Convolving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convolve"},{"word":"Convolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another."},{"word":"Convolvulaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples."},{"word":"Convolvulin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties."},{"word":"Convolvuli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Convolvulus"},{"word":"Convoluluses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Convolvulus"},{"word":"Convolvulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea."},{"word":"Convoyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convoy"},{"word":"Convoying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convoy"},{"word":"Convoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman."},{"word":"Convoy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort."},{"word":"Convoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort."},{"word":"Convoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance."},{"word":"Convoy","type":"(n.)","description":"Conveyance; means of transportation."},{"word":"Convoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill."},{"word":"Convulsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Convulse"},{"word":"Convulsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Convulse"},{"word":"Convulse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain."},{"word":"Convulse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To agitate greatly; to shake violently."},{"word":"Convulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body."},{"word":"Convulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion."},{"word":"Convulsional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary."},{"word":"Convulsionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive."},{"word":"Convulsionary","type":"(n.)","description":"A convulsionist."},{"word":"Convulsionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Medard."},{"word":"Convulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary."},{"word":"Convulsively","type":"(adv.)","description":"in a convulsive manner."},{"word":"Cony","type":"(n.)","description":"A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus)"},{"word":"Cony","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief hare."},{"word":"Cony","type":"(n.)","description":"A simpleton."},{"word":"Cony","type":"(n.)","description":"An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda."},{"word":"Cony","type":"(n.)","description":"A local name of the burbot."},{"word":"Cony-catch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive; to cheat; to trick."},{"word":"Cony-catcher","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver."},{"word":"Conylene","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine."},{"word":"Conyrine","type":"(n.)","description":"A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine."},{"word":"Cooed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coo"},{"word":"Cooing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coo"},{"word":"Coo","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves."},{"word":"Coo","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i."},{"word":"Cooey","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cooee"},{"word":"Cooee","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal."},{"word":"Cook","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make the noise of the cuckoo."},{"word":"Cook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw."},{"word":"Cook","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating."},{"word":"Cook","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish, the European striped wrasse."},{"word":"Cooked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cook"},{"word":"Cooking","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Cook"},{"word":"Cook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat."},{"word":"Cook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account."},{"word":"Cook","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prepare food for the table."},{"word":"Cookbook","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book."},{"word":"Cookee","type":"(n.)","description":"A female cook."},{"word":"Cookery","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat."},{"word":"Cookery","type":"(n.)","description":"A delicacy; a dainty."},{"word":"Cookey","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cookie"},{"word":"Cookie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cooky."},{"word":"Cookmaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook."},{"word":"Cookroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship."},{"word":"Cookshop","type":"(n.)","description":"An eating house."},{"word":"Cookies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cooky"},{"word":"Cooky","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(superl.)","description":"Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(superl.)","description":"Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(superl.)","description":"Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(superl.)","description":"Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(n.)","description":"A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening."},{"word":"Cooled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cool"},{"word":"Cooling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cool"},{"word":"Cool","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become less hot; to lose heat."},{"word":"Cool","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate."},{"word":"Cooler","type":"(n.)","description":"That which cools, or abates heat or excitement."},{"word":"Cooler","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc."},{"word":"Cool-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion."},{"word":"Coolie","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cooly."},{"word":"Cooling","type":"(p.a.)","description":"Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat."},{"word":"Coolish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat cool."},{"word":"Coolly","type":"(a.)","description":"Coolish; cool."},{"word":"Coolly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently."},{"word":"Coolness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness."},{"word":"Coolness","type":"(n.)","description":"Calm impudence; self-possession."},{"word":"Coolung","type":"(n.)","description":"The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea)."},{"word":"Coolies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coolie"},{"word":"Cooly","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coolie"},{"word":"Coolie","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country."},{"word":"Coom","type":"(n.)","description":"Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven."},{"word":"Coomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter."},{"word":"Coomb","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coombe"},{"word":"Coombe","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe."},{"word":"Coon","type":"(n.)","description":"A raccoon. See Raccoon."},{"word":"Coontie","type":"(n.)","description":"A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared."},{"word":"Coop","type":"(n.)","description":"A barrel or cask for liquor."},{"word":"Coop","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry."},{"word":"Coop","type":"(n.)","description":"A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel."},{"word":"Cooped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coop"},{"word":"Cooping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coop"},{"word":"Coop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in."},{"word":"Coop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To work upon in the manner of a cooper."},{"word":"Coopee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coupe."},{"word":"Cooper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc."},{"word":"Coopered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cooper"},{"word":"Coopering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cooper"},{"word":"Cooper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel."},{"word":"Cooperage","type":"(n.)","description":"Work done by a cooper."},{"word":"Cooperage","type":"(n.)","description":"The price paid for coopers; work."},{"word":"Cooperage","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where coopers' work is done."},{"word":"Cooperant","type":"(a.)","description":"Operating together; as, cooperant forces."},{"word":"Cooperated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cooperate"},{"word":"Cooperating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cooperate"},{"word":"Cooperate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect."},{"word":"Cooperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor."},{"word":"Cooperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The association of a number of persons for their benefit."},{"word":"Cooperative","type":"(a.)","description":"Operating jointly to the same end."},{"word":"Cooperator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end."},{"word":"Cooper","type":"(n.)","description":"Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper."},{"word":"Coopery","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a cooper; coopered."},{"word":"Coopery","type":"(n.)","description":"The occupation of a cooper."},{"word":"Coopt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To choose or elect in concert with another."},{"word":"Cooptate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To choose; to elect; to coopt."},{"word":"Cooptation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of choosing; selection; choice."},{"word":"Coordain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another."},{"word":"Coordinance","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint ordinance."},{"word":"Coordinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal in rank or order; not subordinate."},{"word":"Coordinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coordinate"},{"word":"Coordinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coordinate"},{"word":"Coordinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification."},{"word":"Coordinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements."},{"word":"Coordinate","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance."},{"word":"Coordinate","type":"(n.)","description":"Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa."},{"word":"Coordinately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a coordinate manner."},{"word":"Coordinateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being coordinate; equality of rank or authority."},{"word":"Coordination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coordination of functions."},{"word":"Coordination","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being coordinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc."},{"word":"Coordinative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing coordination."},{"word":"Coot","type":"(n.)","description":"A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica."},{"word":"Coot","type":"(n.)","description":"The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter."},{"word":"Coot","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot."},{"word":"Cooter","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida."},{"word":"Cooter","type":"(n.)","description":"The box tortoise."},{"word":"Cootfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's."},{"word":"Coothay","type":"(n.)","description":"A striped satin made in India."},{"word":"Cop","type":"(n.)","description":"The top of a thing; the head; a crest."},{"word":"Cop","type":"(n.)","description":"A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc."},{"word":"Cop","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube or quill upon which silk is wound."},{"word":"Cop","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Merlon."},{"word":"Cop","type":"(n.)","description":"A policeman."},{"word":"Copaiba","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Copaiva"},{"word":"Copaiva","type":"(n.)","description":"A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba."},{"word":"Copal","type":"()","description":"A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes."},{"word":"Coparcenaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coparcenary"},{"word":"Coparcenary","type":"(n.)","description":"Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance."},{"word":"Coparcener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance."},{"word":"Coparceny","type":"(n.)","description":"An equal share of an inheritance."},{"word":"Copart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To share."},{"word":"Copartment","type":"(n.)","description":"A compartment."},{"word":"Copartner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer."},{"word":"Copartnership","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter."},{"word":"Copartnership","type":"(n.)","description":"A partnership or firm; as, A. and B. have this day formed a copartnership."},{"word":"Copartneries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Copartnery"},{"word":"Copartnery","type":"(n.)","description":"the state of being copartners in any undertaking."},{"word":"Copatain","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top."},{"word":"Copatriot","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint patriot."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for the head."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(n.)","description":"An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(n.)","description":"The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk)."},{"word":"Coped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cope"},{"word":"Coping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cope"},{"word":"Cope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exchange or barter."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To encounter; to meet; to have to do with."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bargain for; to buy."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make return for; to requite; to repay."},{"word":"Cope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter."},{"word":"Cope-chisel","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove."},{"word":"Copeck","type":"(n.)","description":"A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck."},{"word":"Coped","type":"(a.)","description":"Clad in a cope."},{"word":"Copelata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Larvalla."},{"word":"Copeman","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A chapman; a dealer; a merchant."},{"word":"Copepod","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Copepoda."},{"word":"Copepod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Copepoda."},{"word":"Copepoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine."},{"word":"Copernican","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system."},{"word":"Copesmate","type":"(n.)","description":"An associate or companion; a friend; a partner."},{"word":"Copestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone for coping. See Coping."},{"word":"Copier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber."},{"word":"Copier","type":"(n.)","description":"An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist."},{"word":"Coping","type":"(n.)","description":"The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping."},{"word":"Copious","type":"(a.)","description":"Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful."},{"word":"Copiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a copious manner."},{"word":"Copiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style."},{"word":"Copist","type":"(n.)","description":"A copier."},{"word":"Coplaner","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated in one plane."},{"word":"Copland","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle."},{"word":"Coportion","type":"(n.)","description":"Equal share."},{"word":"Copped","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested."},{"word":"Coppel","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Cupel."},{"word":"Copper","type":"(n.)","description":"A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze."},{"word":"Copper","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper."},{"word":"Copper","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper."},{"word":"Copper","type":"(n.)","description":"the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers."},{"word":"Coppered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Copper"},{"word":"Coppering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Copper"},{"word":"Copper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship."},{"word":"Copperas","type":"(n.)","description":"Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate."},{"word":"Copper-bottomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship."},{"word":"Copper-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type."},{"word":"Copper-fastened","type":"(a.)","description":"Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship."},{"word":"Copperhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper."},{"word":"Copperhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War."},{"word":"Coppering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of covering with copper."},{"word":"Coppering","type":"(n.)","description":"An envelope or covering of copper."},{"word":"Copperish","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste."},{"word":"Copper-nickel","type":"(n.)","description":"Niccolite."},{"word":"Copper-nose","type":"(n.)","description":"A red nose."},{"word":"Copperplate","type":"(n.)","description":"A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved."},{"word":"Copperplate","type":"(n.)","description":"An impression on paper taken from such a plate."},{"word":"Coppersmith","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper."},{"word":"Copper","type":"()","description":"A place where copper is wrought or manufactured."},{"word":"Copperworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper."},{"word":"Copperworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The ringworm."},{"word":"Coppery","type":"(a.)","description":"Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper."},{"word":"Coppice","type":"(n.)","description":"A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse."},{"word":"Coppin","type":"(n.)","description":"A cop of thread."},{"word":"Copple","type":"(n.)","description":"Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point."},{"word":"Copple-crown","type":"(n.)","description":"A created or high-topped crown or head."},{"word":"Coppled","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising to a point; conical; copped."},{"word":"Copple","type":"()","description":"Cupel dust."},{"word":"Copplestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A cobblestone."},{"word":"Copps","type":"(n.)","description":"See Copse."},{"word":"Copra","type":"(n.)","description":"The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed."},{"word":"Coprolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement."},{"word":"Coprolitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites."},{"word":"Coprophagan","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung."},{"word":"Coprophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding upon dung, as certain insects."},{"word":"Cop-rose","type":"(n.)","description":"The red, or corn, poppy."},{"word":"Cops","type":"(n.)","description":"The connecting crook of a harrow."},{"word":"Copse","type":"(n.)","description":"A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice."},{"word":"Copse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc."},{"word":"Copse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plant and preserve, as a copse."},{"word":"Copsewood","type":"(n.)","description":"Brushwood; coppice."},{"word":"Copsy","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by copses."},{"word":"Coptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Copts."},{"word":"Coptic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Copts."},{"word":"Copts","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians."},{"word":"Copts","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile."},{"word":"Copula","type":"(n.)","description":"The word which unites the subject and predicate."},{"word":"Copula","type":"(n.)","description":"The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler."},{"word":"Copulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Joined; associated; coupled."},{"word":"Copulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Joining subject and predicate; copulative."},{"word":"Copulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Copulate"},{"word":"Copulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Copulate"},{"word":"Copulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation."},{"word":"Copulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction."},{"word":"Copulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition."},{"word":"Copulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like \"and\"."},{"word":"Copulative","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection."},{"word":"Copulative","type":"(n.)","description":"A copulative conjunction."},{"word":"Copulatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a copulative manner."},{"word":"Coplatry","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative."},{"word":"Coplatry","type":"(a.)","description":"Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects."},{"word":"Copies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Copy"},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"An abundance or plenty of anything."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"Copyhold; tenure; lease."},{"word":"Copied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Copy"},{"word":"Copying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Copy"},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(n.)","description":"To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a copy or copies; to imitate."},{"word":"Copy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well."},{"word":"Copyer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Copier."},{"word":"Copygraph","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing."},{"word":"Copyhold","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court."},{"word":"Copyhold","type":"(n.)","description":"Land held in copyhold."},{"word":"Copyholder","type":"(n.)","description":"One possessed of land in copyhold."},{"word":"Copyholder","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for holding copy for a compositor."},{"word":"Copyholder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who reads copy to a proof reader."},{"word":"Copying","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"From Copy, v."},{"word":"Copyist","type":"(n.)","description":"A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist."},{"word":"Copyright","type":"(n.)","description":"The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books."},{"word":"Copyright","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To secure a copyright on."},{"word":"Coquelicot","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild poppy, or red corn rose."},{"word":"Coquelicot","type":"(n.)","description":"The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet."},{"word":"Coquetted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coquet"},{"word":"Coquetting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coquet"},{"word":"Coquet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint."},{"word":"Coquet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime."},{"word":"Coquetries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Coquetry"},{"word":"Coquetry","type":"(n.)","description":"Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love."},{"word":"Coquette","type":"(n.)","description":"A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men."},{"word":"Coquette","type":"(n.)","description":"A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t."},{"word":"Coquettish","type":"(a.)","description":"Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing."},{"word":"Coquettishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a coquettish manner."},{"word":"Coquilla","type":"()","description":"The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.)."},{"word":"Coquimbite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili."},{"word":"Coquina","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida."},{"word":"Cor-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying with, together, etc. See Com-."},{"word":"Cor","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer."},{"word":"Cora","type":"(n.)","description":"The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa."},{"word":"Coracle","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt."},{"word":"Coracoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a crow's beak."},{"word":"Coracoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals."},{"word":"Coracoid","type":"(n.)","description":"The coracoid bone or process."},{"word":"Corage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Courage"},{"word":"Coral","type":"(n.)","description":"The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa."},{"word":"Coral","type":"(n.)","description":"The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color."},{"word":"Coral","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything."},{"word":"Coraled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having coral; covered with coral."},{"word":"Coral","type":"()","description":"Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals."},{"word":"Corallaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like coral, or partaking of its qualities."},{"word":"Corallian","type":"(n.)","description":"A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag."},{"word":"Coralliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or producing coral."},{"word":"Coralliform","type":"(a.)","description":"resembling coral in form."},{"word":"Coralligena","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Anthozoa."},{"word":"Coralligenous","type":"(a.)","description":"producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous."},{"word":"Coralligerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing coral; coralliferous."},{"word":"Corallin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic."},{"word":"Coralline","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone."},{"word":"Coralline","type":"(n.)","description":"A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches."},{"word":"Coralline","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals."},{"word":"Corallinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil coralline."},{"word":"Corallite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral."},{"word":"Corallite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal."},{"word":"Coralloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of coral; branching like coral."},{"word":"Coralloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"resembling coral; coralloid."},{"word":"Corallum","type":"(n.)","description":"The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral."},{"word":"Coral-rag","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Corallian."},{"word":"Coralwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root."},{"word":"Coranach","type":"(n.)","description":"A lamentation for the dead; a dirge."},{"word":"Corant","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coranto"},{"word":"Coranto","type":"(n.)","description":"A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion."},{"word":"Corb","type":"(n.)","description":"A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf."},{"word":"Corb","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament in a building; a corbel."},{"word":"Corban","type":"(n.)","description":"An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow."},{"word":"Corban","type":"(n.)","description":"An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited."},{"word":"Corbe","type":"(a.)","description":"Crooked."},{"word":"Corbell","type":"(n.)","description":"A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel."},{"word":"Corbell","type":"(n.)","description":"Small gabions."},{"word":"Corbel","type":"(n.)","description":"A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture."},{"word":"Corbel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel."},{"word":"Corbel-table","type":"(n.)","description":"A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them."},{"word":"Corbies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corby"},{"word":"Corbie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Corby"},{"word":"Corby","type":"(n.)","description":"The raven."},{"word":"Corby","type":"(n.)","description":"A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge."},{"word":"Corbiestep","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep."},{"word":"Corchorus","type":"(n.)","description":"The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens."},{"word":"Corcle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Corcule"},{"word":"Corcule","type":"(n.)","description":"The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ."},{"word":"Cord","type":"(n.)","description":"A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together."},{"word":"Cord","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line."},{"word":"Cord","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity."},{"word":"Cord","type":"(n.)","description":"Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal."},{"word":"Cord","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chord."},{"word":"Corded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cord"},{"word":"Cording","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cord"},{"word":"Cord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment."},{"word":"Cord","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord."},{"word":"Cordage","type":"(n.)","description":"Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes."},{"word":"Cordal","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cordelle."},{"word":"Cordate","type":"(a.)","description":"Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf."},{"word":"Cordately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cordate form."},{"word":"Corded","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound or fastened with cords."},{"word":"Corded","type":"(a.)","description":"Piled in a form for measurement by the cord."},{"word":"Corded","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of cords."},{"word":"Corded","type":"(a.)","description":"Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface."},{"word":"Corded","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound about, or wound, with cords."},{"word":"Cordelier","type":"(n.)","description":"A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans."},{"word":"Cordelier","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris."},{"word":"Cordeling","type":"(a.)","description":"Twisting."},{"word":"Cordelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A twisted cord; a tassel."},{"word":"Cordial","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from the heart."},{"word":"Cordial","type":"(a.)","description":"Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate."},{"word":"Cordial","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits."},{"word":"Cordial","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates."},{"word":"Cordial","type":"(n.)","description":"Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial."},{"word":"Cordial","type":"(n.)","description":"Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur."},{"word":"Cordialities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cordiality"},{"word":"Cordiality","type":"(n.)","description":"Relation to the heart."},{"word":"Cordiality","type":"(n.)","description":"Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness."},{"word":"Cordialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into a cordial."},{"word":"Cordialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render cordial; to reconcile."},{"word":"Cordialize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow cordial; to feel or express cordiality."},{"word":"Cordially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cordial manner."},{"word":"Cordialness","type":"(n.)","description":"Cordiality."},{"word":"Cordierite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Iolite."},{"word":"Cordoform","type":"(a.)","description":"Heart-shaped."},{"word":"Cordillera","type":"(n.)","description":"A mountain ridge or chain."},{"word":"Cordiner","type":"(n.)","description":"A cordwainer."},{"word":"Cordon","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon."},{"word":"Cordon","type":"(n.)","description":"The cord worn by a Franciscan friar."},{"word":"Cordon","type":"(n.)","description":"The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches."},{"word":"Cordon","type":"(n.)","description":"A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing."},{"word":"Cordon","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state."},{"word":"Cordonnet","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc."},{"word":"Cordovan","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide."},{"word":"Corduroy","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges."},{"word":"Corduroy","type":"(n.)","description":"Trousers or breeches of corduroy."},{"word":"Corduroy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form of logs laid side by side."},{"word":"Cordwain","type":"(n.)","description":"A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like."},{"word":"Cordwainer","type":"(n.)","description":"A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of individuals; an assemblage."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"A miner's underground working time or shift."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver."},{"word":"Core","type":"(n.)","description":"The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals."},{"word":"Cord","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Core"},{"word":"Coring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Core"},{"word":"Core","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple."},{"word":"Core","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting."},{"word":"Co-regent","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint regent or ruler."},{"word":"Co-relation","type":"(n.)","description":"Corresponding relation."},{"word":"Co-religionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the same religion with another."},{"word":"Coreopsis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing."},{"word":"Corer","type":"(n.)","description":"That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer."},{"word":"Co-respondent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another."},{"word":"Corves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corf"},{"word":"Corf","type":"(n.)","description":"A basket."},{"word":"Corf","type":"(n.)","description":"A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore."},{"word":"Corf","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines."},{"word":"Corfiote","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Corfute"},{"word":"Corfute","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea."},{"word":"Coriaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough."},{"word":"Coriaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Stiff, like leather or parchment."},{"word":"Coriander","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative."},{"word":"Coridine","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type."},{"word":"Corindon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Corrundum."},{"word":"Corinne","type":"(n.)","description":"The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle."},{"word":"Corinth","type":"(n.)","description":"A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance."},{"word":"Corinth","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fruit; a currant."},{"word":"Corinthiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Corinth."},{"word":"Corinthian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Corinth."},{"word":"Corinthian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans."},{"word":"Corinthian","type":"(a.)","description":"Debauched in character or practice; impure."},{"word":"Corinthian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)"},{"word":"Corinthian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Corinth."},{"word":"Corinthian","type":"(n.)","description":"A gay, licentious person."},{"word":"Corium","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I."},{"word":"Corium","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dermis."},{"word":"Corium","type":"(n.)","description":"The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium."},{"word":"Corival","type":"(n.)","description":"A rival; a corrival."},{"word":"Corival","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rival; to pretend to equal."},{"word":"Corivalry","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Corivalship"},{"word":"Corivalship","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint rivalry."},{"word":"Cork","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose."},{"word":"Cork","type":"(n.)","description":"A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork."},{"word":"Cork","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance."},{"word":"Corked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cork"},{"word":"Corking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cork"},{"word":"Cork","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stop with a cork, as a bottle."},{"word":"Cork","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork."},{"word":"Corkage","type":"(n.)","description":"The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest."},{"word":"Corked","type":"(a.)","description":"having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked."},{"word":"Cork","type":"()","description":"A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork."},{"word":"Corkiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being corky."},{"word":"Corking","type":"()","description":"A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold."},{"word":"Corkscrew","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles."},{"word":"Corkscrew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd."},{"word":"Corkwing","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish; the goldsinny."},{"word":"Corky","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up."},{"word":"Corky","type":"(a.)","description":"Tasting of cork."},{"word":"Corm","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb."},{"word":"Corm","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cormus, 2."},{"word":"Cormogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The embryological history of groups or families of individuals."},{"word":"Cormophylogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals."},{"word":"Cormophytes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Cormophyta"},{"word":"Cormophyta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage."},{"word":"Cormorant","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese."},{"word":"Cormorant","type":"(n.)","description":"A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant."},{"word":"Cormoraut","type":"(a.)","description":"Ravenous; voracious."},{"word":"Cormus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Corm."},{"word":"Cormus","type":"(n.)","description":"A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached."},{"word":"Corn","type":"(n.)","description":"A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome."},{"word":"Corn","type":"(n.)","description":"A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain."},{"word":"Corn","type":"(n.)","description":"The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats."},{"word":"Corn","type":"(n.)","description":"The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing."},{"word":"Corn","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, hard particle; a grain."},{"word":"Corned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Corn"},{"word":"Corning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Corn"},{"word":"Corn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue."},{"word":"Corn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder."},{"word":"Corn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses."},{"word":"Corn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one."},{"word":"Cornage","type":"(n.)","description":"Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn."},{"word":"Cornamute","type":"(n.)","description":"A cornemuse."},{"word":"Cornbind","type":"(n.)","description":"A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus."},{"word":"Corncob","type":"(n.)","description":"The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow."},{"word":"Corncrake","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird."},{"word":"Corncrib","type":"(n.)","description":"A crib for storing corn."},{"word":"Corncutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle."},{"word":"Corncutter","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn."},{"word":"Corndodger","type":"(n.)","description":"A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers."},{"word":"Corneas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cornea"},{"word":"Cornea","type":"(n.)","description":"The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye."},{"word":"Corneal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the cornea."},{"word":"Cornel","type":"(n.)","description":"The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries."},{"word":"Cornel","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry."},{"word":"Cornelian","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Carnelian."},{"word":"Cornemuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe."},{"word":"Corneocalcareous","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals."},{"word":"Corneocalcareous","type":"(a.)","description":"Horny on one side and calcareous on the other."},{"word":"Corneouss","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard."},{"word":"Corner","type":"(n.)","description":"The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal."},{"word":"Corner","type":"(n.)","description":"The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner."},{"word":"Corner","type":"(n.)","description":"An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part."},{"word":"Corner","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook."},{"word":"Corner","type":"(n.)","description":"Direction; quarter."},{"word":"Corner","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock."},{"word":"Cornered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Corner"},{"word":"Cornering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Corner"},{"word":"Corner","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive into a corner."},{"word":"Corner","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument."},{"word":"Corner","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum."},{"word":"Cornercap","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief ornament."},{"word":"Cornered","type":"(p. a.)","description":"1 Having corners or angles."},{"word":"Cornered","type":"(p. a.)","description":"In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay."},{"word":"Cornerwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the corner in front; diagonally; not square."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain organ stop or register."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"The standard of such a troop."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"A headdress"},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century."},{"word":"Cornet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coronet, 2."},{"word":"Cornets-a-piston","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cornet-a-piston"},{"word":"Cornet-a-piston","type":"(n.)","description":"A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet."},{"word":"Cornetcy","type":"(n.)","description":"The commission or rank of a cornet."},{"word":"Corneter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blows a cornet."},{"word":"Corneule","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates."},{"word":"Cornfield","type":"(n.)","description":"A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn."},{"word":"Cornfloor","type":"(n.)","description":"A thrashing floor."},{"word":"Cornflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields."},{"word":"Cornic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida)."},{"word":"Cornice","type":"(n.)","description":"Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house."},{"word":"Corniced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cornice."},{"word":"Cornicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A little horn."},{"word":"Cornicular","type":"(n.)","description":"A secretary or clerk."},{"word":"Cor/niculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Horned; having horns."},{"word":"Cor/niculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having processes resembling small horns."},{"word":"Cornicula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corniculum"},{"word":"Corniculum","type":"(n.)","description":"A small hornlike part or process."},{"word":"Corniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York."},{"word":"Cornific","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing horns; forming horn."},{"word":"Cornification","type":"(n.)","description":"Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn."},{"word":"Cornified","type":"(a.)","description":"Converted into horn; horny."},{"word":"Corniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped."},{"word":"Cornigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals."},{"word":"Cornin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid."},{"word":"Cornin","type":"(n.)","description":"An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge."},{"word":"Corniplume","type":"(n.)","description":"A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds."},{"word":"Cornish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England."},{"word":"Cornish","type":"(n.)","description":"The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall."},{"word":"Cornist","type":"(n.)","description":"A performer on the cornet or horn."},{"word":"Cornloft","type":"(n.)","description":"A loft for corn; a granary."},{"word":"Cornmuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A cornemuse."},{"word":"Corni","type":"(-n/)","description":"di basseto (pl. ) of Corno di bassetto"},{"word":"Corno","type":"()","description":"A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe."},{"word":"Corni","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corno Inglese"},{"word":"Corno","type":"()","description":"A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn."},{"word":"Cornopean","type":"(n.)","description":"An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston."},{"word":"Cornsheller","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob."},{"word":"Cornshuck","type":"(n.)","description":"The husk covering an ear of Indian corn."},{"word":"Cornstalk","type":"(n.)","description":"A stalk of Indian corn."},{"word":"Cornstarch","type":"(n.)","description":"Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc."},{"word":"Cornua","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cornu"},{"word":"Cornu","type":"(n.)","description":"A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn."},{"word":"Cornua","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cornu Ammonis"},{"word":"Cornu","type":"()","description":"A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite."},{"word":"Cornucopias","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cornucopia"},{"word":"Cornucopia","type":"(n.)","description":"The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance."},{"word":"Cornucopia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form."},{"word":"Cornute","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cornuted"},{"word":"Cornuted","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped."},{"word":"Cornuted","type":"(a.)","description":"Cuckolded."},{"word":"Cornute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold."},{"word":"Cornuto","type":"(n.)","description":"A man that wears the horns; a cuckold."},{"word":"Cornutor","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuckold maker."},{"word":"Corny","type":"(a.)","description":"Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn."},{"word":"Corny","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn."},{"word":"Corny","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing corn; tasting well of malt."},{"word":"Corny","type":"(a.)","description":"Tipsy."},{"word":"Corocore","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago."},{"word":"Corody","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it."},{"word":"Corol","type":"(n.)","description":"A corolla."},{"word":"Corolla","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom."},{"word":"Corollaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla."},{"word":"Corollaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corollary"},{"word":"Corollary","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous."},{"word":"Corollary","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence."},{"word":"Corollate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Corollated"},{"word":"Corollated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla."},{"word":"Corollet","type":"(n.)","description":"A floret in an aggregate flower."},{"word":"Corollifloral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Corolliflorous"},{"word":"Corolliflorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral."},{"word":"Corolline","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a corolla."},{"word":"Coromandel","type":"(n.)","description":"The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal."},{"word":"Coronae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corona"},{"word":"Coronas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corona"},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis."},{"word":"Corona","type":"(n.)","description":"A character [/] called the pause or hold."},{"word":"Coronach","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coranach."},{"word":"Coronal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses)."},{"word":"Coronal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation."},{"word":"Coronal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull."},{"word":"Coronal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin."},{"word":"Coronal","type":"(n.)","description":"A crown; wreath; garland."},{"word":"Coronal","type":"(n.)","description":"The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands."},{"word":"Coronamen","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet."},{"word":"Coronary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland."},{"word":"Coronary","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart."},{"word":"Coronary","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bone in the foot of a horse."},{"word":"Coronary","type":"(n.)","description":"Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack."},{"word":"Coronate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Coronated"},{"word":"Coronated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or wearing a crown."},{"word":"Coronated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds."},{"word":"Coronated","type":"(a.)","description":"Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells."},{"word":"Coronated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crest or a crownlike appendage."},{"word":"Coronation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty."},{"word":"Coronation","type":"(n.)","description":"The pomp or assembly at a coronation."},{"word":"Coronel","type":"(n.)","description":"A colonel."},{"word":"Coronel","type":"(n.)","description":"The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points."},{"word":"Coroner","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred."},{"word":"Coronet","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown."},{"word":"Coronet","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin."},{"word":"Coronet","type":"(n.)","description":"The iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel."},{"word":"Coroneted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank."},{"word":"Coroniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown."},{"word":"Coronilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets."},{"word":"Coronis","type":"(n.)","description":"In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable."},{"word":"Coronis","type":"(n.)","description":"The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end."},{"word":"Coronoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna."},{"word":"Coronule","type":"(n.)","description":"A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus."},{"word":"Coroun","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"Crown."},{"word":"Corozo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Corosso"},{"word":"Corosso","type":"(n.)","description":"The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut."},{"word":"Corporace","type":"(n.)","description":"See Corporas."},{"word":"Corporal","type":"(n.)","description":"A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels."},{"word":"Corporal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging or relating to the body; bodily."},{"word":"Corporal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal."},{"word":"Corporal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Corporale"},{"word":"Corporale","type":"(a.)","description":"A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth."},{"word":"Corporalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corporality"},{"word":"Corporality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality."},{"word":"Corporality","type":"(n.)","description":"A confraternity; a guild."},{"word":"Corporally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present."},{"word":"Corporalship","type":"(n.)","description":"A corporal's office."},{"word":"Corporas","type":"(n.)","description":"The corporal, or communion cloth."},{"word":"Corporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town."},{"word":"Corporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body."},{"word":"Corporate","type":"(a.)","description":"United; general; collectively one."},{"word":"Corporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incorporate."},{"word":"Corporate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become incorporated."},{"word":"Corporately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body."},{"word":"Corporately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In, or as regarda, the body."},{"word":"Corporation","type":"(n.)","description":"A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual."},{"word":"Corporator","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members."},{"word":"Corporature","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being embodied; bodily existence."},{"word":"Corporeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial."},{"word":"Corporealism","type":"(n.)","description":"Materialism."},{"word":"Corporealist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist."},{"word":"Corporealities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corporeality"},{"word":"Corporeality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence."},{"word":"Corporeally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the body; in a bodily form or manner."},{"word":"Corporealness","type":"(n.)","description":"Corporeality; corporeity."},{"word":"Corporeity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality."},{"word":"Corporify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embody; to form into a body."},{"word":"Corposant","type":"(n.)","description":"St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint."},{"word":"Corps","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"The human body, whether living or dead."},{"word":"Corps","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps."},{"word":"Corps","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A body or code of laws."},{"word":"Corps","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed."},{"word":"Corpse","type":"(n.)","description":"A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously."},{"word":"Corpse","type":"(n.)","description":"The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig."},{"word":"Corpulence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Corpulency"},{"word":"Corpulency","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity."},{"word":"Corpulency","type":"(n.)","description":"Thickness; density; compactness."},{"word":"Corpulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Very fat; obese."},{"word":"Corpulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Solid; gross; opaque."},{"word":"Corpulently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a corpulent manner."},{"word":"Corpora","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corpus"},{"word":"Corpus","type":"(n.)","description":"A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing."},{"word":"Corpora","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corpus"},{"word":"Corpora","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corpus"},{"word":"Corpora","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corpus"},{"word":"Corpuscle","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute particle; an atom; a molecule."},{"word":"Corpuscle","type":"(n.)","description":"A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood."},{"word":"Corpuscular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles."},{"word":"Corpuscularian","type":"(a.)","description":"Corpuscular."},{"word":"Corpuscularian","type":"(n.)","description":"An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy."},{"word":"Corpuscule","type":"(n.)","description":"A corpuscle."},{"word":"Corpusculous","type":"(a.)","description":"Corpuscular."},{"word":"Corrade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume."},{"word":"Corrade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion."},{"word":"Corradial","type":"(a.)","description":"Radiating to or from the same point."},{"word":"Corradiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays."},{"word":"Corradiation","type":"(n.)","description":"A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point."},{"word":"Corral","type":"(n.)","description":"A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc."},{"word":"Corraled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Corral"},{"word":"Corralling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Corral"},{"word":"Corral","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything."},{"word":"Corrasion","type":"(n.)","description":"The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water."},{"word":"Corrasive","type":"(a.)","description":"Corrosive."},{"word":"Correct","type":"(a.)","description":"Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views."},{"word":"Corrected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Correct"},{"word":"Correcting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Correct"},{"word":"Correct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles."},{"word":"Correct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked)."},{"word":"Correct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying."},{"word":"Correct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations."},{"word":"Correctible","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Correctable"},{"word":"Correctable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being corrected."},{"word":"Correctify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To correct."},{"word":"Correction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement."},{"word":"Correction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement."},{"word":"Correction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin."},{"word":"Correction","type":"(n.)","description":"Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach."},{"word":"Correction","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction."},{"word":"Correctional","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution."},{"word":"Correctioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction."},{"word":"Corrective","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties."},{"word":"Corrective","type":"(a.)","description":"Qualifying; limiting."},{"word":"Corrective","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct."},{"word":"Corrective","type":"(n.)","description":"Limitation; restriction."},{"word":"Correctly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error."},{"word":"Correctness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy."},{"word":"Corrector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids."},{"word":"Correctory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or making correction; corrective."},{"word":"Correctress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who corrects."},{"word":"Corregidor","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief magistrate of a Spanish town."},{"word":"Correi","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies."},{"word":"Correlatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena."},{"word":"Correlated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Correlate"},{"word":"Correlating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Correlate"},{"word":"Correlate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related."},{"word":"Correlate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena."},{"word":"Correlate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative."},{"word":"Correlation","type":"(n.)","description":"Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases."},{"word":"Correlative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or indicating a reciprocal relation."},{"word":"Correlative","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing."},{"word":"Correlative","type":"(n.)","description":"The antecedent of a pronoun."},{"word":"Correlatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a correlative relation."},{"word":"Correlativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being correlative."},{"word":"Correligionist","type":"(n.)","description":"A co-religion/ist."},{"word":"Correption","type":"(n.)","description":"Chiding; reproof; reproach."},{"word":"Corresponded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Correspond"},{"word":"Corresponding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Correspond"},{"word":"Correspond","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout."},{"word":"Correspond","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Correspond","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Correspondence","type":"(n.)","description":"Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters."},{"word":"Correspondence","type":"(n.)","description":"The letters which pass between correspondents."},{"word":"Correspondence","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation."},{"word":"Correspondencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Correspondency"},{"word":"Correspondency","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Correspondence, 3."},{"word":"Correspondent","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing."},{"word":"Correspondent","type":"(n.)","description":"One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter."},{"word":"Correspondent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical."},{"word":"Correspondent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance."},{"word":"Correspondently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably."},{"word":"Corresponding","type":"(a.)","description":"Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers."},{"word":"Corresponding","type":"(a.)","description":"Carrying on intercourse by letters."},{"word":"Correspondingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a corresponding manner; conformably."},{"word":"Corresponsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Corresponding; conformable; adapted."},{"word":"Corridor","type":"(n.)","description":"A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house."},{"word":"Corridor","type":"(n.)","description":"The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place."},{"word":"Corrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Correi."},{"word":"Corrigenda","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corrigendum"},{"word":"Corrigendum","type":"(n.)","description":"A fault or error to be corrected."},{"word":"Corrigent","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action."},{"word":"Corrigibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness."},{"word":"Corrigible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault."},{"word":"Corrigible","type":"(a.)","description":"Submissive to correction; docile."},{"word":"Corrigible","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving chastisement; punishable."},{"word":"Corrigible","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to correct; corrective."},{"word":"Corrigibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility."},{"word":"Corrival","type":"(n.)","description":"A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion."},{"word":"Corrival","type":"(a.)","description":"Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry."},{"word":"Corrival","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To compete with; to rival."},{"word":"Corrivalry","type":"(n.)","description":"Corivalry."},{"word":"Corrivalship","type":"(n.)","description":"Corivalry."},{"word":"Corrivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams."},{"word":"Corrivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The flowing of different streams into one."},{"word":"Corroborant","type":"(a.)","description":"Strengthening; supporting; corroborating."},{"word":"Corroborant","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic."},{"word":"Corroborated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Corroborate"},{"word":"Corroborating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Corroborate"},{"word":"Corroborate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen."},{"word":"Corroborate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make more certain; to confirm; to establish."},{"word":"Corroborate","type":"(a.)","description":"Corroborated."},{"word":"Corroboration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information."},{"word":"Corroboration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which corroborates."},{"word":"Corroborative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to strengthen of confirm."},{"word":"Corroborative","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant."},{"word":"Corroboratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts."},{"word":"Corroded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Corrode"},{"word":"Corroding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Corrode"},{"word":"Corrode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali."},{"word":"Corrode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair."},{"word":"Corrode","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion."},{"word":"Corrodent","type":"(a.)","description":"Corrosive."},{"word":"Corrodent","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that corrodes."},{"word":"Corrodiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eat away by degrees; to corrode."},{"word":"Corrodibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being corrodible."},{"word":"Corrodible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being corroded; corrosible."},{"word":"Corrosibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Corrodibility."},{"word":"Corrosible","type":"(a.)","description":"Corrodible."},{"word":"Corrosibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being corrosible."},{"word":"Corrosion","type":"(n.)","description":"The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion."},{"word":"Corrosive","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid."},{"word":"Corrosive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of fretting or vexing."},{"word":"Corrosive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually."},{"word":"Corrosive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has the power of fretting or irritating."},{"word":"Corroval","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison."},{"word":"Corrovaline","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart."},{"word":"Corrugant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of contracting into wrinkles."},{"word":"Corrugate","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows."},{"word":"Corrugated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Corrugate"},{"word":"Corrugating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Corrugate"},{"word":"Corrugate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead."},{"word":"Corrugation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves."},{"word":"Corrugator","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles."},{"word":"Corrugent","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator."},{"word":"Corrump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To corrupt. See Corrupt."},{"word":"Corrumpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Corruptible."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt."},{"word":"Corrupted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Corrupt"},{"word":"Corrupting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Corrupt"},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot."},{"word":"Corrupt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness."},{"word":"Corrupter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals."},{"word":"Corruptful","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to corrupt; full of corruption."},{"word":"Corruptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness."},{"word":"Corruptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay."},{"word":"Corruptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation."},{"word":"Corruptible","type":"(n.)","description":"That which may decay and perish; the human body."},{"word":"Corruptingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner that corrupts."},{"word":"Corruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration."},{"word":"Corruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The product of corruption; putrid matter."},{"word":"Corruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery."},{"word":"Corruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language."},{"word":"Corruptionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption."},{"word":"Corruptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption."},{"word":"Corruptless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible."},{"word":"Corruptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully."},{"word":"Corruptness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being corrupt."},{"word":"Corruptress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who corrupts."},{"word":"Corsac","type":"(n.)","description":"The corsak."},{"word":"Corsage","type":"(n.)","description":"The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage."},{"word":"Corsage","type":"(n.)","description":"a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere."},{"word":"Corsair","type":"(n.)","description":"A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land."},{"word":"Corsair","type":"(n.)","description":"A piratical vessel."},{"word":"Corsak","type":"(n.)","description":"A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia."},{"word":"Corse","type":"(n.)","description":"A living body or its bulk."},{"word":"Corse","type":"(n.)","description":"A corpse; the dead body of a human being."},{"word":"Corselet","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece."},{"word":"Corselet","type":"(n.)","description":"The thorax of an insect."},{"word":"Corsepresent","type":"(n.)","description":"An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body."},{"word":"Corset","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women."},{"word":"Corset","type":"(n.)","description":"An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays."},{"word":"Corseted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Corset"},{"word":"Corseting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Corset"},{"word":"Corset","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in corsets."},{"word":"Corslet","type":"(n.)","description":"A corselet."},{"word":"Corsned","type":"(n.)","description":"The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt."},{"word":"Cortege","type":"(n.)","description":"A train of attendants; a procession."},{"word":"Cortes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain."},{"word":"Cortices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cortex"},{"word":"Cortex","type":"(n.)","description":"Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering."},{"word":"Cortex","type":"(n.)","description":"Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark."},{"word":"Cortex","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain."},{"word":"Cortical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney."},{"word":"Corticate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Corticated"},{"word":"Corticated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part."},{"word":"Corticifer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark."},{"word":"Corticiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark."},{"word":"Corticiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a barklike c/nenchyms."},{"word":"Corticiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind."},{"word":"Corticine","type":"(n.)","description":"A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber."},{"word":"Corticose","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky."},{"word":"Corticous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose."},{"word":"Cortile","type":"(n.)","description":"An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building."},{"word":"Corundums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corundum"},{"word":"Corundum","type":"(n.)","description":"The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond."},{"word":"Coruscant","type":"(a.)","description":"Glittering in flashes; flashing."},{"word":"Coruscate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To glitter in flashes; to flash."},{"word":"Coruscation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden flash or play of light."},{"word":"Coruscation","type":"(n.)","description":"A flash of intellectual brilliancy."},{"word":"Corve","type":"(n.)","description":"See Corf."},{"word":"Corvee","type":"(n.)","description":"An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign."},{"word":"Corven","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Carve."},{"word":"Corvet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Corvette"},{"word":"Corvette","type":"(n.)","description":"A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war."},{"word":"Corvetto","type":"(n.)","description":"A curvet."},{"word":"Corvine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike."},{"word":"Corvorant","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cormorant."},{"word":"Corybants","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corybant"},{"word":"Corybantes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corybant"},{"word":"Corybant","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc."},{"word":"Corybantiasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep."},{"word":"Corybantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance."},{"word":"Corymb","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn."},{"word":"Corymb","type":"(n.)","description":"Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit."},{"word":"Corymbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Corymbose."},{"word":"Corymbiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit."},{"word":"Corymbose","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form."},{"word":"Corymbosely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In corymbs."},{"word":"Coryphaenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin."},{"word":"Coryphee","type":"(n.)","description":"A ballet dancer."},{"word":"Coryphene","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2)"},{"word":"Corypheuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corypheus"},{"word":"Coryphei","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Corypheus"},{"word":"Corypheus","type":"(n.)","description":"The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest."},{"word":"Coryphodon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant."},{"word":"Coryphodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon."},{"word":"Coryza","type":"(n.)","description":"Nasal catarrh."},{"word":"Coscinomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of a suspended sieve."},{"word":"Coscoroba","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan."},{"word":"Cosecant","type":"(n.)","description":"The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions."},{"word":"Cosen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Cozen."},{"word":"Cosenage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cozenage."},{"word":"Cosening","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not."},{"word":"Cosentient","type":"(a.)","description":"Perceiving together."},{"word":"Cosey","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cozy."},{"word":"Cosher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering."},{"word":"Cosher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with hospitality; to pet."},{"word":"Cosherer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who coshers."},{"word":"Coshering","type":"(n.)","description":"A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house."},{"word":"Cosier","type":"(n.)","description":"A tailor who botches his work."},{"word":"Cosignificative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same signification."},{"word":"Cosignitary","type":"(a.)","description":"Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers."},{"word":"Cosignitaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cosignitary"},{"word":"Cosignitary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin."},{"word":"Cosily","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Cozily."},{"word":"Cosinage","type":"(n.)","description":"Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity."},{"word":"Cosinage","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation."},{"word":"Cosine","type":"(n.)","description":"The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions."},{"word":"Cosmetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cosmetical"},{"word":"Cosmetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation."},{"word":"Cosmetic","type":"(n.)","description":"Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion."},{"word":"Cosmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cosmical"},{"word":"Cosmical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly."},{"word":"Cosmical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone."},{"word":"Cosmical","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed."},{"word":"Cosmical","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal."},{"word":"Cosmically","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun."},{"word":"Cosmically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Universally."},{"word":"Cosmogonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cosmogonical"},{"word":"Cosmogonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cosmogonical"},{"word":"Cosmogonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to cosmogony."},{"word":"Cosmogonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony."},{"word":"Cosmogonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cosmogony"},{"word":"Cosmogony","type":"(n.)","description":"The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato."},{"word":"Cosmographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth."},{"word":"Cosmographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cosmographical"},{"word":"Cosmographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cosmography."},{"word":"Cosmographically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography."},{"word":"Cosmographies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cosmography"},{"word":"Cosmography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts."},{"word":"Cosmolabe","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm."},{"word":"Cosmolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Worship paid to the world."},{"word":"Cosmoline","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly."},{"word":"Cosmological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cosmology."},{"word":"Cosmologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology."},{"word":"Cosmology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature."},{"word":"Cosmometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring the world or the universe."},{"word":"Cosmoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming."},{"word":"Cosmopolitan","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cosmopolite"},{"word":"Cosmopolite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world."},{"word":"Cosmopolitan","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cosmopolite"},{"word":"Cosmopolite","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal."},{"word":"Cosmopolite","type":"(a.)","description":"Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world."},{"word":"Cosmopolitanism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism."},{"word":"Cosmopolite","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Cosmopolitan."},{"word":"Cosmopolitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the character of a cosmopolite."},{"word":"Cosmopolitism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices."},{"word":"Cosmorama","type":"(n.)","description":"An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality."},{"word":"Cosmoramic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cosmorama."},{"word":"Cosmos","type":"(n.)","description":"The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it."},{"word":"Cosmos","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony."},{"word":"Cosmosphere","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe."},{"word":"Cosmotheism","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Pantheism."},{"word":"Cosmothetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world."},{"word":"Cosovereign","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint sovereign."},{"word":"Coss","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles."},{"word":"Coss","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing (only in phrase below)."},{"word":"Cossack","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions."},{"word":"Cossas","type":"(n.)","description":"Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths."},{"word":"Cosset","type":"(n.)","description":"A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general."},{"word":"Cosset","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat as a pet; to fondle."},{"word":"Cossic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cossical"},{"word":"Cossical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art."},{"word":"Cost","type":"(n.)","description":"A rib; a side; a region or coast."},{"word":"Cost","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cottise."},{"word":"Cost","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cost"},{"word":"Costing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cost"},{"word":"Cost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life."},{"word":"Cost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To require to be borne or suffered; to cause."},{"word":"Cost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit."},{"word":"Cost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering."},{"word":"Cost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Expenses incurred in litigation."},{"word":"Costa","type":"(n.)","description":"A rib of an animal or a human being."},{"word":"Costa","type":"(n.)","description":"A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib."},{"word":"Costa","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior rib in the wing of an insect."},{"word":"Costa","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals."},{"word":"Costage","type":"(n.)","description":"Expense; cost."},{"word":"Costal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves."},{"word":"Costal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a costa, or rib."},{"word":"Costal-nerved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nerves spring from the midrib."},{"word":"Costard","type":"(n.)","description":"An apple, large and round like the head."},{"word":"Costard","type":"(n.)","description":"The head; -- used contemptuously."},{"word":"Costardmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"A costermonger."},{"word":"Costate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Costated"},{"word":"Costated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs."},{"word":"Costean","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To search after lodes. See Costeaning."},{"word":"Costeaning","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits."},{"word":"Costellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Finely ribbed or costated."},{"word":"Coster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc."},{"word":"Costermonger","type":"(n.)","description":"An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer."},{"word":"Costiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae."},{"word":"Costive","type":"(a.)","description":"Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated."},{"word":"Costive","type":"(a.)","description":"Reserved; formal; close; cold."},{"word":"Costive","type":"(a.)","description":"Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding."},{"word":"Costively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a costive manner."},{"word":"Costiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation."},{"word":"Costiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Inability to express one's self; stiffness."},{"word":"Costless","type":"(a.)","description":"Costing nothing."},{"word":"Costlewe","type":"(a.)","description":"Costly."},{"word":"Costliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness."},{"word":"Costly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of great cost; expensive; dear."},{"word":"Costly","type":"(a.)","description":"Gorgeous; sumptuous."},{"word":"Costmary","type":"(n.)","description":"A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost."},{"word":"Costotome","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections."},{"word":"Costrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side."},{"word":"Costume","type":"(n.)","description":"Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period."},{"word":"Costume","type":"(n.)","description":"Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described."},{"word":"Costume","type":"(n.)","description":"A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes."},{"word":"Costumer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc."},{"word":"Co-sufferer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who suffers with another."},{"word":"Cosupreme","type":"(n.)","description":"A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme."},{"word":"Cosureties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cosurety"},{"word":"Cosurety","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is surety with another."},{"word":"Cosy","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cozy."},{"word":"Cot","type":"(n.)","description":"A small house; a cottage or hut."},{"word":"Cot","type":"(n.)","description":"A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote."},{"word":"Cot","type":"(n.)","description":"A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger."},{"word":"Cot","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, rudely-formed boat."},{"word":"Cot","type":"(n.)","description":"A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed."},{"word":"Cotangent","type":"(n.)","description":"The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions."},{"word":"Cotarnine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid."},{"word":"Cote","type":"(n.)","description":"A cottage or hut."},{"word":"Cote","type":"(n.)","description":"A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves."},{"word":"Cote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare."},{"word":"Cote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quote."},{"word":"Cotemporaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous."},{"word":"Cotemporary","type":"(a.)","description":"Living or being at the same time; contemporary."},{"word":"Cotemporaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cotemporary"},{"word":"Cotemporary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary."},{"word":"Cotenant","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenant in common, or a joint tenant."},{"word":"Coterie","type":"(n.)","description":"A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique."},{"word":"Coterminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Cotgare","type":"(n.)","description":"Refuse wool."},{"word":"Cothurn","type":"(n.)","description":"A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general."},{"word":"Cothurnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cothurnated"},{"word":"Cothurnated","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a cothurn."},{"word":"Cothurnated","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave."},{"word":"Cothurnus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cothurn."},{"word":"Coticular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones."},{"word":"Cotidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time."},{"word":"Cotillon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cotillion"},{"word":"Cotillion","type":"(n.)","description":"A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille."},{"word":"Cotillion","type":"(n.)","description":"A tune which regulates the dance."},{"word":"Cotillion","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of woolen material for women's skirts."},{"word":"Cotillion","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal ball."},{"word":"Cotinga","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the family Cotingidae, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers."},{"word":"Cotise","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cottise."},{"word":"Cotised","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cottised."},{"word":"Cotland","type":"(n.)","description":"Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter."},{"word":"Cotquean","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women."},{"word":"Cotquean","type":"(n.)","description":"A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy."},{"word":"Cotqueanity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean."},{"word":"Cotrustee","type":"(n.)","description":"A joint trustee."},{"word":"Cotswold","type":"(n.)","description":"An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England."},{"word":"Cottage","type":"(n.)","description":"A small house; a cot; a hut."},{"word":"Cottaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Set or covered with cottages."},{"word":"Cottagely","type":"(a.)","description":"Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic."},{"word":"Cottager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in a cottage."},{"word":"Cottager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own."},{"word":"Cotter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cottar"},{"word":"Cottar","type":"(n.)","description":"A cottager; a cottier."},{"word":"Cotter","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key."},{"word":"Cotter","type":"(n.)","description":"A toggle."},{"word":"Cotter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten with a cotter."},{"word":"Cottier","type":"(n.)","description":"In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm."},{"word":"Cottise","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close."},{"word":"Cottised","type":"(a.)","description":"Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess."},{"word":"Cottoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a fish of the genus Cottus."},{"word":"Cottoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin."},{"word":"Cottolene","type":"(n.)","description":"A product from cotton-seed, used as lard."},{"word":"Cotton","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half."},{"word":"Cotton","type":"(n.)","description":"The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below."},{"word":"Cotton","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth made of cotton."},{"word":"Cotton","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does."},{"word":"Cotton","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go on prosperously; to succeed."},{"word":"Cotton","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with."},{"word":"Cotton","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to."},{"word":"Cottonade","type":"(n.)","description":"A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton."},{"word":"Cottonary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony."},{"word":"Cottonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling cotton."},{"word":"Cottontail","type":"(n.)","description":"The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail."},{"word":"Cottonweed","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cudweed."},{"word":"Cottonwood","type":"(n.)","description":"An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States."},{"word":"Cottony","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly."},{"word":"Cottony","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton."},{"word":"Cottrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire."},{"word":"Cotyla","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cotyle"},{"word":"Cotyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum."},{"word":"Cotyledon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta."},{"word":"Cotyledon","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf."},{"word":"Cotyledonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon."},{"word":"Cotyledonary","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow."},{"word":"Cotyledonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe."},{"word":"Cotyliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a cotyle or a cup."},{"word":"Cotyligerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having cotyles."},{"word":"Cotyloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone."},{"word":"Cotyloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch."},{"word":"Coucal","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species."},{"word":"Couched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Couch"},{"word":"Couching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Couch"},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay upon a bed or other resting place."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conceal; to include or involve darkly."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange; to place; to inlay."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt."},{"word":"Couch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc."},{"word":"Couchancy","type":"(n.)","description":"State of lying down for repose."},{"word":"Couchant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Lying down with head erect; squatting."},{"word":"Couchant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast."},{"word":"Couche","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon."},{"word":"Couche","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point."},{"word":"Couched","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Couch/."},{"word":"Couchee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince."},{"word":"Coucher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who couches."},{"word":"Coucher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who couches paper."},{"word":"Coucher","type":"(n.)","description":"A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic."},{"word":"Coucher","type":"(n.)","description":"The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts."},{"word":"Couch","type":"()","description":"See Quitch grass."},{"word":"Couching","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract."},{"word":"Couching","type":"(n.)","description":"Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through."},{"word":"Couchless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no couch or bed."},{"word":"Coudee","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit."},{"word":"Cougar","type":"(n.)","description":"An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma."},{"word":"Coughed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cough"},{"word":"Coughing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cough"},{"word":"Cough","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner."},{"word":"Cough","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm."},{"word":"Cough","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse."},{"word":"Cough","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc."},{"word":"Cough","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease."},{"word":"Cougher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who coughs."},{"word":"Couhage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cowhage."},{"word":"Could","type":"(imp.)","description":"Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present."},{"word":"Coulee","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream"},{"word":"Coulee","type":"(n.)","description":"a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a ca�on, which has precipitous sides."},{"word":"Coulisse","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides."},{"word":"Coulisse","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes."},{"word":"Couloir","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep gorge; a gully."},{"word":"Couloir","type":"(n.)","description":"A dredging machine for excavating canals, etc."},{"word":"Coulomb","type":"(n.)","description":"The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second. Formerly called weber."},{"word":"Coulter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Colter."},{"word":"Coulterneb","type":"(n.)","description":"The puffin."},{"word":"Coumaric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana."},{"word":"Coumarin","type":"(n.)","description":"The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially."},{"word":"Council","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case."},{"word":"Council","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council."},{"word":"Council","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation."},{"word":"Councilist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who belong to a council; one who gives an opinion."},{"word":"Councilmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Councilman"},{"word":"Councilman","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor."},{"word":"Councilor","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a council."},{"word":"Co-une","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine or unite."},{"word":"Co-unite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite."},{"word":"Co-unite","type":"(a.)","description":"United closely with another."},{"word":"Counsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation."},{"word":"Counsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence."},{"word":"Counsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Result of consultation; advice; instruction."},{"word":"Counsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan."},{"word":"Counsel","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter."},{"word":"Counsel","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel."},{"word":"Counseled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counsel"},{"word":"Counselled","type":"()","description":"of Counsel"},{"word":"Counseling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counsel"},{"word":"Counselling","type":"()","description":"of Counsel"},{"word":"Counsel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person."},{"word":"Counsel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advise or recommend, as an act or course."},{"word":"Counselable","type":"(a.)","description":"Willing to receive counsel or follow advice."},{"word":"Counselable","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise."},{"word":"Counselor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who counsels; an adviser."},{"word":"Counselor","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor.]"},{"word":"Counselor","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister."},{"word":"Counselorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The function and rank or office of a counselor."},{"word":"Counted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Count"},{"word":"Counting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Count"},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon."},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging."},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider."},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing."},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon."},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take account or note; -- with"},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count."},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting."},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An object of interest or account; value; estimation."},{"word":"Count","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution."},{"word":"Count","type":"(n.)","description":"A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl."},{"word":"Countable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being numbered."},{"word":"Counttenance","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien."},{"word":"Counttenance","type":"(n.)","description":"The face; the features."},{"word":"Counttenance","type":"(n.)","description":"Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement."},{"word":"Counttenance","type":"(n.)","description":"Superficial appearance; show; pretense."},{"word":"Countenanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countenance"},{"word":"Countenancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countenance"},{"word":"Countenance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet."},{"word":"Countenance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a show of; to pretend."},{"word":"Countenancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who countenances, favors, or supports."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(adv.)","description":"A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Money; coin; -- used in contempt."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(adv.)","description":"Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(adv.)","description":"At or against the front or face."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(adv.)","description":"The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(adv.)","description":"Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(adv.)","description":"The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(adv.)","description":"The back leather or heel part of a boot."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(n.)","description":"An encounter."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing."},{"word":"Counteracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counteract"},{"word":"Counteracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counteract"},{"word":"Counteract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice."},{"word":"Counteraction","type":"(n.)","description":"Action in opposition; hindrance resistance."},{"word":"Counteractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to counteract."},{"word":"Counteractive","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, counteracts."},{"word":"Counteractibely","type":"(adv.)","description":"By counteraction."},{"word":"Counterbalanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counterbalance"},{"word":"Counterbalancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counterbalance"},{"word":"Counterbalance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance."},{"word":"Counterbalance","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another"},{"word":"Counterbalance","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel"},{"word":"Counterbalance","type":"(n.)","description":"A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam."},{"word":"Counterbore","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head."},{"word":"Counterbore","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth."},{"word":"Counterbore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore."},{"word":"Counter","type":"()","description":"The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel."},{"word":"Counter","type":"()","description":"A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive."},{"word":"Counterbrace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another."},{"word":"Counterbrace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to."},{"word":"Counterbuff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front."},{"word":"Counterbuff","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil."},{"word":"Countercast","type":"(n.)","description":"A trick; a delusive contrivance."},{"word":"Countercaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously."},{"word":"Counterchanged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counterchange"},{"word":"Counterchanging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counterchange"},{"word":"Counterchange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange."},{"word":"Counterchange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2."},{"word":"Counterchange","type":"(n.)","description":"Exchange; reciprocation."},{"word":"Counterchanged","type":"(a.)","description":"Exchanged."},{"word":"Counterchanged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure."},{"word":"Countercharge","type":"(n.)","description":"An opposing charge."},{"word":"Countercharmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countercharm"},{"word":"Countercharming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countercharm"},{"word":"Countercharm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the effect of a charm upon."},{"word":"Countercharm","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm."},{"word":"Counterchecked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countercheck"},{"word":"Counterchecking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countercheck"},{"word":"Countercheck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check."},{"word":"Countercheck","type":"(n.)","description":"A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover."},{"word":"Countercheck","type":"(n.)","description":"Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check."},{"word":"Counterclaim","type":"(n.)","description":"A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him."},{"word":"Counter-compony","type":"(a.)","description":"See Compony."},{"word":"Counter-couchant","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms."},{"word":"Counter-courant","type":"(a.)","description":"Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms."},{"word":"Countercurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Running in an opposite direction."},{"word":"Countercurrent","type":"(n.)","description":"A current running in an opposite direction to the main current."},{"word":"Counterdrew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Counterdraw"},{"word":"Counterdrawn","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Counterdraw"},{"word":"Counterdrawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counterdraw"},{"word":"Counterdraw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance."},{"word":"Counterfaisance","type":"(n.)","description":"See Counterfesance."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(adv.)","description":"Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(adv.)","description":"Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat."},{"word":"Counterfeited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counterfeit"},{"word":"Counterfeiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counterfeit"},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend."},{"word":"Counterfeit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make counterfeits."},{"word":"Counterfeiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger."},{"word":"Counterfeiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses."},{"word":"Counterfeitly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By forgery; falsely."},{"word":"Counterfesance","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of forging; forgery."},{"word":"Counterfleury","type":"(a.)","description":"Counterflory."},{"word":"Counterflory","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary."},{"word":"Counterfoil","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock."},{"word":"Counterfoil","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued."},{"word":"Counterforce","type":"(n.)","description":"An opposing force."},{"word":"Counterfort","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall."},{"word":"Counterfort","type":"(n.)","description":"A spur or projection of a mountain."},{"word":"Countergage","type":"(n.)","description":"An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made."},{"word":"Counterguard","type":"(n.)","description":"A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire."},{"word":"Counterirritant","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Counterirritation"},{"word":"Counterirritation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a."},{"word":"Counterirritate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another."},{"word":"Counterjumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously."},{"word":"Countermen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Counterman"},{"word":"Counterman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods."},{"word":"Countermanded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countermand"},{"word":"Countermanding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countermand"},{"word":"Countermand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods."},{"word":"Countermand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prohibit; to forbid."},{"word":"Countermand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose; to revoke the command of."},{"word":"Countermand","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command."},{"word":"Countermandable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being countermanded; revocable."},{"word":"Countermarched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countermarch"},{"word":"Countermarching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countermarch"},{"word":"Countermarch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To march back, or to march in reversed order."},{"word":"Countermarch","type":"(n.)","description":"A marching back; retrocession."},{"word":"Countermarch","type":"(n.)","description":"An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left."},{"word":"Countermarch","type":"(n.)","description":"A change of measures; alteration of conduct."},{"word":"Countermark","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy."},{"word":"Countermark","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age."},{"word":"Countermark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply a countermark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth."},{"word":"Countermine","type":"(n.)","description":"An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy."},{"word":"Countermine","type":"(n.)","description":"A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated."},{"word":"Countermined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countermine"},{"word":"Countermining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countermine"},{"word":"Countermine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine."},{"word":"Countermine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frustrate or counteract by secret measures."},{"word":"Countermine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly."},{"word":"Countermove","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To move in a contrary direction to."},{"word":"Countermove","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Countermovement"},{"word":"Countermovement","type":"()","description":"A movement in opposition to another."},{"word":"Countermure","type":"(n.)","description":"A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure."},{"word":"Countermured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countermure"},{"word":"Countermuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countermure"},{"word":"Countermure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fortify with a wall behind another wall."},{"word":"Counternatural","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to nature."},{"word":"Counter-paly","type":"(a.)","description":"Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure."},{"word":"Counterpane","type":"(n.)","description":"A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures."},{"word":"Counterpane","type":"(n.)","description":"A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart."},{"word":"Counterpart","type":"(n.)","description":"A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile."},{"word":"Counterpart","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate."},{"word":"Counterpart","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who closely resembles another."},{"word":"Counterpart","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite."},{"word":"Counterpassant","type":"(a.)","description":"Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals."},{"word":"Counterplead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny."},{"word":"Counterplotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counterplot"},{"word":"Counterplotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counterplot"},{"word":"Counterplot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem."},{"word":"Counterplot","type":"(n.)","description":"A plot or artifice opposed to another."},{"word":"Counterpoint","type":"(n.)","description":"An opposite point"},{"word":"Counterpoint","type":"(n.)","description":"The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody"},{"word":"Counterpoint","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies."},{"word":"Counterpoint","type":"(n.)","description":"Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony."},{"word":"Counterpoint","type":"(n.)","description":"A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane."},{"word":"Counterpoised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counterpoise"},{"word":"Counterpoising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counterpoise"},{"word":"Counterpoise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance."},{"word":"Counterpoise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act against with equal power; to balance."},{"word":"Counterpoise","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight."},{"word":"Counterpoise","type":"(n.)","description":"An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force."},{"word":"Counterpoise","type":"(n.)","description":"The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance."},{"word":"Counterpole","type":"(n.)","description":"The exact opposite."},{"word":"Counterponderate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate."},{"word":"Counterproved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counterprove"},{"word":"Counterproving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counterprove"},{"word":"Counterprove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter."},{"word":"Counter-roll","type":"(n.)","description":"A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll."},{"word":"Counterrolment","type":"(n.)","description":"A counter account. See Control."},{"word":"Counter-salient","type":"(a.)","description":"Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms."},{"word":"Counterscale","type":"(n.)","description":"Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another."},{"word":"Counterscarf","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp."},{"word":"Countersealed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Counterseal"},{"word":"Countersealing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Counterseal"},{"word":"Counterseal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seal or ratify with another or others."},{"word":"Countersecure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give additional security to or for."},{"word":"Countershaft","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine."},{"word":"Countersigned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countersign"},{"word":"Countersigning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countersign"},{"word":"Countersign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing."},{"word":"Countersign","type":"(a.)","description":"The signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity."},{"word":"Countersign","type":"(a.)","description":"A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword."},{"word":"Countersunk","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countersink"},{"word":"Countersinking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countersink"},{"word":"Countersink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw."},{"word":"Countersink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork."},{"word":"Countersink","type":"(n.)","description":"An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt."},{"word":"Countersink","type":"(n.)","description":"A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes."},{"word":"Counterstand","type":"(n.)","description":"Resistance; opposition; a stand against."},{"word":"Counterstep","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrary method of procedure; opposite course of action."},{"word":"Counterstock","type":"(n.)","description":"See Counterfoil."},{"word":"Counterstroke","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke or blow in return."},{"word":"Countersunk","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Chamfered at the top; -- said of a hole."},{"word":"Countersunk","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Sunk into a chamfer; as, a countersunk bolt."},{"word":"Countersunk","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead."},{"word":"Countersway","type":"(n.)","description":"A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence."},{"word":"Counter","type":"()","description":"One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor."},{"word":"Counterterm","type":"(n.)","description":"A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, \"foe\" is the counterterm of \"friend\"."},{"word":"Countertime","type":"(n.)","description":"The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse."},{"word":"Countertime","type":"(n.)","description":"Resistance; opposition."},{"word":"Countertrippant","type":"(a.)","description":"Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant."},{"word":"Countertripping","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Countertrippant."},{"word":"Counterturn","type":"(n.)","description":"The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties."},{"word":"Countervailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Countervail"},{"word":"Countervailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Countervail"},{"word":"Countervail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate."},{"word":"Countervail","type":"(n.)","description":"Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital."},{"word":"Countervallation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Contravallation."},{"word":"Counterview","type":"(n.)","description":"An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other."},{"word":"Counterview","type":"(n.)","description":"A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast."},{"word":"Countervote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by voting; to outvote."},{"word":"Counterwait","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait or watch for; to be on guard against."},{"word":"Counterweigh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weigh against; to counterbalance."},{"word":"Counter","type":"(n.)","description":"A counterpoise."},{"word":"Counterwheel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction."},{"word":"Counterwork","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To work in opposition to; to counteract."},{"word":"Countesses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Countess"},{"word":"Countess","type":"(n.)","description":"The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count."},{"word":"Countinghouse","type":"(v.)","description":"Alt. of Countingroom"},{"word":"Countingroom","type":"(v.)","description":"The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business."},{"word":"Countless","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable."},{"word":"Countor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause."},{"word":"Countour","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Countourhouse"},{"word":"Countourhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A merchant's office; a countinghouse."},{"word":"Countre-","type":"()","description":"Same as prefix Counter-."},{"word":"Countreplete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To counterplead."},{"word":"Countretaille","type":"(n.)","description":"A counter tally; correspondence (in sound)."},{"word":"Countrified","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude."},{"word":"Countrify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic."},{"word":"Countries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Country"},{"word":"Country","type":"(adv.)","description":"A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship."},{"word":"Country","type":"(adv.)","description":"Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town."},{"word":"Country","type":"(adv.)","description":"The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country."},{"word":"Country","type":"(adv.)","description":"A jury, as representing the citizens of a country."},{"word":"Country","type":"(adv.)","description":"The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn."},{"word":"Country","type":"(adv.)","description":"The rock through which a vein runs."},{"word":"Country","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city."},{"word":"Country","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners."},{"word":"Country","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country."},{"word":"Country-base","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Prison base."},{"word":"Country-dance","type":"(n.)","description":"See Contradance."},{"word":"Countrymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Countryman"},{"word":"Countryman","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant or native of a region."},{"word":"Countryman","type":"(n.)","description":"One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun."},{"word":"Countryman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer."},{"word":"Country","type":"()","description":"A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city."},{"word":"Countryside","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular rural district; a country neighborhood."},{"word":"Countrywomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Countrywoman"},{"word":"Countrywoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant."},{"word":"Count-wheel","type":"(n.)","description":"The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes."},{"word":"Counties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of County"},{"word":"County","type":"(n.)","description":"An earldom; the domain of a count or earl."},{"word":"County","type":"(n.)","description":"A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire."},{"word":"County","type":"(n.)","description":"A count; an earl or lord."},{"word":"Coup","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force."},{"word":"Coupable","type":"(a.)","description":"Culpable."},{"word":"Coupe","type":"(n.)","description":"The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways."},{"word":"Coupe","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off."},{"word":"Couped","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased."},{"word":"Coupee","type":"(n.)","description":"A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made."},{"word":"Coupe-gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces."},{"word":"Couple","type":"(a.)","description":"That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler."},{"word":"Couple","type":"(a.)","description":"Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace."},{"word":"Couple","type":"(a.)","description":"A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed."},{"word":"Couple","type":"(a.)","description":"See Couple-close."},{"word":"Couple","type":"(a.)","description":"One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple."},{"word":"Couple","type":"(a.)","description":"Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes."},{"word":"Coupled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Couple"},{"word":"Coupling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Couple"},{"word":"Couple","type":"(v.)","description":"To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join."},{"word":"Couple","type":"(v.)","description":"To join in wedlock; to marry."},{"word":"Couple","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come together as male and female; to copulate."},{"word":"Couple-beggar","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other."},{"word":"Couple-closes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Couple-close"},{"word":"Couple-close","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised."},{"word":"Couple-close","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam."},{"word":"Couplement","type":"(n.)","description":"Union; combination; a coupling; a pair."},{"word":"Coupler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars."},{"word":"Couplet","type":"(n.)","description":"Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other."},{"word":"Coupling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union."},{"word":"Coupling","type":"(n.)","description":"A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts."},{"word":"Coupon","type":"(n.)","description":"A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant."},{"word":"Coupon","type":"(n.)","description":"A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like."},{"word":"Coupure","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged."},{"word":"Courage","type":"(n.)","description":"The heart; spirit; temper; disposition."},{"word":"Courage","type":"(n.)","description":"Heart; inclination; desire; will."},{"word":"Courage","type":"(n.)","description":"That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution."},{"word":"Couage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inspire with courage."},{"word":"Courageous","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold."},{"word":"Courageously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a courageous manner."},{"word":"Courageousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being courageous; courage."},{"word":"Courant","type":"(a.)","description":"Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms."},{"word":"Courant","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto."},{"word":"Courant","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper."},{"word":"Couranto","type":"(n.)","description":"A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant."},{"word":"Courap","type":"(n.)","description":"A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face."},{"word":"Courb","type":"(a.)","description":"Curved; rounded."},{"word":"Courb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend; to stop; to bow."},{"word":"Courbaril","type":"(n.)","description":"See Anime, n."},{"word":"Courche","type":"(n.)","description":"A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief."},{"word":"Courier","type":"(n.)","description":"A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business."},{"word":"Courier","type":"(n.)","description":"An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way."},{"word":"Courlan","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground or path traversed; track; way."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc."},{"word":"Course","type":"(n.)","description":"The menses."},{"word":"Coursed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Course"},{"word":"Coursing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Course"},{"word":"Course","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue."},{"word":"Course","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer."},{"word":"Course","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run through or over."},{"word":"Course","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire."},{"word":"Course","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins."},{"word":"Coursed","type":"(a.)","description":"Hunted; as, a coursed hare."},{"word":"Coursed","type":"(a.)","description":"Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry."},{"word":"Courser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who courses or hunts."},{"word":"Courser","type":"(n.)","description":"A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger."},{"word":"Courser","type":"(n.)","description":"A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family."},{"word":"Coursey","type":"(n.)","description":"A space in the galley; a part of the hatches."},{"word":"Coursing","type":"(n.)","description":"The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"A tribunal established for the administration of justice."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"The session of a judicial assembly."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical."},{"word":"Court","type":"(n.)","description":"A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court."},{"word":"Courted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Court"},{"word":"Courting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Court"},{"word":"Court","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with."},{"word":"Court","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo."},{"word":"Court","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek."},{"word":"Court","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract."},{"word":"Court","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting."},{"word":"Court-baron","type":"(n.)","description":"An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse."},{"word":"Courtbred","type":"(a.)","description":"Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly."},{"word":"Court-craft","type":"(n.)","description":"The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts."},{"word":"Court-cupboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions."},{"word":"Courteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant."},{"word":"Courteously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a courteous manner."},{"word":"Courteousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy."},{"word":"Courtepy","type":"(n.)","description":"A short coat of coarse cloth."},{"word":"Courter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles."},{"word":"Courtesan","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot."},{"word":"Courtesanship","type":"(n.)","description":"Harlotry."},{"word":"Courtesies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Courtesy"},{"word":"Courtesy","type":"(n.)","description":"Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness."},{"word":"Courtesy","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness."},{"word":"Courtesy","type":"(n.)","description":"Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy."},{"word":"Courtesy","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees."},{"word":"Courtesied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Courtesy"},{"word":"Courtesying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Courtesy"},{"word":"Courtesy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes."},{"word":"Courtesy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with civility."},{"word":"Courtehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings."},{"word":"Courtehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States."},{"word":"Courtier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court."},{"word":"Courtier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters."},{"word":"Courtiery","type":"(n.)","description":"The manners of a courtier; courtliness."},{"word":"Court-leet","type":"(n.)","description":"A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet."},{"word":"Courtlike","type":"(a.)","description":"After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly."},{"word":"Courtliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners."},{"word":"Courtling","type":"(n.)","description":"A sycophantic courtier."},{"word":"Courtly","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or belonging to a court."},{"word":"Courtly","type":"(a.)","description":"Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering."},{"word":"Courtly","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious."},{"word":"Courtly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly."},{"word":"Courts-martial","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Court-martial"},{"word":"Court-martial","type":"(n.)","description":"A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law."},{"word":"Court-martialed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Court-martial"},{"word":"Court-martialing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Court-martial"},{"word":"Court-martial","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to trial by a court-martial."},{"word":"Court-plaster","type":"(n.)","description":"Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin."},{"word":"Courtship","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor."},{"word":"Courtship","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage."},{"word":"Courtship","type":"(n.)","description":"Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy."},{"word":"Courtship","type":"(n.)","description":"Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse."},{"word":"Court","type":"()","description":"See under Tennis."},{"word":"Courtyard","type":"(n.)","description":"A court or inclosure attached to a house."},{"word":"Couscous","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo."},{"word":"Couscousou","type":"(n.)","description":"A favorite dish in Barbary. See Couscous."},{"word":"Cousin","type":"(n.)","description":"One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt."},{"word":"Cousin","type":"(n.)","description":"A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl."},{"word":"Cousin","type":"(n.)","description":"Allied; akin."},{"word":"Cousinage","type":"(n.)","description":"Relationship; kinship."},{"word":"Cousin-german","type":"(n.)","description":"A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1."},{"word":"Cousinhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk."},{"word":"Cousinly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or becoming a cousin."},{"word":"Cousinry","type":"(n.)","description":"A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons."},{"word":"Cousinship","type":"(n.)","description":"The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood."},{"word":"Coussinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch."},{"word":"Coussinet","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute."},{"word":"Couteau","type":"(n.)","description":"A knife; a dagger."},{"word":"Couth","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"Could; was able; knew or known; understood."},{"word":"Couvade","type":"(n.)","description":"A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill."},{"word":"Covariant","type":"(n.)","description":"A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic."},{"word":"Cove","type":"(n.)","description":"A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore."},{"word":"Cove","type":"(n.)","description":"A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain."},{"word":"Cove","type":"(n.)","description":"A concave molding."},{"word":"Cove","type":"(n.)","description":"A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight."},{"word":"Coved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cove"},{"word":"Coving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cove"},{"word":"Cove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove."},{"word":"Cove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs."},{"word":"Cove","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy or man of any age or station."},{"word":"Covelline","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Covellite"},{"word":"Covellite","type":"(n.)","description":"A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper."},{"word":"Covenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit; proper; suitable."},{"word":"Covenably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fitly; suitably."},{"word":"Covenant","type":"(n.)","description":"A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement."},{"word":"Covenant","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the \"Solemn League and Covenant.\""},{"word":"Covenant","type":"(n.)","description":"The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc."},{"word":"Covenant","type":"(n.)","description":"A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc."},{"word":"Covenant","type":"(n.)","description":"An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement."},{"word":"Covenant","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal."},{"word":"Covenanted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Covenant"},{"word":"Covenanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Covenant"},{"word":"Covenant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation."},{"word":"Covenant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant or promise by covenant."},{"word":"Covenantee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person in whose favor a covenant is made."},{"word":"Covenanter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a covenant."},{"word":"Covenanter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who subscribed and defended the \"Solemn League and Covenant.\" See Covenant."},{"word":"Covenanting","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters."},{"word":"Covenantor","type":"(n.)","description":"The party who makes a covenant."},{"word":"Covenous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Covinous, and Covin."},{"word":"Covent","type":"(n.)","description":"A convent or monastery."},{"word":"Coventry","type":"(n.)","description":"A town in the county of Warwick, England."},{"word":"Covered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cover"},{"word":"Covering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cover"},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To brood or sit on; to incubate."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put the usual covering or headdress on."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(n.)","description":"Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(n.)","description":"The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(n.)","description":"The lap of a slide valve."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(n.)","description":"A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests."},{"word":"Cover","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet."},{"word":"Coverchief","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for the head."},{"word":"Covercle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cover; a lid."},{"word":"Covered","type":"(a.)","description":"Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden."},{"word":"Coverer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, covers."},{"word":"Covering","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc."},{"word":"Coverlet","type":"(n.)","description":"The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture."},{"word":"Coverlid","type":"(n.)","description":"A coverlet."},{"word":"Cover-point","type":"(n.)","description":"The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports \"point.\""},{"word":"Coversed","type":"()","description":"The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions."},{"word":"Cover-shame","type":"(n.)","description":"Something used to conceal infamy."},{"word":"Covert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised."},{"word":"Covert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook."},{"word":"Covert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband."},{"word":"Covert","type":"(a.)","description":"A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense."},{"word":"Covert","type":"(a.)","description":"One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird."},{"word":"Covert","type":"()","description":"Under the protection of a husband; married."},{"word":"Covertly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Secretly; in private; insidiously."},{"word":"Covertness","type":"(n.)","description":"Secrecy; privacy."},{"word":"Coverture","type":"(n.)","description":"Covering; shelter; defense; hiding."},{"word":"Coverture","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte."},{"word":"Covered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Covet"},{"word":"Coveting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Covet"},{"word":"Covet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense."},{"word":"Covet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden)."},{"word":"Covet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have or indulge inordinate desire."},{"word":"Covetable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be coveted; desirable."},{"word":"Coveter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who covets."},{"word":"Covetise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Avarice."},{"word":"Covetiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Acquisitiveness."},{"word":"Covetous","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense."},{"word":"Covetous","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense."},{"word":"Covetously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a covetous manner."},{"word":"Covetousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Strong desire."},{"word":"Covetousness","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense."},{"word":"Covey","type":"(n.)","description":"A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges."},{"word":"Covey","type":"(n.)","description":"A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls."},{"word":"Covey","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To brood; to incubate."},{"word":"Covey","type":"(n.)","description":"A pantry."},{"word":"Covin","type":"(n.)","description":"A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third."},{"word":"Covin","type":"(n.)","description":"Deceit; fraud; artifice."},{"word":"Covinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest."},{"word":"Cow","type":"(n.)","description":"A chimney cap; a cowl"},{"word":"Cows","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cow"},{"word":"Kine","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cow"},{"word":"Cow","type":"(n.)","description":"The mature female of bovine animals."},{"word":"Cow","type":"(n.)","description":"The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc."},{"word":"Cowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cow"},{"word":"Cowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cow"},{"word":"Cow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe."},{"word":"Cow","type":"(n.)","description":"A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock."},{"word":"Cowage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cowhage."},{"word":"Cowan","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship."},{"word":"Coward","type":"(a.)","description":"Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion."},{"word":"Coward","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly."},{"word":"Coward","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity."},{"word":"Coward","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon."},{"word":"Coward","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make timorous; to frighten."},{"word":"Cowardice","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit."},{"word":"Cowardie","type":"(n.)","description":"Cowardice."},{"word":"Cowardish","type":"(a.)","description":"Cowardly."},{"word":"Cowardize","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To render cowardly"},{"word":"Cowardliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Cowardice."},{"word":"Cowardly","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless."},{"word":"Cowardly","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity."},{"word":"Cowardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a coward."},{"word":"Cowardship","type":"(n.)","description":"Cowardice."},{"word":"Cowbane","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock."},{"word":"Cowberries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cowberry"},{"word":"Cowberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry."},{"word":"Cowbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle."},{"word":"Cowblakes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Dried cow dung used as fuel."},{"word":"Cowboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States."},{"word":"Cowboy","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans."},{"word":"Cowcatxjer","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot."},{"word":"Cowdie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kauri."},{"word":"Cowered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cower"},{"word":"Cowering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cower"},{"word":"Cower","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear."},{"word":"Cower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cherish with care."},{"word":"Cowfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The grampus."},{"word":"Cowfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii)."},{"word":"Cowfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish."},{"word":"Cowhage","type":"(n.)","description":"A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge."},{"word":"Cowhearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Cowardly."},{"word":"Cowherd","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to tend cows."},{"word":"Cowhide","type":"(n.)","description":"The hide of a cow."},{"word":"Cowhide","type":"(n.)","description":"Leather made of the hide of a cow."},{"word":"Cowhide","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse whip made of untanned leather."},{"word":"Cowhided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cowhide"},{"word":"Cowhiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cowhide"},{"word":"Cowhide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flog with a cowhide."},{"word":"Cowish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Timorous; fearful; cowardly."},{"word":"Cowish","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon."},{"word":"Cowitch","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cowhage."},{"word":"Cowl","type":"(n.)","description":"A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together."},{"word":"Cowl","type":"(n.)","description":"A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc."},{"word":"Cowl","type":"(n.)","description":"A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive."},{"word":"Cowl","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water."},{"word":"Cowled","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk."},{"word":"Cowleech","type":"(n.)","description":"One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor."},{"word":"Cowleeching","type":"(n.)","description":"Healing the distemper of cows."},{"word":"Cowlick","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow."},{"word":"Cowlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a cow."},{"word":"Cowlstaff","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons."},{"word":"Coworker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works with another; a co/perator."},{"word":"Cow","type":"()","description":"An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chaerophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre)."},{"word":"Cow","type":"()","description":"A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America)."},{"word":"Cowpea","type":"(n.)","description":"The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States."},{"word":"Cowper's","type":"()","description":"Two small glands discharging into the male urethra."},{"word":"Cow-pilot","type":"(n.)","description":"A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra."},{"word":"Cowpock","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cowpox."},{"word":"Cowpox","type":"(n.)","description":"A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock."},{"word":"Cowquake","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass."},{"word":"Cowrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Kauri."},{"word":"Cowries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cowry"},{"word":"Cowrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cowry"},{"word":"Cowry","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine shell of the genus Cypraea."},{"word":"Cowslip","type":"(n.)","description":"A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States."},{"word":"Cowslip","type":"(n.)","description":"In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold."},{"word":"Cowslipped","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with cowslips."},{"word":"Cow's","type":"()","description":"Mullein."},{"word":"Cow","type":"()","description":"A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk."},{"word":"Cowweed","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cow parsley."},{"word":"Cowwheat","type":"(n.)","description":"A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields."},{"word":"Cox","type":"(n.)","description":"A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull."},{"word":"Coxa","type":"(n.)","description":"The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean."},{"word":"Coxalgia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Coxalgy"},{"word":"Coxalgy","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain in the hip."},{"word":"Coxcomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps."},{"word":"Coxcomb","type":"(n.)","description":"The cap itself."},{"word":"Coxcomb","type":"(n.)","description":"The top of the head, or the head itself"},{"word":"Coxcomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop."},{"word":"Coxcomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb."},{"word":"Coxcombical","type":"(a.)","description":"Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited."},{"word":"Coxcombly","type":"(a.)","description":"like a coxcomb."},{"word":"Coxcombry","type":"(n.)","description":"The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness."},{"word":"Coxcomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Coxcombical."},{"word":"Coxcomically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Conceitedly."},{"word":"Coxswain","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cockswain."},{"word":"Coy","type":"(a.)","description":"Quiet; still."},{"word":"Coy","type":"(a.)","description":"Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry."},{"word":"Coy","type":"(a.)","description":"Soft; gentle; hesitating."},{"word":"Coyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Coy"},{"word":"Coying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Coy"},{"word":"Coy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allure; to entice; to decoy."},{"word":"Coy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To caress with the hand; to stroke."},{"word":"Coy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity."},{"word":"Coy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make difficulty; to be unwilling."},{"word":"Coyish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat coy or reserved."},{"word":"Coyly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a coy manner; with reserve."},{"word":"Coyness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve."},{"word":"Coyote","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl."},{"word":"Coypu","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria."},{"word":"Coystrel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Coistril."},{"word":"Coz","type":"(n.)","description":"A contraction of cousin."},{"word":"Cozened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cozen"},{"word":"Cozening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cozen"},{"word":"Cozen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way."},{"word":"Cozen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully."},{"word":"Cozenage","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud."},{"word":"Cozener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cheats or defrauds."},{"word":"Cozier","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cosier."},{"word":"Cozily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Snugly; comfortably."},{"word":"Coziness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being cozy."},{"word":"Cozy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Snug; comfortable; easy; contented."},{"word":"Cozy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar."},{"word":"Cozy","type":"(a.)","description":"A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(n.)","description":"The zodiacal constellation Cancer."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(a.)","description":"A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(a.)","description":"A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(a.)","description":"A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(a.)","description":"A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(a.)","description":"A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(a.)","description":"A claw for anchoring a portable machine."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sour or morose; to embitter."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a crabstick."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel."},{"word":"Crab","type":"(a.)","description":"Sour; rough; austere."},{"word":"Crabbed","type":"(n.)","description":"Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners."},{"word":"Crabbed","type":"(n.)","description":"Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste."},{"word":"Crabbed","type":"(n.)","description":"Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author."},{"word":"Crabbed","type":"(n.)","description":"Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting."},{"word":"Crabber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who catches crabs."},{"word":"Crabbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of catching crabs."},{"word":"Crabbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The fighting of hawks with each other."},{"word":"Crabbing","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine."},{"word":"Crabbish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat sour or cross."},{"word":"Crabby","type":"(a.)","description":"Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing."},{"word":"Crabeater","type":"(n.)","description":"The cobia."},{"word":"Crabeater","type":"(n.)","description":"An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus)."},{"word":"Crabeater","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species)."},{"word":"Craber","type":"(n.)","description":"The water rat."},{"word":"Crabfaced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sour, disagreeable countenance."},{"word":"Crabsidle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]."},{"word":"Crabstick","type":"(n.)","description":"A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree."},{"word":"Crab","type":"()","description":"See under Crab."},{"word":"Crab-yaws","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws."},{"word":"Crache","type":"(v.)","description":"To scratch."},{"word":"Cracked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crack"},{"word":"Cracking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crack"},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be ruined or impaired; to fail."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"The tone of voice when changed at puberty."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"A crazy or crack-brained person."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"A boast; boasting."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"Breach of chastity."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy, generally a pert, lively boy."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(n.)","description":"Free conversation; friendly chat."},{"word":"Crack","type":"(a.)","description":"Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of."},{"word":"Crack-brained","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy."},{"word":"Cracked","type":"(a.)","description":"Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat."},{"word":"Cracked","type":"(a.)","description":"Crack-brained."},{"word":"Cracker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, cracks."},{"word":"Cracker","type":"(n.)","description":"A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow."},{"word":"Cracker","type":"(n.)","description":"A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker."},{"word":"Cracker","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker."},{"word":"Cracker","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States."},{"word":"Cracker","type":"(n.)","description":"The pintail duck."},{"word":"Cracker","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc."},{"word":"Crackle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle."},{"word":"Crackle","type":"(n.)","description":"The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling."},{"word":"Crackle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle."},{"word":"Crackle","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle."},{"word":"Crackled","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware."},{"word":"Crackleware","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crackle, n., 3."},{"word":"Crackling","type":"(n.)","description":"The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated."},{"word":"Crackling","type":"(n.)","description":"The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork."},{"word":"Crackling","type":"(n.)","description":"Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting."},{"word":"Cracknel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A hard brittle cake or biscuit."},{"word":"Cracksmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cracksman"},{"word":"Cracksman","type":"(n.)","description":"A burglar."},{"word":"Cracovian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland."},{"word":"Cracovienne","type":"(n.)","description":"A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time."},{"word":"Cracowes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"Infancy, or very early life."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"A case for a broken or dislocated limb."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"A suspended scaffold used in shafts."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(n.)","description":"The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck."},{"word":"Cradled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cradle"},{"word":"Cradling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cradle"},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To nurse or train in infancy."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transport a vessel by means of a cradle."},{"word":"Cradle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie or lodge, as in a cradle."},{"word":"Cradling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of using a cradle."},{"word":"Cradling","type":"(n.)","description":"Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped."},{"word":"Cradling","type":"(n.)","description":"The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed."},{"word":"Craft","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength; might; secret power."},{"word":"Craft","type":"(n.)","description":"Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade."},{"word":"Craft","type":"(n.)","description":"Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers."},{"word":"Craft","type":"(n.)","description":"Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices."},{"word":"Craft","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense."},{"word":"Craft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play tricks; to practice artifice."},{"word":"Craftily","type":"(adv.)","description":"With craft; artfully; cunningly."},{"word":"Craftiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem."},{"word":"Craftless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without craft or cunning."},{"word":"Craftsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Craftsman"},{"word":"Craftsman","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic."},{"word":"Craftsmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The work of a craftsman."},{"word":"Craftsmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning."},{"word":"Crafty","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous."},{"word":"Crafty","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful."},{"word":"Crafty","type":"(a.)","description":"Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily."},{"word":"Crag","type":"(n.)","description":"A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge."},{"word":"Crag","type":"(n.)","description":"A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age."},{"word":"Crag","type":"(n.)","description":"The neck or throat"},{"word":"Crag","type":"(n.)","description":"The neck piece or scrag of mutton."},{"word":"Cragged","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of crags, or steep, broken //cks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged."},{"word":"Cradgedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess."},{"word":"Cragginess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being craggy."},{"word":"Craggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain."},{"word":"Cragsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cragsman"},{"word":"Cragsman","type":"(n.)","description":"One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves."},{"word":"Craie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crare."},{"word":"Craig","type":"()","description":"The pole flounder."},{"word":"Crail","type":"(n.)","description":"A creel or osier basket."},{"word":"Crake","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake."},{"word":"Crake","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully."},{"word":"Crake","type":"(n.)","description":"A boast. See Crack, n."},{"word":"Crake","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake."},{"word":"Crakeberry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crowberry."},{"word":"Craker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who boasts; a braggart."},{"word":"Crammed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cram"},{"word":"Cramming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cram"},{"word":"Cram","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people."},{"word":"Cram","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with food to satiety; to stuff."},{"word":"Cram","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor."},{"word":"Cram","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff."},{"word":"Cram","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study."},{"word":"Cram","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cramming."},{"word":"Cram","type":"(n.)","description":"Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination."},{"word":"Cram","type":"(n.)","description":"A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed."},{"word":"Crambo","type":"(a.)","description":"A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme."},{"word":"Crambo","type":"(a.)","description":"A word rhyming with another word."},{"word":"Crammer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared."},{"word":"Cramoisie","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cramoisy"},{"word":"Cramoisy","type":"(a.)","description":"Crimson."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(n.)","description":"That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(n.)","description":"A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(n.)","description":"A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(n.)","description":"A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg."},{"word":"Cramped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cramp"},{"word":"Cramping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cramp"},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to bind together; to unite."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To afflict with cramp."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"(n.)","description":"Knotty; difficult."},{"word":"Crampet","type":"(n.)","description":"A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard."},{"word":"Crampfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo."},{"word":"Cramp","type":"()","description":"See Cramp, n., 2."},{"word":"Crampit","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crampet."},{"word":"Crampon","type":"(n.)","description":"An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy."},{"word":"Cramponee","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished."},{"word":"Crampoons","type":"(n.)","description":"A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc."},{"word":"Crampoons","type":"(n.)","description":"Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold."},{"word":"Crampy","type":"()","description":"Affected with cramp."},{"word":"Crampy","type":"()","description":"Productive of, or abounding in, cramps."},{"word":"Cran","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crane"},{"word":"Crane","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel."},{"word":"Cranage","type":"(n.)","description":"The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels."},{"word":"Cranage","type":"(n.)","description":"The money or price paid for the use of a crane."},{"word":"Cranberries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cranberry"},{"word":"Cranberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it."},{"word":"Cranch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Craunch."},{"word":"Crane","type":"(n.)","description":"A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck."},{"word":"Crane","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick."},{"word":"Crane","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire."},{"word":"Crane","type":"(n.)","description":"A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask."},{"word":"Crane","type":"(n.)","description":"A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2."},{"word":"Craned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crane"},{"word":"Craning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crane"},{"word":"Crane","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up."},{"word":"Crane","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully."},{"word":"Crane","type":"(v. i.)","description":"to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap."},{"word":"Crane's-bill","type":"(n.)","description":"The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane."},{"word":"Crane's-bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of long-beaked forceps."},{"word":"Crang","type":"(n.)","description":"See Krang."},{"word":"Crania","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull."},{"word":"Cranial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cranium."},{"word":"Cranioclasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery."},{"word":"Cranioclast","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases."},{"word":"Craniofacial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle."},{"word":"Craniognomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the form and characteristics of the skull."},{"word":"Craniological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to craniology."},{"word":"Craniologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist."},{"word":"Craniology","type":"(n.)","description":"The department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls."},{"word":"Craniometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the size of skulls."},{"word":"Craniometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Craniometrical"},{"word":"Craniometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to craniometry."},{"word":"Craniometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of measuring skulls."},{"word":"Cranioscopist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy."},{"word":"Cranioscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Scientific examination of the cranium."},{"word":"Craniota","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull."},{"word":"Craniotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery."},{"word":"Craniums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cranium"},{"word":"Crania","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cranium"},{"word":"Cranium","type":"(n.)","description":"The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"A sick person; an invalid."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"Sick; infirm."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated."},{"word":"Crank","type":"(n.)","description":"To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn."},{"word":"Crankbird","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European woodpecker (Picus minor)."},{"word":"Cranked","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle."},{"word":"Crankiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Crankness."},{"word":"Crankle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle."},{"word":"Crankle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend, turn, or wind."},{"word":"Crankle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle."},{"word":"Crankness","type":"(n.)","description":"Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel."},{"word":"Crankness","type":"(n.)","description":"Sprightliness; vigor; health."},{"word":"Cranky","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of spirit; crank."},{"word":"Cranky","type":"(a.)","description":"Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety."},{"word":"Cranky","type":"(a.)","description":"Unsteady; easy to upset; crank."},{"word":"Crannied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall."},{"word":"Crannog","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crannoge"},{"word":"Crannoge","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake."},{"word":"Crannies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cranny"},{"word":"Cranny","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance."},{"word":"Cranny","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc."},{"word":"Crannied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cranny"},{"word":"Crannying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cranny"},{"word":"Cranny","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crack into, or become full of, crannies."},{"word":"Cranny","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To haunt, or enter by, crannies."},{"word":"Cranny","type":"(a.)","description":"Quick; giddy; thoughtless."},{"word":"Crantara","type":"(n.)","description":"The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland."},{"word":"Crants","type":"(n.)","description":"A garland carried before the bier of a maiden."},{"word":"Crapaudine","type":"(n.)","description":"Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door."},{"word":"Crapaudine","type":"(n.)","description":"An ulcer on the coronet of a horse."},{"word":"Crape","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen."},{"word":"Craped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crape"},{"word":"Craping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crape"},{"word":"Crape","type":"(n.)","description":"To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk."},{"word":"Crapefish","type":"(n.)","description":"Salted codfish hardened by pressure."},{"word":"Crapnel","type":"(n.)","description":"A hook or drag; a grapnel."},{"word":"Crappie","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species."},{"word":"Crapple","type":"(n.)","description":"A claw."},{"word":"Craps","type":"(n.)","description":"A gambling game with dice."},{"word":"Crapula","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crapule"},{"word":"Crapule","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Crapulence."},{"word":"Crapulence","type":"(n.)","description":"The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit."},{"word":"Crapulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Crapulous"},{"word":"Crapulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses."},{"word":"Crapy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling crape."},{"word":"Crare","type":"(n.)","description":"A slow unwieldy trading vessel."},{"word":"Crase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break in pieces; to crack."},{"word":"Crashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crash"},{"word":"Crashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crash"},{"word":"Crash","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence."},{"word":"Crash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise."},{"word":"Crash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof."},{"word":"Crash","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once."},{"word":"Crash","type":"(n.)","description":"Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise."},{"word":"Crash","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels."},{"word":"Crashing","type":"(n.)","description":"The noise of many things falling and breaking at once."},{"word":"Crasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament."},{"word":"Crasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago."},{"word":"Craspedota","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The hydroid or naked-eyed medusae. See Hydroidea."},{"word":"Craspedote","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Craspedota."},{"word":"Crass","type":"(a.)","description":"Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined."},{"word":"Crassament","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Crassamentum"},{"word":"Crassamentum","type":"(a.)","description":"A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood."},{"word":"Crassiment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crassament."},{"word":"Crassitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density."},{"word":"Crassness","type":"(n.)","description":"Grossness."},{"word":"Crastination","type":"(n.)","description":"Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow."},{"word":"Crataegus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes."},{"word":"Cratch","type":"(n.)","description":"A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack."},{"word":"Crate","type":"(n.)","description":"A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares."},{"word":"Crate","type":"(n.)","description":"A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit."},{"word":"Crated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crate"},{"word":"Crating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crate"},{"word":"Crate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches."},{"word":"Crater","type":"(n.)","description":"The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up."},{"word":"Crater","type":"(n.)","description":"The pit left by the explosion of a mine."},{"word":"Crater","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup."},{"word":"Crateriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla."},{"word":"Craterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater."},{"word":"Craunched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Craunch"},{"word":"Craunching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Craunch"},{"word":"Craunch","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch."},{"word":"Cravat","type":"(n.)","description":"A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck."},{"word":"Cravatted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a cravat."},{"word":"Craved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crave"},{"word":"Craving","type":"(p pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crave"},{"word":"Crave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore."},{"word":"Crave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food."},{"word":"Crave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite."},{"word":"Craven","type":"(a.)","description":"Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless."},{"word":"Craven","type":"(n.)","description":"A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n."},{"word":"Cravened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Craven"},{"word":"Cravening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Craven"},{"word":"Craven","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly."},{"word":"Craver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who craves or begs."},{"word":"Craving","type":"(n.)","description":"Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching."},{"word":"Craw","type":"(n.)","description":"The crop of a bird."},{"word":"Craw","type":"(n.)","description":"The stomach of an animal."},{"word":"-fishes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crayfish"},{"word":"-fish","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crayfish"},{"word":"Crawfish","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crayfish"},{"word":"Crayfish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis."},{"word":"Crawford","type":"(n.)","description":"A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey."},{"word":"Crawled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crawl"},{"word":"Crawling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crawl"},{"word":"Crawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep."},{"word":"Crawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner."},{"word":"Crawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct."},{"word":"Crawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7."},{"word":"Crawl","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal."},{"word":"Crawl","type":"(n.)","description":"A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish."},{"word":"Crawler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile."},{"word":"Crawly","type":"(a.)","description":"Creepy."},{"word":"Cray","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crayer"},{"word":"Crayer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crare."},{"word":"Crayfish","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crawfish."},{"word":"Crayon","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders."},{"word":"Crayon","type":"(n.)","description":"A crayon drawing."},{"word":"Crayon","type":"(n.)","description":"A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light."},{"word":"Crayoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crayon"},{"word":"Crayoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crayon"},{"word":"Crayon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan."},{"word":"Crazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Craze"},{"word":"Crazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Craze"},{"word":"Craze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase."},{"word":"Craze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit."},{"word":"Craze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To derange the intellect of; to render insane."},{"word":"Craze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane."},{"word":"Craze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery."},{"word":"Craze","type":"(n.)","description":"Craziness; insanity."},{"word":"Craze","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet."},{"word":"Craze","type":"(n.)","description":"A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze."},{"word":"Crazedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect."},{"word":"Craze-mill","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crazing-mill"},{"word":"Crazing-mill","type":"(n.)","description":"A mill for grinding tin ore."},{"word":"Crazily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a crazy manner."},{"word":"Craziness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs."},{"word":"Craziness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement."},{"word":"Crazy","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe."},{"word":"Crazy","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged."},{"word":"Crazy","type":"(a.)","description":"Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager."},{"word":"Creable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being created."},{"word":"Creaght","type":"(n.)","description":"A drove or herd."},{"word":"Creaght","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To graze."},{"word":"Creaked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Creak"},{"word":"Creaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Creak"},{"word":"Creak","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak."},{"word":"Creak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce a creaking sound with."},{"word":"Creak","type":"(n.)","description":"The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking."},{"word":"Creaking","type":"(n.)","description":"A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound."},{"word":"Cream","type":"(n.)","description":"The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained."},{"word":"Cream","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface."},{"word":"Cream","type":"(n.)","description":"A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream."},{"word":"Cream","type":"(n.)","description":"A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation."},{"word":"Cream","type":"(n.)","description":"The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures."},{"word":"Creamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cream"},{"word":"Creaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cream"},{"word":"Cream","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream."},{"word":"Cream","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take off the best or choicest part of."},{"word":"Cream","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with, or as with, cream."},{"word":"Cream","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle."},{"word":"Creamcake","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc."},{"word":"Cream-colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of cream; light yellow."},{"word":"Creameries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Creamery"},{"word":"Creamery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market."},{"word":"Creamery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream."},{"word":"Creamery","type":"(n.)","description":"An establishment where cream is sold."},{"word":"Cream-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion."},{"word":"Cream-fruit","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice."},{"word":"Creaminess","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being creamy."},{"word":"Cream","type":"()","description":"See under Laid."},{"word":"Cream-slice","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream."},{"word":"Cream-white","type":"(a.)","description":"As white as cream."},{"word":"Creamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous."},{"word":"Creance","type":"(n.)","description":"Faith; belief; creed."},{"word":"Creance","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured."},{"word":"Creance","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To get on credit; to borrow."},{"word":"Creant","type":"(a.)","description":"Creative; formative."},{"word":"Crease","type":"(n.)","description":"See Creese."},{"word":"Crease","type":"(n.)","description":"A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced."},{"word":"Crease","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker."},{"word":"Creased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crease"},{"word":"Creasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crease"},{"word":"Crease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling."},{"word":"Creaser","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by."},{"word":"Creaser","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes."},{"word":"Creaser","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back."},{"word":"Creasing","type":"(n.)","description":"A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall."},{"word":"Creasote","type":"(n.)","description":"See Creosote."},{"word":"Creasy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of creases."},{"word":"Creat","type":"(n.)","description":"An usher to a riding master."},{"word":"Creatable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be created."},{"word":"Create","type":"(a.)","description":"Created; composed; begotten."},{"word":"Created","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Create"},{"word":"Creating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Create"},{"word":"Create","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist."},{"word":"Create","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew."},{"word":"Create","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer."},{"word":"Creatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea."},{"word":"Creatin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue."},{"word":"Creatinin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine."},{"word":"Creation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence."},{"word":"Creation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature."},{"word":"Creation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation."},{"word":"Creational","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to creation."},{"word":"Creationism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism."},{"word":"Creative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation."},{"word":"Creativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being creative."},{"word":"Cretor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being."},{"word":"Creatorship","type":"(n.)","description":"State or condition of a creator."},{"word":"Creatress","type":"(n.)","description":"She who creates."},{"word":"Creatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A creatress."},{"word":"Creatural","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature."},{"word":"Creature","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man."},{"word":"Creature","type":"(n.)","description":"A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature."},{"word":"Creature","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool."},{"word":"Creature","type":"(n.)","description":"A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc."},{"word":"Cratureless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without created beings; alone."},{"word":"Creaturely","type":"(a.)","description":"Creatural; characteristic of a creature."},{"word":"Creatureship","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being a creature."},{"word":"Creaturize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make like a creature; to degrade"},{"word":"Creaze","type":"(n.)","description":"The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle."},{"word":"Crebricostate","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with closely set ribs or ridges."},{"word":"Crebrisulcate","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with closely set transverse furrows."},{"word":"Crebritude","type":"(n.)","description":"Frequency."},{"word":"Crebrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Frequent; numerous."},{"word":"Cr/che","type":"(n.)","description":"A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work."},{"word":"Credence","type":"(n.)","description":"Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence."},{"word":"Credence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence."},{"word":"Credence","type":"(n.)","description":"The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated."},{"word":"Credence","type":"(n.)","description":"A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose."},{"word":"Credence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give credence to; to believe."},{"word":"Credenda","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Credendum"},{"word":"Credendum","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguished from agendum, a practical duty."},{"word":"Credent","type":"(a.)","description":"Believing; giving credence; credulous."},{"word":"Credent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having credit or authority; credible."},{"word":"Credential","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting."},{"word":"Credential","type":"(n.)","description":"That which gives a title to credit or confidence."},{"word":"Credential","type":"(n.)","description":"Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate."},{"word":"Credibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses."},{"word":"Credible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy."},{"word":"Credibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of belief; credibility."},{"word":"Credibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(n.)","description":"Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(n.)","description":"Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(n.)","description":"A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(n.)","description":"That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(n.)","description":"Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(n.)","description":"Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(n.)","description":"The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B."},{"word":"Credited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Credit"},{"word":"Crediting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Credit"},{"word":"Credit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of."},{"word":"Credit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond."},{"word":"Creditable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of belief."},{"word":"Creditable","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem; reputable; estimable."},{"word":"Creditable","type":"(a.)","description":"Bringing credit, reputation, or honor; honorable; as, such conduct is highly creditable to him."},{"word":"Creditableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being creditable."},{"word":"Creditably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit."},{"word":"Credit","type":"()","description":"A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities."},{"word":"Credit","type":"()","description":"A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed."},{"word":"Creditor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who credits, believes, or trusts."},{"word":"Creditor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor."},{"word":"Creditress","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Creditrix"},{"word":"Creditrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A female creditor."},{"word":"Credo","type":"(n.)","description":"The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church."},{"word":"Credulity","type":"(n.)","description":"Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence."},{"word":"Credulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting."},{"word":"Credulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Believed too readily."},{"word":"Credulously","type":"(adv.)","description":"With credulity."},{"word":"Credulousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity."},{"word":"Creed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive."},{"word":"Creed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to."},{"word":"Creed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To believe; to credit."},{"word":"Creedless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a creed."},{"word":"Creek","type":"(n.)","description":"A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river."},{"word":"Creek","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook."},{"word":"Creek","type":"(n.)","description":"Any turn or winding."},{"word":"Creekfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The chub sucker."},{"word":"Creeks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama."},{"word":"Creeky","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding."},{"word":"Creel","type":"(n.)","description":"An osier basket, such as anglers use."},{"word":"Creel","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule."},{"word":"Crept","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Creep"},{"word":"Crope","type":"()","description":"of Creep"},{"word":"Crept","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Creep"},{"word":"Creeping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Creep"},{"word":"Creep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of creeping."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(n.)","description":"A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects."},{"word":"Creep","type":"(n.)","description":"A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia)."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen."},{"word":"Creeper","type":"(n.)","description":"Crockets. See Crocket."},{"word":"Creephole","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger."},{"word":"Creephole","type":"(n.)","description":"A subterfuge; an excuse."},{"word":"Creepie","type":"(n.)","description":"A low stool."},{"word":"Creepiness","type":"(n.)","description":"An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin."},{"word":"Creeping","type":"(a.)","description":"Crawling, or moving close to the ground."},{"word":"Creeping","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils."},{"word":"Creepingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly."},{"word":"Creeple","type":"(n.)","description":"A creeping creature; a reptile."},{"word":"Creeple","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is lame; a cripple."},{"word":"Creepy","type":"(a.)","description":"Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin."},{"word":"Crees","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay."},{"word":"Creese","type":"(n.)","description":"A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade."},{"word":"Cremaillere","type":"(n.)","description":"An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment."},{"word":"Cremaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle."},{"word":"Cremaster","type":"(n.)","description":"The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect."},{"word":"Cremasteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery."},{"word":"Cremate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it."},{"word":"Cremation","type":"(n.)","description":"A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead."},{"word":"Cremationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who advocates the practice of cremation."},{"word":"Cremator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes."},{"word":"Crematoriums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crematory"},{"word":"Crematories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crematory"},{"word":"Crematorium","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crematory"},{"word":"Crematory","type":"(n.)","description":"A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace."},{"word":"Crematory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation."},{"word":"Cremocarp","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis."},{"word":"Cremona","type":"(n.)","description":"A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy."},{"word":"Cremor","type":"(n.)","description":"Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum."},{"word":"Cremosin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crimson."},{"word":"Crems","type":"(n.)","description":"See Krems."},{"word":"Crenate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Crenated"},{"word":"Crenated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops."},{"word":"Crenation","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf."},{"word":"Crenation","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being crenate."},{"word":"Crenature","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle."},{"word":"Crenature","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being crenated or notched."},{"word":"Crenel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crenelle."},{"word":"Crenelated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crenelate"},{"word":"Crenelating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crenelate"},{"word":"Crenelate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with crenelles."},{"word":"Crenelate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf."},{"word":"Crenelation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure."},{"word":"Crenelle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crenel"},{"word":"Crenel","type":"(n.)","description":"An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement."},{"word":"Crenel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Crenature."},{"word":"Crenelled","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Crenate."},{"word":"Crengle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crenkle"},{"word":"Crenkle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cringle."},{"word":"Crenulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Crenulated"},{"word":"Crenulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Minutely crenate."},{"word":"Crenulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute crenation."},{"word":"Crenulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being minutely scalloped."},{"word":"Creole","type":"(n.)","description":"One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico."},{"word":"Creole","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles."},{"word":"Creolean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Creolian"},{"word":"Creolian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles."},{"word":"Creolian","type":"(n. )","description":"A Creole."},{"word":"Creosol","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum."},{"word":"Creosote","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood."},{"word":"Creosoted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Creosote"},{"word":"Creosoting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Creosote"},{"word":"Creosote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay."},{"word":"Crepance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crepane"},{"word":"Crepane","type":"(n.)","description":"An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer."},{"word":"Crepe","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Crape."},{"word":"Crepitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling."},{"word":"Crepitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crepitate"},{"word":"Crepitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crepitate"},{"word":"Crepitate","type":"(v.)","description":"To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap."},{"word":"Crepitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of crepitating or crackling."},{"word":"Crepitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air."},{"word":"Crepitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A crepitant rale."},{"word":"Crepitus","type":"(n.)","description":"The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels."},{"word":"Crepitus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Crepitation, 2."},{"word":"Crepon","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk."},{"word":"Crept","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Creep."},{"word":"Crepuscle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crepuscule"},{"word":"Crepuscule","type":"(n.)","description":"Twilight."},{"word":"Crepuscular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Crepusculous"},{"word":"Crepusculous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous."},{"word":"Crepusculous","type":"(a.)","description":"Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects."},{"word":"Crepusculine","type":"(a.)","description":"Crepuscular."},{"word":"Crescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Increase; enlargement."},{"word":"Crescendo","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score."},{"word":"Crescendo","type":"(n.)","description":"A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed."},{"word":"Crescendo","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(n.)","description":"The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge"},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol of Artemis, or Diana."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(n.)","description":"The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(n.)","description":"The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(n.)","description":"The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a crescent."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing; growing."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent."},{"word":"Crescent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with crescents."},{"word":"Crescentic","type":"(a.)","description":"Crescent-shaped."},{"word":"Crescentwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form of a crescent; like a crescent."},{"word":"Crescive","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing; growing."},{"word":"Cresol","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]"},{"word":"Cresorcin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Isorcin."},{"word":"Cresses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cress"},{"word":"Cress","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic."},{"word":"Cresselle","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent."},{"word":"Cresset","type":"(n.)","description":"An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions."},{"word":"Cresset","type":"(n.)","description":"A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible."},{"word":"Cressy","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in cresses."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper curve of a horse's neck."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"The ridge or top of a wave."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"The summit of a hill or mountain ridge."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(n.)","description":"The top line of a slope or embankment."},{"word":"Crested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crest"},{"word":"Cresting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crest"},{"word":"Crest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes."},{"word":"Crest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a crest."},{"word":"Crested","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crest."},{"word":"Crested","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head."},{"word":"Crested","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft."},{"word":"Crestfallen","type":"(a.)","description":"With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed."},{"word":"Crestfallen","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse."},{"word":"Cresting","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof."},{"word":"Crestless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth."},{"word":"Cresylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc."},{"word":"Cretaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk."},{"word":"Cretaceously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a chalky manner; as chalk."},{"word":"Cretan","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Crete, or Candia."},{"word":"Cretan","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia."},{"word":"Crete","type":"(n.)","description":"A Cretan"},{"word":"Cretian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Cretan."},{"word":"Cretic","type":"(n.)","description":"A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -)."},{"word":"Creticism","type":"(n.)","description":"Falsehood; lying; cretism."},{"word":"Cretin","type":"(n.)","description":"One afflicted with cretinism."},{"word":"Cretinism","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps."},{"word":"Cretinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the characteristics of a cretin."},{"word":"Cretism","type":"(n.)","description":"A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood."},{"word":"Cretonne","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax."},{"word":"Cretonne","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft."},{"word":"Cretonne","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of chintz with a glossy surface."},{"word":"Cretose","type":"(a.)","description":"Chalky; cretaceous."},{"word":"Creutzer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kreutzer."},{"word":"Creux","type":"(n.)","description":"Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design."},{"word":"Crevalle","type":"(n.)","description":"The cavally or jurel."},{"word":"Crevalle","type":"(n.)","description":"The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus)."},{"word":"Crevasse","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided."},{"word":"Crevasse","type":"(n.)","description":"A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi."},{"word":"Crevet","type":"(n.)","description":"A crucible or melting pot; a cruset."},{"word":"Crevice","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent."},{"word":"Crevice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To crack; to flaw."},{"word":"Creviced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn."},{"word":"Crevis","type":"(n.)","description":"The crawfish."},{"word":"Crew","type":"(n.)","description":"The Manx shearwater."},{"word":"Crew","type":"(n.)","description":"A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng."},{"word":"Crew","type":"(n.)","description":"The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat."},{"word":"Crew","type":"(n.)","description":"In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew."},{"word":"Crew","type":"()","description":"imp. of Crow"},{"word":"Crewel","type":"(n.)","description":"Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery."},{"word":"Crewelwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen."},{"word":"Crewet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cruet."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A stall for oxen or other cattle."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A hovel; a hut; a cottage."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A small raft of timber."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"A miner's luncheon."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(n.)","description":"The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage."},{"word":"Cribbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crib"},{"word":"Cribbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crib"},{"word":"Crib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination."},{"word":"Crib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse."},{"word":"Cribbage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances."},{"word":"Criber","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crib-biter"},{"word":"Crib-biter","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse that has the habit of cribbing."},{"word":"Cribbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters."},{"word":"Cribbing","type":"(n.)","description":"Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing."},{"word":"Cribbing","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc."},{"word":"Cribbing","type":"(n.)","description":"A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound."},{"word":"Crib-biting","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cribbing, 4."},{"word":"Cribble","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse sieve or screen."},{"word":"Cribble","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarse flour or meal."},{"word":"Cribbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cribble"},{"word":"Cribbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cribble"},{"word":"Cribble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift."},{"word":"Cribble","type":"(a.)","description":"Coarse; as, cribble bread."},{"word":"Cribellum","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk."},{"word":"Cribrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Cribriform."},{"word":"Cribration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting."},{"word":"Cribriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress."},{"word":"Cribrose","type":"(a.)","description":"Perforated like a sieve; cribriform."},{"word":"Cric","type":"(n.)","description":"The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp."},{"word":"Crick","type":"(n.)","description":"The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it."},{"word":"Crick","type":"(n.)","description":"A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part."},{"word":"Crick","type":"(n.)","description":"A small jackscrew."},{"word":"Cricket","type":"(n.)","description":"An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings."},{"word":"Cricket","type":"(n.)","description":"A low stool."},{"word":"Cricket","type":"(n.)","description":"A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides."},{"word":"Cricket","type":"(n.)","description":"A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney."},{"word":"Cricket","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play at cricket."},{"word":"Cricketer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays at cricket."},{"word":"Cricoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts."},{"word":"Cricothyroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages."},{"word":"Cried","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Cry."},{"word":"Crier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cries; one who makes proclamation."},{"word":"Crier","type":"(n.)","description":"an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier."},{"word":"Crime","type":"(n.)","description":"Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law."},{"word":"Crime","type":"(n.)","description":"Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong."},{"word":"Crime","type":"(n.)","description":"Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity."},{"word":"Crime","type":"(n.)","description":"That which occasion crime."},{"word":"Crimeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury."},{"word":"Crimeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from crime; innocent."},{"word":"Criminal","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty of crime or sin."},{"word":"Criminal","type":"(a.)","description":"Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness."},{"word":"Criminal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code."},{"word":"Criminal","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon."},{"word":"Criminalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in criminal law."},{"word":"Criminality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt."},{"word":"Criminally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In violation of law; wickedly."},{"word":"Criminalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Criminality."},{"word":"Criminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Criminate"},{"word":"Criminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Criminate"},{"word":"Criminate","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To accuse of, or charge with, a crime."},{"word":"Criminate","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge."},{"word":"Crimination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint."},{"word":"Criminative","type":"(a.)","description":"Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory."},{"word":"Criminatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience."},{"word":"Criminology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on crime or the criminal population."},{"word":"Criminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous."},{"word":"Crimosin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crimson."},{"word":"Crimped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crimp"},{"word":"Crimping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crimp"},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pinch and hold; to seize."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily crumbled; friable; brittle."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak; inconsistent; contradictory."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(n.)","description":"A coal broker."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(n.)","description":"One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(n.)","description":"A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(n.)","description":"Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl."},{"word":"Crimp","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards."},{"word":"Crimpage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men."},{"word":"Crimper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, crimps"},{"word":"Crimper","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape."},{"word":"Crimper","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for giving hair a wavy appearance."},{"word":"Crimper","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics."},{"word":"Crimpled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crimple"},{"word":"Crimpling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crimple"},{"word":"Crimple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl."},{"word":"Crimpy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep."},{"word":"Crimson","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general."},{"word":"Crimson","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red."},{"word":"Crimsoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crimson"},{"word":"Crimsoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crimson"},{"word":"Crimson","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden."},{"word":"Crimson","type":"(b. t.)","description":"To become crimson; to blush."},{"word":"Crinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the hair."},{"word":"Crinated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hair; hairy."},{"word":"Crinatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Crinitory."},{"word":"Crincum","type":"(n.)","description":"A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey."},{"word":"Crincum-crancum","type":"(n.)","description":"A twist; a whimsey or whim."},{"word":"Crined","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture."},{"word":"Crinel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Crinet"},{"word":"Crinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A very fine, hairlike feather."},{"word":"Crnged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cringe"},{"word":"Cringing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cringe"},{"word":"Cringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn."},{"word":"Cringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort."},{"word":"Cringe","type":"(n.)","description":"Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility."},{"word":"Cringeling","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cringes meanly; a fawner."},{"word":"Cringer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cringes."},{"word":"Cringingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cringing manner."},{"word":"Cringle","type":"(n.)","description":"A withe for fastening a gate."},{"word":"Cringle","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc."},{"word":"Crinicultural","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the growth of hair."},{"word":"Crinigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing hair; hairy."},{"word":"Crinital","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Crinite, 1."},{"word":"Crinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train."},{"word":"Crinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearded or tufted with hairs."},{"word":"Crinitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering."},{"word":"Crinkled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crinkle"},{"word":"Crinkling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crinkle"},{"word":"Crinkle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl."},{"word":"Crinkle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved."},{"word":"Crinkle","type":"(n.)","description":"A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity."},{"word":"Crinkled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag."},{"word":"Crinkly","type":"(a.)","description":"Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly."},{"word":"Crinoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Crinoidal."},{"word":"Crinoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Crinoidea."},{"word":"Crinoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids."},{"word":"Crinoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula."},{"word":"Crinoidean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Crinoidea."},{"word":"Crinoline","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair."},{"word":"Crinoline","type":"(n.)","description":"A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt."},{"word":"Crinose","type":"(a.)","description":"Hairy."},{"word":"Crinosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Hairiness."},{"word":"Crinum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty."},{"word":"Criosphinx","type":"(n.)","description":"A sphinx with the head of a ram."},{"word":"Cripple","type":"(n.)","description":"One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled."},{"word":"Cripple","type":"(a.)","description":"Lame; halting."},{"word":"Crippled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cripple"},{"word":"Crippling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cripple"},{"word":"Cripple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame."},{"word":"Cripple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled."},{"word":"Crippled","type":"(a.)","description":"Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded."},{"word":"Crippleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Lameness."},{"word":"Crippler","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden tool used in graining leather."},{"word":"Crippling","type":"(n.)","description":"Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building."},{"word":"Cripply","type":"(a.)","description":"Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition."},{"word":"Crises","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crisis"},{"word":"Crisis","type":"(n.)","description":"The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point."},{"word":"Crisis","type":"(n.)","description":"That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"Curled with the ripple of the water."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"Lively; sparking; effervescing."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively."},{"word":"Crisped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crisp"},{"word":"Crisping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crisp"},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(a.)","description":"To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t."},{"word":"Crisp","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling."},{"word":"Crispate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Crispated"},{"word":"Crispated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted."},{"word":"Crispation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled."},{"word":"Crispation","type":"(n.)","description":"A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal."},{"word":"Crispature","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being crispate."},{"word":"Crisper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla."},{"word":"Crispin","type":"(n.)","description":"A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft."},{"word":"Crispin","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a union or association of shoemakers."},{"word":"Crisply","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a crisp manner."},{"word":"Crispness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being crisp."},{"word":"Crispy","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks."},{"word":"Crispy","type":"(a.)","description":"Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust."},{"word":"Crissal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers."},{"word":"Crissal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher."},{"word":"Crisscross","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write."},{"word":"Crisscross","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross."},{"word":"Crisscross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks."},{"word":"Crisscross","type":"(adv.)","description":"In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways."},{"word":"Crisscross","type":"(adv.)","description":"With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross."},{"word":"Crisscross-row","type":"(n.)","description":"See Christcross-row."},{"word":"Crissa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crissum"},{"word":"Crissum","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts."},{"word":"Cristate","type":"(a.)","description":"Crested."},{"word":"Criteria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Criterion"},{"word":"Criterions","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Criterion"},{"word":"Criterion","type":"(n.)","description":"A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them."},{"word":"Crith","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains."},{"word":"Crithomancu","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims."},{"word":"Critic","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer."},{"word":"Critic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper."},{"word":"Critic","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of criticism."},{"word":"Critic","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of criticism; a critique."},{"word":"Critic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical."},{"word":"Critic","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To criticise; to play the critic."},{"word":"Critical","type":"(n.)","description":"Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions."},{"word":"Critical","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation."},{"word":"Critical","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious."},{"word":"Critical","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting."},{"word":"Critical","type":"(n.)","description":"Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject."},{"word":"Critical","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation."},{"word":"Critically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly."},{"word":"Critically","type":"(adv.)","description":"At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated."},{"word":"Criticalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time."},{"word":"Criticalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness."},{"word":"Criticaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A contemptible or vicious critic."},{"word":"Criticisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being criticised."},{"word":"Criticised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Criticise"},{"word":"Criticising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Criticise"},{"word":"Criticise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture."},{"word":"Criticise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct."},{"word":"Criticise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon."},{"word":"Criticise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault."},{"word":"Criticiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who criticises; a critic."},{"word":"Criticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism."},{"word":"Criticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure."},{"word":"Critique","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of criticism."},{"word":"Critique","type":"(n.)","description":"A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's \"Critique of Pure Reason.\""},{"word":"Critique","type":"(n.)","description":"A critic; one who criticises."},{"word":"Critique","type":"(v.)","description":"To criticise or pass judgment upon."},{"word":"Crizzel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency."},{"word":"Croaked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Croak"},{"word":"Croaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Croak"},{"word":"Croak","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound."},{"word":"Croak","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually."},{"word":"Croak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster."},{"word":"Croak","type":"(n.)","description":"The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound."},{"word":"Croaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil."},{"word":"Croaker","type":"(n.)","description":"A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast."},{"word":"Croaker","type":"(n.)","description":"An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum."},{"word":"Croaker","type":"(n.)","description":"The surf fish of California."},{"word":"Croat","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race."},{"word":"Croat","type":"(n.)","description":"An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia."},{"word":"Croatian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Croatia."},{"word":"Croatian","type":"(n.)","description":"A Croat."},{"word":"Crocein","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol."},{"word":"Croceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow."},{"word":"Crocetin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow."},{"word":"Croche","type":"(n.)","description":"A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler."},{"word":"Crochet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively."},{"word":"Crocheted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crochet"},{"word":"Crocheting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crochet"},{"word":"Crochet","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl."},{"word":"Crociary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries the cross before an archbishop."},{"word":"Crocidolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers."},{"word":"Crocin","type":"(n.)","description":"The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora."},{"word":"Crocin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite."},{"word":"Crock","type":"(n.)","description":"The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth."},{"word":"Crocked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crock"},{"word":"Crocking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crock"},{"word":"Crock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth."},{"word":"Crock","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give off crock or smut."},{"word":"Crock","type":"(n.)","description":"A low stool."},{"word":"Crock","type":"(n.)","description":"Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher."},{"word":"Crock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter."},{"word":"Crocker","type":"(n.)","description":"A potter."},{"word":"Crockery","type":"(n.)","description":"Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds."},{"word":"Crocket","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc."},{"word":"Crocket","type":"(n.)","description":"A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler."},{"word":"Crocketed","type":"(a.)","description":"Ornamented with crockets."},{"word":"Crocketing","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornamentation with crockets."},{"word":"Crocky","type":"(a.)","description":"Smutty."},{"word":"Crocodile","type":"(n.)","description":"A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator."},{"word":"Crocodile","type":"(n.)","description":"A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile."},{"word":"Crocodilia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds."},{"word":"Crocodilian","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile."},{"word":"Crocodilian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Crocodilia."},{"word":"Crocodility","type":"(n.)","description":"A caption or sophistical mode of arguing."},{"word":"Crocoisite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Crocoite."},{"word":"Crocoite","type":"(n.)","description":"Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore."},{"word":"Croconate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base."},{"word":"Croconic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid."},{"word":"Croconic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid."},{"word":"Crocose","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron."},{"word":"Crocus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn."},{"word":"Crocus","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder."},{"word":"Croesus","type":"(n.)","description":"A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Croesus."},{"word":"Croft","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm."},{"word":"Crofter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland."},{"word":"Crefting","type":"(n.)","description":"Croftland."},{"word":"Crefting","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching."},{"word":"Croftland","type":"(n.)","description":"Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised."},{"word":"Crois","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cross, n."},{"word":"Croisade","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Croisado"},{"word":"Croisado","type":"(n.)","description":"A holy war; a crusade."},{"word":"Croise","type":"(n.)","description":"A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross."},{"word":"Croise","type":"(n.)","description":"A crusader."},{"word":"Croissante","type":"(a.)","description":"Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated."},{"word":"Croker","type":"(n.)","description":"A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron."},{"word":"Croma","type":"(n.)","description":"A quaver."},{"word":"Cromlech","type":"(n.)","description":"A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries."},{"word":"Cromorna","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe."},{"word":"Crone","type":"(n.)","description":"An old ewe."},{"word":"Crone","type":"(n.)","description":"An old woman; -- usually in contempt."},{"word":"Crone","type":"(n.)","description":"An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman."},{"word":"Cronel","type":"(n.)","description":"The iron head of a tilting spear."},{"word":"Cronet","type":"(n.)","description":"The coronet of a horse."},{"word":"Cronian","type":"(a.)","description":"Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea."},{"word":"Cronstedtite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt."},{"word":"Cronies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crony"},{"word":"Crony","type":"(n.)","description":"A crone."},{"word":"Crony","type":"(n.)","description":"An intimate companion; a familiar frend"},{"word":"Croodle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw."},{"word":"Croodle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fawn or coax."},{"word":"Croodle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To coo."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"Any implement having a bent or crooked end."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"A pothook."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc."},{"word":"Crooked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crook"},{"word":"Crooking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crook"},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(n.)","description":"To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist."},{"word":"Crook","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature."},{"word":"Crookback","type":"(n.)","description":"A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback."},{"word":"Crookack","type":"(a.)","description":"Hunched."},{"word":"Crookbill","type":"(n.)","description":"A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right."},{"word":"Crooked","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed."},{"word":"Crooked","type":"(a.)","description":"Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right."},{"word":"Crooked","type":"(a.)","description":"False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings."},{"word":"Crookedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner."},{"word":"Crookedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness."},{"word":"Crooken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make crooked."},{"word":"Crookes","type":"()","description":"A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it."},{"word":"Croon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain."},{"word":"Croon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly."},{"word":"Crooned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Croon"},{"word":"Crooning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Croon"},{"word":"Croon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum."},{"word":"Croon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soothe by singing softly."},{"word":"Croon","type":"(n.)","description":"A low, continued moan; a murmur."},{"word":"Croon","type":"(n.)","description":"A low singing; a plain, artless melody."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"Grain or other product of the field while standing."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything cut off or gathered."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"Tin ore prepared for smelting."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(n.)","description":"A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash."},{"word":"Cropped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crop"},{"word":"Cropping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crop"},{"word":"Crop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field."},{"word":"Crop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield harvest."},{"word":"Crop-ear","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or animal whose ears are cropped."},{"word":"Crop-eared","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ears cropped."},{"word":"Cropful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a full crop or belly; satiated."},{"word":"Cropper","type":"(n.)","description":"One that crops."},{"word":"Cropper","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter."},{"word":"Cropper","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth."},{"word":"Cropper","type":"(n.)","description":"A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse."},{"word":"Cropsick","type":"(a.)","description":"Sick from excess in eating or drinking."},{"word":"Crop-tailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the tail cropped."},{"word":"Croquet","type":"(n.)","description":"An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern."},{"word":"Croquet","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of croqueting."},{"word":"Croqueted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Croquet"},{"word":"Croqueting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Croquet"},{"word":"Croquet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet."},{"word":"Cro-quette","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried."},{"word":"Crore","type":"(n.)","description":"Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000)."},{"word":"Crosier","type":"(n.)","description":"The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God."},{"word":"Crosiered","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a crosier."},{"word":"Croslet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crosslet."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"Church lands."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"A line drawn across or through another line."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(a.)","description":"Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(a.)","description":"Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(a.)","description":"Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(prep.)","description":"Athwart; across."},{"word":"Crossed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cross"},{"word":"Crossing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cross"},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interfere and cut off; to debar."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie or be athwart."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be inconsistent."},{"word":"Cross","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds."},{"word":"Cross-armed","type":"(a.)","description":"With arms crossed."},{"word":"Cross-banded","type":"(a.)","description":"A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface."},{"word":"Crossbar","type":"(n.)","description":"A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down."},{"word":"Crossbarred","type":"(a.)","description":"Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars."},{"word":"Crossbarred","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin."},{"word":"Crossbeak","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Crossbill."},{"word":"Crossbeam","type":"(n.)","description":"A girder."},{"word":"Crossbeam","type":"(n.)","description":"A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor."},{"word":"Cross-bearer","type":"(n.)","description":"A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions."},{"word":"Crossbill","type":"()","description":"A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit."},{"word":"Crossbill","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak."},{"word":"Cross-birth","type":"(n.)","description":"Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus."},{"word":"Crossbite","type":"(n.)","description":"A deception; a cheat."},{"word":"Crossbite","type":"(b. t.)","description":"To deceive; to trick; to gull."},{"word":"Crossbones","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death."},{"word":"Crossbow","type":"(n.)","description":"A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock."},{"word":"Crossbower","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbowman."},{"word":"Crossbowman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest."},{"word":"Crossbred","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel."},{"word":"Crossbreed","type":"(n.)","description":"A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks."},{"word":"Crossbreed","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid."},{"word":"Cross-bun","type":"(n.)","description":"A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday."},{"word":"Cross-crosslet","type":"(n.)","description":"A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses."},{"word":"Crosscut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut across or through; to intersect."},{"word":"Crosscut","type":"(n.)","description":"A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road."},{"word":"Crosscut","type":"(n.)","description":"A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another."},{"word":"Cross-days","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension."},{"word":"Crossette","type":"(n.)","description":"A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow."},{"word":"Crossette","type":"(n.)","description":"The shoulder of a joggled keystone."},{"word":"Cross-examination","type":"(n.)","description":"The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination."},{"word":"Cross-examined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cross-examine"},{"word":"Cross-examining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cross-examine"},{"word":"Cross-examine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party."},{"word":"Cross-examiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination."},{"word":"Cross-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"See Strabismus."},{"word":"Cross-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting."},{"word":"Crossfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A starfish."},{"word":"Crossflow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow across, or in a contrary direction."},{"word":"Cross-garnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross."},{"word":"Crossgrained","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing."},{"word":"Crossgrained","type":"(a.)","description":"Perverse; untractable; contrary."},{"word":"Crossnath","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shade by means of crosshatching."},{"word":"Crosshatching","type":"(n.)","description":"In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle."},{"word":"Crosshead","type":"(n.)","description":"A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead."},{"word":"Crossing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean."},{"word":"Crossing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of making the sign of the cross."},{"word":"Crossing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds."},{"word":"Crossing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Intersection, as of two paths or roads."},{"word":"Crossing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street."},{"word":"Crossing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction."},{"word":"Crossjack","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast."},{"word":"CRosslegged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the legs crossed."},{"word":"Crosslet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cross."},{"word":"Crosslet","type":"(n.)","description":"A crucible."},{"word":"Crosslet","type":"(a.)","description":"Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet."},{"word":"Crossly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor."},{"word":"Crossness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor."},{"word":"Crossopterygian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii."},{"word":"Crossopterygian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Crossopterygii."},{"word":"Crossopterygii","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei."},{"word":"Crosspatch","type":"(n.)","description":"An ill-natured person."},{"word":"Cross-pawl","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cross-spale."},{"word":"Crosspiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise."},{"word":"Crosspiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts."},{"word":"Cross-purpose","type":"(n.)","description":"A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory."},{"word":"Cross-purpose","type":"(n.)","description":"A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas."},{"word":"Cross-questioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cross-question"},{"word":"Cross-questioning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cross-question"},{"word":"Cross-question","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning."},{"word":"Cross-reading","type":"(n.)","description":"The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas."},{"word":"Crossroad","type":"(n.)","description":"A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road."},{"word":"Crossrow","type":"(n.)","description":"The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row."},{"word":"Crossrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A row that crosses others."},{"word":"Crossruff","type":"(n.)","description":"The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw."},{"word":"Cross-spale","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cross-spall"},{"word":"Cross-spall","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl."},{"word":"Cross-springer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]"},{"word":"Cross-staff","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies."},{"word":"Cross-staff","type":"(n.)","description":"A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets."},{"word":"Cross-stitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other."},{"word":"Cross-stone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Harmotome, and Staurotide."},{"word":"Cross-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine."},{"word":"Cross-tie","type":"(n.)","description":"A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place."},{"word":"Cross-tining","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges."},{"word":"Crosstrees","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the \"top.\""},{"word":"Cross-vaulting","type":"(n.)","description":"Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults."},{"word":"Crossway","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crossroad."},{"word":"Cross-week","type":"(n.)","description":"Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions."},{"word":"Crosswise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form of a cross; across; transversely."},{"word":"Crosswort","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc."},{"word":"Crotalaria","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox."},{"word":"Crotaline","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family."},{"word":"Crotalo","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish musical instrument."},{"word":"Crotalum","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes."},{"word":"Crotalus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes."},{"word":"Crotaphite","type":"(n.)","description":"The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively."},{"word":"Crotaphitic","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to the temple; temporal."},{"word":"Crotches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crotch"},{"word":"Crotch","type":"(n.)","description":"The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree."},{"word":"Crotch","type":"(n.)","description":"A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch."},{"word":"Crotched","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crotch; forked."},{"word":"Crotched","type":"(a.)","description":"Cross; peevish."},{"word":"Crotchet","type":"(n.)","description":"A forked support; a crotch."},{"word":"Crotchet","type":"(n.)","description":"A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note."},{"word":"Crotchet","type":"(n.)","description":"An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed."},{"word":"Crotchet","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle."},{"word":"Crotchet","type":"(n.)","description":"A bracket. See Bracket."},{"word":"Crotchet","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus."},{"word":"Crotchet","type":"(n.)","description":"A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit."},{"word":"Crotchet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play music in measured time."},{"word":"Crotcheted","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation."},{"word":"Crotchetiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical."},{"word":"Crotchety","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man."},{"word":"Croton","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries."},{"word":"Croton","type":"()","description":"A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes."},{"word":"Crotonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil."},{"word":"Crotonine","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil."},{"word":"Crotonylene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid."},{"word":"Crottles","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing."},{"word":"Crouched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crouch"},{"word":"Crouching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crouch"},{"word":"Crouch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear."},{"word":"Crouch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe."},{"word":"Crouch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sign with the cross; to bless."},{"word":"Crouch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear."},{"word":"Crouched","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with the sign of the cross."},{"word":"Croud","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crowd, a violin."},{"word":"Crouke","type":"(n.)","description":"A crock; a jar."},{"word":"Croup","type":"(n.)","description":"The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle."},{"word":"Croup","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria."},{"word":"Croupade","type":"(n.)","description":"A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly."},{"word":"Croupal","type":"(a.)","description":"Croupy."},{"word":"Crouper","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crupper."},{"word":"Croupier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes."},{"word":"Croupier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman."},{"word":"Croupous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis."},{"word":"Croupy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough."},{"word":"Crouse","type":"(a.)","description":"Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent."},{"word":"Croustade","type":"(n.)","description":"Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon."},{"word":"Crout","type":"(n.)","description":"See Sourkrout."},{"word":"Crouton","type":"(n.)","description":"Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc."},{"word":"Crew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Crow"},{"word":"Crowed","type":"()","description":"of Crow"},{"word":"Crowed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Crow"},{"word":"Crown","type":"()","description":"of Crow"},{"word":"Crowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crow"},{"word":"Crow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance."},{"word":"Crow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag."},{"word":"Crow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure."},{"word":"Crow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw."},{"word":"Crow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar."},{"word":"Crow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1."},{"word":"Crow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers."},{"word":"Crowbar","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever."},{"word":"Crowberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry."},{"word":"Crowded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crowd"},{"word":"Crowding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crowd"},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To push, to press, to shove."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press or drive together; to mass together."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow."},{"word":"Crowd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play on a crowd; to fiddle."},{"word":"Crowder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler."},{"word":"Crowder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who crowds or pushes."},{"word":"Crowdy","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind."},{"word":"Crowflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi."},{"word":"Crowfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty."},{"word":"Crowfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by."},{"word":"Crowfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A caltrop."},{"word":"Crowfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc."},{"word":"Crowkeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow."},{"word":"Crown","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Crow."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The topmost part of anything; the summit."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a hat above the brim."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Corona."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The bights formed by the several turns of a cable."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper range of facets in a rose diamond."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The dome of a furnace."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"A size of writing paper. See under Paper."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown."},{"word":"Crowned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crown"},{"word":"Crowning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crown"},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley."},{"word":"Crown","type":"(n.)","description":"To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach."},{"word":"Crowned","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected."},{"word":"Crowned","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Great; excessive; supreme."},{"word":"Crowner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, crowns."},{"word":"Crowner","type":"(n.)","description":"A coroner."},{"word":"Crownet","type":"(n.)","description":"A coronet."},{"word":"Crownet","type":"(n.)","description":"The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end."},{"word":"Crown-imperial","type":"(n.)","description":"A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves."},{"word":"Crownless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a crown."},{"word":"Crownlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A coronet."},{"word":"Crown","type":"()","description":"The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases."},{"word":"Crownpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle."},{"word":"Crownpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown, 19."},{"word":"Crown-post","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as King-post."},{"word":"Crown-saw","type":"(n.)","description":"A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion."},{"word":"Crown","type":"()","description":"See Crown office."},{"word":"Crown","type":"()","description":"A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel."},{"word":"Crownwork","type":"(n.)","description":"A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank."},{"word":"Crow-quill","type":"(n.)","description":"A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill."},{"word":"Crows","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas."},{"word":"Crow's-feet","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crow's-foot"},{"word":"Crow's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes."},{"word":"Crow's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"A caltrop."},{"word":"Crow's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bird's-mouth."},{"word":"Crow-silk","type":"(n.)","description":"A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing)."},{"word":"Crow's-nest","type":"(n.)","description":"A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout."},{"word":"Crowstep","type":"(n.)","description":"See Corriestep."},{"word":"Crowstone","type":"(n.)","description":"The top stone of the gable end of a house."},{"word":"Crowth","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd."},{"word":"Crowtoe","type":"(n.)","description":"The Lotus corniculatus."},{"word":"Crowtoe","type":"(n.)","description":"An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot."},{"word":"Crow-trodden","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes."},{"word":"Croylstone","type":"(n.)","description":"Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small."},{"word":"Croys","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cross, n."},{"word":"Croze","type":"(n.)","description":"A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself."},{"word":"Crozier","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crosier."},{"word":"Croziered","type":"(a.)","description":"Crosiered."},{"word":"Crucial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision."},{"word":"Crucial","type":"(a.)","description":"Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test."},{"word":"Crucian","type":"()","description":"A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp."},{"word":"Cruciate","type":"(a.)","description":"Tormented."},{"word":"Cruciate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform."},{"word":"Cruciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate."},{"word":"Cruciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of torturing; torture; torment."},{"word":"Crucible","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc."},{"word":"Crucible","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal."},{"word":"Crucible","type":"(n.)","description":"A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction."},{"word":"Crucifer","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plant of the order Cruciferae."},{"word":"Cruciferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a cross."},{"word":"Cruciferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc."},{"word":"Crucifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial."},{"word":"Crucifixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crucifix"},{"word":"Crucifix","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions."},{"word":"Crucifix","type":"(n.)","description":"The cross or religion of Christ."},{"word":"Crucifixion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment."},{"word":"Crucifixion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross."},{"word":"Crucifixion","type":"(n.)","description":"Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial."},{"word":"Cruciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross."},{"word":"Crucified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crucify"},{"word":"Crucifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crucify"},{"word":"Crucify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet."},{"word":"Crucify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify."},{"word":"Crucify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vex or torment."},{"word":"Crucigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross."},{"word":"Crud","type":"(n.)","description":"See Curd."},{"word":"Cruddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To curdle."},{"word":"Crude","type":"(superl.)","description":"In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh."},{"word":"Crude","type":"(superl.)","description":"Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature."},{"word":"Crude","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature."},{"word":"Crude","type":"(superl.)","description":"Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment."},{"word":"Crude","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner."},{"word":"Crude","type":"(superl.)","description":"Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art."},{"word":"Crudely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a crude, immature manner."},{"word":"Crudeness","type":"(n.)","description":"A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans."},{"word":"Crudities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crudity"},{"word":"Crudity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being crude; rawness."},{"word":"Crudity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form."},{"word":"Crudle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Cruddle."},{"word":"Crudy","type":"(a.)","description":"Coagulated."},{"word":"Crudy","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by crudeness; raw."},{"word":"Cruel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crewel."},{"word":"Cruel","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless."},{"word":"Cruel","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery."},{"word":"Cruel","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh."},{"word":"Cruelly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cruel manner."},{"word":"Cruelly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Extremely; very."},{"word":"Cruelness","type":"(n.)","description":"Cruelty."},{"word":"Cruels","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck."},{"word":"Cruelties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cruelty"},{"word":"Cruelty","type":"(n.)","description":"The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity."},{"word":"Cruelty","type":"(n.)","description":"A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain."},{"word":"Cruentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Smeared with blood."},{"word":"Cruentous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bloody; cruentate."},{"word":"Cruet","type":"(n.)","description":"A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster."},{"word":"Cruet","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar."},{"word":"Cruise","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cruse, a small bottle."},{"word":"Cruised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cruise"},{"word":"Cruising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cruise"},{"word":"Cruise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure."},{"word":"Cruise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wander hither and thither on land."},{"word":"Cruise","type":"(n.)","description":"A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure."},{"word":"Cruiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel."},{"word":"Cruive","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel."},{"word":"Crull","type":"(a.)","description":"Curly; curled."},{"word":"Cruller","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat."},{"word":"Crumb","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off."},{"word":"Crumb","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort."},{"word":"Crumb","type":"(n.)","description":"The soft part of bread."},{"word":"Crumbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crumb"},{"word":"Crumbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crumb"},{"word":"Crumb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread."},{"word":"Crumbcloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean."},{"word":"Crumbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crumble"},{"word":"Crumbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crumble"},{"word":"Crumble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces."},{"word":"Crumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish."},{"word":"Crumbly","type":"(a.)","description":"EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle."},{"word":"Crumenal","type":"(n.)","description":"A purse."},{"word":"Crummable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces."},{"word":"Crummy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of crumb or crumbs."},{"word":"Crummy","type":"(a.)","description":"Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty."},{"word":"Crump","type":"(a.)","description":"Crooked; bent."},{"word":"Crump","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf."},{"word":"Crumpet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider."},{"word":"Crumpled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crumple"},{"word":"Crumpling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crumple"},{"word":"Crumple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper."},{"word":"Crumple","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple."},{"word":"Crumpy","type":"(a.)","description":"Brittle; crisp."},{"word":"Crunched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crunch"},{"word":"Crunching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crunch"},{"word":"Crunch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chew with force and noise; to craunch."},{"word":"Crunch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grind or press with violence and noise."},{"word":"Crunch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emit a grinding or craunching noise."},{"word":"Crunch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit."},{"word":"Crunk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Crunkle"},{"word":"Crunkle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry like a crane."},{"word":"Crunodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves."},{"word":"Crunode","type":"(n.)","description":"A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a."},{"word":"Cruor","type":"(n.)","description":"The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore."},{"word":"Cruorin","type":"(n.)","description":"The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; haemoglobin."},{"word":"Crup","type":"(a.)","description":"Short; brittle; as, crup cake."},{"word":"Crup","type":"(n.)","description":"See Croup, the rump of a horse."},{"word":"Crupper","type":"(n.)","description":"The buttocks or rump of a horse."},{"word":"Crupper","type":"(n.)","description":"A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards."},{"word":"Crupper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse."},{"word":"Crura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Crus."},{"word":"Crural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring."},{"word":"Crura","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crus"},{"word":"Crus","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank."},{"word":"Crus","type":"(n.)","description":"Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain."},{"word":"Crusade","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans."},{"word":"Crusade","type":"(n.)","description":"Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance."},{"word":"Crusade","type":"(n.)","description":"A Portuguese coin. See Crusado."},{"word":"Crusaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crusade"},{"word":"Crusading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crusade"},{"word":"Crusade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner."},{"word":"Crusader","type":"(n.)","description":"One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages."},{"word":"Crusading","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit."},{"word":"Crusado","type":"(n.)","description":"An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents."},{"word":"Cruse","type":"(n.)","description":"A cup or dish."},{"word":"Cruse","type":"(n.)","description":"A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc."},{"word":"Cruset","type":"(n.)","description":"A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot."},{"word":"Crushed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crush"},{"word":"Crushing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crush"},{"word":"Crush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes."},{"word":"Crush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz."},{"word":"Crush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight."},{"word":"Crush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppress or burden grievously."},{"word":"Crush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overcome completely; to subdue totally."},{"word":"Crush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily."},{"word":"Crush","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin."},{"word":"Crush","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception."},{"word":"Crusher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, crushes."},{"word":"Crushing","type":"(a.)","description":"That crushes; overwhelming."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing."},{"word":"Crusted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crust"},{"word":"Crusting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crust"},{"word":"Crust","type":"(n.)","description":"To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust."},{"word":"Crust","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted."},{"word":"Crusta","type":"(n.)","description":"A crust or shell."},{"word":"Crusta","type":"(n.)","description":"A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object."},{"word":"Crustacea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered."},{"word":"Crustacean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous."},{"word":"Crustacean","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal belonging to the class Crustacea."},{"word":"Crustaceological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to crustaceology."},{"word":"Crustaceologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist."},{"word":"Crustaceology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology."},{"word":"Crustaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell."},{"word":"Crustaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean."},{"word":"Crustaceousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell."},{"word":"Crustal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a crust."},{"word":"Crustalogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to crustalogy."},{"word":"Crustalogist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in crustalogy."},{"word":"Crustalogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Crustaceology."},{"word":"Crustated","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt."},{"word":"Crustation","type":"(n.)","description":"An adherent crust; an incrustation."},{"word":"Crusted","type":"(a.)","description":"Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine."},{"word":"Crustific","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing or forming a crust or skin."},{"word":"Crustily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a crusty or surly manner; morosely."},{"word":"Crustiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness."},{"word":"Crustiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being crusty or surly."},{"word":"Crusty","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance."},{"word":"Crusty","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly."},{"word":"Crut","type":"(n.)","description":"The rough, shaggy part of oak bark."},{"word":"Crutches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crutch"},{"word":"Crutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking."},{"word":"Crutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider."},{"word":"Crutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A knee, or piece of knee timber"},{"word":"Crutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch."},{"word":"Crutch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support on crutches; to prop up."},{"word":"Crutched","type":"(a.)","description":"Supported upon crutches."},{"word":"Crutched","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched."},{"word":"Cruth","type":"(n.)","description":"See 4th Crowd."},{"word":"Cruxes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crux"},{"word":"Cruces","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Crux"},{"word":"Crux","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain."},{"word":"Cruzado","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin. See Crusado."},{"word":"Crwth","type":"(n.)","description":"See 4th Crowd."},{"word":"Cried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cry"},{"word":"Crying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cry"},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to publish the banns of, as for marriage."},{"word":"Cries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cry"},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Importunate supplication."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Common report; fame."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A pack of hounds."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt."},{"word":"Cry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth."},{"word":"Cryal","type":"(n.)","description":"The heron"},{"word":"Cryer","type":"(n.)","description":"The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil."},{"word":"Crying","type":"(a.)","description":"Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil."},{"word":"Cryohydrate","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water."},{"word":"Cryolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina."},{"word":"Cryophorus","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32� Fahr."},{"word":"Crypt","type":"(n.)","description":"A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory."},{"word":"Crypt","type":"(n.)","description":"A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines."},{"word":"Cryptal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to crypts."},{"word":"Cryptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cryptical"},{"word":"Cryptical","type":"(a.)","description":"Hidden; secret; occult."},{"word":"Cryptically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Secretly; occultly."},{"word":"Cryptidine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper."},{"word":"Cryptobranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata."},{"word":"Cryptobranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of nudibranch mollusks."},{"word":"Cryptobranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having concealed or rudimentary gills."},{"word":"Cryptocrystalline","type":"(a.)","description":"Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope."},{"word":"Cryptogam","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia."},{"word":"Cryptogamiae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cryptogamia"},{"word":"Cryptogamia","type":"(n.)","description":"The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds."},{"word":"Cryptogamian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cryptogamous"},{"word":"Cryptogamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cryptogamous"},{"word":"Cryptogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series."},{"word":"Cryptogamist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in cryptogamic botany."},{"word":"Cryptogram","type":"(n.)","description":"A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph."},{"word":"Cryptograph","type":"(n.)","description":"Cipher; something written in cipher."},{"word":"Cryptographal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical."},{"word":"Cryptographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes in cipher, or secret characters."},{"word":"Cryptographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cryptographical"},{"word":"Cryptographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink."},{"word":"Cryptographist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cryptographer."},{"word":"Cryptography","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher."},{"word":"Cryptology","type":"(n.)","description":"Secret or enigmatical language."},{"word":"Cryptonym","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated."},{"word":"Cryptopine","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium."},{"word":"Crypturi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of flying, drom/ognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou."},{"word":"Crystal","type":"(n.)","description":"The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization."},{"word":"Crystal","type":"(n.)","description":"The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian."},{"word":"Crystal","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass."},{"word":"Crystal","type":"(n.)","description":"The glass over the dial of a watch case."},{"word":"Crystal","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc."},{"word":"Crystal","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline."},{"word":"Crystallin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gobulin."},{"word":"Crystalline","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting, or made, of crystal."},{"word":"Crystalline","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture."},{"word":"Crystalline","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized."},{"word":"Crystalline","type":"(a.)","description":"Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid."},{"word":"Crystalline","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline substance."},{"word":"Crystalline","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aniline."},{"word":"Crystallite","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc."},{"word":"Crystallizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals."},{"word":"Crystallization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized."},{"word":"Crystallization","type":"(n.)","description":"The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations."},{"word":"Crystallized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Crystallize"},{"word":"Crystallizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Crystallize"},{"word":"Crystallize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form."},{"word":"Crystallize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction."},{"word":"Crystallogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Crystallogenical"},{"word":"Crystallogenical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction."},{"word":"Crystallogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which pertains to the production of crystals."},{"word":"Crystallographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography."},{"word":"Crystallographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Crystallographical"},{"word":"Crystallographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to crystallography."},{"word":"Crystallographically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of crystallography."},{"word":"Crystallography","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation."},{"word":"Crystallography","type":"(n.)","description":"A discourse or treatise on crystallization."},{"word":"Crystalloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Crystal-like; transparent like crystal."},{"word":"Crystalloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid."},{"word":"Crystalloid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal."},{"word":"Cristallology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies."},{"word":"Crystallomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl."},{"word":"Crystallometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring crystals."},{"word":"Crystallurgy","type":"(n.)","description":"Crystallization."},{"word":"Ctenocyst","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory."},{"word":"Ctenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale"},{"word":"Ctenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Ctenoidei."},{"word":"Ctenoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A ctenoidean."},{"word":"Ctenoidean","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the Ctenoidei."},{"word":"Ctenoidean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Ctenoidei."},{"word":"Ctenoidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial."},{"word":"Ctenophora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs."},{"word":"Ctenophore","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Ctenophora."},{"word":"Ctenophoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ctenophorous"},{"word":"Ctenophorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Ctenophora."},{"word":"Ctenostomata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles."},{"word":"Cub","type":"(n.)","description":"A young animal, esp. the young of the bear."},{"word":"Cub","type":"(n.)","description":"Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy."},{"word":"Cubbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cub"},{"word":"Cubbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cub"},{"word":"Cub","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons."},{"word":"Cub","type":"(n.)","description":"A stall for cattle."},{"word":"Cub","type":"(n.)","description":"A cupboard."},{"word":"Cub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up or confine."},{"word":"Cuban","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants."},{"word":"Cuban","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Cuba."},{"word":"Cubation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of lying down; a reclining."},{"word":"Cubatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying down; recumbent."},{"word":"Cubature","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body."},{"word":"Cubbridge-head","type":"(n.)","description":"A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship."},{"word":"Cubby","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cubbyhole"},{"word":"Cubbyhole","type":"(n.)","description":"A snug or confined place."},{"word":"Cubdrawn","type":"(a.)","description":"Sucked by cubs."},{"word":"Cube","type":"(n.)","description":"A regular solid body, with six equal square sides."},{"word":"Cube","type":"(n.)","description":"The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4."},{"word":"Cubed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cube"},{"word":"Cubing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cube"},{"word":"Cube","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of."},{"word":"Cubeb","type":"(n.)","description":"The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative."},{"word":"Cubebic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs)."},{"word":"Cubhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a cub."},{"word":"Cubic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cubical"},{"word":"Cubical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube."},{"word":"Cubical","type":"(a.)","description":"Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization."},{"word":"Cubic","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve of the third degree."},{"word":"Cubically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cubical method."},{"word":"Cubicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cubical."},{"word":"Cubicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory."},{"word":"Cubicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a chamber or bedroom."},{"word":"Cubiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the form of a cube."},{"word":"Cubile","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest course of stones in a building."},{"word":"Cubilose","type":"(n.)","description":"A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests."},{"word":"Cubit","type":"(n.)","description":"The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist."},{"word":"Cubit","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger."},{"word":"Cubital","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle."},{"word":"Cubital","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the length of a cubit."},{"word":"Cubital","type":"(n.)","description":"A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand."},{"word":"Cubited","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the measure of a cubit."},{"word":"Cubless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no cubs."},{"word":"Cuboid","type":"(a.)","description":"Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot."},{"word":"Cuboid","type":"(n.)","description":"The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes."},{"word":"Cuboidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Cuboid."},{"word":"Cubo-octahedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron."},{"word":"Cubo-octahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges."},{"word":"Cuca","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coca."},{"word":"Cucking","type":"()","description":"A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool."},{"word":"Cuckold","type":"(n.)","description":"A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress."},{"word":"Cuckold","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter)."},{"word":"Cuckold","type":"(n.)","description":"The cowfish."},{"word":"Cuckolded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cuckold"},{"word":"Cuckolding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cuckold"},{"word":"Cuckold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress."},{"word":"Cuckoldize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cuckold."},{"word":"Cuckoldly","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking."},{"word":"Cuckoldom","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively."},{"word":"Cuckoldry","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds."},{"word":"Cuckold's","type":"()","description":"A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck."},{"word":"Cuckoo","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species."},{"word":"Cuckoobud","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup."},{"word":"Cuckooflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi)."},{"word":"Cuckoopint","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin."},{"word":"Cucquean","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her."},{"word":"Cucujo","type":"(n.)","description":"The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies."},{"word":"Cucullate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cucullated"},{"word":"Cucullated","type":"(a.)","description":"Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood."},{"word":"Cucullated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet."},{"word":"Cucullated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects."},{"word":"Cucullated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles."},{"word":"Cuculoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidae)."},{"word":"Cucumber","type":"(n.)","description":"A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below."},{"word":"Cucumiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved."},{"word":"Cucumis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds."},{"word":"Cucurbit","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cucurbite"},{"word":"Cucurbite","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic."},{"word":"Cucurbitaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples."},{"word":"Cucurbitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms."},{"word":"Cud","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time."},{"word":"Cud","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid."},{"word":"Cud","type":"(n.)","description":"The first stomach of ruminating beasts."},{"word":"Cudbear","type":"(n.)","description":"A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea."},{"word":"Cudbear","type":"(n.)","description":"A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained."},{"word":"Cudden","type":"(n.)","description":"A clown; a low rustic; a dolt."},{"word":"Cudden","type":"(n.)","description":"The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy."},{"word":"Cuddled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cuddle"},{"word":"Cuddling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cuddle"},{"word":"Cuddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle."},{"word":"Cuddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embrace closely; to fondle."},{"word":"Cuddle","type":"(n.)","description":"A close embrace."},{"word":"Cuddy","type":"(n.)","description":"An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer."},{"word":"Cuddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A blockhead; a lout."},{"word":"Cuddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc."},{"word":"Cuddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel."},{"word":"Cuddy","type":"(n.)","description":"The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius)."},{"word":"Cudgel","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon."},{"word":"Cudgeled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cudgel"},{"word":"Cudgelled","type":"()","description":"of Cudgel"},{"word":"Cudgeling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cudgel"},{"word":"Cudgelling","type":"()","description":"of Cudgel"},{"word":"Cudgel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a cudgel."},{"word":"Cudgeler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who beats with a cudgel."},{"word":"Cudweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed."},{"word":"Cue","type":"(n.)","description":"The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue."},{"word":"Cue","type":"(n.)","description":"The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword."},{"word":"Cue","type":"(n.)","description":"A hint or intimation."},{"word":"Cue","type":"(n.)","description":"The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play."},{"word":"Cue","type":"(n.)","description":"Humor; temper of mind."},{"word":"Cue","type":"(n.)","description":"A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards."},{"word":"Cue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a cue; to braid; to twist."},{"word":"Cue","type":"(n.)","description":"A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing."},{"word":"Cuerpo","type":"(n.)","description":"The body."},{"word":"Cuffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cuff"},{"word":"Cuffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cuff"},{"word":"Cuff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap."},{"word":"Cuff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To buffet."},{"word":"Cuff","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fight; to scuffle; to box."},{"word":"Cuff","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap."},{"word":"Cuff","type":"(n.)","description":"The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand."},{"word":"Cuff","type":"(n.)","description":"Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like."},{"word":"Cuffy","type":"(n.)","description":"A name for a negro."},{"word":"Cufic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language."},{"word":"Cuinage","type":"(n.)","description":"The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall."},{"word":"Cuirasses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cuirass"},{"word":"Cuirass","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle"},{"word":"Cuirass","type":"(n.)","description":"The breastplate taken by itself."},{"word":"Cuirass","type":"(n.)","description":"An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass."},{"word":"Cuirassed","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a cuirass."},{"word":"Cuirassed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes."},{"word":"Cuirassier","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier armed with a cuirass."},{"word":"Cuish","type":"(n.)","description":"Defensive armor for the thighs."},{"word":"Cuisine","type":"(n.)","description":"The kitchen or cooking department."},{"word":"Cuisine","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner or style of cooking."},{"word":"Culasse","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond."},{"word":"Culdee","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales."},{"word":"Culs-de-sac","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cul-de-sac"},{"word":"Cul-de-sac","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap."},{"word":"Cul-de-sac","type":"(n.)","description":"a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front."},{"word":"Cul-de-sac","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end."},{"word":"Culerage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Culrage."},{"word":"Culex","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito."},{"word":"Culiciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Gnat-shaped."},{"word":"Culinarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking."},{"word":"Culinary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art."},{"word":"Culled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cull"},{"word":"Culling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cull"},{"word":"Cull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers."},{"word":"Cull","type":"(n.)","description":"A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully."},{"word":"Cullender","type":"(n.)","description":"A strainer. See Colander."},{"word":"Culler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market."},{"word":"Cullet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Broken glass for remelting."},{"word":"Cullet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b)."},{"word":"Cullibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Gullibility."},{"word":"Cullible","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily deceived; gullible."},{"word":"Culling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who culls."},{"word":"Culling","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything separated or selected from a mass."},{"word":"Cullion","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion."},{"word":"Cullionly","type":"(a.)","description":"Mean; base."},{"word":"Cullis","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly."},{"word":"Cullises","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cullis"},{"word":"Cullis","type":"(n.)","description":"A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove."},{"word":"Culls","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out."},{"word":"Culls","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked."},{"word":"Cullies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cully"},{"word":"Cully","type":"(n.)","description":"A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull."},{"word":"Cully","type":"(n.)","description":"To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive."},{"word":"Cullyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a cully."},{"word":"Culm","type":"(n.)","description":"The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow."},{"word":"Culm","type":"(n.)","description":"Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses."},{"word":"Culm","type":"(n.)","description":"The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel."},{"word":"Culmen","type":"(n.)","description":"Top; summit; acme."},{"word":"Culmen","type":"(n.)","description":"The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill."},{"word":"Culmiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having jointed stems or culms."},{"word":"Culmiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal."},{"word":"Culminal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a culmen."},{"word":"Culminant","type":"(a.)","description":"Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant."},{"word":"Culminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Culminate"},{"word":"Culminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Culminate"},{"word":"Culminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead."},{"word":"Culminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc."},{"word":"Culminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals."},{"word":"Culmination","type":"(n.)","description":"The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit."},{"word":"Culmination","type":"(n.)","description":"Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc."},{"word":"Culpa","type":"(n.)","description":"Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart."},{"word":"Culpabilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Culpability"},{"word":"Culpability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being culpable."},{"word":"Culpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal."},{"word":"Culpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty; as, culpable of a crime."},{"word":"Culpatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating."},{"word":"Culpe","type":"(n.)","description":"Blameworthiness."},{"word":"Culpon","type":"(n.)","description":"A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood."},{"word":"Culprit","type":"(p. p.)","description":"One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge."},{"word":"Culprit","type":"(p. p.)","description":"One quilty of a fault; a criminal."},{"word":"Culrage","type":"(n.)","description":"Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper)."},{"word":"Cult","type":"(n .)","description":"Attentive care; homage; worship."},{"word":"Cult","type":"(n .)","description":"A system of religious belief and worship."},{"word":"Cultch","type":"(n.)","description":"Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster."},{"word":"Culter","type":"(n.)","description":"A colter. See Colter."},{"word":"Cultirostral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc."},{"word":"Cultirostres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc."},{"word":"Cultivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being cultivated or tilled."},{"word":"Cultivatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Cultivable."},{"word":"Cultivated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cultivate"},{"word":"Cultivating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cultivate"},{"word":"Cultivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil."},{"word":"Cultivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish."},{"word":"Cultivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seek the society of; to court intimacy with."},{"word":"Cultivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine."},{"word":"Cultivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass."},{"word":"Cultivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage."},{"word":"Cultivation","type":"(n.)","description":"Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care."},{"word":"Cultivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture."},{"word":"Cultivator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature."},{"word":"Cultivator","type":"(n.)","description":"An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles."},{"word":"Cultrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cultrated"},{"word":"Cultrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds."},{"word":"Cultriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate."},{"word":"Cultrivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity."},{"word":"Culturable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured."},{"word":"Cultural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to culture."},{"word":"Culture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil."},{"word":"Culture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind."},{"word":"Culture","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste."},{"word":"Cultured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Culture"},{"word":"Culturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Culture"},{"word":"Culture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cultivate; to educate."},{"word":"Cultured","type":"(a.)","description":"Under culture; cultivated."},{"word":"Cultured","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated."},{"word":"Cultureless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no culture."},{"word":"Culturist","type":"(n.)","description":"A cultivator."},{"word":"Culturist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is an advocate of culture."},{"word":"Cultuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cultus"},{"word":"Cultus","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2."},{"word":"Cultus","type":"()","description":"See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo."},{"word":"Culver","type":"(n.)","description":"A dove."},{"word":"Culver","type":"(n.)","description":"A culverin."},{"word":"Culverhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A dovecote."},{"word":"Culverin","type":"(n.)","description":"A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles."},{"word":"Culverkey","type":"(n.)","description":"A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree."},{"word":"Culverkey","type":"(n.)","description":"An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans)."},{"word":"Culvert","type":"(n.)","description":"A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge."},{"word":"Culvertail","type":"(n.)","description":"Dovetail."},{"word":"Culvertailed","type":"(a.)","description":"United or fastened by a dovetailed joint."},{"word":"Cumacea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size."},{"word":"Cumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying down; recumbent."},{"word":"Cumbered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cumber"},{"word":"Cumbering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cumber"},{"word":"Cumber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble."},{"word":"Cumber","type":"(v.)","description":"Trouble; embarrassment; distress."},{"word":"Cumbersome","type":"(a.)","description":"Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous."},{"word":"Cumbersome","type":"(a.)","description":"Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine."},{"word":"Cumbrance","type":"(n.)","description":"Encumbrance."},{"word":"Cumbrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there."},{"word":"Cumbrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging."},{"word":"Cumbrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving trouble; vexatious."},{"word":"Cumene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol."},{"word":"Cumfrey","type":"(n.)","description":"See Comfrey."},{"word":"Cumic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cuming."},{"word":"Cumidine","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline."},{"word":"Cumin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway."},{"word":"Cuminic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid."},{"word":"Cuminil","type":"(n .)","description":"A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway."},{"word":"Cuminol","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde."},{"word":"Cummin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cumin."},{"word":"Cumshaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton."},{"word":"Cumshaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give or make a present to."},{"word":"Cumu-cirro-stratus","type":"(n.)","description":"Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud."},{"word":"Cumulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cumulate"},{"word":"Cumulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cumulate"},{"word":"Cumulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate."},{"word":"Cumulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation."},{"word":"Cumulatist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accumulates; one who collects."},{"word":"Cumulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated."},{"word":"Cumulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds."},{"word":"Cumulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence."},{"word":"Cumulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy."},{"word":"Cumulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of heaps."},{"word":"Cumulostratus","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of cloud. See Cloud."},{"word":"Cumuli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cumulus"},{"word":"Cumulus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud."},{"word":"Cun","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To con (a ship)."},{"word":"Cun","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To know. See Con."},{"word":"Cunabula","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race."},{"word":"Cunabula","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century."},{"word":"Cunctation","type":"(n.)","description":"Delay; procrastination."},{"word":"Cunctative","type":"(a.)","description":"Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay."},{"word":"Cunctator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who delays or lingers."},{"word":"Cunctipotent","type":"(a.)","description":"All-powerful; omnipotent."},{"word":"Cund","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To con (a ship)."},{"word":"Cundurango","type":"(n.)","description":"The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer."},{"word":"Cuneal","type":"()","description":"Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped."},{"word":"Cuneate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cuneated"},{"word":"Cuneated","type":"(a.)","description":"Wedge-shaped"},{"word":"Cuneated","type":"(a.)","description":"wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf."},{"word":"Cuneatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Cuneiform."},{"word":"Cuneiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cuniform"},{"word":"Cuniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded."},{"word":"Cuniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them."},{"word":"Cuneiform","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cuniform"},{"word":"Cuniform","type":"(n.)","description":"The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions."},{"word":"Cuniform","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively."},{"word":"Cuniform","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare."},{"word":"Cunette","type":"(n.)","description":"A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette."},{"word":"Cunner","type":"(n.)","description":"A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer."},{"word":"Cunner","type":"(n.)","description":"A small shellfish; the limpet or patella."},{"word":"Cunning","type":"(a.)","description":"Knowing; skillful; dexterous."},{"word":"Cunning","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work."},{"word":"Cunning","type":"(a.)","description":"Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful."},{"word":"Cunning","type":"(a.)","description":"Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy."},{"word":"Cunning","type":"(a.)","description":"Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity."},{"word":"Cunning","type":"(a.)","description":"The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft."},{"word":"Cunningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cunning manner; with cunning."},{"word":"Cunningman","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries."},{"word":"Cunningness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being cunning; craft."},{"word":"Cup","type":"(n.)","description":"A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like."},{"word":"Cup","type":"(n.)","description":"The contents of such a vessel; a cupful."},{"word":"Cup","type":"(n.)","description":"Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry."},{"word":"Cup","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion."},{"word":"Cup","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower."},{"word":"Cup","type":"(n.)","description":"A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping."},{"word":"Cupped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cup"},{"word":"Cupping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cup"},{"word":"Cup","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with cups of wine."},{"word":"Cup","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping."},{"word":"Cup","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw."},{"word":"Cupbearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment."},{"word":"Cupbearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master."},{"word":"Cupboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board or shelf for cups and dishes."},{"word":"Cupboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet."},{"word":"Cupboard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard."},{"word":"Cupel","type":"(n.)","description":"A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime)."},{"word":"Cupelled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cupel"},{"word":"Cupelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cupel"},{"word":"Cupel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refine by means of a cupel."},{"word":"Cupellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel."},{"word":"Cupfuls","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cupful"},{"word":"Cupful","type":"(n.)","description":"As much as a cup will hold."},{"word":"Cup-gall","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall."},{"word":"Cupid","type":"(n .)","description":"The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow."},{"word":"Cupidity","type":"(n.)","description":"A passionate desire; love."},{"word":"Cupidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness"},{"word":"Cup-moss","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia."},{"word":"Cupolas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cupola"},{"word":"Cupola","type":"(n.)","description":"A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome."},{"word":"Cupola","type":"(n.)","description":"A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern."},{"word":"Cupola","type":"(n.)","description":"A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works."},{"word":"Cupola","type":"(n.)","description":"A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance."},{"word":"Cupola","type":"(n.)","description":"The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear."},{"word":"Cupper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who performs the operation of cupping."},{"word":"Cupping","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess."},{"word":"Cupreous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery."},{"word":"Cupric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion."},{"word":"Cupriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver."},{"word":"Cuprite","type":"(n.)","description":"The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals."},{"word":"Cuproid","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles."},{"word":"Cup-rose","type":"(n.)","description":"Red poppy. See Cop-rose."},{"word":"Cuprous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion."},{"word":"Cuprum","type":"(n.)","description":"Copper."},{"word":"Cupulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous."},{"word":"Cupule","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc."},{"word":"Cupule","type":"(n.)","description":"A sucker or acetabulum."},{"word":"Cupuliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule."},{"word":"Cur","type":"(n.)","description":"A mongrel or inferior dog."},{"word":"Cur","type":"(n.)","description":"A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt."},{"word":"Curability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being curable; curableness."},{"word":"Curable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Capable of being cured; admitting remedy."},{"word":"Curacao","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Curacoa"},{"word":"Curacoa","type":"(n.)","description":"A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao."},{"word":"Curacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curacy"},{"word":"Curacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or employment of a curate."},{"word":"Curare","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Curari"},{"word":"Curari","type":"(n.)","description":"A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison."},{"word":"Curarine","type":"(n.)","description":"A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts."},{"word":"Curarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To poison with curare."},{"word":"Curassow","type":"(n.)","description":"A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae."},{"word":"Curat","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuirass or breastplate."},{"word":"Curate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar."},{"word":"Curateship","type":"(n.)","description":"A curacy."},{"word":"Curation","type":"(n.)","description":"Cure; healing."},{"word":"Curative","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure."},{"word":"Curator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper."},{"word":"Curator","type":"(n.)","description":"One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian."},{"word":"Curatorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a curator."},{"word":"Curatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who cures."},{"word":"Curatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who is a guardian or custodian."},{"word":"Curbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curb"},{"word":"Curbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curb"},{"word":"Curb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend or curve"},{"word":"Curb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check."},{"word":"Curb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth."},{"word":"Curb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend; to crouch; to cringe."},{"word":"Curb","type":"(n.)","description":"That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse."},{"word":"Curb","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome."},{"word":"Curb","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in."},{"word":"Curb","type":"(n.)","description":"A curbstone."},{"word":"Curb","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness."},{"word":"Curbless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no curb or restraint."},{"word":"Curb","type":"()","description":"A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof."},{"word":"Curbstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone."},{"word":"Curch","type":"(n.)","description":"See Courche."},{"word":"Curculios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curculio"},{"word":"Curculio","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc."},{"word":"Curculionidous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Curculionideae, or weevil tribe."},{"word":"Curcuma","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa)."},{"word":"Curcumin","type":"(n.)","description":"The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence."},{"word":"Curd","type":"(n.)","description":"The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese."},{"word":"Curd","type":"(n.)","description":"The coagulated part of any liquid."},{"word":"Curd","type":"(n.)","description":"The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower."},{"word":"Curded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curd"},{"word":"Curding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curd"},{"word":"Curd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle."},{"word":"Curd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey"},{"word":"Curdiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being curdy."},{"word":"Curdle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle."},{"word":"Curdle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To thicken; to congeal."},{"word":"Curdled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curdle"},{"word":"Curdling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curdle"},{"word":"Curdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change into curd; to cause to coagulate."},{"word":"Curdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To congeal or thicken."},{"word":"Curdless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of curd."},{"word":"Curdy","type":"(a.)","description":"Like curd; full of curd; coagulated."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(n.)","description":"Care, heed, or attention."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(n.)","description":"Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(n.)","description":"Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(n.)","description":"Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative."},{"word":"Cured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cure"},{"word":"Curing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cure"},{"word":"Cure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pay heed; to care; to give attention."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To restore health; to effect a cure."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become healed."},{"word":"Cure","type":"(n.)","description":"A curate; a pardon."},{"word":"Cureall","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea."},{"word":"Cureless","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of cure; incurable."},{"word":"Curer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cures; a healer; a physician."},{"word":"Curer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc."},{"word":"Curette","type":"(n.)","description":"A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb."},{"word":"Curfew","type":"(n.)","description":"The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself."},{"word":"Curfew","type":"(n.)","description":"A utensil for covering the fire."},{"word":"Curle","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curia"},{"word":"Curia","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus."},{"word":"Curia","type":"(n.)","description":"The place of assembly of one of these divisions."},{"word":"Curia","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house."},{"word":"Curia","type":"(n.)","description":"The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household."},{"word":"Curia","type":"(n.)","description":"Any court of justice."},{"word":"Curia","type":"(n.)","description":"The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana."},{"word":"Curialism","type":"(n.)","description":"The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church."},{"word":"Curialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church."},{"word":"Curialistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a court."},{"word":"Curialistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church."},{"word":"Curiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court."},{"word":"Curiet","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuirass."},{"word":"Curing","type":"()","description":"p. a. & vb. n. of Cure."},{"word":"Curios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curio"},{"word":"Curio","type":"(n.)","description":"Any curiosity or article of virtu."},{"word":"Curiologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol."},{"word":"Curiosities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curiosity"},{"word":"Curiosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration."},{"word":"Curiosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness."},{"word":"Curiosity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention."},{"word":"Curiosos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curioso"},{"word":"Curioso","type":"(n.)","description":"A virtuoso."},{"word":"Curious","type":"(a.)","description":"Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact."},{"word":"Curious","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill."},{"word":"Curious","type":"(a.)","description":"Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of."},{"word":"Curious","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare."},{"word":"Curiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a curious manner."},{"word":"Curiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Carefulness; painstaking."},{"word":"Curiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance."},{"word":"Curiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Inquisitiveness; curiosity."},{"word":"Curled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curl"},{"word":"Curling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curl"},{"word":"Curl","type":"(n.)","description":"To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(n.)","description":"To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(n.)","description":"To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(n.)","description":"To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(n.)","description":"To shape (the brim) into a curve."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play at the game called curling."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(v.)","description":"A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(v.)","description":"An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity."},{"word":"Curl","type":"(v.)","description":"A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken."},{"word":"Curled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course)."},{"word":"Curledness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being curled; curliness."},{"word":"Curler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, curls."},{"word":"Curler","type":"(n.)","description":"A player at the game called curling."},{"word":"Curlew","type":"(n.)","description":"A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill."},{"word":"Curliness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being curly."},{"word":"Curling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats."},{"word":"Curling","type":"(n.)","description":"A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark."},{"word":"Curlingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a curl, or curls."},{"word":"Curly","type":"(a.)","description":"Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled."},{"word":"Curlycue","type":"(n.)","description":"Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper."},{"word":"Curmudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl."},{"word":"Curmudgeonly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow."},{"word":"Curmurring","type":"(n.)","description":"Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes."},{"word":"Curr","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To coo."},{"word":"Currant","type":"(n.)","description":"A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery."},{"word":"Currant","type":"(n.)","description":"The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant."},{"word":"Currant","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum."},{"word":"Currencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Currency"},{"word":"Currency","type":"(n.)","description":"A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time."},{"word":"Currency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes."},{"word":"Currency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money."},{"word":"Currency","type":"(n.)","description":"Fluency; readiness of utterance."},{"word":"Currency","type":"(n.)","description":"Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued."},{"word":"Current","type":"(a.)","description":"Running or moving rapidly."},{"word":"Current","type":"(a.)","description":"Now passing, as time; as, the current month."},{"word":"Current","type":"(a.)","description":"Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history."},{"word":"Current","type":"(a.)","description":"Commonly estimated or acknowledged."},{"word":"Current","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable."},{"word":"Current","type":"(a.)","description":"A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity."},{"word":"Current","type":"(a.)","description":"General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc."},{"word":"Currently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed."},{"word":"Currentness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception."},{"word":"Currentness","type":"(n.)","description":"Easiness of pronunciation; fluency."},{"word":"Curricle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small or short course."},{"word":"Curricle","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast."},{"word":"Curriculums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curriculum"},{"word":"Curricula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curriculum"},{"word":"Curriculum","type":"(n.)","description":"A race course; a place for running."},{"word":"Curriculum","type":"(n.)","description":"A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university."},{"word":"Currie","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See 2d & 3d Curry."},{"word":"Curried","type":"(n.)","description":"Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared."},{"word":"Curried","type":"(n.)","description":"Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc."},{"word":"Currier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned."},{"word":"Currish","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal."},{"word":"Curried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curry"},{"word":"Currying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curry"},{"word":"Curry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather."},{"word":"Curry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean."},{"word":"Curry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons."},{"word":"Curry","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices."},{"word":"Curry","type":"(n.)","description":"A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry."},{"word":"Curry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flavor or cook with curry."},{"word":"Currycomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse."},{"word":"Currycomb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To comb with a currycomb."},{"word":"Cursed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curse"},{"word":"Curst","type":"()","description":"of Curse"},{"word":"Cursing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curse"},{"word":"Curse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate."},{"word":"Curse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment."},{"word":"Curse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear."},{"word":"Curse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction."},{"word":"Curse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation."},{"word":"Curse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment."},{"word":"Cursed","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable."},{"word":"Cursedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously."},{"word":"Cursedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil."},{"word":"Cursedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Wickedness; sin; cursing."},{"word":"Cursedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Shrewishness."},{"word":"Curser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who curses."},{"word":"Curship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a cur; one who is currish."},{"word":"Cursitating","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving about slightly."},{"word":"Cursitor","type":"(n.)","description":"A courier or runner."},{"word":"Cursitor","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs."},{"word":"Cursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Running; flowing."},{"word":"Cursive","type":"(n.)","description":"A character used in cursive writing."},{"word":"Cursive","type":"(n.)","description":"A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial."},{"word":"Cursor","type":"(n.)","description":"Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part."},{"word":"Cursorary","type":"(a.)","description":"Cursory; hasty."},{"word":"Cursores","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaae."},{"word":"Cursores","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders."},{"word":"Cursorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves."},{"word":"Cursorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cursores."},{"word":"Cursorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a running or hasty manner; carelessly."},{"word":"Cursoriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view."},{"word":"Cursory","type":"(a.)","description":"Running about; not stationary."},{"word":"Cursory","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless."},{"word":"Curst","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Curse."},{"word":"Curst","type":"(a.)","description":"Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling."},{"word":"Curstfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably."},{"word":"Curstness","type":"(n.)","description":"Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness."},{"word":"Curt","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer."},{"word":"Curtailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curtail"},{"word":"Curtailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curtail"},{"word":"Curtail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce."},{"word":"Curtail","type":"(n.)","description":"The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc."},{"word":"Curtail","type":"()","description":"A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting."},{"word":"Curtailer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who curtails."},{"word":"Curtailment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or result of curtailing or cutting off."},{"word":"Curtain","type":"(n.)","description":"A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage."},{"word":"Curtain","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion."},{"word":"Curtain","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc."},{"word":"Curtain","type":"(n.)","description":"A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt."},{"word":"Curtained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curtain"},{"word":"Curtaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curtain"},{"word":"Curtain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains."},{"word":"Curtal","type":"(a.)","description":"Curt; brief; laconic."},{"word":"Curtal","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short."},{"word":"Curtal","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Curtelasse"},{"word":"Curtle","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Curtelasse"},{"word":"Curtelasse","type":"()","description":"A corruption of Cutlass."},{"word":"Curtal","type":"()","description":"A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery."},{"word":"Curtana","type":"(n.)","description":"The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor."},{"word":"Curtate","type":"(a.)","description":"Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic."},{"word":"Curtation","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance."},{"word":"Curtein","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Curtana."},{"word":"Curtes","type":"(a.)","description":"Courteous."},{"word":"Curtesies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Curtesy"},{"word":"Curtesy","type":"(n.)","description":"the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands."},{"word":"Curtilage","type":"(n.)","description":"A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house."},{"word":"Curtly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a curt manner."},{"word":"Curtness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of bing curt."},{"word":"Curtsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Courtesy, an act of respect."},{"word":"Curule","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a chariot."},{"word":"Curule","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official."},{"word":"Cururo","type":"(n.)","description":"A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus."},{"word":"Curval","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Alt. of Curvant"},{"word":"Curvant","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Bowed; bent; curved."},{"word":"Curvate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Curvated"},{"word":"Curvated","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent in a regular form; curved."},{"word":"Curvation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bending or crooking."},{"word":"Curvative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves."},{"word":"Curvature","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve."},{"word":"Curvature","type":"(n.)","description":"The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point."},{"word":"Curve","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface."},{"word":"Curve","type":"(a.)","description":"A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal."},{"word":"Curve","type":"(a.)","description":"A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line."},{"word":"Curved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curve"},{"word":"Curving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curve"},{"word":"Curve","type":"(a.)","description":"To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it."},{"word":"Curve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right."},{"word":"Curvedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being curved."},{"word":"Curvet","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once."},{"word":"Curvet","type":"(n.)","description":"A prank; a frolic."},{"word":"Curveted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Curvet"},{"word":"-vetted","type":"()","description":"of Curvet"},{"word":"Curveting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Curvet"},{"word":"-vetting","type":"()","description":"of Curvet"},{"word":"Curvet","type":"(n.)","description":"To make a curvet; to leap; to bound."},{"word":"Curvet","type":"(n.)","description":"To leap and frisk; to frolic."},{"word":"Curvet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to curvet."},{"word":"Curvicaudate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a curved or crooked tail."},{"word":"Curvicostate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having bent ribs."},{"word":"Curvidentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having curved teeth."},{"word":"Curviform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a curved form."},{"word":"Curvilinead","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for drawing curved lines."},{"word":"Curvilineal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Curvilinear"},{"word":"Curvilinear","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure."},{"word":"Curvilinearity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines."},{"word":"Curvilinearly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a curvilinear manner."},{"word":"Curvinerved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined."},{"word":"Curvirostral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill."},{"word":"Curvirostres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches."},{"word":"Curviserial","type":"(a.)","description":"Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem."},{"word":"Curvity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness."},{"word":"Curvograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An arcograph."},{"word":"Cushat","type":"(n.)","description":"The ringdove or wood pigeon."},{"word":"Cushewbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The galeated curassow. See Curassow."},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(n.)","description":"A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad."},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use"},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(n.)","description":"a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf"},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(n.)","description":"a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston"},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(n.)","description":"the elastic edge of a billiard table."},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(n.)","description":"A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance."},{"word":"Cushioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cushion"},{"word":"Cushioning","type":"(p. pr. & vb.)","description":"of Cushion"},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seat or place on, or as on a cushion."},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise."},{"word":"Cushion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion."},{"word":"Cushionet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little cushion."},{"word":"Cushionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Hot furnished with a cushion."},{"word":"Cushiony","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a cushion; soft; pliable."},{"word":"Cushite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah."},{"word":"Cusk","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk."},{"word":"Cuskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of drinking cup."},{"word":"Cusp","type":"(n.)","description":"A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery."},{"word":"Cusp","type":"(n.)","description":"The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc."},{"word":"Cusp","type":"(n.)","description":"The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary."},{"word":"Cusp","type":"(n.)","description":"A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent."},{"word":"Cusp","type":"(n.)","description":"A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth."},{"word":"Cusp","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp and rigid point."},{"word":"Cusped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cusp"},{"word":"Cusping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cusp"},{"word":"Cusp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a cusp or cusps."},{"word":"Cuspated","type":"(a.)","description":"Ending in a point."},{"word":"Cuspid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth."},{"word":"Cuspidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Ending in a point."},{"word":"Cuspidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make pointed or sharp."},{"word":"Cuspidate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cuspidated"},{"word":"Cuspidated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf."},{"word":"Cuspidor","type":"(n.)","description":"Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort."},{"word":"Cuspis","type":"(n.)","description":"A point; a sharp end."},{"word":"Custard","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled."},{"word":"Custode","type":"(n.)","description":"See Custodian."},{"word":"Custodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to custody or guardianship."},{"word":"Custodian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent."},{"word":"Custodianship","type":"(n.)","description":"Office or duty of a custodian."},{"word":"Custodier","type":"(n.)","description":"A custodian."},{"word":"Custody","type":"(n.)","description":"A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security."},{"word":"Custody","type":"(n.)","description":"Judicial or penal safe-keeping."},{"word":"Custody","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(n.)","description":"Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(n.)","description":"Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(n.)","description":"Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiar aquaintance; familiarity."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make familiar; to accustom."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with customers."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a custom."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(n.)","description":"The customary toll, tax, or tribute."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(n.)","description":"Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported."},{"word":"Custom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay the customs of."},{"word":"Customable","type":"(a.)","description":"Customary."},{"word":"Customable","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable."},{"word":"Customableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being customable; conformity to custom."},{"word":"Customably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Usually."},{"word":"Customarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a customary manner; habitually."},{"word":"Customariness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being customary."},{"word":"Customary","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual."},{"word":"Customary","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate."},{"word":"Customary","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans."},{"word":"Customer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who collect customs; a toll gatherer."},{"word":"Customer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer."},{"word":"Customer","type":"(n.)","description":"A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank."},{"word":"Customer","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer."},{"word":"Customer","type":"(n.)","description":"A lewd woman."},{"word":"Customhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared."},{"word":"Custodes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Custos"},{"word":"Custos","type":"(n.)","description":"A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent."},{"word":"Custrel","type":"(n.)","description":"An armor-bearer to a knight."},{"word":"Custrel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Costrel."},{"word":"Custumary","type":"(a.)","description":"See Customary."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cut"},{"word":"Cutting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cut"},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a stroke with a whip."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interfere, as a horse."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move or make off quickly."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dividing a pack cards."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?"},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"A common work horse; a gelding."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(n.)","description":"A skein of yarn."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(a.)","description":"Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved."},{"word":"Cut","type":"(a.)","description":"Overcome by liquor; tipsy."},{"word":"Cutaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration."},{"word":"Cutaway","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away."},{"word":"Cutch","type":"(n.)","description":"See Catechu."},{"word":"Cutch","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cultch."},{"word":"Cutchery","type":"(n.)","description":"A hindoo hall of justice."},{"word":"Cute","type":"(a.)","description":"Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning."},{"word":"Cuteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Acuteness; cunning."},{"word":"Cutgrass","type":"()","description":"A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia."},{"word":"Cuticle","type":"(n.)","description":"The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin."},{"word":"Cuticle","type":"(n.)","description":"The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems."},{"word":"Cuticle","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid."},{"word":"Cuticular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal."},{"word":"Cutin","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork."},{"word":"Cutinization","type":"(n.)","description":"The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork."},{"word":"Cutinize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To change into cutin."},{"word":"Cutis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dermis."},{"word":"Cutlasses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cutlass"},{"word":"Cutlass","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax."},{"word":"Cutler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments."},{"word":"Cutlery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a cutler."},{"word":"Cutlery","type":"(n.)","description":"Edged or cutting instruments, collectively."},{"word":"Cutlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling."},{"word":"Cutling","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of making edged tools or cutlery."},{"word":"Cut-off","type":"(n.)","description":"That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road."},{"word":"Cut-off","type":"(n.)","description":"The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion."},{"word":"Cut-off","type":"(n.)","description":"Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout."},{"word":"Cutose","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid."},{"word":"Cut-out","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit."},{"word":"Cut-out","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit."},{"word":"Cutpurse","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket"},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A fore tooth; an incisor."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat used by ships of war."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, light one-horse sleigh."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer."},{"word":"Cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut."},{"word":"Cutthroat","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin."},{"word":"Cutthroat","type":"(a.)","description":"Murderous; cruel; barbarous."},{"word":"Cutting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc."},{"word":"Cutting","type":"(n.)","description":"Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut."},{"word":"Cutting","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool."},{"word":"Cutting","type":"(a.)","description":"Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind."},{"word":"Cutting","type":"(a.)","description":"Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply."},{"word":"Cuttingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cutting manner."},{"word":"Cuttle","type":"(n.)","description":"A knife."},{"word":"Cuttle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cuttlefish"},{"word":"Cuttlefish","type":"(n.)","description":"A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally."},{"word":"Cuttlefish","type":"(n.)","description":"A foul-mouthed fellow."},{"word":"Cuttle","type":"()","description":"The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc."},{"word":"Cuttoo","type":"()","description":"A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle."},{"word":"Cytty","type":"(a.)","description":"Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark."},{"word":"Cutty","type":"(n.)","description":"A short spoon."},{"word":"Cutty","type":"(n.)","description":"A short tobacco pipe."},{"word":"Cutty","type":"(n.)","description":"A light or unchaste woman."},{"word":"Cuttystool","type":"(n.)","description":"A low stool"},{"word":"Cuttystool","type":"(n.)","description":"A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister."},{"word":"Cutwal","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief police officer of a large city."},{"word":"Cutwater","type":"(n.)","description":"The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water."},{"word":"Cutwater","type":"(n.)","description":"A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself."},{"word":"Cutwater","type":"(n.)","description":"A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer."},{"word":"Cutwork","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed."},{"word":"Cutworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths."},{"word":"Cuvette","type":"(n.)","description":"A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table."},{"word":"Cuvette","type":"(n.)","description":"A cunette."},{"word":"Cuvette","type":"(n.)","description":"A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer."},{"word":"Cyamelide","type":"(n.)","description":"A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid."},{"word":"Cyamellone","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid."},{"word":"Cyanate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of cyanic acid."},{"word":"Cyanaurate","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aurocyanide."},{"word":"Cyanean","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an azure color."},{"word":"Cyanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen."},{"word":"Cyanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a blue color."},{"word":"Cyanide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical."},{"word":"Cyanin","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin."},{"word":"Cyanine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing."},{"word":"Cyanite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium."},{"word":"Cyanogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized."},{"word":"Cyanometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring degress of blueness."},{"word":"Cyanopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice."},{"word":"Cyanophyll","type":"(n.)","description":"A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll."},{"word":"Cyanosed","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood."},{"word":"Cyanosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy."},{"word":"Cyanosite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue."},{"word":"Cyanotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin."},{"word":"Cyanotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide."},{"word":"Cyanurate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of cyanuric acid."},{"word":"Cyanuret","type":"(n.)","description":"A cyanide."},{"word":"Cyanuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids."},{"word":"Cyanuric","type":"()","description":"an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide."},{"word":"Cyathiform","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top."},{"word":"Cyatholith","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch."},{"word":"Cyathophylloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidae."},{"word":"Cyathophylloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks."},{"word":"Cycad","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc."},{"word":"Cycadaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example."},{"word":"Cycas","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago."},{"word":"Cyclamen","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms."},{"word":"Cyclamin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum."},{"word":"Cyclas","type":"(n.)","description":"A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made."},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres."},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(n.)","description":"An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year."},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(n.)","description":"An age; a long period of time."},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(n.)","description":"An orderly list for a given time; a calendar."},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(n.)","description":"The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins."},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(n.)","description":"One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves."},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede."},{"word":"Cycled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Cycle"},{"word":"Cycling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Cycle"},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles."},{"word":"Cycle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle."},{"word":"Cyclic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cyclical"},{"word":"Cyclical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time."},{"word":"Cyclide","type":"(n.)","description":"A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides."},{"word":"Cycling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle."},{"word":"Cyclist","type":"(n.)","description":"A cycler."},{"word":"Cyclo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel."},{"word":"Cyclobranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets."},{"word":"Cycloganoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei."},{"word":"Cycloganoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cycloganoidei."},{"word":"Cycloganoidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example."},{"word":"Cyclograph","type":"(n.)","description":"See Arcograph."},{"word":"Cycloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane."},{"word":"Cycloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei."},{"word":"Cycloid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cycloidei."},{"word":"Cycloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base."},{"word":"Cycloidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial."},{"word":"Cycloidian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid."},{"word":"Cyclometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle."},{"word":"Cyclometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring circles."},{"word":"Cyclone","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour."},{"word":"Cyclonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a cyclone."},{"word":"Cyclop","type":"(n.)","description":"See Note under Cyclops, 1."},{"word":"Cyclopean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture."},{"word":"Cyclopedia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cyclopaedia"},{"word":"Cyclopaedia","type":"(n.)","description":"The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia."},{"word":"Cyclopedic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge."},{"word":"Cyclopedist","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia."},{"word":"Cyclopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean."},{"word":"Cyclops","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna."},{"word":"Cyclops","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda."},{"word":"Cyclops","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc."},{"word":"Cyclorama","type":"(n.)","description":"A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially."},{"word":"Cycloscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine."},{"word":"Cyclosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell."},{"word":"Cyclostomata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Cyclostoma"},{"word":"Cyclostoma","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures."},{"word":"Cyclostome","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cyclostomous"},{"word":"Cyclostomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Cyclostomi."},{"word":"Cyclostomi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii."},{"word":"Cyclostylar","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within."},{"word":"Cyclostyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller."},{"word":"Cyder","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cider."},{"word":"Cydonin","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose."},{"word":"Cygnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A young swan."},{"word":"Cygnus","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan."},{"word":"Cylinder","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular."},{"word":"Cylinder","type":"(n.)","description":"The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length."},{"word":"Cylinder","type":"(n.)","description":"Any hollow body of cylindrical form"},{"word":"Cylinder","type":"(n.)","description":"The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam."},{"word":"Cylinder","type":"(n.)","description":"The barrel of an air or other pump."},{"word":"Cylinder","type":"(n.)","description":"The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press."},{"word":"Cylinder","type":"(n.)","description":"The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver."},{"word":"Cylinder","type":"(n.)","description":"The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom."},{"word":"Cylindraceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form."},{"word":"Cylindric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cylindrical"},{"word":"Cylindrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder."},{"word":"Cylindrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical."},{"word":"Cylindricity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being cylindrical."},{"word":"Cylindriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a cylinder."},{"word":"Cylindroid","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical."},{"word":"Cylindroid","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body."},{"word":"Cylindrometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders."},{"word":"Cyma","type":"(n.)","description":"A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form."},{"word":"Cyma","type":"(n.)","description":"A cyme. See Cyme."},{"word":"Cymar","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar."},{"word":"Cymatium","type":"(n.)","description":"A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture."},{"word":"Cymbal","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller."},{"word":"Cymbal","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together."},{"word":"Cymbal","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings."},{"word":"Cymbalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A performer upon cymbals."},{"word":"Cymbiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses."},{"word":"Cymbium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola."},{"word":"Cyme","type":"(n.)","description":"A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms."},{"word":"Cymene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen."},{"word":"Cymenol","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carvacrol."},{"word":"Cymidine","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene."},{"word":"Cymiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing cymes."},{"word":"Cymling","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cymbling"},{"word":"Cymbling","type":"(n.)","description":"A scalloped or \"pattypan\" variety of summer squash."},{"word":"Cymogene","type":"(n.)","description":"A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures."},{"word":"Cymoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a cyme."},{"word":"Cymophane","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chrysoberyl."},{"word":"Cymophanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant."},{"word":"Cymose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cymous"},{"word":"Cymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes."},{"word":"Cymric","type":"(a.)","description":"Welsh."},{"word":"Cymric","type":"(n.)","description":"The Welsh language."},{"word":"Cymry","type":"(n.)","description":"A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves ."},{"word":"Cymule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cyme, or one of very few flowers."},{"word":"Cynanche","type":"(n.)","description":"Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing."},{"word":"Cynanthropy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal."},{"word":"Cynarctomachy","type":"(n.)","description":"Bear baiting with a dog."},{"word":"Cynarrhodium","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes."},{"word":"Cynegetics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of hunting with dogs."},{"word":"Cynic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cynical"},{"word":"Cynical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish."},{"word":"Cynical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle."},{"word":"Cynical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics."},{"word":"Cynical","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature."},{"word":"Cynic","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others."},{"word":"Cynic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds views resembling those of the Cynics; a snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by self-interest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary are superficial and untrustworthy."},{"word":"Cynically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a cynical manner."},{"word":"Cynicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being cynical."},{"word":"Cynicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions."},{"word":"Cynoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes."},{"word":"Cynorexia","type":"(n.)","description":"A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog."},{"word":"Cynosural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a cynosure."},{"word":"Cynosure","type":"(n.)","description":"The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed."},{"word":"Cynosure","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to direct."},{"word":"Cynosure","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction."},{"word":"Cyon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cion, and Scion."},{"word":"Cyperaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type."},{"word":"Cyperus","type":"(n.)","description":"A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus."},{"word":"Cypher","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Cipher."},{"word":"Cyphonautes","type":"(n.)","description":"The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa."},{"word":"Cyphonism","type":"(n.)","description":"A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations."},{"word":"Cypraea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie."},{"word":"Cypres","type":"(n.)","description":"A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law."},{"word":"Cypresses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cypress"},{"word":"Cypress","type":"(n.)","description":"A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability."},{"word":"Cyprian","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to Cyprus."},{"word":"Cyprian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness."},{"word":"Cyprian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot."},{"word":"Cyprian","type":"(n.)","description":"A lewd woman; a harlot."},{"word":"Cyprine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the cypress."},{"word":"Cyprine","type":"(a.)","description":"Cyprinoid."},{"word":"Cyprinodont","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow."},{"word":"Cyprinoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the carp (Cyprinus)."},{"word":"Cyprinoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc."},{"word":"Cypriot","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Cyprus."},{"word":"Cypripedium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper."},{"word":"Cyprides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cypris"},{"word":"Cypris","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus."},{"word":"Cyprus","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning."},{"word":"Cypruslawn","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cyprus."},{"word":"Cypsela","type":"(n.)","description":"A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent."},{"word":"Cypseliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidae.)"},{"word":"Cyrenaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene."},{"word":"Cyrenaic","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n."},{"word":"Cyrenian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic."},{"word":"Cyrenian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Cyrene."},{"word":"Cyrenian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans."},{"word":"Cyriologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to capital letters."},{"word":"Cyrtostyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular projecting portion."},{"word":"Cyst","type":"(n.)","description":"A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ."},{"word":"Cyst","type":"(n.)","description":"In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder."},{"word":"Cyst","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores."},{"word":"Cyst","type":"(n.)","description":"A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc."},{"word":"Cyst","type":"(n.)","description":"A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment."},{"word":"Cysted","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed in a cyst."},{"word":"Cystic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa."},{"word":"Cystic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma."},{"word":"Cystic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder."},{"word":"Cysticerce","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cysticercus"},{"word":"Cysticercus","type":"(n.)","description":"The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle)."},{"word":"Cysticule","type":"(n.)","description":"An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes."},{"word":"Cystid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cystidea."},{"word":"Cystidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems."},{"word":"Cystidean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Cystidea."},{"word":"Cystine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine."},{"word":"Cystis","type":"(n.)","description":"A cyst. See Cyst."},{"word":"Cystitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the bladder."},{"word":"Cystocarp","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores."},{"word":"Cystocele","type":"(n.)","description":"Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia."},{"word":"Cystoid","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Cystoidean"},{"word":"Cystoidean","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cystidean."},{"word":"Cystoidea","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cystidea."},{"word":"Cystolith","type":"(n.)","description":"A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant."},{"word":"Cystolith","type":"(n.)","description":"A urinary calculus."},{"word":"Cystolithic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to stone in the bladder."},{"word":"Cystoplast","type":"(n.)","description":"A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth."},{"word":"Cystose","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery."},{"word":"Cystotome","type":"(n.)","description":"A knife or instrument used in cystotomy."},{"word":"Cystotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus."},{"word":"Cytherean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the goddess Venus."},{"word":"Cytoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place."},{"word":"Cytoblastema","type":"(n.)","description":"See Protoplasm."},{"word":"Cytococci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Cytococcus"},{"word":"Cytococcus","type":"(n.)","description":"The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell."},{"word":"Cytode","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present."},{"word":"Cytogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell."},{"word":"Cytogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Cytogenetic"},{"word":"Cytogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development."},{"word":"Cytogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue."},{"word":"Cytogeny","type":"(n .)","description":"Cell production or development; cytogenesis."},{"word":"Cytoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc."},{"word":"Cytoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus."},{"word":"Cytula","type":"(n.)","description":"The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed."},{"word":"Czar","type":"(n.)","description":"A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia."},{"word":"Czarevna","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of the wife of the czarowitz."},{"word":"Czarina","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of the empress of Russia."},{"word":"Czarinian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish."},{"word":"Czarish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the czar."},{"word":"Czarowitzes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Czarowitz"},{"word":"Czarowitz","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia."},{"word":"Czech","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Czechs."},{"word":"Czech","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages."},{"word":"Czechic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Czechs."},{"word":"Czechs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia."},{"word":"D","type":"()","description":"The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, �178, 179, 229."},{"word":"D","type":"()","description":"The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F."},{"word":"D","type":"()","description":"As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000."},{"word":"Dab","type":"(n.)","description":"A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert."},{"word":"Dab","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides."},{"word":"Dabbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dab"},{"word":"Dabbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dab"},{"word":"Dab","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber."},{"word":"Dab","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust."},{"word":"Dab","type":"(n.)","description":"A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck."},{"word":"Dab","type":"(n.)","description":"A small mass of anything soft or moist."},{"word":"Dabb","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb."},{"word":"Dabber","type":"(n.)","description":"That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink."},{"word":"Dabbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dabble"},{"word":"Dabbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dabble"},{"word":"Dabble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet."},{"word":"Dabble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water."},{"word":"Dabble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle."},{"word":"Dabbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dabbles."},{"word":"Dabbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler."},{"word":"Dabblingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dabbling manner."},{"word":"Dabchick","type":"(n.)","description":"A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe."},{"word":"Daboia","type":"(n.)","description":"A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica)."},{"word":"Dabster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept."},{"word":"Dacapo","type":"()","description":"From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated."},{"word":"Dace","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare."},{"word":"Dachshund","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired."},{"word":"Dacian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians."},{"word":"Dacian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of ancient Dacia."},{"word":"Dacoit","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs."},{"word":"Dacoity","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits."},{"word":"Dacotahs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Dacotas."},{"word":"Dactyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger."},{"word":"Dactyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A finger or toe; a digit."},{"word":"Dactyl","type":"(n.)","description":"The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean."},{"word":"Dactylar","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic."},{"word":"Dactylar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean."},{"word":"Dactylet","type":"(n.)","description":"A dactyl."},{"word":"Dactylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses."},{"word":"Dactylic","type":"(n.)","description":"A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics."},{"word":"Dactylic","type":"(n.)","description":"Dactylic meters."},{"word":"Dactylioglyph","type":"(n.)","description":"An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments."},{"word":"Dactylioglyph","type":"(n.)","description":"The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem."},{"word":"Dactylioglyphi","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of gem engraving."},{"word":"Dactyliography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of writing or engraving upon gems."},{"word":"Dactyliography","type":"(n.)","description":"In general, the literature or history of the art."},{"word":"Dactyliology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving."},{"word":"Dactyliology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings."},{"word":"Dactyliomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of finger rings."},{"word":"Dactylist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of dactylic verse."},{"word":"Dactylitis","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammatory affection of the fingers."},{"word":"Dactylology","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb."},{"word":"Dactylomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dactyliomancy."},{"word":"Dactylonomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of numbering or counting by the fingers."},{"word":"Dactylopterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards."},{"word":"Dactylotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds."},{"word":"Dactylozooid","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora."},{"word":"Dad","type":"(n.)","description":"Father; -- a word sometimes used by children."},{"word":"Daddled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dadle"},{"word":"Daddling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dadle"},{"word":"Dadle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly."},{"word":"Daddock","type":"(n.)","description":"The rotten body of a tree."},{"word":"Daddy","type":"(n.)","description":"Diminutive of Dad."},{"word":"Daddy","type":"()","description":"An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs."},{"word":"Daddy","type":"()","description":"A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs."},{"word":"Dade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles."},{"word":"Dade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly."},{"word":"Dadoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dado"},{"word":"Dado","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column."},{"word":"Dado","type":"(n.)","description":"In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base."},{"word":"Dado","type":"(n.)","description":"In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated."},{"word":"Daedal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Daedalian"},{"word":"Daedalian","type":"(a.)","description":"Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious."},{"word":"Daedalian","type":"(a.)","description":"Crafty; deceitful."},{"word":"Daedalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves."},{"word":"Daemon","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Daemonic"},{"word":"Daemonic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Demon, Demonic."},{"word":"Daff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast aside; to put off; to doff."},{"word":"Daff","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull."},{"word":"Daff","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy."},{"word":"Daff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daunt."},{"word":"Daffodil","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Asphodelus."},{"word":"Daffodil","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc."},{"word":"Daft","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft."},{"word":"Daft","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; playful; frolicsome."},{"word":"Daftness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being daft."},{"word":"Dag","type":"(n.)","description":"A dagger; a poniard."},{"word":"Dag","type":"(n.)","description":"A large pistol formerly used."},{"word":"Dag","type":"(n.)","description":"The unbranched antler of a young deer."},{"word":"Dag","type":"(n.)","description":"A misty shower; dew."},{"word":"Dag","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose end; a dangling shred."},{"word":"Dag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daggle or bemire."},{"word":"Dag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment."},{"word":"Dag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be misty; to drizzle."},{"word":"Dagger","type":"(n.)","description":"A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace."},{"word":"Dagger","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk."},{"word":"Dagger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce with a dagger; to stab."},{"word":"Dagger","type":"(n.)","description":"A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame."},{"word":"Dagges","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans."},{"word":"Daggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Daggle"},{"word":"Daggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Daggle"},{"word":"Daggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten."},{"word":"Daggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle."},{"word":"Daggle-tail","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Daggle-tailed"},{"word":"Daggle-tailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed."},{"word":"Daggle-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail."},{"word":"Daglock","type":"(n.)","description":"A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock."},{"word":"Dagos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dago"},{"word":"Dago","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent."},{"word":"Dagoba","type":"(n.)","description":"A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint."},{"word":"Dagon","type":"()","description":"The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish."},{"word":"Dagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A slip or piece."},{"word":"Dagswain","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool."},{"word":"Dag-tailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks."},{"word":"Daguerrean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Daguerreian"},{"word":"Daguerreian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype."},{"word":"Daguerreotype","type":"(n.)","description":"An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury."},{"word":"Daguerreotype","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of taking such pictures."},{"word":"Daguerreotyped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Daguerreotype"},{"word":"Daguerreotyping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Daguerreotype"},{"word":"Daguerreotype","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture."},{"word":"Daguerreotype","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly."},{"word":"Daguerreotyper","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Daguerreotypist"},{"word":"Daguerreotypist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes daguerreotypes."},{"word":"Daguerreotypy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre."},{"word":"Dahabeah","type":"(n.)","description":"A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails."},{"word":"Dahlias","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dahlia"},{"word":"Dahlia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color."},{"word":"Dahlin","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin."},{"word":"Dailiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Daily occurence."},{"word":"Daily","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin."},{"word":"Dailies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Daily"},{"word":"Daily","type":"(n.)","description":"A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies."},{"word":"Daily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily."},{"word":"Daimios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Daimio"},{"word":"Daimio","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of the feudal nobles of Japan."},{"word":"Daint","type":"(n.)","description":"Something of exquisite taste; a dainty."},{"word":"Daint","type":"(a.)","description":"Dainty."},{"word":"Daintified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Daintify"},{"word":"Daintifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Daintify"},{"word":"Daintify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious."},{"word":"Daintily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily."},{"word":"Daintiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness."},{"word":"Daintrel","type":"(n.)","description":"Adelicacy."},{"word":"Dainties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dainty"},{"word":"Dainty","type":"(n.)","description":"Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything."},{"word":"Dainty","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy."},{"word":"Dainty","type":"(n.)","description":"A term of fondness."},{"word":"Dainty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Rare; valuable; costly."},{"word":"Dainty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Delicious to the palate; toothsome."},{"word":"Dainty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender."},{"word":"Dainty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious."},{"word":"Dairies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dairy"},{"word":"Dairy","type":"(n.)","description":"The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese."},{"word":"Dairy","type":"(n.)","description":"That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese."},{"word":"Dairy","type":"(n.)","description":"A dairy farm."},{"word":"Dairying","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of conducting a dairy."},{"word":"Dairymaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy."},{"word":"Dairymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dairyman"},{"word":"Dairyman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy."},{"word":"Dairywomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dairywoman"},{"word":"Dairywoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who attends to a dairy."},{"word":"Dais","type":"(n.)","description":"The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table."},{"word":"Dais","type":"(n.)","description":"A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests."},{"word":"Dais","type":"(n.)","description":"A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity."},{"word":"Daisied","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of daisies; adorned with daisies."},{"word":"Daisies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Daisy"},{"word":"Daisy","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays."},{"word":"Daisy","type":"(n.)","description":"The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed."},{"word":"Dak","type":"(n.)","description":"Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk."},{"word":"Daker","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dakir"},{"word":"Dakir","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs."},{"word":"Daker","type":"()","description":"The corncrake or land rail."},{"word":"Dakoit","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dakoity"},{"word":"Dakoity","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dacoit, Dacoity."},{"word":"Dakota","type":"()","description":"A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied."},{"word":"Dakotas","type":"(n. pl)","description":"An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux."},{"word":"Dal","type":"(n.)","description":"Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus."},{"word":"Dale","type":"(n.)","description":"A low place between hills; a vale or valley."},{"word":"Dale","type":"(n.)","description":"A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump."},{"word":"Dalesmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dalesman"},{"word":"Dalesman","type":"(n.)","description":"One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc."},{"word":"Dalf","type":"()","description":"imp. of Delve."},{"word":"Dalliance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play."},{"word":"Dalliance","type":"(n.)","description":"Delay or procrastination."},{"word":"Dalliance","type":"(n.)","description":"Entertaining discourse."},{"word":"Dallier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words."},{"word":"Dallop","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft or clump."},{"word":"Dallied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dally"},{"word":"Dallying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dally"},{"word":"Dally","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle."},{"word":"Dally","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport."},{"word":"Dally","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delay unnecessarily; to while away."},{"word":"Dalmania","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks."},{"word":"Dalmanites","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dalmania."},{"word":"Dalmatian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Dalmatia."},{"word":"Dalmatica","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dalmatic"},{"word":"Dalmatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia."},{"word":"Dalmatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation."},{"word":"Dal","type":"()","description":"A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno."},{"word":"Daltonian","type":"(n.)","description":"One afflicted with color blindness."},{"word":"Daltonism","type":"(n.)","description":"Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity."},{"word":"Dam","type":"(n.)","description":"A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother."},{"word":"Dam","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts."},{"word":"Dam","type":"(n.)","description":"A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water."},{"word":"Dam","type":"(n.)","description":"A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace."},{"word":"Dammed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dam"},{"word":"Damming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dam"},{"word":"Dam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up."},{"word":"Dam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain."},{"word":"Damage","type":"(n.)","description":"Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief."},{"word":"Damage","type":"(n.)","description":"The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another."},{"word":"Damages","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Damage"},{"word":"Damaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Damage"},{"word":"Damage","type":"(n.)","description":"To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair."},{"word":"Damage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight."},{"word":"Damageable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo."},{"word":"Damageable","type":"(a.)","description":"Hurtful; pernicious."},{"word":"Damage","type":"()","description":"Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle."},{"word":"Daman","type":"(n.)","description":"A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax."},{"word":"Damar","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dammar."},{"word":"Damascene","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Damascus."},{"word":"Damascene","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson."},{"word":"Damascene","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t."},{"word":"Damascus","type":"(n.)","description":"A city of Syria."},{"word":"Damask","type":"(n.)","description":"Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like."},{"word":"Damask","type":"(n.)","description":"Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color."},{"word":"Damask","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings."},{"word":"Damask","type":"(n.)","description":"Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or \"water\" of such steel."},{"word":"Damask","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep pink or rose color."},{"word":"Damask","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus."},{"word":"Damask","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the color of the damask rose."},{"word":"Damasked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Damask"},{"word":"Damasking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Damask"},{"word":"Damask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or \"water,\" as metal. See Damaskeen."},{"word":"Damaskeen","type":"(v.)","description":"Alt. of Damasken"},{"word":"Damasken","type":"(v.)","description":"To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or \"water\" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask."},{"word":"Damaskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword of Damask steel."},{"word":"Damasse","type":"(a.)","description":"Woven like damask."},{"word":"Damasse","type":"(n.)","description":"A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen."},{"word":"Damassin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of modified damask or brocade."},{"word":"Dambonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc."},{"word":"Dambose","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite."},{"word":"Dame","type":"(n.)","description":"A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady."},{"word":"Dame","type":"(n.)","description":"The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school."},{"word":"Dame","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman."},{"word":"Dame","type":"(n.)","description":"A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds."},{"word":"Damewort","type":"(n.)","description":"A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet."},{"word":"Damiana","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac."},{"word":"Damianist","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity."},{"word":"Dammar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dammara"},{"word":"Dammara","type":"(n.)","description":"An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine."},{"word":"Dammara","type":"(n.)","description":"A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species."},{"word":"Damned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Damn"},{"word":"Damning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Damn"},{"word":"Damn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure."},{"word":"Damn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse."},{"word":"Damn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc."},{"word":"Damn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To invoke damnation; to curse."},{"word":"Damnability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being damnable; damnableness."},{"word":"Damnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature."},{"word":"Damnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Odious; pernicious; detestable."},{"word":"Damnableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness."},{"word":"Damnably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment."},{"word":"Damnably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Odiously; detestably; excessively."},{"word":"Damnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation."},{"word":"Damnation","type":"(n.)","description":"Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself."},{"word":"Damnation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sin deserving of everlasting punishment."},{"word":"Damnatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Dooming to damnation; condemnatory."},{"word":"Damned","type":"(a.)","description":"Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition."},{"word":"Damned","type":"(a.)","description":"Hateful; detestable; abominable."},{"word":"Damnific","type":"(a.)","description":"Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious."},{"word":"Damnification","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes damage or loss."},{"word":"Damnify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair."},{"word":"Damning","type":"(a.)","description":"That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt."},{"word":"Damningness","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency to bring damnation."},{"word":"damnum","type":"(n.)","description":"Harm; detriment, either to character or property."},{"word":"Damosel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Damoiselle"},{"word":"Damosella","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Damoiselle"},{"word":"Damoiselle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Damsel."},{"word":"Damourite","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water."},{"word":"Damp","type":"(n.)","description":"Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor."},{"word":"Damp","type":"(n.)","description":"Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind."},{"word":"Damp","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc."},{"word":"Damp","type":"(superl.)","description":"Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid."},{"word":"Damp","type":"(superl.)","description":"Dejected; depressed; sunk."},{"word":"Damped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Damp"},{"word":"Damping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Damp"},{"word":"Damp","type":"(n.)","description":"To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth."},{"word":"Damp","type":"(n.)","description":"To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage."},{"word":"Dampened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dampen"},{"word":"Dampening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dampen"},{"word":"Dampen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet."},{"word":"Dampen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen."},{"word":"Dampen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become damp; to deaden."},{"word":"Damper","type":"(n.)","description":"That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time."},{"word":"Dampish","type":"(a.)","description":"Moderately damp or moist."},{"word":"Dampne","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To damn."},{"word":"Dampness","type":"(n.)","description":"Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness."},{"word":"Damp","type":"()","description":"To decay and perish through excessive moisture."},{"word":"Dampy","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat damp."},{"word":"Dampy","type":"(a.)","description":"Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful."},{"word":"Damsel","type":"(n.)","description":"A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales."},{"word":"Damsel","type":"(n.)","description":"A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden."},{"word":"Damsel","type":"(n.)","description":"An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper."},{"word":"Damson","type":"(n.)","description":"A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum."},{"word":"Dan","type":"(n.)","description":"A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir."},{"word":"Dan","type":"(n.)","description":"A small truck or sledge used in coal mines."},{"word":"Danaide","type":"(n.)","description":"A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one."},{"word":"Danaite","type":"(n.)","description":"A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite."},{"word":"Danalite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur."},{"word":"Danburite","type":"(n.)","description":"A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form."},{"word":"Danced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dance"},{"word":"Dancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dance"},{"word":"Dance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically."},{"word":"Dance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about."},{"word":"Dance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle."},{"word":"Dance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music."},{"word":"Dance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc."},{"word":"Dancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dances or who practices dancing."},{"word":"Danceress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female dancer."},{"word":"Dancette","type":"(a.)","description":"Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon."},{"word":"Dancing","type":"(p. a. & vb. n.)","description":"from Dance."},{"word":"Dancy","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Dancette."},{"word":"Dandelion","type":"(n.)","description":"A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves."},{"word":"Dander","type":"(n.)","description":"Dandruff or scurf on the head."},{"word":"Dander","type":"(n.)","description":"Anger or vexation; rage."},{"word":"Dander","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently."},{"word":"Dandi","type":"(n.)","description":"A boatman; an oarsman."},{"word":"Dandie","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont."},{"word":"Dandified","type":"(a.)","description":"Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish."},{"word":"Dandified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dandify"},{"word":"Dandifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dandify"},{"word":"Dandify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish."},{"word":"Dandiprat","type":"(n.)","description":"A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt."},{"word":"Dandiprat","type":"(n.)","description":"A small coin."},{"word":"Dandled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dandle"},{"word":"Dandling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dandle"},{"word":"Dandle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant."},{"word":"Dandle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet."},{"word":"Dandle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle."},{"word":"Dandler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dandles or fondles."},{"word":"Dandriff","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dandruff."},{"word":"Dandruff","type":"(n.)","description":"A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles."},{"word":"Dandies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dandy"},{"word":"Dandy","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb."},{"word":"Dandy","type":"(n.)","description":"A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set."},{"word":"Dandy","type":"(n.)","description":"A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen."},{"word":"Dandy","type":"(n.)","description":"A dandy roller. See below."},{"word":"Dandy-cock","type":"(n. fem.)","description":"Alt. of Dandy-hen"},{"word":"Dandy-hen","type":"(n. fem.)","description":"A bantam fowl."},{"word":"Dandyish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a dandy."},{"word":"Dandyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness."},{"word":"Dandyise","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify."},{"word":"Dandyling","type":"(n.)","description":"A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop."},{"word":"Dane","type":"(n.)","description":"A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark."},{"word":"Danegeld","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Danegelt"},{"word":"Danegelt","type":"(n.)","description":"An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm."},{"word":"Danewort","type":"(n.)","description":"A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]"},{"word":"Dang","type":"()","description":"imp. of Ding."},{"word":"Dang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dash."},{"word":"Danger","type":"(n.)","description":"Authority; jurisdiction; control."},{"word":"Danger","type":"(n.)","description":"Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty."},{"word":"Danger","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity."},{"word":"Danger","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficulty; sparingness."},{"word":"Danger","type":"(n.)","description":"Coyness; disdainful behavior."},{"word":"Danger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endanger."},{"word":"Dangerful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of danger; dangerous."},{"word":"Dangerless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from danger."},{"word":"Dangerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe."},{"word":"Dangerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury."},{"word":"Dangerous","type":"(a.)","description":"In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death."},{"word":"Dangerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard to suit; difficult to please."},{"word":"Dangerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Reserved; not affable."},{"word":"Dangled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dangle"},{"word":"Dangling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dangle"},{"word":"Dangle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion."},{"word":"Dangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet."},{"word":"Dangleberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward."},{"word":"Dangler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler."},{"word":"Daniel","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge."},{"word":"Danish","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country."},{"word":"Danish","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Danes."},{"word":"Danite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan."},{"word":"Danite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things."},{"word":"Dank","type":"(a.)","description":"Damp; moist; humid; wet."},{"word":"Dank","type":"(n.)","description":"Moisture; humidity; water."},{"word":"Dank","type":"(n.)","description":"A small silver coin current in Persia."},{"word":"Dankish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat dank."},{"word":"Dannebrog","type":"(n.)","description":"The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown."},{"word":"Danseuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet."},{"word":"Dansk","type":"(a.)","description":"Danish."},{"word":"Dansker","type":"(n.)","description":"A Dane."},{"word":"Dantean","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings."},{"word":"Dantesque","type":"(a.)","description":"Dantelike; Dantean."},{"word":"Danubian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube."},{"word":"Dap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water."},{"word":"Dapatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Sumptuous in cheer."},{"word":"Daphne","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms."},{"word":"Daphne","type":"(n.)","description":"A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree."},{"word":"Daphnetin","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin."},{"word":"Daphnia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of the genus Daphnia."},{"word":"Daphnin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant."},{"word":"Daphnin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina."},{"word":"Daphnomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of the laurel."},{"word":"Dapifer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household."},{"word":"Dapper","type":"(a.)","description":"Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively."},{"word":"Dapperling","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwarf; a dandiprat."},{"word":"Dapple","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the spots on a dappled animal."},{"word":"Dapple","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dappled"},{"word":"Dappled","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse."},{"word":"Dappled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dapple"},{"word":"Dappling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dapple"},{"word":"Dapple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To variegate with spots; to spot."},{"word":"Darbies","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Manacles; handcuffs."},{"word":"Darby","type":"(n.)","description":"A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc."},{"word":"Darbyite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren."},{"word":"Dardanian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Trojan."},{"word":"Durst","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Dare"},{"word":"Dared","type":"()","description":"of Dare"},{"word":"Dared","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Dare"},{"word":"Daring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dare"},{"word":"Dare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture."},{"word":"Dared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dare"},{"word":"Daring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dare"},{"word":"Dare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake."},{"word":"Dare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To challenge; to provoke; to defy."},{"word":"Dare","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash."},{"word":"Dare","type":"(n.)","description":"Defiance; challenge."},{"word":"Dare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lurk; to lie hid."},{"word":"Dare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To terrify; to daunt."},{"word":"Dare","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fish; the dace."},{"word":"Dare-devil","type":"(n.)","description":"A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement."},{"word":"Dare-deviltries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dare-deviltry"},{"word":"Dare-deviltry","type":"(n)","description":"Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil."},{"word":"Dareful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of daring or of defiance; adventurous."},{"word":"Darer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dares or defies."},{"word":"Darg","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dargue"},{"word":"Dargue","type":"(n.)","description":"A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day."},{"word":"Daric","type":"(n.)","description":"A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer."},{"word":"Daric","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric."},{"word":"Daric","type":"(n.)","description":"Any very pure gold coin."},{"word":"Daring","type":"(n.)","description":"Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act."},{"word":"Daring","type":"(a.)","description":"Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(a.)","description":"Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(a.)","description":"Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of sight; blind."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted."},{"word":"Dark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To darken to obscure."},{"word":"Darkened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Darken"},{"word":"Darkening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Darken"},{"word":"Darken","type":"(a.)","description":"To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room."},{"word":"Darken","type":"(a.)","description":"To render dim; to deprive of vision."},{"word":"Darken","type":"(a.)","description":"To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible."},{"word":"Darken","type":"(a.)","description":"To cast a gloom upon."},{"word":"Darken","type":"(a.)","description":"To make foul; to sully; to tarnish."},{"word":"Darken","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow or darker."},{"word":"Darkener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, darkens."},{"word":"Darkening","type":"(n.)","description":"Twilight; gloaming."},{"word":"Darkful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of darkness."},{"word":"Darkish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat dark; dusky."},{"word":"Darkle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow dark; to show indistinctly."},{"word":"Darkling","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the dark."},{"word":"Darkling","type":"(p. pr. & a.)","description":"Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing."},{"word":"Darkling","type":"(p. pr. & a.)","description":"Dark; gloomy."},{"word":"Darkly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly."},{"word":"Darkly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look."},{"word":"Darkness","type":"(n.)","description":"The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom."},{"word":"Darkness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of privacy; secrecy."},{"word":"Darkness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity."},{"word":"Darkness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion."},{"word":"Darkness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of distress or trouble."},{"word":"Darksome","type":"(a.)","description":"Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless."},{"word":"Darky","type":"(n.)","description":"A negro."},{"word":"Darling","type":"(n.)","description":"One dearly beloved; a favorite."},{"word":"Darling","type":"(a.)","description":"Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite."},{"word":"Darlingtonia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves."},{"word":"Darned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Darn"},{"word":"Darning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Darn"},{"word":"Darn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread."},{"word":"Darn","type":"(n.)","description":"A place mended by darning."},{"word":"Darn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A colloquial euphemism for Damn."},{"word":"Darnel","type":"(n.)","description":"Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay."},{"word":"Darner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who mends by darning."},{"word":"Darnex","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Darnic"},{"word":"Darnic","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dornick."},{"word":"Daroo","type":"(n.)","description":"The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore."},{"word":"Darr","type":"(n.)","description":"The European black tern."},{"word":"Darraign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Darrain"},{"word":"Darrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make ready to fight; to array."},{"word":"Darrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat."},{"word":"Darrein","type":"(a.)","description":"Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance."},{"word":"Dart","type":"(n.)","description":"A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow."},{"word":"Dart","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart."},{"word":"Dart","type":"(n.)","description":"A spear set as a prize in running."},{"word":"Dart","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish; the dace. See Dace."},{"word":"Darted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dart"},{"word":"Darting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dart"},{"word":"Dart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch."},{"word":"Dart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams."},{"word":"Dart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart."},{"word":"Dart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket."},{"word":"Dartars","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs."},{"word":"Darter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts."},{"word":"Darter","type":"(n.)","description":"The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird."},{"word":"Darter","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid."},{"word":"Dartingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Like a dart; rapidly."},{"word":"Dartle","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart."},{"word":"Dartoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the dartos."},{"word":"Dartoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue."},{"word":"Dartos","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum."},{"word":"Dartrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic."},{"word":"Darwinian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements."},{"word":"Darwinian","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate of Darwinism."},{"word":"Darwinianism","type":"(n.)","description":"Darwinism."},{"word":"Darwinism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above."},{"word":"Dase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Daze."},{"word":"Dasewe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled."},{"word":"Dashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dash"},{"word":"Dashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dash"},{"word":"Dash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"Energy in style or action; animation; spirit."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone."},{"word":"Dash","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race."},{"word":"Dashboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard."},{"word":"Dashboard","type":"(n.)","description":"The float of a paddle wheel."},{"word":"Dashboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard."},{"word":"Dasher","type":"(n.)","description":"That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn."},{"word":"Dasher","type":"(n.)","description":"A dashboard or splashboard."},{"word":"Dasher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an ostentatious parade."},{"word":"Dashing","type":"(a.)","description":"Bold; spirited; showy."},{"word":"Dashingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Conspicuously; showily."},{"word":"Dashism","type":"(n.)","description":"The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show."},{"word":"Dashpot","type":"(n.)","description":"A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock."},{"word":"Dashy","type":"(a.)","description":"Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy."},{"word":"Dastard","type":"(n.)","description":"One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon."},{"word":"Dastard","type":"(a.)","description":"Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly."},{"word":"Dastard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dastardize."},{"word":"Dastardized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dastardize"},{"word":"Dastardizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dastardize"},{"word":"Dastardize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage."},{"word":"Dastardliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear."},{"word":"Dastardly","type":"(a.)","description":"Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage."},{"word":"Dastardness","type":"(n.)","description":"Dastardliness."},{"word":"Dastardy","type":"(n.)","description":"Base timidity; cowardliness."},{"word":"Daswe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Dasewe"},{"word":"Dasymeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density."},{"word":"Dasypaedal","type":"(a.)","description":"Dasypaedic."},{"word":"Dasypaedes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched."},{"word":"Dasypaedic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic."},{"word":"Dasyure","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species."},{"word":"Dasyurine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures."},{"word":"Data","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Datum."},{"word":"Datable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date."},{"word":"Dataria","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor)."},{"word":"Datary","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria."},{"word":"Datary","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or employment of a datary."},{"word":"Date","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself."},{"word":"Date","type":"(n.)","description":"That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc."},{"word":"Date","type":"(n.)","description":"The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle."},{"word":"Date","type":"(n.)","description":"Assigned end; conclusion."},{"word":"Date","type":"(n.)","description":"Given or assigned length of life; dyration."},{"word":"Dated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Date"},{"word":"Dating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Date"},{"word":"Date","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter."},{"word":"Date","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids."},{"word":"Date","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from."},{"word":"Dateless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without date; having no fixed time."},{"word":"Dater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dates."},{"word":"Datiscin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina)."},{"word":"Dative","type":"(a.)","description":"Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective."},{"word":"Dative","type":"(a.)","description":"In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office."},{"word":"Dative","type":"(a.)","description":"Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer."},{"word":"Dative","type":"(a.)","description":"Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law."},{"word":"Dative","type":"(n.)","description":"The dative case. See Dative, a., 1."},{"word":"Datively","type":"(adv.)","description":"As a gift."},{"word":"Datolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals."},{"word":"Data","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Datum"},{"word":"Datum","type":"(n.)","description":"Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural."},{"word":"Datum","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem."},{"word":"Datura","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit."},{"word":"Daturine","type":"(n.)","description":"Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina."},{"word":"Daubed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Daub"},{"word":"Daubing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Daub"},{"word":"Daub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear."},{"word":"Daub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner."},{"word":"Daub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal."},{"word":"Daub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flatter excessively or glossy."},{"word":"Daub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put on without taste; to deck gaudily."},{"word":"Daub","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To smear; to play the flatterer."},{"word":"Daub","type":"(n.)","description":"A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear."},{"word":"Daub","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture coarsely executed."},{"word":"Dauber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter."},{"word":"Dauber","type":"(n.)","description":"A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber."},{"word":"Dauber","type":"(n.)","description":"A low and gross flatterer."},{"word":"Dauber","type":"(n.)","description":"The mud wasp; the mud dauber."},{"word":"Daubery","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Daubry"},{"word":"Daubry","type":"(n.)","description":"A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses."},{"word":"Daubing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed."},{"word":"Daubing","type":"(n.)","description":"A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast."},{"word":"Daubing","type":"(n.)","description":"In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing."},{"word":"Daubreelite","type":"(n.)","description":"A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons."},{"word":"Dauby","type":"(a.)","description":"Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive."},{"word":"Daughters","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Daughter"},{"word":"Daughtren","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Daughter"},{"word":"Daughter","type":"(n.)","description":"The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals."},{"word":"Daughter","type":"(n.)","description":"A female descendant; a woman."},{"word":"Daughter","type":"(n.)","description":"A son's wife; a daughter-in-law."},{"word":"Daughter","type":"(n.)","description":"A term of address indicating parental interest."},{"word":"Daughters-in-law","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Daughter-in-law"},{"word":"Daughter-in-law","type":"(n.)","description":"The wife of one's son."},{"word":"Daughterliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter."},{"word":"Daughterly","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming a daughter; filial."},{"word":"Dauk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush."},{"word":"Daun","type":"(n.)","description":"A variant of Dan, a title of honor."},{"word":"Daunted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Daunt"},{"word":"Daunting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Daunt"},{"word":"Daunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overcome; to conquer."},{"word":"Daunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten."},{"word":"Daunter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who daunts."},{"word":"Dauntless","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid."},{"word":"Dauphin","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued."},{"word":"Dauphiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dauphine"},{"word":"Dauphine","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of the wife of the dauphin."},{"word":"Dauw","type":"(n.)","description":"The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi."},{"word":"Davenport","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir."},{"word":"Davidic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family."},{"word":"Davit","type":"(n.)","description":"A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit."},{"word":"Davit","type":"(n.)","description":"Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits."},{"word":"Davy","type":"()","description":"The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors."},{"word":"Davy","type":"()","description":"See Safety lamp, under Lamp."},{"word":"Davyne","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius."},{"word":"Davyum","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154."},{"word":"Daw","type":"(n.)","description":"A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw."},{"word":"Daw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dawn."},{"word":"Daw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rouse."},{"word":"Daw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daunt; to terrify."},{"word":"Dawdled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dawdle"},{"word":"Dawdling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dawdle"},{"word":"Dawdle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter."},{"word":"Dawdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning."},{"word":"Dawdle","type":"(n.)","description":"A dawdler."},{"word":"Dawdler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler."},{"word":"Dawe","type":"(n.)","description":"Day."},{"word":"Dawish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a daw."},{"word":"Dawk","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dak."},{"word":"Dawk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut or mark with an incision; to gash."},{"word":"Dawk","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber."},{"word":"Dawned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dawn"},{"word":"Dawning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dawn"},{"word":"Dawn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns."},{"word":"Dawn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand."},{"word":"Dawn","type":"(n.)","description":"The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise."},{"word":"Dawn","type":"(n.)","description":"First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise."},{"word":"Dawsonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals."},{"word":"Day","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine."},{"word":"Day","type":"(n.)","description":"The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below."},{"word":"Day","type":"(n.)","description":"Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work."},{"word":"Day","type":"(n.)","description":"A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time."},{"word":"Day","type":"(n.)","description":"(Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc."},{"word":"Dayaks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Dyaks."},{"word":"Daybook","type":"(n.)","description":"A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal."},{"word":"Daybreak","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of the first appearance of light in the morning."},{"word":"Day-coal","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface."},{"word":"Daydream","type":"(n.)","description":"A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope."},{"word":"Daydreamer","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to daydreams."},{"word":"Dayflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers."},{"word":"Dayfly","type":"(n.)","description":"A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral."},{"word":"Day-labor","type":"(n.)","description":"Labor hired or performed by the day."},{"word":"Day-laborer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade."},{"word":"Daylight","type":"(n.)","description":"The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light."},{"word":"Daylight","type":"(n.)","description":"The eyes."},{"word":"Day","type":"()","description":"A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers."},{"word":"Day","type":"()","description":"A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers."},{"word":"Daymaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A dairymaid."},{"word":"Daymare","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare."},{"word":"Day-net","type":"(n.)","description":"A net for catching small birds."},{"word":"Day-peep","type":"(n.)","description":"The dawn."},{"word":"Daysman","type":"(n.)","description":"An umpire or arbiter; a mediator."},{"word":"Dayspring","type":"(n.)","description":"The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning."},{"word":"Day-star","type":"(n.)","description":"The morning star; the star which ushers in the day."},{"word":"Day-star","type":"(n.)","description":"The sun, as the orb of day."},{"word":"Daytime","type":"(n.)","description":"The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night."},{"word":"Daywoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A dairymaid."},{"word":"Dazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Daze"},{"word":"Dazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Daze"},{"word":"Daze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb."},{"word":"Daze","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze."},{"word":"Daze","type":"(n.)","description":"A glittering stone."},{"word":"Dazzled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dazzle"},{"word":"Dazzling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dazzle"},{"word":"Dazzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light."},{"word":"Dazzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind."},{"word":"Dazzle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy."},{"word":"Dazzle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness."},{"word":"Dazzle","type":"(n.)","description":"A light of dazzling brilliancy."},{"word":"Dazzlement","type":"(n.)","description":"Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light."},{"word":"Dazzlingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dazzling manner."},{"word":"De-","type":"()","description":"A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc."},{"word":"Deacon","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church."},{"word":"Deacon","type":"(n.)","description":"The chairman of an incorporated company."},{"word":"Deacon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off."},{"word":"Deaconess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female deacon"},{"word":"Deaconess","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons."},{"word":"Deaconess","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman set apart for church work by a bishop."},{"word":"Deaconess","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists."},{"word":"Deaconhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship."},{"word":"Deaconry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Deaconship."},{"word":"Deaconship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Bringing death; deadly."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(a.)","description":"Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(n.)","description":"The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor."},{"word":"Dead","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To die; to lose life or force."},{"word":"Dead","type":"()","description":"See Beat, n., 7."},{"word":"Deadbeat","type":"(a.)","description":"Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation."},{"word":"Deadborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Stillborn."},{"word":"Deadened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deaden"},{"word":"Deadening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deaden"},{"word":"Deaden","type":"(a.)","description":"To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound."},{"word":"Deaden","type":"(a.)","description":"To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway."},{"word":"Deaden","type":"(a.)","description":"To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine."},{"word":"Deaden","type":"(a.)","description":"To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size."},{"word":"Deadener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, deadens or checks."},{"word":"Dead-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye."},{"word":"Deadhead","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc."},{"word":"Deadhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A buoy. See under Dead, a."},{"word":"Dead-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless."},{"word":"Deadhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies."},{"word":"Deadish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike."},{"word":"Deadlatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key."},{"word":"Deadlight","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm."},{"word":"Deadlihood","type":"(n.)","description":"State of the dead."},{"word":"Deadliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being deadly."},{"word":"Deadlock","type":"(n.)","description":"A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward."},{"word":"Deadlock","type":"(n.)","description":"A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action."},{"word":"Deadly","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound."},{"word":"Deadly","type":"(a.)","description":"Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies."},{"word":"Deadly","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to death; mortal."},{"word":"Deadly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death."},{"word":"Deadly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to occasion death; mortally."},{"word":"Deadly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an implacable manner; destructively."},{"word":"Deadly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Extremely."},{"word":"Deadness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like."},{"word":"Dead-pay","type":"(n.)","description":"Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls."},{"word":"Dead-reckoning","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Dead, a."},{"word":"Deads","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The substances which inclose the ore on every side."},{"word":"Dead-stroke","type":"(a.)","description":"Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat."},{"word":"Deadwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity."},{"word":"Deadwood","type":"(n.)","description":"Dead trees or branches; useless material."},{"word":"Deadworks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden."},{"word":"Deaf","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man."},{"word":"Deaf","type":"(a.)","description":"Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason."},{"word":"Deaf","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened."},{"word":"Deaf","type":"(a.)","description":"Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened."},{"word":"Deaf","type":"(a.)","description":"Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn."},{"word":"Deaf","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deafen."},{"word":"Deafened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deafen"},{"word":"Deafening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deafen"},{"word":"Deafen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly."},{"word":"Deafen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc."},{"word":"Deafening","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging."},{"word":"Deafly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without sense of sounds; obscurely."},{"word":"Deafly","type":"(a.)","description":"Lonely; solitary."},{"word":"Deaf-mute","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it."},{"word":"Deaf-mutism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being a deaf-mute."},{"word":"Deafness","type":"(n.)","description":"Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing."},{"word":"Deafness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(n.)","description":"A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(n.)","description":"Distribution; apportionment."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(n.)","description":"The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal."},{"word":"Dealt","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deal"},{"word":"Dealing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deal"},{"word":"Deal","type":"(n.)","description":"To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat."},{"word":"Deal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with."},{"word":"Dealbate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whiten."},{"word":"Dealbation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of bleaching; a whitening."},{"word":"Dealer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer."},{"word":"Dealer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who distributes cards to the players."},{"word":"Dealfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus)."},{"word":"Dealing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person."},{"word":"Dealth","type":"(n.)","description":"Share dealt."},{"word":"Deambulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To walk abroad."},{"word":"Deambulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A walking abroad; a promenading."},{"word":"Deambulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory."},{"word":"Deambulatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory."},{"word":"Dean","type":"(n.)","description":"A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop."},{"word":"Dean","type":"(n.)","description":"The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college."},{"word":"Dean","type":"(n.)","description":"The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities."},{"word":"Dean","type":"(n.)","description":"A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department."},{"word":"Dean","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy."},{"word":"Deaneries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Deanery"},{"word":"Deanery","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3."},{"word":"Deanery","type":"(n.)","description":"The residence of a dean."},{"word":"Deanery","type":"(n.)","description":"The territorial jurisdiction of a dean."},{"word":"Deanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a dean."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of agreeable things and interests."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of disagreeable things and antipathies."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(n.)","description":"A dear one; lover; sweetheart."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(adv.)","description":"Dearly; at a high price."},{"word":"Dear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endear."},{"word":"Dearborn","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides."},{"word":"Dear-bought","type":"(a.)","description":"Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience."},{"word":"Deare","type":"()","description":"variant of Dere, v. t. & n."},{"word":"Dearie","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Deary."},{"word":"Dearling","type":"(n.)","description":"A darling."},{"word":"Dear-loved","type":"(a.)","description":"Greatly beloved."},{"word":"Dearly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly."},{"word":"Dearly","type":"(adv.)","description":"At a high rate or price; grievously."},{"word":"Dearly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Exquisitely."},{"word":"Dearn","type":"(a.)","description":"Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful."},{"word":"Dearn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Darn."},{"word":"Dearness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price."},{"word":"Dearness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness."},{"word":"Dearth","type":"(n.)","description":"Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine."},{"word":"Dearticulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disjoint."},{"word":"Dearworth","type":"(a.)","description":"Precious."},{"word":"Deary","type":"(n.)","description":"A dear; a darling."},{"word":"Deas","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dais."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Cause of loss of life."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Danger of death."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Murder; murderous character."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Loss of spiritual life."},{"word":"Death","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Anything so dreadful as to be like death."},{"word":"Deathbed","type":"(n.)","description":"The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness."},{"word":"Deathbird","type":"(n.)","description":"Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death."},{"word":"Deathblow","type":"(n.)","description":"A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys."},{"word":"Deathful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody."},{"word":"Deathful","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to undergo death; mortal."},{"word":"Deathfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance of death."},{"word":"Deathless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame."},{"word":"Deathlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling death."},{"word":"Deathlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Deadly."},{"word":"Deathliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being deathly; deadliness."},{"word":"Deathly","type":"(a.)","description":"Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive."},{"word":"Deathly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick."},{"word":"Death's-head","type":"(n.)","description":"A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death."},{"word":"Death's-herb","type":"(n.)","description":"The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)."},{"word":"Deathsman","type":"(n.)","description":"An executioner; a headsman or hangman."},{"word":"Deathward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward death."},{"word":"Deathwatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death."},{"word":"Deathwatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick."},{"word":"Deathwatch","type":"(n.)","description":"The guard set over a criminal before his execution."},{"word":"Deaurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Gilded."},{"word":"Deaurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gild."},{"word":"Deauration","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of gilding."},{"word":"Deave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen."},{"word":"Debacchate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rave as a bacchanal."},{"word":"Debacchation","type":"(n.)","description":"Wild raving or debauchery."},{"word":"Debacle","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris."},{"word":"Debarred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Debar"},{"word":"Debarring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Debar"},{"word":"Debar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of."},{"word":"Debarb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the beard."},{"word":"Debarked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Debark"},{"word":"Debarking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Debark"},{"word":"Debark","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore."},{"word":"Debarkation","type":"(n.)","description":"Disembarkation."},{"word":"Debarment","type":"(n.)","description":"Hindrance from approach; exclusion."},{"word":"Debarrass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disembarrass; to relieve."},{"word":"Debased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Debase"},{"word":"Debasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Debase"},{"word":"Debase","type":"(a.)","description":"To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words."},{"word":"Debased","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed."},{"word":"Debasement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of debasing or the state of being debased."},{"word":"Debaser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, debases."},{"word":"Debasingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to debase."},{"word":"Debatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question."},{"word":"Debated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Debate"},{"word":"Debating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Debate"},{"word":"Debate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage in combat for; to strive for."},{"word":"Debate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against."},{"word":"Debate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in strife or combat; to fight."},{"word":"Debate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon."},{"word":"Debate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A fight or fighting; contest; strife."},{"word":"Debate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress."},{"word":"Debate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Subject of discussion."},{"word":"Debateful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome."},{"word":"Debatefully","type":"(adv.)","description":"With contention."},{"word":"Debatement","type":"(n.)","description":"Controversy; deliberation; debate."},{"word":"Debater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist."},{"word":"Debating","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discussing or arguing; discussion."},{"word":"Debatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a debate."},{"word":"Debauched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Debauch"},{"word":"Debauching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Debauch"},{"word":"Debauch","type":"(n.)","description":"To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army."},{"word":"Debauch","type":"(n.)","description":"Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery."},{"word":"Debauch","type":"(n.)","description":"An act or occasion of debauchery."},{"word":"Debauched","type":"(a.)","description":"Dissolute; dissipated."},{"word":"Debauchedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a profligate manner."},{"word":"Debauchedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being debauched; intemperance."},{"word":"Debauchee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine."},{"word":"Debaucher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness."},{"word":"Debaucheries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Debauchery"},{"word":"Debauchery","type":"(n.)","description":"Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance."},{"word":"Debauchery","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness."},{"word":"Debauchment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty."},{"word":"Debauchness","type":"(n.)","description":"Debauchedness."},{"word":"Debeige","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods."},{"word":"Debel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conquer."},{"word":"Debellate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subdue; to conquer in war."},{"word":"Debellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of conquering or subduing."},{"word":"De","type":"()","description":"Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally."},{"word":"Debenture","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due."},{"word":"Debenture","type":"(n.)","description":"A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation."},{"word":"Debentured","type":"(a.)","description":"Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods."},{"word":"Debile","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak."},{"word":"Debilitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug."},{"word":"Debilitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Debilitate"},{"word":"Debilitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Debilitate"},{"word":"Debilitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance."},{"word":"Debilitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness."},{"word":"Debility","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor."},{"word":"Debit","type":"(n.)","description":"A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account."},{"word":"Debited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Debit"},{"word":"Debiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Debit"},{"word":"Debit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold."},{"word":"Debit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold."},{"word":"Debitor","type":"(n.)","description":"A debtor."},{"word":"Debituminization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving of bitumen."},{"word":"Debituminize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of bitumen."},{"word":"Deblai","type":"(n.)","description":"The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken."},{"word":"Debonair","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant."},{"word":"Debonairity","type":"(n.)","description":"Debonairness."},{"word":"Debonairly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Courteously; elegantly."},{"word":"Debonairness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy."},{"word":"Debosh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To debauch."},{"word":"Deboshment","type":"(n.)","description":"Debauchment."},{"word":"Debouched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Debouch"},{"word":"Debouching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Debouch"},{"word":"Debouch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue."},{"word":"Debouche","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods."},{"word":"Debouchure","type":"(n.)","description":"The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait."},{"word":"Debris","type":"(n.)","description":"Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base."},{"word":"Debris","type":"(n.)","description":"Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins."},{"word":"Debruised","type":"(a.)","description":"Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut."},{"word":"Debt","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability."},{"word":"Debt","type":"(n.)","description":"A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass."},{"word":"Debt","type":"(n.)","description":"An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due."},{"word":"Debted","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Indebted; obliged to."},{"word":"Debtee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor."},{"word":"Debtless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from debt."},{"word":"Debtor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor."},{"word":"Debulliate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To boil over."},{"word":"Debulition","type":"(n.)","description":"A bubbling or boiling over."},{"word":"Deburse","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To disburse."},{"word":"Debuscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs."},{"word":"Debut","type":"(n.)","description":"A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker."},{"word":"Debutant","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Debutante"},{"word":"Debutante","type":"()","description":"A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public."},{"word":"Deca-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit."},{"word":"Decacerata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata."},{"word":"Decachord","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decachordon"},{"word":"Decachordon","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp."},{"word":"Decachordon","type":"(n.)","description":"Something consisting of ten parts."},{"word":"Decucuminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the point or top cut off."},{"word":"Decad","type":"(n.)","description":"A decade."},{"word":"Decadal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens."},{"word":"Decade","type":"(n.)","description":"A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy."},{"word":"Decadence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decadency"},{"word":"Decadency","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. \"The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.\""},{"word":"Decadent","type":"(a.)","description":"Decaying; deteriorating."},{"word":"Decadist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist."},{"word":"Decagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal."},{"word":"Decagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides."},{"word":"Decagram","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decagramme"},{"word":"Decagramme","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois."},{"word":"Decagynia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean order of plants characterized by having ten styles."},{"word":"Decagynian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Deccagynous"},{"word":"Deccagynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles."},{"word":"Decahedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ten sides."},{"word":"Decahedrons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decahedron"},{"word":"Decahedra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decahedron"},{"word":"Decahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces."},{"word":"Decalcification","type":"(n.)","description":"The removal of calcareous matter."},{"word":"Decalcified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decalcify"},{"word":"Decalcifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decalcify"},{"word":"Decalcify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin."},{"word":"Decalcomania","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decalcomanie"},{"word":"Decalcomanie","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto."},{"word":"Decaliter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decalitre"},{"word":"Decalitre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons."},{"word":"Decalog","type":"(n.)","description":"Decalogue."},{"word":"Decalogist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who explains the decalogue."},{"word":"Decalogue","type":"(n.)","description":"The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone."},{"word":"Decameron","type":"(n.)","description":"A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian."},{"word":"Decameter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decametre"},{"word":"Decametre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches."},{"word":"Decamped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decamp"},{"word":"Decamping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decamp"},{"word":"Decamp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly."},{"word":"Decamp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly."},{"word":"Decampment","type":"(n.)","description":"Departure from a camp; a marching off."},{"word":"Decanal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a dean or deanery."},{"word":"Decandria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants characterized by having ten stamens."},{"word":"Decandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Decandrous"},{"word":"Decandrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens."},{"word":"Decane","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications."},{"word":"Decangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ten angles."},{"word":"Decani","type":"(a.)","description":"Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side."},{"word":"Decanted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decant"},{"word":"Decanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decant"},{"word":"Decant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine."},{"word":"Decantate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decant."},{"word":"Decantation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another."},{"word":"Decanter","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled."},{"word":"Decanter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who decants liquors."},{"word":"Decaphyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ten leaves."},{"word":"Decapitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decapitate"},{"word":"Decapitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decapitate"},{"word":"Decapitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off the head of; to behead."},{"word":"Decapitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove summarily from office."},{"word":"Decapitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beheading; beheading."},{"word":"Decapod","type":"(n.)","description":"A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively."},{"word":"Decapoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc."},{"word":"Decapoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera."},{"word":"Deccapodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Deccapodous"},{"word":"Deccapodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed."},{"word":"Decarbonate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of carbonic acid."},{"word":"Decarbonization","type":"(n.)","description":"The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon."},{"word":"Decarbonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decarbonize"},{"word":"Decarbonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decarbonize"},{"word":"Decarbonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood."},{"word":"Decarbonizer","type":"(n.)","description":"He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance."},{"word":"Decarburization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or result of decarburizing."},{"word":"Decarburize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from."},{"word":"Decard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discard."},{"word":"Decardinalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depose from the rank of cardinal."},{"word":"Decastere","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters."},{"word":"Decastich","type":"(n.)","description":"A poem consisting of ten lines."},{"word":"Decastyle","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc."},{"word":"Decastyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A portico having ten pillars or columns in front."},{"word":"Decasyllabic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or consisting of, ten syllables."},{"word":"Decatoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, decane."},{"word":"Decayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decay"},{"word":"Decaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decay"},{"word":"Decay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay."},{"word":"Decay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to decay; to impair."},{"word":"Decay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy."},{"word":"Decay","type":"(n.)","description":"Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay."},{"word":"Decay","type":"(n.)","description":"Destruction; death."},{"word":"Decay","type":"(n.)","description":"Cause of decay."},{"word":"Decayed","type":"(a.)","description":"Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman."},{"word":"Decayer","type":"(n.)","description":"A causer of decay."},{"word":"Decease","type":"(n.)","description":"Departure, especially departure from this life; death."},{"word":"Deceased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decease"},{"word":"Deceasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decease"},{"word":"Decease","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To depart from this life; to die; to pass away."},{"word":"Deceased","type":"(a.)","description":"Passed away; dead; gone."},{"word":"Decede","type":"(n.)","description":"To withdraw."},{"word":"Decedent","type":"(a.)","description":"Removing; departing."},{"word":"Decedent","type":"(n.)","description":"A deceased person."},{"word":"Deceit","type":"(n.)","description":"An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud."},{"word":"Deceit","type":"(n.)","description":"Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation."},{"word":"Deceitful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere."},{"word":"Deceitfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"With intent to deceive."},{"word":"Deceitfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual."},{"word":"Deceitfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices."},{"word":"Deceitfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency to mislead or deceive."},{"word":"Deceitless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from deceit."},{"word":"Deceivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to deceive; deceitful."},{"word":"Deceivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to deceit; capable of being misled."},{"word":"Deceivableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of deceiving."},{"word":"Deceivableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child."},{"word":"Deceivably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a deceivable manner."},{"word":"Deceived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deceive"},{"word":"Deceiving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deceive"},{"word":"Deceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare."},{"word":"Deceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception."},{"word":"Deceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud."},{"word":"Deceiver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor."},{"word":"December","type":"(n.)","description":"The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice."},{"word":"December","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the December of his life."},{"word":"Decemdentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ten points or teeth."},{"word":"Decemfid","type":"(a.)","description":"Cleft into ten parts."},{"word":"Decemlocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ten cells for seeds."},{"word":"Decempedal","type":"(a.)","description":"Ten feet in length."},{"word":"Decempedal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having ten feet; decapodal."},{"word":"Decemvirs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decemvir"},{"word":"Decemviri","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decemvir"},{"word":"Decemvir","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome."},{"word":"Decemvir","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of any body of ten men in authority."},{"word":"Decemviral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome."},{"word":"Decemvirate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome."},{"word":"Decemvirate","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of ten men in authority."},{"word":"Decemvirship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a decemvir."},{"word":"Decence","type":"(n.)","description":"Decency."},{"word":"Decencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decency"},{"word":"Decency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty."},{"word":"Decency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is proper or becoming."},{"word":"Decene","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series."},{"word":"Decennaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decennary"},{"word":"Decennary","type":"(n.)","description":"A period of ten years."},{"word":"Decennary","type":"(n.)","description":"A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families."},{"word":"Decennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games."},{"word":"Decennial","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenth year or tenth anniversary."},{"word":"Decenniums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decennium"},{"word":"Decennia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decennium"},{"word":"Decennium","type":"(n.)","description":"A period of ten years."},{"word":"Decennoval","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Decennovary"},{"word":"Decennovary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years."},{"word":"Decent","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language."},{"word":"Decent","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest."},{"word":"Decent","type":"(a.)","description":"Comely; shapely; well-formed."},{"word":"Decent","type":"(a.)","description":"Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person."},{"word":"Decentralization","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized."},{"word":"Decentralize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs."},{"word":"Deceptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being deceived; deceivable."},{"word":"Deception","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deceiving or misleading."},{"word":"Deception","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being deceived or misled."},{"word":"Deception","type":"(n.)","description":"That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud."},{"word":"Deceptious","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending deceive; delusive."},{"word":"Deceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance."},{"word":"Deceptively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to deceive."},{"word":"Deceptiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive."},{"word":"Deceptivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham."},{"word":"Deceptory","type":"(a.)","description":"Deceptive."},{"word":"Decern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perceive, discern, or decide."},{"word":"Decern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decree; to adjudge."},{"word":"Decerniture","type":"(n.)","description":"A decree or sentence of a court."},{"word":"Decerp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pluck off; to crop; to gather."},{"word":"Decerpt","type":"(a.)","description":"Plucked off or away."},{"word":"Decerptible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away."},{"word":"Decerption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of plucking off; a cropping."},{"word":"Decerption","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece."},{"word":"Decertation","type":"(n.)","description":"Contest for mastery; contention; strife."},{"word":"Decession","type":"(n.)","description":"Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion."},{"word":"Decharm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from a charm; to disenchant."},{"word":"Dechristianized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dechristianize"},{"word":"Dechristianizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dechristianize"},{"word":"Dechristianize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn from, or divest of, Christianity."},{"word":"Decidable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being decided; determinable."},{"word":"Decided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decide"},{"word":"Deciding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decide"},{"word":"Decide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off; to separate."},{"word":"Decide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle."},{"word":"Decide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant."},{"word":"Decided","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage."},{"word":"Decided","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose."},{"word":"Decidedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly."},{"word":"Decidement","type":"(n.)","description":"Means of forming a decision."},{"word":"Decidence","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling off."},{"word":"Decider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who decides."},{"word":"Decidua","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it."},{"word":"Deciduata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species."},{"word":"Deciduate","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua."},{"word":"Deciduity","type":"(n.)","description":"Deciduousness."},{"word":"Deciduous","type":"(a.)","description":"Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane."},{"word":"Deciduousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being deciduous."},{"word":"Decigram","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decigramme"},{"word":"Decigramme","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois."},{"word":"Decil","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decile"},{"word":"Decile","type":"(n.)","description":"An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36�."},{"word":"Deciliter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decilitre"},{"word":"Decilitre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces."},{"word":"Decillion","type":"(n.)","description":"According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]"},{"word":"Decillionth","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion."},{"word":"Decillionth","type":"(n.)","description":"The quotient of unity divided by a decillion."},{"word":"Decillionth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a decillion equal parts."},{"word":"Decimal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage."},{"word":"Decimal","type":"(n.)","description":"A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction."},{"word":"Decimalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc."},{"word":"Decimalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency."},{"word":"Decimally","type":"(adv.)","description":"By tens; by means of decimals."},{"word":"Decimated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decimate"},{"word":"Decimating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decimate"},{"word":"Decimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take the tenth part of; to tithe."},{"word":"Decimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny."},{"word":"Decimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease."},{"word":"Decimation","type":"(n.)","description":"A tithing."},{"word":"Decimation","type":"(n.)","description":"A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment."},{"word":"Decimation","type":"(n.)","description":"The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war."},{"word":"Decimator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who decimates."},{"word":"Decime","type":"(n.)","description":"A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents."},{"word":"Decimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decimetre"},{"word":"Decimetre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches."},{"word":"Decimosexto","type":"(n.)","description":"A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16�."},{"word":"Decimosexto","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size."},{"word":"Decine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene."},{"word":"Deciphered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decipher"},{"word":"Deciphering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decipher"},{"word":"Decipher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters."},{"word":"Decipher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold."},{"word":"Decipher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stamp; to detect; to discover."},{"word":"Decipherable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable."},{"word":"Decipherer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deciphers."},{"word":"Decipheress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who deciphers."},{"word":"Decipherment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deciphering."},{"word":"Decipiency","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being deceived; hallucination."},{"word":"Decipium","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium."},{"word":"Decision","type":"(n.)","description":"Cutting off; division; detachment of a part."},{"word":"Decision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion."},{"word":"Decision","type":"(n.)","description":"An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court."},{"word":"Decision","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision."},{"word":"Decisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive."},{"word":"Decisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked by promptness and decision."},{"word":"Decisory","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide."},{"word":"Decistere","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere."},{"word":"Decitizenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the rights of citizenship."},{"word":"Decivilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce from civilization to a savage state."},{"word":"Decked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deck"},{"word":"Decking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deck"},{"word":"Deck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover; to overspread."},{"word":"Deck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish."},{"word":"Deck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a deck, as a vessel."},{"word":"Deck","type":"(v.)","description":"The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks."},{"word":"Deck","type":"(v.)","description":"The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat."},{"word":"Deck","type":"(v.)","description":"The roof of a passenger car."},{"word":"Deck","type":"(v.)","description":"A pack or set of playing cards."},{"word":"Deck","type":"(v.)","description":"A heap or store."},{"word":"Deckel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Deckle."},{"word":"Decker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker."},{"word":"Decker","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker."},{"word":"Deckle","type":"(n.)","description":"A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper."},{"word":"Declaimed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Declaim"},{"word":"Declaiming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Declaim"},{"word":"Declaim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week."},{"word":"Declaim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant."},{"word":"Declaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner."},{"word":"Declaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly."},{"word":"Declaimant","type":"(n.)","description":"A declaimer."},{"word":"Declaimer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who declaims; an haranguer."},{"word":"Declamation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students."},{"word":"Declamation","type":"(n.)","description":"A set or harangue; declamatory discourse."},{"word":"Declamation","type":"(n.)","description":"Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation."},{"word":"Declamator","type":"(n.)","description":"A declaimer."},{"word":"Declamatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme."},{"word":"Declamatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style."},{"word":"Declarable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being declared."},{"word":"Declarant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who declares."},{"word":"Declaration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc."},{"word":"Declaration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal."},{"word":"Declaration","type":"(n.)","description":"The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington)."},{"word":"Declaration","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3."},{"word":"Declarative","type":"(a.)","description":"Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory."},{"word":"Declaratively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration."},{"word":"Declarator","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared."},{"word":"Declaratorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a declaratory manner."},{"word":"Declaratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature."},{"word":"Declared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Declare"},{"word":"Declaring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Declare"},{"word":"Declare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clear; to free from obscurity."},{"word":"Declare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce."},{"word":"Declare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false."},{"word":"Declare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc."},{"word":"Declare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies."},{"word":"Declare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass."},{"word":"Declaredly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Avowedly; explicitly."},{"word":"Declaredness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being declared."},{"word":"Declarement","type":"(n.)","description":"Declaration."},{"word":"Declarer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits."},{"word":"Declension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope."},{"word":"Declension","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc."},{"word":"Declension","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination."},{"word":"Declension","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases."},{"word":"Declension","type":"(n.)","description":"The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc."},{"word":"Declension","type":"(n.)","description":"Rehearsing a word as declined."},{"word":"Declensional","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to declension."},{"word":"Declinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech."},{"word":"Declinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Declining; sloping."},{"word":"Declinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined."},{"word":"Declination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head."},{"word":"Declination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline."},{"word":"Declination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal."},{"word":"Declination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness."},{"word":"Declination","type":"(n.)","description":"The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward."},{"word":"Declination","type":"(n.)","description":"The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south."},{"word":"Declination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4."},{"word":"Declinator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane."},{"word":"Declinator","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissentient."},{"word":"Declinatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence."},{"word":"Declinature","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office."},{"word":"Declined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decline"},{"word":"Declining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decline"},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to decrease or diminish."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever."},{"word":"Decline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline."},{"word":"Declined","type":"(a.)","description":"Declinate."},{"word":"Decliner","type":"(n.)","description":"He who declines or rejects."},{"word":"Declinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle."},{"word":"Declinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Declinate."},{"word":"Declivitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Declivous"},{"word":"Declivous","type":"(a.)","description":"Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill."},{"word":"Declivities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Declivity"},{"word":"Declivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity."},{"word":"Declivity","type":"(n.)","description":"A descending surface; a sloping place."},{"word":"Decocted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decoct"},{"word":"Decocting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decoct"},{"word":"Decoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of."},{"word":"Decoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct."},{"word":"Decoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling."},{"word":"Decoctible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being boiled or digested."},{"word":"Decoction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues."},{"word":"Decoction","type":"(n.)","description":"An extract got from a body by boiling it in water."},{"word":"Decocture","type":"(n.)","description":"A decoction."},{"word":"Decollated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decollate"},{"word":"Decollating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decollate"},{"word":"Decollate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate."},{"word":"Decollated","type":"(a.)","description":"Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells."},{"word":"Decollation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist."},{"word":"Decollation","type":"(n.)","description":"A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist."},{"word":"Decollete","type":"(a.)","description":"Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress."},{"word":"Decolling","type":"(n.)","description":"Beheading."},{"word":"Decolor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of color; to bleach."},{"word":"Decolorant","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which removes color, or bleaches."},{"word":"Decolorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of color."},{"word":"Decolorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decolor."},{"word":"Decoloration","type":"(n.)","description":"The removal or absence of color."},{"word":"Decolorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of color; to whiten."},{"word":"Decomplex","type":"(a.)","description":"Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents."},{"word":"Decomposable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being resolved into constituent elements."},{"word":"Decomposed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decompose"},{"word":"Decomposing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decompose"},{"word":"Decompose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay."},{"word":"Decompose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot."},{"word":"Decomposed","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent."},{"word":"Decomposite","type":"(a.)","description":"Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite."},{"word":"Decomposite","type":"(a.)","description":"See Decompound, a., 2."},{"word":"Decomposite","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything decompounded."},{"word":"Decomposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc."},{"word":"Decomposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being reduced into original elements."},{"word":"Decomposition","type":"(n.)","description":"Repeated composition; a combination of compounds."},{"word":"Decompounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decompound"},{"word":"Decompounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decompound"},{"word":"Decompound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time."},{"word":"Decompound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose."},{"word":"Decompound","type":"(a.)","description":"Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time."},{"word":"Decompound","type":"(a.)","description":"Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite."},{"word":"Decompound","type":"(n.)","description":"A decomposite."},{"word":"Decompoundable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being decompounded."},{"word":"Deconcentrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize."},{"word":"Deconcentration","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of deconcentrating."},{"word":"Deconcoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decompose."},{"word":"Deconsecrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of sacredness; to secularize."},{"word":"Decorament","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Ornament."},{"word":"Decorated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decorate"},{"word":"Decorating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decorate"},{"word":"Decorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors."},{"word":"Decoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation."},{"word":"Decoration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament."},{"word":"Decoration","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc."},{"word":"Decorative","type":"(a.)","description":"Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning."},{"word":"Decorator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration."},{"word":"Decore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decorate; to beautify."},{"word":"Decorement","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornament."},{"word":"Decorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge."},{"word":"Decorticated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decorticate"},{"word":"Decorticating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decorticate"},{"word":"Decorticate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull."},{"word":"Decortication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat."},{"word":"Decorticator","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees."},{"word":"Decorum","type":"(n.)","description":"Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable."},{"word":"Decoyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decoy"},{"word":"Decoying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decoy"},{"word":"Decoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net."},{"word":"Decoy","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait."},{"word":"Decoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot."},{"word":"Decoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them."},{"word":"Decoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection."},{"word":"Decoy-duck","type":"(n.)","description":"A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger."},{"word":"Decoyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who decoys another."},{"word":"Decoy-men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decoy-man"},{"word":"Decoy-man","type":"(n.)","description":"A man employed in decoying wild fowl."},{"word":"Decreased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decrease"},{"word":"Decreasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decrease"},{"word":"Decrease","type":"(n.)","description":"To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December."},{"word":"Decrease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means."},{"word":"Decrease","type":"(v.)","description":"A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength."},{"word":"Decrease","type":"(v.)","description":"The wane of the moon."},{"word":"Decreaseless","type":"(a.)","description":"Suffering no decrease."},{"word":"Decreasing","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming less and less; diminishing."},{"word":"Decreation","type":"(n.)","description":"Destruction; -- opposed to creation."},{"word":"Decree","type":"(n.)","description":"An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision."},{"word":"Decree","type":"(n.)","description":"A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty."},{"word":"Decree","type":"(n.)","description":"A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him."},{"word":"Decree","type":"(n.)","description":"An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils."},{"word":"Decreed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decree"},{"word":"Decreeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decree"},{"word":"Decree","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property."},{"word":"Decree","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ordain by fate."},{"word":"Decree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make decrees; -- used absolutely."},{"word":"Decreeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being decreed."},{"word":"Decreer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who decrees."},{"word":"Decreet","type":"(n.)","description":"The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided."},{"word":"Decrement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss."},{"word":"Decrement","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment."},{"word":"Decrement","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced."},{"word":"Decrement","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity by which a variable is diminished."},{"word":"Decrepit","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out."},{"word":"Decrepitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decrepitate"},{"word":"Decrepitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decrepitate"},{"word":"Decrepitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt."},{"word":"Decrepitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crackle, as salt in roasting."},{"word":"Decrepitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting."},{"word":"Decrepitness","type":"(n.)","description":"Decrepitude."},{"word":"Decrepitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age."},{"word":"Decrescendo","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign."},{"word":"Decrescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon."},{"word":"Decrescent","type":"(n.)","description":"A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister."},{"word":"Decretal","type":"(a.)","description":"Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle."},{"word":"Decretal","type":"(a.)","description":"An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law."},{"word":"Decretal","type":"(a.)","description":"The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort."},{"word":"Decrete","type":"(n.)","description":"A decree."},{"word":"Decretion","type":"(n.)","description":"A decrease."},{"word":"Decretist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals."},{"word":"Decretive","type":"(n.)","description":"Having the force of a decree; determining."},{"word":"Decretorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Decretory; authoritative."},{"word":"Decretorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree."},{"word":"Decretory","type":"(a.)","description":"Established by a decree; definitive; settled."},{"word":"Decretory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to determine; critical."},{"word":"Decrew","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To decrease."},{"word":"Decrial","type":"(n.)","description":"A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure."},{"word":"Decrier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who decries."},{"word":"Decrown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a crown; to discrown."},{"word":"Decrustation","type":"(n.)","description":"The removal of a crust."},{"word":"Decried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decry"},{"word":"Decrying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decry"},{"word":"Decry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage."},{"word":"Decubation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of lying down; decumbence."},{"word":"Decubitus","type":"(n.)","description":"An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus."},{"word":"Decuman","type":"(a.)","description":"Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively."},{"word":"Decumbence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Decumbency"},{"word":"Decumbency","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or posture of lying down."},{"word":"Decumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying down; prostrate; recumbent."},{"word":"Decumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem."},{"word":"Decumbently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a decumbent posture."},{"word":"Decumbiture","type":"(n.)","description":"Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness."},{"word":"Decumbiture","type":"(n.)","description":"Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made."},{"word":"Decuple","type":"(a.)","description":"Tenfold."},{"word":"Decuple","type":"(n.)","description":"A number ten times repeated."},{"word":"Decupled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decuple"},{"word":"Decupling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decuple"},{"word":"Decuple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make tenfold; to multiply by ten."},{"word":"Decurion","type":"(n.)","description":"A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers."},{"word":"Decurionate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a decurion."},{"word":"Decurrence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of running down; a lapse."},{"word":"Decurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem."},{"word":"Decursion","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing; also, a hostile incursion."},{"word":"Decursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Running down; decurrent."},{"word":"Decursively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a decursive manner."},{"word":"Decurt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut short; to curtail."},{"word":"Decurtation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of cutting short."},{"word":"Decuries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Decury"},{"word":"Decury","type":"(n.)","description":"A set or squad of ten men under a decurion."},{"word":"Decussated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Decussate"},{"word":"Decussating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Decussate"},{"word":"Decussate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc."},{"word":"Decussate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Decussated"},{"word":"Decussated","type":"(a.)","description":"Crossed; intersected."},{"word":"Decussated","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches."},{"word":"Decussated","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period."},{"word":"Decussately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a decussate manner."},{"word":"Decussation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc."},{"word":"Decussative","type":"(a.)","description":"Intersecting at acute angles."},{"word":"Decussatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Crosswise; in the form of an X."},{"word":"Decyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series."},{"word":"Decylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl."},{"word":"Dedalian","type":"(a.)","description":"See Daedalian."},{"word":"Dedalous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Daedalous."},{"word":"Dedans","type":"(n.)","description":"A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators."},{"word":"Dede","type":"(a.)","description":"Dead."},{"word":"Dedecorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to shame; to disgrace."},{"word":"Dedecoration","type":"(n.)","description":"Disgrace; dishonor."},{"word":"Dedecorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Disgraceful; unbecoming."},{"word":"Dedentition","type":"(n.)","description":"The shedding of teeth."},{"word":"Dedicate","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated."},{"word":"Dedicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dedicate"},{"word":"Dedicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dedicate"},{"word":"Dedicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use."},{"word":"Dedicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service."},{"word":"Dedicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inscribe or address, as to a patron."},{"word":"Dedicatee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator."},{"word":"Dedication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple."},{"word":"Dedication","type":"(n.)","description":"A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use."},{"word":"Dedication","type":"(n.)","description":"An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor."},{"word":"Dedicator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment."},{"word":"Dedicatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Dedicatory."},{"word":"Dedicatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental."},{"word":"Dedicatory","type":"(n.)","description":"Dedication."},{"word":"Dedimus","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc."},{"word":"Dedition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of yielding; surrender."},{"word":"Dedolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeling no compunction; apathetic."},{"word":"Deduced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deduce"},{"word":"Deducing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deduce"},{"word":"Deduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead forth."},{"word":"Deduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole."},{"word":"Deduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of."},{"word":"Deducement","type":"(n.)","description":"Inference; deduction; thing deduced."},{"word":"Deducibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Deducibleness."},{"word":"Deducible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence."},{"word":"Deducible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being brought down."},{"word":"Deducibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being deducible; deducibility."},{"word":"Deducibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By deduction."},{"word":"Deducive","type":"(a.)","description":"That deduces; inferential."},{"word":"Deducted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deduct"},{"word":"Deducting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deduct"},{"word":"Deduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead forth or out."},{"word":"Deduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of."},{"word":"Deduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce; to diminish."},{"word":"Deductible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn."},{"word":"Deductible","type":"(a.)","description":"Deducible; consequential."},{"word":"Deduction","type":"(n.)","description":"Act or process of deducing or inferring."},{"word":"Deduction","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend."},{"word":"Deduction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion."},{"word":"Deduction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent."},{"word":"Deductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible."},{"word":"Deductively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence."},{"word":"Deductor","type":"(n.)","description":"The pilot whale or blackfish."},{"word":"Deduit","type":"(n.)","description":"Delight; pleasure."},{"word":"Deduplication","type":"(n.)","description":"The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster."},{"word":"Deed","type":"(a.)","description":"Dead."},{"word":"Deed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small."},{"word":"Deed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Illustrious act; achievement; exploit."},{"word":"Deed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Power of action; agency; efficiency."},{"word":"Deed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed."},{"word":"Deed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract."},{"word":"Deed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Performance; -- followed by of."},{"word":"Deed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son."},{"word":"Deedful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring."},{"word":"Deedless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive."},{"word":"Deed","type":"()","description":"A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented."},{"word":"Deedy","type":"(a.)","description":"Industrious; active."},{"word":"Deemed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deem"},{"word":"Deeming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deem"},{"word":"Deem","type":"(v.)","description":"To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn."},{"word":"Deem","type":"(v.)","description":"To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard."},{"word":"Deem","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose."},{"word":"Deem","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass judgment."},{"word":"Deem","type":"(n.)","description":"Opinion; judgment."},{"word":"Deemster","type":"(n.)","description":"A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(superl.)","description":"Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth."},{"word":"Deep","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss."},{"word":"Deepened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deepen"},{"word":"Deepening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deepen"},{"word":"Deepen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel."},{"word":"Deepen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom."},{"word":"Deepen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow."},{"word":"Deepen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ."},{"word":"Deepen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens."},{"word":"Deep-fet","type":"(a.)","description":"Deeply fetched or drawn."},{"word":"Deep-laid","type":"(a.)","description":"Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans."},{"word":"Deeply","type":"(adv.)","description":"At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply."},{"word":"Deeply","type":"(adv.)","description":"Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics."},{"word":"Deeply","type":"(adv.)","description":"Very; with a tendency to darkness of color."},{"word":"Deeply","type":"(adv.)","description":"Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument."},{"word":"Deeply","type":"(adv.)","description":"With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue."},{"word":"Deep-mouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a loud and sonorous voice."},{"word":"Deepness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness."},{"word":"Deepness","type":"(n.)","description":"Craft; insidiousness."},{"word":"Deep-read","type":"(a.)","description":"Profoundly book- learned."},{"word":"Deep-sea","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc."},{"word":"Deep-waisted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck."},{"word":"Deer","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"Any animal; especially, a wild animal."},{"word":"Deer","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison."},{"word":"Deerberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry."},{"word":"Deergrass","type":"(n.)","description":"An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceae inhabiting a temperate clime."},{"word":"Deerhound","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound."},{"word":"Deerlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu."},{"word":"Deer-neck","type":"(n.)","description":"A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse."},{"word":"Deerskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it."},{"word":"Deerstalker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices deerstalking."},{"word":"Deerstalking","type":"(n.)","description":"The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares."},{"word":"Deer's-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla."},{"word":"Dees","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Dice."},{"word":"Dees","type":"(n.)","description":"A dais."},{"word":"Deesis","type":"(n.)","description":"An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being."},{"word":"Deess","type":"(n.)","description":"A goddess."},{"word":"Deev","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dev."},{"word":"Defaced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deface"},{"word":"Defacing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deface"},{"word":"Deface","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record."},{"word":"Deface","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy; to make null."},{"word":"Defacement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration."},{"word":"Defacement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which mars or disfigures."},{"word":"Defacer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures."},{"word":"De","type":"()","description":"Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right."},{"word":"Defail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to fail."},{"word":"Defailance","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure; miscarriage."},{"word":"Defailure","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure."},{"word":"Defalcated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defalcate"},{"word":"Defalcating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defalcate"},{"word":"Defalcate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc."},{"word":"Defalcate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust."},{"word":"Defalcation","type":"(n.)","description":"A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off."},{"word":"Defalcation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated."},{"word":"Defalcation","type":"(n.)","description":"An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement."},{"word":"Defalcator","type":"(n.)","description":"A defaulter or embezzler."},{"word":"Defalk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lop off; to abate."},{"word":"Defamation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion."},{"word":"Defamatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings."},{"word":"Defamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defame"},{"word":"Defaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defame"},{"word":"Defame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse."},{"word":"Defame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render infamous; to bring into disrepute."},{"word":"Defame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge; to accuse."},{"word":"Defame","type":"(n.)","description":"Dishonor."},{"word":"Defamer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator."},{"word":"Defamingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a defamatory manner."},{"word":"Defamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Defamatory."},{"word":"Defatigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being wearied or tired out."},{"word":"Defatigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weary or tire out; to fatigue."},{"word":"Defatigation","type":"(n.)","description":"Weariness; fatigue."},{"word":"Default","type":"(n.)","description":"A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default."},{"word":"Default","type":"(n.)","description":"Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom."},{"word":"Default","type":"(n.)","description":"A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc."},{"word":"Defaulted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Default"},{"word":"Defaulting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Default"},{"word":"Default","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail in duty; to offend."},{"word":"Default","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty."},{"word":"Default","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default."},{"word":"Default","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend."},{"word":"Default","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against."},{"word":"Default","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave out of account; to omit."},{"word":"Defaulter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called."},{"word":"Defaulter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator."},{"word":"Defeasance","type":"(n.)","description":"A defeat; an overthrow."},{"word":"Defeasance","type":"(n.)","description":"A rendering null or void."},{"word":"Defeasance","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated."},{"word":"Defeasanced","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited."},{"word":"Defeasible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title."},{"word":"Defeated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defeat"},{"word":"Defeating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defeat"},{"word":"Defeat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To undo; to disfigure; to destroy."},{"word":"Defeat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate."},{"word":"Defeat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow."},{"word":"Defeat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault."},{"word":"Defeat","type":"(v.)","description":"An undoing or annulling; destruction."},{"word":"Defeat","type":"(v.)","description":"Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design."},{"word":"Defeat","type":"(v.)","description":"An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory."},{"word":"Defeature","type":"(n.)","description":"Overthrow; defeat."},{"word":"Defeature","type":"(n.)","description":"Disfigurement; deformity."},{"word":"Defeatured","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Changed in features; deformed."},{"word":"Defecate","type":"(a.)","description":"Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified."},{"word":"Defecated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defecate"},{"word":"Defecating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defecate"},{"word":"Defecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine."},{"word":"Defecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes."},{"word":"Defecate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become clear, pure, or free."},{"word":"Defecate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To void excrement."},{"word":"Defecation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification."},{"word":"Defecation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of voiding excrement."},{"word":"Defecator","type":"(n.)","description":"That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups."},{"word":"Defect","type":"(n.)","description":"Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity."},{"word":"Defect","type":"(n.)","description":"Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment."},{"word":"Defect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail; to become deficient."},{"word":"Defect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure; to damage."},{"word":"Defectibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Deficiency; imperfection."},{"word":"Defectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to defect; imperfect."},{"word":"Defection","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding."},{"word":"Defectionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who advocates or encourages defection."},{"word":"Defectious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having defects; imperfect."},{"word":"Defective","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules."},{"word":"Defective","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb."},{"word":"Defectuosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Great imperfection."},{"word":"Defectuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of defects; imperfect."},{"word":"Defedation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making foul; pollution."},{"word":"Defence","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"See Defense."},{"word":"Defended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defend"},{"word":"Defending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defend"},{"word":"Defend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel."},{"word":"Defend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prohibit; to forbid."},{"word":"Defend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies."},{"word":"Defend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit."},{"word":"Defendable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being defended; defensible."},{"word":"Defendant","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive."},{"word":"Defendant","type":"(a.)","description":"Making defense."},{"word":"Defendant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defends; a defender."},{"word":"Defendant","type":"(n.)","description":"A person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff."},{"word":"Defendee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is defended."},{"word":"Defender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator."},{"word":"Defendress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female defender."},{"word":"Defensative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to protect or defend."},{"word":"Defense","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Defence"},{"word":"Defence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger."},{"word":"Defence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection."},{"word":"Defence","type":"(n.)","description":"Protecting plea; vindication; justification."},{"word":"Defence","type":"(n.)","description":"The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action."},{"word":"Defence","type":"(n.)","description":"Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc."},{"word":"Defence","type":"(n.)","description":"Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance."},{"word":"Defense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with defenses; to fortify."},{"word":"Defenseless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected."},{"word":"Defenser","type":"(n.)","description":"Defender."},{"word":"Defensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being defended."},{"word":"Defensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause."},{"word":"Defensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of offering defense."},{"word":"Defensibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being defended; defensibility."},{"word":"Defensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor."},{"word":"Defensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war."},{"word":"Defensive","type":"(a.)","description":"In a state or posture of defense."},{"word":"Defensive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which defends; a safeguard."},{"word":"Defensively","type":"(adv.)","description":"On the defensive."},{"word":"Defensor","type":"(n.)","description":"A defender."},{"word":"Defensor","type":"(n.)","description":"A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector."},{"word":"Defensor","type":"(n.)","description":"The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church."},{"word":"Defensory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations."},{"word":"Deferred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defer"},{"word":"Deferring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defer"},{"word":"Defer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold."},{"word":"Defer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put off; to delay to act; to wait."},{"word":"Defer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render or offer."},{"word":"Defer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to."},{"word":"Defer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to."},{"word":"Deference","type":"(n.)","description":"A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance."},{"word":"Deferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to carry; bearing."},{"word":"Deferent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which carries or conveys."},{"word":"Deferent","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round."},{"word":"Deferential","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing deference; accustomed to defer."},{"word":"Deferentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"With deference."},{"word":"Deferment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of delaying; postponement."},{"word":"Deferrer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defers or puts off."},{"word":"Defervescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Defervescency"},{"word":"Defervescency","type":"(n.)","description":"A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness."},{"word":"Defervescency","type":"(n.)","description":"The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia."},{"word":"Defeudalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the feudal character or form."},{"word":"Defiance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat."},{"word":"Defiance","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition."},{"word":"Defiance","type":"(n.)","description":"A casting aside; renunciation; rejection."},{"word":"Defiant","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act."},{"word":"Defiatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Bidding or manifesting defiance."},{"word":"Defibrinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs."},{"word":"Defibrination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of depriving of fibrin."},{"word":"Defibrinize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defibrinate."},{"word":"Deficience","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Deficiency."},{"word":"Deficiencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Deficiency"},{"word":"Deficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect."},{"word":"Deficient","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment."},{"word":"Deficit","type":"(n.)","description":"Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc."},{"word":"Defier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws."},{"word":"Defiguration","type":"(n.)","description":"Disfiguration; mutilation."},{"word":"Defigure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delineate."},{"word":"Defiladed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defilade"},{"word":"Defilading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defilade"},{"word":"Defilade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point."},{"word":"Defilading","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected."},{"word":"Defiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defile"},{"word":"Defiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defile"},{"word":"Defile","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To march off in a line, file by file; to file off."},{"word":"Defile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Defilade."},{"word":"Defile","type":"(n.)","description":"Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc."},{"word":"Defile","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade."},{"word":"Defile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute."},{"word":"Defile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint."},{"word":"Defile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure in purity of character; to corrupt."},{"word":"Defile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate."},{"word":"Defile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute."},{"word":"Defilement","type":"(n.)","description":"The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side."},{"word":"Defilement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness."},{"word":"Defiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes."},{"word":"Defiliation","type":"(n.)","description":"Abstraction of a child from its parents."},{"word":"Definable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words."},{"word":"Defined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Define"},{"word":"Defining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Define"},{"word":"Define","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end."},{"word":"Define","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country."},{"word":"Define","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument."},{"word":"Define","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term."},{"word":"Define","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To determine; to decide."},{"word":"Definement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defining; definition; description."},{"word":"Definer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defines or explains."},{"word":"Definite","type":"(a.)","description":"Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval."},{"word":"Definite","type":"(a.)","description":"Having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise; fixed; exact; clear; as, a definite word, term, or expression."},{"word":"Definite","type":"(a.)","description":"Determined; resolved."},{"word":"Definite","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to define or restrict; limiting; determining; as, the definite article."},{"word":"Definite","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing defined or determined."},{"word":"Definitely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately."},{"word":"Definiteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty."},{"word":"Definition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition."},{"word":"Definition","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of \"circle;\" the definition of \"wit;\" an exact definition; a loose definition."},{"word":"Definition","type":"(n.)","description":"Description; sort."},{"word":"Definition","type":"(n.)","description":"An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence."},{"word":"Definition","type":"(n.)","description":"Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail."},{"word":"Definitional","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining."},{"word":"Definitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express."},{"word":"Definitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word."},{"word":"Definitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Determined; resolved."},{"word":"Definitive","type":"(n.)","description":"A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns."},{"word":"Definitively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a definitive manner."},{"word":"Definitiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being definitive."},{"word":"Definitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Definiteness."},{"word":"Defix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix; to fasten; to establish."},{"word":"Deflagrability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being deflagrable."},{"word":"Deflagrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt."},{"word":"Deflagrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deflagrate"},{"word":"Deflagrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deflagrate"},{"word":"Deflagrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt."},{"word":"Deflagrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame."},{"word":"Deflagration","type":"(n.)","description":"A burning up; conflagration."},{"word":"Deflagration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of deflagrating."},{"word":"Deflagrator","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion."},{"word":"Deflate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce from an inflated condition."},{"word":"Deflected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deflect"},{"word":"Deflecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deflect"},{"word":"Deflect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected."},{"word":"Deflect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve."},{"word":"Deflectable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being deflected."},{"word":"Deflected","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned aside; deviating from a direct line or course."},{"word":"Deflected","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent downward; deflexed."},{"word":"Deflection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation."},{"word":"Deflection","type":"(n.)","description":"The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course."},{"word":"Deflection","type":"(n.)","description":"A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction."},{"word":"Deflection","type":"(n.)","description":"The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load."},{"word":"Deflectionization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of freeing from inflections."},{"word":"Deflectionize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from inflections."},{"word":"Deflective","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing deflection."},{"word":"Deflector","type":"(n.)","description":"That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion)."},{"word":"Deflexed","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent abruptly downward."},{"word":"Deflexion","type":"(n.)","description":"See Deflection."},{"word":"Deflexure","type":"(n.)","description":"A bending or turning aside; deflection."},{"word":"Deflorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen."},{"word":"Defloration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin."},{"word":"Defloration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection."},{"word":"Defloured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deflour"},{"word":"Deflouring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deflour"},{"word":"Deflour","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of flowers."},{"word":"Deflour","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament."},{"word":"Deflour","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce."},{"word":"Deflourer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deflours; a ravisher."},{"word":"Deflow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow down."},{"word":"Deflower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Deflour."},{"word":"Deflowerer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Deflourer."},{"word":"Defluous","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing down; falling off."},{"word":"Deflux","type":"(n.)","description":"Downward flow."},{"word":"Defluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation."},{"word":"Defly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Deftly."},{"word":"Defoedation","type":"(n.)","description":"Defedation."},{"word":"Defoliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Defoliated"},{"word":"Defoliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall."},{"word":"Defoliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves."},{"word":"Deforced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deforce"},{"word":"Deforcing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deforce"},{"word":"Deforce","type":"(v.)","description":"To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold."},{"word":"Deforce","type":"(v.)","description":"To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty."},{"word":"Deforcement","type":"(n.)","description":"A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right."},{"word":"Deforcement","type":"(n.)","description":"Resistance to an officer in the execution of law."},{"word":"Deforceor","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Deforciant."},{"word":"Deforciant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate."},{"word":"Deforciant","type":"(n.)","description":"One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought."},{"word":"Deforciation","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Deforcement, n."},{"word":"Deforest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear of forests; to disforest."},{"word":"Deformed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deform"},{"word":"Deforming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deform"},{"word":"Deform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure."},{"word":"Deform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor."},{"word":"Deform","type":"(a.)","description":"Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid."},{"word":"Deformation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed."},{"word":"Deformation","type":"(n.)","description":"Transformation; change of shape."},{"word":"Deformed","type":"(a.)","description":"Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head."},{"word":"Deformer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deforms."},{"word":"Deformities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Deformity"},{"word":"Deformity","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness."},{"word":"Deformity","type":"(a.)","description":"Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character."},{"word":"Deforser","type":"(n.)","description":"A deforciant."},{"word":"Defoul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tread down."},{"word":"Defoul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make foul; to defile."},{"word":"Defrauded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defraud"},{"word":"Defrauding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defraud"},{"word":"Defraud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld."},{"word":"Defraudation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud."},{"word":"Defrauder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator."},{"word":"Defraudment","type":"(n.)","description":"Privation by fraud; defrauding."},{"word":"Defrayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defray"},{"word":"Defraying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defray"},{"word":"Defray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc."},{"word":"Defray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath."},{"word":"Defrayal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs."},{"word":"Defrayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pays off expenses."},{"word":"Defrayment","type":"(n.)","description":"Payment of charges."},{"word":"Deft","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat."},{"word":"Deftly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly."},{"word":"Deftness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being deft."},{"word":"Defunct","type":"(a.)","description":"Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased."},{"word":"Defunct","type":"(n.)","description":"A dead person; one deceased."},{"word":"Defunction","type":"(n.)","description":"Death."},{"word":"Defunctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Funereal."},{"word":"Defuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disorder; to make shapeless."},{"word":"Defied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Defy"},{"word":"Defying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Defy"},{"word":"Defy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce."},{"word":"Defy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion."},{"word":"Defy","type":"(n.)","description":"A challenge."},{"word":"Degarnished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Degarnish"},{"word":"Degarnishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Degarnish"},{"word":"Degarnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc."},{"word":"Degarnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort."},{"word":"Degarnishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison."},{"word":"Degender","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Degener"},{"word":"Degener","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To degenerate."},{"word":"Degeneracy","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse."},{"word":"Degeneracy","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness."},{"word":"Degenerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low."},{"word":"Degenerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Degenerate"},{"word":"Degenerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Degenerate"},{"word":"Degenerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate."},{"word":"Degenerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type."},{"word":"Degenerately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a degenerate manner; unworthily."},{"word":"Degenerateness","type":"(n.)","description":"Degeneracy."},{"word":"Degeneration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration."},{"word":"Degeneration","type":"(n.)","description":"That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver."},{"word":"Degeneration","type":"(n.)","description":"A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type."},{"word":"Degeneration","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing degenerated."},{"word":"Degenerationist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state."},{"word":"Degenerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate."},{"word":"Degenerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Degenerate; base."},{"word":"Degenerously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Basely."},{"word":"Deglazing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means."},{"word":"Degloried","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of glory; dishonored."},{"word":"Deglutinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deglutinate"},{"word":"Deglutinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deglutinate"},{"word":"Deglutinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue."},{"word":"Deglutination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ungluing."},{"word":"Deglutition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing."},{"word":"Deglutitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to deglutition."},{"word":"Deglutitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition."},{"word":"Degradation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop."},{"word":"Degradation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement."},{"word":"Degradation","type":"(n.)","description":"Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration."},{"word":"Degradation","type":"(n.)","description":"A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc."},{"word":"Degradation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration."},{"word":"Degradation","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole."},{"word":"Degraded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Degrade"},{"word":"Degrading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Degrade"},{"word":"Degrade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer."},{"word":"Degrade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man."},{"word":"Degrade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down."},{"word":"Degrade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera."},{"word":"Degraded","type":"(a.)","description":"Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base."},{"word":"Degraded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts."},{"word":"Degraded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees."},{"word":"Degradement","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation of rank or office; degradation."},{"word":"Degradingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a degrading manner."},{"word":"Degravation","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of making heavy."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"A step, stair, or staircase."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer."},{"word":"Degree","type":"(n.)","description":"A line or space of the staff."},{"word":"Degu","type":"(n.)","description":"A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidae."},{"word":"Degust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taste."},{"word":"Degustation","type":"(n.)","description":"Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs."},{"word":"Dehisce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gape; to open by dehiscence."},{"word":"Dehiscence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gaping."},{"word":"Dehiscence","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents."},{"word":"Dehiscent","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant."},{"word":"Dehonestate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disparage."},{"word":"Dehonestation","type":"(n.)","description":"A dishonoring; disgracing."},{"word":"Dehorned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dehorn"},{"word":"Dehorning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dehorn"},{"word":"Dehorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn."},{"word":"Dehors","type":"(prep.)","description":"Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument."},{"word":"Dehors","type":"(n.)","description":"All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover."},{"word":"Dehorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dehort"},{"word":"Dehorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dehort"},{"word":"Dehort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade."},{"word":"Dehortation","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissuasion; advice against something."},{"word":"Dehortative","type":"(a.)","description":"Dissuasive."},{"word":"Dehortatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade."},{"word":"Dehorter","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary."},{"word":"Dehumanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences."},{"word":"Dehusk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove the husk from."},{"word":"Dehydrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol."},{"word":"Dehydration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed."},{"word":"Dehydrogenate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen."},{"word":"Dehydrogenation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen."},{"word":"Deicide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ."},{"word":"Deicide","type":"(n.)","description":"One concerned in putting Christ to death."},{"word":"Deictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative."},{"word":"Deictically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely."},{"word":"Deific","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Deifical"},{"word":"Deifical","type":"(a.)","description":"Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making."},{"word":"Deification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise."},{"word":"Deified","type":"(a.)","description":"Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike."},{"word":"Deifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deifies."},{"word":"Deiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Godlike, or of a godlike form."},{"word":"Deiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Conformable to the will of God."},{"word":"Deiformity","type":"(n.)","description":"Likeness to deity."},{"word":"Deified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deify"},{"word":"Deifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deify"},{"word":"Deify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified."},{"word":"Deify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money."},{"word":"Deify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render godlike."},{"word":"Deigned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deign"},{"word":"Deigning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deign"},{"word":"Deign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain."},{"word":"Deign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant."},{"word":"Deign","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive."},{"word":"Deignous","type":"(a.)","description":"Haughty; disdainful."},{"word":"Deil","type":"(n.)","description":"Devil; -- spelt also deel."},{"word":"Deinoceras","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dinoceras."},{"word":"Deinornis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dinornis."},{"word":"Deinosaur","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dinosaur."},{"word":"Deinotherium","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dinotherium."},{"word":"Deintegrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disintegrate."},{"word":"Deinteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Deintevous"},{"word":"Deintevous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rare; excellent; costly."},{"word":"Deiparous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary."},{"word":"Deipnosophist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals."},{"word":"Deis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dais."},{"word":"Deism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation."},{"word":"Deist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker."},{"word":"Deistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Deistical"},{"word":"Deistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book."},{"word":"Deistically","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the manner of deists."},{"word":"Deisticalness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being deistical."},{"word":"Deitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deified."},{"word":"Deities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Deity"},{"word":"Deity","type":"(n.)","description":"The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works."},{"word":"Deity","type":"(n.)","description":"A god or goddess; a heathen god."},{"word":"Dejected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deject"},{"word":"Dejecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deject"},{"word":"Deject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast down."},{"word":"Deject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten."},{"word":"Deject","type":"(a.)","description":"Dejected."},{"word":"Dejecta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick."},{"word":"Dejected","type":"(a.)","description":"Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance."},{"word":"Dejecter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who casts down, or dejects."},{"word":"Dejection","type":"(n.)","description":"A casting down; depression."},{"word":"Dejection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of humbling or abasing one's self."},{"word":"Dejection","type":"(n.)","description":"Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy."},{"word":"Dejection","type":"(n.)","description":"A low condition; weakness; inability."},{"word":"Dejection","type":"(n.)","description":"The discharge of excrement."},{"word":"Dejection","type":"(n.)","description":"Faeces; excrement."},{"word":"Dejectly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Dejectedly."},{"word":"Dejectory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power, or tending, to cast down."},{"word":"Dejectory","type":"(a.)","description":"Promoting evacuations by stool."},{"word":"Dejecture","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is voided; excrements."},{"word":"Dejerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swear solemnly; to take an oath."},{"word":"Dejeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of swearing solemnly."},{"word":"Dejeune","type":"(n.)","description":"A dejeuner."},{"word":"Dejeuner","type":"(n.)","description":"A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation."},{"word":"De","type":"()","description":"By right; of right; by law; -- often opposed to de facto."},{"word":"Deka-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying ten. See Deca-."},{"word":"Dekagram","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Decagram."},{"word":"Dekaliter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Decaliter."},{"word":"Dekameter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Decameter."},{"word":"Dekastere","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Decastere."},{"word":"Dekle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Deckle."},{"word":"Del","type":"(n.)","description":"Share; portion; part."},{"word":"Delaceration","type":"(n.)","description":"A tearing in pieces."},{"word":"Delacrymation","type":"(n.)","description":"An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes."},{"word":"Delactation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of weaning."},{"word":"Delaine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fabric for women's dresses."},{"word":"Delamination","type":"(n.)","description":"Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated."},{"word":"Delapsation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Delapsion."},{"word":"Delapsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delapse"},{"word":"Delapsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delapse"},{"word":"Delapse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass down by inheritance; to lapse."},{"word":"Delapsion","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion."},{"word":"Delassation","type":"(n.)","description":"Fatigue."},{"word":"Delated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delate"},{"word":"Delating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delate"},{"word":"Delate","type":"(v.)","description":"To carry; to convey."},{"word":"Delate","type":"(v.)","description":"To carry abroad; to spread; to make public."},{"word":"Delate","type":"(v.)","description":"To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce."},{"word":"Delate","type":"(v.)","description":"To carry on; to conduct."},{"word":"Delate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dilate."},{"word":"Delation","type":"(n.)","description":"Conveyance."},{"word":"Delation","type":"(n.)","description":"Accusation by an informer."},{"word":"Delator","type":"(n.)","description":"An accuser; an informer."},{"word":"Delaware","type":"(n.)","description":"An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor."},{"word":"Delawares","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory."},{"word":"Delays","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Delay"},{"word":"Delay","type":"(v.)","description":"A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance."},{"word":"Delayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delay"},{"word":"Delaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delay"},{"word":"Delay","type":"(n.)","description":"To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before."},{"word":"Delay","type":"(n.)","description":"To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow."},{"word":"Delay","type":"(n.)","description":"To allay; to temper."},{"word":"Delay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry."},{"word":"Delayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who delays; one who lingers."},{"word":"Delayingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By delays."},{"word":"Delayment","type":"(n.)","description":"Hindrance."},{"word":"Del","type":"()","description":"An agreement by which an agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due."},{"word":"Dele","type":"(imperative sing.)","description":"Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /."},{"word":"Deled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dele"},{"word":"Deleing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dele"},{"word":"Dele","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission."},{"word":"Dele","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deal; to divide; to distribute."},{"word":"Deleble","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being blotted out or erased."},{"word":"Delectable","type":"(a.)","description":"Highly pleasing; delightful."},{"word":"Delectate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delight; to charm."},{"word":"Delectation","type":"(n.)","description":"Great pleasure; delight."},{"word":"Delectus","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek."},{"word":"Delegacy","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power."},{"word":"Delegacy","type":"(a.)","description":"A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation."},{"word":"Delegate","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar."},{"word":"Delegate","type":"(n.)","description":"One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting."},{"word":"Delegate","type":"(n.)","description":"One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution."},{"word":"Delegate","type":"(a.)","description":"Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge."},{"word":"Delegated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delegate"},{"word":"Delegating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delegate"},{"word":"Delegate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize."},{"word":"Delegate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit."},{"word":"Delegation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates."},{"word":"Delegation","type":"(n.)","description":"One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation."},{"word":"Delegation","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him."},{"word":"Delegatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding a delegated position."},{"word":"Delenda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Things to be erased or blotted out."},{"word":"Delenifical","type":"(a.)","description":"Assuaging pain."},{"word":"Deleted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delete"},{"word":"Deleting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delete"},{"word":"Delete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit."},{"word":"Deleterious","type":"(a.)","description":"Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example."},{"word":"Deletery","type":"(a.)","description":"Destructive; poisonous."},{"word":"Deletery","type":"(n.)","description":"That which destroys."},{"word":"Deletion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction."},{"word":"Deletitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper."},{"word":"Deletive","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to destroy or obliterate."},{"word":"Deletory","type":"(n.)","description":"That which blots out."},{"word":"Delf","type":"(n.)","description":"A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch."},{"word":"Delf","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Delftware."},{"word":"Delft","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Delftware."},{"word":"Delftware","type":"(n.)","description":"Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:"},{"word":"Delftware","type":"(n.)","description":"Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like."},{"word":"Delibate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in."},{"word":"Delibation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of tasting; a slight trial."},{"word":"Deliber","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To deliberate."},{"word":"Deliberate","type":"(a.)","description":"Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor."},{"word":"Deliberate","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result."},{"word":"Deliberate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not hasty or sudden; slow."},{"word":"Deliberated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deliberate"},{"word":"Deliberating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deliberate"},{"word":"Deliberate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question."},{"word":"Deliberate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning."},{"word":"Deliberately","type":"(adv.)","description":"With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed."},{"word":"Deliberateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection."},{"word":"Deliberation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection."},{"word":"Deliberation","type":"(n.)","description":"Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council."},{"word":"Deliberative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body."},{"word":"Deliberative","type":"(n.)","description":"A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined."},{"word":"Deliberative","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it."},{"word":"Deliberatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately."},{"word":"Deliberator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deliberates."},{"word":"Delibrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delibrate"},{"word":"Delibrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delibrate"},{"word":"Delibrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip off the bark; to peel."},{"word":"Delibration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of stripping off the bark."},{"word":"Delicacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Delicacy"},{"word":"Delicacy","type":"(a.)","description":"The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like."},{"word":"Delicacy","type":"(a.)","description":"Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame."},{"word":"Delicacy","type":"(a.)","description":"Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action."},{"word":"Delicacy","type":"(a.)","description":"Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment."},{"word":"Delicacy","type":"(a.)","description":"Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy."},{"word":"Delicacy","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance."},{"word":"Delicacy","type":"(a.)","description":"That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table."},{"word":"Delicacy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pleasure; gratification; delight."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, \"a delicate creature.\""},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(n.)","description":"A choice dainty; a delicacy."},{"word":"Delicate","type":"(n.)","description":"A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person."},{"word":"Delicately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a delicate manner."},{"word":"Delicateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being delicate."},{"word":"Delices","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Delicacies; delights."},{"word":"Deliciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delight one's self; to indulge in feasting; to revel."},{"word":"Delicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming."},{"word":"Delicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate."},{"word":"Deliciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained."},{"word":"Deliciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast."},{"word":"Deliciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Luxury."},{"word":"Delict","type":"(n.)","description":"An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor."},{"word":"Deligate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind up; to bandage."},{"word":"Deligation","type":"(n.)","description":"A binding up; a bandaging."},{"word":"Delight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy."},{"word":"Delight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which gives great pleasure or delight."},{"word":"Delight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Licentious pleasure; lust."},{"word":"Delighted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delight"},{"word":"Delighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delight"},{"word":"Delight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear."},{"word":"Delight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in."},{"word":"Delightable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of delighting; delightful."},{"word":"Delighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with delight."},{"word":"Delightedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With delight; gladly."},{"word":"Delighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gives or takes delight."},{"word":"Delightful","type":"(a.)","description":"Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction."},{"word":"Delighting","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving delight; gladdening."},{"word":"Delightless","type":"(a.)","description":"Void of delight."},{"word":"Delightous","type":"(a.)","description":"Delightful."},{"word":"Delightsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Very pleasing; delightful."},{"word":"Delilah","type":"(n.)","description":"The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress."},{"word":"Delimit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound."},{"word":"Delimitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation."},{"word":"Deline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delineate."},{"word":"Deline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark out."},{"word":"Delineable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated."},{"word":"Delineament","type":"(/.)","description":"Delineation; sketch."},{"word":"Delineate","type":"(a.)","description":"Delineated; portrayed."},{"word":"Delineated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delineate"},{"word":"Delineating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delineate"},{"word":"Delineate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation."},{"word":"Delineate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe."},{"word":"Delineation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively."},{"word":"Delineation","type":"(n.)","description":"A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words."},{"word":"Delineator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher."},{"word":"Delineator","type":"(n.)","description":"A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road."},{"word":"Delineatory","type":"(a.)","description":"That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating."},{"word":"Delineature","type":"(n.)","description":"Delineation."},{"word":"Delinition","type":"(n.)","description":"A smearing."},{"word":"Delinquencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Delinquency"},{"word":"Delinquency","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime."},{"word":"Delinquent","type":"(n.)","description":"Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty."},{"word":"Delinquent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit."},{"word":"Delinquently","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to fail in duty."},{"word":"Deliquate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce."},{"word":"Deliquate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste."},{"word":"Deliquation","type":"(n.)","description":"A melting."},{"word":"Deliquesced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deliquesce"},{"word":"Deliquescing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deliquesce"},{"word":"Deliquesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies."},{"word":"Deliquescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt."},{"word":"Deliquescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts."},{"word":"Deliquescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees."},{"word":"Deliquiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce."},{"word":"Deliquiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deliquiating."},{"word":"Deliquium","type":"(n.)","description":"A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium."},{"word":"Deliquium","type":"(n.)","description":"A sinking away; a swooning."},{"word":"Deliquium","type":"(n.)","description":"A melting or maudlin mood."},{"word":"Deliracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Delirium."},{"word":"Delirament","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy."},{"word":"Delirancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Delirium."},{"word":"Delirant","type":"(a.)","description":"Delirious."},{"word":"Delirate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To madden; to rave."},{"word":"Deliration","type":"(n.)","description":"Aberration of mind; delirium."},{"word":"Deliriant","type":"(n.)","description":"A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna)."},{"word":"Delirifacient","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing, or tending to produce, delirium."},{"word":"Delirifacient","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance which tends to cause delirium."},{"word":"Delirious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies."},{"word":"Delirium","type":"(n.)","description":"A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness."},{"word":"Delirium","type":"(n.)","description":"Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness."},{"word":"Delit","type":"(n.)","description":"Delight."},{"word":"Delitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Delightful; delectable."},{"word":"Delitescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Concealment; seclusion; retirement."},{"word":"Delitescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The sudden disappearance of inflammation."},{"word":"Delitescency","type":"(n.)","description":"Concealment; seclusion."},{"word":"Delitescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying hid; concealed."},{"word":"Delitigate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chide; to rail heartily."},{"word":"Delitigation","type":"(n.)","description":"Chiding; brawl."},{"word":"Delivered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deliver"},{"word":"Delivering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deliver"},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death."},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into."},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart."},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball."},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of."},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discover; to show."},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deliberate."},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit; to allow to pass."},{"word":"Deliver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Free; nimble; sprightly; active."},{"word":"Deliverable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered."},{"word":"Deliverance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive."},{"word":"Deliverance","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of bringing forth children."},{"word":"Deliverance","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of speaking; utterance."},{"word":"Deliverance","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint."},{"word":"Deliverance","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly."},{"word":"Deliverance","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness."},{"word":"Deliverer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who delivers or rescues; a preserver."},{"word":"Deliverer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who relates or communicates."},{"word":"Deliveress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female deliverer."},{"word":"Deliverly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Actively; quickly; nimbly."},{"word":"Deliverness","type":"(n.)","description":"Nimbleness; agility."},{"word":"Deliveries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Delivery"},{"word":"Delivery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon."},{"word":"Delivery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters."},{"word":"Delivery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery."},{"word":"Delivery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes."},{"word":"Delivery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exerting one's strength or limbs."},{"word":"Delivery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery."},{"word":"Dell","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, retired valley; a ravine."},{"word":"Dell","type":"(n.)","description":"A young woman; a wench."},{"word":"Della","type":"()","description":"A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language."},{"word":"Dellacruscan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence."},{"word":"Deloo","type":"(n.)","description":"The duykerbok."},{"word":"Deloul","type":"(n.)","description":"A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik."},{"word":"Delph","type":"(n.)","description":"Delftware."},{"word":"Delph","type":"(n.)","description":"The drain on the land side of a sea embankment."},{"word":"Delphian","type":"(a.)","description":"Delphic."},{"word":"Delphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place."},{"word":"Delphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambiguous; mysterious."},{"word":"Delphin","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Delphine"},{"word":"Delphine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini)."},{"word":"Delphin","type":"(n.)","description":"A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin."},{"word":"Delphine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes."},{"word":"Delphinic","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic."},{"word":"Delphinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria)."},{"word":"Delphinine","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder."},{"word":"Delphinoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin."},{"word":"Delphinoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms."},{"word":"Delphinus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1."},{"word":"Delphinus","type":"(n.)","description":"The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila."},{"word":"Deltas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Delta"},{"word":"Delta","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi."},{"word":"Deltafication","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of a delta or of deltas."},{"word":"Deltaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or like, a delta."},{"word":"Delthyris","type":"(n.)","description":"A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer."},{"word":"Deltic","type":"(a.)","description":"Deltaic."},{"word":"Deltidium","type":"(n.)","description":"The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells."},{"word":"Deltohedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron."},{"word":"Deltoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular."},{"word":"Deludable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible."},{"word":"Deluded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delude"},{"word":"Deluding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delude"},{"word":"Delude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of."},{"word":"Delude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frustrate or disappoint."},{"word":"Deluder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor."},{"word":"Deluge","type":"(n.)","description":"A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)."},{"word":"Deluge","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction."},{"word":"Deluged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deluge"},{"word":"Deluging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deluge"},{"word":"Deluge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm."},{"word":"Deluge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe."},{"word":"Delundung","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted."},{"word":"Delusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind."},{"word":"Delusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being deluded or misled."},{"word":"Delusion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief."},{"word":"Delusional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania."},{"word":"Delusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream."},{"word":"Delusory","type":"(a.)","description":"Delusive; fallacious."},{"word":"Delved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Delve"},{"word":"Delving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Delve"},{"word":"Delve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade."},{"word":"Delve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom."},{"word":"Delve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge."},{"word":"Delve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave."},{"word":"Delver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who digs, as with a spade."},{"word":"Demagnetize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize."},{"word":"Demagnetize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize."},{"word":"Demagog","type":"(n.)","description":"Demagogue."},{"word":"Demagogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Demagogical"},{"word":"Demagogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious."},{"word":"Demagogism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practices of a demagogue."},{"word":"Demagogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader."},{"word":"Demagogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Demagogism."},{"word":"Demain","type":"(n.)","description":"Rule; management."},{"word":"Demain","type":"(n.)","description":"See Demesne."},{"word":"Demanded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demand"},{"word":"Demanding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demand"},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call into court; to summon."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a demand; to inquire."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Earnest inquiry; question; query."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person."},{"word":"Demand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A thing or amount claimed to be due."},{"word":"Demandable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be demanded or claimed."},{"word":"Demandant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff."},{"word":"Demander","type":"(n.)","description":"One who demands."},{"word":"Demandress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who demands."},{"word":"Demantoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name."},{"word":"Demarcate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate."},{"word":"Demarcation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction."},{"word":"Demarch","type":"(n.)","description":"March; walk; gait."},{"word":"Demarch","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece."},{"word":"Demarkation","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Demarcation."},{"word":"Dematerialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics."},{"word":"Deme","type":"(n.)","description":"A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township."},{"word":"Deme","type":"(n.)","description":"An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids."},{"word":"Demeaned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demean"},{"word":"Demeaning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demean"},{"word":"Demean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage; to conduct; to treat."},{"word":"Demean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Demean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Demean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Management; treatment."},{"word":"Demean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor."},{"word":"Demean","type":"(n.)","description":"Demesne."},{"word":"Demean","type":"(n.)","description":"Resources; means."},{"word":"Demeanance","type":"(n.)","description":"Demeanor."},{"word":"Demeanor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Management; treatment; conduct."},{"word":"Demeanor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien."},{"word":"Demeanure","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior."},{"word":"Demency","type":"(n.)","description":"Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity."},{"word":"Dement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of reason; to make mad."},{"word":"Dement","type":"(a.)","description":"Demented; dementate."},{"word":"Dementate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Deprived of reason."},{"word":"Dementate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of reason; to dement."},{"word":"Dementation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving of reason; madness."},{"word":"Demented","type":"(a.)","description":"Insane; mad; of unsound mind."},{"word":"Dementia","type":"(n.)","description":"Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy."},{"word":"Demephitized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demephitize"},{"word":"Demephitizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demephitize"},{"word":"Demephitize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purify from mephitic or foul air."},{"word":"Demerge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse."},{"word":"Demerit","type":"(n.)","description":"That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert."},{"word":"Demerit","type":"(n.)","description":"That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit."},{"word":"Demerit","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of one who deserves ill."},{"word":"Demerit","type":"(n.)","description":"To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame."},{"word":"Demerit","type":"(n.)","description":"To depreciate or cry down."},{"word":"Demerit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deserve praise or blame."},{"word":"Demerse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To immerse."},{"word":"Demersed","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed."},{"word":"Demersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning."},{"word":"Demersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water."},{"word":"Demesmerize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize."},{"word":"Demesne","type":"(n.)","description":"A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use."},{"word":"Demesnial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne."},{"word":"Demi-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, signifying half."},{"word":"Demi","type":"(n.)","description":"See Demy, n."},{"word":"Demibastion","type":"(n.)","description":"A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank."},{"word":"Demibrigade","type":"(n.)","description":"A half brigade."},{"word":"Demicadence","type":"(n.)","description":"An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note."},{"word":"Demicannon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds."},{"word":"Demicircle","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass."},{"word":"Demiculverin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds."},{"word":"Demideify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deify in part."},{"word":"Demidevil","type":"(n.)","description":"A half devil."},{"word":"Demigod","type":"(n.)","description":"A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal."},{"word":"Demigoddess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female demigod."},{"word":"Demigorge","type":"(n.)","description":"Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion."},{"word":"Demigrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emigrate."},{"word":"Demigration","type":"(n.)","description":"Emigration."},{"word":"Demigroat","type":"(n.)","description":"A half groat."},{"word":"Demi-island","type":"(n.)","description":"Peninsula."},{"word":"Demijohn","type":"(n.)","description":"A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork."},{"word":"Demilance","type":"(n.)","description":"A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer."},{"word":"Demilancer","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance."},{"word":"Demilune","type":"(n.)","description":"A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin."},{"word":"Demilune","type":"(n.)","description":"A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands."},{"word":"Demiman","type":"(n.)","description":"A half man."},{"word":"Demimonde","type":"(n.)","description":"Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps."},{"word":"Deminatured","type":"(a.)","description":"Having half the nature of another."},{"word":"Demiquaver","type":"(n.)","description":"A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver."},{"word":"Demirelief","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Demirelievo"},{"word":"Demirelievo","type":"(n.)","description":"Half relief. See Demi-rilievo."},{"word":"Demirep","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress."},{"word":"Demi-rilievo","type":"(n.)","description":"Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness."},{"word":"Demi-rilievo","type":"(n.)","description":"A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo."},{"word":"Demisability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being demisable."},{"word":"Demisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate."},{"word":"Demise","type":"(n.)","description":"Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor."},{"word":"Demise","type":"(n.)","description":"The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person."},{"word":"Demise","type":"(n.)","description":"The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter."},{"word":"Demised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demise"},{"word":"Demising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demise"},{"word":"Demise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath."},{"word":"Demise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey; to give."},{"word":"Demise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease."},{"word":"Demisemiquaver","type":"(n.)","description":"A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note."},{"word":"Demiss","type":"(a.)","description":"Cast down; humble; submissive."},{"word":"Demission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection."},{"word":"Demission","type":"(n.)","description":"Resignation of an office."},{"word":"Demissionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed."},{"word":"Demissionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to lower, depress, or degrade."},{"word":"Demissive","type":"(a.)","description":"Downcast; submissive; humble."},{"word":"Demissly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a humble manner."},{"word":"Demisuit","type":"(n.)","description":"A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like."},{"word":"Demitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demit"},{"word":"Demitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demit"},{"word":"Demit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let fall; to depress."},{"word":"Demit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties."},{"word":"Demit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay down, as an office; to resign."},{"word":"Demitint","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light."},{"word":"Demitint","type":"(n.)","description":"The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint."},{"word":"Demitone","type":"(n.)","description":"Semitone."},{"word":"Demiurge","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states."},{"word":"Demiurge","type":"(n.)","description":"God, as the Maker of the world."},{"word":"Demiurge","type":"(n.)","description":"According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man."},{"word":"Demiurgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative."},{"word":"Demivill","type":"(n.)","description":"A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges."},{"word":"Demivolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner."},{"word":"Demiwolf","type":"(n.)","description":"A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf."},{"word":"Demobilization","type":"(n.)","description":"The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing."},{"word":"Demobilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized."},{"word":"Democracies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Democracy"},{"word":"Democracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people."},{"word":"Democracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic."},{"word":"Democracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government."},{"word":"Democracy","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called."},{"word":"Democrat","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people."},{"word":"Democrat","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Democratic party."},{"word":"Democratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people."},{"word":"Democratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a political party so called."},{"word":"Democratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic."},{"word":"Democratical","type":"(a.)","description":"Democratic."},{"word":"Democratically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a democratic manner."},{"word":"Democratism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles or spirit of a democracy."},{"word":"Democratist","type":"(n.)","description":"A democrat."},{"word":"Democratize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render democratic."},{"word":"Democraty","type":"(n.)","description":"Democracy."},{"word":"Demogorgon","type":"(n.)","description":"A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon."},{"word":"Demography","type":"(n.)","description":"The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc."},{"word":"Demoiselle","type":"(n.)","description":"A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid."},{"word":"Demoiselle","type":"(n.)","description":"The Numidian crane (Anthropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements."},{"word":"Demoiselle","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion."},{"word":"Demolished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demolish"},{"word":"Demolishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demolish"},{"word":"Demolish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall."},{"word":"Demolisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns."},{"word":"Demolishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Demolition."},{"word":"Demolition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes."},{"word":"Demolitionist","type":"(n.)","description":"A demolisher."},{"word":"Demon","type":"(n.)","description":"A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology."},{"word":"Demon","type":"(n.)","description":"One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates."},{"word":"Demon","type":"(n.)","description":"An evil spirit; a devil."},{"word":"Demoness","type":"(n.)","description":"A female demon."},{"word":"Demonetization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized."},{"word":"Demonetize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money."},{"word":"Demoniac","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Demoniacal"},{"word":"Demoniacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices."},{"word":"Demoniacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power."},{"word":"Demoniac","type":"(n.)","description":"A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon."},{"word":"Demoniac","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved."},{"word":"Demoniacally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a demoniacal manner."},{"word":"Demoniacism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs."},{"word":"Demonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a demon."},{"word":"Demonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon."},{"word":"Demonianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being possessed by a demon or by demons."},{"word":"Demoniasm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Demonianism."},{"word":"Demonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac."},{"word":"Demonism","type":"(n.)","description":"The belief in demons or false gods."},{"word":"Demonist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in, or worshiper of, demons."},{"word":"Demonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demonize"},{"word":"Demonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demonize"},{"word":"Demonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into."},{"word":"Demonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To control or possess by a demon."},{"word":"Demonocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or government of demons."},{"word":"Demonographer","type":"(n.)","description":"A demonologist."},{"word":"Demonolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"The worship of demons."},{"word":"Demonologer","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in demonology."},{"word":"Demonologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Demonological"},{"word":"Demonological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to demonology."},{"word":"Demonologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology."},{"word":"Demonology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations."},{"word":"Demonomagy","type":"(n.)","description":"Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic."},{"word":"Demonomania","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils."},{"word":"Demonomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One in subjection to a demon, or to demons."},{"word":"Demonomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The dominion of demons."},{"word":"Demonry","type":"(n.)","description":"Demoniacal influence or possession."},{"word":"Demonship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a demon."},{"word":"Demonstrability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness."},{"word":"Demonstrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question."},{"word":"Demonstrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Proved; apparent."},{"word":"Demonstrableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability."},{"word":"Demonstrably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly."},{"word":"Demonstrance","type":"(n.)","description":"Demonstration; proof."},{"word":"Demonstrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident."},{"word":"Demonstrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial."},{"word":"Demonstrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation)."},{"word":"Demonstrater","type":"(n.)","description":"See Demonstrator."},{"word":"Demonstration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason."},{"word":"Demonstration","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show."},{"word":"Demonstration","type":"(n.)","description":"The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation."},{"word":"Demonstration","type":"(n.)","description":"(Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack."},{"word":"Demonstration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself."},{"word":"Demonstration","type":"(n.)","description":"A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions."},{"word":"Demonstrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively."},{"word":"Demonstrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative."},{"word":"Demonstrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of eulogy or of invective."},{"word":"Demonstrative","type":"(n.)","description":"A demonstrative pronoun; as, \"this\" and \"that\" are demonstratives."},{"word":"Demonstratively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner fitted to demonstrate; clearly; convincingly; forcibly."},{"word":"Demonstrativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being demonstrative."},{"word":"Demonstrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence."},{"word":"Demonstrator","type":"(n.)","description":"A teacher of practical anatomy."},{"word":"Demonstratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to demonstrate; demonstrative."},{"word":"Demorage","type":"(n.)","description":"Demurrage."},{"word":"Demoralization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy."},{"word":"Demoralized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demoralize"},{"word":"Demoralizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demoralize"},{"word":"Demoralize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency."},{"word":"Demosthenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator."},{"word":"Demotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common."},{"word":"Demount","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dismount."},{"word":"Dempne","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To damn; to condemn."},{"word":"Dempster","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Demster"},{"word":"Demster","type":"(n.)","description":"A deemster."},{"word":"Demster","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court."},{"word":"Demulce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften."},{"word":"Demulcent","type":"(a.)","description":"Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent."},{"word":"Demulcent","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents."},{"word":"Demulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of soothing; that which soothes."},{"word":"Demurred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Demur"},{"word":"Demurring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Demur"},{"word":"Demur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To linger; to stay; to tarry."},{"word":"Demur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair."},{"word":"Demur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement."},{"word":"Demur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2."},{"word":"Demur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about."},{"word":"Demur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause delay to; to put off."},{"word":"Demur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple."},{"word":"Demure","type":"(a.)","description":"Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave."},{"word":"Demure","type":"(a.)","description":"Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity."},{"word":"Demure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To look demurely."},{"word":"Demurely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty."},{"word":"Demureness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty."},{"word":"Demurity","type":"(n.)","description":"Demureness; also, one who is demure."},{"word":"Demurrable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be demurred to."},{"word":"Demurrage","type":"(n.)","description":"The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing."},{"word":"Demurrage","type":"(n.)","description":"The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention."},{"word":"Demurral","type":"(n.)","description":"Demur; delay in acting or deciding."},{"word":"Demurrer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who demurs."},{"word":"Demurrer","type":"(n.)","description":"A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further."},{"word":"Demies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Demy"},{"word":"Demy","type":"(n.)","description":"A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper."},{"word":"Demy","type":"(n.)","description":"A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford."},{"word":"Demy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book."},{"word":"Den","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers."},{"word":"Den","type":"(n.)","description":"A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice."},{"word":"Den","type":"(n.)","description":"Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone."},{"word":"Den","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell."},{"word":"Den","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To live in, or as in, a den."},{"word":"Denarcotize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium."},{"word":"Denarii","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Denarius"},{"word":"Denarius","type":"(n.)","description":"A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the \"penny\" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as."},{"word":"Denary","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale."},{"word":"Denary","type":"(n.)","description":"The number ten; a division into ten."},{"word":"Denary","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius."},{"word":"Denationalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The or process of denationalizing."},{"word":"Denationalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Denationalize"},{"word":"Denationalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Denationalize"},{"word":"Denationalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest or deprive of national character or rights."},{"word":"Denaturalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Denaturalize"},{"word":"Denaturalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Denaturalize"},{"word":"Denaturalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unnatural; to alienate from nature."},{"word":"Denaturalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize."},{"word":"Denay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deny."},{"word":"Denay","type":"(n.)","description":"Denial; refusal."},{"word":"Dendrachate","type":"(n.)","description":"Arborescent or dendritic agate."},{"word":"Dendriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling in structure a tree or shrub."},{"word":"Dendrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization."},{"word":"Dendritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dendritical"},{"word":"Dendritical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent."},{"word":"Dendroc/la","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets."},{"word":"Dendroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dendroidal"},{"word":"Dendroidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike."},{"word":"Dendrolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant."},{"word":"Dendrologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the natural history of trees."},{"word":"Dendrologous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to dendrology."},{"word":"Dendrology","type":"(n.)","description":"A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees."},{"word":"Dendrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees."},{"word":"Denegate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deny."},{"word":"Denegation","type":"(n.)","description":"Denial."},{"word":"Dengue","type":"(n.)","description":"A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal."},{"word":"Deniable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being, or liable to be, denied."},{"word":"Denial","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation."},{"word":"Denial","type":"(n.)","description":"A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction."},{"word":"Denial","type":"(n.)","description":"A refusal to grant; rejection of a request."},{"word":"Denial","type":"(n.)","description":"A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God."},{"word":"Deniance","type":"(n.)","description":"Denial."},{"word":"Denier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ."},{"word":"Denier","type":"(n.)","description":"A small copper coin of insignificant value."},{"word":"Denigrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blacken thoroughly; to make very black."},{"word":"Denigrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame."},{"word":"Denigration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making black."},{"word":"Denigration","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A blackening; defamation."},{"word":"Denigrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blackens."},{"word":"Denim","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc."},{"word":"Denitration","type":"(n.)","description":"A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid."},{"word":"Denitrification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen."},{"word":"Denitrify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen."},{"word":"Denization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization."},{"word":"Denize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize."},{"word":"Denizen","type":"(n.)","description":"A dweller; an inhabitant."},{"word":"Denizen","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen."},{"word":"Denizen","type":"(n.)","description":"One admitted to residence in a foreign country."},{"word":"Denizen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges."},{"word":"Denizen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants."},{"word":"Denizenation","type":"(n.)","description":"Denization; denizening."},{"word":"Denizenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen."},{"word":"Denizenship","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being a denizen."},{"word":"Denmark","type":"()","description":"See under Satin."},{"word":"Dennet","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig."},{"word":"Denominable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being denominated or named."},{"word":"Denominated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Denominate"},{"word":"Denominating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Denominate"},{"word":"Denominate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate."},{"word":"Denominate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound number, under Compound."},{"word":"Denomination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of naming or designating."},{"word":"Denomination","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons."},{"word":"Denomination","type":"(n.)","description":"A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians."},{"word":"Denominational","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society."},{"word":"Denominationalism","type":"(n.)","description":"A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination."},{"word":"Denominationalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One imbued with a denominational spirit."},{"word":"Denominationally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect."},{"word":"Denominative","type":"(a.)","description":"Conferring a denomination or name."},{"word":"Denominative","type":"(a.)","description":"Connotative; as, a denominative name."},{"word":"Denominative","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable."},{"word":"Denominative","type":"(a.)","description":"Derived from a substantive or an adjective; as, a denominative verb."},{"word":"Denominative","type":"(n.)","description":"A denominative name or term; denominative verb."},{"word":"Denominatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By denomination."},{"word":"Denominator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name."},{"word":"Denominator","type":"(n.)","description":"That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided."},{"word":"Denominator","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of any expression under a fractional form which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division."},{"word":"Denotable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being denoted or marked."},{"word":"Denotate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark off; to denote."},{"word":"Denotation","type":"(n.)","description":"The marking off or separation of anything."},{"word":"Denotative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to denote; designating or marking off."},{"word":"Denoted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Denote"},{"word":"Denoting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Denote"},{"word":"Denote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour."},{"word":"Denote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean."},{"word":"Denotement","type":"(n.)","description":"Sign; indication."},{"word":"Denotive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to denote."},{"word":"Denouement","type":"(n.)","description":"The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance."},{"word":"Denouement","type":"(n.)","description":"The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome."},{"word":"Denounced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Denounce"},{"word":"Denouncing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Denounce"},{"word":"Denounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil)."},{"word":"Denounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression."},{"word":"Denounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize."},{"word":"Denouncement","type":"(n.)","description":"Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation."},{"word":"Denouncer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who denounces, or declares, as a menace."},{"word":"Dense","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog."},{"word":"Dense","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance."},{"word":"Densely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dense, compact manner."},{"word":"Denseless","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dense; density."},{"word":"Densimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance."},{"word":"Density","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity."},{"word":"Density","type":"(n.)","description":"The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard."},{"word":"Density","type":"(n.)","description":"Depth of shade."},{"word":"Dent","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke; a blow."},{"word":"Dent","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation."},{"word":"Dented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dent"},{"word":"Denting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dent"},{"word":"Dent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a dent upon; to indent."},{"word":"Dent","type":"(n.)","description":"A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc."},{"word":"Dental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery."},{"word":"Dental","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters."},{"word":"Dental","type":"(a.)","description":"An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth."},{"word":"Dental","type":"(a.)","description":"A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium."},{"word":"Dentalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth."},{"word":"Dentalium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell."},{"word":"Dentary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth."},{"word":"Dentary","type":"(n.)","description":"The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth."},{"word":"Dentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dentated"},{"word":"Dentated","type":"(a.)","description":"Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf."},{"word":"Dentated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having teeth or toothlike points. See Illust. of Antennae."},{"word":"Dentate-ciliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs."},{"word":"Dentately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc."},{"word":"Dentate-sinuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate."},{"word":"Dentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Formation of teeth; toothed form."},{"word":"Dented","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Indented; impressed with little hollows."},{"word":"Dentel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dentil."},{"word":"Dentelle","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental tooling like lace."},{"word":"Dentelli","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Modillions."},{"word":"Dentex","type":"(n.)","description":"An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidae."},{"word":"Denticete","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc."},{"word":"Denticle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tooth or projecting point."},{"word":"Denticulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Denticulated"},{"word":"Denticulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx."},{"word":"Denticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being set with small notches or teeth."},{"word":"Denticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminutive tooth; a denticle."},{"word":"Dentiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing teeth; dentigerous."},{"word":"Dentiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped."},{"word":"Dentifrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder."},{"word":"Dentigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing teeth or toothlike structures."},{"word":"Dentil","type":"(n.)","description":"A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders."},{"word":"Dentilabial","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by the teeth and the lips, or representing a sound so formed."},{"word":"Dentilabial","type":"(n.)","description":"A dentilabial sound or letter."},{"word":"Dentilated","type":"(a.)","description":"Toothed."},{"word":"Dentilation","type":"(n.)","description":"Dentition."},{"word":"Dentilave","type":"(n.)","description":"A wash for cleaning the teeth."},{"word":"Dentile","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tooth, like that of a saw."},{"word":"Dentilingual","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed."},{"word":"Dentilingual","type":"(n.)","description":"A dentilingual sound or letter."},{"word":"Dentiloquist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who speaks through the teeth, that is, with the teeth closed."},{"word":"Dentiloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed."},{"word":"Dential","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dentine."},{"word":"Dentine","type":"(n.)","description":"The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel."},{"word":"Dentiphone","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone."},{"word":"Dentirostres","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dentiroster"},{"word":"Dentiroster","type":"(n.)","description":"A dentirostral bird."},{"word":"Dentirostral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak."},{"word":"Dentirostrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Dentirostral."},{"word":"Dentiscalp","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for scraping the teeth."},{"word":"Dentist","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon."},{"word":"Dentistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dentistical"},{"word":"Dentistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists."},{"word":"Dentistry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery."},{"word":"Dentition","type":"(n.)","description":"The development and cutting of teeth; teething."},{"word":"Dentition","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of teeth peculiar to an animal."},{"word":"Dentized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dentize"},{"word":"Dentizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dentize"},{"word":"Dentize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To breed or cut new teeth."},{"word":"Dentoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped."},{"word":"Dentolingual","type":"(a.)","description":"Dentilingual."},{"word":"Denture","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth."},{"word":"Denudate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To denude."},{"word":"Denudation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare."},{"word":"Denudation","type":"(n.)","description":"The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water."},{"word":"Denude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands."},{"word":"Denunciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly."},{"word":"Denunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"Proclamation; announcement; a publishing."},{"word":"Denunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment."},{"word":"Denunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment."},{"word":"Denunciative","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Denunciatory."},{"word":"Denunciator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses."},{"word":"Denunciatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language."},{"word":"Denutrition","type":"(n.)","description":"The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue."},{"word":"Denied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deny"},{"word":"Denying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deny"},{"word":"Deny","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit."},{"word":"Deny","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce."},{"word":"Deny","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request."},{"word":"Deny","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow."},{"word":"Deny","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true."},{"word":"Denyingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of one denies a request."},{"word":"Deobstruct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals."},{"word":"Deobstruent","type":"(a.)","description":"Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient."},{"word":"Deobstruent","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient."},{"word":"Deodand","type":"(n.)","description":"A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand."},{"word":"Deodar","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree."},{"word":"Deodate","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift or offering to God."},{"word":"Deodorant","type":"(n.)","description":"A deodorizer."},{"word":"Deodorization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities."},{"word":"Deodorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities."},{"word":"Deodorizer","type":"(n.)","description":"He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors."},{"word":"Deonerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unload; to disburden."},{"word":"Deontological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to deontology."},{"word":"Deontologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in deontology."},{"word":"Deontology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science relat/ to duty or moral obligation."},{"word":"Deoperculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses."},{"word":"Deoppilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through."},{"word":"Deoppilation","type":"(n.)","description":"Removal of whatever stops up the passages."},{"word":"Deoppilative","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Deobstruent; aperient."},{"word":"Deordination","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder; dissoluteness."},{"word":"Deosculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kiss warmly."},{"word":"Deoxidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deoxidize."},{"word":"Deoxidation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide."},{"word":"Deoxidization","type":"(n.)","description":"Deoxidation."},{"word":"Deoxidize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide."},{"word":"Deoxidizer","type":"(n.)","description":"That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer."},{"word":"Deoxygenate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deoxidize."},{"word":"Deoxygenation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of depriving of oxygen."},{"word":"Deoxygenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deoxidize."},{"word":"Depaint","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Painted."},{"word":"Depainted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depaint"},{"word":"Depainting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depaint"},{"word":"Depaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict."},{"word":"Depaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with, or as with, color; to color."},{"word":"Depainter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who depaints."},{"word":"Depardieux","type":"(interj.)","description":"In God's name; certainly."},{"word":"Departed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depart"},{"word":"Departing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depart"},{"word":"Depart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To part; to divide; to separate."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass away; to perish."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To quit this world; to die."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide in order to share; to apportion."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave; to depart from."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(n.)","description":"Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients."},{"word":"Depart","type":"(n.)","description":"A going away; departure; hence, death."},{"word":"Departable","type":"(a.)","description":"Divisible."},{"word":"Departer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who refines metals by separation."},{"word":"Departer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who departs."},{"word":"Department","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Act of departing; departure."},{"word":"Department","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A part, portion, or subdivision."},{"word":"Department","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province."},{"word":"Department","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics."},{"word":"Department","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire."},{"word":"Department","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac."},{"word":"Departmental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a department or division."},{"word":"Departure","type":"(n.)","description":"Division; separation; putting away."},{"word":"Departure","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away."},{"word":"Departure","type":"(n.)","description":"Removal from the present life; death; decease."},{"word":"Departure","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose."},{"word":"Departure","type":"(n.)","description":"The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another."},{"word":"Departure","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line."},{"word":"Depascent","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding."},{"word":"Depasture","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture."},{"word":"Depatriate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish."},{"word":"Depauperated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depauperate"},{"word":"Depauperating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depauperate"},{"word":"Depauperate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make poor; to impoverish."},{"word":"Depauperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved."},{"word":"Depauperize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty."},{"word":"Depeach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discharge."},{"word":"Depectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Tough; thick; capable of extension."},{"word":"Depeculation","type":"(n.)","description":"A robbing or embezzlement."},{"word":"Depeinct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint."},{"word":"Depended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depend"},{"word":"Depending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depend"},{"word":"Depend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above."},{"word":"Depend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court."},{"word":"Depend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rely for support; to be conditioned or contingent; to be connected with anything, as a cause of existence, or as a necessary condition; -- followed by on or upon, formerly by of."},{"word":"Depend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To trust; to rest with confidence; to rely; to confide; to be certain; -- with on or upon; as, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends; we depend on the mail at the usual hour."},{"word":"Depend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer."},{"word":"Depend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To impend."},{"word":"Dependable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy."},{"word":"Dependant","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dependancy"},{"word":"Dependance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dependancy"},{"word":"Dependancy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency."},{"word":"Dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support."},{"word":"Dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause)."},{"word":"Dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutu/// /onnection and support; concatenation; systematic ///er relation."},{"word":"Dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self."},{"word":"Dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"A resting with confidence; reliance; trust."},{"word":"Dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"That on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence."},{"word":"Dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which depends; anything dependent or suspended; anything attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else."},{"word":"Dependence","type":"(n.)","description":"A matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel."},{"word":"Dependencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dependency"},{"word":"Dependency","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust."},{"word":"Dependency","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing hanging down; a dependence."},{"word":"Dependency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like."},{"word":"Dependency","type":"(n.)","description":"A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America."},{"word":"Dependent","type":"(a.)","description":"Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf."},{"word":"Dependent","type":"(a.)","description":"Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends."},{"word":"Dependent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents."},{"word":"Dependent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which depends; corollary; consequence."},{"word":"Dependently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dependent manner."},{"word":"Depender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who depends; a dependent."},{"word":"Dependingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"As having dependence."},{"word":"Depeople","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depopulate."},{"word":"Deperdit","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is lost or destroyed."},{"word":"Deperditely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked."},{"word":"Deperdition","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss; destruction."},{"word":"Depertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Divisible."},{"word":"Dephlegm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate."},{"word":"Dephlegmated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dephlegmate"},{"word":"Dephlegmating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dephlegmate"},{"word":"Dephlegmate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids."},{"word":"Dephlegmation","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it."},{"word":"Dephlegmator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected."},{"word":"Dephlegmatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation."},{"word":"Dephlegmedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being freed from water."},{"word":"Dephlogisticated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dephlogisticcate"},{"word":"Dephlogisticating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dephlogisticcate"},{"word":"Dephlogisticcate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability."},{"word":"Dephosphorization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of freeing from phosphorous."},{"word":"Depict","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Depicted."},{"word":"Depict","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Depicted."},{"word":"Depicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depict"},{"word":"Depicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depict"},{"word":"Depict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray."},{"word":"Depict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent in words; to describe vividly."},{"word":"Depiction","type":"(n.)","description":"A painting or depicting; a representation."},{"word":"Depictured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depicture"},{"word":"Depicturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depicture"},{"word":"Depicture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict."},{"word":"Depilated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depilate"},{"word":"Depilating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depilate"},{"word":"Depilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of hair; to husk."},{"word":"Depilation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing."},{"word":"Depilatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality or power of removing hair."},{"word":"Depilatory","type":"(n.)","description":"An application used to take off hair."},{"word":"Depilous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hairless."},{"word":"Deplanate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Flattened; made level or even."},{"word":"Deplant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take up (plants); to transplant."},{"word":"Deplantation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of taking up plants from beds."},{"word":"Depleted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deplete"},{"word":"Depleting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deplete"},{"word":"Deplete","type":"(a.)","description":"To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine."},{"word":"Deplete","type":"(a.)","description":"To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc."},{"word":"Depletion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depleting or emptying."},{"word":"Depletion","type":"(n.)","description":"the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea."},{"word":"Depletive","type":"(a.)","description":"Able or fitted to deplete."},{"word":"Depletive","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance used to deplete."},{"word":"Depletory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to deplete."},{"word":"Deplication","type":"(n.)","description":"An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting."},{"word":"Deploitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Exploitation."},{"word":"Deplorability","type":"(n.)","description":"Deplorableness."},{"word":"Deplorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable."},{"word":"Deplorableness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being deplorable."},{"word":"Deplorably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a deplorable manner."},{"word":"Deplorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deplorable."},{"word":"Deploration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation."},{"word":"Deplored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deplore"},{"word":"Deploring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deplore"},{"word":"Deplore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over."},{"word":"Deplore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To complain of."},{"word":"Deplore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regard as hopeless; to give up."},{"word":"Deplore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lament."},{"word":"Deploredly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Lamentably."},{"word":"Deploredness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being deplored or deplorable."},{"word":"Deplorement","type":"(n.)","description":"Deploration."},{"word":"Deplorre","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deplores."},{"word":"Deploringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a deploring manner."},{"word":"Deployed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deploy"},{"word":"Deploying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deploy"},{"word":"Deploy","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle."},{"word":"Deploy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Deployment"},{"word":"Deployment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front."},{"word":"Deplumate","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed."},{"word":"Deplumation","type":"(n.)","description":"The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers."},{"word":"Deplumation","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes."},{"word":"Deplumed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deplume"},{"word":"Depluming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deplume"},{"word":"Deplume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage."},{"word":"Deplume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay bare; to expose."},{"word":"Depolarization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition."},{"word":"Depolarized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depolarize"},{"word":"Depolarizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depolarize"},{"word":"Depolarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition."},{"word":"Depolarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery."},{"word":"Depolarizer","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery."},{"word":"Depolish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove the polish or glaze from."},{"word":"Depolishing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain."},{"word":"Deponed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depone"},{"word":"Deponing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depone"},{"word":"Depone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay, as a stake; to wager."},{"word":"Depone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay down."},{"word":"Depone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assert under oath; to depose."},{"word":"Depone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness."},{"word":"Deponent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing."},{"word":"Deponent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A deponent verb."},{"word":"Deponent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs."},{"word":"Depopulacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Depopulation; destruction of population."},{"word":"Depopulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depopulate"},{"word":"Depopulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depopulate"},{"word":"Depopulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople."},{"word":"Depopulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become dispeopled."},{"word":"Depopulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants."},{"word":"Depopulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who depopulates; a dispeopler."},{"word":"Deported","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deport"},{"word":"Deporting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deport"},{"word":"Deport","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment."},{"word":"Deport","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun."},{"word":"Deport","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment."},{"word":"Deportation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation."},{"word":"Deportment","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing."},{"word":"Deporture","type":"(n.)","description":"Deportment."},{"word":"Deposable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being deposed or deprived of office."},{"word":"Deposal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne."},{"word":"Deposed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depose"},{"word":"Deposing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depose"},{"word":"Depose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside."},{"word":"Depose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let fall; to deposit."},{"word":"Depose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office."},{"word":"Depose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use."},{"word":"Depose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put under oath."},{"word":"Depose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition."},{"word":"Deposer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deposes or degrades from office."},{"word":"Deposer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who testifies or deposes; a deponent."},{"word":"Deposited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deposit"},{"word":"Depositing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deposit"},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(n.)","description":"To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(n.)","description":"To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(n.)","description":"To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(n.)","description":"To lay aside; to rid one's self of."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river)."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing."},{"word":"Deposit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A place of deposit; a depository."},{"word":"Depositaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Depositary"},{"word":"Depositary","type":"(n.)","description":"One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor."},{"word":"Depositary","type":"(n.)","description":"A storehouse; a depository."},{"word":"Depositary","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense."},{"word":"Deposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation."},{"word":"Deposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bringing before the mind; presentation."},{"word":"Deposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal."},{"word":"Deposition","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter."},{"word":"Deposition","type":"(n.)","description":"An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration."},{"word":"Deposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories."},{"word":"Depositor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; -- the correlative of depository."},{"word":"Depositories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Depository"},{"word":"Depository","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records."},{"word":"Depository","type":"(n.)","description":"One with whom something is deposited; a depositary."},{"word":"Depositum","type":"(n.)","description":"Deposit."},{"word":"Depositure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depositing; deposition."},{"word":"Depot","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse."},{"word":"Depot","type":"(n.)","description":"A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled."},{"word":"Depot","type":"(n.)","description":"The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for."},{"word":"Depot","type":"(n.)","description":"A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight."},{"word":"Depper","type":"(a.)","description":"Deeper."},{"word":"Depravation","type":"(n.)","description":"Detraction; depreciation."},{"word":"Depravation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting."},{"word":"Depravation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity."},{"word":"Depravation","type":"(n.)","description":"Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion."},{"word":"Depraved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deprave"},{"word":"Depraving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deprave"},{"word":"Deprave","type":"(n. t.)","description":"To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile."},{"word":"Deprave","type":"(n. t.)","description":"To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt."},{"word":"Depravedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a depraved manner."},{"word":"Depravedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Depravity."},{"word":"Depravement","type":"(n.)","description":"Depravity."},{"word":"Depraver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deprave or corrupts."},{"word":"Depravingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a depraving manner."},{"word":"Depravity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle."},{"word":"Deprecable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may or should be deprecated."},{"word":"Deprecated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deprecate"},{"word":"Deprecating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deprecate"},{"word":"Deprecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly."},{"word":"Deprecatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a deprecating manner."},{"word":"Deprecation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation."},{"word":"Deprecation","type":"(n.)","description":"Entreaty for pardon; petitioning."},{"word":"Deprecation","type":"(n.)","description":"An imprecation or curse."},{"word":"Deprecative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to deprecate; deprecatory."},{"word":"Deprecator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deprecates."},{"word":"Deprecatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic."},{"word":"Depreciated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depreciate"},{"word":"Depreciating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depreciate"},{"word":"Depreciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue."},{"word":"Depreciate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie."},{"word":"Depreciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation."},{"word":"Depreciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The falling of value; reduction of worth."},{"word":"Depreciation","type":"(n.)","description":"the state of being depreciated."},{"word":"Depreciative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing."},{"word":"Depreciator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who depreciates."},{"word":"Depreciatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative."},{"word":"Depredable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to depredation."},{"word":"Depredated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depredate"},{"word":"Depredating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depredate"},{"word":"Depredate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon."},{"word":"Depredate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country."},{"word":"Depredation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land."},{"word":"Depredator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber."},{"word":"Depredatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion."},{"word":"Depreicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To proclaim; to celebrate."},{"word":"Deprehended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deprehend"},{"word":"Deprehending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deprehend"},{"word":"Deprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend."},{"word":"Deprehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To detect; to discover; to find out."},{"word":"Deprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible."},{"word":"Deprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"A catching; discovery."},{"word":"Depressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depress"},{"word":"Depressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depress"},{"word":"Depress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes."},{"word":"Depress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride."},{"word":"Depress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed."},{"word":"Depress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc."},{"word":"Depress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate."},{"word":"Depress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree."},{"word":"Depress","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the middle lower than the border; concave."},{"word":"Depressant","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers."},{"word":"Depressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled."},{"word":"Depressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border."},{"word":"Depressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground."},{"word":"Depressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies."},{"word":"Depressingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a depressing manner."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depressing."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being depressed; a sinking."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"Humiliation; abasement, as of pride."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"Dejection; despondency; lowness."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations."},{"word":"Depression","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8."},{"word":"Depressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Able or tending to depress or cast down."},{"word":"Depressomotor","type":"(a.)","description":"Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity."},{"word":"Depressomotor","type":"(n.)","description":"Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc."},{"word":"Depressor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor."},{"word":"Depressor","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part."},{"word":"Depriment","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to depress."},{"word":"Deprisure","type":"(n.)","description":"Low estimation; disesteem; contempt."},{"word":"Deprivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed."},{"word":"Deprivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity."},{"word":"Deprivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement."},{"word":"Deprivation","type":"(n.)","description":"the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity."},{"word":"Deprived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deprive"},{"word":"Depriving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deprive"},{"word":"Deprive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away; to put an end; to destroy."},{"word":"Deprive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of."},{"word":"Deprive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical."},{"word":"Deprivement","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation."},{"word":"Depriver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, deprives."},{"word":"Deprostrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude."},{"word":"Deprovincialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of provincial quality or characteristics."},{"word":"Depth","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops."},{"word":"Depth","type":"(n.)","description":"Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color."},{"word":"Depth","type":"(n.)","description":"Lowness; as, depth of sound."},{"word":"Depth","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter."},{"word":"Depth","type":"(n.)","description":"The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content."},{"word":"Depth","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of toothed wheels which work together."},{"word":"Depthen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deepen."},{"word":"Depthless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no depth; shallow."},{"word":"Depthless","type":"(a.)","description":"Of measureless depth; unfathomable."},{"word":"Depucelate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deflour; to deprive of virginity."},{"word":"Depudicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deflour; to dishonor."},{"word":"Depulse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive away."},{"word":"Depulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"A driving or thrusting away."},{"word":"Depulsory","type":"(a.)","description":"Driving or thrusting away; averting."},{"word":"Depurant","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Depurative."},{"word":"Depurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities."},{"word":"Depurated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depurate"},{"word":"Depurating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depurate"},{"word":"Depurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse."},{"word":"Depuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound."},{"word":"Depurative","type":"(a.)","description":"Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory."},{"word":"Depurative","type":"(n.)","description":"A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative."},{"word":"Depurator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, cleanses."},{"word":"Depuratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative."},{"word":"Depure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depurate; to purify."},{"word":"Depurgatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify."},{"word":"Depurition","type":"(n.)","description":"See Depuration."},{"word":"Deputable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy."},{"word":"Deputation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency."},{"word":"Deputation","type":"(n.)","description":"The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce."},{"word":"Deputator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deputes, or makes a deputation."},{"word":"Deputed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Depute"},{"word":"Deputing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Depute"},{"word":"Depute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate."},{"word":"Depute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appoint; to assign; to choose."},{"word":"Depute","type":"(n.)","description":"A person deputed; a deputy."},{"word":"Deputize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute."},{"word":"Deputies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Deputy"},{"word":"Deputy","type":"(n.)","description":"One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc."},{"word":"Deputy","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Chamber of Deputies."},{"word":"Dequantitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity."},{"word":"Deracinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deracinate"},{"word":"Deracinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deracinate"},{"word":"Deracinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate."},{"word":"Deraination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication."},{"word":"Deraign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Derain"},{"word":"Derain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self)."},{"word":"Deraignment","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Derainment"},{"word":"Derainment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deraigning."},{"word":"Derainment","type":"(n.)","description":"The renunciation of religious or monastic vows."},{"word":"Derailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Derail"},{"word":"Derailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Derail"},{"word":"Derail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive."},{"word":"Derailment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad."},{"word":"Deranged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Derange"},{"word":"Deranging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Derange"},{"word":"Derange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation."},{"word":"Derange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism."},{"word":"Derange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane."},{"word":"Deranged","type":"(a.)","description":"Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane."},{"word":"Derangement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity."},{"word":"Deranger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deranges."},{"word":"Deray","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder; merriment."},{"word":"Derbio","type":"(n.)","description":"A large European food fish (Lichia glauca)."},{"word":"Derby","type":"(n.)","description":"A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780."},{"word":"Derby","type":"(n.)","description":"A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown."},{"word":"Derbyshire","type":"()","description":"A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work."},{"word":"Derdoing","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Doing daring or chivalrous deeds."},{"word":"Dere","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hurt; to harm; to injure."},{"word":"Dere","type":"(n.)","description":"Harm."},{"word":"Dereine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Dereyne"},{"word":"Dereyne","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Darraign."},{"word":"Derelict","type":"(a.)","description":"Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands."},{"word":"Derelict","type":"(a.)","description":"Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful."},{"word":"Derelict","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea."},{"word":"Derelict","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use."},{"word":"Dereliction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment."},{"word":"Dereliction","type":"(n.)","description":"A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment."},{"word":"Dereliction","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being left or abandoned."},{"word":"Dereliction","type":"(n.)","description":"A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained."},{"word":"Dereligionize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make irreligious; to turn from religion."},{"word":"Dereling","type":"(n.)","description":"Darling."},{"word":"Dereling","type":"(n.)","description":"Darling."},{"word":"Derf","type":"(a.)","description":"Strong; powerful; fierce."},{"word":"Derided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deride"},{"word":"Deriding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deride"},{"word":"Deride","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at."},{"word":"Derider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer."},{"word":"Deridingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of derision or mockery."},{"word":"Derision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule."},{"word":"Derision","type":"(n.)","description":"An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock."},{"word":"Derisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision."},{"word":"Derisory","type":"(a.)","description":"Derisive; mocking."},{"word":"Derivable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources."},{"word":"Derivably","type":"(adv.)","description":"By derivation."},{"word":"Derival","type":"(n.)","description":"Derivation."},{"word":"Derivate","type":"(a.)","description":"Derived; derivative."},{"word":"Derivate","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing derived; a derivative."},{"word":"Derivate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To derive."},{"word":"Derivation","type":"(n.)","description":"A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source."},{"word":"Derivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence."},{"word":"Derivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root."},{"word":"Derivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted."},{"word":"Derivation","type":"(n.)","description":"That from which a thing is derived."},{"word":"Derivation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction."},{"word":"Derivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration."},{"word":"Derivation","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process."},{"word":"Derivational","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to derivation."},{"word":"Derivative","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word."},{"word":"Derivative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another."},{"word":"Derivative","type":"(n.)","description":"A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root."},{"word":"Derivative","type":"(n.)","description":"A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord."},{"word":"Derivative","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense)."},{"word":"Derivative","type":"(n.)","description":"A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process."},{"word":"Derivative","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc."},{"word":"Derived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Derive"},{"word":"Deriving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Derive"},{"word":"Derive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon."},{"word":"Derive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from."},{"word":"Derive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon."},{"word":"Derive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon."},{"word":"Derive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced."},{"word":"Derivement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is derived; deduction; inference."},{"word":"Deriver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who derives."},{"word":"Derk","type":"(a.)","description":"Dark."},{"word":"-derm","type":"(n.)","description":"A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc."},{"word":"Derm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The integument of animal; the skin."},{"word":"Derm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Dermis."},{"word":"Derma","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dermis."},{"word":"Dermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions."},{"word":"Dermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the dermis or true skin."},{"word":"Dermaptera","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dermapteran"},{"word":"Dermapteran","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dermoptera, Dermopteran."},{"word":"Dermatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dermatine"},{"word":"Dermatine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the skin."},{"word":"Dermatitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the skin."},{"word":"Dermatogen","type":"(n.)","description":"Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition."},{"word":"Dermatogen","type":"(n.)","description":"Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition."},{"word":"Dermatography","type":"(n.)","description":"An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin."},{"word":"Dermatoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling skin; skinlike."},{"word":"Dermatologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology."},{"word":"Dermatology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases."},{"word":"Dermatopathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure."},{"word":"Dermatophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin."},{"word":"Dermestes","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle."},{"word":"Dermestoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes."},{"word":"Dermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the derm or skin."},{"word":"Dermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the dermis; dermal."},{"word":"Dermis","type":"(n.)","description":"The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix."},{"word":"Dermobranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills."},{"word":"Dermobranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the skin modified to serve as a gill."},{"word":"Dermohaemal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and haemal structures; as, the dermohaemal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes."},{"word":"Dermoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Dermatoid."},{"word":"Dermoneural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes."},{"word":"Dermopathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Dermatopathic."},{"word":"Dermophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A dermatophyte."},{"word":"Dermoptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidae)."},{"word":"Dermoptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo."},{"word":"Dermoptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera."},{"word":"Dermopteran","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig."},{"word":"Dermopteri","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Dermopterygii."},{"word":"Dermopterygii","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia."},{"word":"Dermoskeleton","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exoskeleton."},{"word":"Dermostosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Ossification of the dermis."},{"word":"Dern","type":"(n.)","description":"A gatepost or doorpost."},{"word":"Dern","type":"(a.)","description":"Hidden; concealed; secret."},{"word":"Dern","type":"(a.)","description":"Solitary; sad."},{"word":"Derne","type":"(a.)","description":"To hide; to skulk."},{"word":"Dernful","type":"(a.)","description":"Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful."},{"word":"Dernier","type":"(a.)","description":"Last; final."},{"word":"Dernly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Secretly; grievously; mournfully."},{"word":"Derogant","type":"(a.)","description":"Derogatory."},{"word":"Derogated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Derogate"},{"word":"Derogating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Derogate"},{"word":"Derogate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law."},{"word":"Derogate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing."},{"word":"Derogate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from."},{"word":"Derogate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate."},{"word":"Derogate","type":"(n.)","description":"Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded."},{"word":"Derogately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a derogatory manner."},{"word":"Derogation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to."},{"word":"Derogation","type":"(n.)","description":"An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks."},{"word":"Derogative","type":"(a.)","description":"Derogatory."},{"word":"Derogator","type":"(n.)","description":"A detractor."},{"word":"Derogatorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a derogatory manner; disparagingly."},{"word":"Derogatoriness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being derogatory."},{"word":"Derogatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto."},{"word":"Derotremata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata."},{"word":"Derre","type":"(a.)","description":"Dearer."},{"word":"Derrick","type":"(n.)","description":"A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building."},{"word":"Derring","type":"(a.)","description":"Daring or warlike."},{"word":"Derringer","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball."},{"word":"Derth","type":"(n.)","description":"Dearth; scarcity."},{"word":"Dertrotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds."},{"word":"Dervish","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dervis"},{"word":"Dervise","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dervis"},{"word":"Dervis","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life."},{"word":"Derworth","type":"(a.)","description":"Precious."},{"word":"Descant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song."},{"word":"Descant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The upper voice in part music."},{"word":"Descant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble."},{"word":"Descant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments."},{"word":"Descanted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Descant"},{"word":"Descanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Descant"},{"word":"Descant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sing a variation or accomplishment."},{"word":"Descant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large."},{"word":"Descanter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who descants."},{"word":"Descended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Descend"},{"word":"Descending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Descend"},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend."},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter mentally; to retire."},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon."},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate."},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered."},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir."},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move toward the south, or to the southward."},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone."},{"word":"Descend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder."},{"word":"Descendant","type":"(a.)","description":"Descendent."},{"word":"Descendant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant."},{"word":"Descendent","type":"(a.)","description":"Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source."},{"word":"Descender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who descends."},{"word":"Descendibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate."},{"word":"Descendible","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting descent; capable of being descended."},{"word":"Descendible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may descend from an ancestor to an heir."},{"word":"Descending","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards."},{"word":"Descendingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a descending manner."},{"word":"Descension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation."},{"word":"Descensional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to descension."},{"word":"Descensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending."},{"word":"Descensory","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is descended; descendants; issue."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"Lowest place; extreme downward place."},{"word":"Descent","type":"(n.)","description":"A passing from a higher to a lower tone."},{"word":"Describable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can be described; capable of description."},{"word":"Described","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Describe"},{"word":"Describing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Describe"},{"word":"Describe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle."},{"word":"Describe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities."},{"word":"Describe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class."},{"word":"Describe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty."},{"word":"Describent","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Generatrix."},{"word":"Describer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes."},{"word":"Descrier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who descries."},{"word":"Description","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs."},{"word":"Description","type":"(n.)","description":"A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species."},{"word":"Description","type":"(n.)","description":"A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort."},{"word":"Descriptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age."},{"word":"Descrive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To describe."},{"word":"Descried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Descry"},{"word":"Descrying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Descry"},{"word":"Descry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover."},{"word":"Descry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discover; to disclose; to reveal."},{"word":"Descry","type":"(n.)","description":"Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance."},{"word":"Desecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut, as with a scythe; to mow."},{"word":"Desecrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desecrate"},{"word":"Desecrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desecrate"},{"word":"Desecrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate."},{"word":"Desecrater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who desecrates; a profaner."},{"word":"Desecration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated."},{"word":"Desecrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who desecrates."},{"word":"Desegmentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body."},{"word":"Desert","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit."},{"word":"Desert","type":"(n.)","description":"A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation."},{"word":"Desert","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place."},{"word":"Desert","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island."},{"word":"Deserted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desert"},{"word":"Deserting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desert"},{"word":"Desert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country."},{"word":"Desert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors."},{"word":"Desert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond."},{"word":"Deserter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion."},{"word":"Desertful","type":"(a.)","description":"Meritorious."},{"word":"Desertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service."},{"word":"Desertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion."},{"word":"Desertion","type":"(n.)","description":"Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency."},{"word":"Desertless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without desert."},{"word":"Desertlessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Undeservedly."},{"word":"Desertness","type":"(n.)","description":"A deserted condition."},{"word":"Desertrix","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Desertrice"},{"word":"Desertrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A feminine deserter."},{"word":"Deserved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deserve"},{"word":"Deserving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deserve"},{"word":"Deserve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise."},{"word":"Deserve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To serve; to treat; to benefit."},{"word":"Deserve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well."},{"word":"Deservedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to desert (whether good or evil); justly."},{"word":"Deservedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Meritoriousness."},{"word":"Deserver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deserves."},{"word":"Deserving","type":"(n.)","description":"Desert; merit."},{"word":"Deserving","type":"(a.)","description":"Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act."},{"word":"Deshabille","type":"(n.)","description":"An undress; a careless toilet."},{"word":"Desiccant","type":"(a.)","description":"Drying; desiccative."},{"word":"Desiccant","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine or application for drying up a sore."},{"word":"Desiccated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desiccate"},{"word":"Desiccating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desiccate"},{"word":"Desiccate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit."},{"word":"Desiccate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become dry."},{"word":"Desiccation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated."},{"word":"Desiccative","type":"(a.)","description":"Drying; tending to dry."},{"word":"Desiccative","type":"(n.)","description":"An application for drying up secretions."},{"word":"Desiccator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, desiccates."},{"word":"Desiccator","type":"(n.)","description":"A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture."},{"word":"Desiccatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Desiccative."},{"word":"Desiderable","type":"(a.)","description":"Desirable."},{"word":"Desiderata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Desideratum."},{"word":"Desiderated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desiderate"},{"word":"Desiderating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desiderate"},{"word":"Desiderate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want."},{"word":"Desideration","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired."},{"word":"Desiderative","type":"(a.)","description":"Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs."},{"word":"Desiderative","type":"(n.)","description":"An object of desire."},{"word":"Desiderative","type":"(n.)","description":"A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb."},{"word":"Desiderata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Desideratum"},{"word":"Desideratum","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge."},{"word":"Desidiose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Desidious"},{"word":"Desidious","type":"(a.)","description":"Idle; lazy."},{"word":"Desidiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent."},{"word":"Desight","type":"(n.)","description":"An unsightly object."},{"word":"Desightment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making unsightly; disfigurement."},{"word":"Designed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Design"},{"word":"Designing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Design"},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw."},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint."},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral."},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to."},{"word":"Design","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a design or designs; to plan."},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan."},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot."},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design."},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design."},{"word":"Design","type":"(n.)","description":"The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole."},{"word":"Designable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable."},{"word":"Designate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Designated; appointed; chosen."},{"word":"Designated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Designate"},{"word":"Designating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Designate"},{"word":"Designate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested."},{"word":"Designate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call by a distinctive title; to name."},{"word":"Designate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station."},{"word":"Designation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication."},{"word":"Designation","type":"(n.)","description":"Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction."},{"word":"Designation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation."},{"word":"Designation","type":"(n.)","description":"Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase."},{"word":"Designative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out."},{"word":"Designator","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies."},{"word":"Designator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who designates."},{"word":"Designatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to designate; designative; indicating."},{"word":"Designedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently."},{"word":"Designer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver."},{"word":"Designer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration."},{"word":"Designer","type":"(n.)","description":"A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense."},{"word":"Designful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of design; scheming."},{"word":"Designing","type":"(a.)","description":"Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man."},{"word":"Designing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans."},{"word":"Designless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without design."},{"word":"Designment","type":"(n.)","description":"Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention."},{"word":"Designment","type":"(n.)","description":"Design; purpose; scheme."},{"word":"Desilver","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead."},{"word":"Desilverization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver."},{"word":"Desilverize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from."},{"word":"Desinence","type":"(n.)","description":"Termination; ending."},{"word":"Desinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Ending; forming an end; lowermost."},{"word":"Desinential","type":"(a.)","description":"Terminal."},{"word":"Desipient","type":"(a.)","description":"Foolish; silly; trifling."},{"word":"Desirability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness."},{"word":"Desirable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable."},{"word":"Desirableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being desirable."},{"word":"Desirably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a desirable manner."},{"word":"Desired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desire"},{"word":"Desiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desire"},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet."},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express a wish for; to entreat; to request."},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To require; to demand; to claim."},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To miss; to regret."},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy."},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An expressed wish; a request; petition."},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Anything which is desired; an object of longing."},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite."},{"word":"Desire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Grief; regret."},{"word":"Desireful","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled with desire; eager."},{"word":"Desirefulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess."},{"word":"Desireless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from desire."},{"word":"Desirer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who desires, asks, or wishes."},{"word":"Desirous","type":"(n.)","description":"Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous."},{"word":"Desirously","type":"(adv.)","description":"With desire; eagerly."},{"word":"Desirousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being desirous."},{"word":"Desisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desist"},{"word":"Desisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desist"},{"word":"Desist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from."},{"word":"Desistance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of desisting; cessation."},{"word":"Desistive","type":"(a.)","description":"Final; conclusive; ending."},{"word":"Desition","type":"(n.)","description":"An end or ending."},{"word":"Desitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Final; serving to complete; conclusive."},{"word":"Desitive","type":"(n.)","description":"A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion."},{"word":"Desk","type":"(n.)","description":"A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath."},{"word":"Desk","type":"(n.)","description":"A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for \"the clerical profession.\""},{"word":"Desked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desk"},{"word":"Desking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desk"},{"word":"Desk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure."},{"word":"Deskwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer."},{"word":"Desman","type":"(n.)","description":"An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers."},{"word":"Desmid","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Desmidian"},{"word":"Desmidian","type":"(n.)","description":"A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves."},{"word":"Desmine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals."},{"word":"Desmobacteria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Microbacteria."},{"word":"Desmodont","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire."},{"word":"Desmognathous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds."},{"word":"Desmoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous."},{"word":"Desmology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the ligaments."},{"word":"Desmomyaria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa."},{"word":"Desolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house."},{"word":"Desolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars."},{"word":"Desolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless."},{"word":"Desolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Lost to shame; dissolute."},{"word":"Desolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of; lacking in."},{"word":"Desolated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desolate"},{"word":"Desolating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desolate"},{"word":"Desolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood."},{"word":"Desolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city."},{"word":"Desolately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a desolate manner."},{"word":"Desolateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being desolate."},{"word":"Desolater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste."},{"word":"Desolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation."},{"word":"Desolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess."},{"word":"Desolation","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or country wasted and forsaken."},{"word":"Desolator","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Desolater."},{"word":"Desolatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing desolation."},{"word":"Desophisticate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear from sophism or error."},{"word":"Desoxalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid."},{"word":"Despaired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Despair"},{"word":"Despairing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Despair"},{"word":"Despair","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of."},{"word":"Despair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of."},{"word":"Despair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to despair."},{"word":"Despair","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency."},{"word":"Despair","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is despaired of."},{"word":"Despairer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who despairs."},{"word":"Despairful","type":"(a.)","description":"Hopeless."},{"word":"Despairing","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless."},{"word":"Desparple","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To scatter; to disparkle."},{"word":"Despatch","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"Same as Dispatch."},{"word":"Despecificate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize."},{"word":"Despecfication","type":"(n.)","description":"Discrimination."},{"word":"Despect","type":"(n.)","description":"Contempt."},{"word":"Despection","type":"(n.)","description":"A looking down; a despising."},{"word":"Despeed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send hastily."},{"word":"Despend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spend; to squander. See Dispend."},{"word":"Desperadoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Desperado"},{"word":"Desperado","type":"(n.)","description":"A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian."},{"word":"Desperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without hope; given to despair; hopeless."},{"word":"Desperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune."},{"word":"Desperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort."},{"word":"Desperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality."},{"word":"Desperate","type":"(n.)","description":"One desperate or hopeless."},{"word":"Desperately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately."},{"word":"Desperateness","type":"(n.)","description":"Desperation; virulence."},{"word":"Desperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope."},{"word":"Desperation","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury."},{"word":"Despicability","type":"(n.)","description":"Despicableness."},{"word":"Despicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift."},{"word":"Despicableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness."},{"word":"Despicably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy."},{"word":"Despiciency","type":"(n.)","description":"A looking down; despection."},{"word":"Despisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Despicable; contemptible."},{"word":"Despisal","type":"(n.)","description":"A despising; contempt."},{"word":"Despised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Despise"},{"word":"Despising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Despise"},{"word":"Despise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of."},{"word":"Despisedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being despised."},{"word":"Despisement","type":"(n.)","description":"A despising."},{"word":"Despiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who despises; a contemner; a scorner."},{"word":"Despisingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Contemptuously."},{"word":"Despite","type":"(n.)","description":"Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate."},{"word":"Despite","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt."},{"word":"Despited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Despite"},{"word":"Despiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Despite"},{"word":"Despite","type":"(n.)","description":"To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously."},{"word":"Despite","type":"(prep.)","description":"In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices."},{"word":"Despiteful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious."},{"word":"Despiteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous."},{"word":"Despiteously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Despitefully."},{"word":"Despitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Despiteous; very angry; cruel."},{"word":"Despoiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Despoil"},{"word":"Despoiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Despoil"},{"word":"Despoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe."},{"word":"Despoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of."},{"word":"Despoil","type":"(n.)","description":"Spoil."},{"word":"Despoiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who despoils."},{"word":"Despoilment","type":"(n.)","description":"Despoliation."},{"word":"Despoliation","type":"(n.)","description":"A stripping or plundering; spoliation."},{"word":"Desponded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Despond"},{"word":"Desponding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Despond"},{"word":"Despond","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view."},{"word":"Despond","type":"(n.)","description":"Despondency."},{"word":"Despondence","type":"(n.)","description":"Despondency."},{"word":"Despondency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind."},{"word":"Despondent","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner."},{"word":"Desponder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who desponds."},{"word":"Despondingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a desponding manner."},{"word":"Desponsage","type":"(n.)","description":"Betrothal."},{"word":"Desponsate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betroth."},{"word":"Desponsation","type":"(n.)","description":"A betrothing; betrothal."},{"word":"Desponsories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Desponsory"},{"word":"Desponsory","type":"(n.)","description":"A written pledge of marriage."},{"word":"Desport","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Disport."},{"word":"Despot","type":"(n.)","description":"A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign."},{"word":"Despot","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant."},{"word":"Despotat","type":"(n.)","description":"The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot."},{"word":"Despotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Despotical"},{"word":"Despotical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary."},{"word":"Despotism","type":"(n.)","description":"The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny."},{"word":"Despotism","type":"(n.)","description":"A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy."},{"word":"Despotist","type":"(n.)","description":"A supporter of despotism."},{"word":"Despotize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act the despot."},{"word":"Despread","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Dispread."},{"word":"Despumated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Despumate"},{"word":"Despumating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Despumate"},{"word":"Despumate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam."},{"word":"Despumation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification."},{"word":"Despume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from spume or scum."},{"word":"Desquamate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases."},{"word":"Desquamation","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones."},{"word":"Desquamative","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Desquamatory"},{"word":"Desquamatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation."},{"word":"Desquamatory","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones."},{"word":"Dess","type":"(n.)","description":"Dais."},{"word":"Dessert","type":"(n.)","description":"A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner."},{"word":"Destemper","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of painting. See Distemper."},{"word":"Destin","type":"(n.)","description":"Destiny."},{"word":"Destinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Determined by destiny; fated."},{"word":"Destinably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a destinable manner."},{"word":"Destinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Determined by destiny; fated."},{"word":"Destinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Destined."},{"word":"Destinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destine, design, or choose."},{"word":"Destination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of destining or appointing."},{"word":"Destination","type":"(n.)","description":"Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design."},{"word":"Destination","type":"(n.)","description":"The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at."},{"word":"Destined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Destine"},{"word":"Destining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Destine"},{"word":"Destine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for."},{"word":"Destinist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in destiny; a fatalist."},{"word":"Destinies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Destiny"},{"word":"Destiny","type":"(n.)","description":"That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom."},{"word":"Destiny","type":"(n.)","description":"The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual."},{"word":"Destituent","type":"(a.)","description":"Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition."},{"word":"Destitute","type":"(a.)","description":"Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of."},{"word":"Destitute","type":"(a.)","description":"Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor."},{"word":"Destitute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon."},{"word":"Destitute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of."},{"word":"Destitute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disappoint."},{"word":"Destitutely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In destitution."},{"word":"Destituteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Destitution."},{"word":"Destitution","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution."},{"word":"Destrer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dextrer"},{"word":"Dextrer","type":"(n.)","description":"A war horse."},{"word":"Destrie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy."},{"word":"Destroyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Destroy"},{"word":"Destroying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Destroy"},{"word":"Destroy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish."},{"word":"Destroy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume."},{"word":"Destroy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill."},{"word":"Destroyable","type":"(a.)","description":"Destructible."},{"word":"Destroyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates."},{"word":"Destruct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy."},{"word":"Destructibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness."},{"word":"Destructible","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed."},{"word":"Destructibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being destructible."},{"word":"Destruction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation."},{"word":"Destruction","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated."},{"word":"Destruction","type":"(n.)","description":"A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer."},{"word":"Destructionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive."},{"word":"Destructionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist."},{"word":"Destructive","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth."},{"word":"Destructive","type":"(n.)","description":"One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist."},{"word":"Destructively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a destructive manner."},{"word":"Destructiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of destroying or ruining."},{"word":"Destructiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy."},{"word":"Destructor","type":"(n.)","description":"A destroyer."},{"word":"Destruie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy."},{"word":"Desudation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples."},{"word":"Desuete","type":"(a.)","description":"Disused; out of use."},{"word":"Desuetude","type":"(n.)","description":"The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion."},{"word":"Desulphurated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Desulphurate"},{"word":"Desulphurating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Desulphurate"},{"word":"Desulphurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of sulphur."},{"word":"Desulphuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of depriving of sulphur."},{"word":"Desulphurize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur."},{"word":"Desultorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically."},{"word":"Desultoriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness."},{"word":"Desultorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Desultory."},{"word":"Desultory","type":"(a.)","description":"Leaping or skipping about."},{"word":"Desultory","type":"(a.)","description":"Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds."},{"word":"Desultory","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark."},{"word":"Desume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To select; to borrow."},{"word":"Desynonymization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of desynonymizing."},{"word":"Desynonymize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms."},{"word":"Detached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detach"},{"word":"Detaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detach"},{"word":"Detach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party."},{"word":"Detach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment."},{"word":"Detach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage."},{"word":"Detachable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can be detached."},{"word":"Detached","type":"(a.)","description":"Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels."},{"word":"Detachment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached."},{"word":"Detachment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service."},{"word":"Detachment","type":"(n.)","description":"Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation."},{"word":"Detail","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction."},{"word":"Detail","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars."},{"word":"Detail","type":"(n.)","description":"The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected."},{"word":"Detailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detail"},{"word":"Detailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detail"},{"word":"Detail","type":"(n.)","description":"To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order."},{"word":"Detail","type":"(n.)","description":"To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron."},{"word":"Detailer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who details."},{"word":"Detained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detain"},{"word":"Detaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detain"},{"word":"Detain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep back or from; to withhold."},{"word":"Detain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident."},{"word":"Detain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold or keep in custody."},{"word":"Detain","type":"(n.)","description":"Detention."},{"word":"Detainder","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ. See Detinue."},{"word":"Detainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who detains."},{"word":"Detainer","type":"(n.)","description":"The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law."},{"word":"Detainer","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody."},{"word":"Detainment","type":"(n.)","description":"Detention."},{"word":"Detect","type":"(a.)","description":"Detected."},{"word":"Detected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detect"},{"word":"Detecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detect"},{"word":"Detect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account."},{"word":"Detect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inform against; to accuse."},{"word":"Detectable","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Detectible"},{"word":"Detectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable."},{"word":"Detecter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector."},{"word":"Detection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot."},{"word":"Detective","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer."},{"word":"Detective","type":"(n.)","description":"One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy."},{"word":"Detector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, detects; a detecter."},{"word":"Detenebrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove darkness from."},{"word":"Detent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking."},{"word":"Detention","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding."},{"word":"Detention","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity."},{"word":"Detention","type":"(n.)","description":"Confinement; restraint; custody."},{"word":"Deterred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deter"},{"word":"Deterring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deter"},{"word":"Deter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc."},{"word":"Deterged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deterge"},{"word":"Deterging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deterge"},{"word":"Deterge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer."},{"word":"Detergency","type":"(n.)","description":"A cleansing quality or power."},{"word":"Detergent","type":"(a.)","description":"Cleansing; purging."},{"word":"Detergent","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc."},{"word":"Deteriorated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deteriorate"},{"word":"Deteriorating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deteriorate"},{"word":"Deteriorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind."},{"word":"Deteriorate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate."},{"word":"Deterioration","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse."},{"word":"Deteriority","type":"(n.)","description":"Worse state or quality; inferiority."},{"word":"Determent","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deterring; also, that which deters."},{"word":"Determinability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being determinable; determinableness."},{"word":"Determinable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion."},{"word":"Determinableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being determined; determinability."},{"word":"Determinacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Determinateness."},{"word":"Determinant","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to determine or limit; determinative."},{"word":"Determinant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to determine; that which causes determination."},{"word":"Determinant","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of a series of products of several numbers, these products being formed according to certain specified laws"},{"word":"Determinant","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise."},{"word":"Determinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite."},{"word":"Determinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Conclusive; decisive; positive."},{"word":"Determinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Determined or resolved upon."},{"word":"Determinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of determined purpose; resolute."},{"word":"Determinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to an end; to determine. See Determine."},{"word":"Determinately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably."},{"word":"Determinately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Resolutely; unchangeably."},{"word":"Determinateness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being determinate."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of determining, or the state of being determined."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"Bringing to an end; termination; limit."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"The addition of a differentia to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization."},{"word":"Determination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells."},{"word":"Determinative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive."},{"word":"Determinative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to determine."},{"word":"Determinator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who determines."},{"word":"Determined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Determine"},{"word":"Determining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Determine"},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set bounds to; to fix the determination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ascertain definitely; to find out the specific character or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To define or limit by adding a differentia."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ascertain the presence, quantity, or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to an end; to end; to terminate."},{"word":"Determine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to a decision; to decide; to resolve; -- often with on."},{"word":"Determined","type":"(a.)","description":"Decided; resolute."},{"word":"Determinedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a determined manner; with determination."},{"word":"Determiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, determines or decides."},{"word":"Determinism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives."},{"word":"Determinist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories."},{"word":"Deterration","type":"(n.)","description":"The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground."},{"word":"Deterrence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance."},{"word":"Deterrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to deter."},{"word":"Deterrent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which deters or prevents."},{"word":"Detersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore."},{"word":"Detersive","type":"(a.)","description":"Cleansing; detergent."},{"word":"Detersive","type":"(n.)","description":"A cleansing agent; a detergent."},{"word":"Detersively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a way to cleanse."},{"word":"Detersiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of cleansing."},{"word":"Detested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detest"},{"word":"Detesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detest"},{"word":"Detest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To witness against; to denounce; to condemn."},{"word":"Detest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil."},{"word":"Detestability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity of being odious."},{"word":"Detestable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices."},{"word":"Detestableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being detestable."},{"word":"Detestably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a detestable manner."},{"word":"Detesttate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To detest."},{"word":"Detestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing."},{"word":"Detester","type":"(n.)","description":"One who detes//"},{"word":"Dethroned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dethrone"},{"word":"Dethroning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dethrone"},{"word":"Dethrone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity."},{"word":"Dethronement","type":"(n.)","description":"Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power."},{"word":"Dethroner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dethrones."},{"word":"Dethronization","type":"(n.)","description":"Dethronement."},{"word":"Dethronize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dethrone or unthrone."},{"word":"Detinue","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing detained"},{"word":"Detinue","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained."},{"word":"Detonated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detonate"},{"word":"Detonating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detonate"},{"word":"Detonate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur."},{"word":"Detonate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report."},{"word":"Detonating","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"from Detonate."},{"word":"Detonation","type":"(n.)","description":"An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton."},{"word":"Detonator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, detonates."},{"word":"Detonization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of detonizing; detonation."},{"word":"Detonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detonize"},{"word":"Detonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detonize"},{"word":"Detonize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate."},{"word":"Detorsion","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Detortion."},{"word":"Detorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detort"},{"word":"Detorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detort"},{"word":"Detort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest."},{"word":"Detortion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping."},{"word":"Detour","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi."},{"word":"Detracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detract"},{"word":"Detracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detract"},{"word":"Detract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away; to withdraw."},{"word":"Detract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take credit or reputation from; to defame."},{"word":"Detract","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from."},{"word":"Detracter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who detracts; a detractor."},{"word":"Detractingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a detracting manner."},{"word":"Detraction","type":"(n.)","description":"A taking away or withdrawing."},{"word":"Detraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny."},{"word":"Detractious","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing detraction; detractory."},{"word":"Detractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to detractor draw."},{"word":"Detractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative."},{"word":"Detractiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being detractive."},{"word":"Detracor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer."},{"word":"Detractory","type":"(a.)","description":"Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious."},{"word":"Detractress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female detractor."},{"word":"Detrain","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train."},{"word":"Detrect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse; to decline."},{"word":"Detriment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc."},{"word":"Detriment","type":"(n.)","description":"A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy."},{"word":"Detriment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do injury to; to hurt."},{"word":"Detrimental","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful."},{"word":"Detrimentalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness."},{"word":"Detrital","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus."},{"word":"Detrite","type":"(a.)","description":"Worn out."},{"word":"Detrition","type":"(n.)","description":"A wearing off or away."},{"word":"Detritus","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus."},{"word":"Detritus","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration."},{"word":"Detruded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detrude"},{"word":"Detruding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detrude"},{"word":"Detrude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust down or out; to push down with force."},{"word":"Detruncated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Detuncate"},{"word":"Detruncating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Detuncate"},{"word":"Detuncate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off."},{"word":"Detruncation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body."},{"word":"Detrusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust."},{"word":"Dette","type":"(n.)","description":"Debt."},{"word":"Detteles","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from debt."},{"word":"Detumescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen."},{"word":"Detur","type":"(n.)","description":"A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize."},{"word":"Deturb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw down."},{"word":"Deturbate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To evict; to remove."},{"word":"Deturbation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deturbating."},{"word":"Deturn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn away."},{"word":"Deturpate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defile; to disfigure."},{"word":"Deturpation","type":"(n.)","description":"A making foul."},{"word":"Deuce","type":"(n.)","description":"Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts."},{"word":"Deuce","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned \"40 all\"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game."},{"word":"Deuce","type":"(n.)","description":"The devil; a demon."},{"word":"Deuced","type":"(a.)","description":"Devilish; excessive; extreme."},{"word":"Deuse","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Deused"},{"word":"Deused","type":"(a.)","description":"See Deuce, Deuced."},{"word":"Deuterocanonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc."},{"word":"Deuterogamist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who marries the second time."},{"word":"Deuterogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy."},{"word":"Deuterogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks."},{"word":"Deuteronomist","type":"(n.)","description":"The writer of Deuteronomy."},{"word":"Deuteronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses."},{"word":"Deuteropathia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Deuteropathy"},{"word":"Deuteropathy","type":"(n.)","description":"A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach."},{"word":"Deuteropathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy."},{"word":"Deuteroscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Second sight."},{"word":"Deuteroscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification."},{"word":"Deuterozooid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids."},{"word":"Deuthydroguret","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Deutohydroguret."},{"word":"Deuto-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Deut-"},{"word":"Deut-","type":"()","description":"A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi-or di-, although little used."},{"word":"Deutohydroguret","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical."},{"word":"Deutoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk."},{"word":"Deutoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm."},{"word":"Deutosulphuret","type":"(n.)","description":"A disulphide."},{"word":"Deutoxide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide."},{"word":"Deutzia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated."},{"word":"Dev","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Deva"},{"word":"Deva","type":"(n.)","description":"A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king."},{"word":"Devanagari","type":"(n.)","description":"The character in which Sanskrit is written."},{"word":"Devaporation","type":"(n.)","description":"The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain."},{"word":"Devast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devastate."},{"word":"Devastated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Devastate"},{"word":"Devastating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Devastate"},{"word":"Devastate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate."},{"word":"Devastation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste."},{"word":"Devastation","type":"(n.)","description":"Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator."},{"word":"Devastator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, devastates."},{"word":"Devastavit","type":"(n.)","description":"Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator."},{"word":"Devata","type":"(n.)","description":"A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol."},{"word":"Deve","type":"(a.)","description":"Deaf."},{"word":"Develin","type":"(n.)","description":"The European swift."},{"word":"Developed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Develop"},{"word":"Developing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Develop"},{"word":"Develop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power."},{"word":"Develop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind."},{"word":"Develop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of."},{"word":"Develop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value."},{"word":"Develop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view."},{"word":"Develop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year."},{"word":"Develop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop."},{"word":"Developable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being developed."},{"word":"Developer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, develops."},{"word":"Developer","type":"(n.)","description":"A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible."},{"word":"Development","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state."},{"word":"Development","type":"(n.)","description":"The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization."},{"word":"Development","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning."},{"word":"Development","type":"(n.)","description":"The equivalent expression into which another has been developed."},{"word":"Development","type":"(n.)","description":"The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive."},{"word":"Developmental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ."},{"word":"Devenustate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of beauty or grace."},{"word":"Devergence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Devergency"},{"word":"Devergency","type":"(n.)","description":"See Divergence."},{"word":"Devested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Devest"},{"word":"Devesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Devest"},{"word":"Devest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest; to undress."},{"word":"Devest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate."},{"word":"Devest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate."},{"word":"Devex","type":"(a.)","description":"Bending down; sloping."},{"word":"Devex","type":"(n.)","description":"Devexity."},{"word":"Devexity","type":"(a.)","description":"A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity."},{"word":"Devi","type":"(n.)","description":"; fem. of Deva. A goddess."},{"word":"Deviant","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating."},{"word":"Deviated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Deviate"},{"word":"Deviating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Deviate"},{"word":"Deviate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary."},{"word":"Deviate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to deviate."},{"word":"Deviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty."},{"word":"Deviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense."},{"word":"Deviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility."},{"word":"Deviator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, deviates."},{"word":"Deviatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion."},{"word":"Device","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice."},{"word":"Device","type":"(n.)","description":"Power of devising; invention; contrivance."},{"word":"Device","type":"(n.)","description":"An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance."},{"word":"Device","type":"(n.)","description":"Improperly, an heraldic bearing."},{"word":"Device","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything fancifully conceived."},{"word":"Device","type":"(n.)","description":"A spectacle or show."},{"word":"Device","type":"(n.)","description":"Opinion; decision."},{"word":"Deviceful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of devices; inventive."},{"word":"Devicefully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a deviceful manner."},{"word":"Devil","type":"(n.)","description":"The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind."},{"word":"Devil","type":"(n.)","description":"An evil spirit; a demon."},{"word":"Devil","type":"(n.)","description":"A very wicked person; hence, any great evil."},{"word":"Devil","type":"(n.)","description":"An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation."},{"word":"Devil","type":"(n.)","description":"A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper."},{"word":"Devil","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc."},{"word":"Deviled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Devil"},{"word":"Devilled","type":"()","description":"of Devil"},{"word":"Deviling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Devil"},{"word":"Devilling","type":"()","description":"of Devil"},{"word":"Devil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil."},{"word":"Devil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper."},{"word":"Devil-diver","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Devil bird"},{"word":"Devil","type":"(n.)","description":"A small water bird. See Dabchick."},{"word":"Deviless","type":"(n.)","description":"A she-devil."},{"word":"Devilet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little devil."},{"word":"Devilfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera."},{"word":"Devilfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus."},{"word":"Devilfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale."},{"word":"Devilfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler."},{"word":"Deviling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young devil."},{"word":"Devilish","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme."},{"word":"Devilish","type":"(a.)","description":"Extreme; excessive."},{"word":"Devilism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils."},{"word":"Devilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a devil of."},{"word":"Devilkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A little devil; a devilet."},{"word":"Devilment","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviltry."},{"word":"Devilries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Devilry"},{"word":"Devilry","type":"(n.)","description":"Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry."},{"word":"Devilry","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of evil spirits."},{"word":"Devil's","type":"()","description":"A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t."},{"word":"Devilship","type":"(n.)","description":"The character or person of a devil or the devil."},{"word":"Deviltries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Deviltry"},{"word":"Deviltry","type":"(n.)","description":"Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry."},{"word":"Devilwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive."},{"word":"Devious","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way."},{"word":"Devious","type":"(a.)","description":"Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step."},{"word":"Devirginate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of virginity."},{"word":"Devirginate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of virginity; to deflour."},{"word":"Devirgination","type":"(n.)","description":"A deflouring."},{"word":"Devisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived."},{"word":"Devisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will."},{"word":"Devisal","type":"(n.)","description":"A devising."},{"word":"Devised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Devise"},{"word":"Devising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Devise"},{"word":"Devise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To say; to relate; to describe."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imagine; to guess."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(n.)","description":"A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(n.)","description":"Property devised, or given by will."},{"word":"Devise","type":"(n.)","description":"Device. See Device."},{"word":"Devisee","type":"(n.)","description":"One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will."},{"word":"Deviser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who devises."},{"word":"Devisor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee."},{"word":"Devitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Avoidable."},{"word":"Devitalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of life or vitality."},{"word":"Devitation","type":"(n.)","description":"An avoiding or escaping; also, a warning."},{"word":"Devitrification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products."},{"word":"Devitrify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from."},{"word":"Devocalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality."},{"word":"Devocation","type":"(n.)","description":"A calling off or away."},{"word":"Devoid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To empty out; to remove."},{"word":"Devoid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Void; empty; vacant."},{"word":"Devoid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride."},{"word":"Devoir","type":"(n.)","description":"Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies."},{"word":"Devolute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devolve."},{"word":"Devolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rolling down."},{"word":"Devolution","type":"(n.)","description":"Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor."},{"word":"Devolved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Devolve"},{"word":"Devolving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Devolve"},{"word":"Devolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roll onward or downward; to pass on."},{"word":"Devolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into."},{"word":"Devolve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank."},{"word":"Devolvement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of devolving;; devolution."},{"word":"Devon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen."},{"word":"Devonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system."},{"word":"Devonian","type":"(n.)","description":"The Devonian age or formation."},{"word":"Devoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of devouring."},{"word":"Devotary","type":"(n.)","description":"A votary."},{"word":"Devoted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Devote"},{"word":"Devoting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Devote"},{"word":"Devote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames."},{"word":"Devote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To execrate; to curse."},{"word":"Devote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one's self to science, to one's friends, to piety, etc."},{"word":"Devote","type":"(a.)","description":"Devoted; addicted; devout."},{"word":"Devote","type":"(n.)","description":"A devotee."},{"word":"Devoted","type":"(a.)","description":"Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer."},{"word":"Devotee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot."},{"word":"Devotement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow."},{"word":"Devoter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who devotes; a worshiper."},{"word":"Devotion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of devoting; consecration."},{"word":"Devotion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness."},{"word":"Devotion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of devotedness or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer."},{"word":"Devotion","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposal; power of disposal."},{"word":"Devotion","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing consecrated; an object of devotion."},{"word":"Devotional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind."},{"word":"Devotionalist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Devotionist"},{"word":"Devotionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion."},{"word":"Devotionality","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of a devotionalist."},{"word":"Devotionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a devotional manner; toward devotion."},{"word":"Devoto","type":"(n.)","description":"A devotee."},{"word":"Devotor","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper; one given to devotion."},{"word":"Devoured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Devour"},{"word":"Devouring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Devour"},{"word":"Devour","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon."},{"word":"Devour","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate."},{"word":"Devour","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses."},{"word":"Devourable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be devoured."},{"word":"Devourer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, devours."},{"word":"Devouringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a devouring manner."},{"word":"Devout","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious."},{"word":"Devout","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture."},{"word":"Devout","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest; as, devout wishes for one's welfare."},{"word":"Devout","type":"(n.)","description":"A devotee."},{"word":"Devout","type":"(n.)","description":"A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion."},{"word":"Devoutful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of devotion."},{"word":"Devoutful","type":"(a.)","description":"Sacred."},{"word":"Devoutless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of devotion."},{"word":"Devoutly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously."},{"word":"Devoutly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly."},{"word":"Devoutness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality or state of being devout."},{"word":"Devove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devote."},{"word":"Devow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up; to devote."},{"word":"Devow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disavow; to disclaim."},{"word":"Devulgarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow."},{"word":"Dew","type":"(n.)","description":"Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night."},{"word":"Dew","type":"(n.)","description":"Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner."},{"word":"Dew","type":"(n.)","description":"An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor."},{"word":"Dewed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dew"},{"word":"Dewing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dew"},{"word":"Dew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew."},{"word":"Dew","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Due, or Duty."},{"word":"Dewberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries."},{"word":"Dewberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The plant which bears the fruit."},{"word":"Dewclaw","type":"(n.)","description":"In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground."},{"word":"Dewdrop","type":"(n.)","description":"A drop of dew."},{"word":"Dewfall","type":"(n.)","description":"The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall."},{"word":"Dewiness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being dewy."},{"word":"Dewlap","type":"(n.)","description":"The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing."},{"word":"Dewlap","type":"(n.)","description":"The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age."},{"word":"Dewlapped","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a dewlap."},{"word":"Dewless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no dew."},{"word":"Dew-point","type":"(n.)","description":"The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere."},{"word":"Dewret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ret or rot by the process called dewretting."},{"word":"Dewretting","type":"(n.)","description":"Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine."},{"word":"Dewrot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting."},{"word":"Dewworm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Earthworm."},{"word":"Dewy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew."},{"word":"Dewy","type":"(a.)","description":"Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew."},{"word":"Dewy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew."},{"word":"Dexter","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left."},{"word":"Dexter","type":"(a.)","description":"On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side."},{"word":"Dexterical","type":"(a.)","description":"Dexterous."},{"word":"Dexterity","type":"(n.)","description":"Right-handedness."},{"word":"Dexterity","type":"(n.)","description":"Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel."},{"word":"Dexterity","type":"(n.)","description":"Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness."},{"word":"Dexterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman."},{"word":"Dexterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager."},{"word":"Dexterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management."},{"word":"Dexterously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dexterous manner; skillfully."},{"word":"Dexterousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dexterous; dexterity."},{"word":"Dextrad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the right side; dextrally."},{"word":"Dextral","type":"(a.)","description":"Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left."},{"word":"Dextrality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness."},{"word":"Dextrally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally."},{"word":"Dextrer","type":"(n.)","description":"A war horse; a destrer."},{"word":"Dextrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See Achroodextrin, and Erythrodextrin."},{"word":"Dextro-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right"},{"word":"Dextro-","type":"()","description":"having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid."},{"word":"Dextrogerous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Dextrogyrate."},{"word":"Dextroglucose","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dextrose."},{"word":"Dextrogyrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Dextrorotatory."},{"word":"Dextronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid."},{"word":"Dextrorotary","type":"(a.)","description":"See Dextrotatory."},{"word":"Dextrorotatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory."},{"word":"Dextrorsal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dextrorse"},{"word":"Dextrorse","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glory."},{"word":"Dextrose","type":"(n.)","description":"A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice."},{"word":"Dextrous","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dextrousness"},{"word":"Dextrously","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dextrousness"},{"word":"Dextrousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc."},{"word":"Dey","type":"(n.)","description":"A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid."},{"word":"Deys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dey"},{"word":"Dey","type":"(n.)","description":"The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830."},{"word":"Deye","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To die."},{"word":"Deynte","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"Alt. of Deyntee"},{"word":"Deyntee","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"See Dainty."},{"word":"Dezincification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc."},{"word":"Dezincify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of, or free from, zinc."},{"word":"Dhole","type":"(n.)","description":"A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs."},{"word":"Dhony","type":"(n.)","description":"A Ceylonese boat. See Doni."},{"word":"Dhoorra","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dhurra"},{"word":"Dhourra","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dhurra"},{"word":"Dhurra","type":"(n.)","description":"Indian millet. See Durra."},{"word":"Dhow","type":"(n.)","description":"A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail."},{"word":"Di-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice"},{"word":"Di-","type":"()","description":"denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. See Bi-, 2."},{"word":"Dia-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Di-"},{"word":"Di-","type":"()","description":"A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc."},{"word":"Diabase","type":"(n.)","description":"A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone."},{"word":"Diabaterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Passing over the borders."},{"word":"Diabetes","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal."},{"word":"Diabetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diabetical"},{"word":"Diabetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment."},{"word":"Diablerie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Diabley"},{"word":"Diabley","type":"(n.)","description":"Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief."},{"word":"Diabolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diabolical"},{"word":"Diabolical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act."},{"word":"Diabolify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil."},{"word":"Diabolism","type":"(n.)","description":"Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil."},{"word":"Diabolism","type":"(n.)","description":"Possession by the devil."},{"word":"Diabolize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render diabolical."},{"word":"Diacatholicon","type":"(n.)","description":"A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary."},{"word":"Diacaustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic."},{"word":"Diacaustic","type":"(n.)","description":"That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery."},{"word":"Diacaustic","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens."},{"word":"Diachylon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Diachylum"},{"word":"Diachylum","type":"(n.)","description":"A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids."},{"word":"Diacid","type":"(a.)","description":"Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid."},{"word":"Diacodium","type":"(n.)","description":"A sirup made of poppies."},{"word":"Diaconal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a deacon."},{"word":"Diaconate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons."},{"word":"Diaconate","type":"(a.)","description":"Governed by deacons."},{"word":"Diacope","type":"(n.)","description":"Tmesis."},{"word":"Diacoustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds."},{"word":"Diacoustics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics."},{"word":"Diacritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diacritical"},{"word":"Diacritical","type":"(a.)","description":"That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc."},{"word":"Diactinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media."},{"word":"Diadelphia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments."},{"word":"Diadelphian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diadelphous"},{"word":"Diadelphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens)."},{"word":"Diadem","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general."},{"word":"Diadem","type":"(n.)","description":"Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown."},{"word":"Diadem","type":"(n.)","description":"An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center."},{"word":"Diadem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with a diadem; to crown."},{"word":"Diadrom","type":"(n.)","description":"A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum."},{"word":"Diaereses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dieresis"},{"word":"Diereses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dieresis"},{"word":"Diaeresis","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dieresis"},{"word":"Dieresis","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synaeresis."},{"word":"Dieresis","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial."},{"word":"Diaeretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Caustic."},{"word":"Diageotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism."},{"word":"Diageotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth."},{"word":"Diaglyph","type":"(n.)","description":"An intaglio."},{"word":"Diaglyphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diaglyphtic"},{"word":"Diaglyphtic","type":"(a.)","description":"Represented or formed by depressions in the general surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving; -- opposed to anaglyphic."},{"word":"Diagnose","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate."},{"word":"Diagnoses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diagnosis"},{"word":"Diagnosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at."},{"word":"Diagnosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species."},{"word":"Diagnosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character."},{"word":"Diagnostic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease."},{"word":"Diagnostic","type":"(n.)","description":"The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others."},{"word":"Diagnosticate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease."},{"word":"Diagnostics","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs."},{"word":"Diagometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power."},{"word":"Diagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides."},{"word":"Diagonal","type":"(n.)","description":"A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts."},{"word":"Diagonal","type":"(n.)","description":"A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel."},{"word":"Diagonal","type":"(n.)","description":"A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving."},{"word":"Diagonally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diagonal direction."},{"word":"Diagonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Diagonal; diametrical; hence; diametrically opposed."},{"word":"Diagram","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan."},{"word":"Diagram","type":"(n.)","description":"Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one."},{"word":"Diagram","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into the form of a diagram."},{"word":"Diagrammatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram."},{"word":"Diagraph","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale."},{"word":"Diagraphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diagraphical"},{"word":"Diagraphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Descriptive."},{"word":"Diagraphics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule."},{"word":"Diaheliotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism."},{"word":"Diaheliotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light."},{"word":"Dial","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical."},{"word":"Dial","type":"(n.)","description":"The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands."},{"word":"Dial","type":"(n.)","description":"A miner's compass."},{"word":"Dialed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dial"},{"word":"Dialled","type":"()","description":"of Dial"},{"word":"Dialing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dial"},{"word":"Dialling","type":"()","description":"of Dial"},{"word":"Dial","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To measure with a dial."},{"word":"Dial","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To survey with a dial."},{"word":"Dialect","type":"(n.)","description":"Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech."},{"word":"Dialect","type":"(n.)","description":"The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned."},{"word":"Dialectal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant."},{"word":"Dialectic","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dialectics."},{"word":"Dialectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dialectical"},{"word":"Dialectical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental."},{"word":"Dialectical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects."},{"word":"Dialectically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dialectical manner."},{"word":"Dialectician","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner."},{"word":"Dialectics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion."},{"word":"Dialectology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects."},{"word":"Dialector","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in dialectics."},{"word":"Dialing","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials."},{"word":"Dialing","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor."},{"word":"Dialist","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing."},{"word":"Diallage","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point."},{"word":"Diallage","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks."},{"word":"Diallel","type":"(a.)","description":"Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel."},{"word":"Diallyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series."},{"word":"Dialogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical."},{"word":"Dialogically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner or nature of a dialogue."},{"word":"Dialogism","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary speech or discussion between two or more; dialogue."},{"word":"Dialogist","type":"(n.)","description":"A speaker in a dialogue."},{"word":"Dialogist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of dialogues."},{"word":"Dialogistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dialogistical"},{"word":"Dialogistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a dialogue; having the form or nature of a dialogue."},{"word":"Dialogite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite."},{"word":"Dialogize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discourse in dialogue."},{"word":"Dialogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises."},{"word":"Dialogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato."},{"word":"Dialogue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize."},{"word":"Dialogue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express as in dialogue."},{"word":"Dialypetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having separate petals; polypetalous."},{"word":"Dialyses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dialysis"},{"word":"Dialysis","type":"(n.)","description":"Diaeresis. See Diaeresis, 1."},{"word":"Dialysis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Asyndeton."},{"word":"Dialysis","type":"(n.)","description":"Debility."},{"word":"Dialysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts."},{"word":"Dialysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes."},{"word":"Dialytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of unloosing or separating."},{"word":"Dialyzate","type":"(n.)","description":"The material subjected to dialysis."},{"word":"Dialyzation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of dialysis."},{"word":"Dialyzed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dialyze"},{"word":"Dialyzing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dialyze"},{"word":"Dialyze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis."},{"word":"Dialyzed","type":"(a.)","description":"Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron."},{"word":"Dialyzer","type":"(n.)","description":"The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis."},{"word":"Diamagnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A body having diamagnetic polarity."},{"word":"Diamagnetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic."},{"word":"Diamagnetic","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet."},{"word":"Diamagnetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism."},{"word":"Diamagnetism","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies."},{"word":"Diamagnetism","type":"(n.)","description":"That form or condition of magnetic action which characterizes diamagnetics."},{"word":"Diamantiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding diamonds."},{"word":"Diamantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Adamantine."},{"word":"Diameter","type":"(n.)","description":"Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve."},{"word":"Diameter","type":"(n.)","description":"A diametral plane."},{"word":"Diameter","type":"(n.)","description":"The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock."},{"word":"Diameter","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module."},{"word":"Diametral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical."},{"word":"Diametral","type":"(n.)","description":"A diameter."},{"word":"Diametrally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Diametrically."},{"word":"Diametric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diametrical"},{"word":"Diametrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a diameter."},{"word":"Diametrical","type":"(a.)","description":"As remote as possible, as if at the opposite end of a diameter; directly adverse."},{"word":"Diametrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite."},{"word":"Diamide","type":"(n.)","description":"Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide."},{"word":"Diamido-","type":"(a.)","description":"A prefix or combining form of Diamine. [Also used adjectively.]"},{"word":"Diamine","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide."},{"word":"Diamond","type":"(n.)","description":"A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness."},{"word":"Diamond","type":"(n.)","description":"A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge."},{"word":"Diamond","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond."},{"word":"Diamond","type":"(n.)","description":"A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups."},{"word":"Diamond","type":"(n.)","description":"The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles."},{"word":"Diamond","type":"(n.)","description":"The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen."},{"word":"Diamond","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field."},{"word":"Diamond-back","type":"(n.)","description":"The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris)."},{"word":"Diamonded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having figures like a diamond or lozenge."},{"word":"Diamonded","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with diamonds; diamondized."},{"word":"Diamondize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich."},{"word":"Diamond-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a diamond or rhombus."},{"word":"Diamylene","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene."},{"word":"Dian","type":"(a.)","description":"Diana."},{"word":"Diana","type":"(n.)","description":"The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis."},{"word":"Diandria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens."},{"word":"Diandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Diandrous."},{"word":"Diandrous","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens."},{"word":"Dianium","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Columbium."},{"word":"Dianoetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products."},{"word":"Dianoialogy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations."},{"word":"Dianthus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William."},{"word":"Diapase","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Diapason."},{"word":"Diapasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together."},{"word":"Diapason","type":"(n.)","description":"The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale."},{"word":"Diapason","type":"(n.)","description":"Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony."},{"word":"Diapason","type":"(n.)","description":"The entire compass of tones."},{"word":"Diapason","type":"(n.)","description":"A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason."},{"word":"Diapason","type":"(n.)","description":"One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like."},{"word":"Diapedesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels."},{"word":"Diapente","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval of the fifth."},{"word":"Diapente","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition of five ingredients."},{"word":"Diaper","type":"(n.)","description":"Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2."},{"word":"Diaper","type":"(n.)","description":"Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced."},{"word":"Diaper","type":"(n.)","description":"A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc."},{"word":"Diaper","type":"(n.)","description":"An infant's breechcloth."},{"word":"Diaper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving."},{"word":"Diaper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a diaper on (a child)."},{"word":"Diaper","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth."},{"word":"Diapering","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Diaper, n., 2."},{"word":"Diaphane","type":"(n.)","description":"A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work."},{"word":"Diaphaned","type":"(a.)","description":"Transparent or translucent."},{"word":"Diaphaneity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness."},{"word":"Diaphanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous."},{"word":"Diaphanie","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of imitating //ined glass with translucent paper."},{"word":"Diaphanometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air."},{"word":"Diaphanoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens."},{"word":"Diaphanotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one."},{"word":"Diaphanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear."},{"word":"Diaphanously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Translucently."},{"word":"Diaphemetric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses."},{"word":"Diaphonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diaphonical"},{"word":"Diaphonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Diacoustic."},{"word":"Diaphonics","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics."},{"word":"Diaphoresis","type":"(n.)","description":"Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration."},{"word":"Diaphoretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diaphoretical"},{"word":"Diaphoretical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to increase perspiration."},{"word":"Diaphoretic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration."},{"word":"Diaphote","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph."},{"word":"Diaphragm","type":"(n.)","description":"A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it."},{"word":"Diaphragm","type":"(n.)","description":"The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff."},{"word":"Diaphragm","type":"(n.)","description":"A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts."},{"word":"Diaphragm","type":"(n.)","description":"A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope."},{"word":"Diaphragm","type":"(n.)","description":"A partition in any compartment, for various purposes."},{"word":"Diaphragmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves."},{"word":"Diaphysis","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence."},{"word":"Diaphysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified."},{"word":"Diapnoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic."},{"word":"Diapnoic","type":"(n.)","description":"A gentle diaphoretic."},{"word":"Diapophysical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a diapophysis."},{"word":"Diapophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra."},{"word":"Diarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons."},{"word":"Diarial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diarian"},{"word":"Diarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a diary; daily."},{"word":"Diarist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps a diary."},{"word":"Diarrhea","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Diarrhoea"},{"word":"Diarrhoea","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux."},{"word":"Diarrheal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diarrhoeal"},{"word":"Diarrhoeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea."},{"word":"Diarrhetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diarrhoetic"},{"word":"Diarrhoetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing diarrhea, or a purging."},{"word":"Diarthrodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations."},{"word":"Diarthrosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation."},{"word":"Diaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diary"},{"word":"Diary","type":"(n.)","description":"A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary."},{"word":"Diary","type":"(a.)","description":"lasting for one day; as, a diary fever."},{"word":"Diaspore","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe."},{"word":"Diastase","type":"(n.)","description":"A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar."},{"word":"Diastasic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment."},{"word":"Diastasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A forcible of bones without fracture."},{"word":"Diastatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar."},{"word":"Diastem","type":"(n.)","description":"Intervening space; interval."},{"word":"Diastem","type":"(n.)","description":"An interval."},{"word":"Diastema","type":"(n.)","description":"A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw."},{"word":"Diaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis."},{"word":"Diastole","type":"(n.)","description":"The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction."},{"word":"Diastole","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long."},{"word":"Diastolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to diastole."},{"word":"Diastyle","type":"(n.)","description":"See under Intercolumniation."},{"word":"Diatessaron","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval of a fourth."},{"word":"Diatessaron","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament."},{"word":"Diatessaron","type":"(n.)","description":"An electuary compounded of four medicines."},{"word":"Diathermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Freely permeable by radiant heat."},{"word":"Diathermancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Diathermaneity"},{"word":"Diathermaneity","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous."},{"word":"Diathermanism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat."},{"word":"Diathermanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous."},{"word":"Diathermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances."},{"word":"Diathermometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids."},{"word":"Diathermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Diathermal."},{"word":"Diathesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases."},{"word":"Diathetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease."},{"word":"Diatom","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use."},{"word":"Diatom","type":"(n.)","description":"A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle."},{"word":"Diatomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing two atoms."},{"word":"Diatomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two replaceable atoms or radicals."},{"word":"Diatomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said of crystals."},{"word":"Diatonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first."},{"word":"Diatonically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diatonic manner."},{"word":"Diatribe","type":"(n.)","description":"A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic."},{"word":"Diatribist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a diatribe or diatribes."},{"word":"Diatryma","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich."},{"word":"Diazeuctic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diazeutic"},{"word":"Diazeutic","type":"(a.)","description":"Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth."},{"word":"Diazo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH."},{"word":"Diazotize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution."},{"word":"Dib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dip."},{"word":"Dib","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints."},{"word":"Dib","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's game, played with dib bones."},{"word":"Dibasic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic."},{"word":"Dibasicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The property or condition of being dibasic."},{"word":"Dibber","type":"(n.)","description":"A dibble."},{"word":"Dibble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds."},{"word":"Dibbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dibble"},{"word":"Dibbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dibble"},{"word":"Dibble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dib or dip frequently, as in angling."},{"word":"Dibble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting."},{"word":"Dibble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble."},{"word":"Dibbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed."},{"word":"Dibranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda."},{"word":"Dibranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two gills."},{"word":"Dibranchiate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Dibranchiata."},{"word":"Dibs","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East."},{"word":"Dibstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones."},{"word":"Dibutyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane."},{"word":"Dicacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Talkative; pert; saucy."},{"word":"Dicacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertness; sauciness."},{"word":"Dicalcic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule."},{"word":"Dicarbonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid."},{"word":"Dicast","type":"(n.)","description":"A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman."},{"word":"Dicastery","type":"(n.)","description":"A court of justice; judgment hall."},{"word":"Die","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dice"},{"word":"Dice","type":"(n.)","description":"Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n."},{"word":"Diced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dice"},{"word":"Dicing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dice"},{"word":"Dice","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play games with dice."},{"word":"Dice","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes."},{"word":"Dicebox","type":"(n.)","description":"A box from which dice are thrown in gaming."},{"word":"Dicentra","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis)."},{"word":"Dicephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two heads on one body; double-headed."},{"word":"Dicer","type":"(n.)","description":"A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester."},{"word":"Dich","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ditch."},{"word":"Dichastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of subdividing spontaneously."},{"word":"Dichlamydeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla."},{"word":"Dichloride","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bichloride."},{"word":"Dichogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Manifesting dichogamy."},{"word":"Dichogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves."},{"word":"Dichotomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dichotomizes."},{"word":"Dichotomized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dichotomize"},{"word":"Dichotomizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dichotomize"},{"word":"Dichotomize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect."},{"word":"Dichotomize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3."},{"word":"Dichotomize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous."},{"word":"Dichotomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem."},{"word":"Dichotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting in two; a division."},{"word":"Dichotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts."},{"word":"Dichotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures."},{"word":"Dichotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation."},{"word":"Dichotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where a stem or vein is forked."},{"word":"Dichotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white."},{"word":"Dichroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal."},{"word":"Dichroiscope","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dichroscope."},{"word":"Dichroism","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes."},{"word":"Dichroite","type":"(n.)","description":"Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite."},{"word":"Dichroitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Dichroic."},{"word":"Dichromate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate."},{"word":"Dichromatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or exhibiting two colors."},{"word":"Dichromatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects."},{"word":"Dichromatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dichromatic."},{"word":"Dichromic","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three."},{"word":"Dichroous","type":"(a.)","description":"Dichroic."},{"word":"Dichroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals."},{"word":"Dichroscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it."},{"word":"Dicing","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamenting in squares or cubes."},{"word":"Dicing","type":"(n.)","description":"Gambling with dice."},{"word":"Dickcissel","type":"(n.)","description":"The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana)."},{"word":"Dickens","type":"(n. / interj.)","description":"The devil."},{"word":"Dicker","type":"(n.)","description":"The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves."},{"word":"Dicker","type":"(n.)","description":"A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker."},{"word":"Dicker","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To negotiate a dicker; to barter."},{"word":"Dickey","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dicky"},{"word":"Dicky","type":"(n.)","description":"A seat behind a carriage, for a servant."},{"word":"Dicky","type":"(n.)","description":"A false shirt front or bosom."},{"word":"Dicky","type":"(n.)","description":"A gentleman's shirt collar."},{"word":"Diclinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization."},{"word":"Diclinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers."},{"word":"Dicoccous","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of two coherent, one-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule."},{"word":"Dicotyledon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating."},{"word":"Dicotyledonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant."},{"word":"Dicrotal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dicrotous"},{"word":"Dicrotous","type":"(a.)","description":"Dicrotic."},{"word":"Dicrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse."},{"word":"Dicrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave."},{"word":"Dicrotism","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart."},{"word":"Dicta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Dictum."},{"word":"Dictamen","type":"(n.)","description":"A dictation or dictate."},{"word":"Dictamnus","type":"(n.)","description":"A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable."},{"word":"Dictated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dictate"},{"word":"Dictating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dictate"},{"word":"Dictate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis."},{"word":"Dictate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops."},{"word":"Dictate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on)."},{"word":"Dictate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another."},{"word":"Dictate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel."},{"word":"Dictation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated."},{"word":"Dictation","type":"(n.)","description":"The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation."},{"word":"Dictator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others."},{"word":"Dictator","type":"(n.)","description":"One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power."},{"word":"Dictatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute."},{"word":"Dictatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner."},{"word":"Dictatorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Dictatorial."},{"word":"Dictatorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power."},{"word":"Dictatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial."},{"word":"Dictatress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who dictates or commands."},{"word":"Dictatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A dictatress."},{"word":"Dictature","type":"(n.)","description":"Office of a dictator; dictatorship."},{"word":"Diction","type":"(n.)","description":"Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems."},{"word":"Dictionalrian","type":"(n.)","description":"A lexicographer."},{"word":"Dictionaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dictionary"},{"word":"Dictionary","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook."},{"word":"Dictionary","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary."},{"word":"Dicta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dictum"},{"word":"Dictums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dictum"},{"word":"Dictum","type":"(n.)","description":"An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm."},{"word":"Dictum","type":"(n.)","description":"A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it."},{"word":"Dictum","type":"(n.)","description":"The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it."},{"word":"Dictum","type":"(n.)","description":"An arbitrament or award."},{"word":"Dictyogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc."},{"word":"Dicyanide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide."},{"word":"Dicyemata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms."},{"word":"Dicyemid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or belonging to the Dicyemata."},{"word":"Dicyemid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Dicyemata."},{"word":"Dicynodont","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India."},{"word":"Did","type":"()","description":"imp. of Do."},{"word":"Didactic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Didactical"},{"word":"Didactical","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays."},{"word":"Didactic","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on teaching or education."},{"word":"Didactically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a didactic manner."},{"word":"Didacticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The didactic method or system."},{"word":"Didacticity","type":"(n.)","description":"Aptitude for teaching."},{"word":"Didactics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of teaching."},{"word":"Didactyl","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal having only two digits."},{"word":"Didactylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having only two digits; two-toed."},{"word":"Didal","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of triangular spade."},{"word":"Didapper","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dabchick."},{"word":"Didascalar","type":"(a.)","description":"Didascalic."},{"word":"Didascalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Didactic; preceptive."},{"word":"Diddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To totter, as a child in walking."},{"word":"Diddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat or overreach."},{"word":"Diddler","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheat."},{"word":"Didelphia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia."},{"word":"Didelphian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the Didelphia."},{"word":"Didelphian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Didelphia."},{"word":"Didelphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia."},{"word":"Didelphid","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Didelphic."},{"word":"Didelphid","type":"(n.)","description":"A marsupial animal."},{"word":"Didelphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Didelphic."},{"word":"Didelphyc","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Didelphic."},{"word":"Didelphous","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted to an American genus which includes the opossums, of which there are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Didine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo."},{"word":"Didos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dido"},{"word":"Dido","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper."},{"word":"Didonia","type":"(n.)","description":"The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area."},{"word":"Didrachm","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Didrachma"},{"word":"Didrachma","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents."},{"word":"Didst","type":"()","description":"the 2d pers. sing. imp. of Do."},{"word":"Diducement","type":"(n.)","description":"Diduction; separation into distinct parts."},{"word":"Diduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing apart; separation."},{"word":"Didym","type":"(n.)","description":"See Didymium."},{"word":"Didymium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium."},{"word":"Didymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing in pairs or twins."},{"word":"Didynamia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length."},{"word":"Didynamian","type":"(a.)","description":"Didynamous."},{"word":"Didynamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length."},{"word":"Died","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Die"},{"word":"Dying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Die"},{"word":"Die","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought."},{"word":"Die","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer death; to lose life."},{"word":"Die","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished."},{"word":"Die","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc."},{"word":"Die","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin."},{"word":"Die","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away."},{"word":"Die","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face."},{"word":"Die","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor."},{"word":"Dice","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Die"},{"word":"Dies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Die"},{"word":"Die","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice."},{"word":"Die","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small cubical or square body."},{"word":"Die","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance."},{"word":"Die","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado."},{"word":"Die","type":"(n.)","description":"A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc."},{"word":"Die","type":"(n.)","description":"A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing."},{"word":"Die","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool."},{"word":"Diecian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diecious"},{"word":"Diecious","type":"(a.)","description":"See Dioecian, and Dioecious."},{"word":"Diedral","type":"(a.)","description":"The same as Dihedral."},{"word":"Diegesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrative or history; a recital or relation."},{"word":"Dielectric","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body."},{"word":"Dielytra","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dicentra."},{"word":"Diencephalon","type":"(n.)","description":"The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon."},{"word":"Dieresis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Diaeresis."},{"word":"Diesinker","type":"(n.)","description":"An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc."},{"word":"Diesinking","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of engraving dies."},{"word":"Dieses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diesis"},{"word":"Diesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals."},{"word":"Diesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The mark /; -- called also double dagger."},{"word":"Dies","type":"()","description":"Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous mediaeval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment."},{"word":"Dies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dies juridicus"},{"word":"Dies","type":"()","description":"A court day."},{"word":"Dies","type":"()","description":"A day on which courts are not held, as Sunday or any legal holiday."},{"word":"Diestock","type":"(n.)","description":"A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws."},{"word":"Diet","type":"(n.)","description":"Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare."},{"word":"Diet","type":"(n.)","description":"A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed."},{"word":"Dieted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Diet"},{"word":"Dieting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Diet"},{"word":"Diet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to take food; to feed."},{"word":"Diet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of."},{"word":"Diet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat; to take one's meals."},{"word":"Diet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet."},{"word":"Diet","type":"(n.)","description":"A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521."},{"word":"Dietarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter."},{"word":"Dietary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet."},{"word":"Dietaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dietary"},{"word":"Dietary","type":"(n.)","description":"A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc."},{"word":"Dieter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules."},{"word":"Dietetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dietetical"},{"word":"Dietetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten."},{"word":"Dietetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dietetical manner."},{"word":"Dietetics","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet."},{"word":"Dietetist","type":"(n.)","description":"A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases."},{"word":"Diethylamine","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine."},{"word":"Dietic","type":"(a.)","description":"Dietetic."},{"word":"Dietical","type":"(a.)","description":"Dietetic."},{"word":"Dietine","type":"(n.)","description":"A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank."},{"word":"Dietist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dietitian"},{"word":"Dietitian","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in dietetics."},{"word":"Diffame","type":"(n.)","description":"Evil name; bad reputation; defamation."},{"word":"Diffarreation","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of divorce, among the ancient Romans, in which a cake was used. See Confarreation."},{"word":"Differed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Differ"},{"word":"Differing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Differ"},{"word":"Differ","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from."},{"word":"Differ","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be of unlike or opposite opinion; to disagree in sentiment; -- often with from or with."},{"word":"Differ","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend."},{"word":"Differ","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance."},{"word":"Difference","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?"},{"word":"Difference","type":"(n.)","description":"Disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy."},{"word":"Difference","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute."},{"word":"Difference","type":"(n.)","description":"Choice; preference."},{"word":"Difference","type":"(n.)","description":"An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency."},{"word":"Difference","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia."},{"word":"Difference","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other."},{"word":"Differenced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Difference"},{"word":"Differencing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Difference"},{"word":"Difference","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish."},{"word":"Different","type":"(a.)","description":"Distinct; separate; not the same; other."},{"word":"Different","type":"(a.)","description":"Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence."},{"word":"Differentiae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Differentia"},{"word":"Differentia","type":"(n.)","description":"The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference."},{"word":"Differential","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate."},{"word":"Differential","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials."},{"word":"Differential","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to differences of motion or leverage; producing effects by such differences; said of mechanism."},{"word":"Differential","type":"(n.)","description":"An increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity."},{"word":"Differential","type":"(n.)","description":"A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities."},{"word":"Differential","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other."},{"word":"Differential","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all."},{"word":"Differentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the way of differentiation."},{"word":"Differentiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize."},{"word":"Differentiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express the specific difference of; to describe the properties of (a thing) whereby it is differenced from another of the same class; to discriminate."},{"word":"Differentiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation."},{"word":"Differentiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To acquire a distinct and separate character."},{"word":"Differentiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of differentiating."},{"word":"Differentiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination."},{"word":"Differentiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes."},{"word":"Differentiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions."},{"word":"Differentiator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, differentiates."},{"word":"Differently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a different manner; variously."},{"word":"Differingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a differing or different manner."},{"word":"Difficile","type":"(a.)","description":"Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn."},{"word":"Difficilitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make difficult."},{"word":"Difficult","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous."},{"word":"Difficult","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person."},{"word":"Difficult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render difficult; to impede; to perplex."},{"word":"Difficultate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render difficult; to difficilitate."},{"word":"Difficultly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With difficulty."},{"word":"Difficultness","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficulty."},{"word":"Difficulties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Difficulty"},{"word":"Difficulty","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty."},{"word":"Difficulty","type":"(n.)","description":"Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology."},{"word":"Difficulty","type":"(n.)","description":"A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil."},{"word":"Difficulty","type":"(n.)","description":"Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties."},{"word":"Diffide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be distrustful."},{"word":"Diffidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others."},{"word":"Diffidence","type":"(n.)","description":"Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness."},{"word":"Diffidency","type":"(n.)","description":"See Diffidence."},{"word":"Diffident","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting confidence in others; distrustful."},{"word":"Diffident","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve."},{"word":"Diffidently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diffident manner."},{"word":"Diffind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To split."},{"word":"Diffine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To define."},{"word":"Diffinitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Definitive; determinate; final."},{"word":"Diffission","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of cleaving or splitting."},{"word":"Difflation","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowing apart or away."},{"word":"Diffluence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Diffluency"},{"word":"Diffluency","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing off on all sides; fluidity."},{"word":"Diffluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed."},{"word":"Difform","type":"(a.)","description":"Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves."},{"word":"Difformity","type":"(n.)","description":"Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity."},{"word":"Diffracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Diffract"},{"word":"Diffracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Diffract"},{"word":"Diffract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light."},{"word":"Diffraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars."},{"word":"Diffractive","type":"(a.)","description":"That produces diffraction."},{"word":"Diffranchise","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Diffranchisement"},{"word":"Diffranchisement","type":"()","description":"See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement."},{"word":"Diffusate","type":"(n.)","description":"Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane."},{"word":"Diffused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Diffuse"},{"word":"Diffusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Diffuse"},{"word":"Diffuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information."},{"word":"Diffuse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself."},{"word":"Diffuse","type":"(a.)","description":"Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer."},{"word":"Diffused","type":"(a.)","description":"Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse."},{"word":"Diffusely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diffuse manner."},{"word":"Diffuseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity."},{"word":"Diffuser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, diffuses."},{"word":"Diffusibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out."},{"word":"Diffusible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused."},{"word":"Diffusible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis."},{"word":"Diffusibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Diffusibility."},{"word":"Diffusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion."},{"word":"Diffusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate."},{"word":"Diffusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse."},{"word":"Diffusively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diffusive manner."},{"word":"Diffusiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity."},{"word":"Diffusivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium."},{"word":"Dug","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dig"},{"word":"Digged","type":"()","description":"of Dig"},{"word":"Digging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dig"},{"word":"Dig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade."},{"word":"Dig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold."},{"word":"Dig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well."},{"word":"Dig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust; to poke."},{"word":"Dig","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve."},{"word":"Dig","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore."},{"word":"Dig","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously."},{"word":"Dig","type":"(n.)","description":"A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4."},{"word":"Dig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A plodding and laborious student."},{"word":"Digamist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist."},{"word":"Digamma","type":"(n.)","description":"A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse."},{"word":"Digammate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Digammated"},{"word":"Digammated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /."},{"word":"Digamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband."},{"word":"Digamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy."},{"word":"Digastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw."},{"word":"Digastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves."},{"word":"Digenea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents."},{"word":"Digenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis."},{"word":"Digenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Sexually reproductive."},{"word":"Digerent","type":"()","description":"Digesting."},{"word":"Digested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Digest"},{"word":"Digesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Digest"},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appropriate for strengthening and comfort."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ripen; to mature."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quiet or abate, as anger or grief."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer."},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles"},{"word":"Digest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest."},{"word":"Digestedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically."},{"word":"Digester","type":"(n.)","description":"One who digests."},{"word":"Digester","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power."},{"word":"Digester","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them."},{"word":"Digestibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being digestible."},{"word":"Digestible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being digested."},{"word":"Digestibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being digestible; digestibility."},{"word":"Digestion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration."},{"word":"Digestion","type":"(n.)","description":"The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood."},{"word":"Digestion","type":"(n.)","description":"Generation of pus; suppuration."},{"word":"Digestive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments."},{"word":"Digestive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine."},{"word":"Digestive","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration."},{"word":"Digestive","type":"(n.)","description":"A tonic."},{"word":"Digestor","type":"(n.)","description":"See Digester."},{"word":"Digesture","type":"(n.)","description":"Digestion."},{"word":"Diggable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being dug."},{"word":"Digger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, digs."},{"word":"Diggers","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food."},{"word":"Digging","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the place of excavating."},{"word":"Digging","type":"(n.)","description":"Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained."},{"word":"Digging","type":"(n.)","description":"Region; locality."},{"word":"Dight","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dight"},{"word":"Dighted","type":"()","description":"of Dight"},{"word":"Dighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dight"},{"word":"Dight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn."},{"word":"Dight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have sexual intercourse with."},{"word":"Dighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dights."},{"word":"Digit","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe."},{"word":"Digit","type":"(n.)","description":"A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch."},{"word":"Digit","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing."},{"word":"Digit","type":"(n.)","description":"One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk."},{"word":"Digit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point at or out with the finger."},{"word":"Digital","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination."},{"word":"Digitain","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the \"French extract,\" the \"German extract,\" etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties."},{"word":"Digitain","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside."},{"word":"Digitalis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants including the foxglove."},{"word":"Digitalis","type":"(n.)","description":"The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc."},{"word":"Digitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point out as with the finger."},{"word":"Digitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Digitated"},{"word":"Digitated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation."},{"word":"Digitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process."},{"word":"Digitiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root."},{"word":"Digitigrade","type":"(a.)","description":"Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade."},{"word":"Digitigrade","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot."},{"word":"Digitipartite","type":"(a.)","description":"Parted like the fingers."},{"word":"Digitize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To finger; as, to digitize a pen."},{"word":"Digitorium","type":"(n.)","description":"A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano."},{"word":"Digitule","type":"(n.)","description":"A little finger or toe, or something resembling one."},{"word":"Digladiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently."},{"word":"Digladiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of digladiating."},{"word":"Diglottism","type":"(n.)","description":"Bilingualism."},{"word":"Diglyph","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it."},{"word":"Dignation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of thinking worthy; honor."},{"word":"Digne","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy; honorable; deserving."},{"word":"Digne","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable; adequate; fit."},{"word":"Digne","type":"(a.)","description":"Haughty; disdainful."},{"word":"Dignification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dignifying; exaltation."},{"word":"Dignified","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge."},{"word":"Dignified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dignify"},{"word":"Dignifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dignify"},{"word":"Dignify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor."},{"word":"Dignitaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dignitary"},{"word":"Dignitary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman."},{"word":"Dignities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dignity"},{"word":"Dignity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence."},{"word":"Dignity","type":"(n.)","description":"Elevation; grandeur."},{"word":"Dignity","type":"(n.)","description":"Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation."},{"word":"Dignity","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc."},{"word":"Dignity","type":"(n.)","description":"One holding high rank; a dignitary."},{"word":"Dignity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim."},{"word":"Dignotion","type":"(n.)","description":"Distinguishing mark; diagnostic."},{"word":"Digonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two angles."},{"word":"Digram","type":"(n.)","description":"A digraph."},{"word":"Digraph","type":"(n.)","description":"Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath."},{"word":"Digraphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a digraph."},{"word":"Digressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Digress"},{"word":"Digressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Digress"},{"word":"Digress","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking."},{"word":"Digress","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend."},{"word":"Digress","type":"(n.)","description":"Digression."},{"word":"Digression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject."},{"word":"Digression","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense."},{"word":"Digression","type":"(n.)","description":"The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets."},{"word":"Digressional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject."},{"word":"Digressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression."},{"word":"Digressively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of digression."},{"word":"Digue","type":"(n.)","description":"A bank; a dike."},{"word":"Digynia","type":"(n.)","description":"A Linnaean order of plants having two styles."},{"word":"Digynian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Digynous"},{"word":"Digynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles."},{"word":"Dihedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal."},{"word":"Dihedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure with two sides or surfaces."},{"word":"Dihexagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base."},{"word":"Dihexagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having twelve similar faces; as, a dihexagonal prism."},{"word":"Diiamb","type":"(n.)","description":"A diiambus."},{"word":"Diiambus","type":"(n.)","description":"A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /)."},{"word":"Diiodide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide."},{"word":"Diisatogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo."},{"word":"Dijudicant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dijudicates."},{"word":"Dijudicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dijudicate"},{"word":"Dijucating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dijudicate"},{"word":"Dijudicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine."},{"word":"Dijudication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dijudicating; judgment."},{"word":"Dika","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also dika bread."},{"word":"Dike","type":"(n.)","description":"A ditch; a channel for water made by digging."},{"word":"Dike","type":"(n.)","description":"An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee."},{"word":"Dike","type":"(n.)","description":"A wall of turf or stone."},{"word":"Dike","type":"(n.)","description":"A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata."},{"word":"Diked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dike"},{"word":"Diking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dike"},{"word":"Dike","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank."},{"word":"Dike","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drain by a dike or ditch."},{"word":"Dike","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To work as a ditcher; to dig."},{"word":"Diker","type":"(n.)","description":"A ditcher."},{"word":"Diker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime."},{"word":"Dilacerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dilacerate"},{"word":"Dilacerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dilacerate"},{"word":"Dilacerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rend asunder; to tear to pieces."},{"word":"Dilaceration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rending asunder."},{"word":"Dilaniate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rend in pieces; to tear."},{"word":"Dilaniation","type":"(n.)","description":"A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration."},{"word":"Dilapidated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dilapidate"},{"word":"Dilapidating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dilapidate"},{"word":"Dilapidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building."},{"word":"Dilapidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impair by waste and abuse; to squander."},{"word":"Dilapidate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate."},{"word":"Dilapidated","type":"(a.)","description":"Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect."},{"word":"Dilapidation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered."},{"word":"Dilapidation","type":"(n.)","description":"Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention."},{"word":"Dilapidation","type":"(n.)","description":"The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay."},{"word":"Dilapidator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who causes dilapidation."},{"word":"Dilatability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility."},{"word":"Dilatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat."},{"word":"Dilatation","type":"(n.)","description":"Prolixity; diffuse discourse."},{"word":"Dilatation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al/ sides; the state of being dilated; dilation."},{"word":"Dilatation","type":"(n.)","description":"A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ."},{"word":"Dilatator","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator."},{"word":"Dilated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dilate"},{"word":"Dilating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dilate"},{"word":"Dilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat."},{"word":"Dilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely."},{"word":"Dilate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions."},{"word":"Dilate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon."},{"word":"Dilate","type":"(a.)","description":"Extensive; expanded."},{"word":"Dilated","type":"(a.)","description":"Expanded; enlarged."},{"word":"Dilated","type":"(a.)","description":"Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages."},{"word":"Dilated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the margin wide and spreading."},{"word":"Dilatedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dilated manner."},{"word":"Dilater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges."},{"word":"Dilation","type":"(n.)","description":"Delay."},{"word":"Dilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation."},{"word":"Dilative","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive."},{"word":"Dilatometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid."},{"word":"Dilator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, widens or expands."},{"word":"Dilator","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle that dilates any part."},{"word":"Dilator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator."},{"word":"Dilatorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"With delay; tardily."},{"word":"Dilatoriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness."},{"word":"Dilatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant."},{"word":"Dilatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures."},{"word":"Dildo","type":"(n.)","description":"A burden in popular songs."},{"word":"Dildo","type":"(n.)","description":"A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii)."},{"word":"Dilection","type":"(n.)","description":"Love; choice."},{"word":"Dilemma","type":"(n.)","description":"An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses."},{"word":"Dilemma","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position."},{"word":"Dilettant","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation."},{"word":"Dilettant","type":"(n.)","description":"A dilettante."},{"word":"Dilettanti","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dilettante"},{"word":"Dilettante","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only."},{"word":"Dilettanteish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat like a dilettante."},{"word":"Dilettanteism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature."},{"word":"Dilettantish","type":"(a.)","description":"Dilettanteish."},{"word":"Dilettantism","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dilettanteism."},{"word":"Diligence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence."},{"word":"Diligence","type":"(n.)","description":"Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service."},{"word":"Diligence","type":"(n.)","description":"Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings."},{"word":"Diligence","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France."},{"word":"Diligency","type":"(n.)","description":"Diligence; care; persevering endeavor."},{"word":"Diligent","type":"(a.)","description":"Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent."},{"word":"Diligent","type":"(a.)","description":"Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious."},{"word":"Diligently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity."},{"word":"Dill","type":"(n.)","description":"An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed."},{"word":"Dill","type":"(a.)","description":"To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain."},{"word":"Dilling","type":"(n.)","description":"A darling; a favorite."},{"word":"Dilluing","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve."},{"word":"Dilly","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of stagecoach."},{"word":"Dilly-dally","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To loiter or trifle; to waste time."},{"word":"Dilogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambiguous; of double meaning."},{"word":"Dilogies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dilogy"},{"word":"Dilogy","type":"(n.)","description":"An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense."},{"word":"Dilucid","type":"(a.)","description":"Clear; lucid."},{"word":"Dilucidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To elucidate."},{"word":"Dilucidation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making clear."},{"word":"Diluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water."},{"word":"Diluent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which dilutes."},{"word":"Diluent","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink."},{"word":"Diluted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dilute"},{"word":"Diluting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dilute"},{"word":"Dilute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing."},{"word":"Dilute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken."},{"word":"Dilute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily."},{"word":"Dilute","type":"(a.)","description":"Diluted; thin; weak."},{"word":"Diluted","type":"(a.)","description":"Reduced in strength; thin; weak."},{"word":"Diluteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being dilute."},{"word":"Diluter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker."},{"word":"Dilution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted."},{"word":"Diluvial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian."},{"word":"Diluvial","type":"(a.)","description":"Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch."},{"word":"Diluvialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge."},{"word":"Diluvian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin."},{"word":"Diluviate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run as a flood."},{"word":"Diluviums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diluvium"},{"word":"Diluvia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diluvium"},{"word":"Diluvium","type":"(n.)","description":"A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice."},{"word":"Dim","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished."},{"word":"Dim","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse."},{"word":"Dimmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dim"},{"word":"Dimming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dim"},{"word":"Dim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse."},{"word":"Dim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of."},{"word":"Dim","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow dim."},{"word":"Dimble","type":"(n.)","description":"A bower; a dingle."},{"word":"Dime","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar."},{"word":"Dimension","type":"(n.)","description":"Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom."},{"word":"Dimension","type":"(n.)","description":"Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions."},{"word":"Dimension","type":"(n.)","description":"The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension."},{"word":"Dimension","type":"(n.)","description":"A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree."},{"word":"Dimension","type":"(n.)","description":"The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities."},{"word":"Dimensional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to dimension."},{"word":"Dimensioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having dimensions."},{"word":"Dimensionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent."},{"word":"Dimensity","type":"(n.)","description":"Dimension."},{"word":"Dimensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits."},{"word":"Dimera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi."},{"word":"Dimera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Hemiptera, including the aphids."},{"word":"Dimeran","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Dimera."},{"word":"Dimerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind."},{"word":"Dimeter","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two poetical measures or meters."},{"word":"Dimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse of two meters."},{"word":"Dimethyl","type":"(n.)","description":"Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane."},{"word":"Dimetric","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Tetragonal."},{"word":"Dimication","type":"(n.)","description":"A fight; contest."},{"word":"Dimidiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form."},{"word":"Dimidiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed."},{"word":"Dimidiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the organs of one side, or half, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side; as, dimidiate hermaphroditism."},{"word":"Dimidiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dimidiate"},{"word":"Dimidiating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dimidiate"},{"word":"Dimidiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into two equal parts."},{"word":"Dimidiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent the half of; to halve."},{"word":"Dimidiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate."},{"word":"Diminished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Diminish"},{"word":"Diminishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Diminish"},{"word":"Diminish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase."},{"word":"Diminish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken."},{"word":"Diminish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh."},{"word":"Diminish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away; to subtract."},{"word":"Diminish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it."},{"word":"Diminishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being diminished or lessened."},{"word":"Diminisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, diminishes anything."},{"word":"Diminishingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to diminish."},{"word":"Diminishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Diminution."},{"word":"Diminuendo","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign."},{"word":"Diminuent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lessening."},{"word":"Diminutal","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating or causing diminution."},{"word":"Diminute","type":"(a.)","description":"Small; diminished; diminutive."},{"word":"Diminutely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Diminutively."},{"word":"Diminution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase."},{"word":"Diminution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement."},{"word":"Diminution","type":"(n.)","description":"Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record."},{"word":"Diminution","type":"(n.)","description":"In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself."},{"word":"Diminutival","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating diminution; diminutive."},{"word":"Diminutival","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminutive."},{"word":"Diminutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the average size; very small; little."},{"word":"Diminutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word."},{"word":"Diminutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to diminish."},{"word":"Diminutive","type":"(n.)","description":"Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing."},{"word":"Diminutive","type":"(n.)","description":"A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin."},{"word":"Diminutively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diminutive manner."},{"word":"Diminutiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness."},{"word":"Dimish","type":"(a.)","description":"See Dimmish."},{"word":"Dimission","type":"(n.)","description":"Leave to depart; a dismissing."},{"word":"Dimissory","type":"(a.)","description":"Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart."},{"word":"Dimit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dismiss, let go, or release."},{"word":"Dimity","type":"(n.)","description":"A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors."},{"word":"Dimly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight."},{"word":"Dimmish","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dimmy"},{"word":"Dimmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes."},{"word":"Dimness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity."},{"word":"Dimness","type":"(n.)","description":"Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception."},{"word":"Dimorph","type":"(n.)","description":"Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs."},{"word":"Dimorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous."},{"word":"Dimorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly."},{"word":"Dimorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite."},{"word":"Dimorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic."},{"word":"Dimorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Crystallizing under two forms fundamentally different, while having the same chemical composition."},{"word":"Dimple","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin."},{"word":"Dimple","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight indentation on any surface."},{"word":"Dimpled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dimple"},{"word":"Dimpling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dimple"},{"word":"Dimple","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities."},{"word":"Dimple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions."},{"word":"Dimplement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions."},{"word":"Dimply","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool."},{"word":"Dim-sighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having dim sight; lacking perception."},{"word":"Dimya","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Dimyaria"},{"word":"Dimyaria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve."},{"word":"Dimyarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the Dimya."},{"word":"Dimyarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Dimya."},{"word":"Dimyary","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Dimyarian."},{"word":"Din","type":"(n.)","description":"Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar."},{"word":"Dinned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Din"},{"word":"Dinning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Din"},{"word":"Din","type":"(n.)","description":"To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries."},{"word":"Din","type":"(n.)","description":"To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding."},{"word":"Din","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound with a din; a ding."},{"word":"Dinaphthyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical."},{"word":"Dinar","type":"(n.)","description":"A petty money of accounts of Persia."},{"word":"Dinar","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient gold coin of the East."},{"word":"Dinarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Diarchy."},{"word":"Dined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dine"},{"word":"Dining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dine"},{"word":"Dine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner."},{"word":"Dine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men."},{"word":"Dine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dine upon; to have to eat."},{"word":"Diner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dines."},{"word":"Diner-out","type":"(n.)","description":"One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company."},{"word":"Dinetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Revolving on an axis."},{"word":"Dinged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ding"},{"word":"Dang","type":"()","description":"of Ding"},{"word":"Dung","type":"()","description":"of Ding"},{"word":"Dinging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ding"},{"word":"Ding","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dash; to throw violently."},{"word":"Ding","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to sound or ring."},{"word":"Ding","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike; to thump; to pound."},{"word":"Ding","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang."},{"word":"Ding","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster."},{"word":"Ding","type":"(n.)","description":"A thump or stroke, especially of a bell."},{"word":"Dingdong","type":"(n.)","description":"The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound."},{"word":"Dingdong","type":"(n.)","description":"An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones."},{"word":"Dingey","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dinghy"},{"word":"Dingy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dinghy"},{"word":"Dinghy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of boat used in the East Indies."},{"word":"Dinghy","type":"(n.)","description":"A ship's smallest boat."},{"word":"Dingily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dingy manner."},{"word":"Dinginess","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue."},{"word":"Dingle","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley."},{"word":"Dingle-dangle","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dangling manner."},{"word":"Dingo","type":"(n.)","description":"A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color."},{"word":"Dingthrift","type":"(n.)","description":"A spendthrift."},{"word":"Dingy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty."},{"word":"Dinichthys","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length."},{"word":"Dining","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"from Dine, a."},{"word":"Dink","type":"(a.)","description":"Trim; neat."},{"word":"Dink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deck; -- often with out or up."},{"word":"Dinmont","type":"(n.)","description":"A wether sheep between one and two years old."},{"word":"Dinner","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour."},{"word":"Dinner","type":"(n.)","description":"An entertainment; a feast."},{"word":"Dinnerless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no dinner."},{"word":"Dinnerly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dinner."},{"word":"Dinoceras","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Dinornis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa."},{"word":"Dinosaur","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dinosaurian"},{"word":"Dinosaurian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Dinosauria."},{"word":"Dinosauria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large \"bird tracks,\" so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix."},{"word":"Dinothere","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dinotherium"},{"word":"Dinotherium","type":"(n.)","description":"A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw."},{"word":"Dinoxide","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dioxide."},{"word":"Dinsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of din."},{"word":"Dint","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow; a stroke."},{"word":"Dint","type":"(n.)","description":"The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent."},{"word":"Dint","type":"(n.)","description":"Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of."},{"word":"Dinted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dint"},{"word":"Dinting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dint"},{"word":"Dint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent."},{"word":"Dinumeration","type":"(n.)","description":"Enumeration."},{"word":"Diocesan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions."},{"word":"Diocesan","type":"(n.)","description":"A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York."},{"word":"Diocesan","type":"(n.)","description":"The clergy or the people of a diocese."},{"word":"Dioceses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diocese"},{"word":"Diocese","type":"(n.)","description":"The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority."},{"word":"Diocesener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who belongs to a diocese."},{"word":"Diodon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs."},{"word":"Diodon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of whales."},{"word":"Diodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon."},{"word":"Diodont","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus."},{"word":"Dioecia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants."},{"word":"Dioecia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries."},{"word":"Dioecian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dioecious"},{"word":"Dioecious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious."},{"word":"Dioeciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dioecious manner."},{"word":"Dioeciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being dioecious."},{"word":"Dioecism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being dioecious."},{"word":"Diogenes","type":"(n.)","description":"A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings."},{"word":"Dioicous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Dioecious."},{"word":"Diomedea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross."},{"word":"Dionaea","type":"(n.)","description":"An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap."},{"word":"Dionysian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era."},{"word":"Diophantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra."},{"word":"Diopside","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite."},{"word":"Dioptase","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals."},{"word":"Diopter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dioptra"},{"word":"Dioptra","type":"(n.)","description":"An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc."},{"word":"Dioptre","type":"(n.)","description":"A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter."},{"word":"Dioptric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses."},{"word":"Dioptric","type":"(n.)","description":"A dioptre. See Dioptre."},{"word":"Dioptric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dioptrical"},{"word":"Dioptrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope."},{"word":"Dioptrics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light."},{"word":"Dioptry","type":"(n.)","description":"A dioptre."},{"word":"Diorama","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced."},{"word":"Diorama","type":"(n.)","description":"A building used for such an exhibition."},{"word":"Dioramic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a diorama."},{"word":"Diorism","type":"(n.)","description":"Definition; logical direction."},{"word":"Dioristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Distinguishing; distinctive; defining."},{"word":"Diorite","type":"(n.)","description":"An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone."},{"word":"Dioritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing diorite."},{"word":"Diorthotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective."},{"word":"Dioscorea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants. See Yam."},{"word":"Diota","type":"(n.)","description":"A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears."},{"word":"Dioxide","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide."},{"word":"Dioxide","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide."},{"word":"Dioxindol","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name."},{"word":"Dipped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dip"},{"word":"Dipt","type":"()","description":"of Dip"},{"word":"Dipping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dip"},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage as a pledge; to mortgage."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dip snuff."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon."},{"word":"Dip","type":"(n.)","description":"A dipped candle."},{"word":"Dipaschal","type":"(a.)","description":"Including two passovers."},{"word":"Dipchick","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dabchick."},{"word":"Dipetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two petals; two-petaled."},{"word":"Diphenyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united."},{"word":"Diphtheria","type":"(n.)","description":"A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group."},{"word":"Diphtherial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diphtheric"},{"word":"Diphtheric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic."},{"word":"Diphtheritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria."},{"word":"Diphtheritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder."},{"word":"Diphthong","type":"(n.)","description":"A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong."},{"word":"Diphthong","type":"(n.)","description":"A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong."},{"word":"Diphthong","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize."},{"word":"Diphthongal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong."},{"word":"Diphthongalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong."},{"word":"Diphthongation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Diphthongization."},{"word":"Diphthongic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal."},{"word":"Diphthongization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of changing into a diphthong."},{"word":"Diphthongize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel."},{"word":"Diphycercal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal."},{"word":"Diphygenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two modes of embryonic development."},{"word":"Diphyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two leaves, as a calyx, etc."},{"word":"Diphyodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; -- opposed to monophyodont."},{"word":"Diphyodont","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal having two successive sets of teeth."},{"word":"Diphyozooid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora."},{"word":"Diplanar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to two planes."},{"word":"Dipleidoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian."},{"word":"Diploblastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers."},{"word":"Diplocardiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary."},{"word":"Diplococci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diplococcus"},{"word":"Diplococcus","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus."},{"word":"Diploe","type":"(n.)","description":"The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull."},{"word":"Diploetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Diploic."},{"word":"Diplogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the nature of two bodies; producing two substances."},{"word":"Diploic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the diploe."},{"word":"Diploid","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron."},{"word":"Diplomas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diploma"},{"word":"Diploma","type":"(n.)","description":"A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution."},{"word":"Diplomacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed."},{"word":"Diplomacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact."},{"word":"Diplomacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body."},{"word":"Diplomat","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Diplomate"},{"word":"Diplomate","type":"(n.)","description":"A diplomatist."},{"word":"Diplomate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with a title o/ privilege by diploma."},{"word":"Diplomatial","type":"(a.)","description":"Diplomatic."},{"word":"Diplomatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Diplomatical"},{"word":"Diplomatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body."},{"word":"Diplomatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by tact and shrewdness; dexterous; artful; as, diplomatic management."},{"word":"Diplomatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to diplomatics; paleographic."},{"word":"Diplomatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist."},{"word":"Diplomatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully."},{"word":"Diplomatic","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography."},{"word":"Diplomatism","type":"(n.)","description":"Diplomacy."},{"word":"Diplomatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat."},{"word":"Diplopia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Diplopy"},{"word":"Diplopy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of seeing double."},{"word":"Diplopod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Diplopoda."},{"word":"Diplopoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the Chilognatha."},{"word":"Diplostemonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium."},{"word":"Diplostemony","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being diplostemonous."},{"word":"Dipneumona","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs."},{"word":"Dipnoi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Dipodies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dipody"},{"word":"Dipody","type":"(n.)","description":"Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure."},{"word":"Dipolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two poles, as a magnetic bar."},{"word":"Dippel's","type":"()","description":"See Bone oil, under Bone."},{"word":"Dipper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle."},{"word":"Dipper","type":"(n.)","description":"A small grebe; the dabchick."},{"word":"Dipper","type":"(n.)","description":"The buffel duck."},{"word":"Dipper","type":"(n.)","description":"The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe."},{"word":"Dipper","type":"(n.)","description":"The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus)."},{"word":"Dipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of immersing."},{"word":"Dipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inclining downward."},{"word":"Dipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like."},{"word":"Dipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc."},{"word":"Dipping","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff."},{"word":"Diprismatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubly prismatic."},{"word":"Dipropargyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl."},{"word":"Dipropyl","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane."},{"word":"Diprotodon","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Dipsas","type":"(n.)","description":"A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst."},{"word":"Dipsas","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of harmless colubrine snakes."},{"word":"Dipsetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to produce thirst."},{"word":"Dipsomania","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism."},{"word":"Dipsomaniac","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks."},{"word":"Dipsomaniacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dipsomania."},{"word":"Dipsosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive thirst produced by disease."},{"word":"Diptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet."},{"word":"Dipteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera."},{"word":"Dipteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple."},{"word":"Dipteran","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect of the order Diptera."},{"word":"Dipterocarpus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings."},{"word":"Dipterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera."},{"word":"Dipterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two wings; two-winged."},{"word":"Dipterygian","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes."},{"word":"Diptote","type":"(n.)","description":"A noun which has only two cases."},{"word":"Diptych","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything consisting of two leaves."},{"word":"Diptych","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within."},{"word":"Diptych","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych."},{"word":"Diptych","type":"(n.)","description":"A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints."},{"word":"Dipyre","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent."},{"word":"Dipyrenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing two stones or nutlets."},{"word":"Dipyridine","type":"(n.)","description":"A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine."},{"word":"Dipyridil","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine."},{"word":"Diradiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The emission and diffusion of rays of light."},{"word":"Dire","type":"(superl.)","description":"Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens."},{"word":"Dire","type":"(superl.)","description":"Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(a.)","description":"Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(a.)","description":"Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(a.)","description":"Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(a.)","description":"In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(a.)","description":"In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body."},{"word":"Directed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Direct"},{"word":"Directing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Direct"},{"word":"Direct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide."},{"word":"Direct","type":"(n.)","description":"A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation."},{"word":"Direct-acting","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts."},{"word":"Directer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who directs; a director."},{"word":"Direction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank."},{"word":"Direction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants."},{"word":"Direction","type":"(n.)","description":"The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter."},{"word":"Direction","type":"(n.)","description":"The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction."},{"word":"Direction","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors."},{"word":"Direction","type":"(n.)","description":"The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object."},{"word":"Directive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way."},{"word":"Directive","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to be directed; manageable."},{"word":"Directly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a direct manner; in a straight line or course."},{"word":"Directly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means."},{"word":"Directly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms."},{"word":"Directly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Exactly; just."},{"word":"Directly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Straightforwardly; honestly."},{"word":"Directly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Manifestly; openly."},{"word":"Directly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately."},{"word":"Directly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Immediately after; as soon as."},{"word":"Directness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness."},{"word":"Director","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent."},{"word":"Director","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company."},{"word":"Director","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action."},{"word":"Director","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath."},{"word":"Directorate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly."},{"word":"Directorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive."},{"word":"Directorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3."},{"word":"Directorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or office of a director; directorate."},{"word":"Directory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial."},{"word":"Directories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Directory"},{"word":"Directory","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book."},{"word":"Directory","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory."},{"word":"Directory","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic."},{"word":"Directory","type":"(n.)","description":"Direction; guide."},{"word":"Directress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who directs."},{"word":"Directrixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Directrix"},{"word":"Directrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A directress."},{"word":"Directrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface."},{"word":"Directrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus."},{"word":"Direful","type":"(a.)","description":"Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day."},{"word":"Direly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dire manner."},{"word":"Dirempt","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided; separated."},{"word":"Dirempt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate by force; to tear apart."},{"word":"Diremption","type":"(n.)","description":"A tearing apart; violent separation."},{"word":"Direness","type":"(n.)","description":"Terribleness; horror; woefulness."},{"word":"Direption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away."},{"word":"Direptitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by direption."},{"word":"Direptitiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"With plundering violence; by violent injustice."},{"word":"Dirge","type":"(a.)","description":"A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn."},{"word":"Dirgeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Funereal; moaning."},{"word":"Dirige","type":"(n.)","description":"A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge."},{"word":"Dirigent","type":"(a.)","description":"Directing."},{"word":"Dirigent","type":"(n.)","description":"The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix."},{"word":"Dirigible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon."},{"word":"Diriment","type":"(a.)","description":"Absolute."},{"word":"Dirk","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander."},{"word":"Dirked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dirk"},{"word":"Dirking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dirk"},{"word":"Dirk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stab with a dirk."},{"word":"Dirk","type":"(a.)","description":"Dark."},{"word":"Dirk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To darken."},{"word":"Dirkness","type":"(n.)","description":"Darkness."},{"word":"Dirl","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate."},{"word":"Dirt","type":"(n.)","description":"Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt."},{"word":"Dirt","type":"(n.)","description":"Meanness; sordidness."},{"word":"Dirt","type":"(n.)","description":"In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing."},{"word":"Dirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make foul of filthy; to dirty."},{"word":"Dirtily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly."},{"word":"Dirtiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness."},{"word":"Dirty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white."},{"word":"Dirty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color."},{"word":"Dirty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow."},{"word":"Dirty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather."},{"word":"Dirtied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dirty"},{"word":"Dirtying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dirty"},{"word":"Dirty","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands."},{"word":"Dirty","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc."},{"word":"Diruption","type":"(a.)","description":"Disruption."},{"word":"Dis-","type":"()","description":"."},{"word":"Dis-","type":"()","description":"A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever."},{"word":"Dis-","type":"()","description":"A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See Di-."},{"word":"Dis","type":"(n.)","description":"The god Pluto."},{"word":"Disabilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Disability"},{"word":"Disability","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like."},{"word":"Disability","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency."},{"word":"Disable","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking ability; unable."},{"word":"Disabled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disable"},{"word":"Disabling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disable"},{"word":"Disable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair."},{"word":"Disable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable."},{"word":"Disable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue."},{"word":"Disablement","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation of ability; incapacity."},{"word":"Disabused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disabuse"},{"word":"Disabusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disabuse"},{"word":"Disabuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right."},{"word":"Disaccommodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put to inconvenience; to incommode."},{"word":"Disaccommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited."},{"word":"Disaccord","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To refuse to assent."},{"word":"Disaccord","type":"(n.)","description":"Disagreement."},{"word":"Disaccordant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not accordant."},{"word":"Disaccustom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom."},{"word":"Disacidify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from acid."},{"word":"Disacknowledged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disacknowledge"},{"word":"Disacknowledging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disacknowledge"},{"word":"Disacknowledge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown."},{"word":"Disacquaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar."},{"word":"Disacquaintance","type":"(n.)","description":"Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance."},{"word":"Disacryl","type":"(n.)","description":"A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein."},{"word":"Disadorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of ornaments."},{"word":"Disadvance","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To draw back, or cause to draw back."},{"word":"Disadvantage","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury."},{"word":"Disadvantage","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good."},{"word":"Disadvantage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to."},{"word":"Disadvantageable","type":"(a.)","description":"Injurious; disadvantageous."},{"word":"Disadvantageous","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense."},{"word":"Disadventure","type":"(n.)","description":"Misfortune; mishap."},{"word":"Disadventurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Unprosperous; unfortunate."},{"word":"Disadvise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advise against; to dissuade from."},{"word":"Disaffected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disaffect"},{"word":"Disaffecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disaffect"},{"word":"Disaffect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness."},{"word":"Disaffect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disturb the functions of; to disorder."},{"word":"Disaffect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike."},{"word":"Disaffected","type":"(a.)","description":"Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal."},{"word":"Disaffection","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike."},{"word":"Disaffection","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder; bad constitution."},{"word":"Disaffectionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected."},{"word":"Disaffirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted."},{"word":"Disaffirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal."},{"word":"Disaffirmance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disaffirming; denial; negation."},{"word":"Disaffirmance","type":"(n.)","description":"Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment."},{"word":"Disaffirmation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation."},{"word":"Disafforested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disafforest"},{"word":"Disafforesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disafforest"},{"word":"Disafforest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws."},{"word":"Disaggregate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass."},{"word":"Disaggregation","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts."},{"word":"Disagreed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disagree"},{"word":"Disageeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disagree"},{"word":"Disagree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance."},{"word":"Disagree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel."},{"word":"Disagree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste."},{"word":"Disagreeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable."},{"word":"Disagreeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant."},{"word":"Disagreeableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness."},{"word":"Disagreeably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively."},{"word":"Disagreeance","type":"(n.)","description":"Disagreement."},{"word":"Disagreement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity."},{"word":"Disagreement","type":"(n.)","description":"Unsuitableness; unadaptedness."},{"word":"Disagreement","type":"(n.)","description":"Difference of opinion or sentiment."},{"word":"Disagreement","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling out, or controversy; difference."},{"word":"Disagreer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disagrees."},{"word":"Disalliege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alienate from allegiance."},{"word":"Disallowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disallow"},{"word":"Disallowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disallow"},{"word":"Disallow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge."},{"word":"Disallowable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not allowable; not to be suffered."},{"word":"Disallowance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection."},{"word":"Disally","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part, as an alliance; to sunder."},{"word":"Disanchor","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor."},{"word":"Disangelical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not angelical."},{"word":"Disanimated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disanimate"},{"word":"Disanimating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disanimate"},{"word":"Disanimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of life."},{"word":"Disanimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of spirit; to dishearten."},{"word":"Disanimation","type":"(n.)","description":"Privation of life."},{"word":"Disanimation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits."},{"word":"Disannex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of."},{"word":"Disannul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To annul completely; to render void or of no effect."},{"word":"Disannuller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disannuls."},{"word":"Disannulment","type":"(n.)","description":"Complete annulment."},{"word":"Disanoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king."},{"word":"Disapparel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked."},{"word":"Disappeared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disappear"},{"word":"Disappearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disappear"},{"word":"Disappear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port."},{"word":"Disappear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared."},{"word":"Disappearance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing."},{"word":"Disappendency","type":"(n.)","description":"A detachment or separation from a former connection."},{"word":"Disappendent","type":"(a.)","description":"Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected."},{"word":"Disapointed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disappoint"},{"word":"Disappointing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disappoint"},{"word":"Disappoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil."},{"word":"Disappoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result."},{"word":"Disappointed","type":"(a.)","description":"Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope."},{"word":"Disappointed","type":"(a.)","description":"Unprepared; unequipped."},{"word":"Disappointment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration."},{"word":"Disappointment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which disappoints."},{"word":"Disappreciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To undervalue; not to esteem."},{"word":"Disapprobation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure."},{"word":"Disapprobatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove."},{"word":"Disappropriate","type":"(a.)","description":"Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation."},{"word":"Disappropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To release from individual ownership or possession."},{"word":"Disappropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation."},{"word":"Disappropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disappropriating."},{"word":"Disapproval","type":"(n.)","description":"Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment."},{"word":"Disapproved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disapprove"},{"word":"Disapproving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disapprove"},{"word":"Disapprove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others."},{"word":"Disapprove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief."},{"word":"Disapprover","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disapproves."},{"word":"Disapprovingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disapproving manner."},{"word":"Disard","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dizzard."},{"word":"Disarming","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disarm"},{"word":"Disarming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disarm"},{"word":"Disarm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless."},{"word":"Disarm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath."},{"word":"Disarmament","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disarming."},{"word":"Disarmature","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of divesting of armature."},{"word":"Disarmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of arms."},{"word":"Disarmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks."},{"word":"Disarmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disarms."},{"word":"Disarranged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disarrange"},{"word":"Disarranging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disarrange"},{"word":"Disarrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order."},{"word":"Disarrangement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder."},{"word":"Disarrayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disarray"},{"word":"Disarraying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disarray"},{"word":"Disarray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into disorder; to break the array of."},{"word":"Disarray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take off the dress of; to unrobe."},{"word":"Disarray","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion."},{"word":"Disarray","type":"(n.)","description":"Confused attire; undress."},{"word":"Disarrayment","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder."},{"word":"Disarticulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sunder; to separate, as joints."},{"word":"Disarticulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons."},{"word":"Disassent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dissent."},{"word":"Disassent","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissent."},{"word":"Disassenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disassents; a dissenter."},{"word":"Disassiduity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of assiduity or care."},{"word":"Disassimilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to disassimilation."},{"word":"Disassimilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism."},{"word":"Disassimilative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation."},{"word":"Disassociated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disassociate"},{"word":"Disassociating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disassociate"},{"word":"Disassociate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate."},{"word":"Disaster","type":"(n.)","description":"An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent."},{"word":"Disaster","type":"(n.)","description":"An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap."},{"word":"Disaster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blast by the influence of a baleful star."},{"word":"Disaster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring harm upon; to injure."},{"word":"Disasterly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Disastrously."},{"word":"Disastrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding."},{"word":"Disastrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking."},{"word":"Disattire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unrobe; to undress."},{"word":"Disaugment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish."},{"word":"Disauthorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit."},{"word":"Disavaunce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To retard; to repel; to do damage to."},{"word":"Disaventure","type":"(n.)","description":"Misfortune."},{"word":"Disaventurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Misadventurous; unfortunate."},{"word":"Disavouch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disavow."},{"word":"Disavowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disavow"},{"word":"Disavowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disavow"},{"word":"Disavow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime."},{"word":"Disavow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove."},{"word":"Disavowal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial."},{"word":"Disavowance","type":"(n.)","description":"Disavowal."},{"word":"Disavower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disavows."},{"word":"Disavowment","type":"(n.)","description":"Disavowal."},{"word":"Disbanded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disband"},{"word":"Disbanding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disband"},{"word":"Disband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army."},{"word":"Disband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divorce."},{"word":"Disband","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization."},{"word":"Disbandment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disbanding."},{"word":"Disbarred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disbar"},{"word":"Disbarring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disbar"},{"word":"Disbar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such."},{"word":"Disbark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disembark."},{"word":"Disbark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of bark; to bark."},{"word":"Disbarment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of disbarring."},{"word":"Disbase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To debase or degrade."},{"word":"Disbecome","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To misbecome."},{"word":"Disbelief","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief."},{"word":"Disbelieved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disbelieve"},{"word":"Disbelieving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disbelieve"},{"word":"Disbelieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual."},{"word":"Disbeliever","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion."},{"word":"Disbench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive from a bench or seat."},{"word":"Disbench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges."},{"word":"Disbend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unbend."},{"word":"Disbind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unbind; to loosen."},{"word":"Disblame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear from blame."},{"word":"Disbodied","type":"(a.)","description":"Disembodied."},{"word":"Disboscation","type":"(n.)","description":"Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest."},{"word":"Disbowel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disembowel."},{"word":"Disbranch","type":"(v.)","description":"To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off."},{"word":"Disbud","type":"(v.)","description":"To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree."},{"word":"Disburden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve."},{"word":"Disburden","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind."},{"word":"Disburgeon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud."},{"word":"Disbursed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disburse"},{"word":"Disbursing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disburse"},{"word":"Disburse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury."},{"word":"Disbursement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disbursing or paying out."},{"word":"Disbursement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income."},{"word":"Disburser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disburses money."},{"word":"Disburthened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disburthen"},{"word":"Disburthening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disburthen"},{"word":"Disburthen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disburden; to relieve of a load."},{"word":"Disc","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat round plate"},{"word":"Disc","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk."},{"word":"Discage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To uncage."},{"word":"Discal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells."},{"word":"Discalceate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pull off shoes or sandals from."},{"word":"Discalceated","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced."},{"word":"Discalced","type":"(a.)","description":"Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced."},{"word":"Discalceation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals."},{"word":"Discamp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive from a camp."},{"word":"Discandy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To melt; to dissolve; to thaw."},{"word":"Discant","type":"(n.)","description":"See Descant, n."},{"word":"Discapacitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate."},{"word":"Discarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discard"},{"word":"Discarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discard"},{"word":"Discard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards)."},{"word":"Discard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away."},{"word":"Discard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put or thrust away; to reject."},{"word":"Discard","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a discard."},{"word":"Discard","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded."},{"word":"Discardure","type":"(n.)","description":"Rejection; dismissal."},{"word":"Discarnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Stripped of flesh."},{"word":"Discase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip; to undress."},{"word":"Discede","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield or give up; to depart."},{"word":"Discept","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To debate; to discuss."},{"word":"Disceptation","type":"(n.)","description":"Controversy; disputation; discussion."},{"word":"Disceptator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who arbitrates or decides."},{"word":"Discerned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discern"},{"word":"Discerning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discern"},{"word":"Discern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish."},{"word":"Discern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference."},{"word":"Discern","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood."},{"word":"Discern","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make cognizance."},{"word":"Discernance","type":"(n.)","description":"Discernment."},{"word":"Discerner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong."},{"word":"Discernible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding."},{"word":"Discernibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being discernible."},{"word":"Discernibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly."},{"word":"Discerning","type":"(a.)","description":"Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted."},{"word":"Discerningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely."},{"word":"Discernment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discerning."},{"word":"Discernment","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment."},{"word":"Discerp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tear in pieces; to rend."},{"word":"Discerp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate; to disunite."},{"word":"Discerpibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Discerptibility"},{"word":"Discerptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability or liableness to be discerped."},{"word":"Discerpible","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Discerptible"},{"word":"Discerptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being discerped."},{"word":"Discerption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts."},{"word":"Discerptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to separate or disunite parts."},{"word":"Discession","type":"(n.)","description":"Departure."},{"word":"Discharged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discharge"},{"word":"Discharging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discharge"},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let fly, as a missile; to shoot."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set aside; to annul; to dismiss."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prohibit; to forbid."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document."},{"word":"Discharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe."},{"word":"Discharger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod."},{"word":"Dischevele","type":"(a.)","description":"Disheveled."},{"word":"Dischurch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church."},{"word":"Discide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide; to cleave in two."},{"word":"Disciferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing disks."},{"word":"Discifloral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Disciflorous"},{"word":"Disciflorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral."},{"word":"Disciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Discoid."},{"word":"Discina","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle."},{"word":"Discinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Ungirded; loosely dressed."},{"word":"Discind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part; to divide."},{"word":"Disciple","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior."},{"word":"Discipled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disciple"},{"word":"Discipling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disciple"},{"word":"Disciple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To teach; to train."},{"word":"Disciple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish; to discipline."},{"word":"Disciple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles."},{"word":"Discipleship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts."},{"word":"Discipless","type":"(n.)","description":"A female disciple."},{"word":"Disciplinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training."},{"word":"Disciplinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable or deserving to be disciplined; subject to disciplinary punishment; as, a disciplinable offense."},{"word":"Disciplinableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being improvable by discipline."},{"word":"Disciplinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to discipline."},{"word":"Disciplinant","type":"(n.)","description":"A flagellant. See Flagellant."},{"word":"Disciplinarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to discipline."},{"word":"Disciplinarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar."},{"word":"Disciplinarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline."},{"word":"Disciplinary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline."},{"word":"Disciplined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discipline"},{"word":"Disciplining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discipline"},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct."},{"word":"Discipline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon."},{"word":"Discipliner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disciplines."},{"word":"Disclaimed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disclaim"},{"word":"Disclaiming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disclaim"},{"word":"Disclaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject."},{"word":"Disclaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deny, as a claim; to refuse."},{"word":"Disclaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office."},{"word":"Disclaim","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share."},{"word":"Disclaimer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces."},{"word":"Disclaimer","type":"(n.)","description":"A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate."},{"word":"Disclaimer","type":"(n.)","description":"A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like."},{"word":"Disclamation","type":"(n.)","description":"A disavowing or disowning."},{"word":"Disclame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disclaim; to expel."},{"word":"Disclaunder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure one's good name; to slander."},{"word":"Discloak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take off a cloak from; to uncloak."},{"word":"Disclosed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disclose"},{"word":"Disclosing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disclose"},{"word":"Disclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch."},{"word":"Disclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover."},{"word":"Disclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal."},{"word":"Disclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs."},{"word":"Disclose","type":"(n.)","description":"Disclosure."},{"word":"Disclosed","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey."},{"word":"Discloser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discloses."},{"word":"Disclosure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure."},{"word":"Disclosure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is disclosed or revealed."},{"word":"Discloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear from clouds."},{"word":"Disclout","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of a clout."},{"word":"Disclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"A shutting off; exclusion."},{"word":"Discoast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated."},{"word":"Discoblastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg."},{"word":"Discoboli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Discobolus"},{"word":"Discobolus","type":"(n.)","description":"A thrower of the discus."},{"word":"Discobolus","type":"(n.)","description":"A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it."},{"word":"Discodactyl","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the tree frogs."},{"word":"Discodactylia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs."},{"word":"Discodactylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs."},{"word":"Discoherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Incoherent."},{"word":"Discoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus."},{"word":"Discoid","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell."},{"word":"Discoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Disk-shaped; discoid."},{"word":"Discolith","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter."},{"word":"Discolored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discolor"},{"word":"Discoloring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discolor"},{"word":"Discolor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water."},{"word":"Discolor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon."},{"word":"Discolorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discolor."},{"word":"Discoloration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance."},{"word":"Discoloration","type":"(n.)","description":"A discolored spot; a stain."},{"word":"Discolored","type":"(a.)","description":"Altered in color; /tained."},{"word":"Discolored","type":"(a.)","description":"Variegated; of divers colors."},{"word":"Discomfited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discomfit"},{"word":"Discomfiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discomfit"},{"word":"Discomfit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat."},{"word":"Discomfit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert."},{"word":"Discomfit","type":"(a.)","description":"Discomfited; overthrown."},{"word":"Discomfit","type":"(n.)","description":"Rout; overthrow; discomfiture."},{"word":"Discomfiture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection."},{"word":"Discomforted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discomfort"},{"word":"Discomforting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discomfort"},{"word":"Discomfort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discourage; to deject."},{"word":"Discomfort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive o/ quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family."},{"word":"Discomfort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Discouragement."},{"word":"Discomfort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow."},{"word":"Discomfortable","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad."},{"word":"Discomfortable","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable."},{"word":"Discommend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove."},{"word":"Discommend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one."},{"word":"Discommendable","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving, disapprobation or blame."},{"word":"Discommendation","type":"(n.)","description":"Blame; censure; reproach."},{"word":"Discommender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discommends; a dispraiser."},{"word":"Discommission","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a commission or trust."},{"word":"Discommodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discommode."},{"word":"Discommoded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discommode"},{"word":"Discommoding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discommode"},{"word":"Discommode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble."},{"word":"Discommodious","type":"(a.)","description":"Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious."},{"word":"Discommodity","type":"(n.)","description":"Disadvantage; inconvenience."},{"word":"Discommon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the right of common."},{"word":"Discommon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of privileges."},{"word":"Discommon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating."},{"word":"Discommunity","type":"(n.)","description":"A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship."},{"word":"Discompany","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from company; to dissociate."},{"word":"Discomplexion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change the complexion or hue of."},{"word":"Discompliance","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance."},{"word":"Discomposed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discompose"},{"word":"Discomposing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discompose"},{"word":"Discompose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up."},{"word":"Discompose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into disorder; to ruffle; to destroy the composure or equanimity; to agitate."},{"word":"Discompose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of place or service; to discharge; to displace."},{"word":"Discomposed","type":"(a.)","description":"Disordered; disturbed; disquieted."},{"word":"Discomposition","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconsistency; discordance."},{"word":"Discomposure","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation."},{"word":"Discomposure","type":"(n.)","description":"Discordance; disagreement of parts."},{"word":"Discompt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discount. See Discount."},{"word":"Disconcerted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disconcert"},{"word":"Disconcerting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disconcert"},{"word":"Disconcert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy."},{"word":"Disconcert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash."},{"word":"Disconcert","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of concert; disagreement."},{"word":"Disconcertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation."},{"word":"Disconducive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous."},{"word":"Disconformable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conformable."},{"word":"Disconformity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement."},{"word":"Discongruity","type":"(n.)","description":"Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness."},{"word":"Disconnected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disconnect"},{"word":"Disconnecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disconnect"},{"word":"Disconnect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse."},{"word":"Disconnection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union."},{"word":"Disconsecrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of consecration or sacredness."},{"word":"Discosent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To differ; to disagree; to dissent."},{"word":"Disconsolacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disconsolate."},{"word":"Disconsolate","type":"(n.)","description":"Disconsolateness."},{"word":"Disconsolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent."},{"word":"Disconsolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights."},{"word":"Disconsolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Disconsolate."},{"word":"Disconsolation","type":"(n.)","description":"Dejection; grief."},{"word":"Discontent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not content; discontented; dissatisfied."},{"word":"Discontented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discontent"},{"word":"Discontenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discontent"},{"word":"Discontent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy."},{"word":"Discontent","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet."},{"word":"Discontent","type":"(n.)","description":"A discontented person; a malcontent."},{"word":"Discontentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Discontent."},{"word":"Discontented","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent."},{"word":"Discontentful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of discontent."},{"word":"Discontenting","type":"(a.)","description":"Discontented."},{"word":"Discontenting","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing discontent; dissatisfying."},{"word":"Discontentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or tending to discontent."},{"word":"Discontentment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude."},{"word":"Discontinuable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting of being discontinued."},{"word":"Discontinuance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel."},{"word":"Discontinuance","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States."},{"word":"Discontinuance","type":"(n.)","description":"The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action."},{"word":"Discontinuance","type":"(n.)","description":"That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered."},{"word":"Discontinuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance."},{"word":"Discontinued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discontinue"},{"word":"Discontinuing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discontinue"},{"word":"Discontinue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off."},{"word":"Discontinue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off."},{"word":"Discontinue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be separated or severed; to part."},{"word":"Discontinuee","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance."},{"word":"Discontinuer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee."},{"word":"Discontinuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts."},{"word":"Discontinuor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2."},{"word":"Discontinuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not continuous; interrupted; broken off."},{"word":"Discontinuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping."},{"word":"Disconvenience","type":"(n.)","description":"Unsuitableness; incongruity."},{"word":"Disconvenient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted."},{"word":"Discophora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species."},{"word":"Discord","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes."},{"word":"Discord","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord."},{"word":"Discord","type":"(n.)","description":"To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit."},{"word":"Discordable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant."},{"word":"Discordance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Discordancy"},{"word":"Discordancy","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency."},{"word":"Discordant","type":"(n.)","description":"Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious."},{"word":"Discordant","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds."},{"word":"Discordant","type":"(n.)","description":"Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault."},{"word":"Discordful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of discord; contentious."},{"word":"Discordous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of discord."},{"word":"Discorporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate."},{"word":"Discorrespondent","type":"(a.)","description":"Incongruous."},{"word":"Discost","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Same as Discoast."},{"word":"Discounsel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissuade."},{"word":"Discounted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discount"},{"word":"Discounting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discount"},{"word":"Discount","type":"(v.)","description":"To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills."},{"word":"Discount","type":"(v.)","description":"To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange."},{"word":"Discount","type":"(v.)","description":"To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event)."},{"word":"Discount","type":"(v.)","description":"To leave out of account; to take no notice of."},{"word":"Discount","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days."},{"word":"Discount","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted."},{"word":"Discount","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money."},{"word":"Discount","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The rate of interest charged in discounting."},{"word":"Discountable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank."},{"word":"Discountenanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discountenance"},{"word":"Discountenancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discountenance"},{"word":"Discountenance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash."},{"word":"Discountenance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage."},{"word":"Discountenance","type":"(n.)","description":"Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage."},{"word":"Discountenancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discountenances; one who disfavors."},{"word":"Discounter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discounts; a discount broker."},{"word":"Discouraged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discourage"},{"word":"Discouraging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discourage"},{"word":"Discourage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt."},{"word":"Discourage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts."},{"word":"Discourage","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of courage; cowardliness."},{"word":"Discourageable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened."},{"word":"Discouragement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection."},{"word":"Discouragement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement."},{"word":"Discourager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discourages."},{"word":"Discouraging","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing or indicating discouragement."},{"word":"Discoure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discover."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(n.)","description":"Conversation; talk."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(n.)","description":"The art and manner of speaking and conversing."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(n.)","description":"Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(n.)","description":"Dealing; transaction."},{"word":"Discoursed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discourse"},{"word":"Discoursing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discourse"},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To relate something; to tell."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To treat of something in writing and formally."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat of; to expose or set forth in language."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter or give forth; to speak."},{"word":"Discourse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To talk to; to confer with."},{"word":"Discourser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer."},{"word":"Discourser","type":"(n.)","description":"The writer of a treatise or dissertation."},{"word":"Discoursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive."},{"word":"Discoursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory."},{"word":"Discoursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man."},{"word":"Discoursive","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason."},{"word":"Discourteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous."},{"word":"Discourtesy","type":"(n.)","description":"Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility."},{"word":"Discourtship","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of courtesy."},{"word":"Discous","type":"(a.)","description":"Disklike; discoid."},{"word":"Discovenant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissolve covenant with."},{"word":"Discovered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discover"},{"word":"Discovering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discover"},{"word":"Discover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To uncover."},{"word":"Discover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown)."},{"word":"Discover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect."},{"word":"Discover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manifest without design; to show."},{"word":"Discover","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To explore; to examine."},{"word":"Discover","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discover or show one's self."},{"word":"Discoverability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being discoverable."},{"word":"Discoverable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry."},{"word":"Discoverer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact."},{"word":"Discoverer","type":"(n.)","description":"A scout; an explorer."},{"word":"Discoverment","type":"(n.)","description":"Discovery."},{"word":"Discovert","type":"(a.)","description":"Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow."},{"word":"Discovert","type":"(n.)","description":"An uncovered place or part."},{"word":"Discoverture","type":"(n.)","description":"Discovery."},{"word":"Discoverture","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband."},{"word":"Discoveries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Discovery"},{"word":"Discovery","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot."},{"word":"Discovery","type":"(n.)","description":"A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets."},{"word":"Discovery","type":"(n.)","description":"Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood."},{"word":"Discovery","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery."},{"word":"Discovery","type":"(n.)","description":"Exploration; examination."},{"word":"Discradle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take from a cradle."},{"word":"Discredit","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit."},{"word":"Discredit","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things."},{"word":"Discredited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discredit"},{"word":"Discrediting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discredit"},{"word":"Discredit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited."},{"word":"Discredit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of."},{"word":"Discredit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace."},{"word":"Discreditable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable."},{"word":"Discreditor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discredits."},{"word":"Discreet","type":"(superl.)","description":"Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious."},{"word":"Discreet","type":"(superl.)","description":"Differing; distinct."},{"word":"-ances","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Discrepancy"},{"word":"-ancies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Discrepancy"},{"word":"Discrepance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Discrepancy"},{"word":"Discrepancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety."},{"word":"Discrepant","type":"(a.)","description":"Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different."},{"word":"Discrepant","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissident."},{"word":"Discrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Separate; distinct; disjunct."},{"word":"Discrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, \"I resign my life, but not my honor,\" is a discrete proposition."},{"word":"Discrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent."},{"word":"Discrete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate."},{"word":"Discretely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Separately; disjunctively."},{"word":"Discretion","type":"(n.)","description":"Disjunction; separation."},{"word":"Discretion","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being discreet; wise conduct and management; cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control; prudence; circumspection; wariness."},{"word":"Discretion","type":"(n.)","description":"Discrimination."},{"word":"Discretion","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom to act according to one's own judgment; unrestrained exercise of choice or will."},{"word":"Discretional","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Discretionary"},{"word":"Discretionary","type":"()","description":"Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers."},{"word":"Discretionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Discretionarily"},{"word":"Discretionarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment."},{"word":"Discretive","type":"(a.)","description":"Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive."},{"word":"Discretively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a discretive manner."},{"word":"Discriminable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being discriminated."},{"word":"Discriminal","type":"(a.)","description":"In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm."},{"word":"Discriminant","type":"(n.)","description":"The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant."},{"word":"Discriminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens."},{"word":"Discriminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discriminate"},{"word":"Discriminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discriminate"},{"word":"Discriminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish."},{"word":"Discriminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption."},{"word":"Discriminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To treat unequally."},{"word":"Discriminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To impose unequal tariffs for substantially the same service."},{"word":"Discriminately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a discriminating manner; distinctly."},{"word":"Discriminateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being discriminated; distinctness."},{"word":"Discriminating","type":"(a.)","description":"Marking a difference; distinguishing."},{"word":"Discrimination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences."},{"word":"Discrimination","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart."},{"word":"Discrimination","type":"(n.)","description":"The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service."},{"word":"Discrimination","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means."},{"word":"Discrimination","type":"(n.)","description":"That which discriminates; mark of distinction."},{"word":"Discriminative","type":"(a.)","description":"Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic."},{"word":"Discriminative","type":"(a.)","description":"Observing distinctions; making differences; discriminating."},{"word":"Discriminatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"With discrimination or distinction."},{"word":"Discriminator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discriminates."},{"word":"Discriminatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Discriminative."},{"word":"Discriminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hazardous; dangerous."},{"word":"Discrive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To describe."},{"word":"Discrowned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discrown"},{"word":"Discrowning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discrown"},{"word":"Discrown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a crown."},{"word":"Discruciated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discruciate"},{"word":"Discruciating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discruciate"},{"word":"Discruciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To torture; to excruciate."},{"word":"Discubitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture."},{"word":"Disculpated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disculpate"},{"word":"Disculpating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disculpate"},{"word":"Disculpate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate."},{"word":"Disculpation","type":"(n.)","description":"Exculpation."},{"word":"Disculpatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to exculpate; exculpatory."},{"word":"Discumbency","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals."},{"word":"Discumber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber."},{"word":"Discure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discover; to reveal; to discoure."},{"word":"Discurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not current or free to circulate; not in use."},{"word":"Discursion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought."},{"word":"Discursist","type":"(n.)","description":"A discourser."},{"word":"Discursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory."},{"word":"Discursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative."},{"word":"Discursory","type":"(a.)","description":"Argumentative; discursive; reasoning."},{"word":"Discursus","type":"(n.)","description":"Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning."},{"word":"Discuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Discus"},{"word":"Disci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Discus"},{"word":"Discus","type":"(n.)","description":"A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill."},{"word":"Discus","type":"(n.)","description":"The exercise with the discus."},{"word":"Discus","type":"(n.)","description":"A disk. See Disk."},{"word":"Discussed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Discuss"},{"word":"Discussing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Discuss"},{"word":"Discuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break to pieces; to shatter."},{"word":"Discuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors."},{"word":"Discuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shake; to put away; to finish."},{"word":"Discuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate."},{"word":"Discuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deal with, in eating or drinking."},{"word":"Discuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety."},{"word":"Discusser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discusses; one who sifts or examines."},{"word":"Discussion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like."},{"word":"Discussion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation."},{"word":"Discussional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to discussion."},{"word":"Discussive","type":"(a.)","description":"Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter."},{"word":"Discussive","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubt-dispelling; decisive."},{"word":"Discussive","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient."},{"word":"Discutient","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application."},{"word":"Discutient","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter."},{"word":"Disdain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn."},{"word":"Disdain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion."},{"word":"Disdain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The state of being despised; shame."},{"word":"Disdained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disdain"},{"word":"Disdaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disdain"},{"word":"Disdain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act."},{"word":"Disdain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving one's notice; to look with scorn upon; to scorn, as base acts, character, etc."},{"word":"Disdain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty."},{"word":"Disdained","type":"(a.)","description":"Disdainful."},{"word":"Disdainful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty."},{"word":"Disdainishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Disdainfully."},{"word":"Disdainous","type":"(a.)","description":"Disdainful."},{"word":"Disdainously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Disdainfully."},{"word":"Disdeify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition."},{"word":"Disdeign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disdain."},{"word":"Disdiaclast","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers."},{"word":"Disdiapason","type":"(n.)","description":"An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason."},{"word":"Disease","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet."},{"word":"Disease","type":"(n.)","description":"An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc."},{"word":"Diseased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disease"},{"word":"Diseasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disease"},{"word":"Disease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress."},{"word":"Disease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased."},{"word":"Diseased","type":"(a.)","description":"Afflicted with disease."},{"word":"Diseasedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness."},{"word":"Diseaseful","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing uneasiness."},{"word":"Diseaseful","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate."},{"word":"Diseasefulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial."},{"word":"Diseasement","type":"(n.)","description":"Uneasiness; inconvenience."},{"word":"Disedge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull."},{"word":"Disedify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fail of edifying; to injure."},{"word":"Diselder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder."},{"word":"Diselenide","type":"(n.)","description":"A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule."},{"word":"Disembarked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disembark"},{"word":"Disembarking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disembark"},{"word":"Disembark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops."},{"word":"Disembark","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark."},{"word":"Disembarkation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disembarking."},{"word":"Disembarkment","type":"(n.)","description":"Disembarkation."},{"word":"Disembarrassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disembarrass"},{"word":"Disembarrassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disembarrass"},{"word":"Disembarrass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate."},{"word":"Disembarrassment","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity."},{"word":"Disembayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disembay"},{"word":"Disembaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disembay"},{"word":"Disembay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear from a bay."},{"word":"Disembellish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn."},{"word":"Disembitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from"},{"word":"Disembodied","type":"(a.)","description":"Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal."},{"word":"Disembodiment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied."},{"word":"Disembodied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disembody"},{"word":"Disembodying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disembody"},{"word":"Disembody","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of the body or corporeal existence."},{"word":"Disembody","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers."},{"word":"Disembogued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disembogue"},{"word":"Disemboguing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disembogue"},{"word":"Disembogue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc."},{"word":"Disembogue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eject; to cast forth."},{"word":"Disembogue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents."},{"word":"Disemboguement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disemboguing; discharge."},{"word":"Disembossom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate from the bosom."},{"word":"Disembowel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate."},{"word":"Disembowel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider."},{"word":"Disembowelment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration."},{"word":"Disembowered","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of, or removed from, a bower."},{"word":"Disembrangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from wrangling or litigation."},{"word":"Disembroiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disembroil"},{"word":"Disembroiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disembroil"},{"word":"Disembroil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion."},{"word":"Disemploy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out of employment."},{"word":"Disemployment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment."},{"word":"Disempower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of power; to divest of strength."},{"word":"Disenable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disable; to disqualify."},{"word":"Disenamor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from the captivity of love."},{"word":"Disenchained","type":"(a.)","description":"Freed from restraint; unrestrained."},{"word":"Disenchanted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disenchant"},{"word":"Disenchanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disenchant"},{"word":"Disenchant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion."},{"word":"Disenchanter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disenchants."},{"word":"Disenchantment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted."},{"word":"Disencharm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant."},{"word":"Disenclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Disinclose."},{"word":"Disencouragement","type":"(n.)","description":"Discouragement."},{"word":"Disencrese","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To decrease."},{"word":"Disencrese","type":"(n.)","description":"Decrease."},{"word":"Disencumbered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disencumber"},{"word":"Disencumbering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disencumber"},{"word":"Disencumber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden."},{"word":"Disencumbrance","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome."},{"word":"Disendow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of an endowment, as a church."},{"word":"Disendowment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments."},{"word":"Disenfranchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen."},{"word":"Disengaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disengage"},{"word":"Disengaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disengage"},{"word":"Disengage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study."},{"word":"Disengage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self."},{"word":"Disengaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant."},{"word":"Disengagement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged."},{"word":"Disengagement","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure."},{"word":"Disengaging","type":"(a.)","description":"Loosing; setting free; detaching."},{"word":"Disennoble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade."},{"word":"Disenrolled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disenroll"},{"word":"Disenrolling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disenroll"},{"word":"Disenroll","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To erase from a roll or list."},{"word":"Disensanity","type":"(n.)","description":"Insanity; folly."},{"word":"Disenshrouded","type":"(a.)","description":"Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled."},{"word":"Disenslave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall."},{"word":"Disentail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from entailment."},{"word":"Disentangled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disentangle"},{"word":"Disentangling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disentangle"},{"word":"Disentangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn."},{"word":"Disentangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate."},{"word":"Disentanglement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties."},{"word":"Disenter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Disinter."},{"word":"Disenthrall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall."},{"word":"Disenthrallment","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment."},{"word":"Disenthrone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority."},{"word":"Disentitle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of title or claim."},{"word":"Disentomb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out from a tomb; a disinter."},{"word":"Disentrail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails."},{"word":"Disentrance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To awaken from a trance or an enchantment."},{"word":"Disentwine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from being entwined or twisted."},{"word":"Disepalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two sepals; two-sepaled."},{"word":"Disert","type":"(a.)","description":"Eloquent."},{"word":"Disertitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Eloquence."},{"word":"Diserty","type":"(adv.)","description":"Expressly; clearly; eloquently."},{"word":"Disespouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To release from espousal or plighted faith."},{"word":"Disestablish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state."},{"word":"Disestablishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament."},{"word":"Disestablishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being disestablished."},{"word":"Disesteem","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute."},{"word":"Disesteemed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disesteem"},{"word":"Disesteeming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disesteem"},{"word":"Disesteem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight."},{"word":"Disesteem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor."},{"word":"Disesteemer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disesteems."},{"word":"Disestimation","type":"(n.)","description":"Disesteem."},{"word":"Disexercise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained."},{"word":"Disfame","type":"(n.)","description":"Disrepute."},{"word":"Disfancy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dislike."},{"word":"Disfashion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disfigure."},{"word":"Disfavor","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard."},{"word":"Disfavor","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court."},{"word":"Disfavor","type":"(n.)","description":"An unkindness; a disobliging act."},{"word":"Disfavored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disfavor"},{"word":"Disfavoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disfavor"},{"word":"Disfavor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance."},{"word":"Disfavor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure the form or looks of."},{"word":"Disfavorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfavorable."},{"word":"Disfavorably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unpropitiously."},{"word":"Disfavorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disfavors."},{"word":"Disfeature","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of features; to mar the features of."},{"word":"Disfellowship","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate."},{"word":"Disfiguration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement."},{"word":"Disfigured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disfigure"},{"word":"Disfiguring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disfigure"},{"word":"Disfigure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform."},{"word":"Disfigure","type":"(n.)","description":"Disfigurement; deformity."},{"word":"Disfigurement","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity."},{"word":"Disfigurement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot."},{"word":"Disfigurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disfigures."},{"word":"Disflesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce the flesh or obesity of."},{"word":"Disforest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disafforest."},{"word":"Disforest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear or deprive of forests or trees."},{"word":"Disforestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of clearing land of forests."},{"word":"Disformity","type":"(n.)","description":"Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form."},{"word":"Disfranchised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disfranchise"},{"word":"Disfranchising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disfranchise"},{"word":"Disfranchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc."},{"word":"Disfranchisement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities."},{"word":"Disfriar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar."},{"word":"Disfrock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unfrock."},{"word":"Disfurnished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disfurnish"},{"word":"Disfurnishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disfurnish"},{"word":"Disfurnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest."},{"word":"Disfurnishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished."},{"word":"Disfurniture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished."},{"word":"Disfurniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disfurnish."},{"word":"Disgage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage."},{"word":"Disgallant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of gallantry."},{"word":"Disgarland","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of a garland."},{"word":"Disgarnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle."},{"word":"Disgarrison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a garrison."},{"word":"Disgaveled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disgavel"},{"word":"Disgaveled","type":"()","description":"of Disgavel"},{"word":"Disgaveling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disgavel"},{"word":"Disgavel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands."},{"word":"Disgest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To digest."},{"word":"Disgestion","type":"(n.)","description":"Digestion."},{"word":"Disglorified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disglorify"},{"word":"Disglorifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disglorify"},{"word":"Disglorify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity."},{"word":"Disglory","type":"(n.)","description":"Dishonor."},{"word":"Disgorged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disgorge"},{"word":"Disgorging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disgorge"},{"word":"Disgorge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place."},{"word":"Disgorge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains."},{"word":"Disgorge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution."},{"word":"Disgorgement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged."},{"word":"Disgospel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel."},{"word":"Disgrace","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect."},{"word":"Disgrace","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy."},{"word":"Disgrace","type":"(n.)","description":"That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being."},{"word":"Disgrace","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of unkindness; a disfavor."},{"word":"Disgraced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disgrace"},{"word":"Disgracing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disgrace"},{"word":"Disgrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor."},{"word":"Disgrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation."},{"word":"Disgrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile."},{"word":"Disgraceful","type":"(a.)","description":"Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man."},{"word":"Disgracer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disgraces."},{"word":"Disgracious","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable."},{"word":"Disgracive","type":"(a.)","description":"Disgracing."},{"word":"Disgradation","type":"(n.)","description":"Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors."},{"word":"Disgrade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To degrade."},{"word":"Disgraduate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To degrade; to reduce in rank."},{"word":"Disgregate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate."},{"word":"Disgregation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body."},{"word":"Disgruntle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger."},{"word":"Disguised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disguise"},{"word":"Disguising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disguise"},{"word":"Disguise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive."},{"word":"Disguise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions."},{"word":"Disguise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate."},{"word":"Disguise","type":"(n.)","description":"A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties."},{"word":"Disguise","type":"(n.)","description":"Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show."},{"word":"Disguise","type":"(n.)","description":"Change of manner by drink; intoxication."},{"word":"Disguise","type":"(n.)","description":"A masque or masquerade."},{"word":"Disguisedfy","type":"(adv.)","description":"In disguise."},{"word":"Disguisedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disguised."},{"word":"Disguisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Disguise."},{"word":"Disguiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disguises."},{"word":"Disguiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker."},{"word":"Disguising","type":"(n.)","description":"A masque or masquerade."},{"word":"Disgusted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disgust"},{"word":"Disgusting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disgust"},{"word":"Disgust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by."},{"word":"Disgust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust."},{"word":"Disgustful","type":"(a.)","description":"Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting."},{"word":"Disgustfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disgustful."},{"word":"Disgusting","type":"(a.)","description":"That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting."},{"word":"Dish","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table."},{"word":"Dish","type":"(n.)","description":"The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. \"A dish fit for the gods.\""},{"word":"Dish","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel."},{"word":"Dish","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow place, as in a field."},{"word":"Dish","type":"(n.)","description":"A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured."},{"word":"Dish","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor."},{"word":"Dished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dish"},{"word":"Dishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dish"},{"word":"Dish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a dish, ready for the table."},{"word":"Dish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes."},{"word":"Dish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frustrate; to beat; to ruin."},{"word":"Dishabilitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disqualify."},{"word":"Dishabille","type":"(n.)","description":"An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille."},{"word":"Dishabit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dislodge."},{"word":"Dishabited","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Rendered uninhabited."},{"word":"Dishabituate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unaccustomed."},{"word":"Dishable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disable."},{"word":"Dishable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disparage."},{"word":"Dishallow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make unholy; to profane."},{"word":"Disharmonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Unharmonious; discordant."},{"word":"Disharmony","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of harmony; discord; incongruity."},{"word":"Dishaunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt."},{"word":"Dishcloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth used for washing dishes."},{"word":"Dishclout","type":"(n.)","description":"A dishcloth."},{"word":"Disheart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dishearten."},{"word":"Disheartened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dishearten"},{"word":"Disheartening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dishearten"},{"word":"Dishearten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject."},{"word":"Disheartenment","type":"(n.)","description":"Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits."},{"word":"Disheir","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disinherit."},{"word":"Dishelm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the helmet."},{"word":"Disherison","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion."},{"word":"Disherited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disherit"},{"word":"Disheriting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disherit"},{"word":"Disherit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance."},{"word":"Disheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance."},{"word":"Disheritor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who puts another out of his inheritance."},{"word":"Disheveled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dishevel"},{"word":"Dishevelled","type":"()","description":"of Dishevel"},{"word":"Disheveling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dishevel"},{"word":"Dishevelling","type":"()","description":"of Dishevel"},{"word":"Dishevel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle."},{"word":"Dishevel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread loosely or disorderly."},{"word":"Dishevel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair."},{"word":"Dishevele","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Disheveled."},{"word":"Disheveled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair."},{"word":"Disheveled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the hair in loose disorder."},{"word":"Dishfuls","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dishful"},{"word":"Dishful","type":"(n.)","description":"As much as a dish holds when full."},{"word":"Dishing","type":"(a.)","description":"Dish-shaped; concave."},{"word":"Dishonest","type":"(a.)","description":"Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd."},{"word":"Dishonest","type":"(a.)","description":"Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured."},{"word":"Dishonest","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man."},{"word":"Dishonest","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust."},{"word":"Dishonest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid."},{"word":"Dishonestly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dishonest manner."},{"word":"Dishonesty","type":"(n.)","description":"Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame."},{"word":"Dishonesty","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness."},{"word":"Dishonesty","type":"(n.)","description":"Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act."},{"word":"Dishonesty","type":"(n.)","description":"Lewdness; unchastity."},{"word":"Dishonor","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach."},{"word":"Dishonor","type":"(n.)","description":"The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn."},{"word":"Dishonored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dishonor"},{"word":"Dishonoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dishonor"},{"word":"Dishonor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor."},{"word":"Dishonor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To violate the chastity of; to debauch."},{"word":"Dishonor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange."},{"word":"Dishonorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base."},{"word":"Dishonorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed."},{"word":"Dishonorary","type":"(a.)","description":"Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation."},{"word":"Dishonorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity."},{"word":"Dishorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle."},{"word":"Dishorse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dismount."},{"word":"Dishouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of house or home."},{"word":"Dishumor","type":"(n.)","description":"Ill humor."},{"word":"Dishumor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor."},{"word":"Dishwasher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, washes dishes."},{"word":"Dishwasher","type":"(n.)","description":"A European bird; the wagtail."},{"word":"Dishwater","type":"(n.)","description":"Water in which dishes have been washed."},{"word":"Disillusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom."},{"word":"Disillusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from an illusion; to disillusionize."},{"word":"Disillusionize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disenchant; to free from illusion."},{"word":"Disillusionment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom."},{"word":"Disimbitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from bitterness."},{"word":"Disimpark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park."},{"word":"Disimpassioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from warmth of passion or feeling."},{"word":"Disimprove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make worse; -- the opposite of improve."},{"word":"Disimprove","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow worse; to deteriorate."},{"word":"Disimprovement","type":"(n.)","description":"Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth."},{"word":"Disincarcerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To liberate from prison."},{"word":"Disinclination","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition."},{"word":"Disinclined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disincline"},{"word":"Disinclining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disincline"},{"word":"Disincline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate."},{"word":"Disinclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from being inclosed."},{"word":"Disincorporated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disincorporate"},{"word":"Disincorporating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disincorporate"},{"word":"Disincorporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body."},{"word":"Disincorporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To detach or separate from a corporation."},{"word":"Disincorporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated."},{"word":"Disincorporation","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation."},{"word":"Disinfected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disinfect"},{"word":"Disinfecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disinfect"},{"word":"Disinfect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous."},{"word":"Disinfectant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine."},{"word":"Disinfection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter."},{"word":"Disinfector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants."},{"word":"Disinflame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of flame or ardor."},{"word":"Disingenuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Disingenuousness."},{"word":"Disingenuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes."},{"word":"Disingenuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful."},{"word":"Disinhabited","type":"(a.)","description":"Uninhabited."},{"word":"Disinherison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Disherison."},{"word":"Disinherited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disinherit"},{"word":"Disinheriting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disinherit"},{"word":"Disinherit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent."},{"word":"Disinherit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of heritage; to dispossess."},{"word":"Disinheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison."},{"word":"Disinhume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disinter."},{"word":"Disinsure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render insecure; to put in danger."},{"word":"Disintegrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder."},{"word":"Disintegrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disintegrate"},{"word":"Disintegrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disintegrate"},{"word":"Disintegrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences."},{"word":"Disintegrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates."},{"word":"Disintegration","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated."},{"word":"Disintegration","type":"(n.)","description":"The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc."},{"word":"Disintegrator","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion."},{"word":"Disinterred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disinter"},{"word":"Disinterring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disinter"},{"word":"Disinter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up."},{"word":"Disinter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view."},{"word":"Disinteress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage."},{"word":"Disinteressment","type":"(n.)","description":"Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness."},{"word":"Disinterest","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Disinterested."},{"word":"Disinterest","type":"(n.)","description":"What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage."},{"word":"Disinterest","type":"(n.)","description":"Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness."},{"word":"Disinterest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of interest or interested motives."},{"word":"Disinterested","type":"(a.)","description":"Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge."},{"word":"Disinterestedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice."},{"word":"Disinterestedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality."},{"word":"Disinteresting","type":"(a.)","description":"Uninteresting."},{"word":"Disinterment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation."},{"word":"Disinthralled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disinthrall"},{"word":"Disinthralling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disinthrall"},{"word":"Disinthrall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from thralldom; to disenthrall."},{"word":"Disinthrallment","type":"(n.)","description":"A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment."},{"word":"Disintricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disentangle."},{"word":"Disinured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disinure"},{"word":"Disinuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disinure"},{"word":"Disinure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar."},{"word":"Disinvestiture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving of investiture."},{"word":"Disinvigorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enervate; to weaken."},{"word":"Disinvolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle."},{"word":"Disjection","type":"(n.)","description":"Destruction; dispersion."},{"word":"Disjoined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disjoin"},{"word":"Disjoining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disjoin"},{"word":"Disjoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder."},{"word":"Disjoin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become separated; to part."},{"word":"Disjoint","type":"(a.)","description":"Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint."},{"word":"Disjoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Difficult situation; dilemma; strait."},{"word":"Disjointed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disjoint"},{"word":"Disjointing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disjoint"},{"word":"Disjoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving."},{"word":"Disjoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice."},{"word":"Disjoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech."},{"word":"Disjoint","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in pieces."},{"word":"Disjointed","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent."},{"word":"Disjointly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disjointed state."},{"word":"Disjudication","type":"(n.)","description":"Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication."},{"word":"Disjunct","type":"(a.)","description":"Disjoined; separated."},{"word":"Disjunct","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction."},{"word":"Disjuncttion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body."},{"word":"Disjuncttion","type":"(n.)","description":"A disjunctive proposition."},{"word":"Disjunctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining."},{"word":"Disjunctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords."},{"word":"Disjunctive","type":"(n.)","description":"A disjunctive conjunction."},{"word":"Disjunctive","type":"(n.)","description":"A disjunctive proposition."},{"word":"Disjunctively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disjunctive manner; separately."},{"word":"Disjuncture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"A discus; a quoit."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole surface of a leaf."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk."},{"word":"Disk","type":"(n.)","description":"In owls, the space around the eyes."},{"word":"Diskindness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unkindness; disservice."},{"word":"Diskless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope."},{"word":"Dislade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unlade."},{"word":"Disleal","type":"(a.)","description":"Disloyal; perfidious."},{"word":"Disleave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of leaves."},{"word":"Disliked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dislike"},{"word":"Disliking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dislike"},{"word":"Dislike","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish."},{"word":"Dislike","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To awaken dislike in; to displease."},{"word":"Dislike","type":"(n.)","description":"A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness."},{"word":"Dislike","type":"(n.)","description":"Discord; dissension."},{"word":"Dislikeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable."},{"word":"Dislikelihood","type":"(n.)","description":"The want of likelihood; improbability."},{"word":"Disliken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make unlike; to disguise."},{"word":"Dislikeness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unlikeness."},{"word":"Disliker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dislikes or disrelishes."},{"word":"Dislimb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tear limb from limb; to dismember."},{"word":"Dislimn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To efface, as a picture."},{"word":"Dislink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unlink; to disunite; to separate."},{"word":"Dislive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of life."},{"word":"Dislocated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dislocate"},{"word":"Dislocating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dislocate"},{"word":"Dislocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones."},{"word":"Dislocate","type":"(a.)","description":"Dislocated."},{"word":"Dislocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced."},{"word":"Dislocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations."},{"word":"Dislocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced."},{"word":"Dislodged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dislodge"},{"word":"Dislodging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dislodge"},{"word":"Dislodge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms."},{"word":"Dislodge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy."},{"word":"Dislodge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go from a place of rest."},{"word":"Dislodge","type":"(n.)","description":"Dwelling apart; separation."},{"word":"Dislodgment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged."},{"word":"Disloign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put at a distance; to remove."},{"word":"Disloyal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife."},{"word":"Disloyally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disloyal manner."},{"word":"Disloyalty","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance."},{"word":"Dismail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of coat of mail."},{"word":"Dismal","type":"(a.)","description":"Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky."},{"word":"Dismal","type":"(a.)","description":"Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place."},{"word":"Dismally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably."},{"word":"Dismalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dismal; gloominess."},{"word":"Disman","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unman."},{"word":"Dismantled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dismantle"},{"word":"Dismantling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dismantle"},{"word":"Dismantle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip or deprive of dress; to divest."},{"word":"Dismantle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship."},{"word":"Dismantle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disable; to render useless."},{"word":"Dismarch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To march away."},{"word":"Dismarry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce."},{"word":"Dismarshal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder."},{"word":"Dismask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of a mask."},{"word":"Dismasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dismast"},{"word":"Dismasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dismast"},{"word":"Dismast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship."},{"word":"Dismastment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted."},{"word":"Dismaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eject from the maw; to disgorge."},{"word":"Dismayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dismay"},{"word":"Dismaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dismay"},{"word":"Dismay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify."},{"word":"Dismay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet."},{"word":"Dismay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay."},{"word":"Dismay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation."},{"word":"Dismay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Condition fitted to dismay; ruin."},{"word":"Dismayedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness."},{"word":"Dismayful","type":"(a.)","description":"Terrifying."},{"word":"Disme","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe."},{"word":"Dismembered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dismember"},{"word":"Dismembering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dismember"},{"word":"Dismember","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up."},{"word":"Dismember","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of membership."},{"word":"Dismemberment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m/tilation; division; separation."},{"word":"Dismettled","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit."},{"word":"Dismissed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dismiss"},{"word":"Dismissing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dismiss"},{"word":"Dismiss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away."},{"word":"Dismiss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant."},{"word":"Dismiss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court."},{"word":"Dismiss","type":"(n.)","description":"Dismission."},{"word":"Dismissal","type":"(n.)","description":"Dismission; discharge."},{"word":"Dismission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury."},{"word":"Dismission","type":"(n.)","description":"Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace."},{"word":"Dismission","type":"(n.)","description":"Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration."},{"word":"Dismissive","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving dismission."},{"word":"Dismortaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dismortgage"},{"word":"Dismortgaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dismortgage"},{"word":"Dismortgage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To redeem from mortgage."},{"word":"Dismounted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dismount"},{"word":"Dismounting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dismount"},{"word":"Dismount","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come down; to descend."},{"word":"Dismount","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted."},{"word":"Dismount","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like."},{"word":"Dismount","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary."},{"word":"Dismount","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take down, or apart, as a machine."},{"word":"Dismount","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery."},{"word":"Disnaturalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth."},{"word":"Disnatured","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural."},{"word":"Disobedience","type":"(n.)","description":"Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition."},{"word":"Disobediency","type":"(n.)","description":"Disobedience."},{"word":"Disobedient","type":"(a.)","description":"Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts."},{"word":"Disobedient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not yielding."},{"word":"Disobediently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disobedient manner."},{"word":"Disobeisance","type":"(n.)","description":"Disobedience."},{"word":"Disobeisant","type":"(a.)","description":"Disobedient."},{"word":"Disobeyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disobey"},{"word":"Disobeying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disobey"},{"word":"Disobey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws."},{"word":"Disobey","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient."},{"word":"Disobeyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disobeys."},{"word":"Disobligation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disobliging."},{"word":"Disobligation","type":"(n.)","description":"A disobliging act; an offense."},{"word":"Disobligation","type":"(n.)","description":"Release from obligation."},{"word":"Disobligatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Releasing from obligation."},{"word":"Disobliged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disoblige"},{"word":"Disobliging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disoblige"},{"word":"Disoblige","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to."},{"word":"Disoblige","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To release from obligation."},{"word":"Disobligement","type":"(n.)","description":"Release from obligation."},{"word":"Disobliger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disobliges."},{"word":"Disobliging","type":"(a.)","description":"Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act."},{"word":"Disobliging","type":"(a.)","description":"Displeasing; offensive."},{"word":"Disoccident","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude."},{"word":"Disoccupation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being unemployed; want of occupation."},{"word":"Disopinion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want or difference of belief; disbelief."},{"word":"Disoppilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To open."},{"word":"Disorb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere."},{"word":"Disord","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder."},{"word":"Disordeined","type":"(a.)","description":"Inordinate; irregular; vicious."},{"word":"Disorder","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder."},{"word":"Disorder","type":"(n.)","description":"Neglect of order or system; irregularity."},{"word":"Disorder","type":"(n.)","description":"Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult."},{"word":"Disorder","type":"(n.)","description":"Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement."},{"word":"Disordered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disorder"},{"word":"Disordering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disorder"},{"word":"Disorder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse."},{"word":"Disorder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach."},{"word":"Disorder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depose from holy orders."},{"word":"Disordered","type":"(a.)","description":"Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment."},{"word":"Disordered","type":"(a.)","description":"Disorderly."},{"word":"Disorderliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disorderly."},{"word":"Disorderly","type":"(a.)","description":"Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state."},{"word":"Disorderly","type":"(a.)","description":"Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind."},{"word":"Disorderly","type":"(a.)","description":"Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies."},{"word":"Disorderly","type":"(a.)","description":"Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house."},{"word":"Disorderly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly."},{"word":"Disordinance","type":"(n.)","description":"Disarrangement; disturbance."},{"word":"Disordinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Inordinate; disorderly."},{"word":"Disordinately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Inordinately."},{"word":"Disordination","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion."},{"word":"Disorganization","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of disorganizing; destruction of system."},{"word":"Disorganization","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government."},{"word":"Disorganized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disorganize"},{"word":"Disorganizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disorganize"},{"word":"Disorganize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange."},{"word":"Disorganizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion."},{"word":"Disorient","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings."},{"word":"Disorientate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth."},{"word":"Disowned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disown"},{"word":"Disowning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disown"},{"word":"Disown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings."},{"word":"Disown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny."},{"word":"Disownment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of disowning."},{"word":"Disoxidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deoxidate; to deoxidize."},{"word":"Disoxidation","type":"(n.)","description":"Deoxidation."},{"word":"Disoxygenate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize."},{"word":"Disoxygenation","type":"(n.)","description":"Deoxidation."},{"word":"Dispace","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To roam."},{"word":"Dispair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate (a pair)."},{"word":"Dispand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread out; to expand."},{"word":"Dispansion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of dispanding, or state of being dispanded."},{"word":"Disparadised","type":"(a.)","description":"Removed from paradise."},{"word":"Disparaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disparage"},{"word":"Disparaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disparage"},{"word":"Disparage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage."},{"word":"Disparage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue."},{"word":"Disparage","type":"(n.)","description":"Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior."},{"word":"Disparagement","type":"(n.)","description":"Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation."},{"word":"Disparagement","type":"(n.)","description":"Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to."},{"word":"Disparager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces."},{"word":"Disparagingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly."},{"word":"Disparate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unequal; dissimilar; separate."},{"word":"Disparate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions."},{"word":"Disparates","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other."},{"word":"Disparition","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of disappearing; disappearance."},{"word":"Disparities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Disparity"},{"word":"Disparity","type":"(n.)","description":"Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color."},{"word":"Dispark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common."},{"word":"Dispark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set at large; to release from inclosure."},{"word":"Disparkle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter abroad."},{"word":"Disparted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispart"},{"word":"Disparting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispart"},{"word":"Dispart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers."},{"word":"Dispart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To separate, to open; to cleave."},{"word":"Dispart","type":"(n.)","description":"The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance."},{"word":"Dispart","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight."},{"word":"Dispart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim."},{"word":"Dispart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a dispart sight."},{"word":"Dispassion","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy."},{"word":"Dispassionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed."},{"word":"Dispassionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view."},{"word":"Dispassioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from passion; dispassionate."},{"word":"Dispatched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispatch"},{"word":"Dispatching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispatch"},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rid; to free."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send out of the world; to put to death."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any sending away; dismissal; riddance."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches."},{"word":"Dispatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A message transmitted by telegraph."},{"word":"Dispatcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dispatches."},{"word":"Dispatchful","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks."},{"word":"Dispatchment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dispatching."},{"word":"Dispathies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dispathy"},{"word":"Dispathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy."},{"word":"Dispauper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis."},{"word":"Dispauperize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers."},{"word":"Dispeed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send off with speed; to dispatch."},{"word":"Dispelled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispel"},{"word":"Dispelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispel"},{"word":"Dispel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions."},{"word":"Dispence","type":"(v. i. & n.)","description":"See Dispense."},{"word":"Dispend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spend; to lay out; to expend."},{"word":"Dispender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dispends or expends; a steward."},{"word":"Dispensable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being dispensed or administered."},{"word":"Dispensable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being dispensed with."},{"word":"Dispensableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being dispensable."},{"word":"Dispensaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dispensary"},{"word":"Dispensary","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price."},{"word":"Dispensary","type":"(n.)","description":"A dispensatory."},{"word":"Dispensation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration."},{"word":"Dispensation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed"},{"word":"Dispensation","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations."},{"word":"Dispensation","type":"(n.)","description":"The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.)."},{"word":"Dispensative","type":"(a.)","description":"Granting dispensation."},{"word":"Dispensatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By dispensation."},{"word":"Dispensator","type":"(n.)","description":"A distributer; a dispenser."},{"word":"Dispensatorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the way of dispensation; dispensatively."},{"word":"Dispensatory","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations."},{"word":"Dispensatories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dispensatory"},{"word":"Dispensatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacop/ia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government."},{"word":"Dispensed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispense"},{"word":"Dispensing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispense"},{"word":"Dispense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines."},{"word":"Dispense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct."},{"word":"Dispense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay for; to atone for."},{"word":"Dispense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from."},{"word":"Dispense","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To compensate; to make up; to make amends."},{"word":"Dispense","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give dispensation."},{"word":"Dispense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Dispensation; exemption."},{"word":"Dispense","type":"(n.)","description":"Expense; profusion; outlay."},{"word":"Dispenser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors."},{"word":"Dispeopled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispeople"},{"word":"Dispeopling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispeople"},{"word":"Dispeople","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate."},{"word":"Dispeopler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator."},{"word":"Disperge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle."},{"word":"Disspermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing only two seeds; two-seeded."},{"word":"Disperple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter; to sprinkle."},{"word":"Dispersal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion."},{"word":"Dispersed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disperse"},{"word":"Dispersing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disperse"},{"word":"Disperse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations."},{"word":"Disperse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors."},{"word":"Disperse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse."},{"word":"Disperse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others."},{"word":"Dispersed","type":"(a.)","description":"Scattered."},{"word":"Disperseness","type":"(n.)","description":"Dispersedness."},{"word":"Disperser","type":"(n.)","description":"One that disperses."},{"word":"Dispersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel."},{"word":"Dispersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities."},{"word":"Dispersive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to disperse."},{"word":"Disperson'ate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of personality or individuality."},{"word":"Dispirited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispirit"},{"word":"Dispiriting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispirit"},{"word":"Dispirit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage."},{"word":"Dispirit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distill or infuse the spirit of."},{"word":"Dispirited","type":"(a.)","description":"Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted."},{"word":"Dispiritment","type":"(n.)","description":"Depression of spirits; discouragement."},{"word":"Dispiteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless."},{"word":"Displaced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Displace"},{"word":"Displacing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Displace"},{"word":"Displace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced."},{"word":"Displace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To crowd out; to take the place of."},{"word":"Displace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue."},{"word":"Displace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dislodge; to drive away; to banish."},{"word":"Displaceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being displaced."},{"word":"Displacement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place."},{"word":"Displacement","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body."},{"word":"Displacement","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent."},{"word":"Displacency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike."},{"word":"Displacer","type":"(n.)","description":"One that displaces."},{"word":"Displacer","type":"(n.)","description":"The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement."},{"word":"Di/planted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Displant"},{"word":"Displanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Displant"},{"word":"Displant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants."},{"word":"Displant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants."},{"word":"Displantation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of displanting; removal; displacement."},{"word":"Displat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat."},{"word":"Displayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Display"},{"word":"Displaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Display"},{"word":"Display","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread."},{"word":"Display","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line."},{"word":"Display","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest."},{"word":"Display","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade."},{"word":"Display","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make conspicuous by large or prominent type."},{"word":"Display","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discover; to descry."},{"word":"Display","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration."},{"word":"Display","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation."},{"word":"Display","type":"(n.)","description":"Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade."},{"word":"Displayed","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously."},{"word":"Displayed","type":"(a.)","description":"With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle."},{"word":"Displayed","type":"(a.)","description":"Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye."},{"word":"Displayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, displays."},{"word":"Disple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discipline; to correct."},{"word":"Displeasance","type":"(n.)","description":"Displeasure; discontent; annoyance."},{"word":"Displeasant","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant."},{"word":"Displeased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Displease"},{"word":"Displeasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Displease"},{"word":"Displease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke."},{"word":"Displease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fail to satisfy; to miss of."},{"word":"Displease","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give displeasure or offense."},{"word":"Displeasedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With displeasure."},{"word":"Displeasedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Displeasure."},{"word":"Displeaser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who displeases."},{"word":"Displeasing","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable."},{"word":"Displeasure","type":"(n.)","description":"The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation."},{"word":"Displeasure","type":"(n.)","description":"That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury."},{"word":"Displeasure","type":"(n.)","description":"State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor."},{"word":"Displeasure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To displease."},{"word":"Displenish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock."},{"word":"Displicence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Displicency"},{"word":"Displicency","type":"(n.)","description":"Dislike; dissatisfaction; discontent."},{"word":"Disploded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Displode"},{"word":"Disploding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Displode"},{"word":"Displode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discharge; to explode."},{"word":"Displode","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst with a loud report; to explode."},{"word":"Displosion","type":"(n.)","description":"Explosion."},{"word":"Displosive","type":"(a.)","description":"Explosive."},{"word":"Displumed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Displume"},{"word":"Displuming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Displume"},{"word":"Displume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade."},{"word":"Dispoline","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids."},{"word":"Dispond","type":"(n.)","description":"See Despond."},{"word":"Dispondee","type":"(n.)","description":"A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables."},{"word":"Dispone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispose."},{"word":"Dispone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispose of."},{"word":"Dispone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make over, or convey, legally."},{"word":"Disponee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom any property is legally conveyed."},{"word":"Disponer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who legally transfers property from himself to another."},{"word":"Disponge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge."},{"word":"Dispope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom."},{"word":"Disporous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two spores."},{"word":"Disport","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness."},{"word":"Disported","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disport"},{"word":"Disporting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disport"},{"word":"Disport","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self."},{"word":"Disport","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To divert or amuse; to make merry."},{"word":"Disport","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remove from a port; to carry away."},{"word":"Disportment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of disporting; diversion; play."},{"word":"Disposable","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use."},{"word":"Disposal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines."},{"word":"Disposal","type":"(n.)","description":"Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction."},{"word":"Disposal","type":"(n.)","description":"Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property."},{"word":"Disposal","type":"(n.)","description":"Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of."},{"word":"Disposed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispose"},{"word":"Disposing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispose"},{"word":"Dispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent."},{"word":"Dispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine."},{"word":"Dispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of."},{"word":"Dispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object."},{"word":"Dispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time."},{"word":"Dispose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bargain; to make terms."},{"word":"Dispose","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control."},{"word":"Dispose","type":"(n.)","description":"Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor."},{"word":"Disposed","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Inclined; minded."},{"word":"Disposed","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Inclined to mirth; jolly."},{"word":"Disposedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity."},{"word":"Disposement","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposal."},{"word":"Disposer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower."},{"word":"Disposingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to dispose."},{"word":"Disposited","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed."},{"word":"Disposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will."},{"word":"Disposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice."},{"word":"Disposition","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction."},{"word":"Disposition","type":"(n.)","description":"Conscious inclination; propension or propensity."},{"word":"Disposition","type":"(n.)","description":"Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind."},{"word":"Disposition","type":"(n.)","description":"Mood; humor."},{"word":"Dispositional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to disposition."},{"word":"Dispositioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned."},{"word":"Dispositive","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive."},{"word":"Dispositive","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency."},{"word":"Dispositively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition."},{"word":"Dispositor","type":"(n.)","description":"A disposer."},{"word":"Dispositor","type":"(n.)","description":"The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is."},{"word":"Dispossessed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispossess"},{"word":"Dispossessing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispossess"},{"word":"Dispossess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown."},{"word":"Dispossession","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed."},{"word":"Dispossession","type":"(n.)","description":"The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster."},{"word":"Dispossessor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dispossesses."},{"word":"Dispost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eject from a post; to displace."},{"word":"Disposure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction."},{"word":"Disposure","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition; arrangement; position; posture."},{"word":"Dispraisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Blamable."},{"word":"Dispraised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispraise"},{"word":"Dispraising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispraise"},{"word":"Dispraise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame."},{"word":"Dispraise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement."},{"word":"Dispraiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who blames or dispraises."},{"word":"Dispraisingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of dispraise."},{"word":"Dispread","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams."},{"word":"Dispread","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To extend or expand itself."},{"word":"Dispreader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who spreads abroad."},{"word":"Disprejudice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from prejudice."},{"word":"Disprepare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unprepared."},{"word":"Disprince","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make unlike a prince."},{"word":"Disprison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let loose from prison, to set at liberty."},{"word":"Disprivilege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a privilege or privileges."},{"word":"Disprize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depreciate."},{"word":"Disprofess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce the profession or pursuit of."},{"word":"Disprofit","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss; damage."},{"word":"Disprofit","type":"(v. i. & i.)","description":"To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit."},{"word":"Disprofitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unprofitable."},{"word":"Disproof","type":"(n.)","description":"A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement."},{"word":"Disproperty","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of."},{"word":"Disproportion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height."},{"word":"Disproportion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object."},{"word":"Disproportioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disproportion"},{"word":"Disproportioning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disproportion"},{"word":"Disproportion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly."},{"word":"Disproportionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate."},{"word":"Disproportional","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding."},{"word":"Disproportionality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disproportional."},{"word":"Disproportionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally."},{"word":"Disproportionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means."},{"word":"Dispropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate."},{"word":"Disprovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being disproved or refuted."},{"word":"Disproval","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of disproving; disproof."},{"word":"Disproved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disprove"},{"word":"Disproving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disprove"},{"word":"Disprove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute."},{"word":"Disprove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disallow; to disapprove of."},{"word":"Disprover","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disproves or confutes."},{"word":"Disprovide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not to provide; to fail to provide."},{"word":"Dispunct","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous."},{"word":"Dispunct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expunge."},{"word":"Dispunge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expunge; to erase."},{"word":"Dispunge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Disponge."},{"word":"Dispunishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Without penal restraint; not punishable."},{"word":"Dispurpose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots."},{"word":"Dispurse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disburse."},{"word":"Dispurvey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disfurnish; to strip."},{"word":"Dispurveyance","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of provisions; /ack of food."},{"word":"Disputable","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions."},{"word":"Disputable","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Disputatious; contentious."},{"word":"Disputableness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being disputable."},{"word":"Disputacity","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Proneness to dispute."},{"word":"Disputant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Disputing; engaged in controversy."},{"word":"Disputant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disputes; one who argues // opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition."},{"word":"Disputation","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument."},{"word":"Disputation","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed."},{"word":"Disputatious","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper."},{"word":"Disputative","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper."},{"word":"Disputed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dispute"},{"word":"Disputing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dispute"},{"word":"Dispute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle."},{"word":"Dispute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss."},{"word":"Dispute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments."},{"word":"Dispute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strive or contend about; to contest."},{"word":"Dispute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To struggle against; to resist."},{"word":"Dispute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate."},{"word":"Dispute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Contest; struggle; quarrel."},{"word":"Disputeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible."},{"word":"Disputer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist."},{"word":"Disputison","type":"(n.)","description":"Dispute; discussion."},{"word":"Disqualification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices."},{"word":"Disqualification","type":"(n.)","description":"That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor."},{"word":"Disqualified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disqualify"},{"word":"Disqualifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disqualify"},{"word":"Disqualify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act."},{"word":"Disqualify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness."},{"word":"Disquantity","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish the quantity of; to lessen."},{"word":"Disquiet","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy."},{"word":"Disquiet","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety."},{"word":"Disquieted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disquiet"},{"word":"Disquieting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disquiet"},{"word":"Disquiet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb."},{"word":"Disquietal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disquieting; a state of disquiet."},{"word":"Disquieter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber."},{"word":"Disquietful","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing inquietude or uneasiness."},{"word":"Disquietive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to disquiet."},{"word":"Disquietly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night."},{"word":"Disquietment","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment."},{"word":"Disquietness","type":"(n.)","description":"Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness."},{"word":"Disquietous","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing uneasiness."},{"word":"Disquiettude","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety."},{"word":"Disquisition","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation."},{"word":"Disquisitional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition."},{"word":"Disquisitionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional."},{"word":"Disquisitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to disquisition; fond discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive."},{"word":"Disquisitorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Disquisitory."},{"word":"Disquisitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive."},{"word":"Disrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disarrange."},{"word":"Disrank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To degrade from rank."},{"word":"Disrank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out of rank or into confusion."},{"word":"Disrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade."},{"word":"Disray","type":"(variant)","description":"of Disarray."},{"word":"Disrealize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divest of reality; to make uncertain."},{"word":"Disregarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disregard"},{"word":"Disregarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disregard"},{"word":"Disregard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience."},{"word":"Disregard","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight."},{"word":"Disregarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disregards."},{"word":"Disregardful","type":"(a.)","description":"Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless."},{"word":"Disregardfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"Negligently; heedlessly."},{"word":"Disrelish","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food."},{"word":"Disrelish","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness."},{"word":"Disrelished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disrelish"},{"word":"Disrelishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disrelish"},{"word":"Disrelish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at."},{"word":"Disrelish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree."},{"word":"Disremember","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fail to remember; to forget."},{"word":"Disrepair","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair."},{"word":"Disreputability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being disreputable."},{"word":"Disreputable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane."},{"word":"Disreputably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disreputable manner."},{"word":"Disreputation","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem."},{"word":"Disrepute","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit."},{"word":"Disrepute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor."},{"word":"Disrespect","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy."},{"word":"Disrespect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show disrespect to."},{"word":"Disrespectability","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of respectability."},{"word":"Disrespectable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not respectable; disreputable."},{"word":"Disrespecter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disrespects."},{"word":"Disrespectful","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior."},{"word":"Disrespective","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing want of respect; disrespectful."},{"word":"Disreverence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat irreverently or with disrespect."},{"word":"Disrobed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disrobe"},{"word":"Disrobing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disrobe"},{"word":"Disrobe","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure."},{"word":"Disrober","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disrobes."},{"word":"Disroof","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unroof."},{"word":"Disrooted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disroot"},{"word":"Disrooting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disroot"},{"word":"Disroot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot."},{"word":"Disrout","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put to rout."},{"word":"Disrudder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the rudder, as a ship."},{"word":"Disrulily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a disorderly manner."},{"word":"Disruly","type":"(a.)","description":"Unruly; disorderly."},{"word":"Disrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted."},{"word":"Disrupted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disrupt"},{"word":"Disrupting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disrupt"},{"word":"Disrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break asunder; to rend."},{"word":"Disruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state."},{"word":"Disruptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery."},{"word":"Disrupture","type":"(n.)","description":"Disruption."},{"word":"Dissatisfaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations."},{"word":"Dissatisfactory","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing."},{"word":"Dissatisfied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissatisfy"},{"word":"Dissatisfying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissatisfy"},{"word":"Dissatisfy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune."},{"word":"Disseat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unseat."},{"word":"Dissected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissect"},{"word":"Dissecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissect"},{"word":"Dissect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize."},{"word":"Dissect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely."},{"word":"Dissected","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map."},{"word":"Dissected","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf."},{"word":"Dissectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection."},{"word":"Dissecting","type":"(a.)","description":"Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery."},{"word":"Dissecting","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound."},{"word":"Dissecting","type":"(a.)","description":"Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope."},{"word":"Dissection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I."},{"word":"Dissection","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination."},{"word":"Dissection","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared."},{"word":"Dissector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dissects; an anatomist."},{"word":"Disseized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disseize"},{"word":"Disseizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disseize"},{"word":"Disseize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold."},{"word":"Disseizee","type":"(n.)","description":"A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor."},{"word":"Disseizin","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold."},{"word":"Disseizor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold."},{"word":"Disseizoress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman disseizes."},{"word":"Disseizure","type":"(n.)","description":"Disseizin."},{"word":"Dissemblance","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of resemblance; dissimilitude."},{"word":"Dissemblance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation."},{"word":"Dissembled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissemble"},{"word":"Dissembling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissemble"},{"word":"Dissemble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask."},{"word":"Dissemble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign."},{"word":"Dissemble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite."},{"word":"Dissembler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite."},{"word":"Dissembling","type":"(a.)","description":"That dissembles; hypocritical; false."},{"word":"Disseminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disseminate"},{"word":"Disseminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disseminate"},{"word":"Disseminate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation."},{"word":"Disseminate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To spread or extend by dispersion."},{"word":"Disseminated","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance."},{"word":"Dissemination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc."},{"word":"Disseminative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated."},{"word":"Disseminator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease."},{"word":"Dissension","type":"(n.)","description":"Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel."},{"word":"Dissensious","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious."},{"word":"Dissented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissent"},{"word":"Dissenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissent"},{"word":"Dissent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from."},{"word":"Dissent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government."},{"word":"Dissent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To differ; to be of a contrary nature."},{"word":"Dissent","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement."},{"word":"Dissent","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity."},{"word":"Dissent","type":"(n.)","description":"Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality."},{"word":"Dissentaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous."},{"word":"Dissentany","type":"(a.)","description":"Dissentaneous; inconsistent."},{"word":"Dissentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissension."},{"word":"Dissenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement."},{"word":"Dissenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist."},{"word":"Dissenterism","type":"(n.)","description":"The spirit or principles of dissenters."},{"word":"Dissentiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into a state of dissent."},{"word":"Dissentient","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting."},{"word":"Dissentient","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dissents."},{"word":"Dissentious","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious."},{"word":"Dissentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Disagreeing; inconsistent."},{"word":"Dissepiment","type":"(n.)","description":"A separating tissue; a partition; a septum."},{"word":"Dissepiment","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells."},{"word":"Dissepiment","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral."},{"word":"Dissert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discourse or dispute; to discuss."},{"word":"Dissertate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse."},{"word":"Dissertation","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies."},{"word":"Dissertational","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation."},{"word":"Dissertationist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of dissertations."},{"word":"Dissertator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses."},{"word":"Dissertly","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Disertly."},{"word":"Di/////","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disserve"},{"word":"Disserving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disserve"},{"word":"Disserve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm."},{"word":"Disservice","type":"(n.)","description":"Injury; mischief."},{"word":"Disserviceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable."},{"word":"Dissettle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unsettle."},{"word":"Dissettlement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled."},{"word":"Dissevered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissever"},{"word":"Dissevering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissever"},{"word":"Dissever","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse."},{"word":"Dissever","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To part; to separate."},{"word":"Disseverance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disserving; separation."},{"word":"Disseveration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disserving; disseverance."},{"word":"Disseverment","type":"(n.)","description":"Disseverance."},{"word":"Disshadow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from shadow or shade."},{"word":"Dissheathe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become unsheathed."},{"word":"Disship","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dismiss from service on board ship."},{"word":"Disshiver","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To shiver or break in pieces."},{"word":"Dissidence","type":"(a.)","description":"Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion."},{"word":"Dissident","type":"(a.)","description":"No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different."},{"word":"Dissident","type":"(n.)","description":"One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion."},{"word":"Dissidently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dissident manner."},{"word":"Dissilience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dissiliency"},{"word":"Dissiliency","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of leaping or starting asunder."},{"word":"Dissilient","type":"(a.)","description":"Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp."},{"word":"Dissilition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bursting or springing apart."},{"word":"Dissimilar","type":"(a.)","description":"Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features."},{"word":"Dissimilarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms."},{"word":"Dissimilarly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style."},{"word":"Dissimilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render dissimilar."},{"word":"Dissimilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making dissimilar."},{"word":"Dissimile","type":"(n.)","description":"Comparison or illustration by contraries."},{"word":"Dissimilitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity."},{"word":"Dissimilitude","type":"(n.)","description":"A comparison by contrast; a dissimile."},{"word":"Dissimulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Feigning; simulating; pretending."},{"word":"Dissimulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dissemble; to feign; to pretend."},{"word":"Dissimulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy."},{"word":"Dissimulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dissimulates; a dissembler."},{"word":"Dissimule","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To dissemble."},{"word":"Dissimuler","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissembler."},{"word":"Dissimulour","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissembler."},{"word":"Dissipable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being scattered or dissipated."},{"word":"Dissipated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissipate"},{"word":"Dissipating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissipate"},{"word":"Dissipate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored."},{"word":"Dissipate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander."},{"word":"Dissipate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates."},{"word":"Dissipate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation."},{"word":"Dissipated","type":"(a.)","description":"Squandered; scattered."},{"word":"Dissipated","type":"(a.)","description":"Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate."},{"word":"Dissipation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste."},{"word":"Dissipation","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness."},{"word":"Dissipation","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention."},{"word":"Dissipative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to dissipate."},{"word":"Dissipativity","type":"(n.)","description":"The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy."},{"word":"Dissite","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying apart."},{"word":"Disslander","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To slander."},{"word":"Disslander","type":"(n.)","description":"Slander."},{"word":"Disslanderous","type":"(a.)","description":"Slanderous."},{"word":"Dissociability","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of sociability; unsociableness."},{"word":"Dissociable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not /ell associated or assorted; incongruous."},{"word":"Dissociable","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuitable to society; unsociable."},{"word":"Dissocial","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings."},{"word":"Dissocialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unsocial."},{"word":"Dissociated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissociate"},{"word":"Dissociating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissociate"},{"word":"Dissociate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance."},{"word":"Dissociation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion."},{"word":"Dissociation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; -- said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances; as, the dissociation of the sulphur molecules; the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia."},{"word":"Dissociative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or leading to dissociation."},{"word":"Dissolubility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid."},{"word":"Dissoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid."},{"word":"Dissoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being disunited."},{"word":"Dissolubleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dissoluble; dissolubility."},{"word":"Dissolute","type":"(a.)","description":"With nerves unstrung; weak."},{"word":"Dissolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched."},{"word":"Dissolutely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dissolute manner."},{"word":"Dissoluteness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin."},{"word":"Dissolution","type":"(n.)","description":"Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness."},{"word":"Dissolvability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity of being dissolved; solubility."},{"word":"Dissolvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble."},{"word":"Dissolvative","type":"(n.)","description":"Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent."},{"word":"Dissolved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissolve"},{"word":"Dissolving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissolve"},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament."},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate."},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften."},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To solve; to clear up; to resolve."},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relax by pleasure; to make powerless."},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction."},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up."},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied."},{"word":"Dissolve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power."},{"word":"Dissolvent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach."},{"word":"Dissolvent","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent."},{"word":"Dissolvent","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc."},{"word":"Dissolver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate."},{"word":"Dissolving","type":"(a.)","description":"Melting; breaking up; vanishing."},{"word":"Dissonance","type":"(n.)","description":"A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord."},{"word":"Dissonance","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of agreement; incongruity."},{"word":"Dissonancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Discord; dissonance."},{"word":"Dissonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious."},{"word":"Dissonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to."},{"word":"Disspirit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Dispirit."},{"word":"Dissuaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissuade"},{"word":"Dissuading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissuade"},{"word":"Dissuade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course)."},{"word":"Dissuade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose."},{"word":"Dissuader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dissuades; a dehorter."},{"word":"Dissuasion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation."},{"word":"Dissuasion","type":"(n.)","description":"A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive."},{"word":"Dissuasive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice."},{"word":"Dissuasive","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation."},{"word":"Dissuasory","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissuasive."},{"word":"Dissundered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dissunder"},{"word":"Dissundering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dissunder"},{"word":"Dissunder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate; to sunder; to destroy."},{"word":"Dissweeten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of sweetness."},{"word":"Dissyllabic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry."},{"word":"Dissyllabification","type":"(n.)","description":"A forming into two syllables."},{"word":"Dissyllabify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into two syllables."},{"word":"Dissyllabize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into two syllables; to dissyllabify."},{"word":"Dissyllable","type":"(n.)","description":"A word of two syllables; as, pa-per."},{"word":"Dissymmetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical."},{"word":"Dissymmetry","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry."},{"word":"Dissympathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference."},{"word":"Distad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally."},{"word":"Distaffs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Distaff"},{"word":"Distaves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Distaff"},{"word":"Distaff","type":"(n.)","description":"The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand."},{"word":"Distaff","type":"(n.)","description":"Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively."},{"word":"Distained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distain"},{"word":"Distaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distain"},{"word":"Distain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry."},{"word":"Distal","type":"(a.)","description":"Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle"},{"word":"Distal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone."},{"word":"Distally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward a distal part."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"Remoteness of place; a remote place."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"A space marked out in the last part of a race course."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"Space between two antagonists in fencing."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh."},{"word":"Distanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distance"},{"word":"Distancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distance"},{"word":"Distance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place at a distance or remotely."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote."},{"word":"Distance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly."},{"word":"Distancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Distance."},{"word":"Distant","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away."},{"word":"Distant","type":"(a.)","description":"Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives."},{"word":"Distant","type":"(a.)","description":"Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner."},{"word":"Distant","type":"(a.)","description":"Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance."},{"word":"Distant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity."},{"word":"Distantial","type":"(a.)","description":"Distant."},{"word":"Distantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"At a distance; remotely; with reserve."},{"word":"Distaste","type":"(n.)","description":"Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish."},{"word":"Distaste","type":"(n.)","description":"Discomfort; uneasiness."},{"word":"Distaste","type":"(n.)","description":"Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger."},{"word":"Distasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distaste"},{"word":"Distasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distaste"},{"word":"Distaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike."},{"word":"Distaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To offend; to disgust; to displease."},{"word":"Distaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful."},{"word":"Distaste","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable."},{"word":"Distasteful","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome."},{"word":"Distasteful","type":"(a.)","description":"Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth."},{"word":"Distasteful","type":"(a.)","description":"Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive."},{"word":"Distasteive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to excite distaste."},{"word":"Distasteive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which excites distaste or aversion."},{"word":"Distasture","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which excites distaste or disgust."},{"word":"Distempered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distemper"},{"word":"Distempering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distemper"},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intoxicate."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Political disorder; tumult."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms."},{"word":"Distemper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A painting done with this preparation."},{"word":"Distemperance","type":"(n.)","description":"Distemperature."},{"word":"Distemperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Immoderate."},{"word":"Distemperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Diseased; disordered."},{"word":"Distemperately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unduly."},{"word":"Distemperature","type":"(n.)","description":"Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air."},{"word":"Distemperature","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder; confusion."},{"word":"Distemperature","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper."},{"word":"Distemperature","type":"(n.)","description":"Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness."},{"word":"Distemperment","type":"(n.)","description":"Distempered state; distemperature."},{"word":"Distended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distend"},{"word":"Distending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distend"},{"word":"Distend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch."},{"word":"Distend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc."},{"word":"Distend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become expanded or inflated; to swell."},{"word":"Distensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or capacity of being distensible."},{"word":"Distensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being distended or dilated."},{"word":"Distension","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Distention."},{"word":"Distensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Distending, or capable of being distended."},{"word":"Distent","type":"(a.)","description":"Distended."},{"word":"Distent","type":"(n.)","description":"Breadth."},{"word":"Distention","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs."},{"word":"Distention","type":"(n.)","description":"Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended."},{"word":"Dister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To banish or drive from a country."},{"word":"Disterminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated by bounds."},{"word":"Distermination","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation by bounds."},{"word":"Disthene","type":"(n.)","description":"Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite."},{"word":"Disthrone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dethrone."},{"word":"Disthronize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dethrone."},{"word":"Distich","type":"(n.)","description":"A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses."},{"word":"Distich","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Distichous"},{"word":"Distichous","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked."},{"word":"Distichously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a distichous manner."},{"word":"Distil","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Distill."},{"word":"Distilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distill"},{"word":"Distilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distill"},{"word":"Distill","type":"(n. & v)","description":"To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle."},{"word":"Distill","type":"(n. & v)","description":"To flow gently, or in a small stream."},{"word":"Distill","type":"(n. & v)","description":"To practice the art of distillation."},{"word":"Distill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let fall or send down in drops."},{"word":"Distill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water."},{"word":"Distill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc."},{"word":"Distill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissolve or melt."},{"word":"Distillable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable."},{"word":"Distillate","type":"(n.)","description":"The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses."},{"word":"Distillation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops."},{"word":"Distillation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which falls in drops."},{"word":"Distillation","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam."},{"word":"Distillation","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance extracted by distilling."},{"word":"Distillatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels."},{"word":"Distillatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A distillatory apparatus; a still."},{"word":"Distiller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation."},{"word":"Distiller","type":"(n.)","description":"The condenser of a distilling apparatus."},{"word":"Distilleries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Distillery"},{"word":"Distillery","type":"(n.)","description":"The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on."},{"word":"Distillery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of distilling spirits."},{"word":"Distillment","type":"(n.)","description":"Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation."},{"word":"Distinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified."},{"word":"Distinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked; variegated."},{"word":"Distinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Separate in place; not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from."},{"word":"Distinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Not identical; different; individual."},{"word":"Distinct","type":"(a.)","description":"So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect."},{"word":"Distinct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distinguish."},{"word":"Distinction","type":"(n.)","description":"A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division."},{"word":"Distinction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination."},{"word":"Distinction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which distinguishes one thing from another; distinguishing quality; sharply defined difference; as, the distinction between real and apparent good."},{"word":"Distinction","type":"(n.)","description":"Estimation of difference; regard to differences or distinguishing circumstance."},{"word":"Distinction","type":"(n.)","description":"Conspicuous station; eminence; superiority; honorable estimation; as, a man of distinction."},{"word":"Distinctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar."},{"word":"Distinctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating."},{"word":"Distinctively","type":"(adv.)","description":"With distinction; plainly."},{"word":"Distinctiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being distinctive."},{"word":"Distinctly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly."},{"word":"Distinctly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With meaning; significantly."},{"word":"Distinctness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things."},{"word":"Distinctness","type":"(n.)","description":"Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness."},{"word":"Distincture","type":"(n.)","description":"Distinctness."},{"word":"Distinguished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distinguish"},{"word":"Distinguishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distinguish"},{"word":"Distinguish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic."},{"word":"Distinguish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low."},{"word":"Distinguish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum."},{"word":"Distinguish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To constitute a difference; to make to differ."},{"word":"Distinguish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for."},{"word":"Distinguish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle."},{"word":"Distinguish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible."},{"word":"Distinguishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub."},{"word":"Distinguishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of note or special regard."},{"word":"Distinguishableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being distinguishable."},{"word":"Distinguishably","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to be distinguished."},{"word":"Distinguished","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked; special."},{"word":"Distinguished","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds."},{"word":"Distinguishedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a distinguished manner."},{"word":"Distinguisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity."},{"word":"Distinguisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer."},{"word":"Distinguishing","type":"(a.)","description":"Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic."},{"word":"Distinguishingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With distinction; with some mark of preference."},{"word":"Distinguishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Observation of difference; distinction."},{"word":"Distitle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of title or right."},{"word":"Distoma","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2."},{"word":"Distort","type":"(a.)","description":"Distorted; misshapen."},{"word":"Distorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distort"},{"word":"Distorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distort"},{"word":"Distort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body."},{"word":"Distort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally."},{"word":"Distort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning."},{"word":"Distorter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, distorts."},{"word":"Distortion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body."},{"word":"Distortion","type":"(n.)","description":"A wresting from the true meaning."},{"word":"Distortion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion."},{"word":"Distortion","type":"(n.)","description":"An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity."},{"word":"Distortive","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing distortion."},{"word":"Distract","type":"(a.)","description":"Separated; drawn asunder."},{"word":"Distract","type":"(a.)","description":"Insane; mad."},{"word":"Distracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distract"},{"word":"Distraught","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Distract"},{"word":"Distracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distract"},{"word":"Distract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin."},{"word":"Distract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention."},{"word":"Distract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass."},{"word":"Distract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted."},{"word":"Distracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad."},{"word":"Distractedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Disjointedly; madly."},{"word":"Distractedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being distracted; distraction."},{"word":"Distracter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, distracts away."},{"word":"Distractful","type":"(a.)","description":"Distracting."},{"word":"Distractible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being drawn aside or distracted."},{"word":"Distractile","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or serving to draw apart."},{"word":"Distracting","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or serving to distract."},{"word":"Distraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation."},{"word":"Distraction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which diverts attention; a diversion."},{"word":"Distraction","type":"(n.)","description":"A diversity of direction; detachment."},{"word":"Distraction","type":"(n.)","description":"State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity."},{"word":"Distraction","type":"(n.)","description":"Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions."},{"word":"Distraction","type":"(n.)","description":"Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair."},{"word":"Distraction","type":"(n.)","description":"Derangement of the mind; madness."},{"word":"Distractious","type":"(a.)","description":"Distractive."},{"word":"Distractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing perplexity; distracting."},{"word":"Distrained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distrain"},{"word":"Distraining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distrain"},{"word":"Distrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict."},{"word":"Distrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rend; to tear."},{"word":"Distrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement."},{"word":"Distrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels."},{"word":"Distrain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To levy a distress."},{"word":"Distrainable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained."},{"word":"Distrainer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Distrainor."},{"word":"Distrainor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels."},{"word":"Distraint","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress."},{"word":"Distrait","type":"(a.)","description":"Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted."},{"word":"Distraught","type":"(a.)","description":"Torn asunder; separated."},{"word":"Distraught","type":"(a.)","description":"Distracted; perplexed."},{"word":"Distraughted","type":"(a.)","description":"Distracted."},{"word":"Distream","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow."},{"word":"Distress","type":"(n.)","description":"Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends."},{"word":"Distress","type":"(n.)","description":"That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery."},{"word":"Distress","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc."},{"word":"Distress","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc."},{"word":"Distress","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction."},{"word":"Distressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distress"},{"word":"Distressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distress"},{"word":"Distress","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable."},{"word":"Distress","type":"(n.)","description":"To compel by pain or suffering."},{"word":"Distress","type":"(n.)","description":"To seize for debt; to distrain."},{"word":"Distressedness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being distressed or greatly pained."},{"word":"Distressful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation."},{"word":"Distressing","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing distress; painful; unpleasant."},{"word":"Distressing","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a distressing manner."},{"word":"Distributable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being distributed."},{"word":"Distributary","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive."},{"word":"Distributed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distribute"},{"word":"Distributing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distribute"},{"word":"Distribute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot."},{"word":"Distribute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice."},{"word":"Distribute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc."},{"word":"Distribute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases."},{"word":"Distribute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table."},{"word":"Distribute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise."},{"word":"Distribute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make distribution."},{"word":"Distributer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser."},{"word":"Distributing","type":"(a.)","description":"That distributes; dealing out."},{"word":"Distribution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children."},{"word":"Distribution","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification."},{"word":"Distribution","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is distributed."},{"word":"Distribution","type":"(n.)","description":"A resolving a whole into its parts."},{"word":"Distribution","type":"(n.)","description":"The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases."},{"word":"Distribution","type":"(n.)","description":"The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission."},{"word":"Distributional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to distribution."},{"word":"Distributionist","type":"(n.)","description":"A distributer."},{"word":"Distributive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share."},{"word":"Distributive","type":"(a.)","description":"Assigning the species of a general term."},{"word":"Distributive","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two)."},{"word":"Distributive","type":"(n.)","description":"A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral."},{"word":"Distributively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner."},{"word":"Distributiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being distributive."},{"word":"District","type":"(a.)","description":"Rigorous; stringent; harsh."},{"word":"District","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing."},{"word":"District","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc."},{"word":"District","type":"(n.)","description":"Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract."},{"word":"Districted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of District"},{"word":"Districting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of District"},{"word":"District","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives."},{"word":"Distriction","type":"(n.)","description":"Sudden display; flash; glitter."},{"word":"Districtly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Strictly."},{"word":"Distringas","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him."},{"word":"Distrouble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trouble."},{"word":"Distrusted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Distrust"},{"word":"Distrusting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Distrust"},{"word":"Distrust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust."},{"word":"Distrust","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc."},{"word":"Distrust","type":"(n.)","description":"Suspicion of evil designs."},{"word":"Distrust","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being suspected; loss of trust."},{"word":"Distruster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who distrusts."},{"word":"Distrustful","type":"(a.)","description":"Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers."},{"word":"Distrustful","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful."},{"word":"Distrusting","type":"(a.)","description":"That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in."},{"word":"Distrustless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from distrust."},{"word":"Distune","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of tune."},{"word":"Disturbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disturb"},{"word":"Disturbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disturb"},{"word":"Disturb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest."},{"word":"Disturb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy."},{"word":"Disturb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn from a regular or designed course."},{"word":"Disturb","type":"(n.)","description":"Disturbance."},{"word":"Disturbance","type":"(n.)","description":"An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current."},{"word":"Disturbance","type":"(n.)","description":"Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness."},{"word":"Disturbance","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult."},{"word":"Disturbance","type":"(n.)","description":"The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like."},{"word":"Disturbation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of disturbing; disturbance."},{"word":"Disturber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler."},{"word":"Disturber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right."},{"word":"Disturn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn aside."},{"word":"Distyle","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like."},{"word":"Disulphate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate."},{"word":"Disulphate","type":"(n.)","description":"An acid salt of sulphuric acid, having only one equivalent of base to two of the acid."},{"word":"Disulphide","type":"(n.)","description":"A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide."},{"word":"Disulphuret","type":"(n.)","description":"See Disulphide."},{"word":"Disulphuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to an acid having in each molecule two atoms of sulphur in the higher state of oxidation."},{"word":"Disuniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Not uniform."},{"word":"Disunion","type":"(n.)","description":"The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul."},{"word":"Disunion","type":"(n.)","description":"A breach of concord and its effect; alienation."},{"word":"Disunion","type":"(n.)","description":"The termination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States."},{"word":"Disunionist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States."},{"word":"Disunited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disunite"},{"word":"Disuniting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disunite"},{"word":"Disunite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter."},{"word":"Disunite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of."},{"word":"Disunite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To part; to fall asunder; to become separated."},{"word":"Disuniter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion."},{"word":"Disunity","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of separation or disunion; want of unity."},{"word":"Disusage","type":"(n.)","description":"Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse."},{"word":"Disused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Disuse"},{"word":"Disusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Disuse"},{"word":"Disuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of."},{"word":"Disuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil."},{"word":"Disuse","type":"(n.)","description":"Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse."},{"word":"Disutilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of utility; to render useless."},{"word":"Disvaluation","type":"(n.)","description":"Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute."},{"word":"Disvalue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To undervalue; to depreciate."},{"word":"Disvalue","type":"(n.)","description":"Disesteem; disregard."},{"word":"Disvantageous","type":"(a.)","description":"Disadvantageous."},{"word":"Disvelop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To develop."},{"word":"Disventure","type":"(n.)","description":"A disadventure."},{"word":"Disvouch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discredit; to contradict."},{"word":"Diswarn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissuade from by previous warning."},{"word":"Diswitted","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted."},{"word":"Diswont","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom."},{"word":"Disworkmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"Bad workmanship."},{"word":"Disworship","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy."},{"word":"Disworship","type":"(n.)","description":"A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit."},{"word":"Disworth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of worth; to degrade."},{"word":"Disyoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin."},{"word":"Dit","type":"(n.)","description":"A word; a decree."},{"word":"Dit","type":"(n.)","description":"A ditty; a song."},{"word":"Dit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To close up."},{"word":"Ditation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making rich; enrichment."},{"word":"Ditches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ditch"},{"word":"Ditch","type":"(n.)","description":"A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse."},{"word":"Ditch","type":"(n.)","description":"Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth."},{"word":"Ditched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ditch"},{"word":"Ditching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ditch"},{"word":"Ditch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land."},{"word":"Ditch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround with a ditch."},{"word":"Ditch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side."},{"word":"Ditch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dig a ditch or ditches."},{"word":"Ditcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who digs ditches."},{"word":"Dite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight."},{"word":"Diterebene","type":"(n.)","description":"See Colophene."},{"word":"Dithecal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dithecous"},{"word":"Dithecous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two thecae, cells, or compartments."},{"word":"Ditheism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism."},{"word":"Ditheist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist."},{"word":"Ditheistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ditheistical"},{"word":"Ditheistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic."},{"word":"Dithionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing two equivalents of sulphur; as, dithionic acid."},{"word":"Dithyramb","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain."},{"word":"Dithyrambic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous."},{"word":"Dithyrambic","type":"(n.)","description":"A dithyrambic poem; a dithyramb."},{"word":"Dithyrambus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dithyramb."},{"word":"Dition","type":"(n.)","description":"Dominion; rule."},{"word":"Ditionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Under rule; subject; tributary."},{"word":"Ditionary","type":"(n.)","description":"A subject; a tributary."},{"word":"Ditokous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids."},{"word":"Ditokous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing only two eggs for a clutch, as certain birds do."},{"word":"Ditolyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene."},{"word":"Ditone","type":"(n.)","description":"The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone)."},{"word":"Ditrichotomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into twos or threes."},{"word":"Ditrichotomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Dividing into double or treble ramifications; -- said of a leaf or stem."},{"word":"Ditrochean","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing two trochees."},{"word":"Ditrochee","type":"(n.)","description":"A double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees."},{"word":"Ditroite","type":"(n.)","description":"An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite."},{"word":"Ditt","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dit, n., 2."},{"word":"Dittander","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium)."},{"word":"Dittany","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete."},{"word":"Dittany","type":"(n.)","description":"The Dictamnus Fraxinella. See Dictamnus."},{"word":"Dittany","type":"(n.)","description":"In America, the Cunila Mariana, a fragrant herb of the Mint family."},{"word":"Dittied","type":"(a.)","description":"Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition."},{"word":"Dittos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ditto"},{"word":"Ditto","type":"(n.)","description":"The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two \"turned commas\" (\"), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition."},{"word":"Ditto","type":"(adv.)","description":"As before, or aforesaid; in the same manner; also."},{"word":"Dittology","type":"(n.)","description":"A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text."},{"word":"Ditties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ditty"},{"word":"Ditty","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme."},{"word":"Ditty","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung."},{"word":"Ditty","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sing; to warble a little tune."},{"word":"Ditty-bag","type":"(n.)","description":"A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife."},{"word":"Ditty-box","type":"(n.)","description":"A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc."},{"word":"Diureide","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide."},{"word":"Diuresis","type":"(n.)","description":"Free excretion of urine."},{"word":"Diuretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine."},{"word":"Diuretic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine with diuretic properties."},{"word":"Diuretical","type":"(a.)","description":"Diuretic."},{"word":"Diureticalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property."},{"word":"Diurna","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime."},{"word":"Diurnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours."},{"word":"Diurnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth."},{"word":"Diurnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves."},{"word":"Diurnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects."},{"word":"Diurnal","type":"(a.)","description":"A daybook; a journal."},{"word":"Diurnal","type":"(a.)","description":"A small volume containing the daily service for the \"little hours,\" viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline."},{"word":"Diurnal","type":"(a.)","description":"A diurnal bird or insect."},{"word":"Diurnalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A journalist."},{"word":"Diurnally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Daily; every day."},{"word":"Diurnalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diurnal."},{"word":"Diurnation","type":"(n.)","description":"Continuance during the day."},{"word":"Diurnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats."},{"word":"Diuturnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of long continuance; lasting."},{"word":"Diuturnity","type":"(n.)","description":"Long duration; lastingness."},{"word":"Divagation","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering about or going astray; digression."},{"word":"Divalent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence."},{"word":"Divan","type":"(n.)","description":"A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz."},{"word":"Divan","type":"(n.)","description":"In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly."},{"word":"Divan","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief officer of state."},{"word":"Divan","type":"(n.)","description":"A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room."},{"word":"Divan","type":"(n.)","description":"A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable."},{"word":"Divan","type":"(n.)","description":"A coffee and smoking saloon."},{"word":"Divaricated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Divaricate"},{"word":"Divaricating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Divaricate"},{"word":"Divaricate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork."},{"word":"Divaricate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To diverge; to be divaricate."},{"word":"Divaricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart."},{"word":"Divaricate","type":"(a.)","description":"Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging."},{"word":"Divaricate","type":"(a.)","description":"Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc."},{"word":"Divaricately","type":"(adv.)","description":"With divarication."},{"word":"Divarication","type":"(n.)","description":"A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence."},{"word":"Divarication","type":"(n.)","description":"An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion."},{"word":"Divarication","type":"(n.)","description":"A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles."},{"word":"Divaricator","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda."},{"word":"Divast","type":"(a.)","description":"Devastated; laid waste."},{"word":"Dived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dive"},{"word":"Dove","type":"()","description":"of Dive"},{"word":"Diving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dive"},{"word":"Dive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid."},{"word":"Dive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore."},{"word":"Dive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck."},{"word":"Dive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To explore by diving; to plunge into."},{"word":"Dive","type":"(n.)","description":"A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively."},{"word":"Dive","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of low resort."},{"word":"Divedapper","type":"(n.)","description":"A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick."},{"word":"Divel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rend apart."},{"word":"Divellent","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawing asunder."},{"word":"Divellicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pull in pieces."},{"word":"Diver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dives."},{"word":"Diver","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business."},{"word":"Diver","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving."},{"word":"Diverb","type":"(n.)","description":"A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb."},{"word":"Diverberate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike or sound through."},{"word":"Diverberation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sounding through."},{"word":"Diverged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Diverge"},{"word":"Diverging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Diverge"},{"word":"Diverge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun."},{"word":"Diverge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken."},{"word":"Divergement","type":"(n.)","description":"Divergence."},{"word":"Divergence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Divergency"},{"word":"Divergency","type":"(n.)","description":"A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines."},{"word":"Divergency","type":"(n.)","description":"Disagreement; difference."},{"word":"Divergent","type":"(a.)","description":"Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent."},{"word":"Divergent","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens."},{"word":"Divergent","type":"(a.)","description":"Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement."},{"word":"Diverging","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent."},{"word":"Divergingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a diverging manner."},{"word":"Divers","type":"(a.)","description":"Different in kind or species; diverse."},{"word":"Divers","type":"(a.)","description":"Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally."},{"word":"Diverse","type":"(a.)","description":"Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate."},{"word":"Diverse","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of various forms; multiform."},{"word":"Diverse","type":"(adv.)","description":"In different directions; diversely."},{"word":"Diverse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn aside."},{"word":"Diversely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In different ways; differently; variously."},{"word":"Diversely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In different directions; to different points."},{"word":"Diverseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being diverse."},{"word":"Diversifiability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or capacity of being diversifiable."},{"word":"Diversifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being diversified or varied."},{"word":"Diversification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making various, or of changing form or quality."},{"word":"Diversification","type":"(n.)","description":"State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation."},{"word":"Diversified","type":"(a.)","description":"Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape."},{"word":"Diversifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, diversifies."},{"word":"Diversiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a different form; of varied forms."},{"word":"Diversified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Diversify"},{"word":"Diversifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Diversify"},{"word":"Diversify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects."},{"word":"Diversiloquent","type":"(a.)","description":"Speaking in different ways."},{"word":"Diversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business."},{"word":"Diversion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth."},{"word":"Diversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts."},{"word":"Diversities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diversity"},{"word":"Diversity","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness."},{"word":"Diversity","type":"(n.)","description":"Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety."},{"word":"Diversity","type":"(n.)","description":"Variegation."},{"word":"Diversivolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Desiring different things."},{"word":"Diversory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing."},{"word":"Diversory","type":"(n.)","description":"A wayside inn."},{"word":"Diverted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Divert"},{"word":"Diverting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Divert"},{"word":"Divert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course."},{"word":"Divert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor."},{"word":"Divert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn aside; to digress."},{"word":"Diverter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases."},{"word":"Divertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being diverted."},{"word":"Diverticle","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning; a byway; a bypath."},{"word":"Diverticle","type":"(n.)","description":"A diverticulum."},{"word":"Diverticular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a diverticulum."},{"word":"Diverticula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Diverticulum"},{"word":"Diverticulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A blind tube branching out of a longer one."},{"word":"-ti","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Divertimento"},{"word":"Divertimento","type":"(n.)","description":"A light and pleasing composition."},{"word":"Diverting","type":"(a.)","description":"Amusing; entertaining."},{"word":"Divertise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divert; to entertain."},{"word":"Divertisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Diversion; amusement; recreation."},{"word":"Divertissement","type":"(n.)","description":"A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play."},{"word":"Divertive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting."},{"word":"Dives","type":"(n.)","description":"The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the \"Rich Man and Lazarus\" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling."},{"word":"Divested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Divest"},{"word":"Divesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Divest"},{"word":"Divest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest."},{"word":"Divest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc."},{"word":"Divest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Devest."},{"word":"Divestible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being divested."},{"word":"Divestiture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc."},{"word":"Divestment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of divesting."},{"word":"Divesture","type":"(n.)","description":"Divestiture."},{"word":"Divet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Divot."},{"word":"Dividable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being divided; divisible."},{"word":"Dividable","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided; separated; parted."},{"word":"Dividant","type":"(a.)","description":"Different; distinct."},{"word":"Divided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Divide"},{"word":"Dividing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Divide"},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to arithmetical division."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cause separation; to disunite."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To break friendship; to fall out."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a share; to partake."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes."},{"word":"Divide","type":"(n.)","description":"A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed."},{"word":"Divided","type":"(a.)","description":"Parted; disunited; distributed."},{"word":"Divided","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf."},{"word":"Dividedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Separately; in a divided manner."},{"word":"Dividend","type":"(n.)","description":"A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate."},{"word":"Dividend","type":"(n.)","description":"A number or quantity which is to be divided."},{"word":"Divident","type":"(n.)","description":"Dividend; share."},{"word":"Divider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts."},{"word":"Divider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals out to each his share."},{"word":"Divider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, causes division."},{"word":"Divider","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses."},{"word":"Dividing","type":"(a.)","description":"That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating."},{"word":"Dividingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By division."},{"word":"Divi-divi","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tree of tropical America (Caesalpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers."},{"word":"Dividual","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others."},{"word":"Dividually","type":"(adv.)","description":"By dividing."},{"word":"Dividuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided; dividual."},{"word":"Divination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means."},{"word":"Divination","type":"(n.)","description":"An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction."},{"word":"Divinator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner."},{"word":"Divinatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Professing, or relating to, divination."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"Presageful; foreboding; prescient."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to divinity or theology."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"One skilled in divinity; a theologian."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(a.)","description":"A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman."},{"word":"Divined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Divine"},{"word":"Divining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Divine"},{"word":"Divine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foretell; to predict; to presage."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render divine; to deify."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have or feel a presage or foreboding."},{"word":"Divine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly."},{"word":"Divinely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree."},{"word":"Divinely","type":"(adv.)","description":"By the agency or influence of God."},{"word":"Divinement","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination."},{"word":"Divineness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence."},{"word":"Diviner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means."},{"word":"Diviner","type":"(n.)","description":"A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things."},{"word":"Divineress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who divines."},{"word":"Diving","type":"(a.)","description":"That dives or is used or diving."},{"word":"Divinify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render divine; to deify."},{"word":"Divining","type":"(a.)","description":"That divines; for divining."},{"word":"Diviningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a divining manner."},{"word":"Divinistre","type":"(n.)","description":"A diviner."},{"word":"Divinities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Divinity"},{"word":"Divinity","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead."},{"word":"Divinity","type":"(a.)","description":"The Deity; the Supreme Being; God."},{"word":"Divinity","type":"(a.)","description":"A pretended deity of pagans; a false god."},{"word":"Divinity","type":"(a.)","description":"A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man."},{"word":"Divinity","type":"(a.)","description":"Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe."},{"word":"Divinity","type":"(a.)","description":"The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology."},{"word":"Divinization","type":"(n.)","description":"A making divine."},{"word":"Divinize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with a divine character; to deify."},{"word":"Divisibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation."},{"word":"Divisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being divided or separated."},{"word":"Divisible","type":"(n.)","description":"A divisible substance."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"That which divides or keeps apart; a partition."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of a genus into its constituent species."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the groups into which a fleet is divided."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished."},{"word":"Division","type":"(n.)","description":"A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom."},{"word":"Divisional","type":"(a.)","description":"That divides; pertaining to, making, or noting, a division; as, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police."},{"word":"Divisionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to be divisional."},{"word":"Divisionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Divisional."},{"word":"Divisionor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who divides or makes division."},{"word":"Divisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating division or distribution."},{"word":"Divisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference."},{"word":"Divisor","type":"(n.)","description":"The number by which the dividend is divided."},{"word":"Divorce","type":"(n.)","description":"A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii."},{"word":"Divorce","type":"(n.)","description":"The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), \"from bed board.\""},{"word":"Divorce","type":"(n.)","description":"The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved."},{"word":"Divorce","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation; disunion of things closely united."},{"word":"Divorce","type":"(n.)","description":"That which separates."},{"word":"Divorced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Divorce"},{"word":"Divorcing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Divorce"},{"word":"Divorce","type":"(n.)","description":"To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce."},{"word":"Divorce","type":"(n.)","description":"To separate or disunite; to sunder."},{"word":"Divorce","type":"(n.)","description":"To make away; to put away."},{"word":"Divorceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being divorced."},{"word":"Divorcee","type":"(n.)","description":"A person divorced."},{"word":"Divorceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce."},{"word":"Divorcement","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation."},{"word":"Divorcer","type":"(n.)","description":"The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce."},{"word":"Divorcible","type":"(a.)","description":"Divorceable."},{"word":"Divorcive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to divorce; tending to divorce."},{"word":"Divot","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel."},{"word":"Divulgate","type":"(a.)","description":"Published."},{"word":"Divulgate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divulge."},{"word":"Divulgater","type":"(n.)","description":"A divulger."},{"word":"Divulgation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of divulging or publishing."},{"word":"Divulged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Divulge"},{"word":"Divulging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Divulge"},{"word":"Divulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret."},{"word":"Divulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indicate publicly; to proclaim."},{"word":"Divulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impart; to communicate."},{"word":"Divulge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become publicly known."},{"word":"Divulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting."},{"word":"Dixie","type":"(n.)","description":"A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War."},{"word":"Dizened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dizen"},{"word":"Dizening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dizen"},{"word":"Dizen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress; to attire."},{"word":"Dizen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out."},{"word":"Dizz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dizzy; to astonish; to puzzle."},{"word":"Dizzard","type":"(n.)","description":"A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.]"},{"word":"Dizzily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dizzy manner or state."},{"word":"Dizziness","type":"(n.)","description":"Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo."},{"word":"Dizzy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct."},{"word":"Dizzy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo."},{"word":"Dizzy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless."},{"word":"Dizzied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dizzy"},{"word":"Dizzying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dizzy"},{"word":"Dizzy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse."},{"word":"Djereed","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Djerrid"},{"word":"Djerrid","type":"(n.)","description":"A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries."},{"word":"Djerrid","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played with it."},{"word":"Jjinn","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Djinnee"},{"word":"Djinns","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Djinnee"},{"word":"Djinnee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jinnee, Jinn."},{"word":"Do.","type":"(n.)","description":"An abbreviation of Ditto."},{"word":"Do","type":"(n.)","description":"A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet."},{"word":"Din","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Do"},{"word":"Done","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Do"},{"word":"Doing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Do"},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To place; to put."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To cheat; to gull; to overreach."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. t. / auxiliary)","description":"To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self."},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day?"},{"word":"Do","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do."},{"word":"Do","type":"(n.)","description":"Deed; act; fear."},{"word":"Do","type":"(n.)","description":"Ado; bustle; stir; to do."},{"word":"Do","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheat; a swindle."},{"word":"Doab","type":"()","description":"A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna."},{"word":"Doable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being done."},{"word":"Do-all","type":"(n.)","description":"General manager; factotum."},{"word":"Doand","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Doing."},{"word":"Doat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Dote."},{"word":"Dobber","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dabchick."},{"word":"Dobber","type":"(n.)","description":"A float to a fishing line."},{"word":"Dobbin","type":"(n.)","description":"An old jaded horse."},{"word":"Dobbin","type":"(n.)","description":"Sea gravel mixed with sand."},{"word":"Dobchick","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dabchick."},{"word":"Dobson","type":"(n.)","description":"The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite."},{"word":"Dobule","type":"(n.)","description":"The European dace."},{"word":"Docent","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to instruct; teaching."},{"word":"Docetae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance."},{"word":"Docetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetae."},{"word":"Docetism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of the Docetae."},{"word":"Dochmiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius."},{"word":"Dochmius","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -)."},{"word":"Docibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Docibleness"},{"word":"Docibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility."},{"word":"Docible","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily taught or managed; teachable."},{"word":"Docile","type":"(a.)","description":"Teachable; easy to teach; docible."},{"word":"Docile","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child."},{"word":"Docility","type":"(n.)","description":"teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness."},{"word":"Docility","type":"(n.)","description":"Willingness to be taught; tractableness."},{"word":"Docimacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology."},{"word":"Docimastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Proving by experiments or tests."},{"word":"Docimology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc."},{"word":"Docity","type":"(n.)","description":"Teachableness."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(n.)","description":"The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(n.)","description":"A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse."},{"word":"Docked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dock"},{"word":"Docking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dock"},{"word":"Dock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(n.)","description":"The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(n.)","description":"The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands."},{"word":"Dock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc."},{"word":"Dockage","type":"(n.)","description":"A charge for the use of a dock."},{"word":"Dock-cress","type":"(n.)","description":"Nipplewort."},{"word":"Docket","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest."},{"word":"Docket","type":"(n.)","description":"A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label."},{"word":"Docket","type":"(n.)","description":"An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court."},{"word":"Docket","type":"(n.)","description":"A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks."},{"word":"Docket","type":"(n.)","description":"A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly."},{"word":"Docketed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Docket"},{"word":"Docketing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Docket"},{"word":"Docket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers."},{"word":"Docket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed."},{"word":"Docket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial."},{"word":"Docket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods."},{"word":"Dockyard","type":"(n.)","description":"A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding."},{"word":"Docoglossa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon."},{"word":"Docquet","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Docket."},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(n.)","description":"A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man."},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(n.)","description":"An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only."},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(n.)","description":"One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician."},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(n.)","description":"Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine."},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(n.)","description":"The friar skate."},{"word":"Doctored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Doctor"},{"word":"Doctoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Doctor"},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart."},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor."},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky."},{"word":"Doctor","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice physic."},{"word":"Doctoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor."},{"word":"Doctorally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a doctor."},{"word":"Doctorate","type":"(n.)","description":"The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor."},{"word":"Doctorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make (one) a doctor."},{"word":"Doctoress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female doctor."},{"word":"Doctorly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a doctor or learned man."},{"word":"Doctorship","type":"(n.)","description":"Doctorate."},{"word":"Doctress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female doctor."},{"word":"Doctrinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine."},{"word":"Doctrinaire","type":"(n.)","description":"One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions."},{"word":"Doctrinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation."},{"word":"Doctrinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching."},{"word":"Doctrinal","type":"(n.)","description":"A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines."},{"word":"Doctrinally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction."},{"word":"Doctrinarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A doctrinaire."},{"word":"Doctrinarianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires."},{"word":"Doctrine","type":"(n.)","description":"Teaching; instruction."},{"word":"Doctrine","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances."},{"word":"Document","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma."},{"word":"Document","type":"(n.)","description":"An example for instruction or warning."},{"word":"Document","type":"(n.)","description":"An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol."},{"word":"Document","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To teach; to school."},{"word":"Document","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law."},{"word":"Documental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to instruction."},{"word":"Documental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony."},{"word":"Documentary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing."},{"word":"Dodd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Dod"},{"word":"Dod","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off."},{"word":"Doddart","type":"(n.)","description":"A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game."},{"word":"Dodded","type":"(a.)","description":"Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn."},{"word":"Dodder","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it."},{"word":"Dodder","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To shake, tremble, or totter."},{"word":"Doddered","type":"(a.)","description":"Shattered; infirm."},{"word":"Dodecagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles."},{"word":"Dodecagynia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean order of plants having twelve styles."},{"word":"Dodecagynian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dodecagynous"},{"word":"Dodecagynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles."},{"word":"Dodecahedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides."},{"word":"Dodecahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid having twelve faces."},{"word":"Dodecandria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen."},{"word":"Dodecandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dodecandrous"},{"word":"Dodecandrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen."},{"word":"Dodecane","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series."},{"word":"Dodecastyle","type":"(a.)","description":"Having twelve columns in front."},{"word":"Dodecastyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A dodecastyle portico, or building."},{"word":"Dodecasyllabic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having twelve syllables."},{"word":"Dodecasyllable","type":"(n.)","description":"A word consisting of twelve syllables."},{"word":"Dodecatemory","type":"(n.)","description":"A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac."},{"word":"Dodged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dodge"},{"word":"Dodging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dodge"},{"word":"Dodge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start."},{"word":"Dodge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble."},{"word":"Dodge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown."},{"word":"Dodge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility."},{"word":"Dodge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place."},{"word":"Dodge","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice."},{"word":"Dodger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices."},{"word":"Dodger","type":"(n.)","description":"A small handbill."},{"word":"Dodger","type":"(n.)","description":"See Corndodger."},{"word":"Dodgery","type":"(n.)","description":"trickery; artifice."},{"word":"Dodipate","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dodipoll"},{"word":"Dodipoll","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead."},{"word":"Dodkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A doit; a small coin."},{"word":"Dodman","type":"(n.)","description":"A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod."},{"word":"Dodman","type":"(n.)","description":"Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster."},{"word":"Dodoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dodo"},{"word":"Dodo","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons."},{"word":"Doe","type":"(n.)","description":"A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck."},{"word":"Doe","type":"(n.)","description":"A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n."},{"word":"Doeglic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid."},{"word":"Doegling","type":"(n.)","description":"The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained."},{"word":"Doer","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent."},{"word":"Doer","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"An agent or attorney; a factor."},{"word":"Does","type":"()","description":"The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do."},{"word":"Doeskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of the doe."},{"word":"Doeskin","type":"(n.)","description":"A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear."},{"word":"Doffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Doff"},{"word":"Doffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Doff"},{"word":"Doff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of."},{"word":"Doff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip; to divest; to undress."},{"word":"Doff","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put off dress; to take off the hat."},{"word":"Doffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards."},{"word":"Dog","type":"(n.)","description":"A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris)."},{"word":"Dog","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch."},{"word":"Dog","type":"(n.)","description":"A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog."},{"word":"Dog","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius)."},{"word":"Dog","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron."},{"word":"Dog","type":"(n.)","description":"A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them."},{"word":"Dog","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill."},{"word":"Dog","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool."},{"word":"Dogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dog"},{"word":"Dogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dog"},{"word":"Dog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity."},{"word":"Dogal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a doge."},{"word":"Dogate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or dignity of a doge."},{"word":"Dogbane","type":"(n.)","description":"A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs."},{"word":"Dog","type":"()","description":"A male or drone bee."},{"word":"Dogberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry."},{"word":"Dogbolt","type":"(n.)","description":"The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon."},{"word":"Dog-brier","type":"(n.)","description":"The dog-rose."},{"word":"Dogcart","type":"(n.)","description":"A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs."},{"word":"Dog","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Dogday"},{"word":"Dogday","type":"()","description":"One of the dog days."},{"word":"Dog","type":"()","description":"A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer."},{"word":"Dogdraw","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog."},{"word":"Doge","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa."},{"word":"Dog-eared","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book."},{"word":"Dogeate","type":"(n.)","description":"Dogate."},{"word":"Dogeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a doge."},{"word":"Dog-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a face resembling that of a dog."},{"word":"Dog","type":"()","description":"One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs."},{"word":"Dogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc."},{"word":"Dogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin."},{"word":"Dogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The burbot of Lake Erie."},{"word":"Dog-fox","type":"(n.)","description":"A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6."},{"word":"Dog-fox","type":"(n.)","description":"The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex."},{"word":"Dogged","type":"(a.)","description":"Sullen; morose."},{"word":"Dogged","type":"(a.)","description":"Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work."},{"word":"Doggedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution."},{"word":"Doggedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Sullenness; moroseness."},{"word":"Doggedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence."},{"word":"Dogger","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch."},{"word":"Dogger","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron."},{"word":"Doggerel","type":"(a.)","description":"Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes."},{"word":"Doggerel","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry."},{"word":"Doggerman","type":"(n.)","description":"A sailor belonging to a dogger."},{"word":"Dogget","type":"(n.)","description":"Docket. See Docket."},{"word":"Doggish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal."},{"word":"Doggrel","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Doggerel."},{"word":"Dog-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons."},{"word":"Dog-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Inhuman; cruel."},{"word":"Doghole","type":"(n.)","description":"A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment."},{"word":"dog-legged","type":"(a.)","description":"Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole."},{"word":"Dogmas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dogma"},{"word":"Dogmata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dogma"},{"word":"Dogma","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine."},{"word":"Dogma","type":"(n.)","description":"A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet."},{"word":"Dogma","type":"(n.)","description":"A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum."},{"word":"Dogmatic","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric."},{"word":"Dogmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dogmatical"},{"word":"Dogmatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet."},{"word":"Dogmatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing."},{"word":"Dogmatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially."},{"word":"Dogmaticalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness."},{"word":"Dogmatician","type":"(n.)","description":"A dogmatist."},{"word":"Dogmatics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of Christian doctrinal theology."},{"word":"Dogmatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion."},{"word":"Dogmatist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles."},{"word":"Dogmatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dogmatize"},{"word":"Dogmatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dogmatize"},{"word":"Dogmatize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance."},{"word":"Dogmatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deliver as a dogma."},{"word":"Dogmatizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher."},{"word":"Dog-rose","type":"(n.)","description":"A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers."},{"word":"Dog's-bane","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dogbane."},{"word":"Dog's-ear","type":"(n.)","description":"The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog."},{"word":"Dogship","type":"(n.)","description":"The character, or individuality, of a dog."},{"word":"Dogshore","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching."},{"word":"Dogsick","type":"(a.)","description":"Sick as a dog sometimes is very sick."},{"word":"Dogskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively."},{"word":"Dogsleep","type":"(n.)","description":"Pretended sleep."},{"word":"Dogsleep","type":"(n.)","description":"The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress."},{"word":"Dog's-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed."},{"word":"Dog","type":"()","description":"Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, / Canis Majoris. See Dog days."},{"word":"Dog's-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"Hound's-tongue."},{"word":"Dogtie","type":"(n.)","description":"A cramp."},{"word":"Dogteeth","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dogtooth"},{"word":"Dogtooth","type":"(n.)","description":"See Canine tooth, under Canine."},{"word":"Dogtooth","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament."},{"word":"Dogtrick","type":"(n.)","description":"A gentle trot, like that of a dog."},{"word":"Dogvane","type":"(n.)","description":"A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind."},{"word":"Dogwatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m."},{"word":"Dog-weary","type":"(a.)","description":"Extremely weary."},{"word":"Dogwood","type":"(n.)","description":"The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes."},{"word":"Dohtren","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Daughters."},{"word":"Doily","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of woolen stuff."},{"word":"Doily","type":"(n.)","description":"A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed."},{"word":"Doings","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Doing"},{"word":"Doing","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything done; a deed; an action good or bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do."},{"word":"Doit","type":"(n.)","description":"A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money."},{"word":"Doit","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit."},{"word":"Doitkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A very small coin; a doit."},{"word":"Dokimastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Docimastic."},{"word":"Doko","type":"(n.)","description":"See Lepidosiren."},{"word":"Dolabra","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums."},{"word":"Dolabriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish."},{"word":"Dolce","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Dolcemente"},{"word":"Dolcemente","type":"(adv.)","description":"Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution."},{"word":"Dolcino","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dulcino"},{"word":"Dulcino","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bassoon, formerly much used."},{"word":"Doldrums","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors."},{"word":"Dole","type":"(n.)","description":"grief; sorrow; lamentation."},{"word":"Dole","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dolus."},{"word":"Dole","type":"(n.)","description":"Distribution; dealing; apportionment."},{"word":"Dole","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance."},{"word":"Dole","type":"(n.)","description":"Alms; charitable gratuity or portion."},{"word":"Dole","type":"(n.)","description":"A boundary; a landmark."},{"word":"Dole","type":"(n.)","description":"A void space left in tillage."},{"word":"Doled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dole"},{"word":"Doling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dole"},{"word":"Dole","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly."},{"word":"Doleful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal."},{"word":"Dolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Sorrowful."},{"word":"Dolente","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Plaintively. See Doloroso."},{"word":"Dolerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt."},{"word":"Doleritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava."},{"word":"Dolesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful."},{"word":"Dolf","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Delve."},{"word":"Dolichocephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dolichocephalous"},{"word":"Dolichocephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic."},{"word":"Dolichocephaly","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dolichocephalism"},{"word":"Dolichocephalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic."},{"word":"Dolioform","type":"(a.)","description":"Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form."},{"word":"Doliolum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations."},{"word":"Do-little","type":"(n.)","description":"One who performs little though professing much."},{"word":"Dolium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells."},{"word":"Doll","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl."},{"word":"Dollar","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains."},{"word":"Dollar","type":"(n.)","description":"A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined."},{"word":"Dollar","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries."},{"word":"Dollar","type":"(n.)","description":"The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values."},{"word":"Dollardee","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream."},{"word":"Dollman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dolman."},{"word":"Dollies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dolly"},{"word":"Dolly","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer."},{"word":"Dolly","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet."},{"word":"Dolly","type":"(n.)","description":"In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver."},{"word":"Dolly","type":"(n.)","description":"A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building."},{"word":"Dolly","type":"(n.)","description":"A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc."},{"word":"Dolly","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's mane for a doll."},{"word":"Dolly","type":"()","description":"A character in Dickens's novel \"Barnaby Rudge,\" a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons."},{"word":"Dolly","type":"()","description":"A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress."},{"word":"Dolman","type":"(n.)","description":"A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks."},{"word":"Dolman","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloak of a peculiar fashion worn by women."},{"word":"Dolmen","type":"(n.)","description":"A cromlech. See Cromlech."},{"word":"Dolomite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar."},{"word":"Dolomitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to dolomite."},{"word":"Dolomize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into dolomite."},{"word":"Dolor","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain; grief; distress; anguish."},{"word":"Doloriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing pain."},{"word":"Dolorific","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dolorifical"},{"word":"Dolorifical","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing pain or grief."},{"word":"Doloroso","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction."},{"word":"Dolorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses."},{"word":"Dolorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Occasioning pain or grief; painful."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"A mooring post on a wharf or beach."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted."},{"word":"Dolphin","type":"(n.)","description":"A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2."},{"word":"Dolphinet","type":"(n.)","description":"A female dolphin."},{"word":"Dolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard."},{"word":"Dolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To behave foolishly."},{"word":"Doltish","type":"(a.)","description":"Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown."},{"word":"Dolus","type":"(n.)","description":"Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa."},{"word":"Dolven","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Delve."},{"word":"-dom","type":"()","description":"A suffix denoting"},{"word":"-dom","type":"()","description":"Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in kingdom earldom."},{"word":"-dom","type":"()","description":"State, condition, or quality of being, as in wisdom, freedom."},{"word":"Dom","type":"(n.)","description":"A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan."},{"word":"Dom","type":"(n.)","description":"In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes."},{"word":"Domable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being tamed; tamable."},{"word":"Domableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Tamableness."},{"word":"Domage","type":"(n.)","description":"Damage; hurt."},{"word":"Domage","type":"(n.)","description":"Subjugation."},{"word":"Domain","type":"(n.)","description":"Dominion; empire; authority."},{"word":"Domain","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively."},{"word":"Domain","type":"(n.)","description":"Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne."},{"word":"Domain","type":"(n.)","description":"Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership."},{"word":"Domal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a house."},{"word":"Domanial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a domain or to domains."},{"word":"Dome","type":"(n.)","description":"A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry."},{"word":"Dome","type":"(n.)","description":"A cupola formed on a large scale."},{"word":"Dome","type":"(n.)","description":"Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc."},{"word":"Dome","type":"(n.)","description":"A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form."},{"word":"Dome","type":"(n.)","description":"Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision."},{"word":"Domebook","type":"(n.)","description":"A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments."},{"word":"Domed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome."},{"word":"Domesday","type":"(n.)","description":"A day of judgment. See Doomsday."},{"word":"Domesmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Domesman"},{"word":"Domesman","type":"(n.)","description":"A judge; an umpire."},{"word":"Domestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants."},{"word":"Domestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions."},{"word":"Domestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman."},{"word":"Domestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals."},{"word":"Domestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc."},{"word":"Domestic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant."},{"word":"Domestic","type":"(n.)","description":"Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods."},{"word":"Domestical","type":"(a.)","description":"Domestic."},{"word":"Domestical","type":"(n.)","description":"A family; a household."},{"word":"Domestically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs."},{"word":"Domesticant","type":"(a.)","description":"Forming part of the same family."},{"word":"Domesticated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Domesticate"},{"word":"Domesticating.","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Domesticate"},{"word":"Domesticate","type":"(a.)","description":"To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self."},{"word":"Domesticate","type":"(a.)","description":"To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word."},{"word":"Domesticate","type":"(a.)","description":"To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant."},{"word":"Domestication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals."},{"word":"Domesticator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who domesticates."},{"word":"Domesticity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life."},{"word":"Domett","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen."},{"word":"Domeykite","type":"(n.)","description":"A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper."},{"word":"Domical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or shaped like, a dome."},{"word":"Domicile","type":"(n.)","description":"An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family."},{"word":"Domicile","type":"(n.)","description":"A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode."},{"word":"Domiciled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Domicile"},{"word":"Domiciling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Domicile"},{"word":"Domicile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate."},{"word":"Domiciliar","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a household; a domestic."},{"word":"Domicillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family."},{"word":"Domiciliated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Domiciliate"},{"word":"Domiciliating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Domiciliate"},{"word":"Domiciliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile."},{"word":"Domiciliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To domesticate."},{"word":"Domiciliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy."},{"word":"Domiculture","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc."},{"word":"Domify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense."},{"word":"Domify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tame; to domesticate."},{"word":"Domina","type":"(n.)","description":"Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right."},{"word":"Dominance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dominancy"},{"word":"Dominancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Predominance; ascendency; authority."},{"word":"Dominant","type":"(a.)","description":"Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power."},{"word":"Dominant","type":"(n.)","description":"The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on."},{"word":"Dominated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dominate"},{"word":"Dominating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dominate"},{"word":"Dominate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To predominate over; to rule; to govern."},{"word":"Dominate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be dominant."},{"word":"Domination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway."},{"word":"Domination","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruling party; a party in power."},{"word":"Domination","type":"(n.)","description":"A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen."},{"word":"Dominative","type":"(a.)","description":"Governing; ruling; imperious."},{"word":"Dominator","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruler or ruling power."},{"word":"Domine","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman."},{"word":"Domine","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridae. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish."},{"word":"Domineered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Domineer"},{"word":"Domineering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Domineer"},{"word":"Domineer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents."},{"word":"Domineering","type":"(a.)","description":"Ruling arrogantly; overbearing."},{"word":"Dominical","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday."},{"word":"Dominical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer."},{"word":"Dominical","type":"(n.)","description":"The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer."},{"word":"Dominican","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him."},{"word":"Dominican","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins."},{"word":"Dominicide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of killing a master."},{"word":"Dominicide","type":"(n.)","description":"One who kills his master."},{"word":"Dominie","type":"(n.)","description":"A schoolmaster; a pedagogue."},{"word":"Dominie","type":"(n.)","description":"A clergyman. See Domine, 1."},{"word":"Dominion","type":"(n.)","description":"Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy."},{"word":"Dominion","type":"(n.)","description":"Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency."},{"word":"Dominion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions."},{"word":"Dominion","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3."},{"word":"Dominos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Domino"},{"word":"Dominoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Domino"},{"word":"Domino","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice."},{"word":"Domino","type":"(n.)","description":"A mourning veil formerly worn by women."},{"word":"Domino","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling."},{"word":"Domino","type":"(n.)","description":"A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure."},{"word":"Domino","type":"(n.)","description":"A person wearing a domino."},{"word":"Domino","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played"},{"word":"Domino","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played."},{"word":"Domini","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dominus"},{"word":"Dominus","type":"(n.)","description":"Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor."},{"word":"Domitable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can be tamed."},{"word":"Domite","type":"(n.)","description":"A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dome in Auvergne, France, where it is found."},{"word":"Don","type":"(n.)","description":"Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes."},{"word":"Don","type":"(n.)","description":"A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities."},{"word":"Donned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Don"},{"word":"Donning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Don"},{"word":"Don","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with."},{"word":"Do�a","type":"(n.)","description":"Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady."},{"word":"Donable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being donated or given."},{"word":"Donary","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing given to a sacred use."},{"word":"Donat","type":"(n.)","description":"A grammar."},{"word":"Donatary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Donatory."},{"word":"Donated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Donate"},{"word":"Donating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Donate"},{"word":"Donate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college."},{"word":"Donation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving or bestowing; a grant."},{"word":"Donation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift."},{"word":"Donation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift."},{"word":"Donatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenets of the Donatists."},{"word":"Donatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church."},{"word":"Donatistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Donatism."},{"word":"Donative","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present."},{"word":"Donative","type":"(n.)","description":"A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3."},{"word":"Donative","type":"(a.)","description":"Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson."},{"word":"Donator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver."},{"word":"Donatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over."},{"word":"Do-naught","type":"(n.)","description":"A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow."},{"word":"Donax","type":"(n.)","description":"A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc."},{"word":"Doncella","type":"(n.)","description":"A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region."},{"word":"Done","type":"()","description":"p. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive."},{"word":"Done","type":"(infinitive.)","description":"Performed; executed; finished."},{"word":"Done","type":"(infinitive.)","description":"It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically."},{"word":"Done","type":"(a.)","description":"Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act."},{"word":"Donee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom a gift or donation is made."},{"word":"Donee","type":"(n.)","description":"Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor."},{"word":"Donet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Donat. Piers Plowman."},{"word":"Doni","type":"(n.)","description":"A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon."},{"word":"Doniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing gifts."},{"word":"Donjon","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle."},{"word":"Donkeys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Donkey"},{"word":"Donkey","type":"(n.)","description":"An ass; or (less frequently) a mule."},{"word":"Donkey","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass."},{"word":"Donna","type":"(n.)","description":"A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy."},{"word":"Donnat","type":"(n.)","description":"See Do-naught."},{"word":"Donnism","type":"(n)","description":"Self-importance; loftiness of carriage."},{"word":"Donor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor."},{"word":"Donor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee."},{"word":"Do-nothing","type":"(a.)","description":"Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy."},{"word":"Do-nothingism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Do-nothingness"},{"word":"Do-nothingness","type":"(n.)","description":"Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness."},{"word":"Donship","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight."},{"word":"Donzel","type":"(n.)","description":"A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page."},{"word":"Doo","type":"(n.)","description":"A dove."},{"word":"Doob","type":"()","description":"A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States."},{"word":"Doodle","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifler; a simple fellow."},{"word":"Doodlesack","type":"(n.)","description":"The Scotch bagpipe."},{"word":"Doole","type":"(n.)","description":"Sorrow; dole."},{"word":"Doolies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dooly"},{"word":"Dooly","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin."},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation."},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty."},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Ruin; death."},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision."},{"word":"Doomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Doom"},{"word":"Dooming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Doom"},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge."},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death."},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine."},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion."},{"word":"Doom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate."},{"word":"Doomage","type":"(n.)","description":"A penalty or fine for neglect."},{"word":"Doomful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of condemnation or destructive power."},{"word":"Doom","type":"()","description":"A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia."},{"word":"Doomsday","type":"(n.)","description":"A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death."},{"word":"Doomsday","type":"(n.)","description":"The day of the final judgment."},{"word":"Doomsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A judge; an umpire."},{"word":"Doomster","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dempster."},{"word":"Door","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way."},{"word":"Door","type":"(n.)","description":"The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened."},{"word":"Door","type":"(n.)","description":"Passage; means of approach or access."},{"word":"Door","type":"(n.)","description":"An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads."},{"word":"Doorcase","type":"(n.)","description":"The surrounding frame into which a door shuts."},{"word":"Doorcheek","type":"(n.)","description":"The jamb or sidepiece of a door."},{"word":"Doorga","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms."},{"word":"Dooring","type":"(n.)","description":"The frame of a door."},{"word":"Doorkeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor."},{"word":"Doorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a door."},{"word":"Doornail","type":"(n.)","description":"The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, \"As dead as a doornail.\""},{"word":"Doorplane","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant."},{"word":"Doorpost","type":"(n.)","description":"The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway."},{"word":"Doorsill","type":"(n.)","description":"The sill or threshold of a door."},{"word":"Doorstead","type":"(n.)","description":"Entrance or place of a door."},{"word":"Doorstep","type":"(n.)","description":"The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door."},{"word":"Doorstone","type":"(n.)","description":"The stone forming a threshold."},{"word":"Doorstop","type":"(n.)","description":"The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door."},{"word":"Doorway","type":"(n.)","description":"The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room."},{"word":"Dooryard","type":"(n.)","description":"A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house."},{"word":"Dop","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Doop"},{"word":"Doop","type":"(n.)","description":"A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut."},{"word":"Dop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dip."},{"word":"Dop","type":"(n.)","description":"A dip; a low courtesy."},{"word":"Dopper","type":"(n.)","description":"An Anabaptist or Baptist."},{"word":"Dopplerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses."},{"word":"Doquet","type":"(n.)","description":"A warrant. See Docket."},{"word":"Dor","type":"(n.)","description":"A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock."},{"word":"Dor","type":"(n.)","description":"A trick, joke, or deception."},{"word":"Dor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a fool of; to deceive."},{"word":"Dorado","type":"(n.)","description":"A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish."},{"word":"Dorado","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena."},{"word":"Dorbeetle","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Dor."},{"word":"Doree","type":"(n.)","description":"A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree."},{"word":"Doretree","type":"(n.)","description":"A doorpost."},{"word":"Dorhawk","type":"(n.)","description":"The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker."},{"word":"Dorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion."},{"word":"Dorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Doric, 3."},{"word":"Dorian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece."},{"word":"Doric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect."},{"word":"Doric","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order."},{"word":"Doric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war."},{"word":"Doric","type":"(n.)","description":"The Doric dialect."},{"word":"Doricism","type":"(n.)","description":"A Doric phrase or idiom."},{"word":"Doris","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back."},{"word":"Dorism","type":"(n.)","description":"A Doric phrase or idiom."},{"word":"Dorking","type":"()","description":"One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table."},{"word":"Dormancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance."},{"word":"Dormant","type":"(a.)","description":"Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles."},{"word":"Dormant","type":"(a.)","description":"In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant."},{"word":"Dormant","type":"(a.)","description":"A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or \" sleep.\""},{"word":"Dormer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dormer window"},{"word":"Dormer","type":"(n.)","description":"A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained."},{"word":"Dormitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium."},{"word":"Dormitive","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate."},{"word":"Dormitories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dormitory"},{"word":"Dormitory","type":"(n.)","description":"A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school."},{"word":"Dormitory","type":"(n.)","description":"A burial place."},{"word":"Dormice","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dormouse"},{"word":"Dormouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter."},{"word":"Dorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A British ray; the thornback."},{"word":"Dornick","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dornock"},{"word":"Dornock","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland."},{"word":"Dorp","type":"(n.)","description":"A hamlet."},{"word":"Dorr","type":"(n.)","description":"The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor."},{"word":"Dorr","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t."},{"word":"Dorr","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deafen with noise."},{"word":"Dorrfly","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Dor."},{"word":"Dorrhawk","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dorhawk."},{"word":"Dorsad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally."},{"word":"Dorsal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral."},{"word":"Dorsal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf."},{"word":"Dorsal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss."},{"word":"Dorsal","type":"(a.)","description":"A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position."},{"word":"Dorsale","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dorsal, n."},{"word":"Dorsally","type":"(adv.)","description":"On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad."},{"word":"Dorse","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as dorsal, n."},{"word":"Dorse","type":"(n.)","description":"The back of a book."},{"word":"Dorse","type":"(n.)","description":"The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish."},{"word":"Dorsel","type":"(n.)","description":"A pannier."},{"word":"Dorsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dorsal, n."},{"word":"Dorser","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dosser."},{"word":"dorsibranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.]"},{"word":"Dorsibranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata."},{"word":"Dorsibranchiate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Dorsibranchiata."},{"word":"Dorsiferous","type":"()","description":"Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous."},{"word":"Dorsimeson","type":"(n.)","description":"(Anat.) See Meson."},{"word":"Dorsiparous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Dorsiferous."},{"word":"Dorsiventral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral."},{"word":"Dorsiventral","type":"(a.)","description":"See Dorsoventral."},{"word":"Dorsoventral","type":"(a.)","description":"From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis."},{"word":"Dorsum","type":"(n.)","description":"The ridge of a hill."},{"word":"Dorsum","type":"(n.)","description":"The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue."},{"word":"Dortour","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dorture"},{"word":"Dorture","type":"(n.)","description":"A dormitory."},{"word":"Dories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dory"},{"word":"Dory","type":"(n.)","description":"A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree."},{"word":"Dory","type":"(n.)","description":"The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch."},{"word":"Dories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dory"},{"word":"Dory","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides."},{"word":"Doryphora","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle."},{"word":"Doryphoros","type":"(n.)","description":"A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us."},{"word":"Dose","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time."},{"word":"Dose","type":"(n.)","description":"A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive."},{"word":"Dose","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one."},{"word":"Dosed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dose"},{"word":"dosing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dose"},{"word":"Dose","type":"(n.)","description":"To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses."},{"word":"Dose","type":"(n.)","description":"To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need."},{"word":"Dose","type":"(n.)","description":"To give anything nauseous to."},{"word":"Dosel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dorsal, n."},{"word":"Dosology","type":"(n.)","description":"Posology."},{"word":"Dossel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dorsal, n."},{"word":"Dosser","type":"(n.)","description":"A pannier, or basket."},{"word":"Dosser","type":"(n.)","description":"A hanging tapestry; a dorsal."},{"word":"Dossil","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent."},{"word":"Dossil","type":"(n.)","description":"A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines."},{"word":"Dost","type":"(2d pers. sing. pres.)","description":"of Do."},{"word":"Dot","type":"(n.)","description":"A marriage portion; dowry."},{"word":"Dot","type":"(n.)","description":"A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark."},{"word":"Dot","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child."},{"word":"Dotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dot"},{"word":"Dotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dot"},{"word":"Dot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line."},{"word":"Dot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages."},{"word":"Dot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make dots or specks."},{"word":"Dotage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage."},{"word":"Dotage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Foolish utterance; drivel."},{"word":"Dotage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection."},{"word":"Dotal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it."},{"word":"Dotant","type":"(n.)","description":"A dotard."},{"word":"Dotard","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood."},{"word":"Dotardly","type":"(a.)","description":"Foolish; weak."},{"word":"Dotary","type":"(n.)","description":"A dotard's weakness; dotage."},{"word":"Dotation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman."},{"word":"Dotation","type":"(n.)","description":"Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation."},{"word":"Dote","type":"(n.)","description":"A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n."},{"word":"Dote","type":"(n.)","description":"Natural endowments."},{"word":"Doted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dote"},{"word":"Doting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dote"},{"word":"Dote","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act foolishly."},{"word":"Dote","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel."},{"word":"Dote","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child."},{"word":"Dote","type":"(n.)","description":"An imbecile; a dotard."},{"word":"Doted","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; foolish."},{"word":"Doted","type":"(a.)","description":"Half-rotten; as, doted wood."},{"word":"Dotehead","type":"(n.)","description":"A dotard."},{"word":"Doter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard."},{"word":"Doter","type":"(n.)","description":"One excessively fond, or weak in love."},{"word":"Dotery","type":"(n.)","description":"The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel."},{"word":"Doth","type":"(3d pers. sing. pres.)","description":"of Do."},{"word":"Doting","type":"(a.)","description":"That dotes; silly; excessively fond."},{"word":"Dotish","type":"(a.)","description":"Foolish; weak; imbecile."},{"word":"Dottard","type":"(n.)","description":"An old, decayed tree."},{"word":"Dotted","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects."},{"word":"Dotterel","type":"(a.)","description":"Decayed."},{"word":"Dotterel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler."},{"word":"Dotterel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull."},{"word":"Dotting","type":"()","description":"See under Pun."},{"word":"Dottrel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dotterel."},{"word":"Doty","type":"(a.)","description":"Half-rotten; as, doty timber."},{"word":"Douane","type":"(n.)","description":"A customhouse."},{"word":"Douanier","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer of the French customs."},{"word":"Douar","type":"(n.)","description":"A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets."},{"word":"Douay","type":"()","description":"A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published."},{"word":"Doub","type":"()","description":"Doob grass."},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc."},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled."},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere."},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double."},{"word":"Double","type":"(adv.)","description":"Twice; doubly."},{"word":"Doubled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Double"},{"word":"Doubling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Double"},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length."},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth."},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as."},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion."},{"word":"Double","type":"(a.)","description":"To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two."},{"word":"Double","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much."},{"word":"Double","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction."},{"word":"Double","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false."},{"word":"Double","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"Double beer; strong beer."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles."},{"word":"Double","type":"(n.)","description":"An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites."},{"word":"Double-acting","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump."},{"word":"Double-bank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart."},{"word":"Double-banked","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart."},{"word":"Double-barreled","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of -barrelled"},{"word":"-barrelled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun."},{"word":"Double-beat","type":"()","description":"See under Valve."},{"word":"Double-breasted","type":"(a.)","description":"Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat."},{"word":"Double-charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder."},{"word":"Double-charge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overcharge."},{"word":"Double","type":"()","description":"One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person."},{"word":"Double","type":"()","description":"False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing."},{"word":"Double-decker","type":"(n.)","description":"A man-of-war having two gun decks."},{"word":"Double-decker","type":"(n.)","description":"A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof."},{"word":"Double-dye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dye again or twice over."},{"word":"Double-dyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain."},{"word":"Double-ender","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end."},{"word":"Double-ender","type":"(n.)","description":"A locomotive with pilot at each end."},{"word":"Double-entendre","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate."},{"word":"Double-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a deceitful look."},{"word":"Double-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer."},{"word":"Double-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous."},{"word":"Double","type":"()","description":"A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics."},{"word":"Double","type":"()","description":"One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics."},{"word":"Double-handed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two hands."},{"word":"Double-handed","type":"(a.)","description":"Deceitful; deceptive."},{"word":"Double-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two heads; bicipital."},{"word":"Doublehearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous."},{"word":"Double-hung","type":"(a.)","description":"Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window."},{"word":"Double-lock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security."},{"word":"Double-milled","type":"(a.)","description":"Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere."},{"word":"Doubleminded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined."},{"word":"Doubleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being double or doubled."},{"word":"Doubleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Duplicity; insincerity."},{"word":"Double-quick","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march."},{"word":"Double-quick","type":"(n.)","description":"Double-quick time, step, or march."},{"word":"Double-quick","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time."},{"word":"Doubler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, doubles."},{"word":"Doubler","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope."},{"word":"Double-ripper","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other."},{"word":"Double-shade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To double the natural darkness of (a place)."},{"word":"Doublet","type":"(a.)","description":"Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple."},{"word":"Doublet","type":"(a.)","description":"A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time."},{"word":"Doublet","type":"(a.)","description":"A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century."},{"word":"Doublet","type":"(a.)","description":"A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone."},{"word":"Doublet","type":"(a.)","description":"An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct."},{"word":"Doublet","type":"(a.)","description":"Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets."},{"word":"Doublet","type":"(a.)","description":"A game somewhat like backgammon."},{"word":"Doublet","type":"(a.)","description":"One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc."},{"word":"Doublethreaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads."},{"word":"Doublethreaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads."},{"word":"Double-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"Deceit; duplicity."},{"word":"Double-tongued","type":"(a.)","description":"Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful."},{"word":"Double-tonguing","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing."},{"word":"Doubletree","type":"(n.)","description":"The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached."},{"word":"Doublets","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Doublet, 6 and 7."},{"word":"Doubling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled."},{"word":"Doubling","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice."},{"word":"Doubling","type":"(n.)","description":"The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon."},{"word":"Doubling","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor."},{"word":"Doubloon","type":"(a.)","description":"A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup."},{"word":"Doubly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation."},{"word":"Doubly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Deceitfully."},{"word":"Dou/ted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Doubt"},{"word":"Doubting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Doubt"},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined."},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive."},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it."},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of."},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with fear; to affright."},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation."},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Uncertainty of condition."},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread."},{"word":"Doubt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection."},{"word":"Doubtable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being doubted; questionable."},{"word":"Doubtable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of being feared; redoubtable."},{"word":"Doubtance","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt."},{"word":"Doubter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples."},{"word":"Doubtful","type":"(a.)","description":"Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure."},{"word":"Doubtful","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like."},{"word":"Doubtful","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase."},{"word":"Doubtful","type":"(a.)","description":"Of uncertain issue or event."},{"word":"Doubtful","type":"(a.)","description":"Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious."},{"word":"Doubtfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a doubtful manner."},{"word":"Doubtfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being doubtful."},{"word":"Doubtfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness."},{"word":"Doubtfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Uncertainty of event or issue."},{"word":"Doubting","type":"(a.)","description":"That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts."},{"word":"Doubtless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from fear or suspicion."},{"word":"Doubtless","type":"(adv.)","description":"Undoubtedly; without doubt."},{"word":"Doubtlessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unquestionably."},{"word":"Doubtous","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubtful."},{"word":"Douc","type":"(n.)","description":"A monkey (Semnopithecus nemaeus), remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China."},{"word":"Douce","type":"(a.)","description":"Sweet; pleasant."},{"word":"Douce","type":"(a.)","description":"Sober; prudent; sedate; modest."},{"word":"Doucepere","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war."},{"word":"Doucet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dowset"},{"word":"Dowset","type":"(n.)","description":"A custard."},{"word":"Dowset","type":"(n.)","description":"A dowcet, or deep's testicle."},{"word":"Douceur","type":"(n.)","description":"Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness."},{"word":"Douceur","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe."},{"word":"Douche","type":"(n.)","description":"A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath."},{"word":"Douche","type":"(n.)","description":"A syringe."},{"word":"Doucine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cyma/recta, under Cyma."},{"word":"Doucker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks."},{"word":"Dough","type":"(n.)","description":"Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough."},{"word":"Dough","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything of the consistency of such paste."},{"word":"Dough-baked","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding."},{"word":"Doughbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew."},{"word":"Doughface","type":"(n.)","description":"A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded."},{"word":"Dough-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily molded; pliable."},{"word":"Doughfaceism","type":"(n.)","description":"The character of a doughface; truckling pliability."},{"word":"Doughiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being doughy."},{"word":"Dough-kneaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Like dough; soft."},{"word":"Doughnut","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard."},{"word":"Doughtily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a doughty manner."},{"word":"Doughtiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery."},{"word":"Doughtren","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Daughters."},{"word":"Doughty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero."},{"word":"Doughy","type":"(a.)","description":"Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion."},{"word":"Doulocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"A government by slaves."},{"word":"Doum","type":"()","description":"See Doom palm."},{"word":"Doupe","type":"(n.)","description":"The carrion crow."},{"word":"Dour","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold."},{"word":"Doura","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of millet. See Durra."},{"word":"Douroucouli","type":"(n.)","description":"See Durukuli."},{"word":"Doused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Douse"},{"word":"Dousing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Douse"},{"word":"Douse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse."},{"word":"Douse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail."},{"word":"Douse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall suddenly into water."},{"word":"Douse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out; to extinguish."},{"word":"Dousing-chock","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck."},{"word":"Dout","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out."},{"word":"Douter","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinguisher for candles."},{"word":"Dove","type":"(n.)","description":"A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous."},{"word":"Dove","type":"(n.)","description":"A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle."},{"word":"Dovecot","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dovecote"},{"word":"Dovecote","type":"(n.)","description":"A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house."},{"word":"Dove-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having eyes like a dove; meekeyed; as, dove-eyed Peace."},{"word":"Dovekie","type":"(n.)","description":"A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove."},{"word":"Dovelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A young or small dove."},{"word":"Dovelike","type":"(a.)","description":"Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable."},{"word":"Dove","type":"()","description":"A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant."},{"word":"Dover's","type":"()","description":"A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic."},{"word":"Dove's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf."},{"word":"Dove's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"The columbine."},{"word":"Doveship","type":"(n.)","description":"The possession of dovelike qualities, harmlessness and innocence."},{"word":"Dovetail","type":"(n.)","description":"A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one."},{"word":"Dovetailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dovetail"},{"word":"Dovetailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dovetail"},{"word":"Dovetail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut to a dovetail."},{"word":"Dovetail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join by means of dovetails."},{"word":"Dovetail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly."},{"word":"Dovish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a dove; harmless; innocent."},{"word":"Dow","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of vessel. See Dhow."},{"word":"Dow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a dower; to endow."},{"word":"Dowable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower."},{"word":"Dowager","type":"(n.)","description":"A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease."},{"word":"Dowager","type":"(n.)","description":"A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank."},{"word":"Dowagerism","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively."},{"word":"Dowcet","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the testicles of a hart or stag."},{"word":"Dowdy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking."},{"word":"Dowdies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dowdy"},{"word":"Dowdy","type":"(n.)","description":"An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman."},{"word":"Dowdyish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a dowdy."},{"word":"Dowel","type":"(n.)","description":"A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position."},{"word":"Dowel","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it."},{"word":"Doweled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dowel"},{"word":"Dowelled","type":"()","description":"of Dowel"},{"word":"Doweling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dowel"},{"word":"Dowelling","type":"()","description":"of Dowel"},{"word":"Dowel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask."},{"word":"Dower","type":"(n.)","description":"That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift."},{"word":"Dower","type":"(n.)","description":"The property with which a woman is endowed"},{"word":"Dower","type":"(n.)","description":"That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry."},{"word":"Dower","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband."},{"word":"Dowered","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion."},{"word":"Dowerless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion."},{"word":"Dowery","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dower."},{"word":"Dowitcher","type":"(n.)","description":"The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback."},{"word":"Dowl","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dowle."},{"word":"Dowlas","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico."},{"word":"Dowle","type":"(n.)","description":"Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather."},{"word":"Down","type":"(n.)","description":"Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool"},{"word":"Down","type":"(n.)","description":"The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets."},{"word":"Down","type":"(n.)","description":"The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle."},{"word":"Down","type":"(n.)","description":"The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear."},{"word":"Down","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down"},{"word":"Down","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down."},{"word":"Down","type":"(prep.)","description":"A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Down","type":"(prep.)","description":"A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Down","type":"(prep.)","description":"A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war."},{"word":"Down","type":"(prep.)","description":"A state of depression; low state; abasement."},{"word":"Down","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up."},{"word":"Down","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion."},{"word":"Down","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet."},{"word":"Down","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a remoter or higher antiquity."},{"word":"Down","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions."},{"word":"Down","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well."},{"word":"Down","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound."},{"word":"Downed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Down"},{"word":"Downing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Down"},{"word":"Down","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down."},{"word":"Down","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go down; to descend."},{"word":"Down","type":"(a.)","description":"Downcast; as, a down look."},{"word":"Down","type":"(a.)","description":"Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial."},{"word":"Down","type":"(a.)","description":"Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway."},{"word":"Downbear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear down; to depress."},{"word":"Downcast","type":"(a.)","description":"Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt."},{"word":"Downcast","type":"(n.)","description":"Downcast or melancholy look."},{"word":"Downcast","type":"(n.)","description":"A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine."},{"word":"Downcome","type":"(n.)","description":"Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow."},{"word":"Downcome","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned."},{"word":"Downfall","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden fall; a body of things falling."},{"word":"Downfall","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin."},{"word":"Downfallen","type":"(a.)","description":"Fallen; ruined."},{"word":"Downfalling","type":"(a.)","description":"Falling down."},{"word":"Downgyved","type":"(a.)","description":"Hanging down like gyves or fetters."},{"word":"Downhaul","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul."},{"word":"Downhearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Dejected; low-spirited."},{"word":"Downhill","type":"(adv.)","description":"Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill."},{"word":"Downhill","type":"(a.)","description":"Declivous; descending; sloping."},{"word":"Downhill","type":"(n.)","description":"Declivity; descent; slope."},{"word":"Downiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being downy."},{"word":"Downlooked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen."},{"word":"Downlying","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of retiring to rest; time of repose."},{"word":"Downpour","type":"(n.)","description":"A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower."},{"word":"Downright","type":"(adv.)","description":"Straight down; perpendicularly."},{"word":"Downright","type":"(adv.)","description":"In plain terms; without ceremony."},{"word":"Downright","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without delay; at once; completely."},{"word":"Downright","type":"(a.)","description":"Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way."},{"word":"Downright","type":"(a.)","description":"Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism."},{"word":"Down-share","type":"(n.)","description":"A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs."},{"word":"Downsitting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sitting down; repose; a resting."},{"word":"Downstairs","type":"(adv.)","description":"Down the stairs; to a lower floor."},{"word":"Downstairs","type":"(a.)","description":"Below stairs; as, a downstairs room."},{"word":"Downsteepy","type":"(a.)","description":"Very steep."},{"word":"Downstream","type":"(adv.)","description":"Down the stream; as, floating downstream."},{"word":"Downstroke","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil."},{"word":"Downthrow","type":"(n.)","description":"The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n."},{"word":"Downtrod","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Downtrodden"},{"word":"Downtrodden","type":"(a.)","description":"Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power."},{"word":"Downward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Downwards"},{"word":"Downwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards."},{"word":"Downwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin."},{"word":"Downwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line."},{"word":"Downward","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous."},{"word":"Downward","type":"(a.)","description":"Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent."},{"word":"Downward","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts."},{"word":"Downweed","type":"(n.)","description":"Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium."},{"word":"Downweigh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weigh or press down."},{"word":"Downy","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs."},{"word":"Downy","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet."},{"word":"Downy","type":"(a.)","description":"Cunning; wary."},{"word":"Dowral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a dower."},{"word":"Dowress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman entitled to dower."},{"word":"Dowries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dowry"},{"word":"Dowry","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift; endowment."},{"word":"Dowry","type":"(n.)","description":"The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower."},{"word":"Dowry","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower."},{"word":"Dowse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse."},{"word":"Dowse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat or thrash."},{"word":"Dowse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc."},{"word":"Dowse","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow on the face."},{"word":"Dowser","type":"(n.)","description":"A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod."},{"word":"Dowser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses the dowser or divining rod."},{"word":"Dowst","type":"(n.)","description":"A dowse."},{"word":"Dowve","type":"(n.)","description":"A dove."},{"word":"Doxological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God."},{"word":"Doxologized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Doxologize"},{"word":"Doxologizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Doxologize"},{"word":"Doxologize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies."},{"word":"Doxologies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Doxology"},{"word":"Doxology","type":"(n.)","description":"In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation."},{"word":"Doxies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Doxy"},{"word":"Doxy","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart."},{"word":"Doyly","type":"(n.)","description":"See Doily."},{"word":"Dozed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Doze"},{"word":"Dozing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Doze"},{"word":"Doze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy."},{"word":"Doze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time."},{"word":"Doze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dull; to stupefy."},{"word":"Doze","type":"(n.)","description":"A light sleep; a drowse."},{"word":"Dozen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dozen"},{"word":"Dozens","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dozen"},{"word":"Dozen","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows."},{"word":"Dozen","type":"(n.)","description":"An indefinite small number."},{"word":"Dozenth","type":"(a.)","description":"Twelfth."},{"word":"Dozer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dozes or drowses."},{"word":"Doziness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep."},{"word":"Dozy","type":"(a.)","description":"Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head."},{"word":"Dozzled","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; heavy."},{"word":"Drab","type":"(n.)","description":"A low, sluttish woman."},{"word":"Drab","type":"(n.)","description":"A lewd wench; a strumpet."},{"word":"Drab","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans."},{"word":"Drabbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drab"},{"word":"Drabbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drab"},{"word":"Drab","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To associate with strumpets; to wench."},{"word":"Drab","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth."},{"word":"Drab","type":"(n.)","description":"A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color."},{"word":"Drab","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a color between gray and brown."},{"word":"Drab","type":"(n.)","description":"A drab color."},{"word":"Drabber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who associates with drabs; a wencher."},{"word":"Drabbet","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse linen fabric, or duck."},{"word":"Drabbish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat drab in color."},{"word":"Drabbish","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the character of a drab or low wench."},{"word":"Drabbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drabble"},{"word":"Drabbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drabble"},{"word":"Drabble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak."},{"word":"Drabble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels."},{"word":"Drabbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop."},{"word":"Drabble-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"A draggle-tail; a slattern."},{"word":"Dracaena","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers."},{"word":"Dracanth","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth."},{"word":"Drachm","type":"(n.)","description":"A drachma."},{"word":"Drachm","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dram."},{"word":"Drachmas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Drachma"},{"word":"Drachmae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Drachma"},{"word":"Drachma","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents."},{"word":"Drachma","type":"(n.)","description":"A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents."},{"word":"Drachma","type":"(n.)","description":"Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram."},{"word":"Drachme","type":"(n.)","description":"See Drachma."},{"word":"Dracin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Draconin."},{"word":"Draco","type":"(n.)","description":"The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic."},{"word":"Draco","type":"(n.)","description":"A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds."},{"word":"Draco","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6."},{"word":"Draconian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c."},{"word":"Draconic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood."},{"word":"Draconin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin."},{"word":"Dracontic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon."},{"word":"Dracontine","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a dragon."},{"word":"Dracunculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dracunculus"},{"word":"Dracunculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish; the dragonet."},{"word":"Dracunculus","type":"(n.)","description":"The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis)."},{"word":"Drad","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Dreaded."},{"word":"Dradde","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Dread."},{"word":"Dradge","type":"(n.)","description":"Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter."},{"word":"Draffish","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthless; draffy."},{"word":"Draffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Dreggy; waste; worthless."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught."},{"word":"Draff","type":"(n.)","description":"A current of air. Same as Draught."},{"word":"Draft","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught."},{"word":"Draft","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught."},{"word":"Drafted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Draft"},{"word":"Drafting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Draft"},{"word":"Draft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw the outline of; to delineate."},{"word":"Draft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial."},{"word":"Draft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select."},{"word":"Draft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfer by draft."},{"word":"Draftsman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Draughtsman."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(n.)","description":"A confection; a comfit; a drug."},{"word":"Dragged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drag"},{"word":"Dragging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drag"},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fish with a dragnet."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of dragging; anything which is dragged."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below)."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone."},{"word":"Drag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3."},{"word":"Dragantine","type":"(n.)","description":"A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth."},{"word":"Dragbar","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink."},{"word":"Dragbolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A coupling pin. See under Coupling."},{"word":"Dragees","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Sugar-coated medicines."},{"word":"Draggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Draggle"},{"word":"Draggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Draggle"},{"word":"Draggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail."},{"word":"Draggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass."},{"word":"Draggle-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail."},{"word":"Draggle-tailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Untidy; sluttish; slatternly."},{"word":"Draglink","type":"(n.)","description":"A link connecting the cranks of two shafts."},{"word":"Draglink","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawbar."},{"word":"Dragmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dragman"},{"word":"Dragman","type":"(n.)","description":"A fisherman who uses a dragnet."},{"word":"Dragnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing."},{"word":"Dragomans","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dragoman"},{"word":"Dragoman","type":"(n.)","description":"An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East."},{"word":"Dragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious."},{"word":"Dragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman."},{"word":"Dragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco."},{"word":"Dragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent."},{"word":"Dragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle."},{"word":"Dragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard."},{"word":"Dragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of carrier pigeon."},{"word":"Dragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms."},{"word":"Dragonet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little dragon."},{"word":"Dragonet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie."},{"word":"Dragonish","type":"(a.)","description":"resembling a dragon."},{"word":"Dragonlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a dragon."},{"word":"Dragonnade","type":"(n.)","description":"The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade."},{"word":"Dragon's","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Dragon's tail"},{"word":"Dragon's","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Dragon's tail"},{"word":"Dragon's","type":"()","description":"See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon."},{"word":"Dragoon","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man."},{"word":"Dragoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pigeon."},{"word":"Dragooned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dragoon"},{"word":"Dragooning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dragoon"},{"word":"Dragoon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers."},{"word":"Dragoon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute."},{"word":"Dragoonade","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dragonnade."},{"word":"Dragooner","type":"(n.)","description":"A dragoon."},{"word":"Drail","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To trail; to draggle."},{"word":"Drained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drain"},{"word":"Draining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drain"},{"word":"Drain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of."},{"word":"Drain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie."},{"word":"Drain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To filter."},{"word":"Drain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off."},{"word":"Drain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain."},{"word":"Drain","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country."},{"word":"Drain","type":"(n.)","description":"That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink."},{"word":"Drain","type":"(n.)","description":"The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains."},{"word":"Drainable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being drained."},{"word":"Drainage","type":"(n.)","description":"A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain."},{"word":"Drainage","type":"(n.)","description":"The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers."},{"word":"Drainage","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works."},{"word":"Drainage","type":"(n.)","description":"Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc."},{"word":"Drainage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc."},{"word":"Draine","type":"(n.)","description":"The missel thrush."},{"word":"Drainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, drains."},{"word":"Draining","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land."},{"word":"Drainpipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe used for carrying off surplus water."},{"word":"Draintile","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile."},{"word":"Draintrap","type":"(n.)","description":"See 4th Trap, 5."},{"word":"Drake","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of the duck kind."},{"word":"Drake","type":"(n.)","description":"The drake fly."},{"word":"Drake","type":"(n.)","description":"A dragon."},{"word":"Drake","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of artillery."},{"word":"Drake","type":"(n.)","description":"Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank."},{"word":"Drakestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes."},{"word":"Dram","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains."},{"word":"Dram","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute quantity; a mite."},{"word":"Dram","type":"(n.)","description":"As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison."},{"word":"Dram","type":"(n.)","description":"A Persian daric."},{"word":"Dram","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To drink drams; to ply with drams."},{"word":"Drama","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage."},{"word":"Drama","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest."},{"word":"Drama","type":"(n.)","description":"Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature."},{"word":"Dramatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dramatical"},{"word":"Dramatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid."},{"word":"Dramatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly."},{"word":"Dramatis","type":"()","description":"The actors in a drama or play."},{"word":"Dramatist","type":"(n.)","description":"The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays."},{"word":"Dramatizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being dramatized."},{"word":"Dramatization","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of dramatizing."},{"word":"Dramatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dramatize"},{"word":"Dramatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dramatize"},{"word":"Dramatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode."},{"word":"Dramaturgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to dramaturgy."},{"word":"Dramaturgist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in dramaturgy."},{"word":"Dramaturgy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of dramatic composition and representation."},{"word":"Dramming","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of drinking drams."},{"word":"Dramseller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass."},{"word":"Dramshop","type":"(n.)","description":"A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram."},{"word":"Drank","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Drink."},{"word":"Drank","type":"(n.)","description":"Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant."},{"word":"Drap","type":"()","description":"A thin woolen fabric, twilled like merino."},{"word":"Draped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drape"},{"word":"Draping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drape"},{"word":"Drape","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc."},{"word":"Drape","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rail at; to banter."},{"word":"Drape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make cloth."},{"word":"Drape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc."},{"word":"Draper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor."},{"word":"Draperied","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered or supplied with drapery."},{"word":"Draperies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Drapery"},{"word":"Drapery","type":"(n.)","description":"The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth."},{"word":"Drapery","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general."},{"word":"Drapery","type":"(n.)","description":"A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed."},{"word":"Drapet","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth."},{"word":"Drastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives."},{"word":"Drastic","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent purgative. See Cathartic."},{"word":"Drasty","type":"(a.)","description":"Filthy; worthless."},{"word":"Draugh","type":"(n.)","description":"See Draft."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing or pulling"},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The drawing of a bowstring."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)"},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is drawn"},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is taken by sweeping with a net."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"That which draws"},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"A team of oxen or horses."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"A sink or drain; a privy."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"A move, as at chess or checkers."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(n.)","description":"See Draft, n., 7."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(a.)","description":"Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(a.)","description":"Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like."},{"word":"Draughted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Draught"},{"word":"Draughting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Draught"},{"word":"Draught","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw out; to call forth. See Draft."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish or exhaust by drawing."},{"word":"Draught","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing."},{"word":"Draughtboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard."},{"word":"Draughthouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy."},{"word":"Draughts","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c)."},{"word":"Draughts","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers."},{"word":"Draughtsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Draughtsman"},{"word":"Draughtsman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who draws pleadings or other writings."},{"word":"Draughtsman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind."},{"word":"Draughtsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A \"man\" or piece used in the game of draughts."},{"word":"Draughtsman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drinks drams; a tippler."},{"word":"Draughtsmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, art, or work of a draughtsman."},{"word":"Draughty","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room."},{"word":"Drave","type":"()","description":"old imp. of Drive."},{"word":"Dravida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion."},{"word":"Dravidian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Dravida."},{"word":"Drew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Draw"},{"word":"Drawn","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Draw"},{"word":"Drawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Draw"},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pull from a sheath, as a sword."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To select by the drawing of lots."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove the contents of"},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drain by emptying; to suck dry."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withdraw."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become contracted; to shrink."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sink in water; to require a depth for floating."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing; draught."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(n.)","description":"A lot or chance to be drawn."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawn game or battle, etc."},{"word":"Draw","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge."},{"word":"Drawable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being drawn."},{"word":"Drawback","type":"(n.)","description":"A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature."},{"word":"Drawback","type":"(n.)","description":"Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied."},{"word":"Drawbar","type":"(n.)","description":"An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train."},{"word":"Drawbar","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car."},{"word":"Drawbench","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench."},{"word":"Drawbolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A coupling pin. See under Coupling."},{"word":"Drawbore","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together."},{"word":"Drawbore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon."},{"word":"Drawbore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it."},{"word":"Drawboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office."},{"word":"Drawbridge","type":"(n.)","description":"A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal."},{"word":"Drawcansir","type":"(n.)","description":"A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully."},{"word":"Draw-cut","type":"(n.)","description":"A single cut with a knife."},{"word":"Drawee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer."},{"word":"Drawer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, draws"},{"word":"Drawer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom."},{"word":"Drawer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer."},{"word":"Drawer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee."},{"word":"Drawer","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is drawn"},{"word":"Drawer","type":"(n.)","description":"A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in."},{"word":"Drawer","type":"(n.)","description":"An under-garment worn on the lower limbs."},{"word":"Drawfiling","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise."},{"word":"Drawgear","type":"(n.)","description":"A harness for draught horses."},{"word":"Drawgear","type":"(n.)","description":"The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn."},{"word":"Drawgloves","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An old game, played by holding up the fingers."},{"word":"Drawhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear."},{"word":"Drawing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pulling, or attracting."},{"word":"Drawing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn."},{"word":"Drawing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies."},{"word":"Drawing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning."},{"word":"Drawing","type":"(n.)","description":"The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery."},{"word":"Drawing","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Drawknife"},{"word":"Drawknife","type":"(n.)","description":"A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave."},{"word":"Drawknife","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood."},{"word":"Drawing-room","type":"(n.)","description":"A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room."},{"word":"Drawing-room","type":"(n.)","description":"The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room."},{"word":"Drawled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drawl"},{"word":"Drawling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drawl"},{"word":"Drawl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter in a slow, lengthened tone."},{"word":"Drawl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc."},{"word":"Drawl","type":"(n.)","description":"A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance."},{"word":"Drawlatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A housebreaker or thief."},{"word":"Drawling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl."},{"word":"Drawlink","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Drawbar (b)."},{"word":"Drawloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy."},{"word":"Drawloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of damask made on the drawloom."},{"word":"Drawn","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"See Draw, v. t. & i."},{"word":"Drawnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet."},{"word":"Drawplate","type":"(n.)","description":"A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated."},{"word":"Drawrod","type":"(n.)","description":"A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train."},{"word":"Drawshave","type":"(n.)","description":"See Drawing knife."},{"word":"Drawspring","type":"(n.)","description":"The spring to which a drawbar is attached."},{"word":"Dray","type":"(n.)","description":"A squirrel's nest."},{"word":"Dray","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens."},{"word":"Dray","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of sledge or sled."},{"word":"Drayage","type":"(n.)","description":"Use of a dray."},{"word":"Drayage","type":"(n.)","description":"The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray."},{"word":"Draymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Drayman"},{"word":"Drayman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who attends a dray."},{"word":"Drazel","type":"(n.)","description":"A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel."},{"word":"Dreaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dread"},{"word":"Dreading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dread"},{"word":"Dread","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in dread, or great fear."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(n.)","description":"Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(n.)","description":"Reverential or respectful fear; awe."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(n.)","description":"An object of terrified apprehension."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(n.)","description":"A person highly revered."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(n.)","description":"Fury; dreadfulness."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubt; as, out of dread."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful."},{"word":"Dread","type":"(a.)","description":"Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal."},{"word":"Dreadable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of being dreaded."},{"word":"Dread-bolted","type":"(a.)","description":"Armed with dreaded bolts."},{"word":"Dreader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fears, or lives in fear."},{"word":"Dreadful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of dread or terror; fearful."},{"word":"Dreadful","type":"(a.)","description":"Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm."},{"word":"Dreadful","type":"(a.)","description":"Inspiring awe or reverence; awful."},{"word":"Dreadfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dreadful manner; terribly."},{"word":"Dreadfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being dreadful."},{"word":"Dreadingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With dread."},{"word":"Dreadless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart."},{"word":"Dreadless","type":"(a.)","description":"Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure."},{"word":"Dreadless","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without doubt."},{"word":"Dreadlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from dread."},{"word":"Dreadly","type":"(a.)","description":"Dreadful."},{"word":"Dreadly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With dread."},{"word":"Dreadnaught","type":"(n.)","description":"A fearless person."},{"word":"Dreadnaught","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught."},{"word":"Dream","type":"(n.)","description":"The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision."},{"word":"Dream","type":"(n.)","description":"A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth."},{"word":"Dreamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dream"},{"word":"Dreamt","type":"()","description":"of Dream"},{"word":"Dreaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dream"},{"word":"Dream","type":"(n.)","description":"To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend."},{"word":"Dream","type":"(n.)","description":"To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine."},{"word":"Dream","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause."},{"word":"Dreamer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dreams."},{"word":"Dreamer","type":"(n.)","description":"A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer."},{"word":"Dreamful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of dreams."},{"word":"Dreamily","type":"(adv.)","description":"As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly."},{"word":"Dreaminess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dreamy."},{"word":"Dreamingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dreamy manner."},{"word":"Dreamland","type":"(n.)","description":"An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland."},{"word":"Dreamless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from, or without, dreams."},{"word":"Dreamy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary."},{"word":"Drear","type":"(a.)","description":"Dismal; gloomy with solitude."},{"word":"Drear","type":"(n.)","description":"Sadness; dismalness."},{"word":"Drearihead","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Drearihood"},{"word":"Drearihood","type":"(n.)","description":"Affliction; dreariness."},{"word":"Drearily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Gloomily; dismally."},{"word":"Dreariment","type":"(n.)","description":"Dreariness."},{"word":"Dreariness","type":"(n.)","description":"Sorrow; wretchedness."},{"word":"Dreariness","type":"(n.)","description":"Dismalness; gloomy solitude."},{"word":"Drearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Sorrow."},{"word":"Drearisome","type":"(a.)","description":"Very dreary."},{"word":"Dreary","type":"(superl.)","description":"Sorrowful; distressful."},{"word":"Dreary","type":"(superl.)","description":"Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy."},{"word":"Drecche","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vex; to torment; to trouble."},{"word":"Drecche","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To delay."},{"word":"Dredge","type":"(n.)","description":"Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea."},{"word":"Dredge","type":"(n.)","description":"Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water."},{"word":"Dredged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dredge"},{"word":"Dredging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dredge"},{"word":"Dredge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine."},{"word":"Dredge","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of oats and barley."},{"word":"Dredge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat."},{"word":"Dredger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fishes with a dredge."},{"word":"Dredger","type":"(n.)","description":"A dredging machine."},{"word":"Dredger","type":"(n.)","description":"A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box."},{"word":"Dree","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endure; to suffer."},{"word":"Dree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be able to do or endure."},{"word":"Dree","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearisome; tedious."},{"word":"Dreg","type":"(n.)","description":"Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society."},{"word":"Dregginess","type":"(n.)","description":"Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence."},{"word":"Dreggish","type":"(a.)","description":"Foul with lees; feculent."},{"word":"Dreggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent."},{"word":"Drein","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drain."},{"word":"Dreint","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Drench to drown."},{"word":"Dreissena","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe."},{"word":"Drenched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drench"},{"word":"Drenching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drench"},{"word":"Drench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic."},{"word":"Drench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse."},{"word":"Drench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging."},{"word":"Drench","type":"(n.)","description":"A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book."},{"word":"Drenche","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To drown."},{"word":"Drencher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, west or steeps."},{"word":"Drencher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who administers a drench."},{"word":"Drengage","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenure by which a drench held land."},{"word":"Drent","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Drenched; drowned."},{"word":"Dresden","type":"()","description":"A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony."},{"word":"Dressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dress"},{"word":"Drest","type":"()","description":"of Dress"},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dress"},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!"},{"word":"Dress","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(n.)","description":"A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(n.)","description":"Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it."},{"word":"Dress","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of furrows on the face of a millstone."},{"word":"Dress","type":"()","description":"A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat."},{"word":"Dresser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments."},{"word":"Dresser","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pick for shaping large coal."},{"word":"Dresser","type":"(n.)","description":"An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc."},{"word":"Dresser","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use."},{"word":"Dresser","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils."},{"word":"Dress","type":"()","description":"A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes."},{"word":"Dressiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dressy."},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(n.)","description":"Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire."},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(n.)","description":"An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound."},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(n.)","description":"Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing."},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad."},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(n.)","description":"The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat."},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(n.)","description":"Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics."},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc."},{"word":"Dressing","type":"(n.)","description":"Castigation; scolding; -- often with down."},{"word":"Dressmaker","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker."},{"word":"Dressmaking","type":"(n.)","description":"The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses."},{"word":"Dressy","type":"(a.)","description":"Showy in dress; attentive to dress."},{"word":"Drest","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Dress."},{"word":"Dretch","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Drecche."},{"word":"Dreul","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drool."},{"word":"Drevil","type":"(n.)","description":"A fool; a drudge. See Drivel."},{"word":"Drew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Draw."},{"word":"Drey","type":"(n.)","description":"A squirrel's nest. See Dray."},{"word":"Dreye","type":"(a.)","description":"Dry."},{"word":"Dreynt","type":"()","description":"p. p., of Drench to drown."},{"word":"Dribbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drib"},{"word":"Dribbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drib"},{"word":"Drib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do by little and little"},{"word":"Drib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off by a little at a time; to crop."},{"word":"Drib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate."},{"word":"Drib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead along step by step; to entice."},{"word":"Drib","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent."},{"word":"Drib","type":"(n.)","description":"A drop."},{"word":"Dribber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly."},{"word":"Dribbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dribble"},{"word":"Dribbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dribble"},{"word":"Dribble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves."},{"word":"Dribble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel."},{"word":"Dribble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall weakly and slowly."},{"word":"Dribble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let fall in drops."},{"word":"Dribble","type":"(n.)","description":"A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops."},{"word":"Dribbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dribbles."},{"word":"Dribblet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Driblet"},{"word":"Driblet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets."},{"word":"Drie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endure."},{"word":"Dried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples."},{"word":"Drier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth."},{"word":"Drier","type":"(n.)","description":"Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly."},{"word":"Drier","type":"(superl.)","description":"Alt. of Driest"},{"word":"Driest","type":"(superl.)","description":"of Dry, a."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"A driving; a violent movement."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is driven, forced, or urged along"},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything driven at random."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"In South Africa, a ford in a river."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance through which a current flows in a given time."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance between the two blocks of a tackle."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(n.)","description":"The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven."},{"word":"Drifted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drift"},{"word":"Drifting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drift"},{"word":"Drift","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(v. i.)","description":"to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift."},{"word":"Drift","type":"(a.)","description":"That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud."},{"word":"Driftage","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway."},{"word":"Driftage","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that drifts."},{"word":"Driftbolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A bolt for driving out other bolts."},{"word":"Driftless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless."},{"word":"Driftpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail."},{"word":"Driftpin","type":"(n.)","description":"A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9."},{"word":"Driftway","type":"(n.)","description":"A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle."},{"word":"Driftway","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Drift, 11."},{"word":"Driftweed","type":"(n.)","description":"Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind."},{"word":"Driftwind","type":"(n.)","description":"A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps."},{"word":"Driftwood","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood drifted or floated by water."},{"word":"Driftwood","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water."},{"word":"Drifty","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like."},{"word":"Drilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drill"},{"word":"Drilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drill"},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to slip or waste away by degrees."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To trickle."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sow in drills."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"A small trickling stream; a rill."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"A row of seed sown in a furrow."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus)."},{"word":"Drill","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Drilling."},{"word":"Driller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, drills."},{"word":"Drilling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of piercing with a drill."},{"word":"Drilling","type":"(n.)","description":"A training by repeated exercises."},{"word":"Drilling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of using a drill in sowing seeds."},{"word":"Drilling","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton."},{"word":"Drillmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics."},{"word":"Drill","type":"()","description":"A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw."},{"word":"Drillstock","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for holding and turning a drill."},{"word":"Drily","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Dryly."},{"word":"Drimys","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark."},{"word":"Drank","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Drink"},{"word":"Drunk","type":"()","description":"of Drink"},{"word":"Drunk","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Drink"},{"word":"Drunken","type":"()","description":"of Drink"},{"word":"Drinking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drink"},{"word":"Drink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring."},{"word":"Drink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple."},{"word":"Drink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water."},{"word":"Drink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe."},{"word":"Drink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see."},{"word":"Drink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smoke, as tobacco."},{"word":"Drink","type":"(n.)","description":"Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions."},{"word":"Drink","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out."},{"word":"Drinkable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural."},{"word":"Drinkableness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being drinkable."},{"word":"Drinker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard."},{"word":"Drinking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing."},{"word":"Drinking","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors."},{"word":"Drinking","type":"(n.)","description":"An entertainment with liquors; a carousal."},{"word":"Drinkless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of drink."},{"word":"Dripped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drip"},{"word":"Dript","type":"()","description":"of Drip"},{"word":"Dripping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drip"},{"word":"Drip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves."},{"word":"Drip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips."},{"word":"Drip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let fall in drops."},{"word":"Drip","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops."},{"word":"Drip","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water."},{"word":"Dripping","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling in drops, or the sound so made."},{"word":"Dripping","type":"(n.)","description":"That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting."},{"word":"Dripple","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak or rare."},{"word":"Dripstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Drive"},{"word":"Drave","type":"()","description":"of Drive"},{"word":"Driven","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Drive"},{"word":"Driving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drive"},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear, by forcing away what is contained."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass away; -- said of time."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rush and press with violence; to move furiously."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To distrain for rent."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Driven."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(n.)","description":"A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(n.)","description":"In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift."},{"word":"Drive","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river."},{"word":"Drivebolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A drift; a tool for setting bolts home."},{"word":"Driveled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drivel"},{"word":"Drivelled","type":"()","description":"of Drivel"},{"word":"Driveling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drivel"},{"word":"Drivelling","type":"()","description":"of Drivel"},{"word":"Drivel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard."},{"word":"Drivel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love."},{"word":"Drivel","type":"(n.)","description":"Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth."},{"word":"Drivel","type":"(n.)","description":"Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble."},{"word":"Drivel","type":"(n.)","description":"A driveler; a fool; an idiot."},{"word":"Drivel","type":"(n.)","description":"A servant; a drudge."},{"word":"Driveler","type":"(n.)","description":"A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool."},{"word":"Driven","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Drive. Also adj."},{"word":"Drivepipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe for forcing into the earth."},{"word":"Driver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward."},{"word":"Driver","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive."},{"word":"Driver","type":"(n.)","description":"An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work."},{"word":"Driver","type":"(n.)","description":"A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:"},{"word":"Driver","type":"(n.)","description":"The driving wheel of a locomotive."},{"word":"Driver","type":"(n.)","description":"An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier."},{"word":"Driver","type":"(n.)","description":"A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone."},{"word":"Driver","type":"(n.)","description":"The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker."},{"word":"Driveway","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven."},{"word":"Driving","type":"(a.)","description":"Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm."},{"word":"Driving","type":"(a.)","description":"Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft."},{"word":"Driving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously."},{"word":"Driving","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency; drift."},{"word":"Drizzled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drizzle"},{"word":"Drizzling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drizzle"},{"word":"Drizzle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain."},{"word":"Drizzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shed slowly in minute drops or particles."},{"word":"Drizzle","type":"(n.)","description":"Fine rain or mist."},{"word":"Drizzly","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable."},{"word":"Drock","type":"(n.)","description":"A water course."},{"word":"Drofland","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dryfland"},{"word":"Dryfland","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets."},{"word":"Drogher","type":"(n.)","description":"A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher."},{"word":"Drogman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Drogoman"},{"word":"Drogoman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dragoman."},{"word":"Drogue","type":"(n.)","description":"See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n."},{"word":"Droh","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Draw."},{"word":"Droil","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod."},{"word":"Droil","type":"(n.)","description":"A drudge."},{"word":"Droil","type":"(n.)","description":"Mean labor; toil."},{"word":"Droit","type":"(n.)","description":"A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right."},{"word":"Droitural","type":"(a.)","description":"relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions."},{"word":"Droitzschka","type":"(n.)","description":"See Drosky."},{"word":"Droll","type":"(superl.)","description":"Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange."},{"word":"Droll","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew."},{"word":"Droll","type":"(n.)","description":"Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like."},{"word":"Drolled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Droll"},{"word":"Drolling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Droll"},{"word":"Droll","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jest; to play the buffoon."},{"word":"Droll","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole."},{"word":"Droll","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a jest of; to set in a comical light."},{"word":"Droller","type":"(n.)","description":"A jester; a droll."},{"word":"Drolleries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Drollery"},{"word":"Drollery","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners."},{"word":"Drollery","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which serves to raise mirth"},{"word":"Drollery","type":"(n.)","description":"A puppet show; also, a puppet."},{"word":"Drollery","type":"(n.)","description":"A lively or comic picture."},{"word":"Drollingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jesting manner."},{"word":"Drollish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat droll."},{"word":"Drollist","type":"(n.)","description":"A droll."},{"word":"Dromaeognathous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu."},{"word":"Dromatherium","type":"(n.)","description":"A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America."},{"word":"Drome","type":"(n.)","description":"The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher."},{"word":"Dromedaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dromedary"},{"word":"Dromedary","type":"(n.)","description":"The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps."},{"word":"Dromond","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Dromon"},{"word":"Dromon","type":"()","description":"In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel."},{"word":"Drone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee."},{"word":"Drone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard."},{"word":"Drone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth."},{"word":"Drone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A humming or deep murmuring sound."},{"word":"Drone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition."},{"word":"Droned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drone"},{"word":"Droning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drone"},{"word":"Drone","type":"(n.)","description":"To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound."},{"word":"Drone","type":"(n.)","description":"To love in idleness; to do nothing."},{"word":"Drone","type":"()","description":"The male of the honeybee; a drone."},{"word":"Drone","type":"()","description":"A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis."},{"word":"Dronepipe","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe."},{"word":"Drongos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Drongo"},{"word":"Drongo","type":"(n.)","description":"A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes."},{"word":"Dronish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a drone; indolent; slow."},{"word":"Dronkelewe","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to drink; drunken."},{"word":"Dronte","type":"(n.)","description":"The dodo."},{"word":"Drony","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a drone; sluggish; lazy."},{"word":"Drooled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drool"},{"word":"Drooling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drool"},{"word":"Drool","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools."},{"word":"Drooped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Droop"},{"word":"Drooping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Droop"},{"word":"Droop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like."},{"word":"Droop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped."},{"word":"Droop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline."},{"word":"Droop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let droop or sink."},{"word":"Droop","type":"(n.)","description":"A drooping; as, a droop of the eye."},{"word":"Drooper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, droops."},{"word":"Droopingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a drooping manner."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gutta."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small pendent ornament."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something"},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"A drop press or drop hammer."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent."},{"word":"Dropped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drop"},{"word":"Dropt","type":"()","description":"of Drop"},{"word":"Dropping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drop"},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(n.)","description":"To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall in drops."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall dead, or to fall in death."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall short of a mark."},{"word":"Drop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards."},{"word":"Droplet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little drop; a tear."},{"word":"Droplight","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant."},{"word":"Dropmeal","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Dropmele"},{"word":"Dropmele","type":"(adv.)","description":"By drops or small portions."},{"word":"Dropper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly."},{"word":"Dropper","type":"(n.)","description":"A dropping tube."},{"word":"Dropper","type":"(n.)","description":"A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode."},{"word":"Dropper","type":"(n.)","description":"A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter."},{"word":"Dropping","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling."},{"word":"Dropping","type":"(n.)","description":"That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals."},{"word":"Droppinly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In drops."},{"word":"Dropsical","type":"(a.)","description":"Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient."},{"word":"Dropsical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dropsy."},{"word":"Dropsicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being dropsical."},{"word":"Dropsied","type":"(a.)","description":"Diseased with drops."},{"word":"Dropsies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dropsy"},{"word":"Dropsy","type":"(n.)","description":"An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue."},{"word":"Dropt","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Drop, v."},{"word":"Dropwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops."},{"word":"Dropworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm."},{"word":"Dropwort","type":"(n.)","description":"An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves."},{"word":"Drosera","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew."},{"word":"Droskies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Drosky"},{"word":"Drosky","type":"(n.)","description":"A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities."},{"word":"Drosometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew."},{"word":"Dross","type":"(n.)","description":"The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement."},{"word":"Dross","type":"(n.)","description":"Rust of metals."},{"word":"Dross","type":"(n.)","description":"Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse."},{"word":"Drossel","type":"(n.)","description":"A slut; a hussy; a drazel."},{"word":"Drossless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from dross."},{"word":"Drossy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless."},{"word":"Drotchel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Drossel."},{"word":"Drough","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Draw."},{"word":"Drought","type":"(n.)","description":"Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity."},{"word":"Drought","type":"(n.)","description":"Thirst; want of drink."},{"word":"Drought","type":"(n.)","description":"Scarcity; lack."},{"word":"Droughtiness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain."},{"word":"Droughty","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust."},{"word":"Droughty","type":"(a.)","description":"Dry; thirsty; wanting drink."},{"word":"Droumy","type":"(a.)","description":"Troubled; muddy."},{"word":"Drouth","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Drought."},{"word":"Drouthy","type":"(a.)","description":"Droughty."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Drive."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(n.)","description":"Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(n.)","description":"A crowd of people in motion."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(n.)","description":"A road for driving cattle; a driftway."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel."},{"word":"Drove","type":"(n.)","description":"The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work."},{"word":"Droven","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Drive."},{"word":"Drover","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market."},{"word":"Drover","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat driven by the tide."},{"word":"Drovy","type":"(a.)","description":"Turbid; muddy; filthy."},{"word":"Drow","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Draw."},{"word":"Drowned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drown"},{"word":"Drowning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drown"},{"word":"Drown","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water."},{"word":"Drown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate."},{"word":"Drown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid."},{"word":"Drown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound."},{"word":"Drownage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drowning."},{"word":"Drowner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, drowns."},{"word":"Drowsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drowse"},{"word":"Drowsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drowse"},{"word":"Drowse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze."},{"word":"Drowse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid."},{"word":"Drowse","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze."},{"word":"Drowsihead","type":"(n.)","description":"Drowsiness."},{"word":"Drowsihed","type":"(n.)","description":"Drowsihead."},{"word":"Drowsily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a drowsy manner."},{"word":"Drowsiness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being drowsy."},{"word":"Drowsy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy."},{"word":"Drowsy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific."},{"word":"Drowsy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Dull; stupid."},{"word":"Drowth","type":"(n.)","description":"See Drought."},{"word":"Droyle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Droil."},{"word":"Drubbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drub"},{"word":"Drubbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drub"},{"word":"Drub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel."},{"word":"Drub","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow with a cudgel; a thump."},{"word":"Drubber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drubs."},{"word":"Drudged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drudge"},{"word":"Drudging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drudge"},{"word":"Drudge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue."},{"word":"Drudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consume laboriously; -- with away."},{"word":"Drudge","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant."},{"word":"Drudger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who drudges; a drudge."},{"word":"Drudger","type":"(n.)","description":"A dredging box."},{"word":"Drudgery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil."},{"word":"Drudging","type":"()","description":"See Dredging box."},{"word":"Drudgingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a drudging manner; laboriously."},{"word":"Druery","type":"(n.)","description":"Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love."},{"word":"Drug","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drudge; to toil laboriously."},{"word":"Drug","type":"(n.)","description":"A drudge (?)."},{"word":"Drug","type":"(n.)","description":"Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations."},{"word":"Drug","type":"(n.)","description":"Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand."},{"word":"Drugged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drug"},{"word":"Drugging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drug"},{"word":"Drug","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines."},{"word":"Drug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig."},{"word":"Drug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tincture with something offensive or injurious."},{"word":"Drug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs."},{"word":"Drugger","type":"(n.)","description":"A druggist."},{"word":"Drugget","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets."},{"word":"Drugget","type":"(n.)","description":"By extension, any material used for the same purpose."},{"word":"Druggist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary."},{"word":"Drugster","type":"(n.)","description":"A druggist."},{"word":"Druid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons."},{"word":"Druid","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries."},{"word":"Druidess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female Druid; a prophetess."},{"word":"Druidic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Druidical"},{"word":"Druidical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids."},{"word":"Druidish","type":"(a.)","description":"Druidic."},{"word":"Druidism","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling a drum in form"},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Drumfish."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(n.)","description":"A tea party; a kettledrum."},{"word":"Drummed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Drum"},{"word":"Drumming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Drum"},{"word":"Drum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throb, as the heart."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To execute on a drum, as a tune."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"(With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc."},{"word":"Drum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"(With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers."},{"word":"Drumbeat","type":"(n.)","description":"The sound of a beaten drum; drum music."},{"word":"Drumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused."},{"word":"Drumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To mumble in speaking."},{"word":"Drumfish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum."},{"word":"Drumhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum."},{"word":"Drumhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan."},{"word":"Drumlin","type":"(n.)","description":"A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion."},{"word":"Drumly","type":"(a.)","description":"Turbid; muddy."},{"word":"Drum","type":"()","description":"."},{"word":"Drum","type":"()","description":"The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers."},{"word":"Drum","type":"()","description":"The marching leader of a military band."},{"word":"Drum","type":"()","description":"A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4."},{"word":"Drummer","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching."},{"word":"Drummer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler."},{"word":"Drummer","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish that makes a sound when caught"},{"word":"Drummer","type":"(n.)","description":"The squeteague."},{"word":"Drummer","type":"(n.)","description":"A California sculpin."},{"word":"Drummer","type":"(n.)","description":"A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call."},{"word":"Drumming","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides."},{"word":"Drummond","type":"()","description":"A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light."},{"word":"Drumstick","type":"(n.)","description":"A stick with which a drum is beaten."},{"word":"Drumstick","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl."},{"word":"Drunk","type":"(a.)","description":"Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man)."},{"word":"Drunk","type":"(a.)","description":"Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid."},{"word":"Drunk","type":"(n.)","description":"A drunken condition; a spree."},{"word":"Drunkard","type":"(n.)","description":"One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot."},{"word":"Drunken","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated."},{"word":"Drunken","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched."},{"word":"Drunken","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication."},{"word":"Drunkenhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Drunkenness."},{"word":"Drunkenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a drunken manner."},{"word":"Drunkenness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit."},{"word":"Drunkenness","type":"(n.)","description":"Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage."},{"word":"Drunkenship","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Drunkship"},{"word":"Drunkship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being drunk; drunkenness."},{"word":"Drupaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits."},{"word":"Drupal","type":"(a.)","description":"Drupaceous."},{"word":"Drupe","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut."},{"word":"Drupel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Drupelet"},{"word":"Drupelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry."},{"word":"Druse","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode."},{"word":"Druse","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria."},{"word":"Drusy","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Drused"},{"word":"Drused","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a large number of minute crystals."},{"word":"Druxey","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Druxy"},{"word":"Druxy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of the eyes: Not shedding tears."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring."},{"word":"Dried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dry"},{"word":"Drying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dry"},{"word":"Dry","type":"(a.)","description":"To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up."},{"word":"Dry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality."},{"word":"Dryad","type":"(n.)","description":"A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree."},{"word":"Dryandra","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves."},{"word":"Dryades","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dryas"},{"word":"Dryas","type":"(n.)","description":"A dryad."},{"word":"Dry-beat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat severely."},{"word":"Dry-boned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having dry bones, or bones without flesh."},{"word":"Dry","type":"()","description":"See under Dock."},{"word":"Dryer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Drier."},{"word":"Dry-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having tears in the eyes."},{"word":"Dry-fisted","type":"(a.)","description":"Niggardly."},{"word":"Dryfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced."},{"word":"Dry","type":"()","description":"A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries."},{"word":"Drying","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room."},{"word":"Drying","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry."},{"word":"Dryly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly."},{"word":"Dryness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dry. See Dry."},{"word":"Dry","type":"()","description":"A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it."},{"word":"Drynurse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast."},{"word":"Dryobalanops","type":"(n.)","description":"The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil."},{"word":"Dry-rubbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dry-rub"},{"word":"Dry-rubbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dry-rub"},{"word":"Dry-rub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub and cleanse without wetting."},{"word":"Drysalter","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs."},{"word":"Drysaltery","type":"(n.)","description":"The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter."},{"word":"Dry-shod","type":"(a.)","description":"Without wetting the feet."},{"word":"Dry-stone","type":"(a.)","description":"Constructed of uncemented stone."},{"word":"Dryth","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Drith"},{"word":"Drith","type":"(n.)","description":"Drought."},{"word":"Duad","type":"(n.)","description":"A union of two; duality."},{"word":"Dual","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek."},{"word":"Dualin","type":"(n.)","description":"An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion."},{"word":"Dualism","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction"},{"word":"Dualism","type":"(n.)","description":"A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit."},{"word":"Dualism","type":"(n.)","description":"A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil."},{"word":"Dualism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate."},{"word":"Dualism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other."},{"word":"Dualist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in dualism; a ditheist."},{"word":"Dualist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who administers two offices."},{"word":"Dualistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality."},{"word":"Duality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage."},{"word":"Duan","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song."},{"word":"Duarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by two persons."},{"word":"Dubbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dub"},{"word":"Dubbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dub"},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;"},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a noise by brisk drumbeats."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow."},{"word":"Dub","type":"(n.)","description":"A pool or puddle."},{"word":"Dubb","type":"(n.)","description":"The Syrian bear. See under Bear."},{"word":"Dubber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dubs."},{"word":"Dubber","type":"(n.)","description":"A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc."},{"word":"Dubbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc."},{"word":"Dubbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz."},{"word":"Dubbing","type":"(n.)","description":"A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing."},{"word":"Dubbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The body substance of an angler's fly."},{"word":"Dubieties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dubiety"},{"word":"Dubiety","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt."},{"word":"Dubiosities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dubiosity"},{"word":"Dubiosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing."},{"word":"Dubious","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined."},{"word":"Dubious","type":"(a.)","description":"Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer."},{"word":"Dubious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle."},{"word":"Dubiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dubious manner."},{"word":"Dubiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being dubious."},{"word":"Dubitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be doubted; uncertain."},{"word":"Dubitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubt; uncertainty."},{"word":"Dubitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To doubt."},{"word":"Dubitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of doubting; doubt."},{"word":"Dubitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to doubt; doubtful."},{"word":"Duboisia","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Duboisine."},{"word":"Duboisine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye."},{"word":"Ducal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a duke."},{"word":"Ducally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke."},{"word":"Ducat","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke."},{"word":"Ducatoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values."},{"word":"Duces","type":"()","description":"A judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court."},{"word":"Duchess","type":"(n.)","description":"The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right."},{"word":"Duchesse","type":"()","description":"A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor."},{"word":"Duchies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Duchy"},{"word":"Duchy","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(n.)","description":"A pet; a darling."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(n.)","description":"A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(n.)","description":"The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates."},{"word":"Ducked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Duck"},{"word":"Ducking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Duck"},{"word":"Duck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae."},{"word":"Duck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water."},{"word":"Duckbill","type":"(n.)","description":"See Duck mole, under Duck, n."},{"word":"Duck-billed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bill like that of a duck."},{"word":"Ducker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver."},{"word":"Ducker","type":"(n.)","description":"A cringing, servile person; a fawner."},{"word":"Ducking","type":"()","description":"n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i."},{"word":"Duck-legged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged."},{"word":"Duckling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young or little duck."},{"word":"Duckmeat","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Duck's-meat"},{"word":"Duck's-meat","type":"(n.)","description":"Duckweed."},{"word":"Duck's-bill","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a duck's bill."},{"word":"Duck's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum)."},{"word":"Duckweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat."},{"word":"Duct","type":"(n.)","description":"Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed."},{"word":"Duct","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination."},{"word":"Duct","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber."},{"word":"Duct","type":"(n.)","description":"Guidance; direction."},{"word":"Ductible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being drawn out"},{"word":"Ductile","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people."},{"word":"Ductile","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads."},{"word":"Ductilimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals."},{"word":"Ductility","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments."},{"word":"Ductility","type":"(n.)","description":"Tractableness; pliableness."},{"word":"Duction","type":"(n.)","description":"Guidance."},{"word":"Ductless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland."},{"word":"Ductor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who leads."},{"word":"Ductor","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4."},{"word":"Ducture","type":"(n.)","description":"Guidance."},{"word":"Dudder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confuse or confound with noise."},{"word":"Dudder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shiver or tremble; to dodder."},{"word":"Dudder","type":"(n.)","description":"A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer."},{"word":"Duddery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where rags are bought and kept for sale."},{"word":"Dude","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations."},{"word":"Dudeen","type":"(n.)","description":"A short tobacco pipe."},{"word":"Dudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made."},{"word":"Dudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"The haft of a dagger."},{"word":"Dudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger."},{"word":"Dudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure."},{"word":"Dudgeon","type":"(a.)","description":"Homely; rude; coarse."},{"word":"Dudish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or characterized of, a dude."},{"word":"Duds","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments."},{"word":"Duds","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Effects, in general."},{"word":"Due","type":"(a.)","description":"Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable."},{"word":"Due","type":"(a.)","description":"Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit."},{"word":"Due","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time."},{"word":"Due","type":"(a.)","description":"Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday."},{"word":"Due","type":"(a.)","description":"Owing; ascribable, as to a cause."},{"word":"Due","type":"(adv.)","description":"Directly; exactly; as, a due east course."},{"word":"Due","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll."},{"word":"Due","type":"(n.)","description":"Right; just title or claim."},{"word":"Due","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endue."},{"word":"Duebill","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note."},{"word":"Dueful","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit; becoming."},{"word":"Duel","type":"(n.)","description":"A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other."},{"word":"Duel","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To fight in single combat."},{"word":"Dueler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who engages in a duel."},{"word":"Dueling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj."},{"word":"Duelist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fights in single combat."},{"word":"Duelo","type":"(n.)","description":"A duel; also, the rules of dueling."},{"word":"Due�a","type":"(n.)","description":"See Do�a."},{"word":"Dueness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming."},{"word":"Duennas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Duenna"},{"word":"Duenna","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain."},{"word":"Duenna","type":"(n.)","description":"An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family."},{"word":"Duenna","type":"(n.)","description":"Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess."},{"word":"Duet","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental."},{"word":"Duettino","type":"(n.)","description":"A duet of short extent and concise form."},{"word":"Duetto","type":"(n.)","description":"See Duet."},{"word":"Duff","type":"(n.)","description":"Dough or paste."},{"word":"Duff","type":"(n.)","description":"A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff."},{"word":"Duffel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze."},{"word":"Duffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat."},{"word":"Duffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid, awkward, inefficient person."},{"word":"Duffle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Duffel."},{"word":"Dufrenite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron."},{"word":"Dug","type":"(n.)","description":"A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast."},{"word":"Dug","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dig."},{"word":"Dugong","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, and Australia."},{"word":"Dugout","type":"(n.)","description":"A canoe or boat dug out from a large log."},{"word":"Dugout","type":"(n.)","description":"A place dug out."},{"word":"Dugout","type":"(n.)","description":"A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation."},{"word":"Dugway","type":"(n.)","description":"A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land."},{"word":"Duke","type":"(n.)","description":"A leader; a chief; a prince."},{"word":"Duke","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland."},{"word":"Duke","type":"(n.)","description":"In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king."},{"word":"Duke","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the duke."},{"word":"Dukedom","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory of a duke."},{"word":"Dukedom","type":"(n.)","description":"The title or dignity of a duke."},{"word":"Dukeling","type":"(n.)","description":"A little or insignificant duke."},{"word":"Dukeship","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke."},{"word":"Dulcamara","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a)."},{"word":"Dulcamarin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a)."},{"word":"Dulce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sweet; to soothe."},{"word":"Dulceness","type":"(n.)","description":"Sweetness."},{"word":"Dulcet","type":"(a.)","description":"Sweet to the taste; luscious."},{"word":"Dulcet","type":"(a.)","description":"Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious."},{"word":"Dulciana","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet-toned stop of an organ."},{"word":"Dulcification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dulcifying or sweetening."},{"word":"Dulcified","type":"(a.)","description":"Sweetened; mollified."},{"word":"Dulcifluous","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing sweetly."},{"word":"Dulcified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dulcify"},{"word":"Dulcifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dulcify"},{"word":"Dulcify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony."},{"word":"Dulcify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please."},{"word":"Dulciloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft manner of speaking."},{"word":"Dulcimer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer."},{"word":"Dulcimer","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery."},{"word":"Dulcinea","type":"(n.)","description":"A mistress; a sweetheart."},{"word":"Dulciness","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dulceness."},{"word":"Dulcite","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar."},{"word":"Dulcino","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dolcino."},{"word":"Dulcitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Sweetness."},{"word":"Dulcorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sweeten; to make less acrimonious."},{"word":"Dulcoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sweetening."},{"word":"Duledge","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage."},{"word":"Dulia","type":"(n.)","description":"An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(superl.)","description":"Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(superl.)","description":"Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(superl.)","description":"Insensible; unfeeling."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(superl.)","description":"Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(superl.)","description":"Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day."},{"word":"Duller","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dull"},{"word":"Dulling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dull"},{"word":"Dull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of sharpness of edge or point."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden."},{"word":"Dull","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become dull or stupid."},{"word":"Dullard","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid person; a dunce."},{"word":"Dullard","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid."},{"word":"Dull-brained","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; doltish."},{"word":"Dull-browed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a gloomy look."},{"word":"Duller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dulls."},{"word":"Dull-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity."},{"word":"Dullhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A blockhead; a dolt."},{"word":"Dullish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome."},{"word":"Dullness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness."},{"word":"Dull-sighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having poor eyesight."},{"word":"Dullsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull."},{"word":"Dull-witted","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid."},{"word":"Dully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit."},{"word":"Dulocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Doulocracy."},{"word":"Dulse","type":"(n.)","description":"A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]"},{"word":"Dulwilly","type":"(n.)","description":"The ring plover."},{"word":"Duly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly."},{"word":"Dumal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly."},{"word":"Dumb","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes."},{"word":"Dumb","type":"(a.)","description":"Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show."},{"word":"Dumb","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color."},{"word":"Dumb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put to silence."},{"word":"Dumb-bell","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise."},{"word":"Dumbledor","type":"(n.)","description":"A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer."},{"word":"Dumbly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In silence; mutely."},{"word":"Dumbness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak."},{"word":"Dumb-waiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves."},{"word":"Dumetose","type":"(a.)","description":"Dumose."},{"word":"Dumfounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dumfound"},{"word":"Dumfounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dumfound"},{"word":"Dumfound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment."},{"word":"Dumfounder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dumfound; to confound."},{"word":"Dummador","type":"(n.)","description":"A dumbledor."},{"word":"Dummerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who feigns dumbness."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(a.)","description":"Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(a.)","description":"Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch."},{"word":"Dummies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dummy"},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is dumb."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(n.)","description":"A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(n.)","description":"An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick-witted person; a dolt."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(n.)","description":"A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(n.)","description":"The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards."},{"word":"Dummy","type":"(n.)","description":"A floating barge connected with a pier."},{"word":"Dumose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dumous"},{"word":"Dumous","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with bushes and briers."},{"word":"Dumous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a compact, bushy form."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Absence of mind; revery."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An old kind of dance."},{"word":"Dumped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dump"},{"word":"Dumping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dump"},{"word":"Dump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To knock heavily; to stump."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(n.)","description":"A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(n.)","description":"A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is dumped."},{"word":"Dump","type":"(n.)","description":"A pile of ore or rock."},{"word":"Dumpage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter."},{"word":"Dumpage","type":"(n.)","description":"A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads."},{"word":"Dumpiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dumpy."},{"word":"Dumpish","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy."},{"word":"Dumple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another."},{"word":"Dumpling","type":"(n.)","description":"A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling."},{"word":"Dumpy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout."},{"word":"Dumpy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Sullen or discontented."},{"word":"Dun","type":"(n.)","description":"A mound or small hill."},{"word":"Dun","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance."},{"word":"Dunned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dun"},{"word":"Dunning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dun"},{"word":"Dun","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately."},{"word":"Dun","type":"(n.)","description":"One who duns; a dunner."},{"word":"Dun","type":"(n.)","description":"An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun."},{"word":"Dun","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy."},{"word":"Dunbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre."},{"word":"Dunbird","type":"(n.)","description":"An American duck; the ruddy duck."},{"word":"Dunce","type":"(n.)","description":"One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt."},{"word":"Duncedom","type":"(n.)","description":"The realm or domain of dunces."},{"word":"Duncery","type":"(n.)","description":"Dullness; stupidity."},{"word":"Duncical","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a dunce; duncish."},{"word":"Duncify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make stupid in intellect."},{"word":"Duncish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat like a dunce."},{"word":"Dunder","type":"(n.)","description":"The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum."},{"word":"Dunderhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead."},{"word":"Dunder-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Thick-headed; stupid."},{"word":"Dunderpate","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dunderhead."},{"word":"Dune","type":"(n.)","description":"A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds."},{"word":"Dunfish","type":"(n.)","description":"Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality."},{"word":"Dung","type":"(n.)","description":"The excrement of an animal."},{"word":"Dunged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dung"},{"word":"Dunging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dung"},{"word":"Dung","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manure with dung."},{"word":"Dung","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant."},{"word":"Dung","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To void excrement."},{"word":"Dungaree","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff."},{"word":"Dungeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons."},{"word":"Dungeon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up in a dungeon."},{"word":"Dungfork","type":"(n.)","description":"A fork for tossing dung."},{"word":"Dunghill","type":"(n.)","description":"A heap of dung."},{"word":"Dunghill","type":"(n.)","description":"Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode."},{"word":"Dungmeer","type":"(n.)","description":"A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure."},{"word":"Dungy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of dung; filthy; vile; low."},{"word":"Dungyard","type":"(n.)","description":"A yard where dung is collected."},{"word":"Dunker","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists."},{"word":"Dunlin","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America."},{"word":"Dunnage","type":"(n.)","description":"Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion."},{"word":"Dunner","type":"(n.)","description":"One employed in soliciting the payment of debts."},{"word":"Dunnish","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to a dun color."},{"word":"Dunnock","type":"(a.)","description":"The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor."},{"word":"Dunny","type":"(a.)","description":"Deaf; stupid."},{"word":"Dunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow."},{"word":"Dunted","type":"(a.)","description":"Beaten; hence, blunted."},{"word":"Dunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A porpoise."},{"word":"Duo","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition for two performers; a duet."},{"word":"Duodecahedral","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Duodecahedron"},{"word":"Duodecahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron."},{"word":"Duodecennial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of twelve years."},{"word":"Duodecimal","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves."},{"word":"Duodecimal","type":"(n.)","description":"A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch."},{"word":"Duodecimal","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work."},{"word":"Duodecimfid","type":"(a.)","description":"Divided into twelve parts."},{"word":"Duodecimo","type":"(a.)","description":"Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc."},{"word":"Duodecimos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Duodecimo"},{"word":"Duodecimo","type":"(n.)","description":"A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 12mo or 12�."},{"word":"Duodecuple","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of twelves."},{"word":"Duodenal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion."},{"word":"Duodenary","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal."},{"word":"Duodenum","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive."},{"word":"Duoliteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two letters only; biliteral."},{"word":"Duomo","type":"(n.)","description":"A cathedral. See Dome, 2."},{"word":"Dup","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To open; as, to dup the door."},{"word":"Dupable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being duped."},{"word":"Dupe","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer."},{"word":"Duped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dupe"},{"word":"Duping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dupe"},{"word":"Dupe","type":"(n.)","description":"To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery."},{"word":"Duper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dupes another."},{"word":"Dupery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of duping."},{"word":"Dupion","type":"(n.)","description":"A double cocoon, made by two silkworms."},{"word":"Duple","type":"(a.)","description":"Double."},{"word":"Duplex","type":"(a.)","description":"Double; twofold."},{"word":"Duplicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Double; twofold."},{"word":"Duplicate","type":"(n.)","description":"That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart."},{"word":"Duplicate","type":"(n.)","description":"An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original."},{"word":"Duplicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Duplicate"},{"word":"Duplicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Duplicate"},{"word":"Duplicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To double; to fold; to render double."},{"word":"Duplicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of."},{"word":"Duplicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves."},{"word":"Duplication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold."},{"word":"Duplication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells."},{"word":"Duplicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of duplicating or doubling."},{"word":"Duplicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth."},{"word":"Duplicature","type":"(n.)","description":"A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane."},{"word":"Duplicities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Duplicity"},{"word":"Duplicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubleness; a twofold state."},{"word":"Duplicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith."},{"word":"Duplicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient."},{"word":"Duplicity","type":"(n.)","description":"In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses."},{"word":"Dupper","type":"(n.)","description":"See 2d Dubber."},{"word":"Dur","type":"(a.)","description":"Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major."},{"word":"Dura","type":"(n.)","description":"Short form for Dura mater."},{"word":"Durability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness."},{"word":"Durable","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness."},{"word":"Durableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability."},{"word":"Durably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a lasting manner; with long continuance."},{"word":"Dural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater."},{"word":"Dura","type":"()","description":"The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura."},{"word":"Duramen","type":"(n.)","description":"The heartwood of an exogenous tree."},{"word":"Durance","type":"(n.)","description":"Continuance; duration. See Endurance."},{"word":"Durance","type":"(n.)","description":"Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak."},{"word":"Durance","type":"(n.)","description":"A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting."},{"word":"Durance","type":"(n.)","description":"In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes."},{"word":"Durancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Duration."},{"word":"Durant","type":"(n.)","description":"See Durance, 3."},{"word":"Durante","type":"(prep.)","description":"During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure."},{"word":"Duration","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists."},{"word":"Durative","type":"(a.)","description":"Continuing; not completed; implying duration."},{"word":"Durbar","type":"(n.)","description":"An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India."},{"word":"Dure","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome."},{"word":"Dure","type":"(a.)","description":"To last; to continue; to endure."},{"word":"Dureful","type":"(a.)","description":"Lasting."},{"word":"Dureless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not lasting."},{"word":"Durene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor."},{"word":"Duress","type":"(n.)","description":"Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty."},{"word":"Duress","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense."},{"word":"Duress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to duress."},{"word":"Duressor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who subjects another to duress"},{"word":"Durga","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Doorga."},{"word":"Durham","type":"(n.)","description":"One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality."},{"word":"Durian","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Durion"},{"word":"Durion","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts."},{"word":"During","type":"(prep.)","description":"In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year."},{"word":"Durio","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian."},{"word":"Durity","type":"(n.)","description":"Hardness; firmness."},{"word":"Durity","type":"(n.)","description":"Harshness; cruelty."},{"word":"Durometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like."},{"word":"Durous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard."},{"word":"Durra","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn."},{"word":"Durst","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Dare. See Dare, v. i."},{"word":"Durukuli","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus)."},{"word":"Durylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid."},{"word":"Duse","type":"(n.)","description":"A demon or spirit. See Deuce."},{"word":"Dusk","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky."},{"word":"Dusk","type":"(n.)","description":"Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening."},{"word":"Dusk","type":"(n.)","description":"A darkish color."},{"word":"Dusk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dusk."},{"word":"Dusk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow dusk."},{"word":"Dusken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dusk or obscure."},{"word":"Duskily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dusky manner."},{"word":"Duskiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dusky."},{"word":"Duskish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat dusky."},{"word":"Duskness","type":"(n.)","description":"Duskiness."},{"word":"Dusky","type":"(a.)","description":"Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley."},{"word":"Dusky","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown."},{"word":"Dusky","type":"(a.)","description":"Gloomy; sad; melancholy."},{"word":"Dusky","type":"(a.)","description":"Intellectually clouded."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(n.)","description":"Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(n.)","description":"A single particle of earth or other matter."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(n.)","description":"The earth, as the resting place of the dead."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(n.)","description":"The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(n.)","description":"Figuratively, a worthless thing."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(n.)","description":"Figuratively, a low or mean condition."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(n.)","description":"Gold dust"},{"word":"Dust","type":"(n.)","description":"Coined money; cash."},{"word":"Dusted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dust"},{"word":"Dusting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dust"},{"word":"Dust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle with dust."},{"word":"Dust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate."},{"word":"Dustbrush","type":"(n.)","description":"A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture."},{"word":"Duster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust."},{"word":"Duster","type":"(n.)","description":"A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc."},{"word":"Duster","type":"(n.)","description":"A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran."},{"word":"Duster","type":"(n.)","description":"A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust."},{"word":"Dustiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being dusty."},{"word":"Dustless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without dust; as a dustless path."},{"word":"Dustmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dustman"},{"word":"Dustman","type":"(p.)","description":"One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse."},{"word":"Dustpan","type":"(n.)","description":"A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor."},{"word":"Dust-point","type":"(n.)","description":"An old rural game."},{"word":"Dusty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust."},{"word":"Dusty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white."},{"word":"Dutch","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Dutch","type":"(n.)","description":"The people of Holland; Dutchmen."},{"word":"Dutch","type":"(n.)","description":"The language spoken in Holland."},{"word":"Dutchmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dutchman"},{"word":"Dutchman","type":"(n.)","description":"A native, or one of the people, of Holland."},{"word":"Duteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter."},{"word":"Duteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Subservient; obsequious."},{"word":"Dutiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods."},{"word":"Dutied","type":"(a.)","description":"Subjected to a duty."},{"word":"Dutiful","type":"(a.)","description":"Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject."},{"word":"Dutiful","type":"(a.)","description":"Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection."},{"word":"Duties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Duty"},{"word":"Duty","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is due; payment."},{"word":"Duty","type":"(n.)","description":"That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory."},{"word":"Duty","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty."},{"word":"Duty","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors."},{"word":"Duty","type":"(n.)","description":"Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage."},{"word":"Duty","type":"(n.)","description":"The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States)."},{"word":"Duty","type":"(n.)","description":"Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods."},{"word":"Duumvirs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Duumvir"},{"word":"Duumviri","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Duumvir"},{"word":"Duumvir","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions."},{"word":"Duumviral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate."},{"word":"Duumvirate","type":"(n.)","description":"The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome."},{"word":"Dux","type":"(n.)","description":"The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion."},{"word":"Duykerbok","type":"(n.)","description":"A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo."},{"word":"Duyoung","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dugong."},{"word":"D","type":"()","description":"A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide."},{"word":"Dvergar","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dvergr"},{"word":"Dvergr","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals."},{"word":"Dwale","type":"(a.)","description":"The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities."},{"word":"Dwale","type":"(a.)","description":"The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures."},{"word":"Dwale","type":"(a.)","description":"A sleeping potion; an opiate."},{"word":"Dwang","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them."},{"word":"Dwang","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of crowbar."},{"word":"Dwang","type":"(n.)","description":"A large wrench."},{"word":"Dwarfs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dwarf"},{"word":"Dwarf","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being."},{"word":"Dwarfed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dwarf"},{"word":"Dwarfing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dwarf"},{"word":"Dwarf","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt."},{"word":"Dwarf","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become small; to diminish in size."},{"word":"Dwarfish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub."},{"word":"Dwarfling","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminutive dwarf."},{"word":"Dwarfy","type":"(a.)","description":"Much undersized."},{"word":"Dwaul","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Dwaule"},{"word":"Dwaule","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be delirious."},{"word":"Dwelled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dwell"},{"word":"Dwelt","type":"()","description":"of Dwell"},{"word":"Dwelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dwell"},{"word":"Dwell","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To delay; to linger."},{"word":"Dwell","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To abide; to remain; to continue."},{"word":"Dwell","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside."},{"word":"Dwell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inhabit."},{"word":"Dweller","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller."},{"word":"Dwelling","type":"(n.)","description":"Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile."},{"word":"Dwelt","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dwell."},{"word":"Dwindled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dwindle"},{"word":"Dwindling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dwindle"},{"word":"Dwindle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away."},{"word":"Dwindle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make less; to bring low."},{"word":"Dwindle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break; to disperse."},{"word":"Dwindle","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy."},{"word":"Dwindlement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling."},{"word":"Dwine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waste away; to pine; to languish."},{"word":"Dyad","type":"(n.)","description":"Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair."},{"word":"Dyad","type":"(n.)","description":"An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two."},{"word":"Dyad","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence."},{"word":"Dyadic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements."},{"word":"Dyaks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices."},{"word":"Dyas","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups."},{"word":"Dyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Dye"},{"word":"Dyeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Dye"},{"word":"Dye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs."},{"word":"Dye","type":"(n.)","description":"Color produced by dyeing."},{"word":"Dye","type":"(n.)","description":"Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff."},{"word":"Dye","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Die, a lot."},{"word":"Dyehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A building in which dyeing is carried on."},{"word":"Dyeing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc."},{"word":"Dyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like."},{"word":"Dyestuff","type":"(n.)","description":"A material used for dyeing."},{"word":"Dyewood","type":"(n.)","description":"Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing."},{"word":"Dying","type":"(a.)","description":"In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies."},{"word":"Dying","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state."},{"word":"Dying","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life."},{"word":"Dyingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dying manner; as if at the point of death."},{"word":"Dyingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment."},{"word":"Dyke","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning."},{"word":"Dynactinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses."},{"word":"Dynam","type":"(n.)","description":"A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound."},{"word":"Dynameter","type":"(n.)","description":"A dynamometer."},{"word":"Dynameter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye end of a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power."},{"word":"Dynametrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a dynameter."},{"word":"Dynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dynamical"},{"word":"Dynamical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force."},{"word":"Dynamical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology."},{"word":"Dynamically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces."},{"word":"Dynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics."},{"word":"Dynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"The moving moral, as well as physical, forces of any kind, or the laws which relate to them."},{"word":"Dynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"That department of musical science which relates to, or treats of, the power of tones."},{"word":"Dynamism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force."},{"word":"Dynamist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics."},{"word":"Dynamitard","type":"(n.)","description":"A political dynamiter. [A form found in some newspapers.]"},{"word":"Dynamite","type":"(n.)","description":"An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition."},{"word":"Dynamiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property."},{"word":"Dynamiting","type":"(n.)","description":"Destroying by dynamite, for political ends."},{"word":"Dynamitism","type":"(n.)","description":"The work of dynamiters."},{"word":"Dynamization","type":"()","description":"The act of setting free the dynamic powers of a medicine, as by shaking the bottle containing it."},{"word":"Dynamo","type":"(n.)","description":"A dynamo-electric machine."},{"word":"Dynamo-electric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power."},{"word":"Dynamograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power."},{"word":"Dynamometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery."},{"word":"Dynamometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dynamometrical"},{"word":"Dynamometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments."},{"word":"Dynamometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of measuring forces doing work."},{"word":"Dynast","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruler; a governor; a prince."},{"word":"Dynast","type":"(n.)","description":"A dynasty; a government."},{"word":"Dynasta","type":"(n.)","description":"A tyrant."},{"word":"Dynastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings."},{"word":"Dynastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Dynastic."},{"word":"Dynastidan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length."},{"word":"Dynasties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dynasty"},{"word":"Dynasty","type":"(n.)","description":"Sovereignty; lordship; dominion."},{"word":"Dynasty","type":"(n.)","description":"A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers."},{"word":"Dyne","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second."},{"word":"Dys-","type":"()","description":"An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek / hard, ill, and signifying ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr. dus-, Goth. tuz-, OHG. zur-, G. zer-, AS. to-, Icel. tor-, Ir. do-."},{"word":"Dysaesthesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch."},{"word":"Dyscrasia","type":"(n.)","description":"An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors."},{"word":"Dyscrasite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral consisting of antimony and silver."},{"word":"Discrasies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Dyscrasy"},{"word":"Dyscrasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dycrasia."},{"word":"Dysenteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dysenterical"},{"word":"Dysenterical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient."},{"word":"Dysentery","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood."},{"word":"Dysgenesic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another."},{"word":"Dysgenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race."},{"word":"Dyslogistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic."},{"word":"Dysluite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite."},{"word":"Dyslysin","type":"(n.)","description":"A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve."},{"word":"Dysmenorrhea","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficult and painful menstruation."},{"word":"Dysnomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws."},{"word":"Dysodile","type":"(n.)","description":"An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning."},{"word":"Dyspepsia","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Dyspepsy"},{"word":"Dyspepsy","type":"()","description":"A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc."},{"word":"Dyspeptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Dyspeptical"},{"word":"Dyspeptical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to dyspepsia; having dyspepsia; as, a dyspeptic or dyspeptical symptom."},{"word":"Dyspeptic","type":"(n.)","description":"A person afflicted with dyspepsia."},{"word":"Dyspeptone","type":"(n.)","description":"An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice."},{"word":"Dysphagia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dysphagy"},{"word":"Dysphagy","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficulty in swallowing."},{"word":"Dysphonia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dysphony"},{"word":"Dysphony","type":"(n.)","description":"A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice."},{"word":"Dysphoria","type":"(n.)","description":"Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets."},{"word":"Dyspnoea","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficulty of breathing."},{"word":"Dyspnoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with shortness of breath; relating to dyspnoea."},{"word":"Dysteleology","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism."},{"word":"Dystocia","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficult delivery pr parturition."},{"word":"Dystome","type":"(a.)","description":"Cleaving with difficulty."},{"word":"Dysuria","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dysury"},{"word":"Dysury","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficult or painful discharge of urine."},{"word":"Dysuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury."},{"word":"Dzeren","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Dzeron"},{"word":"Dzeron","type":"(n.)","description":"The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China."},{"word":"Dziggetai","type":"(n.)","description":"The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus)."},{"word":"E","type":"()","description":"The fifth letter of the English alphabet."},{"word":"E","type":"()","description":"E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E/ (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and E."},{"word":"E-","type":"()","description":"A Latin prefix meaning out, out of, from; also, without. See Ex-."},{"word":"Each","type":"(a. / a. pron.)","description":"Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you."},{"word":"Each","type":"(a. / a. pron.)","description":"Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every."},{"word":"Eachwhere","type":"(adv.)","description":"Everywhere."},{"word":"Eadish","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eddish."},{"word":"Eager","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharp; sour; acid."},{"word":"Eager","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharp; keen; bitter; severe."},{"word":"Eager","type":"(a.)","description":"Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase."},{"word":"Eager","type":"(a.)","description":"Brittle; inflexible; not ductile."},{"word":"Eager","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Eagre."},{"word":"Eagerly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eager manner."},{"word":"Eagerness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire."},{"word":"Eagerness","type":"(n.)","description":"Tartness; sourness."},{"word":"Eagle","type":"(n.)","description":"Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle."},{"word":"Eagle","type":"(n.)","description":"A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars."},{"word":"Eagle","type":"(n.)","description":"A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila."},{"word":"Eagle","type":"(n.)","description":"The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people."},{"word":"Eagle-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharp-sighted as an eagle."},{"word":"Eagle-sighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted."},{"word":"Eagless","type":"(n.)","description":"A female or hen eagle."},{"word":"Eaglestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites."},{"word":"Eaglet","type":"(n.)","description":"A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle."},{"word":"Eagle-winged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle."},{"word":"Eaglewood","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum."},{"word":"Eagrass","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eddish."},{"word":"Eagre","type":"(n.)","description":"A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore."},{"word":"Ealderman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ealdorman"},{"word":"Ealdorman","type":"(n.)","description":"An alderman."},{"word":"Eale","type":"(n.)","description":"Ale."},{"word":"Eame","type":"(n.)","description":"Uncle."},{"word":"Ean","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To bring forth, as young; to yean."},{"word":"Eanling","type":"(n.)","description":"A lamb just brought forth; a yeanling."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(n.)","description":"The organ of hearing; the external ear."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(n.)","description":"The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Acroterium."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Crossette."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(n.)","description":"Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention."},{"word":"Eared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ear"},{"word":"Earing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ear"},{"word":"Ear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take in with the ears; to hear."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(n.)","description":"The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well."},{"word":"Ear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plow or till; to cultivate."},{"word":"Earable","type":"(a.)","description":"Arable; tillable."},{"word":"Earache","type":"(n.)","description":"Ache or pain in the ear."},{"word":"Earal","type":"(a.)","description":"Receiving by the ear."},{"word":"Ear-bored","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ear perforated."},{"word":"Earcap","type":"(n.)","description":"A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold."},{"word":"Earcockle","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms."},{"word":"Eardrop","type":"(n.)","description":"A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops."},{"word":"Eardrop","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of primrose. See Auricula."},{"word":"Eardrum","type":"(n.)","description":"The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear."},{"word":"Eared","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared."},{"word":"Eared","type":"(a.)","description":"Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears."},{"word":"Eariness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural."},{"word":"Earing","type":"(n.)","description":"A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing."},{"word":"Earing","type":"(n.)","description":"A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing."},{"word":"Earing","type":"(n.)","description":"A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions."},{"word":"Earing","type":"(n.)","description":"Coming into ear, as corn."},{"word":"Earing","type":"(n.)","description":"A plowing of land."},{"word":"Earl","type":"(n.)","description":"A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count."},{"word":"Earl","type":"(n.)","description":"The needlefish."},{"word":"Earlap","type":"(n.)","description":"The lobe of the ear."},{"word":"Earldom","type":"(n.)","description":"The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl."},{"word":"Earldom","type":"(n.)","description":"The status, title, or dignity of an earl."},{"word":"Earldorman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alderman."},{"word":"Earlduck","type":"(n.)","description":"The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator)."},{"word":"Earles","type":"()","description":"Earnest money. Same as Arles penny."},{"word":"Earless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear."},{"word":"Earlet","type":"(n.)","description":"An earring."},{"word":"Earliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being early or forward; promptness."},{"word":"Earl","type":"()","description":"An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms."},{"word":"Earlock","type":"(n.)","description":"A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock."},{"word":"Early","type":"(adv.)","description":"Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early."},{"word":"Early","type":"(adv.)","description":"In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit."},{"word":"Early","type":"(adv.)","description":"Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc."},{"word":"Earmark","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting."},{"word":"Earmark","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark."},{"word":"Earmarked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Earmark"},{"word":"Earmarking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Earmark"},{"word":"Earmark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear."},{"word":"Earn","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ern, n."},{"word":"Earned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Earn"},{"word":"Earning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Earn"},{"word":"Earn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not)."},{"word":"Earn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels."},{"word":"Earn","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To grieve."},{"word":"Earn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To long; to yearn."},{"word":"Earn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To curdle, as milk."},{"word":"Earnest","type":"(n.)","description":"Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness."},{"word":"Earnest","type":"(a.)","description":"Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavor; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers."},{"word":"Earnest","type":"(a.)","description":"Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention."},{"word":"Earnest","type":"(a.)","description":"Serious; important."},{"word":"Earnest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use in earnest."},{"word":"Earnest","type":"(n.)","description":"Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come."},{"word":"Earnest","type":"(n.)","description":"Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale."},{"word":"Earnestful","type":"(a.)","description":"Serious."},{"word":"Earnestly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an earnest manner."},{"word":"Earnestness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety."},{"word":"Earnful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of anxiety or yearning."},{"word":"Earnings","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Earning"},{"word":"Earning","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural."},{"word":"Earpick","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for removing wax from the ear."},{"word":"Ear-piercer","type":"(n.)","description":"The earwig."},{"word":"Earreach","type":"(n.)","description":"Earshot."},{"word":"Earring","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant."},{"word":"Earsh","type":"(n.)","description":"See Arrish."},{"word":"Ear-shell","type":"(n.)","description":"A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; -- called also sea-ear. See Abalone."},{"word":"Earshot","type":"(n.)","description":"Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard."},{"word":"Earshrift","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname for auricular confession; shrift."},{"word":"Earsore","type":"(n.)","description":"An annoyance to the ear."},{"word":"Ear-splitting","type":"(a.)","description":"Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains."},{"word":"Earst","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Erst."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of this globe; a region; a country; land."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"The people on the globe."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox."},{"word":"Earthed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Earth"},{"word":"Earthing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Earth"},{"word":"Earth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burrow."},{"word":"Earth","type":"(n.)","description":"A plowing."},{"word":"Earthbag","type":"(n.)","description":"A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet."},{"word":"Earthbank","type":"(n.)","description":"A bank or mound of earth."},{"word":"Earthboard","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard."},{"word":"Earthborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human."},{"word":"Earthborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects."},{"word":"Earthbred","type":"(a.)","description":"Low; grovelling; vulgar."},{"word":"Earthdin","type":"(n.)","description":"An earthquake."},{"word":"Earthdrake","type":"(n.)","description":"A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon."},{"word":"Earthen","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe."},{"word":"Earthen-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard-hearted; sordid; gross."},{"word":"Earthenware","type":"(n.)","description":"Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain."},{"word":"Earth","type":"()","description":"A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus."},{"word":"Earthfork","type":"(n.)","description":"A pronged fork for turning up the earth."},{"word":"Earthiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness."},{"word":"Earthliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness."},{"word":"Earthling","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal."},{"word":"Earthly","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise."},{"word":"Earthly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable."},{"word":"Earthly","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of earth; earthy."},{"word":"Earthly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly."},{"word":"Earthly-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded."},{"word":"Earthmad","type":"(n.)","description":"The earthworm."},{"word":"Earthnut","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground"},{"word":"Earthnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum."},{"word":"Earthnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The peanut. See Peanut."},{"word":"Earthpea","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of pea (Amphicarpaea monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods."},{"word":"Earthquake","type":"(n.)","description":"A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock."},{"word":"Earthquake","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; starling."},{"word":"Earthquave","type":"(n.)","description":"An earthquake."},{"word":"Earth","type":"()","description":"See Earth light, under Earth."},{"word":"Earthshock","type":"(n.)","description":"An earthquake."},{"word":"Earthstar","type":"(n.)","description":"A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores."},{"word":"Earth-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"A fungus of the genus Geoglossum."},{"word":"Earthward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Earthwards"},{"word":"Earthwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward."},{"word":"Earthwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth."},{"word":"Earthwork","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc."},{"word":"Earthwork","type":"(n.)","description":"An embankment or construction made of earth."},{"word":"Earthworm","type":"(n.)","description":"Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm."},{"word":"Earthworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean, sordid person; a niggard."},{"word":"Earthy","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter."},{"word":"Earthy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal."},{"word":"Earthy","type":"(a.)","description":"Gross; low; unrefined."},{"word":"Earthy","type":"(a.)","description":"Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture."},{"word":"Earwax","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cerumen."},{"word":"Earwig","type":"(n.)","description":"Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera."},{"word":"Earwig","type":"(n.)","description":"In America, any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus."},{"word":"Earwig","type":"(n.)","description":"A whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor."},{"word":"Earwigged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Earwig"},{"word":"Earwigging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Earwig"},{"word":"Earwig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk."},{"word":"Earwitness","type":"(n.)","description":"A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer."},{"word":"Ease","type":"(n.)","description":"Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment."},{"word":"Ease","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body."},{"word":"Ease","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind."},{"word":"Ease","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address."},{"word":"Eased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ease"},{"word":"Easing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ease"},{"word":"Ease","type":"(n.)","description":"To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind."},{"word":"Ease","type":"(n.)","description":"To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate."},{"word":"Ease","type":"(n.)","description":"To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery."},{"word":"Ease","type":"(n.)","description":"To entertain; to furnish with accommodations."},{"word":"Easeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful."},{"word":"Easel","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition."},{"word":"Easeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without ease."},{"word":"Easement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation."},{"word":"Easement","type":"(n.)","description":"A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude."},{"word":"Easement","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc."},{"word":"Easily","type":"(adv.)","description":"With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen."},{"word":"Easily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily."},{"word":"Easily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Readily; without reluctance; willingly."},{"word":"Easily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without /umult or discord."},{"word":"Easily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily."},{"word":"Easiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest."},{"word":"Easiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task."},{"word":"Easiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness."},{"word":"Easiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc."},{"word":"Easiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining."},{"word":"East","type":"(n.)","description":"The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west."},{"word":"East","type":"(n.)","description":"The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East."},{"word":"East","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West."},{"word":"East","type":"(a.)","description":"Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east."},{"word":"East","type":"(adv.)","description":"Eastward."},{"word":"East","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate."},{"word":"Easter","type":"(n.)","description":"An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask."},{"word":"Easter","type":"(n.)","description":"The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day."},{"word":"Easter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To veer to the east; -- said of the wind."},{"word":"Easterling","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic."},{"word":"Easterling","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England."},{"word":"Easterling","type":"(n.)","description":"The smew."},{"word":"Easterling","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling."},{"word":"Easterly","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind."},{"word":"Easterly","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage."},{"word":"Easterly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward, or in the direction of, the east."},{"word":"Eastern","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries."},{"word":"Eastern","type":"(a.)","description":"Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage."},{"word":"Easternmost","type":"(a.)","description":"Most eastern."},{"word":"East","type":"()","description":"Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies."},{"word":"East","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies."},{"word":"Easting","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel."},{"word":"East-insular","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian."},{"word":"Eastward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Eastwards"},{"word":"Eastwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint"},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Moderate; sparing; frugal."},{"word":"Easy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight."},{"word":"Easy-chair","type":"(n.)","description":"An armchair for ease or repose."},{"word":"Easy-going","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive."},{"word":"Ate","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Eat"},{"word":"Eat","type":"()","description":"of Eat"},{"word":"Eaten","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Eat"},{"word":"Eat","type":"()","description":"of Eat"},{"word":"Eating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eat"},{"word":"Eat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread."},{"word":"Eat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear."},{"word":"Eat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board."},{"word":"Eat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef."},{"word":"Eat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make one's way slowly."},{"word":"Eatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible."},{"word":"Eatable","type":"(n.)","description":"Something fit to be eaten."},{"word":"Eatage","type":"(n.)","description":"Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath."},{"word":"Eater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, eats."},{"word":"Eath","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Easy or easily."},{"word":"Eating","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding."},{"word":"Eating","type":"(n.)","description":"Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating."},{"word":"Eau","type":"()","description":"Same as Cologne."},{"word":"Eau","type":"()","description":"French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vitae, under Aqua."},{"word":"Eavedrop","type":"(n.)","description":"A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop."},{"word":"Eaves","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof."},{"word":"Eaves","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Brow; ridge."},{"word":"Eaves","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Eyelids or eyelashes."},{"word":"Eavesdrop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private."},{"word":"Eavesdrop","type":"(n.)","description":"The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house."},{"word":"Eavesdropper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener."},{"word":"Eavesdropping","type":"(n.)","description":"The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law."},{"word":"Ebb","type":"(n.)","description":"The European bunting."},{"word":"Ebb","type":"(n.)","description":"The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb."},{"word":"Ebb","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay."},{"word":"Ebbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ebb"},{"word":"Ebbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ebb"},{"word":"Ebb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow."},{"word":"Ebb","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede."},{"word":"Ebb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to flow back."},{"word":"Ebb","type":"(a.)","description":"Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low."},{"word":"Ebb","type":"()","description":"The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide."},{"word":"Ebionite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament."},{"word":"Ebionitism","type":"(n.)","description":"The system or doctrine of the Ebionites."},{"word":"Eblanin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Pyroxanthin."},{"word":"Eblis","type":"(n.)","description":"The prince of the evil spirits; Satan."},{"word":"Ebon","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of ebony."},{"word":"Ebon","type":"(a.)","description":"Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark."},{"word":"Ebon","type":"(n.)","description":"Ebony."},{"word":"Ebonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works in ebony."},{"word":"Ebonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus."},{"word":"Ebonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ebonize"},{"word":"Ebonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ebonize"},{"word":"Ebonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood."},{"word":"Ebonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ebony"},{"word":"Ebony","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green."},{"word":"Ebony","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance."},{"word":"Ebracteate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without bracts."},{"word":"Ebracteolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk."},{"word":"Ebrauke","type":"(a.)","description":"Hebrew."},{"word":"Ebrieties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ebriety"},{"word":"Ebriety","type":"(n.)","description":"Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety."},{"word":"Ebrillade","type":"(n.)","description":"A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn."},{"word":"Ebriosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness."},{"word":"Ebrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy."},{"word":"Ebulliate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To boil or bubble up."},{"word":"Ebullience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ebulliency"},{"word":"Ebulliency","type":"(n.)","description":"A boiling up or over; effervescence."},{"word":"Ebullient","type":"(a.)","description":"Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing."},{"word":"Ebullioscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils."},{"word":"Ebullition","type":"(n.)","description":"A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor."},{"word":"Ebullition","type":"(n.)","description":"Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali."},{"word":"Ebullition","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper."},{"word":"Eburin","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc."},{"word":"Eburnation","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory."},{"word":"Eburnean","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of or relating to ivory."},{"word":"Eburnification","type":"(n.)","description":"The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory."},{"word":"Eburnine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ivory."},{"word":"Ecardines","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda."},{"word":"Ecarte","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack."},{"word":"Ecaudate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a tail or spur."},{"word":"Ecaudate","type":"(a.)","description":"Tailless."},{"word":"Ecballium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared."},{"word":"Ecbasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences."},{"word":"Ecbatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered \"so that it was fulfilled,\" is ecbatic; if rendered \"in order that it might be.\" etc., is telic."},{"word":"Ecbole","type":"(n.)","description":"A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words."},{"word":"Ecbolic","type":"(n.)","description":"A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus."},{"word":"Ecboline","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion."},{"word":"Eccaleobion","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat."},{"word":"Ecce","type":"()","description":"A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Not coincident as to motive or end."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius."},{"word":"Eccentric","type":"(n.)","description":"A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw."},{"word":"Eccentrical","type":"(a.)","description":"See Eccentric."},{"word":"Eccentrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eccentric manner."},{"word":"Eccentricities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eccentricity"},{"word":"Eccentricity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity."},{"word":"Eccentricity","type":"(n.)","description":"The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis."},{"word":"Eccentricity","type":"(n.)","description":"The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit."},{"word":"Eccentricity","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw."},{"word":"Ecchymose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed."},{"word":"Ecchymoses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ecchymosis"},{"word":"Ecchymosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion."},{"word":"Ecchymotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to ecchymosis."},{"word":"Eccle","type":"(n.)","description":"The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle."},{"word":"Ecclesiae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ecclesia"},{"word":"Ecclesia","type":"(n.)","description":"The public legislative assembly of the Athenians."},{"word":"Ecclesia","type":"(n.)","description":"A church, either as a body or as a building."},{"word":"Ecclesial","type":"(a.)","description":"Ecclesiastical."},{"word":"Ecclesiarch","type":"(n.)","description":"An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church."},{"word":"Ecclesiast","type":"(n.)","description":"An ecclesiastic."},{"word":"Ecclesiast","type":"(n.)","description":"The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus."},{"word":"Ecclesiastes","type":"(a.)","description":"One of the canonical books of the Old Testament."},{"word":"Ecclesiastic","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical."},{"word":"Ecclesiastic","type":"(n.)","description":"A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest."},{"word":"Ecclesiastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts."},{"word":"Ecclesiastically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules."},{"word":"Ecclesiasticism","type":"(n.)","description":"Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc."},{"word":"Ecclesiasticus","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of the Apocrypha."},{"word":"Ecclesiological","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to ecclesiology."},{"word":"Ecclesiologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in ecclesiology."},{"word":"Ecclesiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or theory of church building and decoration."},{"word":"Eccritic","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic."},{"word":"Ecderon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ecteron."},{"word":"Ecdyses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ecdysis"},{"word":"Ecdysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation."},{"word":"Ecgonine","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine."},{"word":"Echauguette","type":"(n.)","description":"A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle."},{"word":"Eche","type":"(a. / a. pron.)","description":"Each."},{"word":"Echelon","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance."},{"word":"Echelon","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation."},{"word":"Echelon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon."},{"word":"Echelon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take position in echelon."},{"word":"Echidna","type":"(n.)","description":"A monster, half maid and half serpent."},{"word":"Echidna","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater."},{"word":"Echidnine","type":"(n.)","description":"The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus."},{"word":"Echinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Echinated"},{"word":"Echinated","type":"(a.)","description":"Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp."},{"word":"Echinid","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Echinoid."},{"word":"Echinidan","type":"(n.)","description":"One the Echinoidea."},{"word":"Echinital","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or like, an echinite."},{"word":"Echinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil echinoid."},{"word":"Echinococcus","type":"(n.)","description":"A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog."},{"word":"Echinoderm","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Echinodermata."},{"word":"Echinodermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating or belonging to the echinoderms."},{"word":"Echinodermata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata."},{"word":"Echinodermatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal."},{"word":"Echinoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea."},{"word":"Echinoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Echinoidea."},{"word":"Echinoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid."},{"word":"Echinozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Echinodermata."},{"word":"Echinulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Set with small spines or prickles."},{"word":"Echini","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Echinus"},{"word":"Echinus","type":"(n.)","description":"A hedgehog."},{"word":"Echinus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe."},{"word":"Echinus","type":"(n.)","description":"The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature."},{"word":"Echinus","type":"(n.)","description":"The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column"},{"word":"Echinus","type":"(n.)","description":"A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin."},{"word":"Echiuroidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans."},{"word":"Echoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Echo"},{"word":"Echo","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound."},{"word":"Echo","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer."},{"word":"Echo","type":"(n.)","description":"A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them."},{"word":"Echo","type":"(n.)","description":"A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice."},{"word":"Echoed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Echo"},{"word":"Echoing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Echo"},{"word":"Echoes","type":"(3d pers. sing. pres.)","description":"of Echo"},{"word":"Echo","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate."},{"word":"Echo","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt."},{"word":"Echo","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations."},{"word":"Echoer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, echoes."},{"word":"Echoless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without echo or response."},{"word":"Echometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals."},{"word":"Echometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes."},{"word":"Echometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes."},{"word":"Echon","type":"(pron.)","description":"Alt. of Echoon"},{"word":"Echoon","type":"(pron.)","description":"Each one."},{"word":"Echoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax."},{"word":"Eclair","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream."},{"word":"Eclaircise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain."},{"word":"Eclaircissement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation."},{"word":"Eclampsia","type":"(n.)","description":"A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions."},{"word":"Eclampsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Eclampsia."},{"word":"Eclat","type":"(n.)","description":"Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown."},{"word":"Eclat","type":"(n.)","description":"Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause."},{"word":"Eclectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher."},{"word":"Eclectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine."},{"word":"Eclectic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who follows an eclectic method."},{"word":"Eclectically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eclectic manner; by an eclectic method."},{"word":"Eclecticism","type":"(n.)","description":"Theory or practice of an eclectic."},{"word":"Eclegm","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups."},{"word":"Eclipse","type":"(n.)","description":"An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet."},{"word":"Eclipse","type":"(n.)","description":"The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness."},{"word":"Eclipsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eclipse"},{"word":"Eclipsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eclipse"},{"word":"Eclipse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun."},{"word":"Eclipse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing."},{"word":"Eclipse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer an eclipse."},{"word":"Ecliptic","type":"(a.)","description":"A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23� 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun."},{"word":"Ecliptic","type":"(a.)","description":"A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23� 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems."},{"word":"Ecliptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way."},{"word":"Ecliptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses."},{"word":"Eclogite","type":"(n.)","description":"A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty."},{"word":"Eclogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established."},{"word":"Economic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Economical"},{"word":"Economical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the household; domestic."},{"word":"Economical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs."},{"word":"Economical","type":"(a.)","description":"Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits."},{"word":"Economical","type":"(a.)","description":"Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time."},{"word":"Economical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to political economy; as, economic purposes; economical truths."},{"word":"Economical","type":"(a.)","description":"Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end."},{"word":"Economically","type":"(adv.)","description":"With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure."},{"word":"Economics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of household affairs, or of domestic management."},{"word":"Economics","type":"(n.)","description":"Political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources. See Political economy, under Political."},{"word":"Economist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste."},{"word":"Economist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics."},{"word":"Economization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of using to the best effect."},{"word":"Economized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Economize"},{"word":"Economizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Economize"},{"word":"Economize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income."},{"word":"Economize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich."},{"word":"Economizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, economizes."},{"word":"Economizer","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney."},{"word":"Economies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Economy"},{"word":"Economy","type":"(n.)","description":"The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy."},{"word":"Economy","type":"(n.)","description":"Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy."},{"word":"Economy","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy."},{"word":"Economy","type":"(n.)","description":"Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony."},{"word":"Ecorche","type":"(n.)","description":"A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study."},{"word":"Ecossaise","type":"(n.)","description":"A dancing tune in the Scotch style."},{"word":"Ecostate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf."},{"word":"Ecoute","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners."},{"word":"Ecphasis","type":"(n.)","description":"An explicit declaration."},{"word":"Ecphonema","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaking out with some interjectional particle."},{"word":"Ecphoneme","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation."},{"word":"Ecphonesis","type":"(n.)","description":"An animated or passionate exclamation."},{"word":"Ecphractic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent."},{"word":"Ecphractic","type":"(n.)","description":"An ecphractic medicine."},{"word":"Ecrasement","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation performed with an ecraseur."},{"word":"Ecraseur","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows."},{"word":"Ecru","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like."},{"word":"Ecstasies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ecstasy"},{"word":"Ecstasy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries."},{"word":"Ecstasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight."},{"word":"Ecstasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness."},{"word":"Ecstasy","type":"(n.)","description":"A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected."},{"word":"Ecstasy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm."},{"word":"Ecstatic","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance."},{"word":"Ecstatic","type":"(n.)","description":"Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy."},{"word":"Ecstatic","type":"(n.)","description":"An enthusiast."},{"word":"Ecstatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Ecstatic."},{"word":"Ecstatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to external objects."},{"word":"Ecstatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Rapturously; ravishingly."},{"word":"Ect-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Ecto-"},{"word":"Ecto-","type":"()","description":"A combining form signifying without, outside, external."},{"word":"Ectad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad."},{"word":"Ectal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental."},{"word":"Ectasia","type":"(n.)","description":"A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal."},{"word":"Ectasis","type":"(n.)","description":"The lengthening of a syllable from short to long."},{"word":"Ectental","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the \"ectental line\" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum."},{"word":"Ecteron","type":"(n.)","description":"The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon."},{"word":"Ectethmoid","type":"(a.)","description":"External to the ethmoid; prefrontal."},{"word":"Ecthlipsis","type":"(n.)","description":"The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel."},{"word":"Ecthlipsis","type":"(n.)","description":"The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel."},{"word":"Ecthorea","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ecthoreum"},{"word":"Ecthoreum","type":"(n.)","description":"The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell."},{"word":"Ecthymata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ecthyma"},{"word":"Ecthyma","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base."},{"word":"Ecto-","type":"()","description":"See Ect-."},{"word":"Ectoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm."},{"word":"Ectoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall."},{"word":"Ectobronchia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ectobronchium"},{"word":"Ectobronchium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds."},{"word":"Ectocuneriform","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ectocuniform"},{"word":"Ectocuniform","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform."},{"word":"Ectocyst","type":"(n.)","description":"The outside covering of the Bryozoa."},{"word":"Ectoderm","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast."},{"word":"Ectoderm","type":"(n.)","description":"The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm."},{"word":"Ectodermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ectodermic"},{"word":"Ectodermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the ectoderm."},{"word":"Ectolecithal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova."},{"word":"Ectomere","type":"(n.)","description":"The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals."},{"word":"Ectoparasite","type":"(n.)","description":"Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite."},{"word":"Ectopia","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder."},{"word":"Ectopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ."},{"word":"Ectoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum."},{"word":"Ectoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell."},{"word":"Ectoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The ectosarc of protozoan."},{"word":"Ectoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm."},{"word":"Ectoprocta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles."},{"word":"Ectopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ectopia."},{"word":"Ectorganism","type":"(n.)","description":"An external parasitic organism."},{"word":"Ectosarc","type":"(n.)","description":"The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm."},{"word":"Ectosteal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification."},{"word":"Ectostosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage."},{"word":"Ectozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Epizoic."},{"word":"Ectozoa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ectozoon"},{"word":"Ectozoon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Epizoon."},{"word":"Ectropion","type":"(n.)","description":"An unnatural eversion of the eyelids."},{"word":"Ectropium","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ectropion."},{"word":"Ectrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease."},{"word":"Ectypal","type":"(a.)","description":"Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model."},{"word":"Ectype","type":"(n.)","description":"A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:"},{"word":"Ectype","type":"(n.)","description":"A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely)."},{"word":"Ectype","type":"(n.)","description":"A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed."},{"word":"Ectypography","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief."},{"word":"Ecumenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ecumenical"},{"word":"Ecumenical","type":"(a.)","description":"General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council."},{"word":"Ecurie","type":"(n.)","description":"A stable."},{"word":"Eczema","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum."},{"word":"Eczematous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema."},{"word":"-ed","type":"()","description":"The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented."},{"word":"Edacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to eating; voracious; devouring."},{"word":"Edacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity."},{"word":"Eddas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Edda"},{"word":"Edda","type":"(n.)","description":"The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes."},{"word":"Eddaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eddic"},{"word":"Eddic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas."},{"word":"Edder","type":"(n.)","description":"An adder or serpent."},{"word":"Edder","type":"(n.)","description":"Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together."},{"word":"Edder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge."},{"word":"Eddish","type":"(n.)","description":"Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish."},{"word":"Eddoes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro."},{"word":"Eddies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eddy"},{"word":"Eddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current."},{"word":"Eddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool."},{"word":"Eddied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eddy"},{"word":"Eddying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eddy"},{"word":"Eddy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle."},{"word":"Eddy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect as into an eddy."},{"word":"Edelweiss","type":"(n.)","description":"A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps."},{"word":"Edema","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as oedema."},{"word":"Edematous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Edematose"},{"word":"Edematose","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as oedematous."},{"word":"Eden","type":"(n.)","description":"The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence."},{"word":"Edenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic."},{"word":"Edenite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole."},{"word":"Edenized","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness."},{"word":"Edental","type":"(a.)","description":"See Edentate, a."},{"word":"Edental","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Edentata."},{"word":"Edentalous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Edentate, a."},{"word":"Edentata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking."},{"word":"Edentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf."},{"word":"Edentate","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Edentata."},{"word":"Edentate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Edentata."},{"word":"Edentated","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Edentate, a."},{"word":"Edentation","type":"(n.)","description":"A depriving of teeth."},{"word":"Edentulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Toothless."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening."},{"word":"Edged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Edge"},{"word":"Edging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Edge"},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way."},{"word":"Edge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sail close to the wind."},{"word":"Edgebone","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aitchbone."},{"word":"Edgeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon."},{"word":"Edgelong","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the direction of the edge."},{"word":"Edgeshot","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an edge planed, -- said of a board."},{"word":"Edgeways","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Edgewise"},{"word":"Edgewise","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge."},{"word":"Edging","type":"(n.)","description":"That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden."},{"word":"Edging","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal."},{"word":"Edgingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Gradually; gingerly."},{"word":"Edgy","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper."},{"word":"Edgy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined."},{"word":"Edh","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as \"English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth.\""},{"word":"Edibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness."},{"word":"Edible","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes."},{"word":"Edible","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything edible."},{"word":"Edibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Suitableness for being eaten."},{"word":"Edict","type":"(n.)","description":"A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch."},{"word":"Edictal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law."},{"word":"Edificant","type":"(a.)","description":"Building; constructing."},{"word":"Edification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction."},{"word":"Edification","type":"(n.)","description":"A building or edifice."},{"word":"Edificatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to edification."},{"word":"Edifice","type":"(n.)","description":"A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse."},{"word":"Edificial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an edifice; structural."},{"word":"Edifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who builds."},{"word":"Edifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction."},{"word":"Edified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Edify"},{"word":"Edifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Edify"},{"word":"Edify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To build; to construct."},{"word":"Edify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach."},{"word":"Edify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To teach or persuade."},{"word":"Edify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To improve."},{"word":"Edifying","type":"(a.)","description":"Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation."},{"word":"Edile","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aedile."},{"word":"Edileship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of aedile."},{"word":"Edingtonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta."},{"word":"Edited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Edit"},{"word":"Editing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Edit"},{"word":"Edit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper."},{"word":"Edition","type":"(n.)","description":"A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare."},{"word":"Edition","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold."},{"word":"Edition","type":"()","description":"See Luxe."},{"word":"Editioner","type":"(n.)","description":"An editor."},{"word":"Editor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication."},{"word":"Editorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks."},{"word":"Editorial","type":"(n.)","description":"A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor."},{"word":"Editorially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article."},{"word":"Editorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication."},{"word":"Editress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female editor."},{"word":"Edituate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To guard as a churchwarden does."},{"word":"Edomite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean."},{"word":"Edriophthalma","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca."},{"word":"Edriophthalmous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Edriophthalma."},{"word":"Educability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being educated."},{"word":"Educable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being educated."},{"word":"Educated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Educate"},{"word":"Educating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Educate"},{"word":"Educate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste."},{"word":"Educated","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man."},{"word":"Education","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education."},{"word":"Educational","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to education."},{"word":"Educationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education."},{"word":"Educative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience."},{"word":"Educator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who educates; a teacher."},{"word":"Educed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Educe"},{"word":"Educing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Educe"},{"word":"Educe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter."},{"word":"Educible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being educed."},{"word":"Educt","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is educed, as by analysis."},{"word":"Eduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of drawing out or bringing into view."},{"word":"Eductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to draw out; extractive."},{"word":"Eductor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts."},{"word":"Edulcorant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony."},{"word":"Edulcorant","type":"(n.)","description":"An edulcorant remedy."},{"word":"Edulcorated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Edulcorate"},{"word":"Edulcorating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Edulcorate"},{"word":"Edulcorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity."},{"word":"Edulcorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify."},{"word":"Edulcoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sweetening or edulcorating."},{"word":"Edulcoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water."},{"word":"Edulcorative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water."},{"word":"Edulcorator","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle."},{"word":"Edulious","type":"(a.)","description":"Edible."},{"word":"-ee","type":"()","description":"A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer."},{"word":"Eek","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Eeke"},{"word":"Eeke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Eke."},{"word":"Eel","type":"(n.)","description":"An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus."},{"word":"Eelbuck","type":"(n.)","description":"An eelpot or eel basket."},{"word":"Eelfare","type":"(n.)","description":"A brood of eels."},{"word":"Eelgrass","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast."},{"word":"Eel-mother","type":"(n.)","description":"The eelpout."},{"word":"Eelpot","type":"(n.)","description":"A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck."},{"word":"Eelpout","type":"(n.)","description":"A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value."},{"word":"Eelpout","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water fish, the burbot."},{"word":"Eelspear","type":"(n.)","description":"A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels."},{"word":"E'en","type":"(adv.)","description":"A contraction for even. See Even."},{"word":"Een","type":"(n.)","description":"The old plural of Eye."},{"word":"E'er","type":"(adv.)","description":"A contraction for ever. See Ever."},{"word":"Eerie","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eery"},{"word":"Eery","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories."},{"word":"Eery","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with fear; affrighted."},{"word":"Eerily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a strange, unearthly way."},{"word":"Eerisome","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing fear; eerie."},{"word":"Eet","type":"(obs. imp.)","description":"of Eat."},{"word":"Effable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable."},{"word":"Effaced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Efface"},{"word":"Effacing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Efface"},{"word":"Efface","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin."},{"word":"Efface","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away."},{"word":"Effaceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being effaced."},{"word":"Effacement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act if effacing; also, the result of the act."},{"word":"Effascinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charm; to bewitch."},{"word":"Effascination","type":"(n.)","description":"A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"Manifestation; expression; sign."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"Impression left on the mind; sensation produced."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"The purport; the sum and substance."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(n.)","description":"Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects."},{"word":"Effected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Effect"},{"word":"Effecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Effect"},{"word":"Effect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be."},{"word":"Effect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish."},{"word":"Effecter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who effects."},{"word":"Effectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible."},{"word":"Effection","type":"(n.)","description":"Creation; a doing."},{"word":"Effective","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment."},{"word":"Effective","type":"(n.)","description":"That which produces a given effect; a cause."},{"word":"Effective","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is capable of active service."},{"word":"Effective","type":"(n.)","description":"Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe."},{"word":"Effectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly."},{"word":"Effectiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being effective."},{"word":"Effectless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless."},{"word":"Effector","type":"(n.)","description":"An effecter."},{"word":"Effectual","type":"(n.)","description":"Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive."},{"word":"Effectually","type":"(adv.)","description":"With effect; efficaciously."},{"word":"Effectually","type":"(adv.)","description":"Actually; in effect."},{"word":"Effectualness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being effectual."},{"word":"Effectuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Effectuate"},{"word":"Effectuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Effectuate"},{"word":"Effectuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill."},{"word":"Effectuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of effectuating."},{"word":"Effectuose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Effectuous"},{"word":"Effectuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Effective."},{"word":"Effectuously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Effectively."},{"word":"Effeminacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Effeminacy"},{"word":"Effeminacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men."},{"word":"Effeminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak."},{"word":"Effeminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense."},{"word":"Effeminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Effeminate"},{"word":"Effeminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Effeminate"},{"word":"Effeminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken."},{"word":"Effeminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow womanish or weak."},{"word":"Effeminately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately."},{"word":"Effeminately","type":"(adv.)","description":"By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman."},{"word":"Effeminateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness."},{"word":"Effemination","type":"(n.)","description":"Effeminacy; womanishness."},{"word":"Effeminize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make effeminate."},{"word":"Effendi","type":"(n.)","description":"Master; sir; -- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law."},{"word":"Efferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc."},{"word":"Efferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent."},{"word":"Efferent","type":"(n.)","description":"An efferent duct or stream."},{"word":"Efferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a wild beast; fierce."},{"word":"Effervesced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Effervesce"},{"word":"Effervescing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Effervesce"},{"word":"Effervesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form."},{"word":"Effervesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment."},{"word":"Effervescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Effervescency"},{"word":"Effervescency","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid."},{"word":"Effervescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas"},{"word":"Effervescible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of effervescing."},{"word":"Effervescive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to produce effervescence."},{"word":"Effet","type":"(n.)","description":"The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt."},{"word":"Effete","type":"(a.)","description":"No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile."},{"word":"Efficacious","type":"(n.)","description":"Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law."},{"word":"Efficacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Efficacy."},{"word":"Efficacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer."},{"word":"Efficience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Efficiency"},{"word":"Efficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency."},{"word":"Efficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"The ratio of useful work to energy expended."},{"word":"Efficient","type":"(n.)","description":"Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power."},{"word":"Efficient","type":"(n.)","description":"An efficient cause; a prime mover."},{"word":"Efficiently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With effect; effectively."},{"word":"Effierce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fierce."},{"word":"Effigial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an effigy."},{"word":"Effigiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt."},{"word":"Effigiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy."},{"word":"Effigies","type":"(n.)","description":"See Effigy."},{"word":"Effigies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Effigy"},{"word":"Effigy","type":"(n.)","description":"The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits."},{"word":"Efflagitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask urgently."},{"word":"Efflate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with breath; to puff up."},{"word":"Efflation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind."},{"word":"Effloresced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Effloresce"},{"word":"Efflorescing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Effloresce"},{"word":"Effloresce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To blossom forth."},{"word":"Effloresce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce."},{"word":"Effloresce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere."},{"word":"Efflorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth."},{"word":"Efflorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc."},{"word":"Efflorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc."},{"word":"Efflorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The powder or crust thus formed."},{"word":"Efflorescency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence."},{"word":"Efflorescent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt."},{"word":"Efflorescent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Covered with an efflorescence."},{"word":"Efflower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather."},{"word":"Effluence","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing out, or emanation."},{"word":"Effluence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux."},{"word":"Effluency","type":"(n.)","description":"Effluence."},{"word":"Effluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing out; as, effluent beams."},{"word":"Effluent","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream that flows out of another stream or lake."},{"word":"Effluviable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being given off as an effluvium."},{"word":"Effluvial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to effluvia."},{"word":"Effluviate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give forth effluvium."},{"word":"Effluvia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Effluvium"},{"word":"Effluvium","type":"(a.)","description":"Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage."},{"word":"Efflux","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety."},{"word":"Efflux","type":"(n.)","description":"That which flows out; emanation; effluence."},{"word":"Efflux","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run out; to flow forth; to pass away."},{"word":"Effluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flowing out; effusion."},{"word":"Effluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which flows out; effluvium; emanation."},{"word":"Effodient","type":"(a.)","description":"Digging up."},{"word":"Efforced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Efforce"},{"word":"Efforcing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Efforce"},{"word":"Efforce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force; to constrain; to compel to yield."},{"word":"Efform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form; to shape."},{"word":"Efformation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving shape or form."},{"word":"Effort","type":"(n.)","description":"An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall."},{"word":"Effort","type":"(n.)","description":"A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion."},{"word":"Effort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stimulate."},{"word":"Effortless","type":"(a.)","description":"Making no effort."},{"word":"Effossion","type":"(n.)","description":"A digging out or up."},{"word":"Effranchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enfranchise."},{"word":"Effray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frighten; to scare."},{"word":"Effrayable","type":"(a.)","description":"Frightful."},{"word":"Effrenation","type":"(n.)","description":"Unbridled license; unruliness."},{"word":"Effront","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give assurance to."},{"word":"Effronteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Effrontery"},{"word":"Effrontery","type":"(n.)","description":"Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance."},{"word":"Effrontit","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked by impudence."},{"word":"Effrontuously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Impudently."},{"word":"Effulged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Effulge"},{"word":"Effulging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Effulge"},{"word":"Effulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam."},{"word":"Effulge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine forth; to beam."},{"word":"Effulgence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor."},{"word":"Effulgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid."},{"word":"Effulgently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an effulgent manner."},{"word":"Effumability","type":"(n.)","description":"The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor."},{"word":"Effume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To breathe or puff out."},{"word":"Effund","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour out."},{"word":"Effuse","type":"(a.)","description":"Poured out freely; profuse."},{"word":"Effuse","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal."},{"word":"Effuse","type":"(a.)","description":"Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence."},{"word":"Effuse","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells."},{"word":"Effuse","type":"(n.)","description":"Effusion; loss."},{"word":"Effused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Effuse"},{"word":"Effusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Effuse"},{"word":"Effuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed."},{"word":"Effuse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emanate; to issue."},{"word":"Effusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like."},{"word":"Effusion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is poured out, literally or figuratively."},{"word":"Effusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface."},{"word":"Effusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The liquid escaping or exuded."},{"word":"Effusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pouring out; pouring forth freely."},{"word":"Efreet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Afrit."},{"word":"Eft","type":"(n.)","description":"A European lizard of the genus Seps."},{"word":"Eft","type":"(n.)","description":"A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus)."},{"word":"Eft","type":"(adv.)","description":"Again; afterwards; soon; quickly."},{"word":"Eftsoon","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Eftsoons"},{"word":"Eftsoons","type":"(adv.)","description":"Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily."},{"word":"Egad","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc."},{"word":"Egal","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal; impartial."},{"word":"Egality","type":"(n.)","description":"Equality."},{"word":"Egean","type":"(a.)","description":"See Aegean."},{"word":"Egence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want."},{"word":"Eger","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Egre"},{"word":"Egre","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharp; bitter; acid; sour."},{"word":"Eger","type":"(n.)","description":"An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre."},{"word":"Egerminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To germinate."},{"word":"Egest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys."},{"word":"Egesta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta."},{"word":"Egestion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act or process of egesting; a voiding."},{"word":"Egg","type":"(n.)","description":"The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the \"white\" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane."},{"word":"Egg","type":"(n.)","description":"A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell."},{"word":"Egg","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling an egg in form."},{"word":"Egged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Egg"},{"word":"Egging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Egg"},{"word":"Egg","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To urge on; to instigate; to incite/"},{"word":"Eggar","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe."},{"word":"Egg-bird","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaethon flavirostris."},{"word":"Egg-cup","type":"(n.)","description":"A cup used for holding an egg, at table."},{"word":"Eggement","type":"(n.)","description":"Instigation; incitement."},{"word":"Egger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gathers eggs; an eggler."},{"word":"Egger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who eggs or incites."},{"word":"Eggery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs."},{"word":"Egg-glass","type":"(n.)","description":"A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table."},{"word":"Egghot","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale."},{"word":"Eggler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gathers, or deals in, eggs."},{"word":"Eggnog","type":"(n.)","description":"A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits."},{"word":"Eggplant","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple."},{"word":"Egg-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an egg in form; ovoid."},{"word":"Eggshell","type":"(n.)","description":"The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell."},{"word":"Eggshell","type":"(n.)","description":"A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form."},{"word":"Egg","type":"()","description":"A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit."},{"word":"Eghen","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Eyes."},{"word":"Egilopical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an aegilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye."},{"word":"Egilops","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aegilops."},{"word":"Eglandulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eglandulous"},{"word":"Eglandulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of glands."},{"word":"Eglantine","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors."},{"word":"Eglantine","type":"(n.)","description":"The sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa)."},{"word":"Eglatere","type":"(n.)","description":"Eglantine."},{"word":"Egling","type":"(n.)","description":"The European perch when two years old."},{"word":"Eglomerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unwind, as a thread from a ball."},{"word":"Ego","type":"(n.)","description":"The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego."},{"word":"Egoical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to egoism."},{"word":"Egoism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for."},{"word":"Egoism","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism."},{"word":"Egoist","type":"(n.)","description":"One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self."},{"word":"Egoist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in egoism."},{"word":"Egoistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Egoistical"},{"word":"Egoistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving."},{"word":"Egoistically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an egoistic manner."},{"word":"Egoity","type":"(n.)","description":"Personality."},{"word":"Egomism","type":"(n.)","description":"Egoism."},{"word":"Egophonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, egophony."},{"word":"Egophony","type":"(n.)","description":"The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion."},{"word":"Egotheism","type":"(n.)","description":"The deification of self."},{"word":"Egotism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism."},{"word":"Egotist","type":"(n.)","description":"One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs."},{"word":"Egotistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Egotistical"},{"word":"Egotistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism."},{"word":"Egotistically","type":"(adv.)","description":"With egotism."},{"word":"Egotized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Egotize"},{"word":"Egotizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Egotize"},{"word":"Egotize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk or write as an egotist."},{"word":"Egranulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions."},{"word":"Egre","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Eager, and Eagre."},{"word":"Egregious","type":"(a.)","description":"Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake."},{"word":"Egregiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated."},{"word":"Egregiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being egregious."},{"word":"Egremoin","type":"(n.)","description":"Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria)."},{"word":"Egress","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure."},{"word":"Egress","type":"(n.)","description":"The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit."},{"word":"Egress","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go out; to depart; to leave."},{"word":"Egression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of going; egress."},{"word":"Egressor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who goes out."},{"word":"Egret","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, / Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima)."},{"word":"Egret","type":"(n.)","description":"A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette."},{"word":"Egret","type":"(n.)","description":"The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle."},{"word":"Egret","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of ape."},{"word":"Egrette","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Egret, n., 2."},{"word":"Egrimony","type":"()","description":"The herb agrimony."},{"word":"Egrimony","type":"(n.)","description":"Sorrow."},{"word":"Egriot","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of sour cherry."},{"word":"Egritude","type":"(n.)","description":"Sickness; ailment; sorrow."},{"word":"Egyptian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa."},{"word":"Egyptian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language."},{"word":"Egyptian","type":"(n.)","description":"A gypsy."},{"word":"Egyptized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Egyptize"},{"word":"Egyptizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Egyptize"},{"word":"Egyptize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give an Egyptian character or appearance to."},{"word":"Egyptologer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Egyptologist"},{"word":"Egyptologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology."},{"word":"Egyptological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology."},{"word":"Egyptology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics."},{"word":"Eh","type":"(interj.)","description":"An expression of inquiry or slight surprise."},{"word":"Ehlite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper."},{"word":"Eider","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species."},{"word":"Eidograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph."},{"word":"Eidolon","type":"(n.)","description":"An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition."},{"word":"Eigh","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation expressing delight."},{"word":"Eight","type":"(n.)","description":"An island in a river; an ait."},{"word":"Eight","type":"(a.)","description":"Seven and one; as, eight years."},{"word":"Eight","type":"(n.)","description":"The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects."},{"word":"Eight","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii."},{"word":"Eighteen","type":"(a.)","description":"Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds."},{"word":"Eighteen","type":"(n.)","description":"The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects."},{"word":"Eighteen","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii."},{"word":"Eighteenmo","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Octodecimo."},{"word":"Eighteenth","type":"(a.)","description":"Next in order after the seventeenth."},{"word":"Eighteenth","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing."},{"word":"Eighteenth","type":"(n.)","description":"The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions."},{"word":"Eighteenth","type":"(n.)","description":"The eighth after the tenth."},{"word":"Eightetethe","type":"(a.)","description":"Eighteenth."},{"word":"Eightfold","type":"(a.)","description":"Eight times a quantity."},{"word":"Eighth","type":"(a.)","description":"Next in order after the seventh."},{"word":"Eighth","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing."},{"word":"Eighth","type":"(n.)","description":"The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part."},{"word":"Eighth","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval of an octave."},{"word":"Eighthly","type":"(adv.)","description":"As the eighth in order."},{"word":"Eightieth","type":"(a.)","description":"The next in order after seventy-ninth."},{"word":"Eightieth","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions."},{"word":"Eightieth","type":"(n.)","description":"The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts."},{"word":"Eightling","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals."},{"word":"Eightscore","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty."},{"word":"Eighty","type":"(a.)","description":"Eight times ten; fourscore."},{"word":"Eighty","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects."},{"word":"Eighty","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx."},{"word":"Eigne","type":"(a.)","description":"Eldest; firstborn."},{"word":"Eigne","type":"(a.)","description":"Entailed; belonging to the eldest son."},{"word":"Eiking","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eking."},{"word":"Eikon","type":"(n.)","description":"An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art."},{"word":"Eikosane","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum."},{"word":"Eikosylene","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal."},{"word":"Eild","type":"(n.)","description":"Age."},{"word":"Eire","type":"(n.)","description":"Air."},{"word":"Eirenarch","type":"(n.)","description":"A justice of the peace; irenarch."},{"word":"Eirenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pacific. See Irenic."},{"word":"Eirie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aerie, and Eyrie."},{"word":"Eisel","type":"(n.)","description":"Vinegar; verjuice."},{"word":"Eisteddfod","type":"(n.)","description":"Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom."},{"word":"Either","type":"(a. & pron.)","description":"One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one."},{"word":"Either","type":"(a. & pron.)","description":"Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number."},{"word":"Either","type":"(conj. Either)","description":"precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or."},{"word":"Ejaculated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ejaculate"},{"word":"Ejaculating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ejaculate"},{"word":"Ejaculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject."},{"word":"Ejaculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer."},{"word":"Ejaculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations."},{"word":"Ejaculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight."},{"word":"Ejaculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered."},{"word":"Ejaculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct."},{"word":"Ejaculator","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which helps ejaculation."},{"word":"Ejaculatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels."},{"word":"Ejaculatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition."},{"word":"Ejaculatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Sudden; hasty."},{"word":"Ejected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eject"},{"word":"Ejecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eject"},{"word":"Eject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language."},{"word":"Eject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate."},{"word":"Ejection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation."},{"word":"Ejection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions."},{"word":"Ejection","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment."},{"word":"Ejectment","type":"(n.)","description":"A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes."},{"word":"Ejectment","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it."},{"word":"Ejector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses."},{"word":"Ejector","type":"(n.)","description":"A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space."},{"word":"Ejoo","type":"(n.)","description":"Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti."},{"word":"Ejulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A wailing; lamentation."},{"word":"Ekabor","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ekaboron"},{"word":"Ekaboron","type":"(n.)","description":"The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium."},{"word":"Ekaluminium","type":"(n.)","description":"The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor."},{"word":"Ekasilicon","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor."},{"word":"Eked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eke"},{"word":"Eking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eke"},{"word":"Eke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other."},{"word":"Eke","type":"(adv.)","description":"In addition; also; likewise."},{"word":"Eke","type":"(n.)","description":"An addition."},{"word":"Ekebergite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of scapolite."},{"word":"Ekename","type":"(n.)","description":"An additional or epithet name; a nickname."},{"word":"Eking","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length."},{"word":"Eking","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery."},{"word":"E-la","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying."},{"word":"Elaborate","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research."},{"word":"Elaborated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elaborate"},{"word":"Elaborating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elaborate"},{"word":"Elaborate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce with labor"},{"word":"Elaborate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work."},{"word":"Elaboration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement."},{"word":"Elaboration","type":"(n.)","description":"The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues."},{"word":"Elaborative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details."},{"word":"Elaborator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, elaborates."},{"word":"Elaboratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to elaborate."},{"word":"Elaboratory","type":"(n.)","description":"A laboratory."},{"word":"Elaeagnus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster."},{"word":"Elaeis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of palms."},{"word":"Elaeolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color."},{"word":"Elaeoptene","type":"(n.)","description":"The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts."},{"word":"Elaidate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of elaidic acid."},{"word":"Elaidic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to oleic acid, or elaine."},{"word":"Elaidin","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid isomeric modification of olein."},{"word":"Elaine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Elain"},{"word":"Elain","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Olein."},{"word":"Elaiodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid."},{"word":"Elaiometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil."},{"word":"Elamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia."},{"word":"Elamping","type":"(a.)","description":"Shining."},{"word":"Elan","type":"(b.)","description":"Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm."},{"word":"Elanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elance"},{"word":"Elancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elance"},{"word":"Elance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart."},{"word":"Eland","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk."},{"word":"Eland","type":"(n.)","description":"The elk or moose."},{"word":"Elanet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kite of the genus Elanus."},{"word":"Elaolite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Elaeolite."},{"word":"Elaoptene","type":"(n.)","description":"See Elaeoptene."},{"word":"Elaphine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus."},{"word":"Elaphure","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers."},{"word":"Elapidation","type":"(n.)","description":"A clearing away of stones."},{"word":"Elapine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia."},{"word":"Elaps","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral."},{"word":"Elapsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elapse"},{"word":"Elapsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elapse"},{"word":"Elapse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time."},{"word":"Elapsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of elapsing."},{"word":"Elaqueate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disentangle."},{"word":"Elasipoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms."},{"word":"Elasmobranch","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii."},{"word":"Elasmobranch","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Elasmobranchii."},{"word":"Elasmobranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii."},{"word":"Elasmobranchiate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Elasmobranchii."},{"word":"Elasmobranchii","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimaera. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous."},{"word":"Elasmosaurus","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus."},{"word":"Elastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic."},{"word":"Elastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution."},{"word":"Elastic","type":"(n.)","description":"An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber."},{"word":"Elastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Elastic."},{"word":"Elastically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring."},{"word":"Elasticity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air."},{"word":"Elasticity","type":"(n.)","description":"Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork."},{"word":"Elasticness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being elastic; elasticity."},{"word":"Elastin","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin."},{"word":"Elate","type":"(a.)","description":"Lifted up; raised; elevated."},{"word":"Elate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant."},{"word":"Elated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elate"},{"word":"Elating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elate"},{"word":"Elate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise; to exalt."},{"word":"Elate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud."},{"word":"Elatedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With elation."},{"word":"Elatedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being elated."},{"word":"Elater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, elates."},{"word":"Elater","type":"(n.)","description":"An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts."},{"word":"Elater","type":"(n.)","description":"Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle."},{"word":"Elater","type":"(n.)","description":"The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola."},{"word":"Elater","type":"(n.)","description":"The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative."},{"word":"Elaterite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen."},{"word":"Elaterium","type":"(n.)","description":"A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium)."},{"word":"Elaterometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Elatrometer."},{"word":"Elatery","type":"(n.)","description":"Acting force; elasticity."},{"word":"Elation","type":"(n.)","description":"A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity."},{"word":"Elative","type":"(a.)","description":"Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases."},{"word":"Elatrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump."},{"word":"Elayl","type":"(n.)","description":"Olefiant gas or ethylene; -- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene."},{"word":"Elbow","type":"(n.)","description":"The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent."},{"word":"Elbow","type":"(n.)","description":"Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent."},{"word":"Elbow","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back."},{"word":"Elbowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elbow"},{"word":"Elbowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elbow"},{"word":"Elbow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another."},{"word":"Elbow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow."},{"word":"Elbow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To push rudely along; to elbow one's way."},{"word":"Elbowboard","type":"(n.)","description":"The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest."},{"word":"Elbowchair","type":"(n.)","description":"A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair."},{"word":"Elbowroom","type":"(n.)","description":"Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope."},{"word":"Elcaja","type":"(n.)","description":"An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch."},{"word":"Elcesaite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan."},{"word":"Eld","type":"(a.)","description":"Old."},{"word":"Eld","type":"(n.)","description":"Age; esp., old age."},{"word":"Eld","type":"(n.)","description":"Old times; former days; antiquity."},{"word":"Eld","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To age; to grow old."},{"word":"Eld","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make old or ancient."},{"word":"Elder","type":"(a.)","description":"Older; more aged, or existing longer."},{"word":"Elder","type":"(a.)","description":"Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc."},{"word":"Elder","type":"(a.)","description":"One who is older; a superior in age; a senior."},{"word":"Elder","type":"(a.)","description":"An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor."},{"word":"Elder","type":"(a.)","description":"A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church."},{"word":"Elder","type":"(a.)","description":"A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder."},{"word":"Elder","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries."},{"word":"Elderish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat old; elderly."},{"word":"Elderly","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people."},{"word":"Eldern","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of elder."},{"word":"Eldership","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being older; seniority."},{"word":"Eldership","type":"(n.)","description":"Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders."},{"word":"Elderwort","type":"(n.)","description":"Danewort."},{"word":"Eldest","type":"(a.)","description":"Oldest; longest in duration."},{"word":"Eldest","type":"(a.)","description":"Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder."},{"word":"Elding","type":"(n.)","description":"Fuel."},{"word":"El","type":"(pl. )","description":"of El Dorado"},{"word":"El","type":"()","description":"A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones."},{"word":"El","type":"()","description":"Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness."},{"word":"Eldritch","type":"(a.)","description":"Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh."},{"word":"Eleatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason."},{"word":"Eleatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A philosopher of the Eleatic school."},{"word":"Eleaticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The Eleatic doctrine."},{"word":"Elecampane","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic."},{"word":"Elecampane","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant."},{"word":"Elect","type":"(a.)","description":"Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more."},{"word":"Elect","type":"(a.)","description":"Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life."},{"word":"Elect","type":"(a.)","description":"Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect."},{"word":"Elect","type":"(n.)","description":"One chosen or set apart."},{"word":"Elect","type":"(n.)","description":"Those who are chosen for salvation."},{"word":"Elected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elect"},{"word":"Electing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elect"},{"word":"Elect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pick out; to select; to choose."},{"word":"Elect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor."},{"word":"Elect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor."},{"word":"Electant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the power of choosing; an elector."},{"word":"Electary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Electuary."},{"word":"Electic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Eclectic."},{"word":"Electicism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eclecticism."},{"word":"Election","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of choosing; choice; selection."},{"word":"Election","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor."},{"word":"Election","type":"(a.)","description":"Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act."},{"word":"Election","type":"(a.)","description":"Discriminating choice; discernment."},{"word":"Election","type":"(a.)","description":"Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the \"five points\" of Calvinism."},{"word":"Election","type":"(a.)","description":"The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other."},{"word":"Election","type":"(a.)","description":"Those who are elected."},{"word":"Electionered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Electioneer"},{"word":"Electioneering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Electioneer"},{"word":"Electioneer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate."},{"word":"Electioneerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who electioneers."},{"word":"Elective","type":"(a.)","description":"Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act."},{"word":"Elective","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral."},{"word":"Elective","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office."},{"word":"Elective","type":"(n.)","description":"In an American college, an optional study or course of study."},{"word":"Electively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an elective manner; by choice."},{"word":"Elector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office."},{"word":"Elector","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote."},{"word":"Elector","type":"(n.)","description":"In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor."},{"word":"Elector","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President."},{"word":"Elector","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an election or to electors."},{"word":"Electorality","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate."},{"word":"Electorate","type":"(n.)","description":"The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire."},{"word":"Electorate","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them."},{"word":"Electoress","type":"(n.)","description":"An electress."},{"word":"Electorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Electoral."},{"word":"Electorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or status of an elector."},{"word":"Electre","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Electer"},{"word":"Electer","type":"(n.)","description":"Amber. See Electrum."},{"word":"Electer","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy."},{"word":"Electrepeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator."},{"word":"Electress","type":"(n.)","description":"The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire."},{"word":"Electric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Electrical"},{"word":"Electrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark."},{"word":"Electrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance."},{"word":"Electrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic."},{"word":"Electric","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity."},{"word":"Electrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly."},{"word":"Electricalness","type":"(a.)","description":"The state or quality of being electrical."},{"word":"Electrician","type":"(n.)","description":"An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity."},{"word":"Electricities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Electricity"},{"word":"Electricity","type":"(n.)","description":"A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause."},{"word":"Electricity","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science."},{"word":"Electricity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic."},{"word":"Electrifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it."},{"word":"Electrification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity."},{"word":"Electrified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Electrify"},{"word":"Electrifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Electrify"},{"word":"Electrify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar."},{"word":"Electrify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body."},{"word":"Electrify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience."},{"word":"Electrify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become electric."},{"word":"Electrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or made of, amber."},{"word":"Electrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients."},{"word":"Electrition","type":"(n.)","description":"The recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects."},{"word":"Electrization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of electrizing; electrification."},{"word":"Electrized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Electrize"},{"word":"Electrizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Electrize"},{"word":"Electrize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To electricity."},{"word":"Electrizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, electrizes."},{"word":"Electro-","type":"()","description":"A prefix or combining form signifying pertaining to electricity, produced by electricity, producing or employing electricity, etc.; as, electro-negative; electro-dynamic; electro-magnet."},{"word":"Electro","type":"(n.)","description":"An electrotype."},{"word":"Electro-ballistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to electro-ballistics."},{"word":"Electro-ballistics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity."},{"word":"Electro-biologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in electro-biology."},{"word":"Electro-biology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms."},{"word":"Electro-biology","type":"(n.)","description":"That phase of mesmerism or animal magnetism, the phenomena of which are supposed to be produced by a form of electricity."},{"word":"Electro-bioscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction."},{"word":"Electro-capillarity","type":"(n.)","description":"The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge."},{"word":"Electro-capillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity."},{"word":"Electro-chemical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to electro-chemistry."},{"word":"Electro-chemistry","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes."},{"word":"Electro-chronograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph."},{"word":"Electro-chronographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it."},{"word":"Electrocute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu\"tion, n. [Recent; Newspaper words]"},{"word":"Electrode","type":"(n.)","description":"The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current."},{"word":"Electro-dynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Electro-dynamical"},{"word":"Electro-dynamical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force."},{"word":"Electro-dynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"The phenomena of electricity in motion."},{"word":"Electro-dynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical electricity."},{"word":"Electro-dynamometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents."},{"word":"Electro-engraving","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of engraving by means of electricity."},{"word":"Electro-etching","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action."},{"word":"Electrogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Electrogeny."},{"word":"Electrogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition."},{"word":"Electrogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves."},{"word":"Electro-gilding","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity."},{"word":"Electro-gilt","type":"(a.)","description":"Gilded by means of voltaic electricity."},{"word":"Electrograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity."},{"word":"Electro-kinetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to electro-kinetics."},{"word":"Electro-kinetics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion."},{"word":"Electrolier","type":"(n.)","description":"A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps."},{"word":"Electrology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties."},{"word":"Electrolysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water."},{"word":"Electrolyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current."},{"word":"Electrolytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Electrolytical"},{"word":"Electrolytical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action."},{"word":"Electrolyzable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity."},{"word":"Electrolyzation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the process of electrolyzing."},{"word":"Electrolyzed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Electrolyze"},{"word":"Electrolyzing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Electrolyze"},{"word":"Electrolyze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decompose by the direct action of electricity."},{"word":"Electro-magnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe."},{"word":"Electro-magnetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current."},{"word":"Electro-magnetism","type":"(n.)","description":"The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved."},{"word":"Electro-metallurgy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty."},{"word":"Electrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope)."},{"word":"Electro-metric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Electro-metrical"},{"word":"Electro-metrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment."},{"word":"Elextrometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of making electrical measurements."},{"word":"Electro-motion","type":"(n.)","description":"The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity."},{"word":"Electro-motive","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects."},{"word":"Electromotor","type":"(n.)","description":"A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity."},{"word":"Electromotor","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine."},{"word":"Electro-muscular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it."},{"word":"Electron","type":"(n.)","description":"Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum."},{"word":"Electro-negative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other."},{"word":"Electro-negative","type":"(a.)","description":"Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic."},{"word":"Electro-negative","type":"(n.)","description":"A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis."},{"word":"Electropathy","type":"(n.)","description":"The treatment of disease by electricity."},{"word":"Electrophone","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents."},{"word":"Electrophori","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Electrophorus"},{"word":"Electrophorus","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal."},{"word":"Electro-physiological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism."},{"word":"Electro-physiology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies."},{"word":"Electroplating","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Electroplate"},{"word":"Electroplate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis."},{"word":"Electroplater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who electroplates."},{"word":"Electroplating","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity."},{"word":"Electro-polar","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor."},{"word":"Electro-positive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative."},{"word":"Electro-positive","type":"(a.)","description":"Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid."},{"word":"Electro-positive","type":"(n.)","description":"A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis."},{"word":"Electro-puncturation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Electro-puncturing"},{"word":"Electro-puncturing","type":"(n.)","description":"See Electropuncture."},{"word":"Electro-puncture","type":"(n.)","description":"An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus."},{"word":"Electroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like."},{"word":"Electroscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or made by means of, the electroscope."},{"word":"Electrostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to electrostatics."},{"word":"Electrostatics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest."},{"word":"Electro-stereotype","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Electrotype."},{"word":"Electro-telegraphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it."},{"word":"Electro-telegraphy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph."},{"word":"Electro-therapeutics","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent."},{"word":"Electro-thermancy","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals."},{"word":"Electro-tint","type":"(n.)","description":"A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing."},{"word":"Electrotonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary."},{"word":"Electrotonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to electrotonus; as, the electrotonic condition of a nerve."},{"word":"Electrotonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause or produce electrotonus."},{"word":"Electrotonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Electrotonic."},{"word":"Electrotonus","type":"(n.)","description":"The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus."},{"word":"Electrotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively."},{"word":"Electrotyped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Electrotype"},{"word":"Electrotyping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Electrotype"},{"word":"Electrotype","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n."},{"word":"Electrotyper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who electrotypes."},{"word":"Electrotypic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or effected by means of, electrotypy."},{"word":"Electrotyping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the process of making electrotypes."},{"word":"Electrotypy","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n."},{"word":"Electro-vital","type":"(a.)","description":"Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals."},{"word":"Electro-vitalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force."},{"word":"Electrum","type":"(n.)","description":"Amber."},{"word":"Electrum","type":"(n.)","description":"An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients."},{"word":"Electrum","type":"(n.)","description":"German-silver plate. See German silver, under German."},{"word":"Electuaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Electuary"},{"word":"Electuary","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection."},{"word":"Eleemosynarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably."},{"word":"Eleemosynary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation."},{"word":"Eleemosynary","type":"(a.)","description":"Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance."},{"word":"Eleemosynary","type":"(a.)","description":"Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor."},{"word":"Eleemosynaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eleemosynary"},{"word":"Eleemosynary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who subsists on charity; a dependent."},{"word":"Elegance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Elegancy"},{"word":"Elegancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc."},{"word":"Elegancy","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive."},{"word":"Elegant","type":"(a.)","description":"Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure."},{"word":"Elegant","type":"(a.)","description":"Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste."},{"word":"Elegantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly."},{"word":"Elegiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains."},{"word":"Elegiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter."},{"word":"Elegiac","type":"(n.)","description":"Elegiac verse."},{"word":"Elegiacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Elegiac."},{"word":"Elegiast","type":"(n.)","description":"One who composes elegies."},{"word":"Elegiographer","type":"(n.)","description":"An elegist."},{"word":"Elegist","type":"(n.)","description":"A write of elegies."},{"word":"Elegit","type":"(n.)","description":"A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired."},{"word":"Elegize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail."},{"word":"Elegies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Elegy"},{"word":"Elegy","type":"(n.)","description":"A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation."},{"word":"Eleidin","type":"(n.)","description":"Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the terms in an algebraic expression."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire"},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"the conditions and movements of the air."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole material composing the world."},{"word":"Element","type":"(n.)","description":"The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper."},{"word":"Element","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compound of elements or first principles."},{"word":"Element","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To constitute; to make up with elements."},{"word":"Elemental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air."},{"word":"Elemental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary."},{"word":"Elementalism","type":"(a.)","description":"The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers."},{"word":"Elementality","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed."},{"word":"Elementally","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to elements; literally; as, the words, \"Take, eat; this is my body,\" elementally understood."},{"word":"Elementar","type":"(a.)","description":"Elementary."},{"word":"Elementariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state."},{"word":"Elementarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Elementariness."},{"word":"Elementary","type":"(a.)","description":"Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance."},{"word":"Elementary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise."},{"word":"Elementary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire."},{"word":"Elementation","type":"(n.)","description":"Instruction in the elements or first principles."},{"word":"Elementoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an element."},{"word":"Elemi","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. A. elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters."},{"word":"Elemin","type":"(n.)","description":"A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin."},{"word":"Elenchs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Elench"},{"word":"Elench","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation."},{"word":"Elench","type":"(n.)","description":"A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism."},{"word":"Elenchical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an elench."},{"word":"Elenchically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By means of an elench."},{"word":"Elenchize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dispute."},{"word":"Elenchtic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Elenchtical"},{"word":"Elenchtical","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Elenctic."},{"word":"Elenchus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Elench."},{"word":"Elenctic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Elenctical"},{"word":"Elenctical","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic."},{"word":"Elenge","type":"(a.)","description":"Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble."},{"word":"Elengeness","type":"(n.)","description":"Loneliness; misery."},{"word":"Elephansy","type":"(n.)","description":"Elephantiasis."},{"word":"Elephant","type":"(n.)","description":"A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing."},{"word":"Elephant","type":"(n.)","description":"Ivory; the tusk of the elephant."},{"word":"Elephantiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis."},{"word":"Elephantiasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide."},{"word":"Elephantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread."},{"word":"Elephantoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Elephantoidal"},{"word":"Elephantoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an elephant in form or appearance."},{"word":"Eleusinian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals."},{"word":"Eleutheromania","type":"(n.)","description":"A mania or frantic zeal for freedom."},{"word":"Eleutheromaniac","type":"(a.)","description":"Mad for freedom."},{"word":"Eleuthero-petalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower."},{"word":"Elevate","type":"(a.)","description":"Elevated; raised aloft."},{"word":"Elevated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elevate"},{"word":"Elevating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elevate"},{"word":"Elevate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc."},{"word":"Elevate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position."},{"word":"Elevate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits."},{"word":"Elevate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character."},{"word":"Elevate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice."},{"word":"Elevate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy."},{"word":"Elevate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen; to detract from; to disparage."},{"word":"Elevated","type":"(a.)","description":"Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts."},{"word":"Elevatedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being elevated."},{"word":"Elevation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character."},{"word":"Elevation","type":"(n.)","description":"Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation."},{"word":"Elevation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill."},{"word":"Elevation","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star."},{"word":"Elevation","type":"(n.)","description":"The angle which the style makes with the substylar line."},{"word":"Elevation","type":"(n.)","description":"The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction."},{"word":"Elevation","type":"(n.)","description":"A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography."},{"word":"Elevator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything"},{"word":"Elevator","type":"(n.)","description":"A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage."},{"word":"Elevator","type":"(n.)","description":"A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself."},{"word":"Elevator","type":"(n.)","description":"A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain."},{"word":"Elevator","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye."},{"word":"Elevator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone."},{"word":"Elevatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces."},{"word":"Elevatory","type":"(n.)","description":"See Elevator, n. (e)."},{"word":"Eleve","type":"(n.)","description":"A pupil; a student."},{"word":"Eleven","type":"(a.)","description":"Ten and one added; as, eleven men."},{"word":"Eleven","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects."},{"word":"Eleven","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi."},{"word":"Eleven","type":"(n.)","description":"The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven."},{"word":"Eleventh","type":"(a.)","description":"Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter."},{"word":"Eleventh","type":"(a.)","description":"Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing."},{"word":"Eleventh","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth."},{"word":"Eleventh","type":"(n.)","description":"The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts."},{"word":"Eleventh","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth."},{"word":"Elves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Elf"},{"word":"Elf","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks."},{"word":"Elf","type":"(n.)","description":"A very diminutive person; a dwarf."},{"word":"Elf","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do."},{"word":"Elfin","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to elves."},{"word":"Elfin","type":"(n.)","description":"A little elf or urchin."},{"word":"Elfish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves."},{"word":"Elfishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an elfish manner."},{"word":"Elfishness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being elfish."},{"word":"Elfkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A little elf."},{"word":"Elfland","type":"(n.)","description":"Fairyland."},{"word":"Elflock","type":"(n.)","description":"Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves."},{"word":"Elgin","type":"()","description":"Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin."},{"word":"Elicit","type":"(a.)","description":"Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident."},{"word":"Elicited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elicit"},{"word":"Eliciting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elicit"},{"word":"Elicit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion."},{"word":"Elicitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To elicit."},{"word":"Elicitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eliciting."},{"word":"Elided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elide"},{"word":"Eliding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elide"},{"word":"Elide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument."},{"word":"Elide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision."},{"word":"Eligibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage."},{"word":"Eligible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office."},{"word":"Eligible","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house."},{"word":"Eligibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness."},{"word":"Eligibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eligible manner."},{"word":"Elimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render smooth; to polish."},{"word":"Eliminant","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant."},{"word":"Eliminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eliminate"},{"word":"Eliminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eliminate"},{"word":"Eliminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty."},{"word":"Eliminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity."},{"word":"Eliminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration."},{"word":"Eliminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion."},{"word":"Eliminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system."},{"word":"Elimination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expelling or throwing off"},{"word":"Elimination","type":"(n.)","description":"the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories."},{"word":"Elimination","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities."},{"word":"Elimination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]"},{"word":"Eliminative","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or carrying on, elimination."},{"word":"Elinguate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the tongue."},{"word":"Elinguation","type":"(n.)","description":"Punishment by cutting out the tongue."},{"word":"Elinguid","type":"(a.)","description":"Tongue-tied; dumb."},{"word":"Eliquament","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure."},{"word":"Eliquation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation."},{"word":"Elison","type":"(n.)","description":"Division; separation."},{"word":"Elison","type":"(n.)","description":"The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together."},{"word":"Elisor","type":"(n.)","description":"An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified."},{"word":"Elite","type":"(n.)","description":"A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society."},{"word":"Elix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extract."},{"word":"Elixate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething."},{"word":"Elixation","type":"(n.)","description":"A seething; digestion."},{"word":"Elixir","type":"(n.)","description":"A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form."},{"word":"Elixir","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life."},{"word":"Elixir","type":"(n.)","description":"The refined spirit; the quintessence."},{"word":"Elixir","type":"(n.)","description":"Any cordial or substance which invigorates."},{"word":"Elizabethan","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature."},{"word":"Elizabethan","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth."},{"word":"Elk","type":"(n.)","description":"A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti."},{"word":"Elk","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Elke"},{"word":"Elke","type":"(n.)","description":"The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus)."},{"word":"Elknut","type":"(n.)","description":"The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo."},{"word":"Elkwood","type":"(n.)","description":"The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella)."},{"word":"Ell","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37."},{"word":"Ell","type":"(n.)","description":"See L."},{"word":"Ellachick","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food."},{"word":"Ellagic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid."},{"word":"Ellebore","type":"(n.)","description":"Hellebore."},{"word":"Elleborin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Helleborin."},{"word":"Elleck","type":"(n.)","description":"The red gurnard or cuckoo fish."},{"word":"Ellenge","type":"(n)","description":"Alt. of Ellingeness"},{"word":"Ellinge","type":"(n)","description":"Alt. of Ellingeness"},{"word":"Ellengeness","type":"(n)","description":"Alt. of Ellingeness"},{"word":"Ellingeness","type":"(n)","description":"See Elenge, Elengeness."},{"word":"Elles","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"See Else."},{"word":"Ellipse","type":"(n.)","description":"An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus."},{"word":"Ellipse","type":"(n.)","description":"Omission. See Ellipsis."},{"word":"Ellipse","type":"(n.)","description":"The elliptical orbit of a planet."},{"word":"Ellipses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ellipsis"},{"word":"Ellipsis","type":"(n.)","description":"Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire."},{"word":"Ellipsis","type":"(n.)","description":"An ellipse."},{"word":"Ellipsograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel."},{"word":"Ellipsoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a)."},{"word":"Ellipsoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ellipsoidal"},{"word":"Ellipsoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form."},{"word":"Elliptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Elliptical"},{"word":"Elliptical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends."},{"word":"Elliptical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase."},{"word":"Elliptically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form of an ellipse."},{"word":"Elliptically","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a part omitted; as, elliptically expressed."},{"word":"Ellipticity","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is /."},{"word":"Elliptic-lanceolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate."},{"word":"Elliptograph","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ellipsograph."},{"word":"Ellwand","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long."},{"word":"Elm","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva."},{"word":"Elmen","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to elms."},{"word":"Elmo's","type":"()","description":"See Corposant; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint."},{"word":"Elmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with elms."},{"word":"Elocation","type":"(n.)","description":"A removal from the usual place of residence."},{"word":"Elocation","type":"(n.)","description":"Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy."},{"word":"Elocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition."},{"word":"Elocution","type":"(n.)","description":"Utterance by speech."},{"word":"Elocution","type":"(n.)","description":"Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution."},{"word":"Elocution","type":"(n.)","description":"Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction."},{"word":"Elocutionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to elocution."},{"word":"Elocutionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution."},{"word":"Elocutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to oratorical expression."},{"word":"Elodian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn."},{"word":"Eloge","type":"(n.)","description":"A panegyrical funeral oration."},{"word":"Elogist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pronounces an eloge."},{"word":"Elogium","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Elogy"},{"word":"Elogy","type":"(n.)","description":"The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy."},{"word":"Elohim","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures."},{"word":"Elohist","type":"(n.)","description":"The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist."},{"word":"Elohistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament."},{"word":"Eloigned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eloign"},{"word":"Eloigning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eloign"},{"word":"Eloign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove afar off; to withdraw."},{"word":"Eloign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey to a distance, or beyond the jurisdiction, or to conceal, as goods liable to distress."},{"word":"Eloignate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove."},{"word":"Eloignment","type":"(n.)","description":"Removal to a distance; withdrawal."},{"word":"Eloin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Eloign."},{"word":"Eloinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Eloignate."},{"word":"Eloinment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eloignment."},{"word":"Elong","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lengthen out; to prolong."},{"word":"Elong","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put away; to separate; to keep off."},{"word":"Elongated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elongate"},{"word":"Elongating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elongate"},{"word":"Elongate","type":"(a.)","description":"To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line."},{"word":"Elongate","type":"(a.)","description":"To remove further off."},{"word":"Elongate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit."},{"word":"Elongate","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf."},{"word":"Elongation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension."},{"word":"Elongation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which lengthens out; continuation."},{"word":"Elongation","type":"(n.)","description":"Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance."},{"word":"Elongation","type":"(n.)","description":"The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury."},{"word":"Eloped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elope"},{"word":"Eloping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elope"},{"word":"Elope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart."},{"word":"Elopement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation."},{"word":"Eloper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who elopes."},{"word":"Elops","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fishes. See Saury."},{"word":"Elops","type":"(n.)","description":"A mythical serpent."},{"word":"Eloquence","type":"(n.)","description":"Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion."},{"word":"Eloquence","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech."},{"word":"Eloquence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is eloquently uttered or written."},{"word":"Eloquent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher."},{"word":"Eloquent","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury."},{"word":"Eloquently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eloquent manner."},{"word":"Elrich","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Elritch"},{"word":"Elritch","type":"(a.)","description":"Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch."},{"word":"Else","type":"(a. & pron.)","description":"Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect anything else?"},{"word":"Else","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else."},{"word":"Else","type":"(adv. & conj.)","description":"Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different."},{"word":"Elsewhere","type":"(adv.)","description":"In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere."},{"word":"Elsewhere","type":"(adv.)","description":"In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere."},{"word":"Elsewhither","type":"(adv.)","description":"To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it."},{"word":"Elsewise","type":"(adv.)","description":"Otherwise."},{"word":"Elsin","type":"(n.)","description":"A shoemaker's awl."},{"word":"Elucidated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elucidate"},{"word":"Elucidating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elucidate"},{"word":"Elucidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject."},{"word":"Elucidation","type":"(n.)","description":"A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject."},{"word":"Elucidative","type":"(a.)","description":"Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note."},{"word":"Elucidator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who explains or elucidates; an expositor."},{"word":"Elucidatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to elucidate; elucidative."},{"word":"Eluctate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To struggle out; -- with out."},{"word":"Eluctation","type":"(n.)","description":"A struggling out of any difficulty."},{"word":"Elucubrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Lucubrate."},{"word":"Elucubration","type":"(n.)","description":"See Lucubration."},{"word":"Eluded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elude"},{"word":"Eluding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elude"},{"word":"Elude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow."},{"word":"Eludible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being eluded; evadible."},{"word":"Elul","type":"(n.)","description":"The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September."},{"word":"Elumbated","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak or lame in the loins."},{"word":"Elusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery."},{"word":"Elusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious."},{"word":"Elusory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive."},{"word":"Elute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wash out."},{"word":"Elutriated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Elutriate"},{"word":"Elutriating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Elutriate"},{"word":"Elutriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing."},{"word":"Elutriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier."},{"word":"Eluxate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dislocate; to luxate."},{"word":"Eluxation","type":"(n.)","description":"Dislocation; luxation."},{"word":"Elvan","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to elves; elvish."},{"word":"Elvan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course."},{"word":"Elvan","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Elvanite"},{"word":"Elvanite","type":"(n.)","description":"The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course."},{"word":"Elve","type":"(n.)","description":"An old form of Elf."},{"word":"Elver","type":"(n.)","description":"A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene."},{"word":"Elf","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Elves"},{"word":"Elvish","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish."},{"word":"Elvish","type":"(a.)","description":"Mysterious; also, foolish."},{"word":"Elvishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an elvish manner."},{"word":"Elwand","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ellwand."},{"word":"Elysian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific."},{"word":"Elysiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Elysium"},{"word":"Elysia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Elysium"},{"word":"Elysium","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise."},{"word":"Elysium","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, any delightful place."},{"word":"Elytriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form, or structure, of an elytron."},{"word":"Elytrin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chitin."},{"word":"Elytroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a beetle's wing case."},{"word":"Elytra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Elytrum"},{"word":"Elytron","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Elytrum"},{"word":"Elytrum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair."},{"word":"Elytrum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda."},{"word":"Elzevir","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them."},{"word":"'Em","type":"()","description":"An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them."},{"word":"Em","type":"(n.)","description":"The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type."},{"word":"Em-","type":"()","description":"A prefix. See En-."},{"word":"Emacerate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate."},{"word":"Emaceration","type":"(n.)","description":"Emaciation."},{"word":"Emaciated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emaciate"},{"word":"Emaciating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emaciate"},{"word":"Emaciate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh."},{"word":"Emaciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him."},{"word":"Emaciate","type":"(a.)","description":"Emaciated."},{"word":"Emaciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making very lean."},{"word":"Emaciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition."},{"word":"Emaculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection."},{"word":"Emaculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of clearing from spots."},{"word":"Aemail","type":"()","description":"An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain."},{"word":"Emanant","type":"(a.)","description":"Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition."},{"word":"Emanated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emanate"},{"word":"Emanating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emanate"},{"word":"Emanate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers."},{"word":"Emanate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate."},{"word":"Emanate","type":"(a.)","description":"Issuing forth; emanant."},{"word":"Emanation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin."},{"word":"Emanation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower."},{"word":"Emanative","type":"(a.)","description":"Issuing forth; effluent."},{"word":"Emanatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By an emanation."},{"word":"Emanatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Emanative; of the nature of an emanation."},{"word":"Emancipated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emancipate"},{"word":"Emancipating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emancipate"},{"word":"Emancipate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country."},{"word":"Emancipate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error."},{"word":"Emancipate","type":"(a.)","description":"Set at liberty."},{"word":"Emancipation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection."},{"word":"Emancipationist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves."},{"word":"Emancipator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who emancipates."},{"word":"Emancipatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation."},{"word":"Emancipist","type":"(n.)","description":"A freed convict."},{"word":"Emarginate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take away the margin of."},{"word":"Emarginate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Emarginated"},{"word":"Emarginated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus."},{"word":"Emarginated","type":"(a.)","description":"Notched at the summit."},{"word":"Emarginated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the edges truncated."},{"word":"Emarginately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an emarginate manner."},{"word":"Emargination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin."},{"word":"Emasculated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emasculate"},{"word":"Emasculating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emasculate"},{"word":"Emasculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld."},{"word":"Emasculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness."},{"word":"Emasculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak."},{"word":"Emasculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration."},{"word":"Emasculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness."},{"word":"Emasculator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, emasculates."},{"word":"Emasculatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to emasculate."},{"word":"Embace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embase."},{"word":"Embale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make up into a bale or pack."},{"word":"Embale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind up; to inclose."},{"word":"Emball","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle or embrace."},{"word":"Embalmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embalm"},{"word":"Embalming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embalm"},{"word":"Embalm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction."},{"word":"Embalm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume."},{"word":"Embalm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance."},{"word":"Embalmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embalms."},{"word":"Embalmment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of embalming."},{"word":"Embanked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embank"},{"word":"Embanking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embank"},{"word":"Embank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone."},{"word":"Embankment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of surrounding or defending with a bank."},{"word":"Embankment","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc."},{"word":"Embarred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embar"},{"word":"Embanking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embar"},{"word":"Embar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars."},{"word":"Embar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up."},{"word":"Embarcation","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Embarkation."},{"word":"Embarge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a barge."},{"word":"Embargoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Embargo"},{"word":"Embargo","type":"(n.)","description":"An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail."},{"word":"Embargoed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embargo"},{"word":"Embargoing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embargo"},{"word":"Embargo","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods."},{"word":"Embarked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embark"},{"word":"Embarking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embark"},{"word":"Embark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard."},{"word":"Embark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade."},{"word":"Embark","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon."},{"word":"Embark","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in any affair."},{"word":"Embarkation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops."},{"word":"Embarkation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits."},{"word":"Embarkment","type":"(n.)","description":"Embarkation."},{"word":"Embarrassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embarrass"},{"word":"Embarrassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embarrass"},{"word":"Embarrass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator."},{"word":"Embarrass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed."},{"word":"Embarrass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements."},{"word":"Embarrass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Embarrassment."},{"word":"Embarrassment","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness."},{"word":"Embarrassment","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts."},{"word":"Embase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate."},{"word":"Embasement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration."},{"word":"Embassade","type":"(n.)","description":"An embassy. See Ambassade."},{"word":"Embassador","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ambassador."},{"word":"Embassadorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Ambassadorial."},{"word":"Embassadress","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ambassadress."},{"word":"Embassadry","type":"(n.)","description":"Embassy."},{"word":"Embassage","type":"(n.)","description":"An embassy."},{"word":"Embassage","type":"(n.)","description":"Message; errand."},{"word":"Embassies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Embassy"},{"word":"Embassy","type":"(n.)","description":"The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message."},{"word":"Embassy","type":"(n.)","description":"The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys."},{"word":"Embassy","type":"(n.)","description":"The residence or office of an ambassador."},{"word":"Embastardize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bastardize."},{"word":"Embathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bathe; to imbathe."},{"word":"Embattail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements."},{"word":"Embattled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embattle"},{"word":"Embattling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embattle"},{"word":"Embattle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle."},{"word":"Embattle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be arrayed for battle."},{"word":"Embattle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with battlements."},{"word":"Embattled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having indentations like a battlement."},{"word":"Embattled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like."},{"word":"Embattled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field."},{"word":"Embattlement","type":"(n.)","description":"An intended parapet; a battlement."},{"word":"Embattlement","type":"(n.)","description":"The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements."},{"word":"Embay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing."},{"word":"Embayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embay"},{"word":"Embaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embay"},{"word":"Embay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay."},{"word":"Embayment","type":"(n.)","description":"A bay."},{"word":"Embeam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make brilliant with beams."},{"word":"Embedded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embed"},{"word":"Embedding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embed"},{"word":"Embed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand."},{"word":"Embedment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded."},{"word":"Embellished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embellish"},{"word":"Embellishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embellish"},{"word":"Embellish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors."},{"word":"Embellisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embellishes."},{"word":"Embellishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment."},{"word":"Embellishment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments."},{"word":"Ember","type":"(n.)","description":"A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire."},{"word":"Ember","type":"(a.)","description":"Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts."},{"word":"Ember-goose","type":"(n.)","description":"The loon or great northern diver. See Loon."},{"word":"Emberings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Ember days."},{"word":"Embetter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make better."},{"word":"Embezzled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embezzle"},{"word":"Embezzling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embezzle"},{"word":"Embezzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust."},{"word":"Embezzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance."},{"word":"Embezzlement","type":"(n.)","description":"The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge."},{"word":"Embezzler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embezzles."},{"word":"Embillow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell or heave like a ///// of the sea."},{"word":"Embiotocoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocidae."},{"word":"Embiotocoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. See Illust. in Append."},{"word":"Embitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter."},{"word":"Embitterment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of embittering; also, that which embitters."},{"word":"Emblanch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whiten. See Blanch."},{"word":"Emblazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emblaze"},{"word":"Emblazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emblaze"},{"word":"Emblaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with glittering embellishments."},{"word":"Emblaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon."},{"word":"Emblazoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emblazon"},{"word":"Emblazoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emblazon"},{"word":"Emblazon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon."},{"word":"Emblazon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate."},{"word":"Emblazoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp."},{"word":"Emblazoning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings."},{"word":"Emblazonment","type":"(n.)","description":"An emblazoning."},{"word":"Emblazonries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emblazonry"},{"word":"Emblazonry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment."},{"word":"Emblem","type":"(n.)","description":"Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface."},{"word":"Emblem","type":"(n.)","description":"A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity."},{"word":"Emblem","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation."},{"word":"Emblemed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emblem"},{"word":"Embleming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emblem"},{"word":"Emblem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by an emblem; to symbolize."},{"word":"Emblematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Emblematical"},{"word":"Emblematical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity."},{"word":"Emblematiccize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture."},{"word":"Emblematist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer or inventor of emblems."},{"word":"Emblematized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emblematize"},{"word":"Emblematizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emblematize"},{"word":"Emblematize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize."},{"word":"Emblement","type":"(n.)","description":"The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement."},{"word":"Emblemized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emblemize"},{"word":"Emblemizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emblemize"},{"word":"Emblemize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by an emblem; to emblematize."},{"word":"Embloom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emblossom."},{"word":"Emblossom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or adorn with blossoms."},{"word":"Embodier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embodies."},{"word":"Embodiment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of embodying; the state of being embodied."},{"word":"Embodiment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety."},{"word":"Embodied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embody"},{"word":"Embodying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embody"},{"word":"Embody","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise."},{"word":"Embody","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce."},{"word":"Embogue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river."},{"word":"Emboguing","type":"(n.)","description":"The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged."},{"word":"Emboil","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To boil with anger; to effervesce."},{"word":"Emboil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe."},{"word":"Emboitement","type":"(n.)","description":"The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another."},{"word":"Emboldened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embolden"},{"word":"Emboldening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embolden"},{"word":"Embolden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give boldness or courage to; to encourage."},{"word":"Emboldener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who emboldens."},{"word":"Embolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Embolismic."},{"word":"Embolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess."},{"word":"Embolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination."},{"word":"Embolism","type":"(n.)","description":"Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year."},{"word":"Embolism","type":"(n.)","description":"Intercalated time."},{"word":"Embolism","type":"(n.)","description":"The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis."},{"word":"Embolismal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months."},{"word":"Embolismatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Embolismatical"},{"word":"Embolismatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Embolismic."},{"word":"Embolismic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Embolismical"},{"word":"Embolismical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation."},{"word":"Embolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver."},{"word":"Emboli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Embolus"},{"word":"Embolus","type":"(n.)","description":"Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe."},{"word":"Embolus","type":"(n.)","description":"A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism."},{"word":"Emboly","type":"(n.)","description":"Embolic invagination. See under Invagination."},{"word":"Embonpoint","type":"(n.)","description":"Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent."},{"word":"Emborder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder."},{"word":"Embosom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster."},{"word":"Embosom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something."},{"word":"Embossed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emboss"},{"word":"Embossing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emboss"},{"word":"Emboss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work."},{"word":"Emboss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like."},{"word":"Emboss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal."},{"word":"Emboss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood."},{"word":"Emboss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset."},{"word":"Emboss","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods."},{"word":"Embossed","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures."},{"word":"Embossed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield."},{"word":"Embossed","type":"(a.)","description":"Swollen; protuberant."},{"word":"Embosser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embosses."},{"word":"Embossment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed."},{"word":"Embossment","type":"(n.)","description":"A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect."},{"word":"Embottle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bottle."},{"word":"Embouchure","type":"(n.)","description":"The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon."},{"word":"Embouchure","type":"(n.)","description":"The mouthpiece of a wind instrument."},{"word":"Embouchure","type":"(n.)","description":"The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure."},{"word":"Embow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend like a bow; to curve."},{"word":"Emboweled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embowel"},{"word":"Embowelled","type":"()","description":"of Embowel"},{"word":"Emboweling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embowel"},{"word":"Embowelling","type":"()","description":"of Embowel"},{"word":"Embowel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disembowel."},{"word":"Embowel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury."},{"word":"Emboweler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes out the bowels."},{"word":"Embowelment","type":"(n.)","description":"Disembowelment."},{"word":"Embower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees."},{"word":"Embower","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lodge or rest in a bower."},{"word":"Embowl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to."},{"word":"Embox","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose, as in a box; to imbox."},{"word":"Emboyssement","type":"(n.)","description":"An ambush."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten on, as armor."},{"word":"Embraced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embrace"},{"word":"Embracing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embrace"},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To cling to; to cherish; to love."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To encircle; to encompass; to inclose."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To accept; to undergo; to submit to."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(n.)","description":"To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To join in an embrace."},{"word":"Embrace","type":"(n.)","description":"Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug."},{"word":"Embracement","type":"(n.)","description":"A clasp in the arms; embrace."},{"word":"Embracement","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being contained; inclosure."},{"word":"Embracement","type":"(n.)","description":"Willing acceptance."},{"word":"Embraceor","type":"(n.)","description":"One guilty of embracery."},{"word":"Embracer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embraces."},{"word":"Embracery","type":"(n.)","description":"An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements."},{"word":"Embracive","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing."},{"word":"Embraid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To braid up, as hair."},{"word":"Embraid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To upbraid."},{"word":"Embranchment","type":"(n.)","description":"The branching forth, as of trees."},{"word":"Embrangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confuse; to entangle."},{"word":"Embrasure","type":"(n.)","description":"An embrace."},{"word":"Embrasure","type":"(n.)","description":"A splay of a door or window."},{"word":"Embrasure","type":"(n.)","description":"An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate."},{"word":"Embrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inspire with bravery."},{"word":"Embrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decorate; to make showy and fine."},{"word":"Embrawn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harden."},{"word":"Embread","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To braid."},{"word":"Embreathement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breathing in; inspiration."},{"word":"Embrew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imbrue; to stain with blood."},{"word":"Embright","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To brighten."},{"word":"Embrocated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embrocate"},{"word":"Embrocating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embrocate"},{"word":"Embrocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge."},{"word":"Embrocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc."},{"word":"Embrocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed."},{"word":"Embroglio","type":"(n.)","description":"See Imbroglio."},{"word":"Embroidered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embroider"},{"word":"Embroidering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embroider"},{"word":"Embroider","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf."},{"word":"Embroiderer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embroiders."},{"word":"Embroideries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Embroidery"},{"word":"Embroidery","type":"(n.)","description":"Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering."},{"word":"Embroidery","type":"(n.)","description":"Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration."},{"word":"Embroiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Embroil"},{"word":"Embroiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Embroil"},{"word":"Embroil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife."},{"word":"Embroil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble."},{"word":"Embroil","type":"(n.)","description":"See Embroilment."},{"word":"Embroiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who embroils."},{"word":"Embroilment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil."},{"word":"Embronze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person."},{"word":"Embronze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To color in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t."},{"word":"Embrothel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a brothel."},{"word":"Embroude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Embroyde"},{"word":"Embrowde","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Embroyde"},{"word":"Embroyde","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embroider; to adorn."},{"word":"Embrown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a brown color to; to imbrown."},{"word":"Embrue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Imbrue, Embrew."},{"word":"Embrute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To brutify; to imbrute."},{"word":"Embryos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Embryo"},{"word":"Embryo","type":"(n.)","description":"The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant"},{"word":"Embryo","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus)."},{"word":"Embryo","type":"(n.)","description":"The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination."},{"word":"Embryo","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud."},{"word":"Embryogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the development of an embryo."},{"word":"Embryogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The production and development of an embryo."},{"word":"Embryogony","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of an embryo."},{"word":"Embryography","type":"(n.)","description":"The general description of embryos."},{"word":"Embryologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Embryological"},{"word":"Embryological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to embryology."},{"word":"Embryologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in embryology."},{"word":"Embryology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage."},{"word":"Embryon","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"See Embryo."},{"word":"Embryonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic."},{"word":"Embryonary","type":"(a.)","description":"Embryonic."},{"word":"Embryonate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Embryonated"},{"word":"Embryonated","type":"(a.)","description":"In the state of, or having, an embryonal."},{"word":"Embryonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary."},{"word":"Embryoniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an embryo."},{"word":"Embryoniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Like an embryo in form."},{"word":"Embryoplastic","type":"(n.)","description":"Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells."},{"word":"Embryo","type":"()","description":"See under Embryonic."},{"word":"Embryotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Embryonic."},{"word":"Embryotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal."},{"word":"Embryotroph","type":"(n.)","description":"The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished."},{"word":"Embryous","type":"(a.)","description":"Embryonic; undeveloped."},{"word":"Embulk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge in the way of bulk."},{"word":"Emburse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with money; to imburse."},{"word":"Embush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush."},{"word":"Embushment","type":"(n.)","description":"An ambush."},{"word":"Embusy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To employ."},{"word":"Eme","type":"(n.)","description":"An uncle."},{"word":"Emeer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Emir."},{"word":"Emenagogue","type":"(n.)","description":"See Emmenagogue."},{"word":"Emended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emend"},{"word":"Emending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emend"},{"word":"Emend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal."},{"word":"Emendable","type":"(a.)","description":"Corrigible; amendable."},{"word":"Emendately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without fault; correctly."},{"word":"Emendation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement."},{"word":"Emendation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations."},{"word":"Emendator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who emends or critically edits."},{"word":"Emendatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to emendation; corrective."},{"word":"Emender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who emends."},{"word":"Emendicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beg."},{"word":"Emerald","type":"(n.)","description":"A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl."},{"word":"Emerald","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers."},{"word":"Emerald","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald."},{"word":"Emeraldine","type":"(n.)","description":"A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid."},{"word":"Emeraud","type":"(n.)","description":"An emerald."},{"word":"Emerged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emerge"},{"word":"Emerging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emerge"},{"word":"Emerge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity."},{"word":"Emergences","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emergence"},{"word":"Emergence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance."},{"word":"Emergencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emergency"},{"word":"Emergency","type":"(n.)","description":"Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion."},{"word":"Emergency","type":"(n.)","description":"An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing necessity; exigency."},{"word":"Emergent","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light."},{"word":"Emergent","type":"(a.)","description":"Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent."},{"word":"Emeril","type":"(n.)","description":"Emery."},{"word":"Emeril","type":"(n.)","description":"A glazier's diamond."},{"word":"Emerited","type":"(a.)","description":"Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged."},{"word":"Emeritus","type":"(a.)","description":"Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church."},{"word":"Emeriti","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emeritus"},{"word":"Emeritus","type":"(n.)","description":"A veteran who has honorably completed his service."},{"word":"Emerods","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Emeroids"},{"word":"Emeroids","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils."},{"word":"Emersed","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing out of, or rising above, water."},{"word":"Emersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties."},{"word":"Emersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon."},{"word":"Emery","type":"(n.)","description":"Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum."},{"word":"Emesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A vomiting."},{"word":"Emetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth."},{"word":"Emetic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine which causes vomiting."},{"word":"Emetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic."},{"word":"Emetine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle."},{"word":"Emeto-cathartic","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing vomiting and purging at the same time."},{"word":"Emeu","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Emew"},{"word":"Emew","type":"(n.)","description":"See Emu."},{"word":"Emeute","type":"(n.)","description":"A seditious tumult; an outbreak."},{"word":"Emforth","type":"(prep.)","description":"According to; conformably to."},{"word":"Emgalla","type":"(n.)","description":"The South African wart hog. See Wart hog."},{"word":"Emicant","type":"(a.)","description":"Beaming forth; flashing."},{"word":"Emication","type":"(n.)","description":"A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation."},{"word":"Emiction","type":"(n.)","description":"The voiding of urine."},{"word":"Emiction","type":"(n.)","description":"What is voided by the urinary passages; urine."},{"word":"Emictory","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Diuretic."},{"word":"Emigrant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation."},{"word":"Emigrant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital."},{"word":"Emigrant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another."},{"word":"Emigrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emigrate"},{"word":"Emigrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emigrate"},{"word":"Emigrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home."},{"word":"Emigrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Migratory; roving."},{"word":"Emigration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western."},{"word":"Emigration","type":"(n.)","description":"A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration."},{"word":"Emigrational","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to emigration."},{"word":"Emigrationist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate or promoter of emigration."},{"word":"Emigrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who emigrates; am emigrant."},{"word":"Emigre","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence."},{"word":"Eminence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height."},{"word":"Eminence","type":"(n.)","description":"An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment."},{"word":"Eminence","type":"(n.)","description":"A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church."},{"word":"Eminences","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eminency"},{"word":"Eminency","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being eminent; eminence."},{"word":"Eminent","type":"(a.)","description":"High; lofty; towering; prominent."},{"word":"Eminent","type":"(a.)","description":"Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint."},{"word":"Eminently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned."},{"word":"Emir","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Emeer"},{"word":"Emeer","type":"(n.)","description":"An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials."},{"word":"Emirship","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Emeership"},{"word":"Emeership","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank or office of an Emir."},{"word":"Emissaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emissary"},{"word":"Emissary","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter."},{"word":"Emissary","type":"(a.)","description":"Exploring; spying."},{"word":"Emissary","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls."},{"word":"Emissaryship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an emissary."},{"word":"Emission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes."},{"word":"Emission","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood."},{"word":"Emissitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Looking, or narrowly examining; prying."},{"word":"Emissive","type":"(a.)","description":"Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers."},{"word":"Emissivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body."},{"word":"Emissory","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Emissary, a., 2."},{"word":"Emitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emit"},{"word":"Emitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emit"},{"word":"Emit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light."},{"word":"Emit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit."},{"word":"Emittent","type":"(a.)","description":"Sending forth; emissive."},{"word":"Emmantle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection."},{"word":"Emmanuel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Immanuel."},{"word":"Emmarble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn to marble; to harden."},{"word":"Emmenagogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge."},{"word":"Emmet","type":"(n.)","description":"An ant."},{"word":"Emmetropia","type":"(n.)","description":"That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism."},{"word":"Emmetropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia."},{"word":"Emmetropy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Emmetropia."},{"word":"Emmew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mew or coop up."},{"word":"Emmove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move; to rouse; to excite."},{"word":"Emodin","type":"(n.)","description":"An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei)."},{"word":"Emollescence","type":"(n.)","description":"That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility."},{"word":"Emolliated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emolliate"},{"word":"Emolliating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emolliate"},{"word":"Emolliate","type":"(a.)","description":"To soften; to render effeminate."},{"word":"Emollient","type":"(a.)","description":"Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient."},{"word":"Emollient","type":"(n.)","description":"An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc."},{"word":"Emollition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation."},{"word":"Emolument","type":"(n.)","description":"The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary."},{"word":"Emolumental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an emolument; profitable."},{"word":"Emong","type":"(prep.)","description":"Alt. of Emongst"},{"word":"Emongst","type":"(prep.)","description":"Among."},{"word":"Emotion","type":"(n.)","description":"A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body."},{"word":"Emotioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with emotion."},{"word":"Emotional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature."},{"word":"Emotionalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner."},{"word":"Emotionalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give an emotional character to."},{"word":"Emotive","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended by, or having the character of, emotion."},{"word":"Emotiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Susceptibility to emotion."},{"word":"Emotivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Emotiveness."},{"word":"Emove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move."},{"word":"Empair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impair."},{"word":"Empaistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having to do with inlaid work; -- especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks."},{"word":"Empale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make pale."},{"word":"Empaled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Empale"},{"word":"Empaling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Empale"},{"word":"Empale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale."},{"word":"Empale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose; to surround. See Impale."},{"word":"Empale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body."},{"word":"Empale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Impale."},{"word":"Empalement","type":"(n.)","description":"A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes."},{"word":"Empalement","type":"(n.)","description":"A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body."},{"word":"Empalement","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Impalement."},{"word":"Empanel","type":"(n.)","description":"A list of jurors; a panel."},{"word":"Empanel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Impanel."},{"word":"Empanoplied","type":"(a.)","description":"Completely armed; panoplied."},{"word":"Emparadise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Imparadise."},{"word":"Empark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark."},{"word":"Emparlance","type":"(n.)","description":"Parley; imparlance."},{"word":"Empasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat."},{"word":"Empassion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion."},{"word":"Empassionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Strongly affected."},{"word":"Empawn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn."},{"word":"Empeach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder. See Impeach."},{"word":"Empearl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl."},{"word":"Empeople","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people."},{"word":"Emperess","type":"(n.)","description":"See Empress."},{"word":"Emperice","type":"(n.)","description":"An empress."},{"word":"Emperil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in peril. See Imperil."},{"word":"Emperished","type":"(a.)","description":"Perished; decayed."},{"word":"Emperor","type":"(n.)","description":"The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia."},{"word":"Emperorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank or office of an emperor."},{"word":"Empery","type":"(n.)","description":"Empire; sovereignty; dominion."},{"word":"Emphases","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emphasis"},{"word":"Emphasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience."},{"word":"Emphasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis."},{"word":"Emphasized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emphasize"},{"word":"Emphasizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emphasize"},{"word":"Emphasize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase."},{"word":"Emphatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Emphatical"},{"word":"Emphatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning."},{"word":"Emphatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Striking the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible."},{"word":"Emphatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preeminently."},{"word":"Emphatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not really, but apparently."},{"word":"Emphaticalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being emphatic; emphasis."},{"word":"Emphractic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin."},{"word":"Emphrensy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To madden."},{"word":"Emphysema","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue."},{"word":"Emphysematous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated."},{"word":"Emphyteusis","type":"(n.)","description":"A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent."},{"word":"Emphyteutic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an emphyteusis; as, emphyteutic lands."},{"word":"Emphyteuticary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds lands by emphyteusis."},{"word":"Empierce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce; to impierce."},{"word":"Empight","type":"(a.)","description":"Fixed; settled; fastened."},{"word":"Empire","type":"(n.)","description":"Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion."},{"word":"Empire","type":"(n.)","description":"The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire."},{"word":"Empire","type":"(n.)","description":"Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason."},{"word":"Empiric","type":"(n.)","description":"One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience."},{"word":"Empiric","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan."},{"word":"Empiric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Empirical"},{"word":"Empirical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments."},{"word":"Empirical","type":"(a.)","description":"Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies."},{"word":"Empirically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks."},{"word":"Empiricism","type":"(n.)","description":"The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment."},{"word":"Empiricism","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery."},{"word":"Empiricism","type":"(n.)","description":"The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience."},{"word":"Empiricist","type":"(n.)","description":"An empiric."},{"word":"Empiristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic."},{"word":"Emplaster","type":"(n.)","description":"See Plaster."},{"word":"Emplaster","type":"(n.)","description":"To plaster over; to cover over so as to present a good appearance."},{"word":"Emplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications."},{"word":"Emplastic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine causing constipation."},{"word":"Emplastration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding."},{"word":"Emplastration","type":"(n.)","description":"The application of a plaster or salve."},{"word":"Emplead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accuse; to indict. See Implead."},{"word":"Emplection","type":"(n.)","description":"See Emplecton."},{"word":"Emplecton","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders."},{"word":"Emplore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Implore."},{"word":"Employed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Employ"},{"word":"Employing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Employ"},{"word":"Employ","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose; to infold."},{"word":"Employ","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies."},{"word":"Employ","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To occupy; as, to employ time in study."},{"word":"Employ","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy."},{"word":"Employ","type":"(n.)","description":"That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment."},{"word":"Employable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use."},{"word":"Employe","type":"(n.)","description":"One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer."},{"word":"Employee","type":"(n.)","description":"One employed by another."},{"word":"Employer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen."},{"word":"Employment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed."},{"word":"Employment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government."},{"word":"Emplumed","type":"(a.)","description":"Plumed."},{"word":"Emplunge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge; to implunge."},{"word":"Empoison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To poison; to impoison."},{"word":"Empoison","type":"(n.)","description":"Poison."},{"word":"Empoisoner","type":"(n.)","description":"Poisoner."},{"word":"Empoisonment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of poisoning."},{"word":"Emporetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Emporetical"},{"word":"Emporetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise."},{"word":"Emporiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emporium"},{"word":"Emporia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emporium"},{"word":"Emporium","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country."},{"word":"Emporium","type":"(n.)","description":"The brain."},{"word":"Empoverish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Impoverish."},{"word":"Empowered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Empower"},{"word":"Empowering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Empower"},{"word":"Empower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor."},{"word":"Empower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to."},{"word":"Empress","type":"(n.)","description":"The consort of an emperor."},{"word":"Empress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female sovereign."},{"word":"Empress","type":"(n.)","description":"A sovereign mistress."},{"word":"Emprint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Imprint."},{"word":"Emprise","type":"(n.)","description":"An enterprise; endeavor; adventure."},{"word":"Emprise","type":"(n.)","description":"The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits."},{"word":"Emprise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To undertake."},{"word":"Emprising","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Full of daring; adventurous."},{"word":"Emprison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Imprison."},{"word":"Emprosthotonos","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles."},{"word":"Empte","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To empty."},{"word":"Emptier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, empties."},{"word":"Emptier","type":"(compar.)","description":"of Empty."},{"word":"Emptiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach."},{"word":"Emptiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory."},{"word":"Emptiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind."},{"word":"Emption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of buying."},{"word":"Emptional","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being purchased."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having nothing to carry; unburdened."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams."},{"word":"Empties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Empty"},{"word":"Empty","type":"(n.)","description":"An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, \"special rates for empties.\""},{"word":"Emptied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Empty"},{"word":"Emptying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Empty"},{"word":"Empty","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean."},{"word":"Empty","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become empty."},{"word":"Emptying","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making empty."},{"word":"Emptying","type":"(n.)","description":"The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast."},{"word":"Empugn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Impugn."},{"word":"Empurpled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Empurple"},{"word":"Empurpling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Empurple"},{"word":"Empurple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple."},{"word":"Empuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A phantom or specter."},{"word":"Empuzzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To puzzle."},{"word":"Empyema","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura."},{"word":"Empyesis","type":"(n.)","description":"An eruption of pustules."},{"word":"Empyreal","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven."},{"word":"Empyreal","type":"(n.)","description":"Empyrean."},{"word":"Empyrean","type":"(n.)","description":"The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist."},{"word":"Empyrean","type":"(a.)","description":"Empyreal."},{"word":"Empyreuma","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels."},{"word":"Empyreumatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Empyreumatical"},{"word":"Empyreumatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor."},{"word":"Empyreumatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render empyreumatic."},{"word":"Empyrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing the combustible principle of coal."},{"word":"Empyrosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A general fire; a conflagration."},{"word":"Emrods","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Emerods."},{"word":"Emu","type":"(n.)","description":"A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly."},{"word":"Emulable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being emulated."},{"word":"Emulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous."},{"word":"Emulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Emulate"},{"word":"Emulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Emulate"},{"word":"Emulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great."},{"word":"Emulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry."},{"word":"Emulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention."},{"word":"Emulative","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort."},{"word":"Emulatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an emulative manner; with emulation."},{"word":"Emulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass."},{"word":"Emulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry."},{"word":"Emulatress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female emulator."},{"word":"Emule","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emulate."},{"word":"Emulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To milk out; to drain."},{"word":"Emulgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins."},{"word":"Emulgent","type":"(n.)","description":"An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein."},{"word":"Emulgent","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine that excites the flow of bile."},{"word":"Emulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues."},{"word":"Emulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious."},{"word":"Emulously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an emulous manner."},{"word":"Emulousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being emulous."},{"word":"Emulsic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid."},{"word":"Emulsify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food."},{"word":"Emulsin","type":"(n.)","description":"The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds."},{"word":"Emulsin","type":"(n.)","description":"An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides."},{"word":"Emulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process."},{"word":"Emulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Softening; milklike."},{"word":"Emulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds."},{"word":"Emulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids."},{"word":"Emunctories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emunctory"},{"word":"Emunctory","type":"(n.)","description":"Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter."},{"word":"Emuscation","type":"(n.)","description":"A freeing from moss."},{"word":"Emu","type":"()","description":"A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers."},{"word":"Emyds","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emyd"},{"word":"Emyd//","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Emyd"},{"word":"Emyd","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidae."},{"word":"Emydea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins."},{"word":"En-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-."},{"word":"En-","type":"()","description":"A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-."},{"word":"-en","type":"()","description":"A suffix from AS. -an, formerly used to form the plural of many nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all obs. except oxen. In some cases, such as children and brethren, it has been added to older plural forms."},{"word":"-en","type":"()","description":"A suffix corresponding to AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form the plural of verbs, as in housen, escapen."},{"word":"-en","type":"()","description":"A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an."},{"word":"-en","type":"()","description":"An adjectival suffix, meaning made of; as in golden, leaden, wooden."},{"word":"-en","type":"()","description":"The termination of the past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden."},{"word":"En","type":"(n.)","description":"Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em."},{"word":"Enabled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enable"},{"word":"Enabling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enable"},{"word":"Enable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong."},{"word":"Enable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow."},{"word":"Enablement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability."},{"word":"Enacted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enact"},{"word":"Enacting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enact"},{"word":"Enact","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law."},{"word":"Enact","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act; to perform; to do; to effect."},{"word":"Enact","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act the part of; to represent; to play."},{"word":"Enact","type":"(n.)","description":"Purpose; determination."},{"word":"Enactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to enact or establish as a law."},{"word":"Enactment","type":"(n.)","description":"The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law."},{"word":"Enactment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment."},{"word":"Enactor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law."},{"word":"Enacture","type":"(n.)","description":"Enactment; resolution."},{"word":"Enaliosaur","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Enaliosauria."},{"word":"Enaliosauria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders."},{"word":"Enaliosaurian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Enaliosauria."},{"word":"Enaliosaurian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Enaliosauria."},{"word":"Enallage","type":"(n.)","description":"A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another."},{"word":"Enambush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ambush."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement."},{"word":"Enameled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enamel"},{"word":"Enamelled","type":"()","description":"of Enamel"},{"word":"Enameling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enamel"},{"word":"Enamelling","type":"()","description":"of Enamel"},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To variegate with colors as if with enamel."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice the art of enameling."},{"word":"Enamel","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting."},{"word":"Enamelar","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy."},{"word":"Enameled","type":"(a.)","description":"Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed."},{"word":"Enameler","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Enamelist"},{"word":"Enamelist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work."},{"word":"Enamored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enamor"},{"word":"Enamoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enamor"},{"word":"Enamor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science."},{"word":"Enamorment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being enamored."},{"word":"Enantiomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals."},{"word":"Enantiopathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to palliate; palliative."},{"word":"Enantiopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"An opposite passion or affection."},{"word":"Enantiopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Allopathy; -- a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists."},{"word":"Enantiosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries."},{"word":"Enarch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arch."},{"word":"Enarched","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary."},{"word":"Enargite","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver."},{"word":"Enarmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Armed, 3."},{"word":"Enarration","type":"(n.)","description":"A detailed exposition; relation."},{"word":"Enarthrodia","type":"(n.)","description":"See Enarthrosis."},{"word":"Enarthrosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation."},{"word":"Enascent","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming into being; nascent."},{"word":"Enatation","type":"(n.)","description":"A swimming out."},{"word":"Enate","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing out."},{"word":"Enation","type":"(n.)","description":"Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth."},{"word":"Enaunter","type":"(adv.)","description":"Lest that."},{"word":"Enavigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sail away or over."},{"word":"Enbattled","type":"(a.)","description":"Embattled."},{"word":"Enbibe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imbibe."},{"word":"Enbroude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embroude."},{"word":"Encaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encage"},{"word":"Engaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encage"},{"word":"Encage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine in a cage; to coop up."},{"word":"Encalendar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To register in a calendar; to calendar."},{"word":"Encamped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encamp"},{"word":"Encamping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encamp"},{"word":"Encamp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling."},{"word":"Encamp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters."},{"word":"Encampment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest."},{"word":"Encampment","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings."},{"word":"Encanker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To canker."},{"word":"Encapsulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule."},{"word":"Encarnalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carnalize; to make gross."},{"word":"Encarpus","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc."},{"word":"Encase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose as in a case. See Incase."},{"word":"Encasement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of encasing; also, that which encases."},{"word":"Encasement","type":"(n.)","description":"An old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist."},{"word":"Encash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn into cash; to cash."},{"word":"Encashment","type":"(n.)","description":"The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc."},{"word":"Encauma","type":"(n.)","description":"An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors."},{"word":"Encaustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Prepared by means of heat; burned in."},{"word":"Encaustic","type":"(a.)","description":"The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors."},{"word":"Encave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess."},{"word":"-ence","type":"()","description":"A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance."},{"word":"Enceinte","type":"(n.)","description":"The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place."},{"word":"Enceinte","type":"(n.)","description":"The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification."},{"word":"Enceinte","type":"(a.)","description":"Pregnant; with child."},{"word":"Encenia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors."},{"word":"Encense","type":"(n.)","description":"To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense."},{"word":"Encephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the encephalon or brain."},{"word":"Encephalitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the brain."},{"word":"Encephalocele","type":"(n.)","description":"Hernia of the brain."},{"word":"Encephaloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform."},{"word":"Encephaloid","type":"(n.)","description":"An encephaloid cancer."},{"word":"Encephalology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions."},{"word":"Encephalon","type":"(n.)","description":"The contents of the cranium; the brain."},{"word":"Encephalopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning."},{"word":"Encephalos","type":"(n.)","description":"The encephalon."},{"word":"Encephalotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of dissecting the brain."},{"word":"Encephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous."},{"word":"Enchafe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chafe; to enrage; to heat."},{"word":"Enchafing","type":"(n.)","description":"Heating; burning."},{"word":"Enchain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind with a chain; to hold in chains."},{"word":"Enchain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention."},{"word":"Enchain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To link together; to connect."},{"word":"Enchainment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained."},{"word":"Enchair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seat in a chair."},{"word":"Enchannel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make run in a channel."},{"word":"Enchanted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enchant"},{"word":"Enchanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enchant"},{"word":"Enchant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites."},{"word":"Enchant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear."},{"word":"Enchanted","type":"(a.)","description":"Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle."},{"word":"Enchanter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment."},{"word":"Enchanting","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a power of enchantment; charming; fascinating."},{"word":"Enchantment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation."},{"word":"Enchantment","type":"(n.)","description":"The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment."},{"word":"Enchantment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights."},{"word":"Enchantress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates."},{"word":"Encharged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encharge"},{"word":"Encharging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encharge"},{"word":"Encharge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon."},{"word":"Encharge","type":"(n.)","description":"A charge."},{"word":"Enchased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enchase"},{"word":"Enchasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enchase"},{"word":"Enchase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn."},{"word":"Enchase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case."},{"word":"Enchase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delineate or describe, as by writing."},{"word":"Enchaser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enchases."},{"word":"Enchasten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chasten."},{"word":"Encheson","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Encheason"},{"word":"Encheason","type":"(n.)","description":"Occasion, cause, or reason."},{"word":"Enchest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a chest."},{"word":"Enchiridion","type":"(n.)","description":"Handbook; a manual of devotions."},{"word":"Enchisel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut with a chisel."},{"word":"Enchodus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox)."},{"word":"Enchondroma","type":"(n.)","description":"A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone."},{"word":"Enchorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Enchoric"},{"word":"Enchoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic."},{"word":"Enchylemma","type":"(n.)","description":"The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded."},{"word":"Enchyma","type":"(n.)","description":"The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed."},{"word":"Encincture","type":"(n.)","description":"A cincture."},{"word":"Encindered","type":"(a.)","description":"Burnt to cinders."},{"word":"Encircled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encircle"},{"word":"Encircling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encircle"},{"word":"Encircle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city."},{"word":"Encirclet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small circle; a ring."},{"word":"Enclasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clasp. See Inclasp."},{"word":"Enclave","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave."},{"word":"Enclave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose within an alien territory."},{"word":"Enclavement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being an enclave."},{"word":"Enclitic","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Enclitical"},{"word":"Enclitical","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word."},{"word":"Enclitic","type":"(n.)","description":"A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee)."},{"word":"Enclitically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back."},{"word":"Enclitics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of declining and conjugating words."},{"word":"Encloister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up in a cloister; to cloister."},{"word":"Enclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose. See Inclose."},{"word":"Enclosure","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclosure. See Inclosure."},{"word":"Enclothe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe."},{"word":"Encloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop in clouds; to cloud."},{"word":"Encoach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry in a coach."},{"word":"Encoffin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a coffin."},{"word":"Encolden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render cold."},{"word":"Encollar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or surround with a collar."},{"word":"Encolor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To color."},{"word":"Encolure","type":"(n.)","description":"The neck of horse."},{"word":"Encomber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Encumber."},{"word":"Encomberment","type":"(n.)","description":"Hindrance; molestation."},{"word":"Encomiast","type":"(n.)","description":"One who praises; a panegyrist."},{"word":"Encomiastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Encomiastical"},{"word":"Encomiastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse."},{"word":"Encomiastic","type":"(n.)","description":"A panegyric."},{"word":"Encomion","type":"(n.)","description":"Encomium; panegyric."},{"word":"Encomiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Encomium"},{"word":"Encomium","type":"(n.)","description":"Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation."},{"word":"Encompassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encompass"},{"word":"Encompassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encompass"},{"word":"Encompass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world."},{"word":"Encompassment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention."},{"word":"Encore","type":"(adv. / interj.)","description":"Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part."},{"word":"Encore","type":"(n.)","description":"A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous."},{"word":"Encored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encore"},{"word":"Encoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encore"},{"word":"Encore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer."},{"word":"Encorporing","type":"(n.)","description":"Incorporation."},{"word":"Encoubert","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet."},{"word":"Encountered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encounter"},{"word":"Encountering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encounter"},{"word":"Encounter","type":"(adv.)","description":"To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth."},{"word":"Encounter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo."},{"word":"Encounter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview."},{"word":"Encounter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter."},{"word":"Encounterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist."},{"word":"Encouraged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encourage"},{"word":"Encouraging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encourage"},{"word":"Encourage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage."},{"word":"Encouragement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity."},{"word":"Encouragement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people."},{"word":"Encourager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer."},{"word":"Encouraging","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring."},{"word":"Encowl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of."},{"word":"Encradle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay in a cradle."},{"word":"Encratite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent."},{"word":"Encrease","type":"(v. t. &)","description":"i. [Obs.] See Increase."},{"word":"Encrimson","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson."},{"word":"Encrinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Encrinital"},{"word":"Encrinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Encrinital"},{"word":"Encrinital","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone."},{"word":"Encrinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid."},{"word":"Encrinitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Encrinitical"},{"word":"Encrinitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal."},{"word":"Encrinoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea."},{"word":"Encrini","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Encrinus"},{"word":"Encrinus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks."},{"word":"Encrisped","type":"(a.)","description":"Curled."},{"word":"Encroached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encroach"},{"word":"Encroaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encroach"},{"word":"Encroach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway."},{"word":"Encroach","type":"(n.)","description":"Encroachment."},{"word":"Encroacher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own."},{"word":"Encroachingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of encroachment."},{"word":"Encroachment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion."},{"word":"Encroachment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is taken by encroaching on another."},{"word":"Encroachment","type":"(n.)","description":"An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another."},{"word":"Encrust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incrust. See Incrust."},{"word":"Encrustment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation."},{"word":"Encumbered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Encumber"},{"word":"Encumbering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Encumber"},{"word":"Encumber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning."},{"word":"Encumber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages."},{"word":"Encumberment","type":"(n.)","description":"Encumbrance."},{"word":"Encumbrance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance."},{"word":"Encumbrance","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Incumbrance."},{"word":"Encumbrancer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Incumbrancer."},{"word":"Encurtain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose with curtains."},{"word":"-ency","type":"()","description":"A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See -ancy."},{"word":"Encyclic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Encyclical"},{"word":"Encyclical","type":"(a.)","description":"Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope."},{"word":"Encyclic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Encyclical"},{"word":"Encyclical","type":"(n.)","description":"An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope."},{"word":"Encyclopedia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Encyclopaedia"},{"word":"Encyclopaedia","type":"(n.)","description":"The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia."},{"word":"Encyclopediacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Encyclopedic."},{"word":"Encyclopedian","type":"(a.)","description":"Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects."},{"word":"Encyclopedic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Encyclopedical"},{"word":"Encyclopedical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects."},{"word":"Encyclopedism","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning."},{"word":"Encyclopedist","type":"(n.)","description":"The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences."},{"word":"Encyst","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a cyst."},{"word":"Encystation","type":"(n.)","description":"Encystment."},{"word":"Encysted","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor."},{"word":"Encystment","type":"(n.)","description":"A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc."},{"word":"Encystment","type":"(n.)","description":"A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina."},{"word":"End","type":"(n.)","description":"The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part."},{"word":"End","type":"(n.)","description":"Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence."},{"word":"End","type":"(n.)","description":"Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction."},{"word":"End","type":"(n.)","description":"The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends."},{"word":"End","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends."},{"word":"End","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet."},{"word":"Ended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of End"},{"word":"Ending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of End"},{"word":"End","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech."},{"word":"End","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back."},{"word":"End","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy; to put to death."},{"word":"End","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends."},{"word":"Endable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be ended; terminable."},{"word":"End-all","type":"(n.)","description":"Complete termination."},{"word":"Endamaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Endamage"},{"word":"Endamaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Endamage"},{"word":"Endamage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure."},{"word":"Endamageable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable."},{"word":"Endamagement","type":"(n.)","description":"Damage; injury; harm."},{"word":"Endamnify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To damnify; to injure."},{"word":"Endangered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Endanger"},{"word":"Endangering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Endanger"},{"word":"Endanger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace."},{"word":"Endanger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incur the hazard of; to risk."},{"word":"Endangerment","type":"(n.)","description":"Hazard; peril."},{"word":"Endark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To darken."},{"word":"Endaspidean","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds."},{"word":"Endazzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dazzle."},{"word":"Endeared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Endear"},{"word":"Endearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Endear"},{"word":"Endear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dear or beloved."},{"word":"Endear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive."},{"word":"Endearedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With affection or endearment; dearly."},{"word":"Endearedness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being endeared."},{"word":"Endearing","type":"(a.)","description":"Making dear or beloved; causing love."},{"word":"Endearment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection."},{"word":"Endeavored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Endeavor"},{"word":"Endeavoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Endeavor"},{"word":"Endeavor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt."},{"word":"Endeavor","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exert one's self; to work for a certain end."},{"word":"Endeavor","type":"(n.)","description":"An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial."},{"word":"Endeavorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an effort or attempt."},{"word":"Endeavorment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of endeavoring; endeavor."},{"word":"Endecagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane figure of eleven sides and angles."},{"word":"Endecagynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower."},{"word":"Endecane","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum."},{"word":"Endecaphyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of eleven leaflets; -- said of a leaf."},{"word":"Endeictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill."},{"word":"Endeixis","type":"(n.)","description":"An indication."},{"word":"Endemial","type":"(a.)","description":"Endemic."},{"word":"Endemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Endemical"},{"word":"Endemical","type":"(a.)","description":"Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease."},{"word":"Endemic","type":"(n.)","description":"An endemic disease."},{"word":"Endemically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an endemic manner."},{"word":"Endemiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of endemic affections."},{"word":"Endenization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of naturalizing."},{"word":"Endenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endenizen."},{"word":"Endenizen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize."},{"word":"Ender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life."},{"word":"Endermatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Endermic."},{"word":"Endermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin."},{"word":"Endermically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By the endermic method; as, applied endermically."},{"word":"Enderon","type":"(n.)","description":"The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes."},{"word":"Endiademed","type":"(a.)","description":"Diademed."},{"word":"Endiaper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decorate with a diaper pattern."},{"word":"Endict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Indict."},{"word":"Endictment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Indictment."},{"word":"Ending","type":"(n.)","description":"Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death."},{"word":"Ending","type":"(n.)","description":"The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5."},{"word":"Endite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Indite."},{"word":"Endive","type":"(n.)","description":"A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad."},{"word":"Endless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor."},{"word":"Endless","type":"(a.)","description":"Infinite; excessive; unlimited."},{"word":"Endless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying."},{"word":"Endless","type":"(a.)","description":"Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit."},{"word":"Endlessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an endless manner."},{"word":"Endlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being endless; perpetuity."},{"word":"Endlong","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"Lengthwise; along."},{"word":"Endmost","type":"(a.)","description":"Farthest; remotest; at the very end."},{"word":"Endo-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of End-"},{"word":"End-","type":"()","description":"A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean."},{"word":"Endoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"Entoblast; endoplast. See Nucleus,"},{"word":"Endoblastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the endoblast; as, the endoblastic layer."},{"word":"Endocardiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Endocardial"},{"word":"Endocardial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the endocardium."},{"word":"Endocardial","type":"(a.)","description":"Seated or generated within the heart; as, endocardial murmurs."},{"word":"Endocarditis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the endocardium."},{"word":"Endocardium","type":"(n.)","description":"The membrane lining the cavities of the heart."},{"word":"Endocarp","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary."},{"word":"Endochondral","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone."},{"word":"Endochrome","type":"(n.)","description":"The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color."},{"word":"Endoctrine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To teach; to indoctrinate."},{"word":"Endocyst","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa."},{"word":"Endoderm","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal."},{"word":"Endoderm","type":"(n.)","description":"The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm."},{"word":"Endodermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Endodermic"},{"word":"Endodermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the endoderm."},{"word":"Endodermis","type":"(n.)","description":"A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle."},{"word":"Endogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Marrying within the same tribe; -- opposed to exogamous."},{"word":"Endogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy."},{"word":"Endogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen."},{"word":"Endogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Endogeny."},{"word":"Endogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Endogenous."},{"word":"Endogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk."},{"word":"Endogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Originating from within; increasing by internal growth."},{"word":"Endogenously","type":"(adv.)","description":"By endogenous growth."},{"word":"Endogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell."},{"word":"Endognath","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla."},{"word":"Endognathal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the endognath."},{"word":"Endolymph","type":"(n.)","description":"The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear."},{"word":"Endolymphangial","type":"(a.)","description":"Within a lymphatic vessel."},{"word":"Endolymphatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct."},{"word":"Endolymphatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Within a lymphatic vessel; endolymphangial."},{"word":"Endome","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover as with a dome."},{"word":"Endometritis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the endometrium."},{"word":"Endometrium","type":"(n.)","description":"The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb."},{"word":"Endomorph","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz."},{"word":"Endomysium","type":"(n.)","description":"The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers."},{"word":"Endoneurium","type":"(n.)","description":"The delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers."},{"word":"Endoparasite","type":"(n.)","description":"Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoon."},{"word":"Endophloeum","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner layer of the bark of trees."},{"word":"Endophragma","type":"(n.)","description":"A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea."},{"word":"Endophragmal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the endophragma."},{"word":"Endophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath."},{"word":"Endoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The protoplasm in the interior of a cell."},{"word":"Endoplasma","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc."},{"word":"Endoplast","type":"(n.)","description":"See Nucleus."},{"word":"Endoplastica","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am/ba."},{"word":"Endoplastule","type":"(n.)","description":"See Nucleolus."},{"word":"Endopleura","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen."},{"word":"Endopleurite","type":"(n.)","description":"The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans."},{"word":"Endopodite","type":"(n.)","description":"The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped."},{"word":"Endorhizae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Endorhiza"},{"word":"Endorhiza","type":"(n.)","description":"Any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo."},{"word":"Endorhizal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Endorhizous"},{"word":"Endorhizous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants."},{"word":"Endorsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Endorse"},{"word":"Endorsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Endorse"},{"word":"Endorse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Indorse."},{"word":"Endorse","type":"(n.)","description":"A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth)."},{"word":"Endorsee","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Indorsee."},{"word":"Endorsement","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Indorsement."},{"word":"Endorser","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Indorser."},{"word":"Endosarc","type":"(n.)","description":"The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta."},{"word":"Endoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder."},{"word":"Endoscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of examining by means of the endoscope."},{"word":"Endoskeletal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles."},{"word":"Endoskeleton","type":"(n.)","description":"The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton."},{"word":"Endosmometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action."},{"word":"Endosmometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action."},{"word":"Endosmose","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Endosmosis"},{"word":"Endosmosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose."},{"word":"Endosmosmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Endosmotic."},{"word":"Endosmotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic."},{"word":"Endosperm","type":"(n.)","description":"The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac."},{"word":"Endospermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm."},{"word":"Endospore","type":"(n.)","description":"The thin inner coat of certain spores."},{"word":"Endosporous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi."},{"word":"Endoss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse."},{"word":"Endosteal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification."},{"word":"Endosternite","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects."},{"word":"Endosteum","type":"(n.)","description":"The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone."},{"word":"Endostoma","type":"(n.)","description":"A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea."},{"word":"Endostome","type":"(n.)","description":"The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule."},{"word":"Endostome","type":"(n.)","description":"And endostoma."},{"word":"Endostosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage."},{"word":"Endostyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata."},{"word":"Endotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another."},{"word":"Endothecium","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner lining of an anther cell."},{"word":"Endothelial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or relating to, endothelium."},{"word":"Endothelia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Endothelium"},{"word":"Endothelium","type":"(n.)","description":"The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See Epithelium."},{"word":"Endotheloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like endothelium."},{"word":"Endothorax","type":"(n.)","description":"An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects."},{"word":"Endowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Endow"},{"word":"Endowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Endow"},{"word":"Endow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution."},{"word":"Endow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits."},{"word":"Endower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endow."},{"word":"Endower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who endows."},{"word":"Endowment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support."},{"word":"Endowment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college."},{"word":"Endowment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Endozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Entozoa."},{"word":"Endrudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a drudge or slave of."},{"word":"Endued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Endue"},{"word":"Enduing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Endue"},{"word":"Endue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest."},{"word":"Endue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An older spelling of Endow."},{"word":"Enduement","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of enduing; induement."},{"word":"Endurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable."},{"word":"Endurably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an endurable manner."},{"word":"Endurance","type":"(n.)","description":"A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance."},{"word":"Endurance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience."},{"word":"Endurant","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc."},{"word":"Endured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Endure"},{"word":"Enduring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Endure"},{"word":"Endure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain."},{"word":"Endure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out."},{"word":"Endure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather."},{"word":"Endure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate."},{"word":"Endure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harden; to toughen; to make hardy."},{"word":"Endurement","type":"(n.)","description":"Endurance."},{"word":"Endurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains."},{"word":"Enduring","type":"(a.)","description":"Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition."},{"word":"Endways","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Endwise"},{"word":"Endwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"On end; erectly; in an upright position."},{"word":"Endwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the end forward."},{"word":"Endyma","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ependyma."},{"word":"Endyses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Endysis"},{"word":"Endysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis."},{"word":"Enecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kill off; to destroy."},{"word":"Eneid","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aeneid."},{"word":"Enemata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Enema"},{"word":"Enema","type":"(n.)","description":"An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment."},{"word":"Enemies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Enemy"},{"word":"Enemy","type":"(n.)","description":"One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood."},{"word":"Enemy","type":"(a.)","description":"Hostile; inimical."},{"word":"Enepidermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines."},{"word":"Energetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Energetical"},{"word":"Energetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active."},{"word":"Energetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws."},{"word":"Energetics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena."},{"word":"Energic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Energical"},{"word":"Energical","type":"(a.)","description":"In a state of action; acting; operating."},{"word":"Energical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having energy or great power; energetic."},{"word":"Energized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Energize"},{"word":"Energizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Energize"},{"word":"Energize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect."},{"word":"Energize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will."},{"word":"Energizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect."},{"word":"Energizing","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of imparting or exercising energy."},{"word":"Energumen","type":"(n.)","description":"One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac."},{"word":"Energies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Energy"},{"word":"Energy","type":"(n.)","description":"Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive."},{"word":"Energy","type":"(n.)","description":"Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate."},{"word":"Energy","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy."},{"word":"Energy","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity for performing work."},{"word":"Enervated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enervate"},{"word":"Enervating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enervate"},{"word":"Enervate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of."},{"word":"Enervate","type":"(a.)","description":"Weakened; weak; without strength of force."},{"word":"Enervation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of weakening, or reducing strength."},{"word":"Enervation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being weakened; effeminacy."},{"word":"Enervative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening."},{"word":"Enerve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weaken; to enervate."},{"word":"Enervous","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking nerve or force; enervated."},{"word":"Enfamish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To famish; to starve."},{"word":"Enfect","type":"(a.)","description":"Contaminated with illegality."},{"word":"Enfeebled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enfeeble"},{"word":"Enfeebling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enfeeble"},{"word":"Enfeeble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate."},{"word":"Enfeeblement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of weakening; enervation; weakness."},{"word":"Enfeebler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble."},{"word":"Enfeeblish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enfeeble."},{"word":"Enfeloned","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendered fierce or frantic."},{"word":"Enfeoffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enfeoff"},{"word":"Enfeoffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enfeoff"},{"word":"Enfeoff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment."},{"word":"Enfeoff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give in vassalage; to make subservient."},{"word":"Enfeoffment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enfeoffing."},{"word":"Enfeoffment","type":"(n.)","description":"The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate."},{"word":"Enfester","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fester."},{"word":"Enfetter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind in fetters; to enchain."},{"word":"Enfever","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite fever in."},{"word":"Enfierced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enfierce"},{"word":"Enfiercing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enfierce"},{"word":"Enfierce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fierce."},{"word":"Enfilade","type":"(n.)","description":"A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line."},{"word":"Enfilade","type":"(n.)","description":"A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire."},{"word":"Enfiladed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enfilade"},{"word":"Enfilading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enfilade"},{"word":"Enfilade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops."},{"word":"Enfiled","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be \"enfiled of\" the thing which it pierces."},{"word":"Enfire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on fire."},{"word":"Enflesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe with flesh."},{"word":"Enflowered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enflower"},{"word":"Enflowering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enflower"},{"word":"Enflower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or deck with flowers."},{"word":"Enfold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infold. See Infold."},{"word":"Enfoldment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of infolding. See Infoldment."},{"word":"Enforced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enforce"},{"word":"Enforcing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enforce"},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in motion or action by violence; to drive."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To attempt by force."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prove; to evince."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strengthen; to grow strong."},{"word":"Enforce","type":"(n.)","description":"Force; strength; power."},{"word":"Enforceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being enforced."},{"word":"Enforced","type":"(a.)","description":"Compelled; forced; not voluntary."},{"word":"Enforcement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enforcing; compulsion."},{"word":"Enforcement","type":"(n.)","description":"A giving force to; a putting in execution."},{"word":"Enforcement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied."},{"word":"Enforcer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enforces."},{"word":"Enforcible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be enforced."},{"word":"Enforcive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive."},{"word":"Enforest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn into a forest."},{"word":"Enform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form; to fashion."},{"word":"Enfouldred","type":"(a.)","description":"Mixed with, or emitting, lightning."},{"word":"Enframe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose, as in a frame."},{"word":"Enfranchised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enfranchise"},{"word":"Enfranchising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enfranchise"},{"word":"Enfranchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power."},{"word":"Enfranchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman."},{"word":"Enfranchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words."},{"word":"Enfranchisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Releasing from slavery or custody."},{"word":"Enfranchisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens."},{"word":"Enfranchiser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enfranchises."},{"word":"Enfree","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free."},{"word":"Enfreedom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set free."},{"word":"Enfreeze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To freeze; to congeal."},{"word":"Enfroward","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable."},{"word":"Engaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engage"},{"word":"Engaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engage"},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle."},{"word":"Engage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together."},{"word":"Engaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Occupied; employed; busy."},{"word":"Engaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed."},{"word":"Engaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest."},{"word":"Engaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight."},{"word":"Engagedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With attachment; with interest; earnestly."},{"word":"Engagedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal."},{"word":"Engagement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest."},{"word":"Engagement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife."},{"word":"Engagement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office."},{"word":"Engagement","type":"(n.)","description":"An action; a fight; a battle."},{"word":"Engagement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part."},{"word":"Engager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety."},{"word":"Engaging","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address."},{"word":"Engallant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a gallant of."},{"word":"Engaol","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in jail; to imprison."},{"word":"Engarboil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw into disorder; to disturb."},{"word":"Engarland","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle with a garland, or with garlands."},{"word":"Engarrison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison."},{"word":"Engastrimuth","type":"(n.)","description":"An ventriloquist."},{"word":"Engendered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engender"},{"word":"Engendering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engender"},{"word":"Engender","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget."},{"word":"Engender","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife."},{"word":"Engender","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced."},{"word":"Engender","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace."},{"word":"Engender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, engenders."},{"word":"Engendrure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of generation."},{"word":"Engild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gild; to make splendent."},{"word":"Engine","type":"(n.)","description":"(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill."},{"word":"Engine","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent."},{"word":"Engine","type":"(n.)","description":"Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture."},{"word":"Engine","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect."},{"word":"Engine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assault with an engine."},{"word":"Engine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another."},{"word":"Engine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"(Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture."},{"word":"Engineer","type":"(n.)","description":"A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n."},{"word":"Engineer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver."},{"word":"Engineer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager."},{"word":"Engineered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engineer"},{"word":"Engineering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engineer"},{"word":"Engineer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road."},{"word":"Engineer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress."},{"word":"Engineering","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer."},{"word":"Enginemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Engineman"},{"word":"Engineman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who manages, or waits on, an engine."},{"word":"Enginer","type":"(n.)","description":"A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines."},{"word":"Enginery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of managing engines, or artillery."},{"word":"Enginery","type":"(n.)","description":"Engines, in general; instruments of war."},{"word":"Enginery","type":"(n.)","description":"Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement."},{"word":"Engine-sized","type":"(a.)","description":"Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper."},{"word":"Enginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an engine."},{"word":"Enginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrived with care; ingenious."},{"word":"Engirded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engird"},{"word":"Engirt","type":"()","description":"of Engird"},{"word":"Engirding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engird"},{"word":"Engird","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gird; to encompass."},{"word":"Engirdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround as with a girdle; to girdle."},{"word":"Engirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engird."},{"word":"Engiscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of reflecting microscope."},{"word":"Englaimed","type":"(a.)","description":"Clammy."},{"word":"Engle","type":"(n.)","description":"A favorite; a paramour; an ingle."},{"word":"Engle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cajole or coax, as favorite."},{"word":"English","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race."},{"word":"English","type":"(a.)","description":"See 1st Bond, n., 8."},{"word":"English","type":"(n.)","description":"Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons."},{"word":"English","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries."},{"word":"English","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type."},{"word":"English","type":"(n.)","description":"A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball."},{"word":"Englished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of English"},{"word":"Englishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of English"},{"word":"English","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain."},{"word":"English","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion."},{"word":"Englishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English."},{"word":"Englishism","type":"(n.)","description":"A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English."},{"word":"Englishism","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism."},{"word":"Englishmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Englishman"},{"word":"Englishman","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England."},{"word":"Englishry","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or privilege of being an Englishman."},{"word":"Englishry","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland."},{"word":"Englishwomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Englishwoman"},{"word":"Englishwoman","type":"(n.)","description":"Fem. of Englishman."},{"word":"Engloom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make gloomy."},{"word":"Englue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued."},{"word":"Englutted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Englut"},{"word":"Englutting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Englut"},{"word":"Englut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow or gulp down."},{"word":"Englut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To glut."},{"word":"Engore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gore; to pierce; to lacerate."},{"word":"Engore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bloody."},{"word":"Engorged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engorge"},{"word":"Engorging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engorge"},{"word":"Engorge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gorge; to glut."},{"word":"Engorge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour."},{"word":"Engorge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food."},{"word":"Engorged","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts."},{"word":"Engorged","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested."},{"word":"Engorgement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting."},{"word":"Engorgement","type":"(n.)","description":"An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion."},{"word":"Engorgement","type":"(n.)","description":"The clogging of a blast furnace."},{"word":"Engouled","type":"(a.)","description":"Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled."},{"word":"Engoulee","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Engouled."},{"word":"Engraff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To graft; to fix deeply."},{"word":"Engraffment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ingraftment."},{"word":"Engraft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Ingraft."},{"word":"Engraftation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Engraftment"},{"word":"Engraftment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ingrafting; ingraftment."},{"word":"Engrailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engrail"},{"word":"Engrailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engrail"},{"word":"Engrail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To variegate or spot, as with hail."},{"word":"Engrail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indent with small curves. See Engrailed."},{"word":"Engrail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines."},{"word":"Engrailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like."},{"word":"Engrailment","type":"(n.)","description":"The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc."},{"word":"Engrailment","type":"(n.)","description":"Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary."},{"word":"Engrained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engrain"},{"word":"Engraining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engrain"},{"word":"Engrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain."},{"word":"Engrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain."},{"word":"Engrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1."},{"word":"Engrapple","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To grapple."},{"word":"Engrasped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engrasp"},{"word":"Engrasping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engrasp"},{"word":"Engrasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grasp; to grip."},{"word":"Engrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit in the grave; to bury."},{"word":"Engraved","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Engrave"},{"word":"Engraved","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Engrave"},{"word":"Engraven","type":"()","description":"of Engrave"},{"word":"Engraving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engrave"},{"word":"Engrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut in; to make by incision."},{"word":"Engrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions."},{"word":"Engrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription."},{"word":"Engrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver."},{"word":"Engraved","type":"(a.)","description":"Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving."},{"word":"Engraved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines."},{"word":"Engravement","type":"(n.)","description":"Engraving."},{"word":"Engravement","type":"(n.)","description":"Engraved work."},{"word":"Engraver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood."},{"word":"Engravery","type":"(n.)","description":"The trade or work of an engraver."},{"word":"Engraving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper."},{"word":"Engraving","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is engraved; an engraved plate."},{"word":"Engraving","type":"(n.)","description":"An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print."},{"word":"Engregge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on."},{"word":"Engrieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grieve."},{"word":"Engrossed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engross"},{"word":"Engrossing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engross"},{"word":"Engross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity."},{"word":"Engross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To amass."},{"word":"Engross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment."},{"word":"Engross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts."},{"word":"Engross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power."},{"word":"Engrosser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who copies a writing in large, fair characters."},{"word":"Engrosser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller."},{"word":"Engrossment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed."},{"word":"Engrossment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has been engrossed, as an instrument, legislative bill, goods, etc."},{"word":"Enguard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround as with a guard."},{"word":"Engulfed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Engulf"},{"word":"Engulfing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Engulf"},{"word":"Engulf","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf."},{"word":"Engulfment","type":"(n.)","description":"A swallowing up as if in a gulf."},{"word":"Engyn","type":"()","description":"Variant of Engine."},{"word":"Enhalo","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround with a halo."},{"word":"Enhanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enhance"},{"word":"Enhancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enhance"},{"word":"Enhance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise or lift up; to exalt."},{"word":"Enhance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime."},{"word":"Enhance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest."},{"word":"Enhancement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime."},{"word":"Enhancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc."},{"word":"Enharbor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit."},{"word":"Enharden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harden; to embolden."},{"word":"Enharmonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Enharmonical"},{"word":"Enharmonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate."},{"word":"Enharmonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A/ for G/."},{"word":"Enharmonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys."},{"word":"Enharmonically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation."},{"word":"Enhearten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give heart to; to fill with courage; to embolden."},{"word":"Enhedge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround as with a hedge."},{"word":"Enhort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encourage."},{"word":"Enhunger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hungry."},{"word":"Enhydros","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of chalcedony containing water."},{"word":"Enhydrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals."},{"word":"Enigmas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Enigma"},{"word":"Enigma","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed."},{"word":"Enigma","type":"(n.)","description":"An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma."},{"word":"Enigmatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Enigmatical"},{"word":"Enigmatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer."},{"word":"Enigmatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Darkly; obscurely."},{"word":"Enigmatist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes, or talks in, enigmas."},{"word":"Enigmatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enigmatize"},{"word":"Enigmatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enigmatize"},{"word":"Enigmatize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles."},{"word":"Enigmatography","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Enigmatology"},{"word":"Enigmatology","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of making or of solving enigmas."},{"word":"Enisled","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island."},{"word":"Enjailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enjall"},{"word":"Enjailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enjall"},{"word":"Enjall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into jail; to imprison."},{"word":"Enjoined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enjoin"},{"word":"Enjoining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enjoin"},{"word":"Enjoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge."},{"word":"Enjoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on."},{"word":"Enjoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join or unite."},{"word":"Enjoiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enjoins."},{"word":"Enjoinment","type":"(n.)","description":"Direction; command; authoritative admonition."},{"word":"Enjoyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enjoy"},{"word":"Enjoying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enjoy"},{"word":"Enjoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation."},{"word":"Enjoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty."},{"word":"Enjoy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have sexual intercourse with."},{"word":"Enjoy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take satisfaction; to live in happiness."},{"word":"Enjoyable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment."},{"word":"Enjoyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enjoys."},{"word":"Enjoyment","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate."},{"word":"Enjoyment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction."},{"word":"Enkennel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a kennel."},{"word":"Enkerchiefed","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered."},{"word":"Enkindled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enkindle"},{"word":"Enkindling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enkindle"},{"word":"Enkindle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle."},{"word":"Enkindle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite; to rouse into action; to incite."},{"word":"Enlace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle."},{"word":"Enlacement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace."},{"word":"Enlard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten."},{"word":"Enlarged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enlarge"},{"word":"Enlarging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enlarge"},{"word":"Enlarge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house."},{"word":"Enlarge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind."},{"word":"Enlarge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set at large or set free."},{"word":"Enlarge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction."},{"word":"Enlarge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate."},{"word":"Enlarge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind."},{"word":"Enlarged","type":"(a.)","description":"Made large or larger; extended; swollen."},{"word":"Enlargement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion."},{"word":"Enlargement","type":"(n.)","description":"Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection."},{"word":"Enlargement","type":"(n.)","description":"A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty."},{"word":"Enlargement","type":"(n.)","description":"Diffusiveness of speech or writing; expatiation; a wide range of discourse or argument."},{"word":"Enlarger","type":"(n.)","description":"One that enlarges."},{"word":"Enlay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Inlay."},{"word":"Enlengthen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lengthen."},{"word":"Enleven","type":"(n.)","description":"Eleven."},{"word":"Enlight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To illumine; to enlighten."},{"word":"Enlighten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth."},{"word":"Enlighten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding."},{"word":"Enlightener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind."},{"word":"Enlightenment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed."},{"word":"Enlimn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript."},{"word":"Enlink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chain together; to connect, as by links."},{"word":"Enlisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enlist"},{"word":"Enlisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enlist"},{"word":"Enlist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter on a list; to enroll; to register."},{"word":"Enlist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men."},{"word":"Enlist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise."},{"word":"Enlist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war."},{"word":"Enlist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled."},{"word":"Enlistment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor."},{"word":"Enlistment","type":"(n.)","description":"The writing by which an enlisted man is bound."},{"word":"Enlive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enliven."},{"word":"Enlivened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enliven"},{"word":"Enlivening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enliven"},{"word":"Enliven","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire."},{"word":"Enliven","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music."},{"word":"Enlivener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates."},{"word":"Enlock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lock; to inclose."},{"word":"Enlumine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To illumine."},{"word":"Enlute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To coat with clay; to lute."},{"word":"Enmanche","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides."},{"word":"Enmarble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hard as marble; to harden."},{"word":"Enmesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes."},{"word":"Enmew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Emmew."},{"word":"Enmist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infold, as in a mist."},{"word":"Enmities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Enmity"},{"word":"Enmity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition."},{"word":"Enmity","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of opposition; hostility."},{"word":"Enmossed","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with moss; mossed."},{"word":"Enmove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Emmove."},{"word":"Enmuffle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To muffle up."},{"word":"Enmure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To immure."},{"word":"Ennation","type":"(n.)","description":"The ninth segment in insects."},{"word":"Ennead","type":"(n.)","description":"The number nine or a group of nine."},{"word":"Enneagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon."},{"word":"Enneagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles."},{"word":"Enneagynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant."},{"word":"Enheahedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having nine sides."},{"word":"Enheahedria","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Enheahedron"},{"word":"Enheahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure having nine sides; a nonagon."},{"word":"Enneandria","type":"(n.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens."},{"word":"Enneandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Enneandrous"},{"word":"Enneandrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having nine stamens."},{"word":"Enneapetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having nine petals, or flower leaves."},{"word":"Enneaspermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having nine seeds; -- said of fruits."},{"word":"Enneatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Enneatical"},{"word":"Enneatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth."},{"word":"Ennew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make new."},{"word":"Enniche","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a niche."},{"word":"Ennobled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ennoble"},{"word":"Ennobling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ennoble"},{"word":"Ennoble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify."},{"word":"Ennoble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner."},{"word":"Ennoblement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility."},{"word":"Ennoblement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which ennobles; excellence; dignity."},{"word":"Ennobler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who ennobles."},{"word":"Ennui","type":"(n.)","description":"A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium."},{"word":"Ennuye","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted."},{"word":"Ennuye","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is affected with ennui."},{"word":"Ennuyee","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman affected with ennui."},{"word":"Enodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a node."},{"word":"Enodation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty."},{"word":"Enode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear of knots; to make clear."},{"word":"Enoint","type":"(a.)","description":"Anointed."},{"word":"Enomotarch","type":"(n.)","description":"The commander of an enomoty."},{"word":"Enomoty","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath."},{"word":"Enopla","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis."},{"word":"Enoptomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by the use of a mirror."},{"word":"Enorm","type":"(a.)","description":"Enormous."},{"word":"Enormities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Enormity"},{"word":"Enormity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous."},{"word":"Enormity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity."},{"word":"Enormous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal."},{"word":"Enormous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime."},{"word":"Enormously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an enormous degree."},{"word":"Enormousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being enormous."},{"word":"Enorthotrope","type":"(n.)","description":"An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope."},{"word":"Enough","type":"(a.)","description":"Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs."},{"word":"Enough","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently."},{"word":"Enough","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer."},{"word":"Enough","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough."},{"word":"Enough","type":"(n.)","description":"A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself."},{"word":"Enough","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough."},{"word":"Enounced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enounce"},{"word":"Enouncing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enounce"},{"word":"Enounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument."},{"word":"Enounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter; to articulate."},{"word":"Enouncement","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of enouncing; that which is enounced."},{"word":"Enow","type":"()","description":"A form of Enough."},{"word":"Enpatron","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize."},{"word":"Enpierce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce."},{"word":"Enquere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To inquire."},{"word":"Enquicken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quicken; to make alive."},{"word":"Enquire","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"See Inquire."},{"word":"Enquirer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Inquirer."},{"word":"Enquiry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Inquiry."},{"word":"Enrace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enroot; to implant."},{"word":"Enraged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enrage"},{"word":"Enraging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enrage"},{"word":"Enrage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious."},{"word":"Enragement","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement."},{"word":"Enrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange."},{"word":"Enrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rove over; to range."},{"word":"Enrank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in ranks or in order."},{"word":"Enrapt","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured."},{"word":"Enraptured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enrapture"},{"word":"Enrapturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enrapture"},{"word":"Enrapture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish."},{"word":"Enravish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate."},{"word":"Enravishingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to throw into ecstasy."},{"word":"Enravishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture."},{"word":"Enregister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To register; to enroll or record; to inregister."},{"word":"Enrheum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contract a rheum."},{"word":"Enriched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enrich"},{"word":"Enriching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enrich"},{"word":"Enrich","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge."},{"word":"Enrich","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes."},{"word":"Enrich","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation."},{"word":"Enrich","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind."},{"word":"Enricher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enriches."},{"word":"Enrichment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment."},{"word":"Enridge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into ridges."},{"word":"Enring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle."},{"word":"Enripen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ripen."},{"word":"Enrive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rive; to cleave."},{"word":"Enrobe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire."},{"word":"Enrockment","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc."},{"word":"Enrolled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enroll"},{"word":"Enrolling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enroll"},{"word":"Enroll","type":"(n.)","description":"To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist."},{"word":"Enroll","type":"(n.)","description":"To envelop; to inwrap; to involve."},{"word":"Enroller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enrolls or registers."},{"word":"Enrollment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enrolling; registration."},{"word":"Enrollment","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record."},{"word":"Enroot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep."},{"word":"Enround","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround."},{"word":"En","type":"()","description":"On the way or road."},{"word":"Ens","type":"(n.)","description":"Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings."},{"word":"Ens","type":"(n.)","description":"Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence."},{"word":"Ensafe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make safe."},{"word":"Ensample","type":"(n.)","description":"An example; a pattern or model for imitation."},{"word":"Ensample","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exemplify, to show by example."},{"word":"Ensanguine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue."},{"word":"Ensate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform."},{"word":"Enscale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with scales."},{"word":"Enshedule","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert in a schedule. See Schedule."},{"word":"Ensconced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ensconce"},{"word":"Ensconcing","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ensconce"},{"word":"Ensconce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal."},{"word":"Enseal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify."},{"word":"Enseam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain."},{"word":"Enseam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute."},{"word":"Ensear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sear; to dry up."},{"word":"Ensearch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make search; to try to find something."},{"word":"Ensearch","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To search for."},{"word":"Enseel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk."},{"word":"Enseint","type":"(a.)","description":"With child; pregnant. See Enceinte."},{"word":"Ensemble","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole; all the parts taken together."},{"word":"Ensemble","type":"(adv.)","description":"All at once; together."},{"word":"Enshelter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shelter."},{"word":"Enshield","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defend, as with a shield; to shield."},{"word":"Enshield","type":"(a.)","description":"Shielded; enshielded."},{"word":"Enshrined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enshrine"},{"word":"Enshrining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enshrine"},{"word":"Enshrine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory."},{"word":"Enshroud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud."},{"word":"Ensiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a sword."},{"word":"Ensiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf."},{"word":"Ensign","type":"(n.)","description":"A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like."},{"word":"Ensign","type":"(n.)","description":"A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice."},{"word":"Ensign","type":"(n.)","description":"Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol."},{"word":"Ensign","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment."},{"word":"Ensign","type":"(n.)","description":"A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army."},{"word":"Ensign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To designate as by an ensign."},{"word":"Ensign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned."},{"word":"Ensigncies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ensigncy"},{"word":"Ensigncy","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank or office of an ensign."},{"word":"Ensignship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or rank of an ensign."},{"word":"Ensilage","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder."},{"word":"Ensilage","type":"(n.)","description":"The fodder preserved in a silo."},{"word":"Ensilaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ensilage"},{"word":"Ensilaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ensilage"},{"word":"Ensilage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks."},{"word":"Ensky","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in the sky or in heaven."},{"word":"Enslaved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enslave"},{"word":"Enslaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enslave"},{"word":"Enslave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence."},{"word":"Enslavedness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being enslaved."},{"word":"Enslavement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude."},{"word":"Enslaver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enslaves."},{"word":"Ensnare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch in a snare. See Insnare."},{"word":"Ensnarl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entangle."},{"word":"Ensober","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sober."},{"word":"Ensoul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indue or imbue (a body) with soul."},{"word":"Ensphere","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a sphere; to envelop."},{"word":"Ensphere","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a sphere."},{"word":"Enstamp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stamp; to mark as /ith a stamp; to impress deeply."},{"word":"Enstate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Instate."},{"word":"Enstatite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety."},{"word":"Enstatitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to enstatite."},{"word":"Enstore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restore."},{"word":"Enstyle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To style; to name."},{"word":"Ensuable","type":"(a.)","description":"Ensuing; following."},{"word":"Ensued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ensue"},{"word":"Ensuing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ensue"},{"word":"Ensue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake."},{"word":"Ensue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one."},{"word":"Ensure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sure. See Insure."},{"word":"Ensure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betroth."},{"word":"Ensurer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Insurer."},{"word":"Enswathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes."},{"word":"Enswathement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed."},{"word":"Ensweep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly."},{"word":"Ent-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying within. See Ento-."},{"word":"-ent","type":"()","description":"An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant."},{"word":"Entablature","type":"(n.)","description":"The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice."},{"word":"Entablement","type":"(n.)","description":"See Entablature."},{"word":"Entackle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with tackle."},{"word":"Entad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad."},{"word":"Entail","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is entailed."},{"word":"Entail","type":"(n.)","description":"An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue."},{"word":"Entail","type":"(n.)","description":"The rule by which the descent is fixed."},{"word":"Entail","type":"(n.)","description":"Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio."},{"word":"Entailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entail"},{"word":"Entailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entail"},{"word":"Entail","type":"(n.)","description":"To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage."},{"word":"Entail","type":"(n.)","description":"To appoint hereditary possessor."},{"word":"Entail","type":"(n.)","description":"To cut or carve in a ornamental way."},{"word":"Entailment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent."},{"word":"Entailment","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being entailed."},{"word":"Entailment","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing entailed."},{"word":"Ental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal."},{"word":"Entame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tame."},{"word":"Entangled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entangle"},{"word":"Entangling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entangle"},{"word":"Entangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair."},{"word":"Entangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers."},{"word":"Entanglement","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity."},{"word":"Entangler","type":"(n.)","description":"One that entangles."},{"word":"Entasia","type":"(n.)","description":"Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc."},{"word":"Entasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column."},{"word":"Entasis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Entasia."},{"word":"Entassment","type":"(n.)","description":"A heap; accumulation."},{"word":"Entastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms."},{"word":"Entelechy","type":"(n.)","description":"An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence."},{"word":"Entellus","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor."},{"word":"Entend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To attend to; to apply one's self to."},{"word":"Entender","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make tender."},{"word":"Entender","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with tenderness."},{"word":"Ententive","type":"(a.)","description":"Attentive; zealous."},{"word":"Enter-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying between, among, part."},{"word":"Entered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enter"},{"word":"Entering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enter"},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, \"entered according to act of Congress.\""},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To initiate; to introduce favorably."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter."},{"word":"Enter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into."},{"word":"Enteradenography","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands."},{"word":"Enteradenology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal."},{"word":"Enteralgia","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain in the intestines; colic."},{"word":"Enterdeal","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual dealings; intercourse."},{"word":"Enterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an entrance or beginning."},{"word":"Enteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal."},{"word":"Enteritis","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammation of the intestines."},{"word":"Enterlace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Interlace."},{"word":"Entermete","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interfere; to intermeddle."},{"word":"Entermewer","type":"(n.)","description":"A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year."},{"word":"Entermise","type":"(n.)","description":"Mediation."},{"word":"Enterocele","type":"(n.)","description":"A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine."},{"word":"Enterocoele","type":"(n.)","description":"A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo."},{"word":"Enterography","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology."},{"word":"Enterolith","type":"(n.)","description":"An intestinal concretion."},{"word":"Enterology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the viscera of the body."},{"word":"Enteron","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal."},{"word":"Enteropathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Disease of the intestines."},{"word":"Enteropneusta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Enterorrhaphy","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal."},{"word":"Enterotome","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations."},{"word":"Enterotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia."},{"word":"Enterparlance","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual talk or conversation; conference."},{"word":"Enterplead","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Same as Interplead."},{"word":"Enterprise","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise."},{"word":"Enterprise","type":"(n.)","description":"Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise."},{"word":"Enterprise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon."},{"word":"Enterprise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with hospitality; to entertain."},{"word":"Enterprise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult."},{"word":"Enterpriser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who undertakes enterprises."},{"word":"Enterprising","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm."},{"word":"Entertained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entertain"},{"word":"Entertaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entertain"},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep."},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest."},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc."},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal."},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To meet or encounter, as an enemy."},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments."},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead on; to bring along; to introduce."},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously."},{"word":"Entertain","type":"(n.)","description":"Entertainment."},{"word":"Entertainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who entertains."},{"word":"Entertaining","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting."},{"word":"Entertainment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general."},{"word":"Entertainment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement."},{"word":"Entertainment","type":"(n.)","description":"Admission into service; service."},{"word":"Entertainment","type":"(n.)","description":"Payment of soldiers or servants; wages."},{"word":"Entertake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entertain."},{"word":"Entertissued","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Intertissued."},{"word":"Entheal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Enthean"},{"word":"Enthean","type":"(a.)","description":"Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm."},{"word":"Entheasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Inspiration; enthusiasm."},{"word":"Entheastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of godlike energy; inspired."},{"word":"Entheat","type":"(a.)","description":"Divinely inspired."},{"word":"Enthelmintha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Enthelminthes"},{"word":"Enthelminthes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Intestinal worms. See Helminthes."},{"word":"Entheic","type":"(a.)","description":"Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis."},{"word":"Enthrall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall."},{"word":"Enthrallment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See Inthrallment."},{"word":"Enthrill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce; to thrill."},{"word":"Enthrone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity."},{"word":"Enthrone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see."},{"word":"Enthronement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned."},{"word":"Enthronization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral."},{"word":"Enthronized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enthronize"},{"word":"Enthronizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enthronize"},{"word":"Enthronize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop."},{"word":"Enthuse","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make or become enthusiastic."},{"word":"Enthusiasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse."},{"word":"Enthusiasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm."},{"word":"Enthusiasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm."},{"word":"Enthusiasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Lively manifestation of joy or zeal."},{"word":"Enthusiast","type":"(n.)","description":"One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person."},{"word":"Enthusiastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Enthusiastical"},{"word":"Enthusiastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art."},{"word":"Enthusiastic","type":"(n.)","description":"An enthusiast; a zealot."},{"word":"Enthymematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Enthymematical"},{"word":"Enthymematical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or of the form of, an enthymeme."},{"word":"Enthymeme","type":"(n.)","description":"An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble."},{"word":"Enticed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entice"},{"word":"Enticing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entice"},{"word":"Entice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen."},{"word":"Enticeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being enticed."},{"word":"Enticement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions."},{"word":"Enticement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin."},{"word":"Enticer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil."},{"word":"Enticing","type":"(a.)","description":"That entices; alluring."},{"word":"Enticingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an enticing manner; charmingly."},{"word":"Entierty","type":"(n.)","description":"See Entirety."},{"word":"Entire","type":"(a.)","description":"Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance."},{"word":"Entire","type":"(a.)","description":"Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful."},{"word":"Entire","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla."},{"word":"Entire","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth."},{"word":"Entire","type":"(a.)","description":"Not gelded; -- said of a horse."},{"word":"Entire","type":"(a.)","description":"Internal; interior."},{"word":"Entire","type":"(n.)","description":"Entirely."},{"word":"Entire","type":"(n.)","description":"A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer."},{"word":"Entirely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost."},{"word":"Entirely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely."},{"word":"Entireness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge."},{"word":"Entireness","type":"(n.)","description":"Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty."},{"word":"Entireness","type":"(n.)","description":"Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association."},{"word":"Entireness","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entirety"},{"word":"Entirety","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest."},{"word":"Entirety","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is entire; the whole."},{"word":"Entitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances."},{"word":"Entitled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entitle"},{"word":"Entitling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entitle"},{"word":"Entitle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book \"Commentaries;\" to entitle a man \"Honorable.\""},{"word":"Entitle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command."},{"word":"Entitle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attribute; to ascribe."},{"word":"Entitule","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entitle."},{"word":"Entities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entity"},{"word":"Entity","type":"(n.)","description":"A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence."},{"word":"Ento-","type":"()","description":"A combining form signifying within; as, entoblast."},{"word":"Entoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus."},{"word":"Entobronchia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entobronchium"},{"word":"Entobronchium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds."},{"word":"Entocuneiform","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Entocuniform"},{"word":"Entocuniform","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform."},{"word":"Entoderm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm."},{"word":"Entodermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Entodermic"},{"word":"Entodermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the entoderm."},{"word":"Entogastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids."},{"word":"Entogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Endogenous."},{"word":"Entoglossal","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone."},{"word":"Entoiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entoil"},{"word":"Entoiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entoil"},{"word":"Entoil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare."},{"word":"Entombed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entomb"},{"word":"Entombing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entomb"},{"word":"Entomb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume."},{"word":"Entombment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial."},{"word":"Entomere","type":"(n.)","description":"The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals."},{"word":"Entomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Entomical"},{"word":"Entomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to insects; entomological."},{"word":"Entomoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling an insect."},{"word":"Entomoid","type":"(n.)","description":"An object resembling an insect."},{"word":"Entomolin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Chitin."},{"word":"Entomolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil insect."},{"word":"Entomologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Entomological"},{"word":"Entomological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to entomology."},{"word":"Entomologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in entomology."},{"word":"Entomologize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To collect specimens in the study of entomology."},{"word":"Entomologies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entomology"},{"word":"Entomology","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of zoology which treats of insects."},{"word":"Entomology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on the science of entomology."},{"word":"Entomophaga","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2."},{"word":"Entomophaga","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum."},{"word":"Entomophaga","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of edentates, including the ant-eaters."},{"word":"Entomophagan","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the Entomophaga."},{"word":"Entomophagan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Entomophaga."},{"word":"Entomophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding on insects; insectivorous."},{"word":"Entomophilous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects."},{"word":"Entomostraca","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera."},{"word":"Entomostracan","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the Entomostraca."},{"word":"Entomostracan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Entomostraca."},{"word":"Entomostracous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Entomostracans."},{"word":"Entomotomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices entomotomy."},{"word":"Entomotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the dissection of insects."},{"word":"Entonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having great tension, or exaggerated action."},{"word":"Entoperipheral","type":"(a.)","description":"Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral."},{"word":"Entophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body."},{"word":"Entophytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease."},{"word":"Entoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum."},{"word":"Entoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Endosarc."},{"word":"Entoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced."},{"word":"Entoplastra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entoplastron"},{"word":"Entoplastron","type":"(n.)","description":"The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum."},{"word":"Entoprocta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina."},{"word":"Entoptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye."},{"word":"Entorganism","type":"(n.)","description":"An internal parasitic organism."},{"word":"Entortilation","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning into a circle; round figures."},{"word":"Entosterna","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entosternum"},{"word":"Entosternum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Entoplastron."},{"word":"Entosthoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell."},{"word":"Entothorax","type":"(n.)","description":"See Endothorax."},{"word":"Entotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the interior of the ear."},{"word":"Entozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes."},{"word":"Entozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others."},{"word":"Entozoal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Entozoic"},{"word":"Entozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa."},{"word":"Entozoologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the science of the Entozoa."},{"word":"Entozoa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entozoon"},{"word":"Entozoon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Entozoa."},{"word":"Entr'acte","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama."},{"word":"Entr'acte","type":"(n.)","description":"A dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama."},{"word":"Entrail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interweave; to intertwine."},{"word":"Entrail","type":"(n.)","description":"Entanglement; fold."},{"word":"Entrails","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines."},{"word":"Entrails","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth."},{"word":"Entrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam."},{"word":"Entrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment."},{"word":"Entrain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station."},{"word":"Entrammel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trammel; to entangle."},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office."},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends."},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(n.)","description":"The passage, door, or gate, for entering."},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(n.)","description":"The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business."},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(n.)","description":"The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day."},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(n.)","description":"The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line."},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(n.)","description":"The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line."},{"word":"Entranced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entrance"},{"word":"Entrancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entrance"},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects."},{"word":"Entrance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm."},{"word":"Entrancement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy."},{"word":"Entrant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enters; a beginner."},{"word":"Entrant","type":"(n.)","description":"An applicant for admission."},{"word":"Entrapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entrap"},{"word":"Entrapping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entrap"},{"word":"Entrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men."},{"word":"Entreated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Entreat"},{"word":"Entreating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Entreat"},{"word":"Entreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use."},{"word":"Entreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune."},{"word":"Entreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade."},{"word":"Entreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invite; to entertain."},{"word":"Entreat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty."},{"word":"Entreat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an earnest petition or request."},{"word":"Entreat","type":"(n.)","description":"Entreaty."},{"word":"Entreatable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be entreated."},{"word":"Entreatance","type":"(n.)","description":"Entreaty."},{"word":"Entreater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher."},{"word":"Entreatful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful."},{"word":"Entreatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an entreating manner."},{"word":"Entreative","type":"(a.)","description":"Used in entreaty; pleading."},{"word":"Entreatment","type":"(n.)","description":"Entreaty; invitation."},{"word":"Entreaties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entreaty"},{"word":"Entreaty","type":"(n.)","description":"Treatment; reception; entertainment."},{"word":"Entreaty","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation."},{"word":"Entree","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house."},{"word":"Entree","type":"(n.)","description":"In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc."},{"word":"Entremets","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner."},{"word":"Entremets","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"Any small entertainment between two greater ones."},{"word":"Entrench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Intrench."},{"word":"Entrepot","type":"(n.)","description":"A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit."},{"word":"Entrepreneur","type":"(n.)","description":"One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed."},{"word":"Entresol","type":"(n.)","description":"A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine."},{"word":"Entrick","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trick, to perplex."},{"word":"Entrochal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble."},{"word":"Entrochite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil joint of a crinoid stem."},{"word":"Entropion","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Entropium."},{"word":"Entropium","type":"(n.)","description":"The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids."},{"word":"Entropy","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function."},{"word":"Entrust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Intrust."},{"word":"Entries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Entry"},{"word":"Entry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking."},{"word":"Entry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item."},{"word":"Entry","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine."},{"word":"Entry","type":"(n.)","description":"The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5."},{"word":"Entry","type":"(n.)","description":"The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them."},{"word":"Entry","type":"(n.)","description":"A putting upon record in proper form and order."},{"word":"Entry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary."},{"word":"Entryng","type":"(n.)","description":"Am entrance."},{"word":"Entune","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tune; to intone."},{"word":"Entwine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round."},{"word":"Entwine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be twisted or twined."},{"word":"Entwinement","type":"(n.)","description":"A twining or twisting together or round; union."},{"word":"Entwist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twist or wreathe round; to intwine."},{"word":"Enubilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity."},{"word":"Enubilous","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear."},{"word":"Enucleated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enucleate"},{"word":"Enucleating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enucleate"},{"word":"Enucleate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell."},{"word":"Enucleate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove without cutting (as a tumor)."},{"word":"Enucleate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to light; to make clear."},{"word":"Enucleation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition."},{"word":"Enumerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enumerate"},{"word":"Enumerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enumerate"},{"word":"Enumerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation."},{"word":"Enumeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting."},{"word":"Enumeration","type":"(n.)","description":"A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed."},{"word":"Enumeration","type":"(n.)","description":"A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument."},{"word":"Enumerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Counting, or reckoning up, one by one."},{"word":"Enumerator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enumerates."},{"word":"Enunciable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being enunciated or expressed."},{"word":"Enunciated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enunciate"},{"word":"Enunciating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enunciate"},{"word":"Enunciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth."},{"word":"Enunciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly."},{"word":"Enunciate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter words or syllables articulately."},{"word":"Enunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth."},{"word":"Enunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation."},{"word":"Enunciation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement."},{"word":"Enunciative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative."},{"word":"Enunciator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enunciates or proclaims."},{"word":"Enunciatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance."},{"word":"Enure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Inure."},{"word":"Enuresis","type":"(n.)","description":"An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine."},{"word":"Envassal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a vassal of."},{"word":"Envault","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a vault; to entomb."},{"word":"Enveigle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entice. See Inveigle."},{"word":"Enveloped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Envelop"},{"word":"Enveloping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Envelop"},{"word":"Envelop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship."},{"word":"Envelope","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Envelop"},{"word":"Envelop","type":"(n.)","description":"That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter."},{"word":"Envelop","type":"(n.)","description":"The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma."},{"word":"Envelop","type":"(n.)","description":"A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it."},{"word":"Envelop","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents."},{"word":"Envelop","type":"(n.)","description":"A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine."},{"word":"Envelopment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides."},{"word":"Envelopment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop."},{"word":"Envenime","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envenom."},{"word":"Envenomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Envenom"},{"word":"Envenoming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Envenom"},{"word":"Envenom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom."},{"word":"Envenom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter."},{"word":"Envermeil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red."},{"word":"Enviable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble."},{"word":"Envie","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vie; to emulate; to strive."},{"word":"Envier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses."},{"word":"Envigor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invigorate."},{"word":"Envious","type":"(a.)","description":"Malignant; mischievous; spiteful."},{"word":"Envious","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues."},{"word":"Envious","type":"(a.)","description":"Inspiring envy."},{"word":"Envious","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessively careful; cautious."},{"word":"Environed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Environ"},{"word":"Environing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Environ"},{"word":"Environ","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop."},{"word":"Environ","type":"(adv.)","description":"About; around."},{"word":"Environment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of environing; state of being environed."},{"word":"Environment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development."},{"word":"Environs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town."},{"word":"Envisaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Envisage"},{"word":"Envisaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Envisage"},{"word":"Envisage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard."},{"word":"Envisagement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of envisaging."},{"word":"Envolume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into, or incorporate with, a volume."},{"word":"Envolup","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wrap up; to envelop."},{"word":"Envoy","type":"(n.)","description":"One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador."},{"word":"Envoy","type":"(n.)","description":"An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi."},{"word":"Envoyship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or position of an envoy."},{"word":"Envies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Envy"},{"word":"Envy","type":"(n.)","description":"Malice; ill will; spite."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(n.)","description":"Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(n.)","description":"Emulation; rivalry."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(n.)","description":"Public odium; ill repute."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(n.)","description":"An object of envious notice or feeling."},{"word":"Envied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Envy"},{"word":"Envying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Envy"},{"word":"Envy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To long after; to desire strongly; to covet."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do harm to; to injure; to disparage."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hate."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emulate."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at."},{"word":"Envy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To show malice or ill will; to rail."},{"word":"Envyned","type":"(a.)","description":"Stored or furnished with wine."},{"word":"Enwall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Inwall."},{"word":"Enwallow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow."},{"word":"Enwheel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle."},{"word":"Enwiden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To widen."},{"word":"Enwind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wind about; to encircle."},{"word":"Enwoman","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endow with the qualities of a woman."},{"word":"Enwombed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Enwomb"},{"word":"Enwombing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Enwomb"},{"word":"Enwomb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conceive in the womb."},{"word":"Enwomb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern."},{"word":"Enwrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop. See Inwrap."},{"word":"Enwrapment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope."},{"word":"Enwreathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Inwreathe."},{"word":"Enzootic","type":"(a.)","description":"Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men."},{"word":"Enzyme","type":"(n.)","description":"An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes."},{"word":"Eocene","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits."},{"word":"Eocene","type":"(n.)","description":"The Eocene formation."},{"word":"Eolian","type":"(a.)","description":"Aeolian."},{"word":"Eolian","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes."},{"word":"Eolic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Aeolic."},{"word":"Eolipile","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aeolipile."},{"word":"Eolis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. See Ceratobranchia."},{"word":"Eon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Aeon"},{"word":"Aeon","type":"(n.)","description":"An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age."},{"word":"Aeon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being."},{"word":"Eophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age."},{"word":"Eophytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to eophytes."},{"word":"Eos","type":"(n.)","description":"Aurora, the goddess of morn."},{"word":"Eosaurus","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles."},{"word":"Eosin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluorescein, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent."},{"word":"Eosphorite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name."},{"word":"Eozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found."},{"word":"Eozoons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eozoon"},{"word":"Eozoa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eozoon"},{"word":"Eozoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure."},{"word":"Eozoonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone."},{"word":"Ep-","type":"()","description":"See Epi-."},{"word":"Epacris","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths."},{"word":"Epact","type":"(n.)","description":"The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year."},{"word":"Epagoge","type":"(n.)","description":"The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction."},{"word":"Epagogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Inductive."},{"word":"Epalate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without palpi."},{"word":"Epanadiplosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, \"Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.\""},{"word":"Epanalepsis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter."},{"word":"Epanaphora","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anaphora."},{"word":"Epanastrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anadiplosis."},{"word":"Epanodos","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order"},{"word":"Epanody","type":"(n.)","description":"The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition."},{"word":"Epanorthosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!"},{"word":"Epanthous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi."},{"word":"Eparch","type":"(n.)","description":"In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy."},{"word":"Eparchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese."},{"word":"Eparterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus."},{"word":"Epaule","type":"(n.)","description":"The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder."},{"word":"Epaulement","type":"(n.)","description":"A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy."},{"word":"Epaulet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Epaulette"},{"word":"Epaulette","type":"(n.)","description":"A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot."},{"word":"Epauleted","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epauletted"},{"word":"Epauletted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets."},{"word":"Epaxial","type":"(a.)","description":"Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal."},{"word":"Epeira","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider."},{"word":"Epen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Epencephalon."},{"word":"Epencephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the epencephalon."},{"word":"Epencephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated on or over the brain."},{"word":"Epencephalon","type":"(n.)","description":"The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen."},{"word":"Ependyma","type":"(n.)","description":"The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis."},{"word":"Ependymis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ependyma."},{"word":"Epenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory."},{"word":"Epentheses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epenthesis"},{"word":"Epenthesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in \"nimble\" from AS. n/mol."},{"word":"Epenthetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound."},{"word":"Epergne","type":"(n.)","description":"A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design."},{"word":"Eperlan","type":"(n.)","description":"The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus)."},{"word":"Epexegesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A full or additional explanation; exegesis."},{"word":"Epexegetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical."},{"word":"Ephah","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Epha"},{"word":"Epha","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer."},{"word":"Ephemera","type":"(n.)","description":"A fever of one day's continuance only."},{"word":"Ephemera","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral."},{"word":"Ephemeral","type":"(a.)","description":"Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower."},{"word":"Ephemeral","type":"(a.)","description":"Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only."},{"word":"Ephemeral","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc."},{"word":"Ephemeran","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ephemeral flies."},{"word":"Ephemeric","type":"(a.)","description":"Ephemeral."},{"word":"Ephemerides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ephemeris"},{"word":"Ephemeris","type":"(n.)","description":"A diary; a journal."},{"word":"Ephemeris","type":"(n.)","description":"A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the \"American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.\""},{"word":"Ephemeris","type":"(n.)","description":"Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days."},{"word":"Ephemeris","type":"(n.)","description":"A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature."},{"word":"Ephemerist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets."},{"word":"Ephemerist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist."},{"word":"Ephemera","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ephemeron"},{"word":"Ephemeron","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ephemeral flies."},{"word":"Ephemerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ephemeral."},{"word":"Ephesian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor."},{"word":"Ephesian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Ephesus."},{"word":"Ephesian","type":"(n.)","description":"A jolly companion; a roisterer."},{"word":"Ephialtes","type":"(n.)","description":"The nightmare."},{"word":"Ephippial","type":"(a.)","description":"Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium."},{"word":"Ephippium","type":"(n.)","description":"A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa."},{"word":"Ephippium","type":"(n.)","description":"A saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of Cladocera."},{"word":"Ephod","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front."},{"word":"Ephors","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ephor"},{"word":"Ephori","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ephor"},{"word":"Ephor","type":"(n.)","description":"A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king."},{"word":"Ephoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an ephor."},{"word":"Ephoralty","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an ephor, or the body of ephors."},{"word":"Ephraim","type":"(n.)","description":"A hunter's name for the grizzly bear."},{"word":"Ephyra","type":"(n.)","description":"A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila."},{"word":"Epi-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral."},{"word":"Epiblast","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination."},{"word":"Epiblastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast."},{"word":"Epiblema","type":"(n.)","description":"The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids."},{"word":"Epibolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination."},{"word":"Epiboly","type":"(n.)","description":"Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination."},{"word":"Epibranchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch."},{"word":"Epibranchial","type":"(n.)","description":"An epibranchial cartilage or bone."},{"word":"Epic","type":"(a.)","description":"Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style."},{"word":"Epic","type":"(n.)","description":"An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a."},{"word":"Epical","type":"(a.)","description":"Epic."},{"word":"Epicardiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the epicardium."},{"word":"Epicardium","type":"(n.)","description":"That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium."},{"word":"Epicarican","type":"(n.)","description":"An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps."},{"word":"Epicarp","type":"()","description":"The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp."},{"word":"Epicede","type":"(n.)","description":"A funeral song or discourse; an elegy."},{"word":"Epicedial","type":"(a.)","description":"Elegiac; funereal."},{"word":"Epicedian","type":"(a.)","description":"Epicedial."},{"word":"Epicedian","type":"(n.)","description":"An epicede."},{"word":"Epicedium","type":"(n.)","description":"An epicede."},{"word":"Epicene","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites."},{"word":"Epicene","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other."},{"word":"Epicentral","type":"(a.)","description":"Arising from the centrum of a vertebra."},{"word":"Epicerastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Lenient; assuaging."},{"word":"Epichiremata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epichirema"},{"word":"Epichirema","type":"(n.)","description":"A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner."},{"word":"Epichordal","type":"(a.)","description":"Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it."},{"word":"Epichorial","type":"(a.)","description":"In or of the country."},{"word":"Epicleidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds."},{"word":"Epiclinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower."},{"word":"Epicoele","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates."},{"word":"Epicoene","type":"(a.)","description":"Epicene."},{"word":"Epicolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon."},{"word":"Epicondylar","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle."},{"word":"Epicondyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle."},{"word":"Epicoracoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates."},{"word":"Epicranial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles."},{"word":"Epicranium","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc."},{"word":"Epicranium","type":"(n.)","description":"The dorsal wall of the head of insects."},{"word":"Epictetain","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances."},{"word":"Epicure","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean."},{"word":"Epicure","type":"(n.)","description":"One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table."},{"word":"Epicurean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy."},{"word":"Epicurean","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating."},{"word":"Epicurean","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower or Epicurus."},{"word":"Epicurean","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to epicurean indulgence."},{"word":"Epicureanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus."},{"word":"Epicurely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Luxuriously."},{"word":"Epicureous","type":"(a.)","description":"Epicurean."},{"word":"Epicurism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines of Epicurus."},{"word":"Epicurism","type":"(n.)","description":"Epicurean habits of living; luxury."},{"word":"Epicurize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus."},{"word":"Epicurize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feed or indulge like an epicure."},{"word":"Epicycle","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center."},{"word":"Epicycle","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally."},{"word":"Epicyclic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle."},{"word":"Epicycloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle."},{"word":"Epicycloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties."},{"word":"Epideictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade."},{"word":"Epidemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epidemical"},{"word":"Epidemical","type":"(a.)","description":"Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic."},{"word":"Epidemical","type":"(a.)","description":"Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil."},{"word":"Epidemic","type":"(n.)","description":"An epidemic disease."},{"word":"Epidemic","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror."},{"word":"Epidemically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an epidemic manner."},{"word":"Epidemiography","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases."},{"word":"Epidemiological","type":"(a.)","description":"Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology."},{"word":"Epidemiologist","type":"(n.)","description":"A person skilled in epidemiology."},{"word":"Epidemiology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of science which treats of epidemics."},{"word":"Epidemy","type":"(n.)","description":"An epidemic disease."},{"word":"Epiderm","type":"(n.)","description":"The epidermis."},{"word":"Epidermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular."},{"word":"Epidermatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Epidermal."},{"word":"Epidermatoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Epidermoid."},{"word":"Epidermeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Epidermal."},{"word":"Epidermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark."},{"word":"Epidermical","type":"(a.)","description":"Epidermal."},{"word":"Epidermidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Epidermal."},{"word":"Epidermis","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis."},{"word":"Epidermis","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced."},{"word":"Epidermoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis."},{"word":"Epidermose","type":"(n.)","description":"Keratin."},{"word":"Epidictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epidictical"},{"word":"Epidictical","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to explain; demonstrative."},{"word":"Epididymis","type":"(n.)","description":"An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ."},{"word":"Epididymitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea."},{"word":"Epidote","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese."},{"word":"Epidotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite."},{"word":"Epigaea","type":"(n.)","description":"An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus."},{"word":"Epigaeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing on, or close to, the ground."},{"word":"Epigastrial","type":"(a.)","description":"Epigastric."},{"word":"Epigastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region."},{"word":"Epigastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Over the stomach; -- applied to two of the areas of the carapace of crabs."},{"word":"Epigastrium","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper part of the abdomen."},{"word":"Epigeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Epigaeous."},{"word":"Epigee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Perigee."},{"word":"Epigene","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found."},{"word":"Epigene","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks."},{"word":"Epigenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis."},{"word":"Epigenesist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis."},{"word":"Epigenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis."},{"word":"Epigeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Epigaeous."},{"word":"Epigeum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Perigee."},{"word":"Epiglottic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis."},{"word":"Epiglottidean","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Epiglottic."},{"word":"Epiglottis","type":"(n.)","description":"A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx."},{"word":"Epignathous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower."},{"word":"Epigram","type":"(n.)","description":"A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character."},{"word":"Epigram","type":"(n.)","description":"An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose."},{"word":"Epigram","type":"(n.)","description":"The style of the epigram."},{"word":"Epigrammatic","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Epigrammatical"},{"word":"Epigrammatical","type":"()","description":"Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet."},{"word":"Epigrammatical","type":"()","description":"Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy."},{"word":"Epigrammatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style."},{"word":"Epigrammatist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them."},{"word":"Epigrammatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Epigrammatize"},{"word":"Epigrammatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Epigrammatize"},{"word":"Epigrammatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams."},{"word":"Epigrammatizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes in an affectedly pointed style."},{"word":"Epigrammist","type":"(n.)","description":"An epigrammatist."},{"word":"Epigraph","type":"(n.)","description":"Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication."},{"word":"Epigraph","type":"(n.)","description":"A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto."},{"word":"Epigraphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epigraphical"},{"word":"Epigraphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies."},{"word":"Epigraphics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or study of epigraphs."},{"word":"Epigraphist","type":"(n.)","description":"A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy."},{"word":"Epigraphy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them."},{"word":"Epigynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk."},{"word":"Epihyal","type":"(n.)","description":"A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch."},{"word":"Epilepsy","type":"(n.)","description":"The \"falling sickness,\" so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles."},{"word":"Epileptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy."},{"word":"Epileptic","type":"(n.)","description":"One affected with epilepsy."},{"word":"Epileptic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine for the cure of epilepsy."},{"word":"Epileptical","type":"(a.)","description":"Epileptic."},{"word":"Epileptiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling epilepsy."},{"word":"Epileptogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions."},{"word":"Epileptoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions."},{"word":"Epilogation","type":"(n.)","description":"A summing up in a brief account."},{"word":"Epilogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epilogical"},{"word":"Epilogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an epilogue."},{"word":"Epilogism","type":"(n.)","description":"Enumeration; computation."},{"word":"Epilogistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue."},{"word":"Epilogize","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue."},{"word":"Epilogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play."},{"word":"Epilogue","type":"(n.)","description":"The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion."},{"word":"Epiloguize","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"Same as Epilogize."},{"word":"Epimachus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise."},{"word":"Epimera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Epimeron."},{"word":"Epimeral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the epimera."},{"word":"Epimere","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf."},{"word":"Epimera","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epimeron"},{"word":"Epimeron","type":"(n.)","description":"In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage."},{"word":"Epimeron","type":"(n.)","description":"In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum."},{"word":"Epinastic","type":"(a.)","description":"A term applied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic."},{"word":"Epineural","type":"(a.)","description":"Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra."},{"word":"Epineurium","type":"(n.)","description":"The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium."},{"word":"Epinglette","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming."},{"word":"Epinicial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to victory."},{"word":"Epinicion","type":"(n.)","description":"A song of triumph."},{"word":"Epinikian","type":"(a.)","description":"Epinicial."},{"word":"Epiornis","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the gigantic ostrichlike birds of the genus Aepiornis, only recently extinct. Its remains have been found in Madagascar."},{"word":"Epiotic","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone."},{"word":"Epipedometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The mensuration of figures standing on the same base."},{"word":"Epiperipheral","type":"(a.)","description":"Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral."},{"word":"Epipetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Borne on the petals or corolla."},{"word":"Epiphany","type":"(n.)","description":"An appearance, or a becoming manifest."},{"word":"Epiphany","type":"(n.)","description":"A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide."},{"word":"Epipharyngeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes."},{"word":"Epipharyngeal","type":"(n.)","description":"An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage."},{"word":"Epipharynx","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects."},{"word":"Epiphonema","type":"(n.)","description":"An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse."},{"word":"Epiphoneme","type":"(n.)","description":"Epiphonema."},{"word":"Epiphora","type":"(n.)","description":"The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek."},{"word":"Epiphora","type":"(n.)","description":"The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas."},{"word":"Epiphragm","type":"(n.)","description":"A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or aestivation."},{"word":"Epiphylospermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing fruit on the back of the leaves, as ferns."},{"word":"Epiphyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing upon, or inserted into, the leaf."},{"word":"Epiphyllum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation."},{"word":"Epiphyseal","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Epiphysial"},{"word":"Epiphysial","type":"()","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis."},{"word":"Epiphyses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epiphysis"},{"word":"Epiphysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis."},{"word":"Epiphysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The cerebral epiphysis, or pineal gland. See Pineal gland, under Pineal."},{"word":"Epiphytal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an epiphyte."},{"word":"Epiphyte","type":"(n.)","description":"An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant."},{"word":"Epiphyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body."},{"word":"Epiphytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epiphytical"},{"word":"Epiphytical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte."},{"word":"Epiplastra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epiplastron"},{"word":"Epiplastron","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles."},{"word":"Epipleural","type":"(a.)","description":"Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra."},{"word":"Epiplexis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding."},{"word":"Epiploce","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., \"He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them.\""},{"word":"Epiploic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the epiploon."},{"word":"Epiploa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epiploon"},{"word":"Epiploon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Omentum."},{"word":"Epipodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the epipodialia or the parts of the limbs to which they belong."},{"word":"Epipodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the epipodium of Mollusca."},{"word":"Epipodialia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epipodiale"},{"word":"Epipodiale","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula."},{"word":"Epipodite","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer branch of the legs in certain Crustacea. See Maxilliped."},{"word":"Epipodia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epipodium"},{"word":"Epipodium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the lateral lobes of the foot in certain gastropods."},{"word":"Epipolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing, or relating to, epipolism or fluorescence."},{"word":"Epipolism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fluorescence."},{"word":"Epipolized","type":"(a.)","description":"Changed to the epipolic condition, or that in which the phenomenon of fluorescence is presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipolized light."},{"word":"Epipteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid."},{"word":"Epipteric","type":"(n.)","description":"The epipteric bone."},{"word":"Epipterygoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone."},{"word":"Epipterygoid","type":"(n.)","description":"An epipterygoid bone or cartilage; the columella in the skulls of many lizards."},{"word":"Epipubic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the epipubis."},{"word":"Epipubes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epipubis"},{"word":"Epipubis","type":"(n.)","description":"A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals."},{"word":"Episcopacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind."},{"word":"Episcopal","type":"(a.)","description":"Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church."},{"word":"Episcopal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system."},{"word":"Episcopalian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church."},{"word":"Episcopalian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church."},{"word":"Episcopalianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy."},{"word":"Episcopally","type":"(adv.)","description":"By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner."},{"word":"Episcopant","type":"(n.)","description":"A bishop."},{"word":"Episcoparian","type":"(a.)","description":"Episcopal."},{"word":"Episcopate","type":"(n.)","description":"A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop."},{"word":"Episcopate","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective body of bishops."},{"word":"Episcopate","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of a bishop's rule."},{"word":"Episcopated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Episcopate"},{"word":"Episcopating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Episcopate"},{"word":"Episcopate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate."},{"word":"Episcopicide","type":"(n.)","description":"The killing of a bishop."},{"word":"Episcopize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a bishop of by consecration."},{"word":"Episcopize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the duties of a bishop."},{"word":"Episcopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Survey; superintendence."},{"word":"Episcopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Episcopacy."},{"word":"Episepalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing on the sepals or adnate to them."},{"word":"Episkeletal","type":"(a.)","description":"Above or outside of the endoskeleton; epaxial."},{"word":"Episodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Episodic."},{"word":"Episode","type":"(n.)","description":"A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it."},{"word":"Episodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an episode; by way of episode; episodic."},{"word":"Episodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Episodical"},{"word":"Episodical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious."},{"word":"Epispadias","type":"(n.)","description":"A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity."},{"word":"Epispastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering."},{"word":"Epispastic","type":"(n.)","description":"An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory."},{"word":"Episperm","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa."},{"word":"Epispermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining, or belonging, to the episperm, or covering of a seed."},{"word":"Epispore","type":"(n.)","description":"The thickish outer coat of certain spores."},{"word":"Epistaxis","type":"(n.)","description":"Bleeding at the nose."},{"word":"Epistemology","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge."},{"word":"Episternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the episternum."},{"word":"Episterna","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Episternum"},{"word":"Episternum","type":"(n.)","description":"A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle."},{"word":"Episternum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Epiplastron."},{"word":"Episternum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects."},{"word":"Epistilbite","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime."},{"word":"Epistle","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters."},{"word":"Epistle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles."},{"word":"Epistle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing."},{"word":"Epistler","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament."},{"word":"Epistler","type":"(n.)","description":"The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service."},{"word":"Epistolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Epistolary."},{"word":"Epistolary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style."},{"word":"Epistolary","type":"(a.)","description":"Contained in letters; carried on by letters."},{"word":"Epistolean","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes epistles; a correspondent."},{"word":"Epistoler","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler."},{"word":"Epistolet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little epistle."},{"word":"Epistolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epistolical"},{"word":"Epistolical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary."},{"word":"Epistolize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To write epistles."},{"word":"Epistolizer","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of epistles."},{"word":"Epistolographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary."},{"word":"Epistolography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of writing epistles."},{"word":"Epistoma","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Epistome"},{"word":"Epistome","type":"(n.)","description":"The region between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea."},{"word":"Epistome","type":"(n.)","description":"A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta."},{"word":"Epistrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., \"Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I.\""},{"word":"Epistyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave."},{"word":"Episyllogism","type":"(n.)","description":"A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism."},{"word":"Epitaph","type":"(n.)","description":"An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription."},{"word":"Epitaph","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: \"Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.\""},{"word":"Epitaph","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To commemorate by an epitaph."},{"word":"Epitaph","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph."},{"word":"Epitapher","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of epitaphs."},{"word":"Epitaphial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epitaphian"},{"word":"Epitaphian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph."},{"word":"Epitaphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian."},{"word":"Epitaphic","type":"(n.)","description":"An epitaph."},{"word":"Epitaphist","type":"(n.)","description":"An epitapher."},{"word":"Epitasis","type":"(n.)","description":"That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis."},{"word":"Epitasis","type":"(n.)","description":"The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm."},{"word":"Epithalamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium."},{"word":"Epithalamiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epithalamium"},{"word":"Epithalamia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epithalamium"},{"word":"Epithalamium","type":"(n.)","description":"A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom."},{"word":"Epithalamies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epithalamy"},{"word":"Epithalamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Epithalamium."},{"word":"Epitheca","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals."},{"word":"Epithelial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer."},{"word":"Epithelioid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like epithelium; as, epithelioid cells."},{"word":"Epithelioma","type":"(n.)","description":"A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer."},{"word":"Epitheliums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epithelium"},{"word":"Epithelia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epithelium"},{"word":"Epithelium","type":"(n.)","description":"The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their appendages, -- the term endothelium being applied to the lining membrane of the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities."},{"word":"Epitheloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Epithelioid."},{"word":"Epithem","type":"(n.)","description":"Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc."},{"word":"Epithema","type":"(n.)","description":"A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds."},{"word":"Epithesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The addition of a letter at the end of a word, without changing its sense; as, numb for num, whilst for whiles."},{"word":"Epithet","type":"(n.)","description":"An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn."},{"word":"Epithet","type":"(n.)","description":"Term; expression; phrase."},{"word":"Epithet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To describe by an epithet."},{"word":"Epithetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Epithetical"},{"word":"Epithetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets."},{"word":"Epithite","type":"(n.)","description":"A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant."},{"word":"Epithumetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Epithumetical."},{"word":"Epithumetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual."},{"word":"Epitithides","type":"(n.)","description":"The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature."},{"word":"Epitomator","type":"(n.)","description":"An epitomist."},{"word":"Epitomes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epitome"},{"word":"Epitome","type":"(n.)","description":"A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement."},{"word":"Epitome","type":"(n.)","description":"A compact or condensed representation of anything."},{"word":"Epitomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer."},{"word":"Epitomized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Epitomize"},{"word":"Epitomizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Epitomize"},{"word":"Epitomize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin."},{"word":"Epitomize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish, as by cutting off something; to curtail; as, to epitomize words."},{"word":"Epitomizer","type":"(n.)","description":"An epitomist."},{"word":"Epitrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable."},{"word":"Epitrochlea","type":"(n.)","description":"A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle."},{"word":"Epitrochlear","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the epitrochlea."},{"word":"Epitrochoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid."},{"word":"Epitrope","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., \"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.\""},{"word":"Epizeuxis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -"},{"word":"Epozoan","type":"(n.)","description":"An epizoon."},{"word":"Epozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites."},{"word":"Epizoa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Epizoon"},{"word":"Epizoon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans."},{"word":"Epizootic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an epizoon."},{"word":"Epizootic","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like."},{"word":"Epizootic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men."},{"word":"Epizooty","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Epizootic"},{"word":"Epizootic","type":"(n.)","description":"An epizootic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses."},{"word":"Epoch","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era."},{"word":"Epoch","type":"(n.)","description":"A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation."},{"word":"Epoch","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period."},{"word":"Epoch","type":"(n.)","description":"The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position."},{"word":"Epoch","type":"(n.)","description":"An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860."},{"word":"Epocha","type":"(n.)","description":"See Epoch."},{"word":"Epochal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch."},{"word":"Epode","type":"(n.)","description":"The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode."},{"word":"Epode","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich."},{"word":"Epodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode."},{"word":"Eponym","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eponyme"},{"word":"Eponyme","type":"(n.)","description":"The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes."},{"word":"Eponyme","type":"(n.)","description":"A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual."},{"word":"Eponymic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Eponymous."},{"word":"Eponymist","type":"(n.)","description":"One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym."},{"word":"Eponymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like."},{"word":"Eponymy","type":"(n.)","description":"The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc."},{"word":"Epoophoron","type":"(n.)","description":"See Parovarium."},{"word":"Epopee","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Epopoeia"},{"word":"Epopoeia","type":"(n.)","description":"An epic poem; epic poetry."},{"word":"Epopt","type":"(n.)","description":"One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system."},{"word":"Epos","type":"(n.)","description":"An epic."},{"word":"Epotation","type":"(n.)","description":"A drinking up; a quaffing."},{"word":"Eprouvette","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder."},{"word":"Epsomite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt."},{"word":"Epsom","type":"()","description":"Alt. of salt"},{"word":"salt","type":"()","description":"Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia."},{"word":"Epulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet."},{"word":"Epulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A feasting or feast; banquet."},{"word":"Epulis","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard tumor developed from the gums."},{"word":"Epulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Feasting to excess."},{"word":"Epulosity","type":"(n.)","description":"A feasting to excess."},{"word":"Epulotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment."},{"word":"Epulotic","type":"(n.)","description":"An epulotic agent."},{"word":"Epuration","type":"(n.)","description":"Purification."},{"word":"Epure","type":"(n.)","description":"A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing."},{"word":"Equability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind."},{"word":"Equable","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe."},{"word":"Equable","type":"(a.)","description":"Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or temper."},{"word":"Equableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality or state of being equable."},{"word":"Equably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an equable manner."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(a.)","description":"Evenly balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness; unbiased; impartial; equitable; just."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same interest or concern; indifferent."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(a.)","description":"Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(a.)","description":"Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(n.)","description":"One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, \"If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal.\""},{"word":"Equal","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being equal; equality."},{"word":"Equaled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Equal"},{"word":"Equalled","type":"()","description":"of Equal"},{"word":"Equaling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Equal"},{"word":"Equalling","type":"()","description":"of Equal"},{"word":"Equal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen/urate with."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make equal return to; to recompense fully."},{"word":"Equal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality."},{"word":"Equalitarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler."},{"word":"Equalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Equality"},{"word":"Equality","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights."},{"word":"Equality","type":"(n.)","description":"Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution."},{"word":"Equality","type":"(n.)","description":"Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface."},{"word":"Equality","type":"(n.)","description":"Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does."},{"word":"Equalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized."},{"word":"Equalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Equalize"},{"word":"Equalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Equalize"},{"word":"Equalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes."},{"word":"Equalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pronounce equal; to compare as equal."},{"word":"Equalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be equal to; equal; to match."},{"word":"Equalizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, equalizes anything."},{"word":"Equally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc."},{"word":"Equalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Equality; evenness."},{"word":"Equangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal angles; equiangular."},{"word":"Equanimity","type":"(n.)","description":"Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity."},{"word":"Equanimous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of an even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or depressed."},{"word":"Equant","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator."},{"word":"Equated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Equate"},{"word":"Equating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Equate"},{"word":"Equate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances."},{"word":"Equation","type":"(n.)","description":"A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium."},{"word":"Equation","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc."},{"word":"Equation","type":"(n.)","description":"A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion."},{"word":"Equator","type":"(n.)","description":"The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres."},{"word":"Equator","type":"(n.)","description":"The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line."},{"word":"Equatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument."},{"word":"Equatorial","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope."},{"word":"Equatorially","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator."},{"word":"Equerries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Equerry"},{"word":"Equerry","type":"(n.)","description":"A large stable or lodge for horses."},{"word":"Equerry","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses."},{"word":"Equery","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Equerry."},{"word":"Equestrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games."},{"word":"Equestrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue."},{"word":"Equestrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order."},{"word":"Equestrian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rides on horseback; a horseman; a rider."},{"word":"Equestrianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism."},{"word":"Equestrienne","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman."},{"word":"Equi-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, meaning equally; as, equidistant; equiangular."},{"word":"Equiangled","type":"(a.)","description":"Equiangular."},{"word":"Equiangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular."},{"word":"Equibalance","type":"(n.)","description":"Equal weight; equiponderance."},{"word":"Equibalanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Equibalance"},{"word":"Equibalancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Equibalance"},{"word":"Equibalance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate."},{"word":"Equicrescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable."},{"word":"Equicrural","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal legs or sides; isosceles."},{"word":"Equicrure","type":"(a.)","description":"Equicrural."},{"word":"Equidifferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal differences; as, the terms of arithmetical progression are equidifferent."},{"word":"Equidistance","type":"(n.)","description":"Equal distance."},{"word":"Equidistant","type":"(a.)","description":"Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing."},{"word":"Equidiurnal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line."},{"word":"Equiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same form; uniform."},{"word":"Equilateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon."},{"word":"Equilateral","type":"(n.)","description":"A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others; also, a figure of equal sides."},{"word":"Equilibrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Equilibrate"},{"word":"Equilibrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Equilibrate"},{"word":"Equilibrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise."},{"word":"Equilibration","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise."},{"word":"Equilibration","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which animal and vegetable organisms preserve a physiological balance."},{"word":"Equilibrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Evenly poised; balanced."},{"word":"Equilibrist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer."},{"word":"Equilibrity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being balanced; equality of weight."},{"word":"Equilibriums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Equilibrium"},{"word":"Equilibria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Equilibrium"},{"word":"Equilibrium","type":"(n.)","description":"Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces."},{"word":"Equilibrium","type":"(n.)","description":"A level position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body."},{"word":"Equilibrium","type":"(n.)","description":"A balancing of the mind between motives or reasons, with consequent indecision and doubt."},{"word":"Equimomental","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal moments of inertia."},{"word":"Equimultiple","type":"(a.)","description":"Multiplied by the same number or quantity."},{"word":"Equimultiple","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or 14, and seven times 4, or 28, are equimultiples of 2 and 4."},{"word":"Equinal","type":"(a.)","description":"See Equine."},{"word":"Equine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse."},{"word":"Equinia","type":"(n.)","description":"Glanders."},{"word":"Equinoctial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line."},{"word":"Equinoctial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the regions or climate of the equinoctial line or equator; in or near that line; as, equinoctial heat; an equinoctial sun."},{"word":"Equinoctial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as, an equinoctial gale or storm, that is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world."},{"word":"Equinoctial","type":"(n.)","description":"The equinoctial line."},{"word":"Equinoctially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Towards the equinox."},{"word":"Equinox","type":"(n.)","description":"The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and September 22. See Autumnal equinox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal."},{"word":"Equinox","type":"(n.)","description":"Equinoctial wind or storm."},{"word":"Equinumerant","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal as to number."},{"word":"Equipped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Equip"},{"word":"Equipping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Equip"},{"word":"Equip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops."},{"word":"Equip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress up; to array; accouter."},{"word":"Equipage","type":"(n.)","description":"Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire."},{"word":"Equipage","type":"(n.)","description":"Retinue; train; suite."},{"word":"Equipage","type":"(n.)","description":"A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out."},{"word":"Equipaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with equipage."},{"word":"Equiparable","type":"(a.)","description":"Comparable."},{"word":"Equiparate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compare."},{"word":"Equipedal","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal."},{"word":"Equipendency","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way."},{"word":"Equipensate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weigh equally; to esteem alike."},{"word":"Equipment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition."},{"word":"Equipment","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments."},{"word":"Equipoise","type":"(n.)","description":"Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces."},{"word":"Equipoise","type":"(n.)","description":"Counterpoise."},{"word":"Equipollence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Equipollency"},{"word":"Equipollency","type":"(n.)","description":"Equality of power, force, signification, or application."},{"word":"Equipollency","type":"(n.)","description":"Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language."},{"word":"Equipollent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal power or force; equivalent."},{"word":"Equipollent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently."},{"word":"Equipollently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With equal power."},{"word":"Equiponderance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Equiponderancy"},{"word":"Equiponderancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Equality of weight; equipoise."},{"word":"Equiponderant","type":"(a.)","description":"Being of the same weight."},{"word":"Equiponderate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing."},{"word":"Equiponderate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make equal in weight; to counterbalance."},{"word":"Equiponderous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal weight."},{"word":"Equipondious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of equal weight on both sides; balanced."},{"word":"Equipotential","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same potential."},{"word":"Equiradical","type":"(a.)","description":"Equally radical."},{"word":"Equirotal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having wheels of the same size or diameter; having equal rotation."},{"word":"Equisetaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Equisetaceae, or Horsetail family."},{"word":"Equisetiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of the equisetum."},{"word":"Equiseta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Equisetum"},{"word":"Equisetum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails."},{"word":"Equisonance","type":"(n.)","description":"An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves."},{"word":"Equisonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same or like sound."},{"word":"Equitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men."},{"word":"Equitable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets, assignment, mortgage, etc."},{"word":"Equitableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a judge, a decision, or distribution of property."},{"word":"Equitably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered."},{"word":"Equitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Horsemanship."},{"word":"Equitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback."},{"word":"Equitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris."},{"word":"Equitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship."},{"word":"Equitemporaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Contemporaneous."},{"word":"Equites","type":"(n. pl)","description":"An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order."},{"word":"Equities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Equity"},{"word":"Equity","type":"(n.)","description":"Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality."},{"word":"Equity","type":"(n.)","description":"An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc."},{"word":"Equity","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it."},{"word":"Equivalence","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions."},{"word":"Equivalence","type":"(n.)","description":"Equal power or force; equivalent amount."},{"word":"Equivalence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen units; the number of hydrogen atoms can combine with, or be exchanged for; valency. See Valence."},{"word":"Equivalence","type":"(n.)","description":"The degree of combining power as determined by relative weight. See Equivalent, n., 2."},{"word":"Equivalence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance."},{"word":"Equivalency","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Equivalence."},{"word":"Equivalent","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning."},{"word":"Equivalent","type":"(a.)","description":"Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle."},{"word":"Equivalent","type":"(a.)","description":"Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries."},{"word":"Equivalent","type":"(n.)","description":"Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done."},{"word":"Equivalent","type":"(n.)","description":"That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically: (a) The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16."},{"word":"Equivalent","type":"(n.)","description":"A combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule; as, in acid salt two or more equivalents of acid unite with one or more equivalents of base."},{"word":"Equivalent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence."},{"word":"Equivalently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an equal manner."},{"word":"Equivalue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put an equal value upon; to put (something) on a par with another thing."},{"word":"Equivalve","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Equivalved"},{"word":"Equivalved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells."},{"word":"Equivalvular","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Equivalve or Equivalved."},{"word":"Equivocacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Equivocalness."},{"word":"Equivocal","type":"(a.)","description":"(Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence."},{"word":"Equivocal","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal."},{"word":"Equivocal","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful."},{"word":"Equivocal","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque."},{"word":"Equivocally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an equivocal manner."},{"word":"Equivocalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being equivocal."},{"word":"Equivocated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Equivocate"},{"word":"Equivocating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Equivocate"},{"word":"Equivocate","type":"(a.)","description":"To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity."},{"word":"Equivocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render equivocal or ambiguous."},{"word":"Equivocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead."},{"word":"Equivocator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who equivocates."},{"word":"Equivocatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation."},{"word":"Equivoque","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Equivoke"},{"word":"Equivoke","type":"(n.)","description":"An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations."},{"word":"Equivoke","type":"(n.)","description":"An equivocation; a guibble."},{"word":"Equivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars."},{"word":"Equus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc."},{"word":"-er","type":"()","description":"."},{"word":"-er","type":"()","description":"The termination of many English words, denoting the agent; -- applied either to men or things; as in hater, farmer, heater, grater. At the end of names of places, -er signifies a man of the place; as, Londoner, i. e., London man."},{"word":"-er","type":"()","description":"A suffix used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; as, warmer, sooner, lat(e)er, earl(y)ier."},{"word":"Eras","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Era"},{"word":"Era","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned."},{"word":"Era","type":"(n.)","description":"A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian)."},{"word":"Era","type":"(n.)","description":"A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch."},{"word":"Eradiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eradiate"},{"word":"Eradiating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eradiate"},{"word":"Eradiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate."},{"word":"Eradiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Emission of radiance."},{"word":"Eradicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being eradicated."},{"word":"Eradicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eradicate"},{"word":"Eradicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eradicate"},{"word":"Eradicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated."},{"word":"Eradicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors."},{"word":"Eradication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction."},{"word":"Eradication","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being plucked up by the roots."},{"word":"Eradicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil."},{"word":"Eradicative","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine that effects a radical cure."},{"word":"Erasable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being erased."},{"word":"Erased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Erase"},{"word":"Erasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Erase"},{"word":"Erase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name."},{"word":"Erase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory."},{"word":"Erased","type":"(p. pr. & a.)","description":"Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated."},{"word":"Erased","type":"(p. pr. & a.)","description":"Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped."},{"word":"Erasement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration."},{"word":"Eraser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc."},{"word":"Erasion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration."},{"word":"Erastian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State."},{"word":"Erastianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of the Erastains."},{"word":"Erasure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration."},{"word":"Erative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry."},{"word":"Erato","type":"(n.)","description":"The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry."},{"word":"Erbium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia."},{"word":"Ercedeken","type":"(n.)","description":"An archdeacon."},{"word":"Erd","type":"(n.)","description":"The earth."},{"word":"Ere","type":"(adv.)","description":"Before; sooner than."},{"word":"Ere","type":"(adv.)","description":"Rather than."},{"word":"Ere","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plow. [Obs.] See Ear, v. t."},{"word":"Erebus","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's \"Paradise Lost,\" Book II., line 883."},{"word":"Erebus","type":"(n.)","description":"The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(a.)","description":"Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(a.)","description":"Directed upward; raised; uplifted."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(a.)","description":"Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(a.)","description":"Watchful; alert."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(a.)","description":"Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc."},{"word":"Erected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Erect"},{"word":"Erecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Erect"},{"word":"Erect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To animate; to encourage; to cheer."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute."},{"word":"Erect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise upright."},{"word":"Erectable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather."},{"word":"Erecter","type":"(n.)","description":"An erector; one who raises or builds."},{"word":"Erectile","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated."},{"word":"Erectility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being erectile."},{"word":"Erection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage."},{"word":"Erection","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes."},{"word":"Erection","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being stretched to stiffness; tension."},{"word":"Erection","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything erected; a building of any kind."},{"word":"Erection","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue."},{"word":"Erective","type":"(a.)","description":"Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect."},{"word":"Erectly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an erect manner or posture."},{"word":"Erectness","type":"(n.)","description":"Uprightness of posture or form."},{"word":"Erecto-patent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading."},{"word":"Erecto-patent","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing partially spread and erect; -- said of the wings of certain insects."},{"word":"Erector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, erects."},{"word":"Erector","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which raises any part."},{"word":"Erector","type":"(n.)","description":"An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted."},{"word":"Erelong","type":"(adv.)","description":"Before the /apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long."},{"word":"Eremacausis","type":"(n.)","description":"A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals."},{"word":"Eremitage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hermitage."},{"word":"Eremite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hermit."},{"word":"Eremitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eremitical"},{"word":"Eremitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude."},{"word":"Eremitish","type":"(a.)","description":"Eremitic."},{"word":"Eremitism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life."},{"word":"Eretation","type":"(n.)","description":"A creeping forth."},{"word":"Ereption","type":"(n.)","description":"A snatching away."},{"word":"Erethism","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ."},{"word":"Erethistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to erethism."},{"word":"Erewhile","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Erewhiles"},{"word":"Erewhiles","type":"(adv.)","description":"Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore."},{"word":"Erven","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Erf"},{"word":"Erf","type":"(n.)","description":"A garden plot, usually about half an acre."},{"word":"Erg","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs."},{"word":"Ergat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deduce logically, as conclusions."},{"word":"Ergo","type":"(conj. / adv.)","description":"Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way."},{"word":"Ergot","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea."},{"word":"Ergot","type":"(n.)","description":"The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding."},{"word":"Ergot","type":"(n.)","description":"A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint."},{"word":"Ergot","type":"(n.)","description":"See 2d Calcar, 3 (b)."},{"word":"Ergotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid."},{"word":"Ergotin","type":"(n.)","description":"An extract made from ergot."},{"word":"Ergotine","type":"()","description":"A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus."},{"word":"Ergotism","type":"(n.)","description":"A logical deduction."},{"word":"Ergotism","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus."},{"word":"Ergotized","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye."},{"word":"Eriach","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eric"},{"word":"Eric","type":"(n.)","description":"A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person."},{"word":"Erica","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers."},{"word":"Ericaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Heath family, or resembling plants of that family; consisting of heats."},{"word":"Ericinol","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin."},{"word":"Ericius","type":"(n.)","description":"The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the \"Authorized Version\" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine."},{"word":"Ericolin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceae), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass."},{"word":"Eridanus","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar."},{"word":"Erigible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being erected."},{"word":"Erin","type":"(n.)","description":"An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland."},{"word":"Erinaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog."},{"word":"Eringo","type":"(n.)","description":"The sea holly. See Eryngo."},{"word":"Erinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs."},{"word":"Erinyes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Erinys"},{"word":"Erinys","type":"(n.)","description":"An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified."},{"word":"Eriometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed."},{"word":"Eristalis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvae) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly."},{"word":"Eristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eristical"},{"word":"Eristical","type":"(a.)","description":"Controversial."},{"word":"Erke","type":"(a.)","description":"ASlothful."},{"word":"Erlking","type":"(n.)","description":"A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children."},{"word":"Erme","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grieve; to feel sad."},{"word":"Ermelin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ermilin"},{"word":"Ermilin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ermine."},{"word":"Ermin","type":"(n.)","description":"An Armenian."},{"word":"Ermine","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black."},{"word":"Ermine","type":"(n.)","description":"The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the white."},{"word":"Ermine","type":"(n.)","description":"By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain."},{"word":"Ermine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the furs. See Fur (Her.)"},{"word":"Ermine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe with, or as with, ermine."},{"word":"Ermined","type":"(a.)","description":"Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine."},{"word":"Ermines","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Erminois"},{"word":"Erminois","type":"(n.)","description":"See Note under Ermine, n., 4."},{"word":"Ermit","type":"(n.)","description":"A hermit."},{"word":"Ern","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Erne"},{"word":"Erne","type":"(n.)","description":"A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)."},{"word":"Ern","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.]"},{"word":"Ernest","type":"(n.)","description":"See Earnest."},{"word":"Ernestful","type":"(a.)","description":"Serious."},{"word":"Eroded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Erode"},{"word":"Eroding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Erode"},{"word":"Erode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh."},{"word":"Eroded","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away."},{"word":"Eroded","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Having the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed."},{"word":"Erodent","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic."},{"word":"Erogated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Erogate"},{"word":"Erogating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Erogate"},{"word":"Erogate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend."},{"word":"Erogation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving out or bestowing."},{"word":"Eros","type":"(n.)","description":"Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid."},{"word":"Erose","type":"(a.)","description":"Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away."},{"word":"Erose","type":"(a.)","description":"Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed."},{"word":"Erosion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of eroding or eating away."},{"word":"Erosion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker."},{"word":"Erosive","type":"(a.)","description":"That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive."},{"word":"Erostrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a beak."},{"word":"Eroteme","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark indicating a question; a note of interrogation."},{"word":"Erotesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure o/ speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary, is implied under the form o/ an earnest interrogation, as in the following lines; -"},{"word":"Erotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Erotical"},{"word":"Erotical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory."},{"word":"Erotic","type":"(n.)","description":"An amorous composition or poem."},{"word":"Eroticism","type":"(n.)","description":"Erotic quality."},{"word":"Erpetologist","type":"(n.)","description":"Herpetologist."},{"word":"Erpetology","type":"(n.)","description":"Herpetology."},{"word":"Erred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Err"},{"word":"Erring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Err"},{"word":"Err","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wander; to roam; to stray."},{"word":"Err","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at."},{"word":"Err","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken."},{"word":"Err","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin."},{"word":"Err","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To offend, as by erring."},{"word":"Errable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to error; fallible."},{"word":"Errableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Liability to error."},{"word":"Errabund","type":"(a.)","description":"Erratic."},{"word":"Errancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering; state of being in error."},{"word":"Errand","type":"(n.)","description":"A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere."},{"word":"Errant","type":"(a.)","description":"Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving."},{"word":"Errant","type":"(a.)","description":"Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant."},{"word":"Errant","type":"(a.)","description":"Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large."},{"word":"Errant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wanders about."},{"word":"Errantia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of chaetopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chaetopoda."},{"word":"Errantry","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures."},{"word":"Errantry","type":"(n.)","description":"The employment of a knight-errant."},{"word":"Errata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Erratum."},{"word":"Erratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars."},{"word":"Erratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct."},{"word":"Erratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Irregular; changeable."},{"word":"Erratic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character."},{"word":"Erratic","type":"(n.)","description":"A rogue."},{"word":"Erratic","type":"(n.)","description":"Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder."},{"word":"Erratical","type":"(a.)","description":"Erratic."},{"word":"Erration","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering; a roving about."},{"word":"Errata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Erratum"},{"word":"Erratum","type":"(n.)","description":"An error or mistake in writing or printing."},{"word":"Erthine","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory."},{"word":"Erthine","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus."},{"word":"Erroneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural."},{"word":"Erroneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Misleading; misled; mistaking."},{"word":"Erroneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering; a roving or irregular course."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called residual error."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact."},{"word":"Error","type":"(n.)","description":"A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base."},{"word":"Errorful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of error; wrong."},{"word":"Errorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error."},{"word":"Ers","type":"(n.)","description":"The bitter vetch (Ervum Ervilia)."},{"word":"Erse","type":"(n.)","description":"A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic."},{"word":"Erse","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Celtic race in the Highlands of Scotland, or to their language."},{"word":"Ersh","type":"(n.)","description":"See Arrish."},{"word":"Erst","type":"(adv.)","description":"First."},{"word":"Erst","type":"(adv.)","description":"Previously; before; formerly; heretofore."},{"word":"Erstwhile","type":"(adv.)","description":"Till then or now; heretofore; formerly."},{"word":"Erubescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Erubescency"},{"word":"Erubescency","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing."},{"word":"Erubescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Red, or reddish; blushing."},{"word":"Erubescite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bornite."},{"word":"Erucae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eruca"},{"word":"Eruca","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva."},{"word":"Erucic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembling oleic acid, and found in colza oil, mustard oil, etc."},{"word":"Erucifrom","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a caterpillar; -- said of insect larvae."},{"word":"Eruct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Eructate"},{"word":"Eructate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch."},{"word":"Eructation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch."},{"word":"Eructation","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc."},{"word":"Erudiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instruct; to educate; to teach."},{"word":"Erudite","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned."},{"word":"Erudition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship."},{"word":"Erugate","type":"(a.)","description":"Freed from wrinkles; smooth."},{"word":"Eruginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; aeruginous."},{"word":"Erumpent","type":"(a.)","description":"Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves."},{"word":"Erupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava."},{"word":"Eruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion."},{"word":"Eruption","type":"(n.)","description":"That which bursts forth."},{"word":"Eruption","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent exclamation; ejaculation."},{"word":"Eruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc."},{"word":"Eruptional","type":"(a.)","description":"Eruptive."},{"word":"Eruptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Breaking out or bursting forth."},{"word":"Eruptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever."},{"word":"Eruptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic."},{"word":"Eruptive","type":"(n.)","description":"An eruptive rock."},{"word":"Eryngium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of umbelliferous plants somewhat like thistles in appearance. Eryngium maritimum, or sea holly, has been highly esteemed as an aphrodisiac, the roots being formerly candied."},{"word":"Eryngo","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Eryngium."},{"word":"Erysipelas","type":"(n.)","description":"St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically."},{"word":"Erysipelatoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling erysipelas."},{"word":"Erysipelatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling erysipelas, or partaking of its nature."},{"word":"Erysipelous","type":"(a.)","description":"Erysipelatous."},{"word":"Erythema","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size."},{"word":"Erythematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema."},{"word":"Erythematous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or causing, erythema."},{"word":"Erythrean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Erythraean"},{"word":"Erythraean","type":"(a.)","description":"Red in color."},{"word":"Erythric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, erythrin."},{"word":"Erythrin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Erythrine"},{"word":"Erythrine","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various species of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid."},{"word":"Erythrine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Erythrite, 2."},{"word":"Erythrina","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers."},{"word":"Erythrism","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of excessive redness. See Erythrochroism."},{"word":"Erythrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin."},{"word":"Erythrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A rose-red mineral, crystallized and earthy, a hydrous arseniate of cobalt, known also as cobalt bloom; -- called also erythrin or erythrine."},{"word":"Erythrochroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or subject to, erythrochroism."},{"word":"Erythrochroism","type":"(n.)","description":"An unusual redness, esp. in the plumage of birds, or hair of mammals, independently of age, sex, or season."},{"word":"Erythrodextrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin."},{"word":"Erythrogen","type":"(n.)","description":"Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances."},{"word":"Erythrogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance reddened by acids, which is supposed to be contained in flowers."},{"word":"Erythrogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia."},{"word":"Erythrogranulose","type":"(n.)","description":"A term applied by Brucke to a substance present in small amount in starch granules, colored red by iodine."},{"word":"Erythroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a red color; reddish; as, the erythroid tunic (the cremaster muscle)."},{"word":"Erythroleic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil."},{"word":"Erythrolein","type":"(n.)","description":"A red substance obtained from litmus."},{"word":"Erythrolitmin","type":"(n.)","description":"Erythrolein."},{"word":"Erythronium","type":"(n.)","description":"A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium."},{"word":"Erythrophleine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense)."},{"word":"Erythrophyll","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Erythrophyllin"},{"word":"Erythrophyllin","type":"(n.)","description":"The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll."},{"word":"Erythrosin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin."},{"word":"Erythrosin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red dyestuff obtained from fluorescein by the action of iodine."},{"word":"Erythroxylon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca."},{"word":"Erythrozyme","type":"(n.)","description":"A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar."},{"word":"Escalade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart."},{"word":"Escaladed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Escalade"},{"word":"Escalading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Escalade"},{"word":"Escalade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall."},{"word":"Escallop","type":"(n.)","description":"See Escalop."},{"word":"Escalloped","type":"(a.)","description":"See Escaloped."},{"word":"Escalop","type":"(n.)","description":"A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop."},{"word":"Escalop","type":"(n.)","description":"A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop."},{"word":"Escalop","type":"(n.)","description":"The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land."},{"word":"Escalop","type":"(n.)","description":"A bearing or a charge consisting of an escalop shell."},{"word":"Escaloped","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped."},{"word":"Escaloped","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales."},{"word":"Escambio","type":"(n.)","description":"A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea."},{"word":"Escapable","type":"(a.)","description":"Avoidable."},{"word":"Escapade","type":"(n.)","description":"The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol."},{"word":"Escapade","type":"(n.)","description":"Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank."},{"word":"Escaped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Escape"},{"word":"Escaping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Escape"},{"word":"Escape","type":"(v.)","description":"To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(v.)","description":"To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(n.)","description":"That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(n.)","description":"A sally."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(n.)","description":"The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(n.)","description":"An apophyge."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(n.)","description":"Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid."},{"word":"Escape","type":"(n.)","description":"Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation."},{"word":"Escapement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of escaping; escape."},{"word":"Escapement","type":"(n.)","description":"Way of escape; vent."},{"word":"Escapement","type":"(n.)","description":"The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration."},{"word":"Escaper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who escapes."},{"word":"Escarbuncle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carbuncle, 3."},{"word":"Escargatoire","type":"(n.)","description":"A nursery of snails."},{"word":"Escarp","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp."},{"word":"Escarped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Escarp"},{"word":"Escarping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Escarp"},{"word":"Escarp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap."},{"word":"Escarpment","type":"(n.)","description":"A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp."},{"word":"-escent","type":"()","description":"A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc."},{"word":"Eschalot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Shallot."},{"word":"Eschar","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics."},{"word":"Eschar","type":"(n.)","description":"In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams."},{"word":"Eschara","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched."},{"word":"Escharine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidae."},{"word":"Escharotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic."},{"word":"Escharotic","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic."},{"word":"Eschatological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the last or final things."},{"word":"Eschatology","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected."},{"word":"Eschaunge","type":"(n.)","description":"Exchange."},{"word":"Escheat","type":"(n.)","description":"The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder."},{"word":"Escheat","type":"(n.)","description":"The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same."},{"word":"Escheat","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession."},{"word":"Escheat","type":"(n.)","description":"Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat."},{"word":"Escheat","type":"(n.)","description":"That which falls to one; a reversion or return"},{"word":"Esheated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Escheat"},{"word":"Escheating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Escheat"},{"word":"Escheat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture."},{"word":"Escheat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forfeit."},{"word":"Escheatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to escheat."},{"word":"Escheatage","type":"(n.)","description":"The right of succeeding to an escheat."},{"word":"Escheator","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them."},{"word":"Eschevin","type":"(n.)","description":"The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild."},{"word":"Eshewed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eschew"},{"word":"Eshewing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eschew"},{"word":"Eschew","type":"(a.)","description":"To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of."},{"word":"Eschew","type":"(a.)","description":"To escape from; to avoid."},{"word":"Eschewer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eschews."},{"word":"Eschewment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eschewing."},{"word":"Eschscholtzia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy."},{"word":"Eschynite","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare mineral, containing chiefly niobium, titanium, thorium, and cerium. It was so called by Berzelius on account of the inability of chemical science, at the time of its discovery, to separate some of its constituents."},{"word":"Escocheon","type":"(n.)","description":"Escutcheon."},{"word":"Escopet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Escopette"},{"word":"Escopette","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of firearm; a carbine."},{"word":"Escorial","type":"(n.)","description":"See Escurial."},{"word":"Escort","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea."},{"word":"Escort","type":"(n.)","description":"Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend."},{"word":"Escorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Escort"},{"word":"Escorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Escort"},{"word":"Escort","type":"(n.)","description":"To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon."},{"word":"Escot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Scot, a tax."},{"word":"Escot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain."},{"word":"Escouade","type":"(n.)","description":"See Squad,"},{"word":"Escout","type":"(n.)","description":"See Scout."},{"word":"Escribed","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced."},{"word":"Escript","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing."},{"word":"Escritoire","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk."},{"word":"Escritorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an escritoire."},{"word":"Escrod","type":"(n.)","description":"See Scrod, a young cod."},{"word":"Escrol","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Escroll"},{"word":"Escroll","type":"(n.)","description":"A scroll."},{"word":"Escroll","type":"(n.)","description":"A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest."},{"word":"Escroll","type":"(n.)","description":"In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed."},{"word":"Escrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee."},{"word":"Escuage","type":"(n.)","description":"Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage."},{"word":"Esculapian","type":"(n.)","description":"Aesculapian."},{"word":"Esculapius","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aesculapius."},{"word":"Esculent","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish."},{"word":"Esculent","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man."},{"word":"Esculic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid."},{"word":"Esculin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside obtained from the Aesculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions."},{"word":"Escurial","type":"(n.)","description":"A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid."},{"word":"Escutcheon","type":"(n.)","description":"The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister."},{"word":"Escutcheon","type":"(n.)","description":"A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities."},{"word":"Escutcheon","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written."},{"word":"Escutcheon","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole."},{"word":"Escutcheon","type":"(n.)","description":"The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area."},{"word":"Escutcheoned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign."},{"word":"Ese","type":"(n.)","description":"Ease; pleasure."},{"word":"Esemplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity."},{"word":"Eserine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil."},{"word":"Esexual","type":"(a.)","description":"Sexless; asexual."},{"word":"Esguard","type":"(n.)","description":"Guard."},{"word":"Eskar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Esker"},{"word":"Esker","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eschar."},{"word":"Eskimos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eskimo"},{"word":"Eskimo","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race."},{"word":"Esloin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign."},{"word":"Esnecy","type":"(n.)","description":"A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided."},{"word":"Esodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic."},{"word":"Esophagal","type":"(a.)","description":"Esophageal."},{"word":"Esophageal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the esophagus."},{"word":"Esophagean","type":"(a.)","description":"Esophageal."},{"word":"Esophagotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage."},{"word":"Esophagus","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive."},{"word":"Esopian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Esopic"},{"word":"Esopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Aesopian, Aesopic."},{"word":"Esoteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric."},{"word":"Esoterical","type":"(a.)","description":"Esoteric."},{"word":"Esoterically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an esoteric manner."},{"word":"Esotericism","type":"(n.)","description":"Esoteric doctrine or principles."},{"word":"Esoterics","type":"(n.)","description":"Mysterious or hidden doctrines; secret science."},{"word":"Esotery","type":"(n.)","description":"Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery."},{"word":"Esox","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel."},{"word":"Espace","type":"(n.)","description":"Space."},{"word":"Espadon","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners."},{"word":"Espalier","type":"(n.)","description":"A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained."},{"word":"Espaliered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Espalier"},{"word":"Espaliering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Espalier"},{"word":"Espalier","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier."},{"word":"Esparcet","type":"(n.)","description":"The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant."},{"word":"Esparto","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper."},{"word":"Espauliere","type":"(n.)","description":"A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette."},{"word":"Especial","type":"(a.)","description":"Distinguished among others of the same class or kind; special; concerning a species or a single object; principal; particular; as, in an especial manner or degree."},{"word":"Especially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree."},{"word":"Especialness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being especial."},{"word":"Esperance","type":"(n.)","description":"Hope."},{"word":"Espiaille","type":"(n.)","description":"Espial."},{"word":"Espial","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of espying; notice; discovery."},{"word":"Espial","type":"(n.)","description":"One who espies; a spy; a scout."},{"word":"Espier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who espies."},{"word":"Espinel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of ruby. See Spinel."},{"word":"Espionage","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching."},{"word":"Esplanade","type":"(n.)","description":"A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town."},{"word":"Esplanade","type":"(n.)","description":"The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country."},{"word":"Esplanade","type":"(n.)","description":"A grass plat; a lawn."},{"word":"Esplanade","type":"(n.)","description":"Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside."},{"word":"Esplees","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like."},{"word":"Espousage","type":"(n.)","description":"Espousal."},{"word":"Espousal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony."},{"word":"Espousal","type":"(n.)","description":"The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel."},{"word":"Espoused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Espouse"},{"word":"Espousing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Espouse"},{"word":"Espouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse."},{"word":"Espouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry."},{"word":"Espouse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace."},{"word":"Espousement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused."},{"word":"Espouser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own."},{"word":"Espressivo","type":"(a.)","description":"With expression."},{"word":"Espringal","type":"(n.)","description":"An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal."},{"word":"Esprit","type":"(n.)","description":"Spirit."},{"word":"Espied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Espy"},{"word":"Espying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Espy"},{"word":"Espy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd."},{"word":"Espy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inspect narrowly; to examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe."},{"word":"Espy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy."},{"word":"Espies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Espy"},{"word":"Espy","type":"(n.)","description":"A spy; a scout."},{"word":"-esque","type":"()","description":"A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs."},{"word":"Esquimaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Esquimau"},{"word":"Esquimau","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Eskimo."},{"word":"Esquire","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire."},{"word":"Esquired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Esquire"},{"word":"Esquiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Esquire"},{"word":"Esquire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait on as an esquire or attendant in public; to attend."},{"word":"Esquisse","type":"(n.)","description":"The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue."},{"word":"-ess","type":"()","description":"A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress."},{"word":"Essays","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Essay"},{"word":"Essay","type":"(n.)","description":"An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend."},{"word":"Essay","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce."},{"word":"Essay","type":"(n.)","description":"An assay. See Assay, n."},{"word":"Essayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Essay"},{"word":"Essaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Essay"},{"word":"Essay","type":"(n.)","description":"To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try."},{"word":"Essay","type":"(n.)","description":"To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay."},{"word":"Essayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who essays."},{"word":"Essayist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of an essay, or of essays."},{"word":"Essence","type":"(n.)","description":"The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence."},{"word":"Essence","type":"(n.)","description":"The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts."},{"word":"Essence","type":"(n.)","description":"Constituent substance."},{"word":"Essence","type":"(n.)","description":"A being; esp., a purely spiritual being."},{"word":"Essence","type":"(n.)","description":"The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like."},{"word":"Essence","type":"(n.)","description":"Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume."},{"word":"Essenced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Essence"},{"word":"Essencing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Essence"},{"word":"Essence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perfume; to scent."},{"word":"Essenes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Essene"},{"word":"Essene","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence."},{"word":"Essenism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes."},{"word":"Essential","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is."},{"word":"Essential","type":"(a.)","description":"Hence, really existing; existent."},{"word":"Essential","type":"(a.)","description":"Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary."},{"word":"Essential","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil."},{"word":"Essential","type":"(a.)","description":"Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones."},{"word":"Essential","type":"(a.)","description":"Idiopathic; independent of other diseases."},{"word":"Esential","type":"(n.)","description":"Existence; being."},{"word":"Esential","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials or religion."},{"word":"Essentiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being essential; the essential part."},{"word":"Esentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different."},{"word":"Esentialness","type":"(n.)","description":"Essentiality."},{"word":"Essentiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Essentiate"},{"word":"Essentiating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Essentiate"},{"word":"Essentiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or constitute the essence or being of."},{"word":"Essentiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become assimilated; to be changed into the essence."},{"word":"Essoin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Essoign"},{"word":"Essoign","type":"(n.)","description":"An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court."},{"word":"Essoign","type":"(n.)","description":"Excuse; exemption."},{"word":"Essoin","type":"(n.)","description":"To excuse for nonappearance in court."},{"word":"Essoiner","type":"(n.)","description":"An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another."},{"word":"Essonite","type":"(n.)","description":"Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet."},{"word":"Essorant","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon."},{"word":"Est","type":"(n. & adv.)","description":"East."},{"word":"-est","type":"()","description":"A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest."},{"word":"Established","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Establish"},{"word":"Establishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Establish"},{"word":"Establish","type":"(a.)","description":"To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm."},{"word":"Establish","type":"(a.)","description":"To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain."},{"word":"Establish","type":"(a.)","description":"To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions."},{"word":"Establish","type":"(a.)","description":"To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc."},{"word":"Establish","type":"(a.)","description":"To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel."},{"word":"Establisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who establishes."},{"word":"Establishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation."},{"word":"Establishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state."},{"word":"Establishment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures; that which serves for the carrying on of a business; as, to keep up a large establishment; a manufacturing establishment."},{"word":"Establishmentarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character."},{"word":"Estacade","type":"(n.)","description":"A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy."},{"word":"Estafet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Estafette"},{"word":"Estafette","type":"(n.)","description":"A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another."},{"word":"Estancia","type":"(n.)","description":"A grazing; a country house."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(n.)","description":"Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(n.)","description":"Social standing or rank; quality; dignity."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of high rank."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(n.)","description":"A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(n.)","description":"The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(n.)","description":"The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(n.)","description":"The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To establish."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Tom settle as a fortune."},{"word":"Estate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endow with an estate."},{"word":"Estatlich","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Estatly"},{"word":"Estatly","type":"(a.)","description":"Stately; dignified."},{"word":"Esteemed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Esteem"},{"word":"Esteeming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Esteem"},{"word":"Esteem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon."},{"word":"Esteem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship."},{"word":"Esteem","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form an estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider."},{"word":"Esteem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price."},{"word":"Esteem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"High estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth."},{"word":"Esteemable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of esteem; estimable."},{"word":"Esteemer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing."},{"word":"Ester","type":"(n.)","description":"An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc."},{"word":"Esthesiometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aesthesiometer."},{"word":"Esthete","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Esthetics"},{"word":"Esthetic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Esthetics"},{"word":"Esthetical","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Esthetics"},{"word":"Esthetics","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aesthete, Aesthetic, Aesthetical, Aesthetics, etc."},{"word":"Estiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing heat."},{"word":"Estimable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage."},{"word":"Estimable","type":"(a.)","description":"Valuable; worth a great price."},{"word":"Estimable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worth of esteem or respect; deserving our good opinion or regard."},{"word":"Estimable","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing worthy of regard."},{"word":"Estimableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of deserving esteem or regard."},{"word":"Estimably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an estimable manner."},{"word":"Estimated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Estimate"},{"word":"Estimating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Estimate"},{"word":"Estimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person."},{"word":"Estimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land."},{"word":"Estimate","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond."},{"word":"Estimation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of estimating."},{"word":"Estimation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities."},{"word":"Estimation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Favorable opinion; esteem; regard; honor."},{"word":"Estimation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Supposition; conjecture."},{"word":"Estimative","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating."},{"word":"Estimative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an estimate."},{"word":"Estimator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who estimates or values; a valuer."},{"word":"Estival","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Estivation"},{"word":"Estivate","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Estivation"},{"word":"Estivation","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Aestival, Aestivate, etc."},{"word":"Estoile","type":"(n.)","description":"A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet."},{"word":"Estophed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Estop"},{"word":"Estopping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Estop"},{"word":"Estop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impede or bar by estoppel."},{"word":"Estoppel","type":"(n.)","description":"A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission."},{"word":"Estoppel","type":"(n.)","description":"The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable."},{"word":"Estovers","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate."},{"word":"Estrade","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais."},{"word":"Estramacon","type":"(n.)","description":"A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries."},{"word":"Estramacon","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow with edge of a sword."},{"word":"Estranged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Estrange"},{"word":"Estranging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Estrange"},{"word":"Estrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with."},{"word":"Estrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate."},{"word":"Estrange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference."},{"word":"Estrangedness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being estranged; estrangement."},{"word":"Estrangement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation."},{"word":"Estranger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who estranges."},{"word":"Estrangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strangle."},{"word":"Estrapade","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously."},{"word":"Estray","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stray."},{"word":"Estray","type":"(n.)","description":"Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray."},{"word":"Estre","type":"(n.)","description":"The inward part of a building; the interior."},{"word":"Estreat","type":"(n.)","description":"A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer."},{"word":"Estreated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Estreat"},{"word":"Estreating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Estreat"},{"word":"Estreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance."},{"word":"Estreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine."},{"word":"Estrepe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste."},{"word":"Estrepement","type":"(n.)","description":"A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses."},{"word":"Estrich","type":"(n.)","description":"Ostrich."},{"word":"Estrich","type":"(n.)","description":"The down of the ostrich."},{"word":"Estuance","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat."},{"word":"Estuarine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an estuary; estuary."},{"word":"Estuaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Estuary"},{"word":"Estuary","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth."},{"word":"Estuary","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith."},{"word":"Estuary","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata."},{"word":"Estuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Estuate"},{"word":"Estuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Estuate"},{"word":"Estuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated."},{"word":"Estuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation."},{"word":"Estufas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Estufa"},{"word":"Estufa","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians."},{"word":"Esture","type":"(n.)","description":"Commotion."},{"word":"Esurient","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious."},{"word":"Esurient","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is hungry or greedy."},{"word":"Esurine","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing hunger; eating; corroding."},{"word":"Esurine","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger."},{"word":"-et","type":"()","description":"A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet."},{"word":"Etaac","type":"(n.)","description":"The blue buck."},{"word":"Etacism","type":"(n.)","description":"The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism."},{"word":"Etacist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors etacism."},{"word":"Etagere","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use."},{"word":"Etat","type":"()","description":"The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers."},{"word":"Et","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Et caetera"},{"word":"Et","type":"()","description":"Others of the like kind; and the rest; and so on; -- used to point out that other things which could be mentioned are to be understood. Usually abbreviated into etc. or &c. (&c)."},{"word":"Etch","type":"(n.)","description":"A variant of Eddish."},{"word":"Etched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Etch"},{"word":"Etching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Etch"},{"word":"Etch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid."},{"word":"Etch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal."},{"word":"Etch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sketch; to delineate."},{"word":"Etch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice etching; to make etchings."},{"word":"Etcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who etches."},{"word":"Etching","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t."},{"word":"Etching","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching."},{"word":"Etching","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate."},{"word":"Eteostic","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of chronogram."},{"word":"Eterminable","type":"(a.)","description":"Interminable."},{"word":"Etern","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eterne"},{"word":"Eterne","type":"(a.)","description":"Eternal."},{"word":"Eternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Without beginning or end of existence; always existing."},{"word":"Eternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal."},{"word":"Eternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant."},{"word":"Eternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing at all times without change; immutable."},{"word":"Eternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive."},{"word":"Eternal","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the appellations of God."},{"word":"Eternal","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is endless and immortal."},{"word":"Eternalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity."},{"word":"Eternalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make eternal."},{"word":"Eternally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eternal manner."},{"word":"Eterne","type":"(a.)","description":"See Etern."},{"word":"Eternify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make eternal."},{"word":"Eternities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eternity"},{"word":"Eternity","type":"(n.)","description":"Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time."},{"word":"Eternity","type":"(n.)","description":"Condition which begins at death; immortality."},{"word":"Eternization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous."},{"word":"Eternized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eternize"},{"word":"Eterniziing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eternize"},{"word":"Eternize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make eternal or endless."},{"word":"Eternize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize one's self, a name, exploits."},{"word":"Etesian","type":"(a.)","description":"Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August."},{"word":"Ethal","type":"(n.)","description":"A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic."},{"word":"Ethane","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl."},{"word":"Ethe","type":"(a.)","description":"Easy."},{"word":"Ethel","type":"(a.)","description":"Noble."},{"word":"Ethene","type":"(n.)","description":"Ethylene; olefiant gas."},{"word":"Ethenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from. or resembling, ethene or ethylene; as, ethenic ether."},{"word":"Ethenyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A trivalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C."},{"word":"Ethenyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; -- called also vinyl. See Vinyl."},{"word":"Etheostomoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma."},{"word":"Etheostomoid","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fish of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also called darter. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of North America. About seventy species are known. See Darter."},{"word":"Ether","type":"(n.)","description":"A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether."},{"word":"Ether","type":"(n.)","description":"Supposed matter above the air; the air itself."},{"word":"Ether","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide."},{"word":"Ether","type":"(n.)","description":"Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether."},{"word":"Ethereal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions."},{"word":"Ethereal","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc."},{"word":"Ethereal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts."},{"word":"Etherealism","type":"(n.)","description":"Ethereality."},{"word":"Ethereality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being ethereal; etherealness."},{"word":"Etherealization","type":"(n.)","description":"An ethereal or spiritlike state."},{"word":"Etherealize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether."},{"word":"Etherealize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render ethereal or spiritlike."},{"word":"Ethereally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ethereal manner."},{"word":"Etherealness","type":"(n.)","description":"Ethereality."},{"word":"Ethereous","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed of ether; ethereal."},{"word":"Ethereous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, ether."},{"word":"Etherification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid."},{"word":"Etheriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of ether."},{"word":"Etherin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine."},{"word":"Etherization","type":"(n.)","description":"The administration of ether to produce insensibility."},{"word":"Etherization","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of the system under the influence of ether."},{"word":"Etherized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Etherize"},{"word":"Etherizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Etherize"},{"word":"Etherize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into ether."},{"word":"Etherize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient."},{"word":"Etherol","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin."},{"word":"Ethic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ethical"},{"word":"Ethical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy."},{"word":"Ethically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to, in harmony with, moral principles or character."},{"word":"Ethicist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics."},{"word":"Ethics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics."},{"word":"Ethide","type":"(n.)","description":"Any compound of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide."},{"word":"Ethidene","type":"(n.)","description":"Ethylidene."},{"word":"Ethine","type":"(n.)","description":"Acetylene."},{"word":"Ethionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid so called."},{"word":"Ethiop","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ethiopian"},{"word":"Ethiopian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man."},{"word":"Ethiopian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ethiopic"},{"word":"Ethiopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians."},{"word":"Ethiopic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez."},{"word":"Ethiops","type":"(n.)","description":"A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color."},{"word":"Ethmoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ethmoidal"},{"word":"Ethmoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a sieve; cribriform."},{"word":"Ethmoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone."},{"word":"Ethmoid","type":"(n.)","description":"The ethmoid bone."},{"word":"Ethmotrubinal","type":"(a.)","description":"See Turbinal."},{"word":"Ethmotrubinal","type":"(n.)","description":"An ethmoturbinal bone."},{"word":"Ethmovomerine","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull."},{"word":"Ethnarch","type":"(n.)","description":"The governor of a province or people."},{"word":"Ethnarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule."},{"word":"Ethnic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ethnical"},{"word":"Ethnical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological."},{"word":"Ethnical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian."},{"word":"Ethnic","type":"(n.)","description":"A heathen; a pagan."},{"word":"Ethnically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ethnical manner."},{"word":"Ethnicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Heathenism; paganism; idolatry."},{"word":"Ethnographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who investigates ethnography."},{"word":"Ethnographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ethnographical"},{"word":"Ethnographical","type":"(a.)","description":"pertaining to ethnography."},{"word":"Ethnographically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ethnographical manner."},{"word":"Ethnography","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology."},{"word":"Ethnologic","type":"(a)","description":"Alt. of Ethnological"},{"word":"Ethnological","type":"(a)","description":"Of or pertaining to ethnology."},{"word":"Ethnologically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race."},{"word":"Ethnologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology."},{"word":"Ethnology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them."},{"word":"Ethologic","type":"(a)","description":"Alt. of Ethological"},{"word":"Ethological","type":"(a)","description":"treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character."},{"word":"Ethologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who studies or writes upon ethology."},{"word":"Ethology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on morality; ethics."},{"word":"Ethology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual."},{"word":"Ethopoetic","type":"()","description":"Expressing character."},{"word":"Ethule","type":"()","description":"Ethyl."},{"word":"Ethyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether."},{"word":"Ethylamine","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, mobile, inflammable liquid, C2H5.NH2, very volatile and with an ammoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane."},{"word":"Ethylate","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound derived from ethyl alcohol by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate; as, potassium ethylate, C2H5.O.K."},{"word":"Ethylene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen."},{"word":"Ethylic","type":"()","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, ethyl; as, ethylic alcohol."},{"word":"Ethylidene","type":"()","description":"An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene."},{"word":"Ethylin","type":"()","description":"Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin."},{"word":"Ethylsulphuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid."},{"word":"Etiolated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Etiolate"},{"word":"Etiolating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n)","description":"of Etiolate"},{"word":"Etiolate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants."},{"word":"Etiolate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become pale through disease or absence of light."},{"word":"Etiolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays."},{"word":"Etiolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light."},{"word":"Etiolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Etiolated"},{"word":"Etiolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions."},{"word":"Etiolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant."},{"word":"Etiolation","type":"(n.)","description":"Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease."},{"word":"Etoolin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll."},{"word":"Etiological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological."},{"word":"Etiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of causes. Same as /tiology."},{"word":"Etiquette","type":"(n.)","description":"The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society."},{"word":"Etna","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp."},{"word":"Etnean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily."},{"word":"Etoile","type":"(n.)","description":"See Estoile."},{"word":"Etrurian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy."},{"word":"Etrurian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria."},{"word":"Etruscan","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or relating to Etruria."},{"word":"Etruscan","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Etruria."},{"word":"Etter","type":"(n.)","description":"The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera)."},{"word":"Ettin","type":"(n.)","description":"A giant."},{"word":"Ettle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To earn. [Obs.] See Addle, to earn."},{"word":"Etude","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study."},{"word":"Etude","type":"(n.)","description":"A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution."},{"word":"Etui","type":"(n.)","description":"A case for one or several small articles; esp., a box in which scissors, tweezers, and other articles of toilet or of daily use are carried."},{"word":"Etwee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Etui."},{"word":"Etym","type":"(n.)","description":"See Etymon."},{"word":"Etymic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the etymon; as, an etymic word."},{"word":"Etymologer","type":"(n.)","description":"An etymologist."},{"word":"Etymological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words."},{"word":"Etymologicon","type":"(n.)","description":"An etymological dictionary or manual."},{"word":"Etymologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who investigates the derivation of words."},{"word":"Etymologize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word."},{"word":"Etymologize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots."},{"word":"Etymologies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Etymology"},{"word":"Etymology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning."},{"word":"Etymology","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection."},{"word":"Etymons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Etymon"},{"word":"Etyma","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Etymon"},{"word":"Etymon","type":"(n.)","description":"An original form; primitive word; root."},{"word":"Etymon","type":"(n.)","description":"Original or fundamental signification."},{"word":"Etypical","type":"(a.)","description":"Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type."},{"word":"Eu","type":"()","description":"A prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-."},{"word":"Eucairite","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium."},{"word":"Eucalyn","type":"(n.)","description":"An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name."},{"word":"Eucalyptol","type":"(n.)","description":"A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene."},{"word":"Eucalyptus","type":"(n.)","description":"A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia."},{"word":"Eucharis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms."},{"word":"Eucharist","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving."},{"word":"Eucharist","type":"(n.)","description":"The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion."},{"word":"Eucharistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eucharistical"},{"word":"Eucharistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing."},{"word":"Eucharistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Lord's Supper."},{"word":"Euchite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who resolves religion into prayer."},{"word":"Euchloric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or consisting of, euchlorine; as, euchloric /."},{"word":"Euchlorine","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine."},{"word":"Euchologion","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Euchology"},{"word":"Euchology","type":"(n.)","description":"A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers."},{"word":"Euchologue","type":"(n.)","description":"Euchology."},{"word":"Euchre","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower."},{"word":"Euchre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump."},{"word":"Euchre","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme."},{"word":"Euchroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a fine color."},{"word":"Euchroite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper."},{"word":"Euchrone","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic."},{"word":"Euchymy","type":"(n.)","description":"A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body."},{"word":"Euclase","type":"(n.)","description":"A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina."},{"word":"Euclid","type":"(n.)","description":"A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general."},{"word":"Euclidian","type":"(n.)","description":"Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid."},{"word":"Eucopepoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans."},{"word":"Eucrasy","type":"()","description":"Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness."},{"word":"Euctical","type":"()","description":"Expecting a wish; supplicatory."},{"word":"Eudemon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eudaemon"},{"word":"Eudaemon","type":"(n.)","description":"A good angel."},{"word":"Eudemonics","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eudaemonics"},{"word":"Eudaemonics","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics."},{"word":"Eudemonism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eudaemonism"},{"word":"Eudaemonism","type":"(n.)","description":"That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well-being."},{"word":"Eudemonist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eudaemonist"},{"word":"Eudaemonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in eudemonism."},{"word":"Eudemonistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eudaemonistic"},{"word":"Eudaemonistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to eudemonism."},{"word":"Eudemonistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eudaemonistical"},{"word":"Eudaemonistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Eudemonistic."},{"word":"Eudialyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime."},{"word":"Eudiometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; -- so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air."},{"word":"Eudiometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eudiometrical"},{"word":"Eudiometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results."},{"word":"Eudiometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it."},{"word":"Eudipleura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves."},{"word":"Eudoxian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius."},{"word":"Euganoidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group which includes the bony ganoids, as the gar pikes."},{"word":"Euge","type":"(n.)","description":"Applause."},{"word":"Eugenia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce."},{"word":"Eugenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid."},{"word":"Eugenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Well-born; of high birth."},{"word":"Eugenics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of improving stock, whether human or animal."},{"word":"Eugenin","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, crystalline substance extracted from oil of cloves; -- called also clove camphor."},{"word":"Eugenol","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called eugenic acid. It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves."},{"word":"Eugeny","type":"()","description":"Nobleness of birth."},{"word":"Eugetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eugetinic"},{"word":"Eugetinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, eugenol; as, eugetic acid."},{"word":"Eugh","type":"(n.)","description":"The yew."},{"word":"Eugubian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eugubine"},{"word":"Eugubine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions."},{"word":"Euharmonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious."},{"word":"Euhemerism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts."},{"word":"Euhemerist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who advocates euhemerism."},{"word":"Euhemeristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to euhemerism."},{"word":"Euhemerize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism."},{"word":"Euisopoda","type":"()","description":"A group which includes the typical Isopoda."},{"word":"Eulachon","type":"(n.)","description":"The candlefish. [Written also oulachan, oolacan, and ulikon.] See Candlefish."},{"word":"Eulerian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Euler, a German mathematician of the 18th century."},{"word":"Eulogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eulogical"},{"word":"Eulogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Bestowing praise of eulogy; commendatory; eulogistic."},{"word":"Eulogist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast."},{"word":"Eulogistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Eulogistical"},{"word":"Eulogistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to eulogy; characterized by eulogy; bestowing praise; panegyrical; commendatory; laudatory; as, eulogistic speech or discourse."},{"word":"Eulogiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eulogium"},{"word":"Eulogium","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal eulogy."},{"word":"Eulogized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eulogize"},{"word":"Eulogizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eulogize"},{"word":"Eulogize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise."},{"word":"Eulogies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eulogy"},{"word":"Eulogy","type":"(n.)","description":"A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth."},{"word":"Eulytite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine."},{"word":"Eumenides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes."},{"word":"Eumolpus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe."},{"word":"Eunomian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father."},{"word":"Eunomian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Eunomius or his doctrine."},{"word":"Eunomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government."},{"word":"Eunuch","type":"(n.)","description":"A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank."},{"word":"Eunuch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Eunuchate"},{"word":"Eunuchate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man."},{"word":"Eunuchism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being eunuch."},{"word":"Euonymin","type":"(n.)","description":"A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree."},{"word":"Euonymus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic."},{"word":"Euornithes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form."},{"word":"Euosmitte","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor."},{"word":"Eupathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Right feeling."},{"word":"Eupatorin","type":"(n.)","description":"A principle or mixture of principles extracted from various species of Eupatorium."},{"word":"Eupatorium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc."},{"word":"Eupatrid","type":"(n.)","description":"One well born, or of noble birth."},{"word":"Eupepsia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eupepsy"},{"word":"Eupepsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia."},{"word":"Eupeptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man."},{"word":"Euphemism","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable."},{"word":"Euphemistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Euphemistical"},{"word":"Euphemistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression."},{"word":"Euphemized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Euphemize"},{"word":"Euphemizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Euphemize"},{"word":"Euphemize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions."},{"word":"Euphoniad","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument in which are combined the characteristic tones of the organ and various other instruments."},{"word":"Euphonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Euphonical"},{"word":"Euphonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or exhibiting, euphony; agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious; as, a euphonic expression; euphonical orthography."},{"word":"Euphonicon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of upright piano."},{"word":"Euphonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pleasing or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding."},{"word":"Euphonism","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony."},{"word":"Euphonium","type":"(n.)","description":"A bass instrument of the saxhorn family."},{"word":"Euphonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make euphonic."},{"word":"Euphonon","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone."},{"word":"Euphonous","type":"(n.)","description":"Euphonious."},{"word":"Euphonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Euphony"},{"word":"Euphony","type":"(n.)","description":"A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear."},{"word":"Euphorbia","type":"(n.)","description":"Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products."},{"word":"Euphorbiaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Euphorbial"},{"word":"Euphorbial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family."},{"word":"Euphorbin","type":"(n.)","description":"A principle, or mixture of principles, derived from various species of Euphorbia."},{"word":"Euphorbium","type":"(n.)","description":"An inodorous exudation, usually in the form of yellow tears, produced chiefly by the African Euphorbia resinifrea. It was formerly employed medicinally, but was found so violent in its effects that its use is nearly abandoned."},{"word":"Euphotide","type":"(n.)","description":"A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro."},{"word":"Euphrasy","type":"(n.)","description":"The plant eyesight (euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes."},{"word":"Euphroe","type":"(n.)","description":"A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up."},{"word":"Euphuism","type":"(n.)","description":"An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction."},{"word":"Euphuist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction."},{"word":"Euphuistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined."},{"word":"Euphuize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression."},{"word":"Eupione","type":"(n.)","description":"A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series."},{"word":"Eupittone","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid."},{"word":"Eupittonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone."},{"word":"Euplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person."},{"word":"Euplastic","type":"(n.)","description":"Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed."},{"word":"Euplectella","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket."},{"word":"Euplexoptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig."},{"word":"Eupnaea","type":"(n.)","description":"Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnaea, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized."},{"word":"Eupryion","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match."},{"word":"Eurasian","type":"(n.)","description":"A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other."},{"word":"Eurasian","type":"(n.)","description":"One born of European parents in Asia."},{"word":"Eurasian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain."},{"word":"Eurasiatio","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined."},{"word":"Eureka","type":"()","description":"The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out \"Eureka! eureka!\" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery."},{"word":"Eurhipidurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipidurae, a division of Aves which includes all living birds."},{"word":"Euripize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whirl hither and thither."},{"word":"Euripus","type":"(n.)","description":"A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux."},{"word":"Euritte","type":"(n.)","description":"A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite."},{"word":"Euritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pelating to eurite."},{"word":"Euroclydon","type":"(n.)","description":"A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter."},{"word":"European","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"European","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Europe."},{"word":"Europeanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages."},{"word":"Eurus","type":"(n.)","description":"The east wind."},{"word":"Euryale","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food."},{"word":"Euryale","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms."},{"word":"Euryalida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton."},{"word":"Eurycerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having broad horns."},{"word":"Eurypteroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to, the genus Euryperus."},{"word":"Eurypteroidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks."},{"word":"Eurypterus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long."},{"word":"Eurythmy","type":"(n.)","description":"Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue."},{"word":"Eurythmy","type":"(n.)","description":"Regularly of the pulse."},{"word":"Eusebian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius."},{"word":"Eustachian","type":"(a.)","description":"Discovered by Eustachius."},{"word":"Eustachian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Eustachian tube; as, Eustachian catheter."},{"word":"Eustyle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Intercolumnlation."},{"word":"Eutaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Good or established order or arrangement."},{"word":"Euterpe","type":"()","description":"The Muse who presided over music."},{"word":"Euterpe","type":"()","description":"A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees."},{"word":"Euterpean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Euterpe or to music."},{"word":"Euthanasia","type":"(n.)","description":"An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired."},{"word":"Euthanasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Euthanasia."},{"word":"Euthiochroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid so called."},{"word":"Euthyneura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata."},{"word":"Eutrophy","type":"(n.)","description":"Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions."},{"word":"Eutychian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian."},{"word":"Eutychianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of Eutyches and his followers."},{"word":"Euxanthic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin."},{"word":"Euxanthin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow."},{"word":"Euxenite","type":"(n.)","description":"A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals."},{"word":"Evacate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To empty."},{"word":"Evacuant","type":"(a.)","description":"Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic."},{"word":"Evacuant","type":"(n.)","description":"A purgative or cathartic."},{"word":"Evacuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evacuate"},{"word":"Evacuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evacuate"},{"word":"Evacuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish."},{"word":"Evacuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To make empty; to deprive."},{"word":"Evacuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels."},{"word":"Evacuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress."},{"word":"Evacuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage."},{"word":"Evacuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To let blood"},{"word":"Evacuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging."},{"word":"Evacuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc."},{"word":"Evacuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means."},{"word":"Evacuation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means."},{"word":"Evacuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Abolition; nullification."},{"word":"Evacuative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative."},{"word":"Evacuator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who evacuates; a nullifier."},{"word":"Evacuatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A purgative."},{"word":"Evaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evade"},{"word":"Evading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evade"},{"word":"Evade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument."},{"word":"Evade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from."},{"word":"Evade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding."},{"word":"Evadible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being evaded."},{"word":"Evagation","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering about; excursion; a roving."},{"word":"Evagination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of unsheathing."},{"word":"Eval","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to time or duration."},{"word":"Evaluate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise."},{"word":"Evaluation","type":"(n.)","description":"Valuation; appraisement."},{"word":"Evanesced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evanesce"},{"word":"Evanescing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evanesce"},{"word":"Evanesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor."},{"word":"Evanescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes."},{"word":"Evanescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys."},{"word":"Evanescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Vanishing from notice; imperceptible."},{"word":"Evanescently","type":"(adv. In a vanishing manner)","description":"; imperceptibly."},{"word":"Evangel","type":"(n.)","description":"Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel."},{"word":"Evangelian","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendering thanks for favors."},{"word":"Evangelic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical."},{"word":"Evangelical","type":"(a.)","description":"Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history."},{"word":"Evangelical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion."},{"word":"Evangelical","type":"(a.)","description":"Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of \"Justification by Faith alone\"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox."},{"word":"Evangelical","type":"(n.)","description":"One of evangelical principles."},{"word":"Evangelicalism","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism."},{"word":"Evangelically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an evangelical manner."},{"word":"Evangelicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being evangelical."},{"word":"Evangelicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Evangelical principles; evangelism."},{"word":"Evangelicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Evangelicism."},{"word":"Evangelism","type":"(n.)","description":"The preaching or promulgation of the gospel."},{"word":"Evangelist","type":"(n.)","description":"A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance."},{"word":"Evangelistary","type":"(n.)","description":"A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service."},{"word":"Evangelistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts."},{"word":"Evangelization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized."},{"word":"Evangelized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evangelize"},{"word":"Evangelizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evangelize"},{"word":"Evangelize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world."},{"word":"Evangelize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To preach the gospel."},{"word":"Evangely","type":"(n.)","description":"Evangel."},{"word":"Evangile","type":"(n.)","description":"Good tidings; evangel."},{"word":"Evanid","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color."},{"word":"Evanish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To vanish."},{"word":"Evanishment","type":"(n.)","description":"A vanishing; disappearance."},{"word":"Evaporable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation."},{"word":"Evaporated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evaporate"},{"word":"Evaporating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evaporate"},{"word":"Evaporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible."},{"word":"Evaporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation."},{"word":"Evaporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes."},{"word":"Evaporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples."},{"word":"Evaporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give vent to; to dissipate."},{"word":"Evaporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Dispersed in vapors."},{"word":"Evaporation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor."},{"word":"Evaporation","type":"(n.)","description":"The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence."},{"word":"Evaporation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is evaporated; vapor."},{"word":"Evaporation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Vaporization."},{"word":"Evaporaive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process."},{"word":"Evaporator","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat."},{"word":"Evaporometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer."},{"word":"Evasible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be evaded."},{"word":"Evasion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding."},{"word":"Evasive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice."},{"word":"Eve","type":"(n.)","description":"Evening."},{"word":"Eve","type":"(n.)","description":"The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event."},{"word":"Evectics","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body."},{"word":"Evection","type":"()","description":"The act of carrying up or away; exaltation."},{"word":"Evection","type":"()","description":"An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1� 20'."},{"word":"Evection","type":"()","description":"The libration of the moon."},{"word":"Even","type":"(n.)","description":"Evening. See Eve, n. 1."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"Associate; fellow; of the same condition."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers."},{"word":"Evened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Even"},{"word":"Evening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Even"},{"word":"Even","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth."},{"word":"Even","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To equal"},{"word":"Even","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits."},{"word":"Even","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set right; to complete."},{"word":"Even","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act up to; to keep pace with."},{"word":"Even","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be equal."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"As might not be expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected."},{"word":"Even","type":"(a.)","description":"At the very time; in the very case."},{"word":"Evene","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To happen."},{"word":"Evener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which makes even."},{"word":"Evener","type":"(n.)","description":"In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast."},{"word":"Evenfall","type":"(n.)","description":"Beginning of evening."},{"word":"Evenhand","type":"(n.)","description":"Equality."},{"word":"Evenhanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Fair or impartial; unbiased."},{"word":"Evening","type":"(n.)","description":"The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum."},{"word":"Evening","type":"(n.)","description":"The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory."},{"word":"Evenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely."},{"word":"Evenminded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equanimity."},{"word":"Evenness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition."},{"word":"Evensong","type":"(n.)","description":"A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong."},{"word":"Event","type":"(n.)","description":"That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad."},{"word":"Event","type":"(n.)","description":"An affair in hand; business; enterprise."},{"word":"Event","type":"(n.)","description":"The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates."},{"word":"Event","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break forth."},{"word":"Eventerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rip open; todisembowel."},{"word":"Eventful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life."},{"word":"Eventide","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of evening; evening."},{"word":"Eventilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To winnow out; to fan."},{"word":"Eventilate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discuss; to ventilate."},{"word":"Eventilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eventilating; discussion."},{"word":"Eventless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful."},{"word":"Eventognathi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc."},{"word":"Eventration","type":"(n.)","description":"A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen."},{"word":"Eventration","type":"(n.)","description":"A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude."},{"word":"Eventration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act af disemboweling."},{"word":"Eventtual","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential."},{"word":"Eventtual","type":"(a.)","description":"Final; ultimate."},{"word":"Eventtual","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent on events; contingent."},{"word":"Eventualities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eventuality"},{"word":"Eventuality","type":"(n.)","description":"The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence."},{"word":"Eventuality","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition to take cognizance of events."},{"word":"Eventually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately."},{"word":"Eventuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eventuate"},{"word":"Eventuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eventuate"},{"word":"Eventuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass."},{"word":"Eventuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome."},{"word":"Ever","type":"(adv.)","description":"At any time; at any period or point of time."},{"word":"Ever","type":"(adv.)","description":"At all times; through all time; always; forever."},{"word":"Ever","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without cessation; continually."},{"word":"Everduring","type":"(a.)","description":"Everlasting."},{"word":"Everglade","type":"(n.)","description":"A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida."},{"word":"Evergreen","type":"(a.)","description":"Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like."},{"word":"Evergreen","type":"(n.)","description":"An evergreen plant."},{"word":"Evergreen","type":"(n.)","description":"Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration."},{"word":"Everich","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Everych"},{"word":"Everych","type":"(a.)","description":"each one; every one; each of two. See Every."},{"word":"Everichon","type":"(pron.)","description":"Alt. of Everychon"},{"word":"Everychon","type":"(pron.)","description":"Every one."},{"word":"Everlasting","type":"(a.)","description":"Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal."},{"word":"Everlasting","type":"(a.)","description":"Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence."},{"word":"Enerlasting","type":"(n.)","description":"Eternal duration, past of future; eternity."},{"word":"Enerlasting","type":"(n.)","description":"(With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God."},{"word":"Enerlasting","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc."},{"word":"Enerlasting","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth fabic for shoes, etc. See Lasting."},{"word":"Everlastingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an everlasting manner."},{"word":"Everlastingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration."},{"word":"Everliving","type":"(a.)","description":"Living always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God."},{"word":"Everliving","type":"(a.)","description":"Continual; incessant; unintermitted."},{"word":"Evermore","type":"(adv.)","description":"During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for."},{"word":"Evernic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Evernia, a genus of lichens; as, evernic acid."},{"word":"Everse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overthrow or subvert."},{"word":"Eversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eversing; destruction."},{"word":"Eversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium."},{"word":"Eversive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of."},{"word":"Everted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evert"},{"word":"Everting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evert"},{"word":"Evert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overthrow; to subvert."},{"word":"Evert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine."},{"word":"Every","type":"(a. & a. pron.)","description":"All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber."},{"word":"Every","type":"(a. & a. pron.)","description":"Every one. Cf."},{"word":"Everybody","type":"(n.)","description":"Every person."},{"word":"Everyday","type":"(a.)","description":"Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes."},{"word":"Everyone","type":"(n.)","description":"Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one."},{"word":"Everything","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things."},{"word":"Everywhen","type":"(adv.)","description":"At any or all times; every instant."},{"word":"Everywhere","type":"(adv.)","description":"In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether."},{"word":"Everywhereness","type":"(n.)","description":"Ubiquity; omnipresence."},{"word":"Evesdrop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Eavesdrop."},{"word":"Evesdropper","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eavesdropper."},{"word":"Evestigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To investigate."},{"word":"Evet","type":"(n.)","description":"The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders."},{"word":"Evibrate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To vibrate."},{"word":"Evicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evict"},{"word":"Evicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evict"},{"word":"Evict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust."},{"word":"Evict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To evince; to prove."},{"word":"Eviction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster."},{"word":"Eviction","type":"(n.)","description":"Conclusive evidence; proof."},{"word":"Evidence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement."},{"word":"Evidence","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bears witness."},{"word":"Evidence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it."},{"word":"Evidenced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evidence"},{"word":"Evidencing","type":"(p, pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evidence"},{"word":"Evidence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender."},{"word":"Evidencer","type":"(n.)","description":"One whi gives evidence."},{"word":"Evident","type":"(a.)","description":"Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident."},{"word":"Evidential","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity."},{"word":"Evidentiary","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential."},{"word":"Evidently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an evident manner; clearly; plainly."},{"word":"Evidentness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being evident."},{"word":"Evigilation","type":"(n.)","description":"A waking up or awakening."},{"word":"Evil","type":"(a.)","description":"Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop."},{"word":"Evil","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like."},{"word":"Evil","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days."},{"word":"Evil","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good."},{"word":"Evil","type":"(n.)","description":"Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity."},{"word":"Evil","type":"(n.)","description":"malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula."},{"word":"Evil","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly."},{"word":"Evil","type":"()","description":"See Evil eye under Evil, a."},{"word":"Evil-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious."},{"word":"Evil-favored","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed."},{"word":"Evilly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an evil manner; not well; ill."},{"word":"Evil-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked."},{"word":"Evilness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin."},{"word":"Evinced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evince"},{"word":"Evincing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evince"},{"word":"Evince","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conquer; to subdue."},{"word":"Evince","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence."},{"word":"Evincement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced."},{"word":"Evincible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable."},{"word":"Evincive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative."},{"word":"Evirate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood."},{"word":"Eviration","type":"(n.)","description":"Castration."},{"word":"Eviscerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eviscerate"},{"word":"Eviscerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eviscerate"},{"word":"Eviscerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut."},{"word":"Evisceration","type":"(a.)","description":"A disemboweling."},{"word":"Evitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Avoidable."},{"word":"Evitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shun; to avoid."},{"word":"Evitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A shunning; avoidance."},{"word":"Evite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shun."},{"word":"Eviternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Eternal; everlasting."},{"word":"Eviternity","type":"(n.)","description":"Eternity."},{"word":"Evocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke."},{"word":"Evocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of calling out or forth."},{"word":"Evocative","type":"(a.)","description":"Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing."},{"word":"Evocator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who calls forth."},{"word":"Evoked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evoke"},{"word":"Evoking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evoke"},{"word":"Evoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call out; to summon forth."},{"word":"Evoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another."},{"word":"Evolatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Evolatical"},{"word":"Evolatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to fly away."},{"word":"Evolation","type":"(n.)","description":"A flying out or up."},{"word":"Evolute","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent."},{"word":"Evolutility","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure."},{"word":"Evolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg."},{"word":"Evolution","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of things unrolled or unfolded."},{"word":"Evolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute."},{"word":"Evolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution."},{"word":"Evolution","type":"(n.)","description":"A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver."},{"word":"Evolution","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development."},{"word":"Evolution","type":"(n.)","description":"That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis."},{"word":"Evolution","type":"(n.)","description":"That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs."},{"word":"Evolutional","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to evolution."},{"word":"Evolutionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions."},{"word":"Evolutionism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7."},{"word":"Evolutionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in evolutions."},{"word":"Evolutionist","type":"(n.)","description":"one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics."},{"word":"Evolved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Evolve"},{"word":"Evolving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Evolve"},{"word":"Evolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe."},{"word":"Evolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors."},{"word":"Evolve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution."},{"word":"Evolvement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of evolving, or the state of being evolved; evolution."},{"word":"Evolvent","type":"(n.)","description":"The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute."},{"word":"Evomit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vomit."},{"word":"Evomition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of vomiting."},{"word":"Evulgate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To publish abroad."},{"word":"Evulgation","type":"(n.)","description":"A divulging."},{"word":"Evulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of plucking out; a rooting out."},{"word":"Ew","type":"(n.)","description":"A yew."},{"word":"Ewe","type":"(n.)","description":"The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals."},{"word":"Ewe-necked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out."},{"word":"Ewer","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet."},{"word":"Ewery","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ewry"},{"word":"Ewry","type":"(n.)","description":"An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept."},{"word":"Ewt","type":"(n.)","description":"The newt."},{"word":"Ex-","type":"()","description":"A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric."},{"word":"Exacerrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exacerbate"},{"word":"Exacerrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exacerbate"},{"word":"Exacerbate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease."},{"word":"Exacerbation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion."},{"word":"Exacerbation","type":"(n.)","description":"A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action."},{"word":"Exacerbescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease."},{"word":"Exacervation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of heaping up."},{"word":"Exacinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove the kernel form."},{"word":"Exacination","type":"(n.)","description":"Removal of the kernel."},{"word":"Exact","type":"(a.)","description":"Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts."},{"word":"Exact","type":"(a.)","description":"Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact."},{"word":"Exact","type":"(a.)","description":"Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict."},{"word":"Exacted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exact"},{"word":"Exacting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exact"},{"word":"Exact","type":"(a.)","description":"To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one."},{"word":"Exact","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice exaction."},{"word":"Exacter","type":"(n.)","description":"An exactor."},{"word":"Exacting","type":"(a.)","description":"Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe."},{"word":"Exaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion."},{"word":"Exaction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice."},{"word":"Exacritude","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being exact; exactness."},{"word":"Exactly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely."},{"word":"Exactness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment."},{"word":"Exactness","type":"(n.)","description":"Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business."},{"word":"Exactor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands."},{"word":"Exactress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who is an exactor."},{"word":"Exacuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whet or sharpen."},{"word":"Exaeresis","type":"(n.)","description":"In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body."},{"word":"Exaggerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exaggerate"},{"word":"Exaggerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exaggerate"},{"word":"Exaggerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heap up; to accumulate."},{"word":"Exaggerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning."},{"word":"Exaggerated","type":"(a.)","description":"Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth."},{"word":"Exaggerating","type":"(a.)","description":"That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds."},{"word":"Exaggeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of heaping or piling up."},{"word":"Exaggeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement."},{"word":"Exaggeration","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor."},{"word":"Exaggerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration."},{"word":"Exaggerator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration."},{"word":"Exaggeratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative."},{"word":"Exagitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stir up; to agitate."},{"word":"Exagitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To satirize; to censure severely."},{"word":"Exagitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Agitation."},{"word":"Exalbuminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds."},{"word":"Exalted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exalt"},{"word":"Exalting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exalt"},{"word":"Exalt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise high; to elevate; to lift up."},{"word":"Exalt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency."},{"word":"Exalt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify."},{"word":"Exalt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate."},{"word":"Exalt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument."},{"word":"Exalt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies."},{"word":"Exaltate","type":"(a.)","description":"Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet."},{"word":"Exaltation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation."},{"word":"Exaltation","type":"(n.)","description":"The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property."},{"word":"Exaltation","type":"(n.)","description":"That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence."},{"word":"Exalted","type":"(a.)","description":"Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime."},{"word":"Exalter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exalts or raises to dignity."},{"word":"Exaltment","type":"(n.)","description":"Exaltation."},{"word":"Examen","type":"(a.)","description":"Examination; inquiry."},{"word":"Exametron","type":"(n.)","description":"An hexameter."},{"word":"Examinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being examined or inquired into."},{"word":"Examinant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who examines; an examiner."},{"word":"Examinant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is to be examined."},{"word":"Examinate","type":"(n.)","description":"A person subjected to examination."},{"word":"Examination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment."},{"word":"Examination","type":"(n.)","description":"A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry."},{"word":"Examinator","type":"(n.)","description":"An examiner."},{"word":"Examined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Examine"},{"word":"Examining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Examine"},{"word":"Examine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question."},{"word":"Examine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc."},{"word":"Examinee","type":"(n.)","description":"A person examined."},{"word":"Examiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc."},{"word":"Examinership","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or rank of an examiner."},{"word":"Examining","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee."},{"word":"Examplary","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving for example or pattern; exemplary."},{"word":"Example","type":"(n.)","description":"One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen."},{"word":"Example","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy."},{"word":"Example","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model."},{"word":"Example","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning."},{"word":"Example","type":"(n.)","description":"An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples."},{"word":"Exampled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Example"},{"word":"Exampling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Example"},{"word":"Example","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance."},{"word":"Exampleless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without or above example."},{"word":"Exampler","type":"(n.)","description":"A pattern; an exemplar."},{"word":"Exampless","type":"(a.)","description":"Exampleless. [Wrongly formed.]"},{"word":"Exanguious","type":"(a.)","description":"Bloodless. [Obs.] See Exsanguious."},{"word":"Exangulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no corners; without angles."},{"word":"Exanimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Lifeless; dead."},{"word":"Exanimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened."},{"word":"Exanimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of animation or of life."},{"word":"Exanimation","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation of life or of spirits."},{"word":"Exanimous","type":"(a.)","description":"Lifeless; dead."},{"word":"Exannulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns."},{"word":"Exanthem","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Exanthema."},{"word":"Exanthemata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exanthema"},{"word":"Exanthema","type":"(n.)","description":"An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever."},{"word":"Exanthematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Exanthematous"},{"word":"Exanthematous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption."},{"word":"Exanthesis","type":"(n.)","description":"An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence."},{"word":"Exantlate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhaust or wear out."},{"word":"Exantlation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of drawing out ; exhaustion."},{"word":"Exarate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plow up; also, to engrave; to write."},{"word":"Exaration","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of plowing; also, act of writing."},{"word":"Exarch","type":"(n.)","description":"A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc."},{"word":"Exarchate","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or the province of an exarch."},{"word":"Exarillate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them."},{"word":"Exarticulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects."},{"word":"Exarticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Luxation; the dislocation of a joint."},{"word":"Exasperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Exasperated; imbittered."},{"word":"Exsasperated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exasperate"},{"word":"Exasperating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exasperate"},{"word":"Exasperate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings."},{"word":"Exasperate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity."},{"word":"Exasperater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence."},{"word":"Exasperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger."},{"word":"Exasperation","type":"(n.)","description":"Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation."},{"word":"Exaspidean","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds."},{"word":"Exauctorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Exauthorate."},{"word":"Exauctoration","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exauthoration."},{"word":"Exaugurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow."},{"word":"Exauguration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exaugurating; desecration."},{"word":"Exauthorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge."},{"word":"Exauthoration","type":"(n.)","description":"Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration."},{"word":"Exauthorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of uthority."},{"word":"Exauthorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of authority."},{"word":"Excalceate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of shoes."},{"word":"Excalceation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving or divesting of shoes."},{"word":"Excalfaction","type":"(n.)","description":"A heating or warming; calefaction."},{"word":"Excalfactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to heat; warming."},{"word":"Excalfactory","type":"(a.)","description":"Heating; warming."},{"word":"Excalibur","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of King Arthur's mythical sword."},{"word":"Excamb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Excambie"},{"word":"Excambie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land."},{"word":"Excambion","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Excambium"},{"word":"Excambium","type":"(n.)","description":"Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands."},{"word":"Excandescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence."},{"word":"Excandescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent anger; a growing angry."},{"word":"Excandescent","type":"(a.)","description":"White or glowing with heat."},{"word":"Excantation","type":"(n.)","description":"Disenchantment by a countercharm."},{"word":"Excarnate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive or clear of flesh."},{"word":"Excarnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation."},{"word":"Excarnificate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear of flesh; to excarnate."},{"word":"Excarnification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation."},{"word":"Excavated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excavate"},{"word":"Excavating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excavate"},{"word":"Excavate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth."},{"word":"Excavate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel."},{"word":"Excavate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dig out and remove, as earth."},{"word":"Excavation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass."},{"word":"Excavation","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping."},{"word":"Excavation","type":"(n.)","description":"An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel."},{"word":"Excavation","type":"(n.)","description":"The material dug out in making a channel or cavity."},{"word":"Excavator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating."},{"word":"Excave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excavate."},{"word":"Excecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blind."},{"word":"Excecation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making blind."},{"word":"Excedent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Excess."},{"word":"Exceeded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exceed"},{"word":"Exceeding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exceed"},{"word":"Exceed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours."},{"word":"Exceed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure."},{"word":"Exceed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be more or greater; to be paramount."},{"word":"Exceedable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of exceeding or surpassing."},{"word":"Exceeder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exceeds."},{"word":"Exceeding","type":"(a.)","description":"More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless."},{"word":"Exceeding","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly."},{"word":"Exceedingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very."},{"word":"Excelled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excel"},{"word":"Excelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excel"},{"word":"Excel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense."},{"word":"Excel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exceed or go beyond; to surpass."},{"word":"Excel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics."},{"word":"Excellence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue."},{"word":"Excellence","type":"(n.)","description":"An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue."},{"word":"Excellence","type":"(n.)","description":"A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency."},{"word":"Excellencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Excellency"},{"word":"Excellency","type":"(n.)","description":"Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority."},{"word":"Excellency","type":"(n.)","description":"A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes."},{"word":"Excellent","type":"(a.)","description":"Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action."},{"word":"Excellent","type":"(a.)","description":"Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance."},{"word":"Excellent","type":"(adv.)","description":"Excellently; eminently; exceedingly."},{"word":"Excellently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an excellent manner; well in a high degree."},{"word":"Excellently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness."},{"word":"Excelsior","type":"(v. t.)","description":"More lofty; still higher; ever upward."},{"word":"Excelsior","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair."},{"word":"Excentral","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of the center."},{"word":"Excentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Excentrical"},{"word":"Excentrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical."},{"word":"Excentrical","type":"(a.)","description":"One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center."},{"word":"Excentricity","type":"()","description":"Same as Eccentricity."},{"word":"Excepted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Except"},{"word":"Excepting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Except"},{"word":"Except","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit."},{"word":"Except","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To object to; to protest against."},{"word":"Except","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony."},{"word":"Except","type":"(prep.)","description":"With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting."},{"word":"Except","type":"(conj.)","description":"Unless; if it be not so that."},{"word":"Exceptant","type":"(a.)","description":"Making exception."},{"word":"Excepting","type":"(prep. & conj., but properly a participle)","description":"With rejection or exception of; excluding; except."},{"word":"Exception","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule."},{"word":"Exception","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions."},{"word":"Exception","type":"(n.)","description":"An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted."},{"word":"Exception","type":"(n.)","description":"An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against."},{"word":"Exceptionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to exception or objection; objectionable."},{"word":"Exceptional","type":"(a.)","description":"Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior."},{"word":"Exceptioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes exceptions or makes objections."},{"word":"Exceptionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without exception."},{"word":"Exceptious","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious."},{"word":"Exceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition."},{"word":"Exceptless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not exceptional; usual."},{"word":"Exceptor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes exceptions."},{"word":"Excerebration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of removing or beating out the brains."},{"word":"Excerebrose","type":"(a.)","description":"Brainless."},{"word":"Excern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration."},{"word":"Excernent","type":"(a.)","description":"Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion."},{"word":"Excerp","type":"(a.)","description":"To pick out."},{"word":"Excerpted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excerpt"},{"word":"Excerpting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excerpt"},{"word":"Excerpt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To select; to extract; to cite; to quote."},{"word":"Excerpt","type":"(n.)","description":"An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record."},{"word":"Excerption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excerpting or selecting."},{"word":"Excerption","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is selected or gleaned; an extract."},{"word":"Excerptive","type":"(a.)","description":"That excerpts, selects, or chooses."},{"word":"Excerptor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler."},{"word":"Excess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light."},{"word":"Excess","type":"(n.)","description":"An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation."},{"word":"Excess","type":"(n.)","description":"The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other."},{"word":"Excessive","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change."},{"word":"Exchanged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exchange"},{"word":"Exchanging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exchange"},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(n.)","description":"To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats."},{"word":"Exchange","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes."},{"word":"Exchangeability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being exchangeable."},{"word":"Exchangeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged."},{"word":"Exchangeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Available for making exchanges; ratable."},{"word":"Exchangeably","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of exchange."},{"word":"Exchanger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exchanges; one who practices exchange."},{"word":"Excheat","type":"(n.)","description":"See Escheat."},{"word":"Excheator","type":"(n.)","description":"See Escheator."},{"word":"Exchequer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table."},{"word":"Exchequer","type":"(n.)","description":"The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low."},{"word":"Exchequered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exchequer"},{"word":"Exchequering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exchequer"},{"word":"Exchequer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer."},{"word":"Excide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off."},{"word":"Excipient","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Taking an exception."},{"word":"Excipient","type":"(n.)","description":"An exceptor."},{"word":"Excipient","type":"(n.)","description":"An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents."},{"word":"Exciple","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Excipulum"},{"word":"Excipulum","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer part of the fructification of most lichens."},{"word":"Excisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity."},{"word":"Excise","type":"(n.)","description":"In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system."},{"word":"Excise","type":"(n.)","description":"That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes."},{"word":"Excised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excise"},{"word":"Excising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excise"},{"word":"Excise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay or impose an excise upon."},{"word":"Excise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impose upon; to overcharge."},{"word":"Excise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor."},{"word":"Excisemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exciseman"},{"word":"Exciseman","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty."},{"word":"Excision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction."},{"word":"Excision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication."},{"word":"Excision","type":"(n.)","description":"The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument."},{"word":"Excitability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes."},{"word":"Excitability","type":"(n.)","description":"The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability."},{"word":"Excitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated."},{"word":"Excitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to excite; exciting."},{"word":"Excitant","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant."},{"word":"Excitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite."},{"word":"Excitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening."},{"word":"Excitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced."},{"word":"Excitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory."},{"word":"Excitator","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of discarder."},{"word":"Excitatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative."},{"word":"Excited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excite"},{"word":"exciting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excite"},{"word":"Excite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction."},{"word":"Excite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts."},{"word":"Exciteful","type":"(n.)","description":"Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players."},{"word":"Excitement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people."},{"word":"Excitement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive."},{"word":"Excitement","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues."},{"word":"Exciter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, excites."},{"word":"Exciting","type":"(a.)","description":"Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story."},{"word":"Excitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to excite; excitative."},{"word":"Excitive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which excites; an excitant."},{"word":"Excito-motion","type":"(n.)","description":"Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory."},{"word":"Excito-motor","type":"(a.)","description":"Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes."},{"word":"Excito-motory","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition."},{"word":"Excito-nutrient","type":"(a)","description":"Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified."},{"word":"Excito-secretory","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action."},{"word":"Exclaimed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exclaim"},{"word":"Exclaiming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exclaim"},{"word":"Exclaim","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; \"The field is won!\" he exclaimed."},{"word":"Exclaim","type":"(n.)","description":"Outcry; clamor."},{"word":"Exclaimer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exclaims."},{"word":"Exclamation","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc."},{"word":"Exclamation","type":"(n.)","description":"A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief."},{"word":"Exclamation","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point."},{"word":"Exclamative","type":"(a.)","description":"Exclamatory."},{"word":"Exclamatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker."},{"word":"Exclave","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory."},{"word":"Excluded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exclude"},{"word":"Excluding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exclude"},{"word":"Exclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting."},{"word":"Exclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs."},{"word":"Exclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded."},{"word":"Exclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb."},{"word":"Exclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Thing emitted."},{"word":"Exclusionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive."},{"word":"Exclusionism","type":"(n.)","description":"The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist."},{"word":"Exclusionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II."},{"word":"Exclusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society."},{"word":"Exclusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery."},{"word":"Exclusive","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few."},{"word":"Exclusiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being exclusive."},{"word":"Exclusivism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness."},{"word":"Exclusivist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism."},{"word":"Exclusory","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude."},{"word":"Excoct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To boil out; to produce by boiling."},{"word":"Excoction","type":"()","description":"The act of excocting or boiling out."},{"word":"Excogitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excogitate"},{"word":"Excogitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excogitate"},{"word":"Excogitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive."},{"word":"Excogitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cogitate."},{"word":"Excogitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance."},{"word":"Excommune","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate."},{"word":"Excommunicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper."},{"word":"Excommunicant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has been excommunicated."},{"word":"Excommunicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church."},{"word":"Excommunicate","type":"(n.)","description":"One excommunicated."},{"word":"Excommunicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excommunicate"},{"word":"Excommunicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excommunicate"},{"word":"Excommunicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence."},{"word":"Excommunicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict."},{"word":"Excommunication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual."},{"word":"Excommunicator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who excommunicates."},{"word":"Excommunion","type":"()","description":"A shutting out from communion; excommunication."},{"word":"Excoriable","type":"()","description":"Capable of being excoriated."},{"word":"Excoriated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eccoriate"},{"word":"excoriating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eccoriate"},{"word":"Eccoriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances."},{"word":"Excoriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion."},{"word":"Excoriation","type":"(n.)","description":"Stripping of possession; spoliation."},{"word":"Excorticate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate."},{"word":"Excortication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication."},{"word":"Excreable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being discharged by spitting."},{"word":"Excreate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting."},{"word":"Excreation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of spitting out."},{"word":"Excrement","type":"(n.)","description":"Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure."},{"word":"Excrement","type":"(n.)","description":"An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth."},{"word":"Excremental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to excrement."},{"word":"Excrementitial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Excrementitious"},{"word":"Excrementitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement."},{"word":"Excrementive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement."},{"word":"Excrementize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To void excrement."},{"word":"Excrescence","type":"(n.)","description":"An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant."},{"word":"Excrescency","type":"(n.)","description":"Excrescence."},{"word":"Excrescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity."},{"word":"Excrescential","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence."},{"word":"Excreta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Matters to be excreted."},{"word":"Excreted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excrete"},{"word":"Excreting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excrete"},{"word":"Excrete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate and throw off; to excrete urine."},{"word":"Excretin","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human faeces."},{"word":"Excretion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excreting."},{"word":"Excretion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is excreted; excrement."},{"word":"Excretive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion."},{"word":"Excretory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter."},{"word":"Excruciable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to torment."},{"word":"Excruciate","type":"(a.)","description":"Excruciated; tortured."},{"word":"Excruciated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excruciate"},{"word":"Excruciating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excruciate"},{"word":"Excruciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body."},{"word":"Excruciating","type":"()","description":"Torturing; racking."},{"word":"Excruciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture."},{"word":"Excubation","type":"(n.)","description":"A keeping watch."},{"word":"Excubitorium","type":"(n.)","description":"A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night."},{"word":"Exculpable","type":"()","description":"Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation."},{"word":"Exculpated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exculpate"},{"word":"Exculpating","type":"()","description":"of Exculpate"},{"word":"Exculpate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit."},{"word":"Exculpation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse."},{"word":"Exculpatory","type":"()","description":"Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing."},{"word":"Excur","type":"(i.)","description":"To run out or forth; to extend."},{"word":"Excurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Running or flowing out"},{"word":"Excurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top."},{"word":"Excurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube."},{"word":"Excurse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To journey or pass thought."},{"word":"Excursion","type":"()","description":"A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally."},{"word":"Excursion","type":"()","description":"A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country."},{"word":"Excursion","type":"()","description":"A wandering from a subject; digression."},{"word":"Excursion","type":"()","description":"Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]"},{"word":"Excursionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip."},{"word":"Excursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy."},{"word":"Excursus","type":"(n.)","description":"A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic."},{"word":"Excusable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action."},{"word":"Excusation","type":"(n.)","description":"Excuse; apology."},{"word":"Excusator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist."},{"word":"Excusatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea."},{"word":"Excused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Excuse"},{"word":"Excusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Excuse"},{"word":"Excuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit."},{"word":"Excuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it."},{"word":"Excuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon."},{"word":"Excuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture."},{"word":"Excuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for."},{"word":"Excuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation."},{"word":"Excuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment."},{"word":"Excuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault."},{"word":"Excuseless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology."},{"word":"Excusement","type":"(n.)","description":"Excuse."},{"word":"Excuser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another."},{"word":"Excuser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who excuses or forgives another."},{"word":"Excuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shake off; to discard."},{"word":"Excuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inspect; to investigate; to decipher."},{"word":"Excuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize and detain by law, as goods."},{"word":"Excussion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of excusing; seizure by law."},{"word":"Exeat","type":"(n.)","description":"A license for absence from a college or a religious house."},{"word":"Exeat","type":"(n.)","description":"A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese."},{"word":"Execrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch."},{"word":"Execrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Execrate"},{"word":"Execrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Execrate"},{"word":"Execrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate."},{"word":"Execration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed."},{"word":"Execration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is execrated; a detested thing."},{"word":"Execrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying."},{"word":"Execrative","type":"(n.)","description":"A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression."},{"word":"Execratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory."},{"word":"Execratory","type":"(n.)","description":"A formulary of execrations."},{"word":"Exect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect."},{"word":"Exection","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exsection."},{"word":"Executable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project."},{"word":"Executant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument."},{"word":"Executed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Execute"},{"word":"Executing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Execute"},{"word":"Execute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform."},{"word":"Execute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc."},{"word":"Execute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process."},{"word":"Execute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor."},{"word":"Execute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Too put to death illegally; to kill."},{"word":"Execute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly."},{"word":"Execute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose."},{"word":"Execute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform musically."},{"word":"Executer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor."},{"word":"Execution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc."},{"word":"Execution","type":"(n.)","description":"A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer."},{"word":"Execution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music."},{"word":"Execution","type":"(n.)","description":"The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law."},{"word":"Execution","type":"(n.)","description":"A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process."},{"word":"Execution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will."},{"word":"Execution","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do."},{"word":"Execution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sacking a town."},{"word":"Executioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who executes; an executer."},{"word":"Executioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman."},{"word":"Executive","type":"(a.)","description":"Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc."},{"word":"Executive","type":"(n.)","description":"An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body."},{"word":"Executively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the way of executing or performing."},{"word":"Executor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness."},{"word":"Executor","type":"(n.)","description":"An executioner."},{"word":"Executor","type":"(n.)","description":"The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease."},{"word":"Executorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an executive."},{"word":"Executorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an executor."},{"word":"Executory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive."},{"word":"Executory","type":"(a.)","description":"Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract."},{"word":"Executress","type":"(n.)","description":"An executrix."},{"word":"Executrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman exercising the functions of an executor."},{"word":"Exedent","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating out; consuming."},{"word":"Exedrae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exedra"},{"word":"Exedra","type":"(n.)","description":"A room in a public building, furnished with seats."},{"word":"Exedra","type":"(n.)","description":"The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form."},{"word":"Exedra","type":"(n.)","description":"Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form."},{"word":"Exegeses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exegesis"},{"word":"Exegesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture."},{"word":"Exegesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of finding the roots of an equation."},{"word":"Exegete","type":"(n.)","description":"An exegetist."},{"word":"Exegetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Exegetical"},{"word":"Exegetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository."},{"word":"Exegetics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of interpretation or exegesis."},{"word":"Exegetist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete."},{"word":"Exemplar","type":"(n.)","description":"A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives."},{"word":"Exemplar","type":"(n.)","description":"A copy of a book or writing."},{"word":"Exemplar","type":"(a.)","description":"Exemplary."},{"word":"Exemplarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example."},{"word":"Exemplariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example."},{"word":"Exemplarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Exemplariness."},{"word":"Exemplary","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct."},{"word":"Exemplary","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages."},{"word":"Exemplary","type":"(a.)","description":"Illustrating as the proof of a thing."},{"word":"Exemplary","type":"(n.)","description":"An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing."},{"word":"Exemplifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can be exemplified."},{"word":"Exemplification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example."},{"word":"Exemplification","type":"(n.)","description":"That which exemplifies; a case in point; example."},{"word":"Exemplification","type":"(n.)","description":"A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original."},{"word":"Exemplifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exemplifies by following a pattern."},{"word":"Exemplified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exemplify"},{"word":"Exemplifying","type":"(p. pr. &. vb. n.)","description":"of Exemplify"},{"word":"Exemplify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show or illustrate by example."},{"word":"Exemplify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record."},{"word":"Exemplify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove or show by an attested copy."},{"word":"Exempt","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut off; set apart."},{"word":"Exempt","type":"(a.)","description":"Extraordinary; exceptional."},{"word":"Exempt","type":"(a.)","description":"Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service."},{"word":"Exempt","type":"(n.)","description":"One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject."},{"word":"Exempt","type":"(n.)","description":"One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon."},{"word":"Exempted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exempt"},{"word":"Exempting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exempt"},{"word":"Exempt","type":"(a.)","description":"To remove; to set apart."},{"word":"Exempt","type":"(a.)","description":"To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain."},{"word":"Exemptible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be exempted."},{"word":"Exemption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc."},{"word":"Exemptitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Separable."},{"word":"Exenterate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes."},{"word":"Exenteration","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of exenterating."},{"word":"Exequatur","type":"(n.)","description":"A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned."},{"word":"Exequatur","type":"(n.)","description":"Official recognition or permission."},{"word":"Exequial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal."},{"word":"Exequious","type":"(a.)","description":"Funereal."},{"word":"Exequies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exequy"},{"word":"Exequy","type":"(n.)","description":"A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession."},{"word":"Exercent","type":"(a.)","description":"Practicing; professional."},{"word":"Exercisable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be exercised, used, or exerted."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(n.)","description":"Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(n.)","description":"Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(n.)","description":"The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(n.)","description":"That which gives practice; a trial; a test."},{"word":"Exercised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exercise"},{"word":"Exercising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exercise"},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office."},{"word":"Exercise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement."},{"word":"Exerciser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exercises."},{"word":"Exercisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction."},{"word":"Exercitation","type":"(n.)","description":"exercise; practice; use."},{"word":"Exergue","type":"(n.)","description":"The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter."},{"word":"Exerted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exert"},{"word":"Exerting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exert"},{"word":"Exert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust forth; to emit; to push out."},{"word":"Exert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice."},{"word":"Exert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform."},{"word":"Exertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day."},{"word":"Exertive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion."},{"word":"Exertment","type":"(n.)","description":"Exertion."},{"word":"Exesion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of eating out or through."},{"word":"Exestuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce."},{"word":"Exestuation","type":"(n.)","description":"A boiling up; effervescence."},{"word":"Exeunt","type":"()","description":"They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit."},{"word":"Exfetation","type":"(n)","description":"Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation."},{"word":"Exfoliated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exfoliate"},{"word":"Exfoliating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exfoliate"},{"word":"Exfoliate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark."},{"word":"Exfoliate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition."},{"word":"Exfoliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of."},{"word":"Exfoliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated."},{"word":"Exfoliative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of causing exfoliation."},{"word":"Exfoliative","type":"(n.)","description":"An exfoliative agent."},{"word":"Exhalable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being exhaled or evaporated."},{"word":"Exhalant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating."},{"word":"Exhalation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation."},{"word":"Exhalation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc."},{"word":"Exhalation","type":"(n.)","description":"A bright phenomenon; a meteor."},{"word":"Exaled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exhale"},{"word":"Exaling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exhale"},{"word":"Exhale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia."},{"word":"Exhale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth."},{"word":"Exhale","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish."},{"word":"Exhalement","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhalation."},{"word":"Exhalence","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhalation."},{"word":"Exhausted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exhaust"},{"word":"Exhausting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exhaust"},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation."},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury."},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources."},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject."},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether."},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(a.)","description":"Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy."},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work."},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(n.)","description":"The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there."},{"word":"Exhaust","type":"(n.)","description":"The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose."},{"word":"Exhauster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out."},{"word":"Exhaustibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being exhausted."},{"word":"Exhaustible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended."},{"word":"Exhausting","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors."},{"word":"Exhaustion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents."},{"word":"Exhaustion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits."},{"word":"Exhaustion","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits."},{"word":"Exhaustive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method."},{"word":"Exhaustless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store."},{"word":"Exhaustment","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhaustion; drain."},{"word":"Exhausture","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhaustion."},{"word":"Exhedra","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exedra."},{"word":"Exheredate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disinherit."},{"word":"Exheredation","type":"(n.)","description":"A disinheriting; disherisor."},{"word":"Exhereditation","type":"(n.)","description":"A disinheriting; disherison."},{"word":"Exhibited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exhibit"},{"word":"Exhibiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exhibit"},{"word":"Exhibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery."},{"word":"Exhibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge."},{"word":"Exhibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel."},{"word":"Exhibit","type":"(n.)","description":"Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit."},{"word":"Exhibit","type":"(n.)","description":"A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence."},{"word":"Exhibiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill."},{"word":"Exhibition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display."},{"word":"Exhibition","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition."},{"word":"Exhibition","type":"(n.)","description":"Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars."},{"word":"Exhibition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of administering a remedy."},{"word":"Exhibitioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has a pension or allowance granted for support."},{"word":"Exhibitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory."},{"word":"Exhibitor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exhibits."},{"word":"Exhibitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting; publicly showing."},{"word":"Exhilarant","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure."},{"word":"Exhilarant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which exhilarates."},{"word":"Exhilarated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exhilarate"},{"word":"Exilarating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exhilarate"},{"word":"Exhilarate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man."},{"word":"Exhilarate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become joyous."},{"word":"Exhilarating","type":"(a.)","description":"That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening."},{"word":"Exhilaration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening."},{"word":"Exhilaration","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being enlivened or cheerful."},{"word":"Exhorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exhort"},{"word":"Exhorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exhort"},{"word":"Exhort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution."},{"word":"Exhort","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds."},{"word":"Exhort","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhortation."},{"word":"Exhortation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable."},{"word":"Exhortation","type":"(n.)","description":"Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition."},{"word":"Exhortative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative."},{"word":"Exhortatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory."},{"word":"Exhorter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exhorts or incites."},{"word":"Exhumated","type":"(a.)","description":"Disinterred."},{"word":"Exhumation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body."},{"word":"Exhumed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exhume"},{"word":"Exhuming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exhume"},{"word":"Exhume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter."},{"word":"Exiccate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Exsiccate."},{"word":"Exiccation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exsiccation."},{"word":"Exigence","type":"(n.)","description":"Exigency."},{"word":"Exigencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exigency"},{"word":"Exigency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency."},{"word":"Exigendary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exigenter."},{"word":"Exigent","type":"(a.)","description":"Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical."},{"word":"Exigent","type":"(n.)","description":"Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment."},{"word":"Exigent","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry."},{"word":"Exigenter","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished."},{"word":"Exigible","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be exacted; repairable."},{"word":"Exiguity","type":"(n.)","description":"Scantiness; smallness; thinness."},{"word":"Exiguous","type":"(a.)","description":"Scanty; small; slender; diminutive."},{"word":"Exile","type":"(n.)","description":"Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country."},{"word":"Exile","type":"(n.)","description":"The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home."},{"word":"Exiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exile"},{"word":"Exiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exile"},{"word":"Exile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away."},{"word":"Exile","type":"(a.)","description":"Small; slender; thin; fine."},{"word":"Exilement","type":"(n.)","description":"Banishment."},{"word":"Exilic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon."},{"word":"Exilition","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden springing or leaping out."},{"word":"Exility","type":"(a.)","description":"Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness."},{"word":"Eximious","type":"(a.)","description":"Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent."},{"word":"Exinanite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble."},{"word":"Exinanition","type":"(n.)","description":"An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation."},{"word":"Existed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exist"},{"word":"Existing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exist"},{"word":"Exist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual."},{"word":"Exist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign."},{"word":"Exist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land."},{"word":"Existence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence."},{"word":"Existence","type":"(n.)","description":"Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war."},{"word":"Existence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences."},{"word":"Existency","type":"(n.)","description":"Existence."},{"word":"Existent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place."},{"word":"Existential","type":"(a.)","description":"Having existence."},{"word":"Exister","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exists."},{"word":"Existible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of existence."},{"word":"Existimation","type":"(n.)","description":"Esteem; opinion; reputation."},{"word":"Exit","type":"()","description":"He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth."},{"word":"Exit","type":"(n.)","description":"The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part."},{"word":"Exit","type":"(n.)","description":"Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit."},{"word":"Exit","type":"(n.)","description":"A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out."},{"word":"Exitial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Exitious"},{"word":"Exitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Destructive; fatal."},{"word":"Exo","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton."},{"word":"Exocardiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Exocardial"},{"word":"Exocardial","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac."},{"word":"Exocarp","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe."},{"word":"Exoccipital","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull."},{"word":"Exoccipital","type":"(n.)","description":"The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young."},{"word":"Exocetus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Exocoetus"},{"word":"Exocoetus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish."},{"word":"Exoculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of eyes."},{"word":"Exode","type":"(n.)","description":"Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt."},{"word":"Exode","type":"(n.)","description":"The final chorus; the catastrophe."},{"word":"Exode","type":"(n.)","description":"An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty."},{"word":"Exodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic."},{"word":"Exogium","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exode."},{"word":"Exodus","type":"(n.)","description":"A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place."},{"word":"Exodus","type":"(n.)","description":"The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt."},{"word":"Exody","type":"(n.)","description":"Exodus; withdrawal."},{"word":"Ex-official","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from office or authority."},{"word":"Ex","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ex officio"},{"word":"Ex","type":"()","description":"From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially."},{"word":"Exogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous."},{"word":"Exogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy."},{"word":"Exogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen."},{"word":"Exogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Arising or growing from without; exogenous."},{"word":"Exogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous."},{"word":"Exogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing by addition to the exterior."},{"word":"Exogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous."},{"word":"Exogyra","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters."},{"word":"Exolete","type":"(a.)","description":"Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid."},{"word":"Exolution","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exsolution."},{"word":"Exolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To loose; to pay."},{"word":"Exon","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England."},{"word":"Exon","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt."},{"word":"Exonerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exonerate"},{"word":"Exonerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exonerate"},{"word":"Exonerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unload; to disburden; to discharge."},{"word":"Exonerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice."},{"word":"Exonerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball."},{"word":"Exoneration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge."},{"word":"Exonerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate."},{"word":"Exonerator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exonerates or frees from obligation."},{"word":"Exophthalmia","type":"(n.)","description":"The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease."},{"word":"Exophthalmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia."},{"word":"Exophthalmos","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Exophthalmus"},{"word":"Exophthalmus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Exophthalmia."},{"word":"Exophthalmy","type":"(n.)","description":"Exophthalmia."},{"word":"Exophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sheathed in another leaf."},{"word":"Exoplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm."},{"word":"Exopodite","type":"(n.)","description":"The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea."},{"word":"Exoptable","type":"(a.)","description":"Very desirable."},{"word":"Exoptile","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked."},{"word":"Exrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender."},{"word":"Exorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty."},{"word":"Exoration","type":"(n.)","description":"Entreaty."},{"word":"Exorbitance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Exorbitancy"},{"word":"Exorbitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands."},{"word":"Exorbitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims."},{"word":"Exorbitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous."},{"word":"Exorbitantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously."},{"word":"Exorbitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go out of the track; to deviate."},{"word":"Exorcised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exorcise"},{"word":"Exorcising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exorcise"},{"word":"Exorcise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one."},{"word":"Exorcise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon."},{"word":"Exorciser","type":"(n.)","description":"An exorcist."},{"word":"Exorcism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used."},{"word":"Exorcism","type":"(n.)","description":"Conjuration for raising spirits."},{"word":"Exorcist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism."},{"word":"Exorcist","type":"(n.)","description":"A conjurer who can raise spirits."},{"word":"Exordial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory."},{"word":"Exordiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exordium"},{"word":"Exordia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exordium"},{"word":"Exordium","type":"(n.)","description":"A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration."},{"word":"Exorhizae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exorhiza"},{"word":"Exorhiza","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule."},{"word":"Exorhizal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Exorhizous"},{"word":"Exorhizous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza."},{"word":"Exornation","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornament; decoration; embellishment."},{"word":"Exortive","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising; relating to the east."},{"word":"Exosculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly."},{"word":"Exoskeletal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles."},{"word":"Exoskeleton","type":"(n.)","description":"The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton."},{"word":"Exosmose","type":"(n.)","description":"The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose."},{"word":"Exosmosis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exosmose."},{"word":"Exosmotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to exosmose."},{"word":"Exospore","type":"(n.)","description":"The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore."},{"word":"Exosstate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone."},{"word":"Exossation","type":"(n.)","description":"A depriving of bone or of fruit stones."},{"word":"Exosse-ous","type":"(a.)","description":"Boneless."},{"word":"Exostome","type":"(n.)","description":"The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant."},{"word":"Exostosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone."},{"word":"Exostosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease."},{"word":"Exoteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Exoterical"},{"word":"Exoterical","type":"(a.)","description":"External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret."},{"word":"Exoterics","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics."},{"word":"Exoteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Exotery"},{"word":"Exotery","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is obvious, public, or common."},{"word":"Exotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa."},{"word":"Exothecium","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer coat of the anther."},{"word":"Exotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word."},{"word":"Exotic","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom."},{"word":"Exotical","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreign; not native; exotic."},{"word":"Exoticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic."},{"word":"Expanded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expand"},{"word":"Expanding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expand"},{"word":"Expand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves."},{"word":"Expand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence."},{"word":"Expand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5."},{"word":"Expand","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy."},{"word":"Expander","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc."},{"word":"Expanding","type":"(a.)","description":"That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging."},{"word":"Expanse","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky."},{"word":"Expanse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expand."},{"word":"Expansibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air."},{"word":"Expansible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being expanded or spread out widely."},{"word":"Expansile","type":"(a.)","description":"Expansible."},{"word":"Expansion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement."},{"word":"Expansion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal."},{"word":"Expansion","type":"(n.)","description":"Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space."},{"word":"Expansion","type":"(n.)","description":"Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes."},{"word":"Expansion","type":"(n.)","description":"The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2."},{"word":"Expansion","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston."},{"word":"Expansion","type":"(n.)","description":"The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction."},{"word":"Expansive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air."},{"word":"Expansure","type":"(n.)","description":"Expanse."},{"word":"Ex","type":"()","description":"Upon or from one side only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex parte statement."},{"word":"Expatiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expatiate"},{"word":"Expariating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expatiate"},{"word":"Expatiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To range at large, or without restraint."},{"word":"Expatiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant."},{"word":"Expatiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden."},{"word":"Expatiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of expatiating."},{"word":"Expatiatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Expansive; diffusive."},{"word":"Expatriated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expatriate"},{"word":"Expatriating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expatriate"},{"word":"Expatriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of."},{"word":"Expatriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country."},{"word":"Expatriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance."},{"word":"Expected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expect"},{"word":"Expecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expect"},{"word":"Expect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait for; to await."},{"word":"Expect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated."},{"word":"Expect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait; to stay."},{"word":"Expect","type":"(n.)","description":"Expectation."},{"word":"Expectable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be expected or looked for."},{"word":"Expectance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Expectancy"},{"word":"Expectancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expecting ; expectation."},{"word":"Expectancy","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope."},{"word":"Expectant","type":"(a.)","description":"Waiting in expectation; looking for"},{"word":"Expectant","type":"(a.)","description":"waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment."},{"word":"Expectant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good."},{"word":"Expectation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen."},{"word":"Expectation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expected or looked for."},{"word":"Expectation","type":"(n.)","description":"The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank."},{"word":"Expectation","type":"(n.)","description":"The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event."},{"word":"Expectation","type":"(n.)","description":"The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure."},{"word":"Expectative","type":"(a.)","description":"Constituting an object of expectation; contingent."},{"word":"Expectative","type":"(n.)","description":"Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace."},{"word":"Expectedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In conformity with expectation."},{"word":"Expecter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who expects."},{"word":"Expectingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a state of expectation."},{"word":"Expective","type":"(a.)","description":"Expectative."},{"word":"Expectorant","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat."},{"word":"Expectorant","type":"(n.)","description":"An expectorant medicine."},{"word":"Expectorated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expectorate"},{"word":"Expectorating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expectorate"},{"word":"Expectorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth."},{"word":"Expectorate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit."},{"word":"Expectoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting."},{"word":"Expectoration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus."},{"word":"Expectorative","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Expectorant."},{"word":"Expede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expedite; to hasten."},{"word":"Expediate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hasten; to expedite."},{"word":"Expedience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Expediency"},{"word":"Expediency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude."},{"word":"Expediency","type":"(n.)","description":"Expedition; haste; dispatch."},{"word":"Expediency","type":"(n.)","description":"An expedition; enterprise; adventure."},{"word":"Expedient","type":"(a.)","description":"Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right."},{"word":"Expedient","type":"(a.)","description":"Quick; expeditious."},{"word":"Expedient","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end."},{"word":"Expedient","type":"(n.)","description":"Means devised in an exigency; shift."},{"word":"Expediential","type":"()","description":"Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy."},{"word":"Expediently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently."},{"word":"Expediently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With expedition; quickly."},{"word":"Expediment","type":"(n.)","description":"An expedient."},{"word":"Expeditate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer."},{"word":"Expedite","type":"(a.)","description":"Free of impediment; unimpeded."},{"word":"Expedite","type":"(a.)","description":"Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt."},{"word":"Expedited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expedite"},{"word":"Expediting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expedite"},{"word":"Expedite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants."},{"word":"Expedite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially."},{"word":"Expeditely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In expedite manner; expeditiously."},{"word":"Expediteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being expedite."},{"word":"Expedition","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition."},{"word":"Expedition","type":"(n.)","description":"A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress."},{"word":"Expedition","type":"(n.)","description":"An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion."},{"word":"Expeditionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force."},{"word":"Expeditionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who goes upon an expedition. [R]."},{"word":"Expeditious","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger."},{"word":"Expeditive","type":"(a.)","description":"Performing with speed."},{"word":"Expelled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expel"},{"word":"Expelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expel"},{"word":"Expel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows."},{"word":"Expel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive away from one's country; to banish."},{"word":"Expel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member."},{"word":"Expel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep out, off, or away; to exclude."},{"word":"Expel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discharge; to shoot."},{"word":"Expellable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being expelled or driven out."},{"word":"Expeller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, expels."},{"word":"Expended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expend"},{"word":"Expending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expend"},{"word":"Expend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations."},{"word":"Expend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be laid out, used, or consumed."},{"word":"Expend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pay out or disburse money."},{"word":"Expenitor","type":"(n.)","description":"A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers."},{"word":"Expenditure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement."},{"word":"Expenditure","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expended or paid out; expense."},{"word":"Expense","type":"(n.)","description":"A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure."},{"word":"Expense","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time."},{"word":"Expense","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss."},{"word":"Expensefull","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of expense; costly; chargeable."},{"word":"Expenseless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without cost or expense."},{"word":"Expensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family."},{"word":"Expensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish."},{"word":"Experience","type":"(n.)","description":"Trial, as a test or experiment."},{"word":"Experience","type":"(n.)","description":"The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering."},{"word":"Experience","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war."},{"word":"Experienced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exrerience"},{"word":"Experiencing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exrerience"},{"word":"Exrerience","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views."},{"word":"Exrerience","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exercise; to train by practice."},{"word":"Experienced","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye."},{"word":"Experiencer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who experiences."},{"word":"Experiencer","type":"(n.)","description":"An experimenter."},{"word":"Experient","type":"(a.)","description":"Experienced."},{"word":"Experiential","type":"(a.)","description":"Derived from, or pertaining to, experience."},{"word":"Experientialism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists."},{"word":"Experientiallist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively."},{"word":"Experiment","type":"(n.)","description":"Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof."},{"word":"Experiment","type":"(n.)","description":"Experience."},{"word":"Experimented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Experiment"},{"word":"Experinenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Experiment"},{"word":"Experiment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power."},{"word":"Experiment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience."},{"word":"Experimental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher."},{"word":"Experimental","type":"(a.)","description":"Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion."},{"word":"Experimetalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes experiments; an experimenter."},{"word":"Experimentalize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make experiments (upon); to experiment."},{"word":"Experimentally","type":"(adv.)","description":"By experiment; by experience or trial."},{"word":"Experimentarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relying on experiment or experience."},{"word":"Experimentarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who relies on experiment or experience."},{"word":"Experimentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of experimenting; practice by experiment."},{"word":"Experimentative","type":"(a.)","description":"Experimental; of the nature of experiment."},{"word":"Experimentator","type":"(n.)","description":"An experimenter."},{"word":"Experimenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments."},{"word":"Experimentist","type":"(n.)","description":"An experimenter."},{"word":"Experrection","type":"(n.)","description":"A waking up or arousing."},{"word":"Expert","type":"(a.)","description":"Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery."},{"word":"Expert","type":"(n.)","description":"An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning."},{"word":"Expert","type":"(n.)","description":"A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition."},{"word":"Expert","type":"(n.)","description":"A sworn appraiser."},{"word":"Expert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To experience."},{"word":"Expertly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy."},{"word":"Expertness","type":"(n.)","description":"Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning."},{"word":"Expetible","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of being wished for; desirable."},{"word":"Expiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt."},{"word":"Expiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expiate"},{"word":"Expiating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expiate"},{"word":"Expiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin."},{"word":"Expiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purify with sacred rites."},{"word":"Expiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Terminated."},{"word":"Expiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty."},{"word":"Expiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement."},{"word":"Expiation","type":"(n.)","description":"An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen."},{"word":"Expiatist","type":"(n.)","description":"An expiator."},{"word":"Expiator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes expiation or atonement."},{"word":"Expiatorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of an expiatory nature; expiatory."},{"word":"Expiatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice."},{"word":"Expilation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage."},{"word":"Expilator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager."},{"word":"Expirable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may expire; capable of being brought to an end."},{"word":"Expirant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who expires or is expiring."},{"word":"Expiration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expiring"},{"word":"Expiration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration."},{"word":"Expiration","type":"(n.)","description":"Emission of volatile matter; exhalation."},{"word":"Expiration","type":"(n.)","description":"The last emission of breath; death."},{"word":"Expiration","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end."},{"word":"Expiration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound."},{"word":"Expiratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles."},{"word":"Expired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expire"},{"word":"Expiring","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Expire"},{"word":"Expire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire."},{"word":"Expire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors."},{"word":"Expire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emit; to give out."},{"word":"Expire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a close; to terminate."},{"word":"Expire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emit the breath."},{"word":"Expire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony."},{"word":"Expire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday."},{"word":"Expire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst forth; to fly out with a blast."},{"word":"Expiring","type":"(a.)","description":"Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating."},{"word":"Expiring","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans."},{"word":"Expiry","type":"(n.)","description":"Expiration."},{"word":"Expiscate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out."},{"word":"Expiscation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expiscating; a fishing."},{"word":"Expiscatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to fish out; searching out"},{"word":"Explained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Explain"},{"word":"Explaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Explain"},{"word":"Explain","type":"(a.)","description":"To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand."},{"word":"Explain","type":"(a.)","description":"To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible."},{"word":"Explain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give an explanation."},{"word":"Explainable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted."},{"word":"Explainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter."},{"word":"Explanate","type":"(a.)","description":"Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form."},{"word":"Explanation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty."},{"word":"Explanation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation."},{"word":"Explanation","type":"(n.)","description":"The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense."},{"word":"Explanation","type":"(n.)","description":"A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation."},{"word":"Explanative","type":"(a.)","description":"Explanatory."},{"word":"Explanatoriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being explanatory."},{"word":"Explanatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes."},{"word":"Explat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Explate"},{"word":"Explate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To explain; to unfold."},{"word":"Expletion","type":"(n.)","description":"Accomplishment; fulfillment."},{"word":"Expletive","type":"(a.)","description":"Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous."},{"word":"Expletive","type":"(n.)","description":"A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath."},{"word":"Expletively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an expletive."},{"word":"Expletory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word."},{"word":"Explicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation."},{"word":"Explicableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being explicable."},{"word":"Explicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Evolved; unfolded."},{"word":"Explicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Explicate"},{"word":"Explicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Explicate"},{"word":"Explicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unfold; to expand; to lay open."},{"word":"Explicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret."},{"word":"Explication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation."},{"word":"Explication","type":"(n.)","description":"The sense given by an expositor."},{"word":"Explicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory."},{"word":"Explicator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer."},{"word":"Explicatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Explicative."},{"word":"Explicit","type":"(a.)","description":"A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end."},{"word":"Explicit","type":"(a.)","description":"Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration."},{"word":"Explicit","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement."},{"word":"Explicitly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention."},{"word":"Explicitness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness."},{"word":"Exploded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Explode"},{"word":"Exploding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Explode"},{"word":"Explode","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes."},{"word":"Explode","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam."},{"word":"Explode","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded."},{"word":"Explode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play."},{"word":"Explode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine."},{"word":"Explode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire."},{"word":"Explode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder."},{"word":"Explodent","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive."},{"word":"Explodent","type":"(n.)","description":"See Explosive, n., 2."},{"word":"Exploder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who or that which explodes."},{"word":"Exploder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt."},{"word":"Exploit","type":"(n.)","description":"A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great."},{"word":"Exploit","type":"(n.)","description":"Combat; war."},{"word":"Exploit","type":"(n.)","description":"To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion."},{"word":"Exploit","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon."},{"word":"Exploitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exploiting or utilizing."},{"word":"Exploiture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement."},{"word":"Exploiture","type":"(n.)","description":"Exploitation."},{"word":"Explorable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be explored; as, an explorable region."},{"word":"Explorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To explore."},{"word":"Exploration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries"},{"word":"Exploration","type":"(n.)","description":"physical examination."},{"word":"Explorative","type":"(a.)","description":"Exploratory."},{"word":"Explorator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher."},{"word":"Exploratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative."},{"word":"Explored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Explore"},{"word":"Exploring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Explore"},{"word":"Explore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for."},{"word":"Explore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science."},{"word":"Explorement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exploring; exploration."},{"word":"Explorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell."},{"word":"Eploring","type":"(a.)","description":"Employed in, or designed for, exploration."},{"word":"Explosion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc."},{"word":"Explosion","type":"(n.)","description":"A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc."},{"word":"Explosion","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath."},{"word":"Explosive","type":"(a.)","description":"Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder."},{"word":"Explosive","type":"(n.)","description":"An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine."},{"word":"Explosive","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, � 155-7, 184.]"},{"word":"Explosively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an explosive manner."},{"word":"Expoliation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Exspoliation."},{"word":"Expolish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To polish thoroughly."},{"word":"Expone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil."},{"word":"Exponent","type":"(n.)","description":"A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated"},{"word":"Exponent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles."},{"word":"Exponential","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function."},{"word":"Exported","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Export"},{"word":"Exporting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Export"},{"word":"Export","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry away; to remove."},{"word":"Export","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc."},{"word":"Export","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco."},{"word":"Export","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports."},{"word":"Exportability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being suitable for exportation."},{"word":"Exportable","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products."},{"word":"Exportation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce."},{"word":"Exportation","type":"(n.)","description":"Commodity exported; an export."},{"word":"Exportation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of carrying out."},{"word":"Exporter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer."},{"word":"Exposal","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposure."},{"word":"Exposed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expose"},{"word":"Exposing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expose"},{"word":"Expose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection."},{"word":"Expose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat."},{"word":"Expose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor."},{"word":"Expose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite."},{"word":"Expose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed."},{"word":"Exposedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation."},{"word":"Exposer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exposes or discloses."},{"word":"Exposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view."},{"word":"Exposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary."},{"word":"Exposition","type":"(n.)","description":"Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun."},{"word":"Exposition","type":"(n.)","description":"A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878."},{"word":"Expositive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to explain; expository."},{"word":"Expositor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator."},{"word":"Expository","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical."},{"word":"Ex","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Ex postfacto"},{"word":"Ex","type":"()","description":"From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective."},{"word":"Expostulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expostulate"},{"word":"Expostulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expostulate"},{"word":"Expostulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Expostulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discuss; to examine."},{"word":"Expostulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion."},{"word":"Expostulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who expostulates."},{"word":"Expostulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter."},{"word":"Exposture","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposure."},{"word":"Exposure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt."},{"word":"Exposure","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience."},{"word":"Exposure","type":"(n.)","description":"Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc."},{"word":"Exposure","type":"(n.)","description":"The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light."},{"word":"Expounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expound"},{"word":"Expounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expound"},{"word":"Expound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay open; to expose to view; to examine."},{"word":"Expound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle."},{"word":"Expounder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who expounds or explains; an interpreter."},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"Exactly representing; exact."},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement."},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"Intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. Also used adverbially."},{"word":"Express","type":"(n.)","description":"A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration."},{"word":"Express","type":"(n.)","description":"A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality."},{"word":"Express","type":"(n.)","description":"An express office."},{"word":"Express","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is sent by an express messenger or message."},{"word":"Expressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Express"},{"word":"Expressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Express"},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit."},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"To make or offer a representation of; to show by a copy or likeness; to represent; to resemble."},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"To give a true impression of; to represent and make known; to manifest plainly; to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell."},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"To make known the opinions or feelings of; to declare what is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively."},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"To denote; to designate."},{"word":"Express","type":"(a.)","description":"To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package."},{"word":"Expressage","type":"(n.)","description":"The charge for carrying a parcel by express."},{"word":"Expressible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered."},{"word":"Expression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth."},{"word":"Expression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will."},{"word":"Expression","type":"(n.)","description":"Lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment, or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression."},{"word":"Expression","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling."},{"word":"Expression","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of words in which an idea or sentiment is conveyed; a mode of speech; a phrase; as, a common expression; an odd expression."},{"word":"Expression","type":"(n.)","description":"The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs."},{"word":"Expressional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment."},{"word":"Expressionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of expression."},{"word":"Expressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude."},{"word":"Expressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words."},{"word":"Expressly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young."},{"word":"Expressmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Expressman"},{"word":"Expressman","type":"(n.)","description":"A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon."},{"word":"Expressness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being express; definiteness."},{"word":"Expressure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation."},{"word":"Exprobrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid."},{"word":"Exprobration","type":"(n.)","description":"Reproachful accusation; upbraiding."},{"word":"Exprobrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Exprobratory"},{"word":"Exprobratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful."},{"word":"Expropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights."},{"word":"Expropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights."},{"word":"Expugn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments."},{"word":"Expugnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being expugned."},{"word":"Expugnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking by assault; conquest."},{"word":"Expugner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who expugns."},{"word":"Expulse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive out; to expel."},{"word":"Expulser","type":"(n.)","description":"An expeller."},{"word":"Expulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc."},{"word":"Expulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being expelled or driven out."},{"word":"Expulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel."},{"word":"Expunction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged."},{"word":"Expunged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expunge"},{"word":"Expunging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expunge"},{"word":"Expunge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences."},{"word":"Expunge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense."},{"word":"Expurgated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Expurgate"},{"word":"Expurgating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Expurgate"},{"word":"Expurgate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book."},{"word":"Expurgation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous."},{"word":"Expurgator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who expurgates or purifies."},{"word":"Expurgatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory."},{"word":"Expurgatorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Expurgatory."},{"word":"Expurgatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying."},{"word":"Expurge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To purge away."},{"word":"Exquire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To search into or out."},{"word":"Exquisite","type":"(a.)","description":"Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship."},{"word":"Exquisite","type":"(a.)","description":"Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure."},{"word":"Exquisite","type":"(a.)","description":"Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment."},{"word":"Exquisite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy."},{"word":"Exquisitely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought."},{"word":"Exquisiteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being exquisite."},{"word":"Exquisitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Eager to discover or learn; curious."},{"word":"Exsanguine","type":"(a.)","description":"Bloodless."},{"word":"Exsanguineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of blood; anaemic; exsanguious."},{"word":"Exsanguinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora."},{"word":"Exsanguinous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Exsanguious."},{"word":"Exsanguious","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of blood."},{"word":"Exsanguious","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects."},{"word":"Exscinded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exscind"},{"word":"Exscinding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exscind"},{"word":"Exscind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate."},{"word":"Exscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To copy; to transcribe."},{"word":"Exscript","type":"(n.)","description":"A copy; a transcript."},{"word":"Exscriptural","type":"(a.)","description":"Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural."},{"word":"Exscutellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects."},{"word":"Exsect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A cutting out or away."},{"word":"Exsect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out."},{"word":"Exsert","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Exserted"},{"word":"Exserted","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens."},{"word":"Exsertile","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being thrust out or protruded."},{"word":"Exsiccant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up."},{"word":"Exsiccant","type":"(n.)","description":"An exsiccant medicine."},{"word":"Exsiccated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exsiccate"},{"word":"Exsiccating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exsiccate"},{"word":"Exsiccate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up."},{"word":"Exsiccation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness."},{"word":"Exsiccative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to make dry; having the power of drying."},{"word":"Exsiccator","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid."},{"word":"Exsiliency","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaping out."},{"word":"Exsolution","type":"(n.)","description":"Relaxation."},{"word":"Exspoliation","type":"(n.)","description":"Spoliation."},{"word":"Exspuition","type":"(n.)","description":"A discharge of saliva by spitting."},{"word":"Exsputory","type":"(a.)","description":"Spit out, or as if spit out."},{"word":"Exstipulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no stipules."},{"word":"Exstrophy","type":"(n.)","description":"The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder."},{"word":"Exsuccous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham."},{"word":"Exsuction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sucking out."},{"word":"Exsudation","type":"(n.)","description":"Exudation."},{"word":"Exsufflate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exorcise or renounce by blowing."},{"word":"Exsufflation","type":"(n.)","description":"A blast from beneath."},{"word":"Exsufflation","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath."},{"word":"Exsufflation","type":"(n.)","description":"A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs."},{"word":"Exsufflicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Empty; frivolous."},{"word":"Exsuscitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rouse; to excite."},{"word":"Exsuscitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A stirring up; a rousing."},{"word":"Extacy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ecstasy."},{"word":"Extance","type":"(n.)","description":"Outward existence."},{"word":"Extancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of rising above others; a projection."},{"word":"Extant","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing out or above any surface; protruded."},{"word":"Extant","type":"(a.)","description":"Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding."},{"word":"Extant","type":"(a.)","description":"Publicly known; conspicuous."},{"word":"Extasy","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"See Ecstasy, n. & v. t."},{"word":"Extatic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Ecstatic, a."},{"word":"Extemporal","type":"(a.)","description":"Extemporaneous; unpremeditated."},{"word":"Extemporanean","type":"(a.)","description":"Extemporaneous."},{"word":"Extemporaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production."},{"word":"Extemporarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Extemporaneously."},{"word":"Extemporary","type":"(a.)","description":"Extemporaneous."},{"word":"Extemporary","type":"(a.)","description":"Made for the occasion; for the time being."},{"word":"Extempore","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore."},{"word":"Extempore","type":"(a.)","description":"Done or performed extempore."},{"word":"Extempore","type":"(n.)","description":"Speaking or writing done extempore."},{"word":"Extemporiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being done or devised extempore"},{"word":"Extemporization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore."},{"word":"Extemporized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extemporize"},{"word":"Extemporizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extemporize"},{"word":"Extemporize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address."},{"word":"Extemporize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc."},{"word":"Extemporizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who extemporizes."},{"word":"Extended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extend"},{"word":"Extending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extend"},{"word":"Extend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street."},{"word":"Extend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them."},{"word":"Extend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail."},{"word":"Extend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand."},{"word":"Extend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering."},{"word":"Extend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors."},{"word":"Extend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent."},{"word":"Extendant","type":"(a.)","description":"Displaced."},{"word":"Extendedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an extended manner."},{"word":"Extender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything."},{"word":"Extendible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded."},{"word":"Extendible","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be taken by a writ of extent."},{"word":"Extendlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unlimited extension."},{"word":"Extense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise."},{"word":"Extensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal."},{"word":"Extensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible."},{"word":"Extensibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Extensibility."},{"word":"Extensile","type":"(a.)","description":"Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible."},{"word":"Extension","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion."},{"word":"Extension","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space."},{"word":"Extension","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension."},{"word":"Extension","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line."},{"word":"Extension","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion."},{"word":"Extension","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt."},{"word":"Extensional","type":"(a.)","description":"Having great extent."},{"word":"Extensionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors or advocates extension."},{"word":"Extensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness."},{"word":"Extensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being extended."},{"word":"Extensively","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated."},{"word":"Extensiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness."},{"word":"Extensometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force."},{"word":"Extensor","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor."},{"word":"Extensure","type":"(n.)","description":"Extension."},{"word":"Extent","type":"(a.)","description":"Extended."},{"word":"Extent","type":"(n.)","description":"Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity."},{"word":"Extent","type":"(n.)","description":"Degree; measure; proportion."},{"word":"Extent","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment."},{"word":"Extent","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor."},{"word":"Extenuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extenuate"},{"word":"Extenuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extenuate"},{"word":"Extenuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness."},{"word":"Extenuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate."},{"word":"Extenuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lower or degrade; to detract from."},{"word":"Extenuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations."},{"word":"Extenuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Thin; slender."},{"word":"Extenuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment."},{"word":"Extenuator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who extenuates."},{"word":"Extenuatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to extenuate or palliate."},{"word":"Exterior","type":"(a.)","description":"External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere."},{"word":"Exterior","type":"(a.)","description":"External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind."},{"word":"Exterior","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom."},{"word":"Exterior","type":"(n.)","description":"The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside."},{"word":"Exterior","type":"(n.)","description":"Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion."},{"word":"Exteriority","type":"(n.)","description":"Surface; superficies; externality."},{"word":"Exteriorly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Outwardly; externally; on the exterior."},{"word":"Exterminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exterminate"},{"word":"Exterminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exterminate"},{"word":"Exterminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive out or away; to expel."},{"word":"Exterminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice."},{"word":"Exterminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To eliminate, as unknown quantities."},{"word":"Extermination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field."},{"word":"Extermination","type":"(n.)","description":"Elimination."},{"word":"Exterminator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, exterminates."},{"word":"Exterminatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate."},{"word":"Extermine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exterminate; to destroy."},{"word":"Extern","type":"(a.)","description":"External; outward; not inherent."},{"word":"Extern","type":"(n.)","description":"A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar."},{"word":"Extern","type":"(n.)","description":"Outward form or part; exterior."},{"word":"External","type":"(a.)","description":"Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body."},{"word":"External","type":"(a.)","description":"Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind."},{"word":"External","type":"(a.)","description":"Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral."},{"word":"External","type":"(a.)","description":"Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial."},{"word":"External","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom."},{"word":"External","type":"(a.)","description":"Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral."},{"word":"External","type":"(n.)","description":"Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Externalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals."},{"word":"Externalism","type":"(n.)","description":"That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism."},{"word":"Externalistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to externalism"},{"word":"Externality","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being external; exteriority"},{"word":"Externality","type":"(n.)","description":"separation from the perceiving mind."},{"word":"Externalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make external; to manifest by outward form."},{"word":"Externally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly."},{"word":"Externe","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients."},{"word":"Exterraneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad."},{"word":"Exterritorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction."},{"word":"Exterritoriality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being beyond the limits of a country."},{"word":"Exterritoriality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being free from the jurisdiction of a country when within its territorial limits."},{"word":"Extersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of wiping or rubbing out."},{"word":"Extilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extill"},{"word":"Extilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extill"},{"word":"Extill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drop or distill."},{"word":"Extillation","type":"(n.)","description":"Distillation."},{"word":"Extimulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stimulate."},{"word":"Extimulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Stimulation."},{"word":"Extinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano."},{"word":"Extinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law."},{"word":"Extinct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to be extinct."},{"word":"Extinction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc."},{"word":"Extinction","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim."},{"word":"Extine","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants."},{"word":"Extinguished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extinguish"},{"word":"Extinguishing","type":"(p pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extinguish"},{"word":"Extinguish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right."},{"word":"Extinguish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor."},{"word":"Extinguishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed."},{"word":"Extinguisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle."},{"word":"Extinguishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection."},{"word":"Extinguishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation."},{"word":"Extirp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extirpate."},{"word":"Extirpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant."},{"word":"Extirpated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extirpate"},{"word":"Extirpating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extirpate"},{"word":"Extirpate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy."},{"word":"Extirpation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy."},{"word":"Extirpative","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out."},{"word":"Extirpator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer."},{"word":"Extirpatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Extirpative."},{"word":"Extirper","type":"(n.)","description":"Extirpator."},{"word":"Extispicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication."},{"word":"Extogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exogenous."},{"word":"Extolled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extol"},{"word":"Extolling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extol"},{"word":"Extol","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place on high; to lift up; to elevate."},{"word":"Extol","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person."},{"word":"Extoller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who extols; one who praises."},{"word":"Extolment","type":"(n.)","description":"Praise."},{"word":"Extorsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving or tending to extort."},{"word":"Extorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extort"},{"word":"Extorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extort"},{"word":"Extort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt."},{"word":"Extort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2."},{"word":"Extort","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice extortion."},{"word":"Extort","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Extorted."},{"word":"Extorter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices extortion."},{"word":"Extortion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge."},{"word":"Extortion","type":"(n.)","description":"The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due."},{"word":"Extortion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is extorted or exacted by force."},{"word":"Extortionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Extortionate."},{"word":"Extortionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard."},{"word":"Extortioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices extortion."},{"word":"Extortious","type":"(a.)","description":"Extortionate."},{"word":"Extra-","type":"()","description":"A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed."},{"word":"Extra","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay."},{"word":"Extras","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Extra"},{"word":"Extra","type":"(n.)","description":"Something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; something in addition to the regular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras."},{"word":"Extraarticular","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated outside of a joint."},{"word":"Extraaxillar","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Extraaxillary"},{"word":"Extraaxillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud."},{"word":"Extrabranchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes."},{"word":"Extracapsular","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint."},{"word":"Extracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extract"},{"word":"Extracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extract"},{"word":"Extract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is extracted or drawn out."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(n.)","description":"A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(n.)","description":"Extraction; descent."},{"word":"Extract","type":"(n.)","description":"A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution."},{"word":"Extractable","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Extractible"},{"word":"Extractible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being extracted."},{"word":"Extractiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract."},{"word":"Extraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture."},{"word":"Extraction","type":"(n.)","description":"Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended."},{"word":"Extraction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is extracted; extract; essence."},{"word":"Extractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being extracted."},{"word":"Extractive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or serving to extract or draw out."},{"word":"Extractive","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything extracted; an extract."},{"word":"Extractive","type":"(n.)","description":"A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts."},{"word":"Extractive","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue."},{"word":"Extractor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, extracts"},{"word":"Extractor","type":"(n.)","description":"A forceps or instrument for extracting substances."},{"word":"Extractor","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel."},{"word":"Extradictionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting not in words, but in realities."},{"word":"Extraditable","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice."},{"word":"Extraditable","type":"(a.)","description":"Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses."},{"word":"Extradited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extradite"},{"word":"Extraditing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extradite"},{"word":"Extradite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition."},{"word":"Extradition","type":"(n.)","description":"The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge."},{"word":"Extrados","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados."},{"word":"Extradotal","type":"(a.)","description":"Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property."},{"word":"Extrafoliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles."},{"word":"Extraforaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to that which is out of doors."},{"word":"Extrageneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to another race or kind."},{"word":"Extrajudicial","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required."},{"word":"Extralimitary","type":"(a.)","description":"Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land."},{"word":"Extralogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying outside of the domain of logic."},{"word":"Extramission","type":"(n.)","description":"A sending out; emission."},{"word":"Extramundane","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond the material world."},{"word":"Extramural","type":"(a.)","description":"Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city."},{"word":"Extraneity","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being without or beyond a thing; foreignness."},{"word":"Extraneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter."},{"word":"Extra-ocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennae of certain insects."},{"word":"Extra-official","type":"(a.)","description":"Not prescribed by official duty."},{"word":"Extraordinarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an extraordinary manner or degree."},{"word":"Extraordinariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being extraordinary."},{"word":"Extraordinary","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies."},{"word":"Extraordinary","type":"(a.)","description":"Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur."},{"word":"Extraordinary","type":"(a.)","description":"Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary."},{"word":"Extraordinaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Extraordinary"},{"word":"Extraordinary","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success."},{"word":"Extraparochial","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond the limits of a parish."},{"word":"Extraphysical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not subject to physical laws or methods."},{"word":"Extraprofessional","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business."},{"word":"Extraprovincial","type":"(a.)","description":"Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction."},{"word":"Extraregular","type":"(a.)","description":"Not comprehended within a rule or rules."},{"word":"Extrastapedial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes."},{"word":"Extrastapedial","type":"(n.)","description":"The extrastapedial part of columella."},{"word":"Extraterritorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction; exterritorial."},{"word":"Extraterritoriality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory"},{"word":"Extraterritoriality","type":"(n.)","description":"A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation."},{"word":"Extratropical","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond or outside of the tropics."},{"word":"Extraught","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Extracted; descended."},{"word":"Extra-uterine","type":"(a.)","description":"Outside of the uterus, or womb."},{"word":"Extravagance","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit."},{"word":"Extravagance","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands."},{"word":"Extravagancies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Extravagancy"},{"word":"Extravagancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Extravagance."},{"word":"Extravagant","type":"(a.)","description":"Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign."},{"word":"Extravagant","type":"(a.)","description":"Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse."},{"word":"Extravagant","type":"(a.)","description":"Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man."},{"word":"Extravagant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is confined to no general rule."},{"word":"Extravagant","type":"(n.)","description":"Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law."},{"word":"Extravagantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely."},{"word":"Extravagantness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance."},{"word":"Extravaganza","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature."},{"word":"Extravaganza","type":"(n.)","description":"An extravagant flight of sentiment or language."},{"word":"Extravagate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rove."},{"word":"Extravagation","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering beyond limits; excess."},{"word":"Extravasated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extravasate"},{"word":"Extravasating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extravasate"},{"word":"Extravasate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood."},{"word":"Extravasation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels."},{"word":"Extravascular","type":"(a.)","description":"Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues."},{"word":"Extravascular","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of vessels; non-vascular."},{"word":"Extravenate","type":"(a.)","description":"Let out of the veins."},{"word":"Extraversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out."},{"word":"Extreat","type":"(n.)","description":"Extraction."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(a.)","description":"At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(a.)","description":"Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(a.)","description":"The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(a.)","description":"Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(a.)","description":"Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(n.)","description":"The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(n.)","description":"Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(n.)","description":"An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(n.)","description":"Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them."},{"word":"Extreme","type":"(n.)","description":"The first or the last term of a proportion or series."},{"word":"Extremeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no extremes; infinite."},{"word":"Extremely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold."},{"word":"Extremist","type":"(n.)","description":"A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions."},{"word":"Extremities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Extremity"},{"word":"Extremity","type":"(n.)","description":"The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country."},{"word":"Extremity","type":"(n.)","description":"One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man."},{"word":"Extremity","type":"(n.)","description":"The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form."},{"word":"Extremity","type":"(n.)","description":"The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity."},{"word":"Extricable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being extricated."},{"word":"Extricated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extricate"},{"word":"Extricating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extricate"},{"word":"Extricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc."},{"word":"Extricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture."},{"word":"Extrication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement."},{"word":"Extrication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sending out or evolving."},{"word":"Extrinsic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic."},{"word":"Extrinsic","type":"(a.)","description":"Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic."},{"word":"Extrinsical","type":"(a.)","description":"Extrinsic."},{"word":"Extrinsicality","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Extrinsicalness"},{"word":"Extrinsicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being extrinsic."},{"word":"Extroitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Seeking or going out after external objects."},{"word":"Extrorsal","type":"(a.)","description":"Extrorse."},{"word":"Extrorse","type":"(a.)","description":"Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament."},{"word":"Extroversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder."},{"word":"Extruct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To construct."},{"word":"Extruction","type":"(n.)","description":"A building up; construction."},{"word":"Extructive","type":"(a.)","description":"Constructive."},{"word":"Extructor","type":"(n.)","description":"A builder."},{"word":"Extruded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Extrude"},{"word":"Extruding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Extrude"},{"word":"Extrude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away."},{"word":"Extrusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion."},{"word":"Extuberance","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling or rising; protuberance."},{"word":"Extuberancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Extuberance."},{"word":"Extuberant","type":"(a.)","description":"Swollen out; protuberant."},{"word":"Extuberate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swell out."},{"word":"Extuberation","type":"(n.)","description":"Protuberance."},{"word":"Extumescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling or rising."},{"word":"Exuberance","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage."},{"word":"Exuberancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Exuberance."},{"word":"Exuberant","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage."},{"word":"Exuberate","type":"(n.)","description":"To abound; to be in great abundance."},{"word":"Exuccous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Exsuccous."},{"word":"Exudate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To exude."},{"word":"Exudation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded."},{"word":"Exuded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exude"},{"word":"exuding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exude"},{"word":"Exude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out."},{"word":"Exude","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow from a body through the pores, or by a natural discharge, as juice."},{"word":"Exulcerate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To ulcerate."},{"word":"Exulcerate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame."},{"word":"Exulcerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Very sore; ulcerated."},{"word":"Exulceration","type":"(n.)","description":"Ulceration."},{"word":"Exulceration","type":"(n.)","description":"A fretting; a festering; soreness."},{"word":"Exulcerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory."},{"word":"Exulceratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous."},{"word":"Exulted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exult"},{"word":"Exulting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exult"},{"word":"Exult","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in high spirits; figuratively, to leap for joy; to rejoice in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart."},{"word":"Exultance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Exultancy"},{"word":"Exultancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Exultation."},{"word":"Exultant","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly."},{"word":"Exultation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph."},{"word":"Exulting","type":"(a.)","description":"Rejoicing triumphantly or exceedingly; exultant."},{"word":"Exundate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To overflow; to inundate."},{"word":"Exundation","type":"(n.)","description":"An overflow, or overflowing abundance."},{"word":"Exungulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exungulate"},{"word":"Exungulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exungulate"},{"word":"Exungulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc."},{"word":"Exuperable","type":"(a.)","description":"Surmountable; superable."},{"word":"Exuperance","type":"(n.)","description":"Superiority; superfluity."},{"word":"Exuperant","type":"(a.)","description":"Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting."},{"word":"Exuperate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excel; to surmount."},{"word":"Exuperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rising or coming into view."},{"word":"Exurgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Arising; coming to light."},{"word":"Exuscitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Exsuscitate"},{"word":"Exustion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of burning up."},{"word":"Exutory","type":"(n.)","description":"An issue."},{"word":"Exuvia","type":"()","description":"n. sing. of Exuviae."},{"word":"Exuviability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of shedding the skin periodically."},{"word":"Exuviable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviae."},{"word":"Exuviae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc."},{"word":"Exuviae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth."},{"word":"Exuvial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to exuviae."},{"word":"Exuviated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Exuviate"},{"word":"Exuviating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Exuviate"},{"word":"Exuviate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt."},{"word":"Exuviation","type":"(n.)","description":"The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis."},{"word":"Ex-votos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ex-voto"},{"word":"Ex-voto","type":"(n.)","description":"An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow."},{"word":"Ey","type":"(n.)","description":"An island."},{"word":"Eyren","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ey"},{"word":"Ey","type":"(n.)","description":"See Egg."},{"word":"Ey","type":"()","description":"An interj. of wonder or inquiry."},{"word":"Eyalet","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet."},{"word":"Eyas","type":"(n.)","description":"A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself."},{"word":"Eyas","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfledged, or newly fledged."},{"word":"Eyasmusket","type":"(n.)","description":"An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A brood; as, an eye of pheasants."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance"},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The spots on a feather, as of peacock."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The center of a target; the bull's-eye."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The hole through the head of a needle."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The hole through the upper millstone."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(n.)","description":"Tinge; shade of color."},{"word":"Eyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Eye"},{"word":"Eying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Eye"},{"word":"Eye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view."},{"word":"Eye","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To appear; to look."},{"word":"Eyeball","type":"(n.)","description":"The ball or globe of the eye."},{"word":"Eyebar","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar with an eye at one or both ends."},{"word":"Eyebeam","type":"(n.)","description":"A glance of the eye."},{"word":"Eyebolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head."},{"word":"Eyebright","type":"(n.)","description":"A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye."},{"word":"Eyebrow","type":"(n.)","description":"The brow or hairy arch above the eye."},{"word":"Eyecup","type":"(n.)","description":"A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass."},{"word":"Eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Heaving (such or so many) eyes; -- used in composition; as sharp-eyed; dull-eyed; sad-eyed; ox-eyed Juno; myriad-eyed."},{"word":"Eyedrop","type":"(n.)","description":"A tear."},{"word":"Eyeflap","type":"(n.)","description":"A blinder on a horse's bridle."},{"word":"Eyeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable."},{"word":"Eyeglance","type":"(n.)","description":"A glance of eye."},{"word":"Eyeglass","type":"(n.)","description":"A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs."},{"word":"Eyeglass","type":"(n.)","description":"Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc."},{"word":"Eyeglass","type":"(n.)","description":"The retina."},{"word":"Eyeglass","type":"(n.)","description":"A glass eyecup. See Eyecup."},{"word":"Eyehole","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet."},{"word":"Eyelash","type":"(n.)","description":"The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl."},{"word":"Eyelash","type":"(n.)","description":"A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid."},{"word":"Eyeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without eyes; blind."},{"word":"Eyelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc."},{"word":"Eyelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole."},{"word":"Eyeleteer","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto."},{"word":"Eyelid","type":"(n.)","description":"The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure."},{"word":"Eyen","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Eyes."},{"word":"Eyepiece","type":"(n.)","description":"The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed."},{"word":"Eyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eyes another."},{"word":"Eyereach","type":"(n.)","description":"The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot."},{"word":"Eye-saint","type":"(n.)","description":"An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes."},{"word":"Eyesalve","type":"(n.)","description":"Ointment for the eye."},{"word":"Eyeservant","type":"(n.)","description":"A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched."},{"word":"Eyeservice","type":"(n.)","description":"Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer."},{"word":"Eyeshot","type":"(n.)","description":"Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot."},{"word":"Eyesight","type":"(n.)","description":"Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation."},{"word":"Eyesore","type":"(n.)","description":"Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish."},{"word":"Eye-splice","type":"(n.)","description":"A splice formed by bending a rope's end back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice."},{"word":"Eye-spot","type":"(n.)","description":"A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination."},{"word":"Eye-spot","type":"(n.)","description":"An eyelike spot of color."},{"word":"Eye-spotted","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with spots like eyes."},{"word":"Eyestalk","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip."},{"word":"Eyestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance."},{"word":"Eyestone","type":"(n.)","description":"Eye agate. See under Eye."},{"word":"Eyestring","type":"(n.)","description":"The tendon by which the eye is moved."},{"word":"Eyet","type":"(n.)","description":"An island. See Eyot."},{"word":"Eyeteeth","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eyetooth"},{"word":"Eyetooth","type":"(n.)","description":"A canine tooth of the upper jaw."},{"word":"Eyewash","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eyewater."},{"word":"Eyewater","type":"(n.)","description":"A wash or lotion for application to the eyes."},{"word":"Eyewink","type":"(n.)","description":"A wink; a token."},{"word":"Eyewinker","type":"(n.)","description":"An eyelash."},{"word":"Eyewitness","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything."},{"word":"Eyghen","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Eyes."},{"word":"Eyght","type":"(n.)","description":"An island. See Eyot."},{"word":"Eyle","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To ail."},{"word":"Eyliad","type":"(n.)","description":"See /iliad."},{"word":"Eyne","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eyen"},{"word":"Eyen","type":"(n.)","description":"Plural of eye; -- now obsolete, or used only in poetry."},{"word":"Eyot","type":"(n.)","description":"A little island in a river or lake. See Ait."},{"word":"Eyr","type":"(n.)","description":"Air."},{"word":"Eyra","type":"(n.)","description":"A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs."},{"word":"Eyre","type":"(n.)","description":"A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere)."},{"word":"Eyren","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Ey, an egg."},{"word":"Ey\"ries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Eyry"},{"word":"Eyrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Eyry"},{"word":"Eyry","type":"(n.)","description":"The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a lofty place; aerie."},{"word":"Eysell","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Eisel."},{"word":"F","type":"()","description":"F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, 188, 198, 230."},{"word":"F","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone intermediate between F and G."},{"word":"Fa","type":"(n.)","description":"A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization."},{"word":"Fa","type":"(n.)","description":"The tone F."},{"word":"Fabaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of a bean; like a bean."},{"word":"Fabellae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fabella"},{"word":"Fabella","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals."},{"word":"Fabian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest."},{"word":"Fable","type":"(n.)","description":"A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue."},{"word":"Fable","type":"(n.)","description":"The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem."},{"word":"Fable","type":"(n.)","description":"Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk."},{"word":"Fable","type":"(n.)","description":"Fiction; untruth; falsehood."},{"word":"Fabled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fable"},{"word":"Fabling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fable"},{"word":"Fable","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true."},{"word":"Fable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely."},{"word":"Fabler","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods."},{"word":"Fabliaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fabliau"},{"word":"Fabliau","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France."},{"word":"Fabric","type":"(n.)","description":"The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric."},{"word":"Fabric","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is fabricated"},{"word":"Fabric","type":"(n.)","description":"Framework; structure; edifice; building."},{"word":"Fabric","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics."},{"word":"Fabric","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of constructing; construction."},{"word":"Fabric","type":"(n.)","description":"Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe."},{"word":"Fabricked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fabric"},{"word":"Fabricking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fabric"},{"word":"Fabric","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frame; to build; to construct."},{"word":"Fabricant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fabricates; a manufacturer."},{"word":"Fabricated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fabricate"},{"word":"Fabricating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fabricate"},{"word":"Fabricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship."},{"word":"Fabricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens."},{"word":"Fabricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story."},{"word":"Fabrication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government."},{"word":"Fabrication","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication."},{"word":"Fabricator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes."},{"word":"Fabricatress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who fabricates."},{"word":"Fabrile","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill."},{"word":"Fabulist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who invents or writes fables."},{"word":"Fabulized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fabulize"},{"word":"Fabulizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fabulize"},{"word":"Fabulize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions."},{"word":"Fabulosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fabulousness."},{"word":"Fabulosity","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous or fictitious story."},{"word":"Fabulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero."},{"word":"Fabulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price."},{"word":"Faburden","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of counterpoint with a drone bass."},{"word":"Faburden","type":"(n.)","description":"A succession of chords of the sixth."},{"word":"Faburden","type":"(n.)","description":"A monotonous refrain."},{"word":"Fac","type":"(n.)","description":"A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book."},{"word":"Facade","type":"(n.)","description":"The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"The style or cut of a type or font of type."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done."},{"word":"Face","type":"(n.)","description":"The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount."},{"word":"Faced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Face"},{"word":"Facing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Face"},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To Confront impudently; to bully."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left."},{"word":"Face","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To present a face or front."},{"word":"Faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced."},{"word":"Faser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person."},{"word":"Faser","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy."},{"word":"Facet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond."},{"word":"Facet","type":"(n.)","description":"A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone."},{"word":"Facet","type":"(n.)","description":"The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column."},{"word":"Facet","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans."},{"word":"Faceted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Facet"},{"word":"Faceting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Facet"},{"word":"Facet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond."},{"word":"Facete","type":"(a.)","description":"Facetious; witty; humorous."},{"word":"Faceted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having facets."},{"word":"Facetiae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits."},{"word":"Facetious","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion."},{"word":"Facetious","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply."},{"word":"Facette","type":"(n.)","description":"See Facet, n."},{"word":"Facework","type":"(n.)","description":"The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing."},{"word":"Facia","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fascia."},{"word":"Facial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve."},{"word":"Faciend","type":"(n.)","description":"The multiplicand. See Facient, 2."},{"word":"Facient","type":"(n.)","description":"One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent."},{"word":"Facient","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient."},{"word":"Facient","type":"(n.)","description":"The multiplier."},{"word":"Facies","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior part of the head; the face."},{"word":"Facies","type":"(n.)","description":"The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment."},{"word":"Facies","type":"(n.)","description":"The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill."},{"word":"Facile","type":"(a.)","description":"Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor."},{"word":"Facile","type":"(a.)","description":"Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered."},{"word":"Facile","type":"(a.)","description":"Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant."},{"word":"Facile","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible."},{"word":"Facile","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen."},{"word":"Facilitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Facilitate"},{"word":"Facilitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Facilitate"},{"word":"Facilitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task."},{"word":"Facilitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of facilitating or making easy."},{"word":"Facilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Facility"},{"word":"Facility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation."},{"word":"Facility","type":"(n.)","description":"Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art."},{"word":"Facility","type":"(n.)","description":"Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy."},{"word":"Facility","type":"(n.)","description":"Easiness of access; complaisance; affability."},{"word":"Facility","type":"(n.)","description":"That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study."},{"word":"Facing","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface."},{"word":"Facing","type":"(n.)","description":"A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection."},{"word":"Facing","type":"(n.)","description":"The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used."},{"word":"Facing","type":"(n.)","description":"A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting."},{"word":"Facing","type":"(n.)","description":"The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the coat."},{"word":"Facing","type":"(n.)","description":"The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl."},{"word":"Facingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a facing manner or position."},{"word":"Facinorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Atrociously wicked."},{"word":"Facound","type":"(n.)","description":"Speech; eloquence."},{"word":"Facsimiles","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Facsimile"},{"word":"Facsimile","type":"(n.)","description":"A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness."},{"word":"Facsimile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a facsimile of."},{"word":"Fact","type":"(n.)","description":"A doing, making, or preparing."},{"word":"Fact","type":"(n.)","description":"An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance."},{"word":"Fact","type":"(n.)","description":"Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten."},{"word":"Fact","type":"(n.)","description":"The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts."},{"word":"Faction","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus."},{"word":"Faction","type":"(n.)","description":"A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good."},{"word":"Faction","type":"(n.)","description":"Tumult; discord; dissension."},{"word":"Factionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides."},{"word":"Factioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a faction."},{"word":"Factionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who promotes faction."},{"word":"Factious","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons."},{"word":"Factious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels."},{"word":"Factitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste."},{"word":"Factitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing; causative."},{"word":"Factitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine."},{"word":"Factive","type":"(a.)","description":"Making; having power to make."},{"word":"Facto","type":"(adv.)","description":"In fact; by the act or fact."},{"word":"Factor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker."},{"word":"Factor","type":"(n.)","description":"A steward or bailiff of an estate."},{"word":"Factor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product."},{"word":"Factor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent."},{"word":"Factored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Factor"},{"word":"Factoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Factor"},{"word":"Factor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To resolve (a quantity) into its factors."},{"word":"Factorage","type":"(n.)","description":"The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission."},{"word":"Factoress","type":"(n.)","description":"A factor who is a woman."},{"word":"Factorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a factory."},{"word":"Factorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to factorials."},{"word":"Factorial","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials."},{"word":"Factorial","type":"(n.)","description":"The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number."},{"word":"Factoring","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of resolving into factors."},{"word":"Factorized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Factorize"},{"word":"Factorizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Factorize"},{"word":"Factorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff."},{"word":"Factorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish."},{"word":"Factorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a factor."},{"word":"Factories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Factory"},{"word":"Factory","type":"(n.)","description":"A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers."},{"word":"Factory","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory."},{"word":"Factory","type":"(n.)","description":"A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory."},{"word":"Factotums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Factotum"},{"word":"Factotum","type":"(n.)","description":"A person employed to do all kinds of work or business."},{"word":"Factual","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or containing, facts."},{"word":"Facta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Factum"},{"word":"Factum","type":"(n.)","description":"A man's own act and deed"},{"word":"Factum","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything stated and made certain."},{"word":"Factum","type":"(n.)","description":"The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity."},{"word":"Factum","type":"(n.)","description":"The product. See Facient, 2."},{"word":"Facture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production."},{"word":"Facture","type":"(n.)","description":"An invoice or bill of parcels."},{"word":"Faculae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere."},{"word":"Facular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the faculae."},{"word":"Faculties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Faculty"},{"word":"Faculty","type":"(n.)","description":"Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul."},{"word":"Faculty","type":"(n.)","description":"Special mental endowment; characteristic knack."},{"word":"Faculty","type":"(n.)","description":"Power; prerogative or attribute of office."},{"word":"Faculty","type":"(n.)","description":"Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation."},{"word":"Faculty","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect."},{"word":"Faculty","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college."},{"word":"Facund","type":"(a.)","description":"Eloquent."},{"word":"Facundious","type":"(a.)","description":"Eloquement; full of words."},{"word":"Facundity","type":"(n.)","description":"Eloquence; readiness of speech."},{"word":"Fad","type":"(n.)","description":"A hobby ; freak; whim."},{"word":"Faddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To trifle; to toy."},{"word":"Faddle","type":"(v. t. )","description":"To fondle; to dandle."},{"word":"Fade","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace."},{"word":"Faded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fade"},{"word":"Fading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fade"},{"word":"Fade","type":"(a.)","description":"To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant."},{"word":"Fade","type":"(a.)","description":"To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color."},{"word":"Fade","type":"(a.)","description":"To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish."},{"word":"Fade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away."},{"word":"Faded","type":"(a.)","description":"That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim."},{"word":"Fadedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a faded manner."},{"word":"Fadeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not liable to fade; unfading."},{"word":"Fader","type":"(n.)","description":"Father."},{"word":"Fadge","type":"(a.)","description":"To fit; to suit; to agree."},{"word":"Fadge","type":"(n.)","description":"A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot."},{"word":"Fading","type":"(a.)","description":"Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor."},{"word":"Fading","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of color, freshness, or vigor."},{"word":"Fading","type":"(n.)","description":"An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song."},{"word":"Fadme","type":"(n.)","description":"A fathom."},{"word":"Fady","type":"(a.)","description":"Faded."},{"word":"Faecal","type":"(a.)","description":"See Fecal."},{"word":"Faeces","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation."},{"word":"Faecula","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fecula."},{"word":"Faery","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"Fairy."},{"word":"Faffle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stammer."},{"word":"Fag","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot or coarse part in cloth."},{"word":"Fagged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fag"},{"word":"Fagging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fag"},{"word":"Fag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become weary; to tire."},{"word":"Fag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge."},{"word":"Fag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools."},{"word":"Fag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out."},{"word":"Fag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Anything that fatigues."},{"word":"Fagend","type":"(n.)","description":"An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect."},{"word":"Fagend","type":"(n.)","description":"The refuse or meaner part of anything."},{"word":"Fagging","type":"(n.)","description":"Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school."},{"word":"Fagot","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine."},{"word":"Fagot","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile."},{"word":"Fagot","type":"(n.)","description":"A bassoon. See Fagotto."},{"word":"Fagot","type":"(n.)","description":"A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company."},{"word":"Fagot","type":"(n.)","description":"An old shriveled woman."},{"word":"Fagoted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fagot"},{"word":"Fagoting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fagot"},{"word":"Fagot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously."},{"word":"Fagotto","type":"(n.)","description":"The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot."},{"word":"Faham","type":"(n.)","description":"The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea."},{"word":"Fahlband","type":"(n.)","description":"A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides."},{"word":"Fahlerz","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fahlband"},{"word":"Fahlband","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Tetrahedrite."},{"word":"Fahlunite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydration of iolite."},{"word":"Fahrenheit","type":"(a.)","description":"Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale."},{"word":"Fahrenheit","type":"(n.)","description":"The Fahrenheit termometer or scale."},{"word":"Faience","type":"(n.)","description":"Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color."},{"word":"Failed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fail"},{"word":"Failing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fail"},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perish; to die; -- used of a person."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To err in judgment; to be mistaken."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To miss of attaining; to lose."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail."},{"word":"Fail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Death; decease."},{"word":"Failance","type":"(n.)","description":"Fault; failure; omission."},{"word":"Failing","type":"(n.)","description":"A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing."},{"word":"Failing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt."},{"word":"Faille","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy."},{"word":"Failure","type":"(n.)","description":"Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops."},{"word":"Failure","type":"(n.)","description":"Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise."},{"word":"Failure","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of success; the state of having failed."},{"word":"Failure","type":"(n.)","description":"Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight."},{"word":"Failure","type":"(n.)","description":"A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business."},{"word":"Failure","type":"(n.)","description":"A failing; a slight fault."},{"word":"Fain","type":"(a.)","description":"Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined."},{"word":"Fain","type":"(a.)","description":"Satisfied; contented; also, constrained."},{"word":"Fain","type":"(adv.)","description":"With joy; gladly; -- with wold."},{"word":"Fain","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To be glad ; to wish or desire."},{"word":"Faineant","type":"(a.)","description":"Doing nothing; shiftless."},{"word":"Faineant","type":"(n.)","description":"A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard."},{"word":"Faint","type":"(superl.)","description":"Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst."},{"word":"Faint","type":"(superl.)","description":"Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, \"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.\""},{"word":"Faint","type":"(superl.)","description":"Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound."},{"word":"Faint","type":"(superl.)","description":"Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance."},{"word":"Faint","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n."},{"word":"Fainted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Faint"},{"word":"Fainting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Faint"},{"word":"Faint","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n."},{"word":"Faint","type":"(n.)","description":"To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent."},{"word":"Faint","type":"(n.)","description":"To decay; to disappear; to vanish."},{"word":"Faint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken."},{"word":"Fainthearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected."},{"word":"Fainting","type":"(n.)","description":"Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak."},{"word":"Faintish","type":"(a.)","description":"Slightly faint; somewhat faint."},{"word":"Faintling","type":"(a.)","description":"Timorous; feeble-minded."},{"word":"Faintly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a faint, weak, or timidmanner."},{"word":"Faintness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control."},{"word":"Faintness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of vigor or energy."},{"word":"Faintness","type":"(n.)","description":"Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description."},{"word":"Faintness","type":"(n.)","description":"Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection."},{"word":"Faints","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil."},{"word":"Fainty","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeble; languid."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(superl.)","description":"Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(adv.)","description":"Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(n.)","description":"Fairness, beauty."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(n.)","description":"A fair woman; a sweetheart."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(n.)","description":"Good fortune; good luck."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fair or beautiful."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(n.)","description":"A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(n.)","description":"A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair."},{"word":"Fair","type":"(n.)","description":"A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair."},{"word":"Fair-haired","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fair or light-colored hair."},{"word":"Fairhood","type":"(n.)","description":"Fairness; beauty."},{"word":"Fairily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a fairy."},{"word":"Fairing","type":"(n.)","description":"A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair."},{"word":"Fairish","type":"(a.)","description":"Tolerably fair."},{"word":"Fair-leader","type":"(n.)","description":"A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope."},{"word":"Fairly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly."},{"word":"Fairly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade."},{"word":"Fairly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Honestly; properly."},{"word":"Fairly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Softly; quietly; gently."},{"word":"Fair-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest."},{"word":"Fair-natured","type":"(a.)","description":"Well-disposed."},{"word":"Fairness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc."},{"word":"Faair-spoken","type":"(a.)","description":"Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible."},{"word":"Fairway","type":"(n.)","description":"The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels."},{"word":"Fair-weather","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage."},{"word":"Fair-weather","type":"(a.)","description":"Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend."},{"word":"Fair-world","type":"(n.)","description":"State of prosperity."},{"word":"Fairies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fairy"},{"word":"Fairy","type":"(n.)","description":"Enchantment; illusion."},{"word":"Fairy","type":"(n.)","description":"The country of the fays; land of illusions."},{"word":"Fairy","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon."},{"word":"Fairy","type":"(n.)","description":"An enchantress."},{"word":"Fairy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to fairies."},{"word":"Fairy","type":"(a.)","description":"Given by fairies; as, fairy money."},{"word":"Fairyland","type":"(n.)","description":"The imaginary land or abode of fairies."},{"word":"Fairylike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(n.)","description":"Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(n.)","description":"The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(n.)","description":"The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(n.)","description":"The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(n.)","description":"Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(n.)","description":"Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(n.)","description":"Credibility or truth."},{"word":"Faith","type":"(interj.)","description":"By my faith; in truth; verily."},{"word":"Faithed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere."},{"word":"Faithful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God."},{"word":"Faithful","type":"(a.)","description":"Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements."},{"word":"Faithful","type":"(a.)","description":"True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant."},{"word":"Faithful","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation."},{"word":"Faithless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not believing; not giving credit."},{"word":"Faithless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion."},{"word":"Faithless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not observant of promises or covenants."},{"word":"Faithless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife."},{"word":"Faithless","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying."},{"word":"Faitour","type":"(n.)","description":"A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel."},{"word":"Fake","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil."},{"word":"Fake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out."},{"word":"Fake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob."},{"word":"Fake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make; to construct; to do."},{"word":"Fake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it."},{"word":"Fake","type":"(n.)","description":"A trick; a swindle."},{"word":"Fakir","type":"(n.)","description":"An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk."},{"word":"Falanaka","type":"(n.)","description":"A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc."},{"word":"Falcade","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets."},{"word":"Falcate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Falcated"},{"word":"Falcated","type":"(a.)","description":"Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed."},{"word":"Falcation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle."},{"word":"Falcer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the mandibles of a spider."},{"word":"Falchion","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages."},{"word":"Falchion","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors."},{"word":"Falcidian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune."},{"word":"Falciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver."},{"word":"Falcon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight."},{"word":"Falcon","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game."},{"word":"Falcon","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient form of cannon."},{"word":"Falconer","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks."},{"word":"Falconet","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later."},{"word":"Falconet","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax."},{"word":"Falconet","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice."},{"word":"Falcongentil","type":"(n.)","description":"The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius)."},{"word":"Falconine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae"},{"word":"Falconry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game."},{"word":"Falconry","type":"(n.)","description":"The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks."},{"word":"Falcula","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved and sharp-pointed claw."},{"word":"Falculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon."},{"word":"Faldage","type":"(n.)","description":"A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor."},{"word":"Faldfee","type":"(n.)","description":"A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground."},{"word":"Falding","type":"(n.)","description":"A frieze or rough-napped cloth."},{"word":"Faldistory","type":"(n.)","description":"The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel."},{"word":"Faldstool","type":"(n.)","description":"A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church."},{"word":"Falernian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine."},{"word":"Falk","type":"(n.)","description":"The razorbill."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Fall"},{"word":"Fallen","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Fall"},{"word":"Falling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fall"},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come; to occur; to arrive."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To belong or appertain."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let fall; to drop."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diminish; to lessen or lower."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring forth; as, to fall lambs."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of felling or cutting down."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule."},{"word":"Fall","type":"(n.)","description":"That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting."},{"word":"Fallacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning."},{"word":"Fallacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fallacy"},{"word":"Fallacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception."},{"word":"Fallacy","type":"(n.)","description":"An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism."},{"word":"Fallals","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws."},{"word":"Fallax","type":"(n.)","description":"Cavillation; a caviling."},{"word":"Fallen","type":"(a.)","description":"Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead."},{"word":"Fallency","type":"(n.)","description":"An exception."},{"word":"Faller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, falls."},{"word":"Faller","type":"(n.)","description":"A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks."},{"word":"Fallfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species."},{"word":"Fallibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser."},{"word":"Fallible","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible."},{"word":"Fallibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fallible manner."},{"word":"Falling","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"from Fall, v. i."},{"word":"Fallopian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus."},{"word":"Fallow","type":"(a.)","description":"Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound."},{"word":"Fallow","type":"(n.)","description":"Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground."},{"word":"Fallow","type":"(n.)","description":"Plowed land."},{"word":"Fallow","type":"(n.)","description":"Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season."},{"word":"Fallow","type":"(n.)","description":"The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds."},{"word":"Fallowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fallow"},{"word":"Fallowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fallow"},{"word":"Fallow","type":"(n.)","description":"To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land."},{"word":"Fallow","type":"()","description":"A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks."},{"word":"Fallowist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors the practice of fallowing land."},{"word":"Fallowness","type":"(n.)","description":"A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered."},{"word":"Falsary","type":"(a.)","description":"A falsifier of evidence."},{"word":"False","type":"(superl.)","description":"Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness."},{"word":"False","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises."},{"word":"False","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement."},{"word":"False","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry."},{"word":"False","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar."},{"word":"False","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental."},{"word":"False","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not in tune."},{"word":"False","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not truly; not honestly; falsely."},{"word":"False","type":"(a.)","description":"To report falsely; to falsify."},{"word":"False","type":"(a.)","description":"To betray; to falsify."},{"word":"False","type":"(a.)","description":"To mislead by want of truth; to deceive."},{"word":"False","type":"(a.)","description":"To feign; to pretend to make."},{"word":"False-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Hypocritical."},{"word":"False-heart","type":"(a.)","description":"False-hearted."},{"word":"False-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious."},{"word":"Falsehood","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity."},{"word":"Falsehood","type":"(n.)","description":"A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie."},{"word":"Falsehood","type":"(n.)","description":"Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness."},{"word":"Falsehood","type":"(n.)","description":"A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture."},{"word":"Falsely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously."},{"word":"Falseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word."},{"word":"Falser","type":"(n.)","description":"A deceiver."},{"word":"Falsettos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Falsetto"},{"word":"Falsetto","type":"(n.)","description":"A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice."},{"word":"Falsicrimen","type":"()","description":"The crime of falsifying."},{"word":"Falsifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted."},{"word":"Falsification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not."},{"word":"Falsification","type":"(n.)","description":"Willful misstatement or misrepresentation."},{"word":"Falsification","type":"(n.)","description":"The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong."},{"word":"Falsificator","type":"(n.)","description":"A falsifier."},{"word":"Falsifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar."},{"word":"Falsified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Falsify"},{"word":"Falsifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Falsify"},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(a.)","description":"To make false; to represent falsely."},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(a.)","description":"To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin."},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(a.)","description":"To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false."},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(a.)","description":"To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word."},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(a.)","description":"To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow."},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(a.)","description":"To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment."},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(a.)","description":"To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong."},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(a.)","description":"To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document."},{"word":"Falsify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tell lies; to violate the truth."},{"word":"Falsism","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism."},{"word":"Falsities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Falsity"},{"word":"Falsity","type":"(a.)","description":"The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth."},{"word":"Falsity","type":"(a.)","description":"That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion."},{"word":"Falter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley."},{"word":"Faltered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Falter"},{"word":"Faltering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Falter"},{"word":"Falter","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters."},{"word":"Falter","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady."},{"word":"Falter","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"To hesitate in purpose or action."},{"word":"Falter","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought."},{"word":"Falter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner."},{"word":"Falter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice."},{"word":"Faltering","type":"(a.)","description":"Hesitating; trembling."},{"word":"Faltering","type":"(n.)","description":"Falter; halting; hesitation."},{"word":"Faluns","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision."},{"word":"Falwe","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Fallow."},{"word":"Falx","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain."},{"word":"Famble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stammer."},{"word":"Famble","type":"(v.)","description":"A hand."},{"word":"Fame","type":"(n.)","description":"Public report or rumor."},{"word":"Fame","type":"(n.)","description":"Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington."},{"word":"Famed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fame"},{"word":"Faming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fame"},{"word":"Fame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To report widely or honorably."},{"word":"Fame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make famous or renowned."},{"word":"Fameless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without fame or renown."},{"word":"Familiar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a family; domestic."},{"word":"Familiar","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures."},{"word":"Familiar","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible."},{"word":"Familiar","type":"(a.)","description":"Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration."},{"word":"Familiar","type":"(a.)","description":"Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate."},{"word":"Familiar","type":"(n.)","description":"An intimate; a companion."},{"word":"Familiar","type":"(n.)","description":"An attendant demon or evil spirit."},{"word":"Familiar","type":"(n.)","description":"A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused."},{"word":"Familiarities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Familiarity"},{"word":"Familiarity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity."},{"word":"Familiarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties."},{"word":"Familiarization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood."},{"word":"Familiarized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Familiarize"},{"word":"Familiarizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Familiarize"},{"word":"Familiarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress."},{"word":"Familiarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science."},{"word":"Familiarly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a familiar manner."},{"word":"Familiarness","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiarity."},{"word":"Familiary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic."},{"word":"Familism","type":"(n.)","description":"The tenets of the Familists."},{"word":"Familist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love."},{"word":"Familisteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Familistery"},{"word":"Familistery","type":"(n.)","description":"A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs."},{"word":"Familistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Familistical"},{"word":"Familistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Familists."},{"word":"Families","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Family"},{"word":"Family","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders."},{"word":"Family","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society."},{"word":"Family","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family."},{"word":"Family","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage."},{"word":"Family","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family."},{"word":"Family","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family."},{"word":"Family","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order."},{"word":"Famine","type":"(n.)","description":"General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution."},{"word":"Famished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Famish"},{"word":"Famishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Famish"},{"word":"Famish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger."},{"word":"Famish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger."},{"word":"Famish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary."},{"word":"Famish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force or constrain by famine."},{"word":"Famish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To die of hunger; to starve."},{"word":"Famish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish."},{"word":"Famish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary."},{"word":"Famishment","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being famished."},{"word":"Famosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being famous."},{"word":"Famous","type":"(a.)","description":"Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate."},{"word":"Famoused","type":"(a.)","description":"Renowned."},{"word":"Famously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly."},{"word":"Famousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being famous."},{"word":"Famular","type":"(n.)","description":"Domestic; familiar."},{"word":"Famulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To serve."},{"word":"Famulist","type":"(n.)","description":"A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface"},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"A quintain; -- from its form."},{"word":"Fanned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fan"},{"word":"Fanning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fan"},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"To move as with a fan."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat."},{"word":"Fan","type":"(n.)","description":"To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace."},{"word":"Fanal","type":"(n.)","description":"A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light."},{"word":"Fanatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions."},{"word":"Fanatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion."},{"word":"Fanatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic."},{"word":"Fanaticism","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy."},{"word":"Fanaticized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fanaticize"},{"word":"Fanaticizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fanaticize"},{"word":"Fanaticize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become a fanatic."},{"word":"Fanatism","type":"(n.)","description":"Fanaticism."},{"word":"Fancied","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong."},{"word":"Fancier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is governed by fancy."},{"word":"Fancier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals; as, bird fancier, dog fancier, etc."},{"word":"Fanciful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects."},{"word":"Fanciful","type":"(a.)","description":"Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory."},{"word":"Fanciful","type":"(a.)","description":"Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress."},{"word":"Fanciless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination."},{"word":"Fancies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fancy"},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(n.)","description":"An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(n.)","description":"An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(n.)","description":"That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad."},{"word":"Fancied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fancy"},{"word":"Fancying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fancy"},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To love."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal)."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods."},{"word":"Fancy","type":"(a.)","description":"Extravagant; above real value."},{"word":"Fancy-free","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from the power of love."},{"word":"Fancymonger","type":"(n.)","description":"A lovemonger; a whimsical lover."},{"word":"Fancy-sick","type":"(a.)","description":"Love-sick."},{"word":"Fancywork","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc."},{"word":"Fand","type":"()","description":"imp. of Find."},{"word":"Fandangoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fandango"},{"word":"Fandango","type":"(n.)","description":"A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced."},{"word":"Fandango","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball or general dance, as in Mexico."},{"word":"Fane","type":"(n.)","description":"A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church."},{"word":"Fane","type":"(n.)","description":"A weathercock."},{"word":"Fanega","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land."},{"word":"Fanfare","type":"(n.)","description":"A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase."},{"word":"Fanfaron","type":"(n.)","description":"A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster."},{"word":"Fanfaronade","type":"(n.)","description":"A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster."},{"word":"Fanfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes."},{"word":"Fanfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"Any moth of the genus Polypogon."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(a.)","description":"To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(a.)","description":"To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The valve of a pump box."},{"word":"Fang","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bend or loop of a rope."},{"word":"Fanged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively."},{"word":"Fangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament."},{"word":"Fangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fashion."},{"word":"Fangled","type":"(a.)","description":"New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled."},{"word":"Fangleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being fangled."},{"word":"Fangless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of fangs or tusks."},{"word":"Fangot","type":"(n.)","description":"A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight."},{"word":"Fanion","type":"(n.)","description":"A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade."},{"word":"Fanion","type":"(n.)","description":"A small flag for marking the stations in surveying."},{"word":"Fanlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a fan;"},{"word":"Fanlike","type":"(a.)","description":"folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate."},{"word":"Fannel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fanon."},{"word":"Fanner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fans."},{"word":"Fanner","type":"(n.)","description":"A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan."},{"word":"Fan-nerved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects."},{"word":"Fanon","type":"(n.)","description":"A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple."},{"word":"Fan","type":"()","description":"Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts."},{"word":"Fantail","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail."},{"word":"Fantail","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers."},{"word":"Fan-tailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon."},{"word":"Fantasia","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form."},{"word":"Fantasied","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled with fancies or imaginations."},{"word":"Fantasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Phantasm."},{"word":"Fantast","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose manners or ideas are fantastic."},{"word":"Fantastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical."},{"word":"Fantastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of a phantom; unreal."},{"word":"Fantastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress."},{"word":"Fantastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque."},{"word":"Fantastic","type":"(n.)","description":"A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop."},{"word":"Fantastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic."},{"word":"Fantasticality","type":"(n.)","description":"Fantastically."},{"word":"Fantastically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fantastic manner."},{"word":"Fantastic-alness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fantastic."},{"word":"Fantasticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality."},{"word":"Fantasticly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fantastically."},{"word":"Fantasticness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fantasticalness."},{"word":"Fantasticco","type":"(n.)","description":"A fantastic."},{"word":"Fantasies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fantasy"},{"word":"Fantasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor."},{"word":"Fantasy","type":"(n.)","description":"Fantastic designs."},{"word":"Fantasy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy."},{"word":"Fantoccini","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used."},{"word":"Fantom","type":"(n.)","description":"See Phantom."},{"word":"Fap","type":"(a.)","description":"Fuddled."},{"word":"Faquir","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fakir."},{"word":"Far","type":"(n.)","description":"A young pig, or a litter of pigs."},{"word":"Far","type":"(a.)","description":"Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent."},{"word":"Far","type":"(a.)","description":"Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty."},{"word":"Far","type":"(a.)","description":"Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated."},{"word":"Far","type":"(a.)","description":"Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character."},{"word":"Far","type":"(a.)","description":"The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts."},{"word":"Far","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other."},{"word":"Far","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity."},{"word":"Far","type":"(adv.)","description":"In great part; as, the day is far spent."},{"word":"Far","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly."},{"word":"Farabout","type":"(n.)","description":"A going out of the way; a digression."},{"word":"Farad","type":"(n.)","description":"The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt."},{"word":"Faradic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws."},{"word":"Faradism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Faradization"},{"word":"Faradization","type":"(n.)","description":"The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes."},{"word":"Farand","type":"(n.)","description":"See Farrand, n."},{"word":"Farandams","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair."},{"word":"Farantly","type":"(a.)","description":"Orderly; comely; respectable."},{"word":"Farced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Farce"},{"word":"Farcing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Farce"},{"word":"Farce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff."},{"word":"Farce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render fat."},{"word":"Farce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swell out; to render pompous."},{"word":"Farce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat."},{"word":"Farce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions."},{"word":"Farce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce."},{"word":"Farcement","type":"(n.)","description":"Stuffing; forcemeat."},{"word":"Farcical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal."},{"word":"Farcical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n."},{"word":"Farcilite","type":"(n.)","description":"Pudding stone."},{"word":"Farcimen","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Farcin"},{"word":"Farcin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Farcy."},{"word":"Farcing","type":"(n.)","description":"Stuffing; forcemeat."},{"word":"Farctate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow."},{"word":"Farcy","type":"(n.)","description":"A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen."},{"word":"Fard","type":"(n.)","description":"Paint used on the face."},{"word":"Fard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint; -- said esp. of one's face."},{"word":"Fardage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dunnage."},{"word":"Fardel","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden."},{"word":"Fardel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make up in fardels."},{"word":"Farding-bag","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen."},{"word":"Fardingdale","type":"(n.)","description":"A farthingale."},{"word":"Fardingdeal","type":"(n.)","description":"The fourth part of an acre of land."},{"word":"Fared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fare"},{"word":"Faring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fare"},{"word":"Fare","type":"(n.)","description":"To go; to pass; to journey; to travel."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(n.)","description":"To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(n.)","description":"To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(n.)","description":"To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(n.)","description":"To behave; to conduct one's self."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(v.)","description":"A journey; a passage."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(v.)","description":"The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(v.)","description":"Ado; bustle; business."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(v.)","description":"Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(v.)","description":"Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(v.)","description":"The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers."},{"word":"Fare","type":"(v.)","description":"The catch of fish on a fishing vessel."},{"word":"Faren","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Fare, v. i."},{"word":"Farewell","type":"(interj.)","description":"Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell."},{"word":"Farewell","type":"(n.)","description":"A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu."},{"word":"Farewell","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something."},{"word":"Farewell","type":"(a.)","description":"Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow."},{"word":"Farfet","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Farfetched."},{"word":"Farfetch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring from far; to seek out studiously."},{"word":"Farfetch","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem."},{"word":"Farfetched","type":"(a.)","description":"Brought from far, or from a remote place."},{"word":"Farfetched","type":"(a.)","description":"Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained."},{"word":"Farina","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery."},{"word":"Farina","type":"(n.)","description":"Pollen."},{"word":"Farinaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet."},{"word":"Farinaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds."},{"word":"Farinaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance."},{"word":"Farinose","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances."},{"word":"Farinose","type":"(a.)","description":"Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy."},{"word":"Farl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Furl."},{"word":"Farlie","type":"(n.)","description":"An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm."},{"word":"Farmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Farm"},{"word":"Farming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Farm"},{"word":"Farm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take at a certain rent or rate."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm."},{"word":"Farm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer."},{"word":"Farmable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being farmed."},{"word":"Farmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who farms"},{"word":"Farmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant."},{"word":"Farmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman."},{"word":"Farmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues."},{"word":"Farmer","type":"(n.)","description":"The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown."},{"word":"Farmeress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who farms."},{"word":"Farmership","type":"(n.)","description":"Skill in farming."},{"word":"Farmery","type":"(n.)","description":"The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead."},{"word":"Farmhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence."},{"word":"Farming","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community."},{"word":"Farming","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of cultivating land."},{"word":"Farmost","type":"(a.)","description":"Most distant; farthest."},{"word":"Farmstead","type":"(n.)","description":"A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm."},{"word":"Farmsteading","type":"(n.)","description":"A farmstead."},{"word":"Farmyard","type":"(n.)","description":"The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings."},{"word":"Farness","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being far off; distance; remoteness."},{"word":"Faro","type":"(n.)","description":"A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack."},{"word":"Faroese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands."},{"word":"Far-off","type":"(a.)","description":"Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv."},{"word":"Farraginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain."},{"word":"Farrago","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture."},{"word":"Farrand","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner; custom; fashion; humor."},{"word":"Farreation","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Confarreation."},{"word":"Farrier","type":"(n.)","description":"A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon."},{"word":"Farrier","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier."},{"word":"Farriery","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of shoeing horses."},{"word":"Farriery","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art."},{"word":"Farriery","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where a smith shoes horses."},{"word":"Farrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A little of pigs."},{"word":"Farrowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Farfow"},{"word":"Farrowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Farfow"},{"word":"Farfow","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine."},{"word":"Farrow","type":"(a.)","description":"Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows."},{"word":"Farry","type":"(n.)","description":"A farrow."},{"word":"Farse","type":"(n.)","description":"An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation."},{"word":"Farseeing","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to see to a great distance; farsighted."},{"word":"Farseeing","type":"(a.)","description":"Having foresight as regards the future."},{"word":"Farsighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious."},{"word":"Farsighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Hypermetropic."},{"word":"Farsightedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of bbeing farsighted."},{"word":"Farsightedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Hypermetropia."},{"word":"Farstretched","type":"(a.)","description":"Streatched beyond ordinary limits."},{"word":"Farther","type":"(superl.)","description":"More remote; more distant than something else."},{"word":"Farther","type":"(superl.)","description":"Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further."},{"word":"Farther","type":"(adv.)","description":"At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther."},{"word":"Farther","type":"(adv.)","description":"Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event."},{"word":"Farther","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To help onward. [R.] See Further."},{"word":"Fartherance","type":"(n.)","description":"See Furtherance."},{"word":"Farthermore","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Furthermore."},{"word":"Farthermost","type":"(a.)","description":"Most remote; farthest."},{"word":"Farthest","type":"(Superl.)","description":"Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest."},{"word":"Farthest","type":"(adv.)","description":"At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest."},{"word":"Farthing","type":"(n.)","description":"The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency."},{"word":"Farthing","type":"(n.)","description":"A very small quantity or value."},{"word":"Farthing","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of land."},{"word":"Farthingale","type":"(n.)","description":"A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat."},{"word":"Fasces","type":"(pl.)","description":"A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority."},{"word":"Fascet","type":"(n.)","description":"A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty."},{"word":"Fasciae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fascia"},{"word":"Fascia","type":"(n.)","description":"A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller."},{"word":"Fascia","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column."},{"word":"Fascia","type":"(n.)","description":"The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis."},{"word":"Fascia","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad well-defined band of color."},{"word":"Fascial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the fasces."},{"word":"Fascial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a fascia."},{"word":"Fasciate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fasciated"},{"word":"Fasciated","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage."},{"word":"Fasciated","type":"(a.)","description":"Banded or compacted together."},{"word":"Fasciated","type":"(a.)","description":"Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb."},{"word":"Fasciated","type":"(a.)","description":"Broadly banded with color."},{"word":"Fasciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated."},{"word":"Fascicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots."},{"word":"Fascicled","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair."},{"word":"Fascicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root."},{"word":"Fascicularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fascicled manner."},{"word":"Fasciculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fasciculated"},{"word":"Fasciculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled."},{"word":"Fasciculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fasciculus"},{"word":"Fasciculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A little bundle; a fascicle."},{"word":"Fasciculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of a book."},{"word":"Fascinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fascinate"},{"word":"Fascinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fascinate"},{"word":"Fascinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant."},{"word":"Fascinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms."},{"word":"Fascination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence."},{"word":"Fascination","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being fascinated."},{"word":"Fascination","type":"(n.)","description":"That which fascinates; a charm; a spell."},{"word":"Fascine","type":"(n.)","description":"A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc."},{"word":"Fascinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Caused or acting by witchcraft."},{"word":"Fasciolae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fasciola"},{"word":"Fasciola","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution."},{"word":"Fasciole","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea."},{"word":"Fashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fash"},{"word":"Fashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fash"},{"word":"Fash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vex; to tease; to trouble."},{"word":"Fash","type":"(n.)","description":"Vexation; anxiety; care."},{"word":"Fashion","type":"(n.)","description":"The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution."},{"word":"Fashion","type":"(n.)","description":"The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion."},{"word":"Fashion","type":"(n.)","description":"Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion."},{"word":"Fashion","type":"(n.)","description":"Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way."},{"word":"Fashioned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fashion"},{"word":"Fashioning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fashion"},{"word":"Fashion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold."},{"word":"Fashion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to."},{"word":"Fashion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make according to the rule prescribed by custom."},{"word":"Fashion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forge or counterfeit."},{"word":"Fashionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress."},{"word":"Fashionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions."},{"word":"Fashionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man."},{"word":"Fashionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society."},{"word":"Fashionable","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural."},{"word":"Fashionableness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being fashionable."},{"word":"Fashionably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fashionable manner."},{"word":"Fashioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new-fashioned."},{"word":"Fashioner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything."},{"word":"Fashionist","type":"(n.)","description":"An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions."},{"word":"Fashionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no fashion."},{"word":"Fashion-monger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy."},{"word":"Fashion-mongering","type":"(a.)","description":"Behaving like a fashion-monger."},{"word":"Fassaite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol."},{"word":"Fasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fast"},{"word":"Fasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fast"},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v.)","description":"Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v.)","description":"Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v.)","description":"Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v.)","description":"Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v.)","description":"Tenacious; retentive."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v.)","description":"Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v.)","description":"Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(v.)","description":"Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(a.)","description":"In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(a.)","description":"In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(n.)","description":"That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring."},{"word":"Fastened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fasten"},{"word":"Fastening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fasten"},{"word":"Fasten","type":"(a.)","description":"To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window."},{"word":"Fasten","type":"(a.)","description":"To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts."},{"word":"Fasten","type":"(a.)","description":"To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow."},{"word":"Fasten","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling."},{"word":"Fastener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, makes fast or firm."},{"word":"Fastening","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc."},{"word":"Faster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who abstains from food."},{"word":"Fast-handed","type":"(a.)","description":"Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious."},{"word":"Fasti","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac."},{"word":"Fasti","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"Records or registers of important events."},{"word":"Fastidiosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fastidiousness; squeamishness."},{"word":"Fastidious","type":"(a.)","description":"Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite."},{"word":"Fastigiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fastigiated"},{"word":"Fastigiated","type":"(a.)","description":"Narrowing towards the top."},{"word":"Fastigiated","type":"(a.)","description":"Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed."},{"word":"Fastigiated","type":"(a.)","description":"United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat."},{"word":"Fastish","type":"(a.)","description":"Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated."},{"word":"Fastly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Firmly; surely."},{"word":"Fastness","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness."},{"word":"Fastness","type":"(a.)","description":"A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains."},{"word":"Fastness","type":"(a.)","description":"Conciseness of style."},{"word":"Fastness","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being fast or swift."},{"word":"Fastuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Proud; haughty; disdainful."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(n.)","description":"A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Abounding with fat"},{"word":"Fat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(n.)","description":"The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(n.)","description":"Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor."},{"word":"Fatted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fat"},{"word":"atting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fat"},{"word":"Fat","type":"(a.)","description":"To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep."},{"word":"Fat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow fat, plump, and fleshy."},{"word":"Fatal","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable."},{"word":"Fatal","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreboding death or great disaster."},{"word":"Fatal","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error."},{"word":"Fatalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity."},{"word":"Fatalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity."},{"word":"Fatalistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism."},{"word":"Fatalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fatality"},{"word":"Fatality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control."},{"word":"Fatality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility."},{"word":"Fatality","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event."},{"word":"Fatally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate."},{"word":"Fatally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded."},{"word":"Fatalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being fatal."},{"word":"Fata","type":"()","description":"A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily."},{"word":"Fatback","type":"(n.)","description":"The menhaden."},{"word":"Fat-brained","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull of apprehension."},{"word":"Fate","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned."},{"word":"Fate","type":"(n.)","description":"Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death."},{"word":"Fate","type":"(n.)","description":"The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him."},{"word":"Fate","type":"(n.)","description":"The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread."},{"word":"Fated","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people."},{"word":"Fated","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Invested with the power of determining destiny."},{"word":"Fated","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Exempted by fate."},{"word":"Fateful","type":"(a. .)","description":"Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate."},{"word":"Fateful","type":"(a. .)","description":"Significant of fate; ominous."},{"word":"Fathead","type":"(n.)","description":"A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow."},{"word":"Fathead","type":"(n.)","description":"A labroid food fish of California; the redfish."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"A respectful mode of address to an old man."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"A senator of ancient Rome."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher."},{"word":"Father","type":"(n.)","description":"The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity."},{"word":"Fathered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Father"},{"word":"Fathering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Father"},{"word":"Father","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make one's self the father of; to beget."},{"word":"Father","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.)."},{"word":"Father","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with a father."},{"word":"Fatherhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity."},{"word":"Fathers-in-law","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Father-in-law"},{"word":"Father-in-law","type":"(n.)","description":"The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law."},{"word":"Fatherland","type":"(n.)","description":"One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors."},{"word":"Father-lasher","type":"(n.)","description":"A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach."},{"word":"Fatherless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child."},{"word":"Fatherless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a known author."},{"word":"Fatherlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being without a father."},{"word":"Fatherliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc."},{"word":"Father","type":"()","description":"See Daddy longlegs, 2."},{"word":"Fatherly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful."},{"word":"Fatherly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a father."},{"word":"Fathership","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity."},{"word":"Fathom","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings."},{"word":"Fathom","type":"(n.)","description":"The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration."},{"word":"Fathomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fathom"},{"word":"Fathoming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fathom"},{"word":"Fathom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span."},{"word":"Fathom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of."},{"word":"Fathomable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being fathomed."},{"word":"Fathomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fathoms."},{"word":"Fathomless","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded."},{"word":"Fathomless","type":"(a.)","description":"Incomprehensible."},{"word":"Fatidical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak."},{"word":"Fatiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive."},{"word":"Fatigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily tired."},{"word":"Fatigate","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearied; tired; fatigued."},{"word":"Fatigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weary; to tire; to fatigue."},{"word":"Fatigation","type":"(n.)","description":"Weariness."},{"word":"Fatigue","type":"(n.)","description":"Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength."},{"word":"Fatigue","type":"(n.)","description":"The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war."},{"word":"Fatigue","type":"(n.)","description":"The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains."},{"word":"Fatigued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fatigue"},{"word":"Fatiguing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fatigue"},{"word":"Fatigue","type":"(n.)","description":"To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire."},{"word":"Fatiloquent","type":"(a.)","description":"Prophetic; fatidical."},{"word":"Fatiloquist","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortune teller."},{"word":"Fatimite","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fatimide"},{"word":"Fatimide","type":"(a.)","description":"Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed."},{"word":"Fatimide","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Fatima."},{"word":"Fatiscence","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures."},{"word":"Fat-kidneyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Gross; lubberly."},{"word":"Fatling","type":"(n.)","description":"A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food."},{"word":"Fatly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Grossly; greasily."},{"word":"Fatner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener."},{"word":"Fatness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh."},{"word":"Fatness","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness."},{"word":"Fatness","type":"(n.)","description":"That which makes fat or fertile."},{"word":"Fattened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fatten"},{"word":"Fattining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fatten"},{"word":"Fatten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat."},{"word":"Fatten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood."},{"word":"Fatten","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered."},{"word":"Fattener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility."},{"word":"Fattiness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being fatty."},{"word":"Fattish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness."},{"word":"Fatty","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance."},{"word":"Fatuitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Stupid; fatuous."},{"word":"Fatuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity."},{"word":"Fatuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous."},{"word":"Fatuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus."},{"word":"Fat-wited","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull; stupid."},{"word":"Faubourg","type":"(n.)","description":"A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls."},{"word":"Faucal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages."},{"word":"Fauces","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils."},{"word":"Fauces","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc."},{"word":"Fauces","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture."},{"word":"Faucet","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide."},{"word":"Faucet","type":"(n.)","description":"The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section."},{"word":"Fauchion","type":"(n.)","description":"See Falchion."},{"word":"Faucial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal."},{"word":"Faugh","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence."},{"word":"Faulchion","type":"(n.)","description":"See Falchion."},{"word":"Faulcon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Falcon."},{"word":"Fauld","type":"(n.)","description":"The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch."},{"word":"Faule","type":"(n.)","description":"A fall or falling band."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(n.)","description":"Defect; want; lack; default."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(n.)","description":"A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(n.)","description":"A dislocation of the strata of the vein."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(n.)","description":"In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(n.)","description":"A lost scent; act of losing the scent."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure to serve the ball into the proper court."},{"word":"Faulted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fault"},{"word":"Faulting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fault"},{"word":"Fault","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted."},{"word":"Fault","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong."},{"word":"Faulter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who commits a fault."},{"word":"Fault-finder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold."},{"word":"Fault-finding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj."},{"word":"Faultful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of faults or sins."},{"word":"Faultily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a faulty manner."},{"word":"Faultiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality or state of being faulty."},{"word":"Faulting","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced."},{"word":"Faultless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem."},{"word":"Faulty","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended."},{"word":"Faulty","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure."},{"word":"Faun","type":"(n.)","description":"A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man."},{"word":"Fauna","type":"(n.)","description":"The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna."},{"word":"Faunal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to fauna."},{"word":"Faunist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist."},{"word":"Fauni","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Faunus"},{"word":"Faunus","type":"(n.)","description":"See Faun."},{"word":"Fausen","type":"(n.)","description":"A young eel."},{"word":"Fausse-braye","type":"(n.)","description":"A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level."},{"word":"Fauteuil","type":"(n.)","description":"An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy."},{"word":"Fauteuil","type":"(n.)","description":"Chair of a presiding officer."},{"word":"Fautor","type":"(n.)","description":"A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor."},{"word":"Fautress","type":"(n.)","description":"A patroness."},{"word":"Fauvette","type":"(n.)","description":"A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers."},{"word":"Fauces","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Faux"},{"word":"Faux","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fauces."},{"word":"faux","type":"()","description":"A false step; a mistake or wrong measure."},{"word":"Favaginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb."},{"word":"Favas","type":"(n.)","description":"See Favus, n., 2."},{"word":"Favel","type":"(a.)","description":"Yellow; fal/ow; dun."},{"word":"Favel","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse of a favel or dun color."},{"word":"Favel","type":"(n.)","description":"Flattery; cajolery; deceit."},{"word":"Favella","type":"(n.)","description":"A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae."},{"word":"Faveolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose."},{"word":"Favillous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ashes."},{"word":"Favonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"The object of regard; person or thing favored."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance; look; countenance; face."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"Partiality; bias."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"Love locks."},{"word":"Favored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Favor"},{"word":"Favoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Favor"},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy."},{"word":"Favor","type":"(n.)","description":"To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father."},{"word":"Favorable","type":"(n.)","description":"Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly."},{"word":"Favorable","type":"(n.)","description":"Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient."},{"word":"Favorable","type":"(n.)","description":"Beautiful; well-favored."},{"word":"Favored","type":"(a.)","description":"Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend."},{"word":"Favored","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc."},{"word":"Favoredly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably."},{"word":"Favoredness","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance."},{"word":"Favorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity."},{"word":"Favoress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who favors or gives countenance."},{"word":"Favoring","type":"(a.)","description":"That favors."},{"word":"Favorite","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority."},{"word":"Favorite","type":"(n.)","description":"Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II."},{"word":"Favorite","type":"(n.)","description":"The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting."},{"word":"Favorite","type":"(a.)","description":"Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child."},{"word":"Favoritism","type":"(n.)","description":"The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality."},{"word":"Favorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support."},{"word":"Favorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpropitious; unfavorable."},{"word":"Favose","type":"(a.)","description":"Honeycombed. See Faveolate."},{"word":"Favose","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the disease called favus."},{"word":"Favosite","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites."},{"word":"Favosites","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls."},{"word":"Favus","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite."},{"word":"Favus","type":"(n.)","description":"A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila."},{"word":"Fawe","type":"(a.)","description":"Fain; glad; delighted."},{"word":"Fawkner","type":"(n.)","description":"A falconer."},{"word":"Fawn","type":"(n.)","description":"A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck."},{"word":"Fawn","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of an animal; a whelp."},{"word":"Fawn","type":"(n.)","description":"A fawn color."},{"word":"Fawn","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored."},{"word":"Fawn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bring forth a fawn."},{"word":"Fawned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fawn"},{"word":"Fawning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fawn"},{"word":"Fawn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon."},{"word":"Fawn","type":"(n.)","description":"A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy."},{"word":"Fawn-colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown."},{"word":"Fawner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fawns; a sycophant."},{"word":"Fawningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fawning manner."},{"word":"Faxed","type":"(a.)","description":"Hairy."},{"word":"Fay","type":"(n.)","description":"A fairy; an elf."},{"word":"Fay","type":"(n.)","description":"Faith; as, by my fay."},{"word":"fayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fay"},{"word":"Faying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fay"},{"word":"Fay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together."},{"word":"Fay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together."},{"word":"Fayalite","type":"(n.)","description":"A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron."},{"word":"Fayence","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fa/ence."},{"word":"Faytour","type":"(n.)","description":"See Faitour."},{"word":"Faze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Feeze."},{"word":"Fazzolet","type":"(n.)","description":"A handkerchief."},{"word":"Feaberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A gooseberry."},{"word":"Feague","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat or whip; to drive."},{"word":"Feal","type":"(a.)","description":"Faithful; loyal."},{"word":"Fealty","type":"(n.)","description":"Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation."},{"word":"Fealty","type":"(n.)","description":"Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness."},{"word":"Feared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fear"},{"word":"Fearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fear"},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"To be anxious or solicitous for."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"To suspect; to doubt."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(n.)","description":"To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear."},{"word":"Fear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil."},{"word":"Fearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fars."},{"word":"Fearful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened."},{"word":"Fearful","type":"(a.)","description":"inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid."},{"word":"Fearful","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating, or caused by, fear."},{"word":"Fearful","type":"(a.)","description":"Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful."},{"word":"Fearfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fearful manner."},{"word":"Fearfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fearful."},{"word":"Fearless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from fear."},{"word":"Fearnaught","type":"(n.)","description":"A fearless person."},{"word":"Fearnaught","type":"(n.)","description":"A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment."},{"word":"Fearsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Frightful; causing fear."},{"word":"Fearsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily frightened; timid; timorous."},{"word":"Feasibilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Feasibility"},{"word":"Feasibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility."},{"word":"Feasible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable."},{"word":"Feasible","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit to be used or tailed, as land."},{"word":"Feast","type":"(n.)","description":"A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary."},{"word":"Feast","type":"(n.)","description":"A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food."},{"word":"Feast","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment."},{"word":"Feasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Feast"},{"word":"Feasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Feast"},{"word":"Feast","type":"(n.)","description":"To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals."},{"word":"Feast","type":"(n.)","description":"To be highly gratified or delighted."},{"word":"Feast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king."},{"word":"Feast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul."},{"word":"Feaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fares deliciously."},{"word":"Feaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who entertains magnificently."},{"word":"Feastful","type":"(a.)","description":"Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious."},{"word":"Feat","type":"(n.)","description":"An act; a deed; an exploit."},{"word":"Feat","type":"(n.)","description":"A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity."},{"word":"Feat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form; to fashion."},{"word":"Feat","type":"(n.)","description":"Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty."},{"word":"Feat-bodied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a feat or trim body."},{"word":"Feateous","type":"(a.)","description":"Dexterous; neat."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(n.)","description":"Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, \"Birds of a feather,\" that is, of the same species."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(n.)","description":"The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(n.)","description":"A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(n.)","description":"The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water."},{"word":"Feathered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Feather"},{"word":"Feathering.","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Feather"},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render light as a feather; to give wings to."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enrich; to exalt; to benefit."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tread, as a cock."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or \"feathers;\" as, the cream feathers"},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars."},{"word":"Feather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form."},{"word":"Feather-brained/","type":"(a.)","description":"Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed."},{"word":"Feathered","type":"(a.)","description":"Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow."},{"word":"Feathered","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees."},{"word":"Feathered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog."},{"word":"Feathered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft."},{"word":"Feather-edge/","type":"(n.)","description":"The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster."},{"word":"Feather-edge/","type":"(n.)","description":"Any thin, as on a board or a razor."},{"word":"Feather-edged/","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable."},{"word":"Feather-few/","type":"(n.)","description":"Feverfew."},{"word":"Feather-foil","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves."},{"word":"Feather-head","type":"(n.)","description":"A frivolous or featherbrained person."},{"word":"Feather-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Giddy; frivolous; foolish."},{"word":"Feather-heeled","type":"(a.)","description":"Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome."},{"word":"Featherness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being feathery."},{"word":"Feathering","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Foliation."},{"word":"Feathering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t."},{"word":"Feathering","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A covering of feathers."},{"word":"Featherless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of feathers."},{"word":"Featherly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like feathers."},{"word":"Feather-pated","type":"(a.)","description":"Feather-headed; frivolous."},{"word":"Feather-veined","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib."},{"word":"Feathery","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow."},{"word":"Featly","type":"(a.)","description":"Neatly; dexterously; nimbly."},{"word":"Featness","type":"(n.)","description":"Skill; adroitness."},{"word":"Feature","type":"(n.)","description":"The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance."},{"word":"Feature","type":"(n.)","description":"The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance."},{"word":"Feature","type":"(n.)","description":"The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape."},{"word":"Feature","type":"(n.)","description":"A form; a shape."},{"word":"Featured","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped; fashioned."},{"word":"Featured","type":"(a.)","description":"Having features; formed into features."},{"word":"Featureless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no distinct or distinctive features."},{"word":"Featurely","type":"(a.)","description":"Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome."},{"word":"Feazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Feaze"},{"word":"Feazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Feaze"},{"word":"Feaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope."},{"word":"Feaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry."},{"word":"Feaze","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation."},{"word":"Feazings","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The unlaid or ragged end of a rope."},{"word":"Febricitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a fever."},{"word":"Febriculose","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat feverish."},{"word":"Febrifacient","type":"(a.)","description":"Febrific."},{"word":"Febrifacient","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes fever."},{"word":"Febriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality."},{"word":"Febrific","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fever."},{"word":"Febrifugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever."},{"word":"Febrifuge","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever."},{"word":"Febrifuge","type":"(a.)","description":"Antifebrile."},{"word":"Febrile","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action."},{"word":"February","type":"(n.)","description":"The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days."},{"word":"Februation","type":"(n.)","description":"Purification; a sacrifice."},{"word":"Fecal","type":"(a.)","description":"relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal."},{"word":"Fecche","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fetch."},{"word":"Feces","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces."},{"word":"Fecial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law."},{"word":"Fecifork","type":"(n.)","description":"The anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces."},{"word":"Feckless","type":"(a.)","description":"Spiritless; weak; worthless."},{"word":"Fecks","type":"(n.)","description":"A corruption of the word faith."},{"word":"FeculAe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fecula"},{"word":"Fecula","type":"(n.)","description":"Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence."},{"word":"Fecula","type":"(n.)","description":"The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula."},{"word":"Fecula","type":"(n.)","description":"The green matter of plants; chlorophyll."},{"word":"Feculence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness."},{"word":"Feculence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs."},{"word":"Feculency","type":"(n.)","description":"Feculence."},{"word":"Feculent","type":"(a.)","description":"Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid."},{"word":"Fecund","type":"(a.)","description":"Fruitful in children; prolific."},{"word":"Fecundated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fecundate"},{"word":"Fecundating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fecundate"},{"word":"Fecundate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fruitful or prolific."},{"word":"Fecundate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma."},{"word":"Fecundation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization."},{"word":"Fecundify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fruitful; to fecundate."},{"word":"Fecundity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers."},{"word":"Fecundity","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of germinating; as in seeds."},{"word":"Fecundity","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power."},{"word":"Fed","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Feed."},{"word":"Fedary","type":"(n.)","description":"A feodary."},{"word":"Federal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives."},{"word":"Federal","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland."},{"word":"Federal","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer."},{"word":"Federal","type":"(a.)","description":"Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist."},{"word":"Federal","type":"(n.)","description":"See Federalist."},{"word":"Federalism","type":"(n.)","description":"the principles of Federalists or of federal union."},{"word":"Federalist","type":"(n.)","description":"An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington."},{"word":"Federalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Federalize"},{"word":"Federalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Federalize"},{"word":"Federalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution."},{"word":"Federary","type":"(n.)","description":"A partner; a confederate; an accomplice."},{"word":"Federate","type":"(a.)","description":"United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations."},{"word":"Federation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of uniting in a league; confederation."},{"word":"Federation","type":"(n.)","description":"A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government."},{"word":"Federative","type":"(a.)","description":"Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal."},{"word":"Fedity","type":"(n.)","description":"Turpitude; vileness."},{"word":"Fee","type":"(n.)","description":"property; possession; tenure."},{"word":"Fee","type":"(n.)","description":"Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc."},{"word":"Fee","type":"(n.)","description":"A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief."},{"word":"Fee","type":"(n.)","description":"An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner."},{"word":"Fee","type":"(n.)","description":"An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fee"},{"word":"Feeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fee"},{"word":"Fee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe."},{"word":"Feeble","type":"(superl.)","description":"Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated."},{"word":"Feeble","type":"(superl.)","description":"Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion."},{"word":"Feeble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make feble; to enfeeble."},{"word":"Feeble-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile."},{"word":"Feebleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity."},{"word":"Feebly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a feeble manner."},{"word":"Fed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Feed"},{"word":"Feeding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Feed"},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work)."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take food; to eat."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(n.)","description":"A grazing or pasture ground."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(n.)","description":"A meal, or the act of eating."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(n.)","description":"The water supplied to steam boilers."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(n.)","description":"The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(n.)","description":"The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones."},{"word":"Feed","type":"(n.)","description":"The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who furnishes incentives; an encourager."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fattens cattle for slaughter."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon."},{"word":"Feeder","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed."},{"word":"Feeding","type":"(n.)","description":"the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening."},{"word":"Feeding","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is eaten; food."},{"word":"Feeding","type":"(n.)","description":"That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land."},{"word":"Fee-faw-fum","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant."},{"word":"Feejee","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Fijian."},{"word":"Felt","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Feel"},{"word":"Feeling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Feel"},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perceive; to observe."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have the sensibilities moved or affected."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(n.)","description":"Feeling; perception."},{"word":"Feel","type":"(n.)","description":"A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel."},{"word":"Feeler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, feels."},{"word":"Feeler","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp."},{"word":"Feeler","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative."},{"word":"Feeling","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart."},{"word":"Feeling","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs."},{"word":"Feeling","type":"(n.)","description":"The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects."},{"word":"Feeling","type":"(n.)","description":"An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness."},{"word":"Feeling","type":"(n.)","description":"The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling."},{"word":"Feeling","type":"(n.)","description":"Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility."},{"word":"Feeling","type":"(n.)","description":"That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator."},{"word":"Feelingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically."},{"word":"Feere","type":"(n.)","description":"A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere."},{"word":"Feese","type":"(n.)","description":"the short run before a leap."},{"word":"Feet","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Foot."},{"word":"Feet","type":"(n.)","description":"Fact; performance."},{"word":"Feetless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds."},{"word":"Feeze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn, as a screw."},{"word":"Feeze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry."},{"word":"Feeze","type":"(n.)","description":"Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze."},{"word":"Fehling","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fehling's solution, under Solution."},{"word":"Fehmic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Vehmic."},{"word":"Feigned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Feign"},{"word":"Feigning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Feign"},{"word":"Feign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true."},{"word":"Feign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness."},{"word":"Feign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dissemble; to conceal."},{"word":"Feigned","type":"(a.)","description":"Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false."},{"word":"Feigner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who feigns or pretends."},{"word":"Feigning","type":"(a.)","description":"That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false."},{"word":"Feine","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To feign."},{"word":"Feint","type":"(a.)","description":"Feigned; counterfeit."},{"word":"Feint","type":"(a.)","description":"That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch."},{"word":"Feint","type":"(a.)","description":"A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc."},{"word":"Feint","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a feint, or mock attack."},{"word":"Feitsui","type":"(n.)","description":"The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade."},{"word":"Feize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Feeze, v. t."},{"word":"Felanders","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Filanders."},{"word":"Feldspar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Feldspath"},{"word":"Feldspath","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish."},{"word":"Feldspathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Feldspathose"},{"word":"Feldspathose","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar."},{"word":"Fele","type":"(a.)","description":"Many."},{"word":"Fe-licify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make happy; to felicitate."},{"word":"Felicitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Made very happy."},{"word":"Felicitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Felicitate"},{"word":"felicitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Felicitate"},{"word":"Felicitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make very happy; to delight."},{"word":"Felicitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate."},{"word":"Felicitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation."},{"word":"Felicitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate."},{"word":"Felicities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Felicity"},{"word":"Felicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good."},{"word":"Felicity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing."},{"word":"Felicity","type":"(n.)","description":"A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking."},{"word":"Feline","type":"(a.)","description":"Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity."},{"word":"Feline","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners."},{"word":"Felis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals."},{"word":"Fell","type":"()","description":"imp. of Fall."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(a.)","description":"Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(a.)","description":"Eager; earnest; intent."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(a.)","description":"Gall; anger; melancholy."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(n.)","description":"A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(n.)","description":"A barren or rocky hill."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(n.)","description":"A wild field; a moor."},{"word":"Felled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fell"},{"word":"Felling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fell"},{"word":"Fell","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(n.)","description":"The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sew or hem; -- said of seams."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses."},{"word":"Fell","type":"(n.)","description":"The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft."},{"word":"Fellable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit to be felled."},{"word":"Fellahin","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fellah"},{"word":"Fellahs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fellah"},{"word":"Fellah","type":"(n.)","description":"A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc."},{"word":"Feller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees."},{"word":"Feller","type":"(n.)","description":"An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam."},{"word":"Felltare","type":"(n.)","description":"The fieldfare."},{"word":"Felliflu-ous","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing with gall."},{"word":"Fellinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid."},{"word":"Fellmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts."},{"word":"Fellness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity."},{"word":"Felloe","type":"(n.)","description":"See Felly."},{"word":"Fellon","type":"(n.)","description":"Variant of Felon."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"An equal in power, rank, character, etc."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"A person; an individual."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society."},{"word":"Fellow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suit with; to pair with; to match."},{"word":"Fellow-commoner","type":"(n.)","description":"A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table."},{"word":"Fellow-creature","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator."},{"word":"Fellowfeel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To share through sympathy; to participate in."},{"word":"Fellow-feeling","type":"(n.)","description":"Sympathy; a like feeling."},{"word":"Fellow-feeling","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint interest."},{"word":"Fellowless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without fellow or equal; peerless."},{"word":"Fellowlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic."},{"word":"Fellowly","type":"(a.)","description":"Fellowlike."},{"word":"Fellowship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or relation of being or associate."},{"word":"Fellowship","type":"(n.)","description":"Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse."},{"word":"Fellowship","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest."},{"word":"Fellowship","type":"(n.)","description":"Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company."},{"word":"Fellowship","type":"(n.)","description":"A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university."},{"word":"Fellowship","type":"(n.)","description":"The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion."},{"word":"Fellowshiped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fellowship"},{"word":"Fellowshiping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fellowship"},{"word":"Fellowship","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship."},{"word":"Felly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely."},{"word":"Fellies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Felly"},{"word":"Felly","type":"(n.)","description":"The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes."},{"word":"Felos-de-se","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Felo-de-se"},{"word":"Felo-de-se","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide."},{"word":"Felon","type":"(a.)","description":"A person who has committed a felony."},{"word":"Felon","type":"(a.)","description":"A person guilty or capable of heinous crime."},{"word":"Felon","type":"(a.)","description":"A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint."},{"word":"Felon","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal."},{"word":"Felonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide."},{"word":"Felonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Wicked; felonious."},{"word":"Felonry","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony."},{"word":"Felonwort","type":"(n.)","description":"The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet."},{"word":"Felonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Felony"},{"word":"Felony","type":"(n.)","description":"An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture."},{"word":"Felony","type":"(n.)","description":"An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt."},{"word":"Felony","type":"(n.)","description":"A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment."},{"word":"To","type":"()","description":"See under Compound, v. t."},{"word":"Felsite","type":"(n.)","description":"A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz."},{"word":"Felsitic","type":"(a.)","description":"relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite."},{"word":"Felspar","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Felspath"},{"word":"Felspath","type":"(n.)","description":"See Feldspar."},{"word":"Felspathic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Feldspathic."},{"word":"Felstone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Felsite."},{"word":"Felt","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. / a. from Feel."},{"word":"Felt","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving."},{"word":"Felt","type":"(n.)","description":"A hat made of felt."},{"word":"Felt","type":"(n.)","description":"A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt."},{"word":"Felted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Felt"},{"word":"Felting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Felt"},{"word":"Felt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together."},{"word":"Felt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine."},{"word":"Felter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clot or mat together like felt."},{"word":"Felting","type":"(n.)","description":"The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made."},{"word":"Felting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of splitting timber by the felt grain."},{"word":"Feltry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Felt, n."},{"word":"Felucca","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean."},{"word":"Felwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family."},{"word":"Female","type":"(n.)","description":"An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova."},{"word":"Female","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant."},{"word":"Female","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male."},{"word":"Female","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness."},{"word":"Female","type":"(a.)","description":"Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization."},{"word":"Female","type":"()","description":"double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line."},{"word":"Female","type":"()","description":"a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern."},{"word":"Femalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A gallant."},{"word":"Femalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make, or to describe as, female or feminine."},{"word":"Feme","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman."},{"word":"Femeral","type":"(n.)","description":"See Femerell."},{"word":"Femerell","type":"(n.)","description":"A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke."},{"word":"Feminal","type":"(a.)","description":"Feminine."},{"word":"Feminality","type":"(n.)","description":"Feminity."},{"word":"Feminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Feminine."},{"word":"Femineity","type":"(n.)","description":"Womanliness; femininity."},{"word":"Feminine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly."},{"word":"Feminine","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate."},{"word":"Feminine","type":"()","description":"See Female rhyme, under Female, a."},{"word":"Feminine","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman."},{"word":"Feminine","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix."},{"word":"Femininely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a feminine manner."},{"word":"Feminineness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness."},{"word":"Femininity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness."},{"word":"Femininity","type":"(n.)","description":"The female form."},{"word":"Feminity","type":"(n.)","description":"Womanliness; femininity."},{"word":"Feminization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized."},{"word":"Feminize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make womanish or effeminate."},{"word":"Feminye","type":"(n.)","description":"The people called Amazons."},{"word":"Femme","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman. See Feme, n."},{"word":"Femoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery."},{"word":"Femora","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Femur"},{"word":"Femur","type":"(n.)","description":"The thigh bone."},{"word":"Femur","type":"(n.)","description":"The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa."},{"word":"Fen","type":"(n.)","description":"Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(n.)","description":"A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(n.)","description":"A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received."},{"word":"Fencing","type":"(imp. & p. p. Fenced (/)","description":" p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence"},{"word":"Fence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only."},{"word":"Fence","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc."},{"word":"Fenceful","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording defense; defensive."},{"word":"Fenceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless."},{"word":"Fencer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil."},{"word":"Fenci-ble","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense."},{"word":"Fencible","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl."},{"word":"Fencing","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2."},{"word":"Fencing","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers."},{"word":"Fencing","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The materials used for building fences."},{"word":"Fencing","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of building a fence."},{"word":"Fencing","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm."},{"word":"Fen","type":"()","description":"The mole cricket."},{"word":"Fend","type":"(n.)","description":"A fiend."},{"word":"Fended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fend"},{"word":"Fending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fend"},{"word":"Fend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows."},{"word":"Fend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off."},{"word":"Fender","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm"},{"word":"Fender","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor."},{"word":"Fender","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf."},{"word":"Fender","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard."},{"word":"Fender","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels."},{"word":"Fendliche","type":"(a.)","description":"Fiendlike."},{"word":"Fenerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put money to usury; to lend on interest."},{"word":"Feneration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fenerating; interest."},{"word":"Fenes-tella","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like."},{"word":"Fenestrae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fenestra"},{"word":"Fenestra","type":"(n.)","description":"A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear."},{"word":"Fenestral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a window or to windows."},{"word":"Fenestral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a fenestra."},{"word":"Fenestral","type":"(n.)","description":"A casement or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass."},{"word":"Fenestrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds."},{"word":"Fenestrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having transparent spots, as the wings of certain butterflies."},{"word":"Fenestrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having windows; characterized by windows."},{"word":"Fenestrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Fenestrate."},{"word":"Fenestration","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions."},{"word":"Fenestration","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being fenestrated."},{"word":"Fenestrule","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the openings in a fenestrated structure."},{"word":"Fengite","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency."},{"word":"Fenian","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland."},{"word":"Fenian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism."},{"word":"Fenianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians."},{"word":"Fenks","type":"(n.)","description":"The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue."},{"word":"Fennec","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears."},{"word":"Fennel","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial plant of the genus Faeniculum (F. vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds."},{"word":"Fennish","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in fens; fenny."},{"word":"Fenny","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy."},{"word":"Fenowed","type":"(a.)","description":"Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed."},{"word":"Fensi-ble","type":"(a.)","description":"Fencible."},{"word":"Fen-sucked","type":"(a.)","description":"Sucked out of marches."},{"word":"Fenugreek","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (trigonella Foenum Graecum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are"},{"word":"Feod","type":"(n.)","description":"A feud. See 2d Feud."},{"word":"Feodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Feudal. See Feudal."},{"word":"Feodality","type":"(n.)","description":"Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality."},{"word":"Feodary","type":"(n.)","description":"An accomplice."},{"word":"Feodary","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient officer of the court of wards."},{"word":"Feodatory","type":"(n.)","description":"See Feudatory."},{"word":"Feoffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Feoff"},{"word":"Feoffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Feoff"},{"word":"Feoff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff."},{"word":"Feoff","type":"(n.)","description":"A fief. See Fief."},{"word":"Feoffee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed."},{"word":"Feoffment","type":"(n.)","description":"The grant of a feud or fee."},{"word":"Feoffment","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession."},{"word":"Feoffment","type":"(n.)","description":"The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed."},{"word":"Feofor","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Feoffer"},{"word":"Feoffer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enfeoffs or grants a fee."},{"word":"Fer","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Far."},{"word":"Feracious","type":"(a.)","description":"Fruitful; producing abundantly."},{"word":"Feracity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being feracious or fruitful."},{"word":"Ferae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora."},{"word":"Ferae","type":"()","description":"Of a wild nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property."},{"word":"Feral","type":"(a.)","description":"Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants."},{"word":"Feral","type":"(a.)","description":"Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous."},{"word":"Ferde","type":"()","description":"imp. of Fare."},{"word":"Fer-de-lance","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle."},{"word":"Ferding","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only."},{"word":"Ferdness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fearfulness."},{"word":"Fere","type":"(n.)","description":"A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife."},{"word":"Fere","type":"(a.)","description":"Fierce."},{"word":"Fere","type":"(n.)","description":"Fire."},{"word":"Fere","type":"(n.)","description":"Fear."},{"word":"Fere","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To fear."},{"word":"Feretory","type":"(n.)","description":"A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints."},{"word":"Ferforth","type":"(adv.)","description":"Far forth."},{"word":"Ferforthly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Ferforth."},{"word":"Fergusonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson."},{"word":"Feriae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Feria"},{"word":"Feria","type":"(n.)","description":"A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast."},{"word":"Ferial","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Feria."},{"word":"Ferial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to holidays."},{"word":"Ferial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast."},{"word":"Feriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work."},{"word":"Ferie","type":"(n.)","description":"A holiday."},{"word":"Ferier","type":"(a.)","description":"compar. of Fere, fierce."},{"word":"Ferine","type":"(a.)","description":"Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts."},{"word":"Ferine","type":"(n.)","description":"A wild beast; a beast of prey."},{"word":"Feringee","type":"(n.)","description":"The name given to Europeans by the Hindos."},{"word":"Ferity","type":"(n.)","description":"Wildness; savageness; fierceness."},{"word":"Ferly","type":"(n.)","description":"Singular; wonderful; extraordinary."},{"word":"Ferly","type":"(n.)","description":"A wonder; a marvel."},{"word":"Fermacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Medicine; pharmacy."},{"word":"Ferm","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ferme"},{"word":"Ferme","type":"(n.)","description":"Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm."},{"word":"Ferment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer."},{"word":"Ferment","type":"(n.)","description":"Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation."},{"word":"Ferment","type":"(n.)","description":"A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation."},{"word":"Fermented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ferment"},{"word":"Fermenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ferment"},{"word":"Ferment","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat."},{"word":"Ferment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce."},{"word":"Ferment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be agitated or excited by violent emotions."},{"word":"Fermentability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of fermentation."},{"word":"Fermentable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable."},{"word":"Fermental","type":"(a.)","description":"Fermentative."},{"word":"Fermentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it."},{"word":"Fermentation","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings."},{"word":"Fermentative","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process."},{"word":"Fermerere","type":"(n.)","description":"The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary."},{"word":"Fermillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A buckle or clasp."},{"word":"Fern","type":"(adv.)","description":"Long ago."},{"word":"Fern","type":"(a.)","description":"Ancient; old. [Obs.] \"Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes.\" [saints]."},{"word":"Fern","type":"(n.)","description":"An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size."},{"word":"Fernery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for rearing ferns."},{"word":"Fernticle","type":"(n.)","description":"A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern."},{"word":"Ferny","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in ferns."},{"word":"Ferocious","type":"(a.)","description":"Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion."},{"word":"Ferocity","type":"(n.)","description":"Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance."},{"word":"Feroher","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc."},{"word":"Ferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Wild; savage."},{"word":"-ferous","type":"()","description":"A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle."},{"word":"Ferrandine","type":"(n.)","description":"A stuff made of silk and wool."},{"word":"Ferrara","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries."},{"word":"Ferrarese","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy."},{"word":"Ferrarese","type":"(n., sing. & pl.)","description":"A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara."},{"word":"Ferrary","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of working in iron."},{"word":"Ferrate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of ferric acid."},{"word":"Ferre","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Alt. of Ferrer"},{"word":"Ferrer","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"compar. of Fer."},{"word":"Ferreous","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron."},{"word":"Ferrest","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"superl. of Fer."},{"word":"Ferret","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes."},{"word":"Ferreted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ferret"},{"word":"Ferreting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ferret"},{"word":"Ferret","type":"(n.)","description":"To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret."},{"word":"Ferret","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting."},{"word":"Ferret","type":"(n.)","description":"The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles."},{"word":"Ferreter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who ferrets."},{"word":"Ferret-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes."},{"word":"Ferretto","type":"(n.)","description":"Copper sulphide, used to color glass."},{"word":"Ferri-","type":"()","description":"A combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide."},{"word":"Ferriage","type":"(n.)","description":"The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry."},{"word":"Ferric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid."},{"word":"Ferricyanate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide."},{"word":"Ferricyanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide."},{"word":"Ferricyanide","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base."},{"word":"Ferrier","type":"(n.)","description":"A ferryman."},{"word":"Ferriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing or yielding iron."},{"word":"Ferriprussiate","type":"(n.)","description":"A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide."},{"word":"Ferriprussic","type":"(a.)","description":"Ferricyanic."},{"word":"Ferro-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, or combining form, indicating ferrous iron as an ingredient; as, ferrocyanide."},{"word":"Ferrocalcite","type":"(n.)","description":"Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure."},{"word":"Ferrocyanate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide."},{"word":"Ferrocyanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide."},{"word":"Ferrocyanide","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base."},{"word":"Ferroprussiate","type":"(n.)","description":"A ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide."},{"word":"Ferroprussic","type":"(a.)","description":"Ferrocyanic."},{"word":"Ferroso-","type":"()","description":"See Ferro-."},{"word":"Ferrotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype."},{"word":"Ferrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate."},{"word":"Ferruginated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the color or properties of the rust of iron."},{"word":"Ferrugineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ferruginous."},{"word":"Ferruginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron."},{"word":"Ferruginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red."},{"word":"Ferrugo","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color."},{"word":"Ferrule","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing."},{"word":"Ferrule","type":"(n.)","description":"A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth."},{"word":"Ferruminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To solder or unite, as metals."},{"word":"Ferrumination","type":"(n.)","description":"The soldering ir uniting of me/ als."},{"word":"Ferried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ferry"},{"word":"Ferrying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ferry"},{"word":"Ferry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat."},{"word":"Ferry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry."},{"word":"Ferries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ferry"},{"word":"Ferry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat."},{"word":"Ferry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry."},{"word":"Ferry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls."},{"word":"Ferryboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters."},{"word":"Ferrymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ferryman"},{"word":"Ferryman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who maintains or attends a ferry."},{"word":"Fers","type":"(a.)","description":"Fierce."},{"word":"Ferthe","type":"(a.)","description":"Fourth."},{"word":"Fertile","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination."},{"word":"Fertile","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers."},{"word":"Fertile","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing pollen; -- said of anthers."},{"word":"Fertile","type":"(a.)","description":"produced in abundance; plenteous; ample."},{"word":"Fertilely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fertile or fruitful manner."},{"word":"fertileness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fertility."},{"word":"Fertilitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fertilize; to fecundate."},{"word":"Fertility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination."},{"word":"Fertilization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of rendering fertile."},{"word":"Fertilization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation."},{"word":"Fertilized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fertilize"},{"word":"Fertilizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fertilize"},{"word":"Fertilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows."},{"word":"Fertilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower."},{"word":"Fertilizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid."},{"word":"Fertilizer","type":"(n.)","description":"That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc."},{"word":"Ferula","type":"(n.)","description":"A ferule."},{"word":"Ferula","type":"(n.)","description":"The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire."},{"word":"Ferulaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants."},{"word":"Ferular","type":"(n.)","description":"A ferule."},{"word":"Ferule","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment."},{"word":"Feruled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ferule"},{"word":"Feruling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ferule"},{"word":"Ferule","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish with a ferule."},{"word":"Ferulic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid."},{"word":"Fervence","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat; fervency."},{"word":"Fervency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness."},{"word":"Fervent","type":"(a.)","description":"Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer."},{"word":"Fervent","type":"(a.)","description":"Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing."},{"word":"Fervescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing hot."},{"word":"Fervid","type":"(a.)","description":"Very hot; burning; boiling."},{"word":"Fervid","type":"(a.)","description":"Ardent; vehement; zealous."},{"word":"Fervor","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat; excessive warmth."},{"word":"Fervor","type":"(n.)","description":"Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness."},{"word":"Fescennine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines."},{"word":"Fescennine","type":"(n.)","description":"A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia."},{"word":"Fescue","type":"(n.)","description":"A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read."},{"word":"Fescue","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum."},{"word":"Fescue","type":"(n.)","description":"The style of a dial."},{"word":"Fescue","type":"(n.)","description":"A grass of the genus Festuca."},{"word":"Fescued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fescue"},{"word":"Fescuing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fescue"},{"word":"Fescue","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue."},{"word":"Fesels","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Phasel."},{"word":"Fess","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fesse"},{"word":"Fesse","type":"(n.)","description":"A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries."},{"word":"Fessitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Weariness."},{"word":"Fesswise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of fess."},{"word":"Fest","type":"(n.)","description":"The fist."},{"word":"Fest","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Feste"},{"word":"Feste","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast."},{"word":"Festal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive."},{"word":"Festally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Joyously; festively; mirthfully."},{"word":"Festennine","type":"(n.)","description":"A fescennine."},{"word":"Festered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fester"},{"word":"Festering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fester"},{"word":"Fester","type":"(n.)","description":"To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers."},{"word":"Fester","type":"(n.)","description":"To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle."},{"word":"Fester","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to fester or rankle."},{"word":"Fester","type":"(n.)","description":"A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule."},{"word":"Fester","type":"(n.)","description":"A festering or rankling."},{"word":"Festerment","type":"(n.)","description":"A festering."},{"word":"Festeye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feast; to entertain."},{"word":"Festinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Hasty; hurried."},{"word":"Festination","type":"(n.)","description":"Haste; hurry."},{"word":"Festival","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful."},{"word":"Festi-val","type":"(n.)","description":"A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious."},{"word":"Festive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive."},{"word":"Festivities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Festivity"},{"word":"Festivity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety."},{"word":"Festivity","type":"(n.)","description":"A festival; a festive celebration."},{"word":"Festivous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a feast; festive."},{"word":"Festlich","type":"(n.)","description":"Festive; fond of festive occasions."},{"word":"Festoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way."},{"word":"Festoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium."},{"word":"Festooned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Festoon"},{"word":"Festooning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Festoon"},{"word":"Festoon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons."},{"word":"Festoony","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons."},{"word":"Festucine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a straw color; greenish yellow."},{"word":"Festucous","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or consisting of straw."},{"word":"Festue","type":"(n.)","description":"A straw; a fescue."},{"word":"Fet","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece."},{"word":"Fet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fetch."},{"word":"Fet","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Fetched."},{"word":"Fetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes."},{"word":"Fetation","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy."},{"word":"Fetched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fetch"},{"word":"Fetching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fetch"},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get."},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for."},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to."},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce; to throw."},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh."},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing."},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to come; to bring to a particular state."},{"word":"fetch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward."},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(n.)","description":"A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice."},{"word":"Fetch","type":"(n.)","description":"The apparation of a living person; a wraith."},{"word":"Fethcer","type":"(n.)","description":"One wo fetches or brings."},{"word":"Fete","type":"(n.)","description":"A feat."},{"word":"Fete","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Feet."},{"word":"Fete","type":"(n.)","description":"A festival."},{"word":"Feted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fete"},{"word":"Feting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fete"},{"word":"Fete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feast; to honor with a festival."},{"word":"Fetich","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fetish"},{"word":"Fetish","type":"(n.)","description":"A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being."},{"word":"Fetish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any object to which one is excessively devoted."},{"word":"fetichism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fetishism"},{"word":"Fetishism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches."},{"word":"Fetishism","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration."},{"word":"Fetichist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fetishist"},{"word":"Fetishist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in fetiches."},{"word":"Fetichistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fetishistic"},{"word":"Fetishistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism."},{"word":"Feticide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion."},{"word":"Feticism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fetichism."},{"word":"Fetid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an offensive smell; stinking."},{"word":"Fetidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fetidness."},{"word":"Fetidness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being fetid."},{"word":"Fetiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing young, as animals."},{"word":"Fetis","type":"(a.)","description":"Neat; pretty; well made; graceful."},{"word":"Fetisely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Neatly; gracefully; properly."},{"word":"Fetish","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fetishistic"},{"word":"Fetishism","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fetishistic"},{"word":"Fetishistic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a."},{"word":"Fetlock","type":"(n.)","description":"The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair."},{"word":"Fetor","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness."},{"word":"Fette","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Fette"},{"word":"Fet","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Fette"},{"word":"Fette","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fetch."},{"word":"fetters","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fetter"},{"word":"Fetter","type":"(n.)","description":"A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle."},{"word":"Fetter","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint."},{"word":"Fetter","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind."},{"word":"Fetter","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations."},{"word":"Fettered","type":"(a.)","description":"Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking."},{"word":"Fetterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fetters."},{"word":"Fetterless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from fetters."},{"word":"Fettle","type":"(a.)","description":"To repair; to prepare; to put in order."},{"word":"Fettle","type":"(a.)","description":"To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace."},{"word":"Fettle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business."},{"word":"Fettle","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fettling."},{"word":"Fettling","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace."},{"word":"Fettling","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware."},{"word":"Fetuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Neat; feat."},{"word":"Fetuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fetus"},{"word":"Fetus","type":"(n.)","description":"The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages."},{"word":"Fetwah","type":"(n.)","description":"A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law."},{"word":"Feu","type":"(n.)","description":"A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money."},{"word":"Feuar","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds a feu."},{"word":"Feud","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race."},{"word":"Feud","type":"(n.)","description":"A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed."},{"word":"Feud","type":"(n.)","description":"A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee."},{"word":"Feudal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures."},{"word":"Feudal","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system."},{"word":"Feudalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages."},{"word":"Feudalist","type":"(n.)","description":"An upholder of feudalism."},{"word":"Feudality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution."},{"word":"Fedaliza/tion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reducing to feudal tenure."},{"word":"Feudalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Feudalize"},{"word":"Feudalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Feudalize"},{"word":"Feudalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism."},{"word":"Feudally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a feudal manner."},{"word":"Feudary","type":"(a.)","description":"Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure."},{"word":"Feudary","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory."},{"word":"Feudary","type":"(n.)","description":"A feodary. See Feodary."},{"word":"Feudataty","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Feudatory."},{"word":"Feudatories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Feudatory"},{"word":"Feudatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief."},{"word":"Feudtory","type":"(a.)","description":"Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title."},{"word":"Feu","type":"()","description":"A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy."},{"word":"Feudist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law."},{"word":"Feuillants","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France."},{"word":"Feuillemort","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the color of a faded leaf."},{"word":"Feuilleton","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed."},{"word":"Feuilltonist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of feuilletons."},{"word":"feuter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear."},{"word":"Feuterer","type":"(n.)","description":"A dog keeper."},{"word":"Fever","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever."},{"word":"Fever","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever."},{"word":"Fevered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fever"},{"word":"Fevering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fever"},{"word":"Fever","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip."},{"word":"Feveret","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight fever."},{"word":"Feverfew","type":"(n.)","description":"A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities."},{"word":"Feverish","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish."},{"word":"Feverish","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms."},{"word":"Feverish","type":"(a.)","description":"Hot; sultry."},{"word":"Feverish","type":"(a.)","description":"Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world."},{"word":"Feverous","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with fever or ague; feverish."},{"word":"Feverous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse."},{"word":"Feverous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year."},{"word":"Feverously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Feverishly."},{"word":"Feverwort","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fever root, under Fever."},{"word":"Fevery","type":"(a.)","description":"Feverish."},{"word":"Few","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people."},{"word":"Fewel","type":"(n.)","description":"Fuel."},{"word":"Fewmet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fumet."},{"word":"Fewness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity."},{"word":"Fewness","type":"(n.)","description":"Brevity; conciseness."},{"word":"Fey","type":"(a.)","description":"Fated; doomed."},{"word":"Fey","type":"(n.)","description":"Faith."},{"word":"Fey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cleanse; to clean out."},{"word":"Feyne","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feign."},{"word":"Feyre","type":"(n.)","description":"A fair or market."},{"word":"Fez","type":"(n.)","description":"A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh."},{"word":"Fiacre","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of French hackney coach."},{"word":"Fiance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betroth; to affiance."},{"word":"Fiance","type":"(n.)","description":"A betrothed man."},{"word":"Fiancee","type":"(n.)","description":"A betrothed woman."},{"word":"Fiants","type":"(n.)","description":"The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger."},{"word":"Fiar","type":"(n.)","description":"One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter."},{"word":"Fiar","type":"(n.)","description":"The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year."},{"word":"Fiascoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fiasco"},{"word":"Fiasco","type":"(n.)","description":"A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking."},{"word":"Fiat","type":"(n.)","description":"An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree."},{"word":"Fiat","type":"(n.)","description":"A warrant of a judge for certain processes."},{"word":"Fiat","type":"(n.)","description":"An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature."},{"word":"Fiaunt","type":"(n.)","description":"Commission; fiat; order; decree."},{"word":"Fib","type":"(n.)","description":"A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically."},{"word":"Fibbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fib"},{"word":"Fibbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fib"},{"word":"Fib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak falsely."},{"word":"Fib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tell a fib to."},{"word":"Fibber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who tells fibs."},{"word":"Fiber","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fibre"},{"word":"Fibre","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle."},{"word":"Fibre","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant."},{"word":"Fibre","type":"(n.)","description":"Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber."},{"word":"Fibre","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures."},{"word":"Fibered","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fibred"},{"word":"Fibred","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fibers; made up of fibers."},{"word":"Fiber-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fibre-faced"},{"word":"Fibre-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc."},{"word":"Fiberless","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fibreless"},{"word":"Fibreless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber."},{"word":"Fibriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber."},{"word":"Fibril","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla."},{"word":"FibrillAe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fibrilla"},{"word":"Fibrilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril."},{"word":"Fibrillar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings."},{"word":"Fibrillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of of pertaining to fibrils."},{"word":"Fibrillated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with fibrils; fringed."},{"word":"Fibrillation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being reduced to fibers."},{"word":"Fibrillose","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages."},{"word":"Fibrillous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers."},{"word":"Fibrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice."},{"word":"Fibrin","type":"(n.)","description":"The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin."},{"word":"Fibrin","type":"(n.)","description":"An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin."},{"word":"Fibrination","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin."},{"word":"Fibrine","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the fibers of plants."},{"word":"Fibrinogen","type":"(n.)","description":"An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation."},{"word":"Fibrinogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin."},{"word":"Fibrinoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen."},{"word":"Fibrinoplastin","type":"(n.)","description":"An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin."},{"word":"Fibrinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation."},{"word":"Fibrocartilage","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure."},{"word":"Fibrochondrosteal","type":"(a.)","description":"Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous."},{"word":"Fibroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors."},{"word":"Fibroid","type":"(n.)","description":"A fibroid tumor; a fibroma."},{"word":"Fibroin","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass."},{"word":"Fibrolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite."},{"word":"Fibroma","type":"(n.)","description":"A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue."},{"word":"Fibrospongiae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges."},{"word":"Fibrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses."},{"word":"Fibrovascular","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular."},{"word":"Fibster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who tells fibs."},{"word":"FibulAe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fibula"},{"word":"Fibula","type":"(n.)","description":"A brooch, clasp, or buckle."},{"word":"Fibula","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee."},{"word":"Fibula","type":"(n.)","description":"A needle for sewing up wounds."},{"word":"Fibu-lar","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the fibula."},{"word":"Fibularia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fibulare"},{"word":"Fibulare","type":"(n.)","description":"The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals."},{"word":"Fice","type":"(n.)","description":"A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc."},{"word":"Fiche","type":"(a.)","description":"See FitchE."},{"word":"Ficttelite","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria."},{"word":"Fichu","type":"(n.)","description":"A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders."},{"word":"Fickle","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel."},{"word":"Fickleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy."},{"word":"Fickly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fickle manner."},{"word":"Ficoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fico"},{"word":"Fico","type":"(n.)","description":"A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you."},{"word":"Fictile","type":"(a.)","description":"Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material."},{"word":"Fiction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind."},{"word":"Fiction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality."},{"word":"Fiction","type":"(n.)","description":"Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances."},{"word":"Fiction","type":"(n.)","description":"An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth."},{"word":"Fiction","type":"(n.)","description":"Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue."},{"word":"Fictional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."},{"word":"Fictionist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of fiction."},{"word":"Fictious","type":"(a.)","description":"Fictitious."},{"word":"Fictitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame."},{"word":"Fictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Feigned; counterfeit."},{"word":"Fictor","type":"(n.)","description":"An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material."},{"word":"Ficus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree."},{"word":"Fid","type":"(n.)","description":"A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees."},{"word":"Fid","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything."},{"word":"Fid","type":"(n.)","description":"A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing."},{"word":"Fid","type":"(n.)","description":"A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns."},{"word":"Fidalgo","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain."},{"word":"Fiddle","type":"(n.)","description":"A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit."},{"word":"Fiddle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock."},{"word":"Fiddle","type":"(n.)","description":"A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather."},{"word":"Fiddled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fiddle"},{"word":"Fiddling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fiddle"},{"word":"Fiddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play on a fiddle."},{"word":"Fiddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle."},{"word":"Fiddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play (a tune) on a fiddle."},{"word":"Fiddledeedee","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!"},{"word":"Foddle-faddle","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense."},{"word":"Fiddle-faddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk nonsense."},{"word":"Fiddler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays on a fiddle or violin."},{"word":"Fiddler","type":"(n.)","description":"A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab."},{"word":"Fiddler","type":"(n.)","description":"The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body."},{"word":"Fiddle-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side."},{"word":"Fiddlestick","type":"(n.)","description":"The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow."},{"word":"Fiddlestring","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the catgut strings of a fiddle."},{"word":"Fiddlewood","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum."},{"word":"Fidejussion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship."},{"word":"Fidejussor","type":"(n.)","description":"A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor."},{"word":"Fidelity","type":"(n.)","description":"Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations."},{"word":"Fidelity","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty."},{"word":"Fidelity","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence to the marriage contract."},{"word":"Fidelity","type":"(n.)","description":"Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty."},{"word":"Fides","type":"(n.)","description":"Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith."},{"word":"Fidge","type":"(n. & i.)","description":"See Fidget."},{"word":"Fidgeted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fidget"},{"word":"Fodgeting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fidget"},{"word":"Fidget","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts."},{"word":"Fidget","type":"(n.)","description":"Uneasiness; restlessness."},{"word":"Fidget","type":"(n.)","description":"A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria."},{"word":"Fidgetiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being fidgety."},{"word":"Fidgety","type":"(a.)","description":"Restless; uneasy."},{"word":"Fidia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America."},{"word":"Fidicinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument."},{"word":"Fiducial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm."},{"word":"Fiducial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power."},{"word":"Fiducially","type":"(adv.)","description":"With confidence."},{"word":"Fidiciary","type":"(a.)","description":"Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity."},{"word":"Fidiciary","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding, held, or founded, in trust."},{"word":"Fiduciary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee."},{"word":"Fiduciary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian."},{"word":"Fie","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy."},{"word":"Fief","type":"(n.)","description":"An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"An open space; an extent; an expanse."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"The space covered by an optical instrument at one view."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver)."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting."},{"word":"Field","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield."},{"word":"Fielded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Field"},{"word":"Fielding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Field"},{"word":"Field","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take the field."},{"word":"Field","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball."},{"word":"Field","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder."},{"word":"Fielded","type":"(a.)","description":"Engaged in the field; encamped."},{"word":"Fielden","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of fields."},{"word":"Fielder","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls."},{"word":"Fieldfare","type":"(n.)","description":"a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare."},{"word":"Fielding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of playing as a fielder."},{"word":"Fieldpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun."},{"word":"Fieldwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural."},{"word":"Fieldy","type":"(a.)","description":"Open, like a field."},{"word":"Fiend","type":"(n.)","description":"An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon."},{"word":"Fiendful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fiendish spirit or arts."},{"word":"Fiendish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish."},{"word":"Fiendlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Fiendish; diabolical."},{"word":"Fiendly","type":"(a.)","description":"Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish."},{"word":"Fierasfer","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian."},{"word":"Fierce","type":"(superl.)","description":"Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind."},{"word":"Fierce","type":"(superl.)","description":"Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious."},{"word":"Fierce","type":"(superl.)","description":"Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent."},{"word":"Fieri","type":"()","description":"A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed."},{"word":"Fieriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper."},{"word":"Fiery","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance."},{"word":"Fiery","type":"(a.)","description":"Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous."},{"word":"Fiery","type":"(a.)","description":"Passionate; easily provoked; irritable."},{"word":"Fiery","type":"(a.)","description":"Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited."},{"word":"Fiery","type":"(a.)","description":"heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish."},{"word":"Fife","type":"(n.)","description":"A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music."},{"word":"Fifed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fife"},{"word":"fifing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fife"},{"word":"Fife","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play on a fife."},{"word":"Fifer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays on a fife."},{"word":"Fifteen","type":"(a.)","description":"Five and ten; one more than fourteen."},{"word":"Fifteen","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects."},{"word":"Fifteen","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv."},{"word":"Fifteenth","type":"(a.)","description":"Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen."},{"word":"Fifteenth","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing."},{"word":"Fifteenth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen."},{"word":"Fifteenth","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at."},{"word":"Fifteenth","type":"(n.)","description":"A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon."},{"word":"Fifteenth","type":"(n.)","description":"An interval consisting of two octaves."},{"word":"Fifth","type":"(a.)","description":"Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five."},{"word":"Fifth","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing."},{"word":"Fifth","type":"(n.)","description":"The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part."},{"word":"Fifth","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key."},{"word":"Fifthly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the fifth place; as the fifth in order."},{"word":"Fiftieth","type":"(a.)","description":"Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty."},{"word":"Fiftieth","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions."},{"word":"Fiftieth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty."},{"word":"Fifty","type":"(a.)","description":"Five times ten; as, fifty men."},{"word":"Fifties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fifty"},{"word":"Fifty","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects."},{"word":"Fifty","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l."},{"word":"Fig","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands."},{"word":"Fig","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors."},{"word":"Fig","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of tobacco."},{"word":"Fig","type":"(n.)","description":"The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt."},{"word":"Fig","type":"(n.)","description":"To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico."},{"word":"Fig","type":"(n.)","description":"To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible."},{"word":"Fig","type":"(n.)","description":"Figure; dress; array."},{"word":"Figaro","type":"(n.)","description":"An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer."},{"word":"Figary","type":"(n.)","description":"A frolic; a vagary; a whim."},{"word":"Figeater","type":"(n.)","description":"A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders."},{"word":"Figeater","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird. See Figpecker."},{"word":"Figent","type":"(a.)","description":"Fidgety; restless."},{"word":"Figgum","type":"(n.)","description":"A juggler's trick; conjuring."},{"word":"Fought","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fight"},{"word":"Fighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fight"},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against."},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance."},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause."},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours."},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship."},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc."},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A struggle or contest of any kind."},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him."},{"word":"Fight","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A screen for the combatants in ships."},{"word":"Fighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fights; a combatant; a warrior."},{"word":"Fighting","type":"(a.)","description":"Qualified for war; fit for battle."},{"word":"Fighting","type":"(a.)","description":"Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field."},{"word":"Fightingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Pugnaciously."},{"word":"Fightwite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace."},{"word":"Figment","type":"(n.)","description":"An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined."},{"word":"Pigpecker","type":"(n.)","description":"The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps."},{"word":"Fig-shell","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form."},{"word":"Figulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Figulated"},{"word":"Figulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped."},{"word":"Figuline","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects."},{"word":"Figurability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being figurable."},{"word":"Figurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape."},{"word":"Figural","type":"(a.)","description":"Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments."},{"word":"Figural","type":"(a.)","description":"Figurate. See Figurate."},{"word":"Figurant","type":"(n. masc.)","description":"One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part."},{"word":"Figurante","type":"(n. fem.)","description":"A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl."},{"word":"Figurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a definite form or figure."},{"word":"Figurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Figurative; metaphorical."},{"word":"Figurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant."},{"word":"Figurated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a determinate form."},{"word":"Figurately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a figurate manner."},{"word":"Figuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form."},{"word":"Figuration","type":"(n.)","description":"Mixture of concords and discords."},{"word":"Figurative","type":"(a.)","description":"Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative."},{"word":"Figurative","type":"(a.)","description":"Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions."},{"word":"Figurative","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description."},{"word":"Figurative","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment."},{"word":"Figured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Figure"},{"word":"Figuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Figure"},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"To embellish with design; to adorn with figures."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"To indicate by numerals; also, to compute."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"To prefigure; to foreshow."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(n.)","description":"To embellish."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court."},{"word":"Figure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination."},{"word":"Figured","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin."},{"word":"Figured","type":"(a.)","description":"Not literal; figurative."},{"word":"Figured","type":"(a.)","description":"Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3."},{"word":"Figured","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicated or noted by figures."},{"word":"Figurehead","type":"(n.)","description":"The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship."},{"word":"Figurehead","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief."},{"word":"Figurial","type":"(a.)","description":"Represented by figure or delineation."},{"word":"Figurine","type":"(n.)","description":"A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc."},{"word":"Figurist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses or interprets figurative expressions."},{"word":"Figwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort."},{"word":"Fijian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants."},{"word":"Fijian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of the Fiji islands."},{"word":"Fike","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fyke."},{"word":"Fil","type":"()","description":"imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell."},{"word":"Filaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of threads."},{"word":"Filacer","type":"(n.)","description":"A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process."},{"word":"Filament","type":"(n.)","description":"A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther."},{"word":"Filamentary","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the character of, or formed by, a filament."},{"word":"Filametoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a filament."},{"word":"Filamentous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments."},{"word":"Filander","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea."},{"word":"Filanders","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm."},{"word":"Filar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer."},{"word":"Filaria","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm."},{"word":"Filatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for forming threads."},{"word":"Filature","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons."},{"word":"Filature","type":"(n.)","description":"A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk."},{"word":"Filbert","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate."},{"word":"Filched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Filch"},{"word":"Filching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Filch"},{"word":"Filch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer."},{"word":"Filcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who filches; a thief."},{"word":"Filchingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By pilfering or petty stealing."},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"An orderly succession; a line; a row"},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks."},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant."},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order."},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"A roll or list."},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"Course of thought; thread of narration."},{"word":"Filed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of File"},{"word":"Filing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of File"},{"word":"File","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers."},{"word":"File","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill."},{"word":"File","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court."},{"word":"File","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off."},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc."},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively."},{"word":"File","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrewd or artful person."},{"word":"File","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth."},{"word":"File","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smooth or polish as with a file."},{"word":"File","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make foul; to defile."},{"word":"Filefish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper."},{"word":"Filemot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Feullemort."},{"word":"Filer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works with a file."},{"word":"Filial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience."},{"word":"Filial","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing the relation of a child."},{"word":"Filially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a filial manner."},{"word":"Filiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between."},{"word":"Filiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father."},{"word":"Filiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation."},{"word":"Filibeg","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Kilt."},{"word":"Filibuster","type":"(n.)","description":"A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855."},{"word":"Fillibustered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Filibuster"},{"word":"Filibustering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Filibuster"},{"word":"Filibuster","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter."},{"word":"Filibuster","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices."},{"word":"Filibusterism","type":"(n.)","description":"The characteristics or practices of a filibuster."},{"word":"Filical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Filices, r ferns."},{"word":"Filicic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid."},{"word":"Filicide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder."},{"word":"Filiciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf."},{"word":"Filicoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction."},{"word":"Filicoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A fernlike plant."},{"word":"Filiety","type":"(n.)","description":"The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity."},{"word":"Filiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing threads."},{"word":"Filiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe."},{"word":"Filigrain","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Filigrane"},{"word":"Filigrane","type":"(n.)","description":"Filigree."},{"word":"Filigraned","type":"(a.)","description":"See Filigreed."},{"word":"Filigree","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern."},{"word":"Filigree","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative."},{"word":"Filigreed","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with filigree."},{"word":"Filing","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings."},{"word":"Filipendulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the thills or shafts of a carriage."},{"word":"Filled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fill"},{"word":"Filling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fill"},{"word":"Fill","type":"(a.)","description":"To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(a.)","description":"To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(a.)","description":"To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(a.)","description":"To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(a.)","description":"To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(a.)","description":"To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(a.)","description":"To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(a.)","description":"To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fill a cup or glass for drinking."},{"word":"Fill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction."},{"word":"Filler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling."},{"word":"Filler","type":"(n.)","description":"A thill horse."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"The thread of a screw."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"Any scantling smaller than a batten."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain."},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(n.)","description":"The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests."},{"word":"Filleted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fillet"},{"word":"Filleting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fillet"},{"word":"Fillet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet."},{"word":"Filleting","type":"(n.)","description":"The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work."},{"word":"Filleting","type":"(n.)","description":"The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively."},{"word":"Fillibeg","type":"(n.)","description":"A kilt. See Filibeg."},{"word":"Fillibuster","type":"(n.)","description":"See Filibuster."},{"word":"Filling","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc."},{"word":"Filling","type":"(n.)","description":"The woof in woven fabrics."},{"word":"Filling","type":"(n.)","description":"Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it."},{"word":"Filliped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fillip"},{"word":"Filliping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fillip"},{"word":"Fillip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger."},{"word":"Fillip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To snap; to project quickly."},{"word":"Fillip","type":"(n.)","description":"A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow."},{"word":"Fillip","type":"(n.)","description":"Something serving to rouse or excite."},{"word":"Fillipeen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Philopena."},{"word":"Fillister","type":"(n.)","description":"The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty."},{"word":"Fillister","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane for making a rabbet."},{"word":"Fillies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Filly"},{"word":"Filly","type":"(n.)","description":"A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal."},{"word":"Filly","type":"(n.)","description":"A lively, spirited young girl."},{"word":"Film","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering."},{"word":"Film","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender thread, as that of a cobweb."},{"word":"Film","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a thin skin or pellicle."},{"word":"Filminess","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being filmy."},{"word":"Filmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of film or films."},{"word":"Filoplumaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the structure of a filoplume."},{"word":"Filoplume","type":"(n.)","description":"A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length."},{"word":"Filose","type":"(a.)","description":"Terminating in a threadlike process."},{"word":"Filter","type":"(n.)","description":"Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air."},{"word":"Filtered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Filter"},{"word":"Filtering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Filter"},{"word":"Filter","type":"(n.)","description":"To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter."},{"word":"Filter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass through a filter; to percolate."},{"word":"Filter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Philter."},{"word":"Filth","type":"(n.)","description":"Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness."},{"word":"Filth","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution."},{"word":"Filthily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a filthy manner; foully."},{"word":"Filthiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being filthy."},{"word":"Filthiness","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity."},{"word":"Filthy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene."},{"word":"Filtrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Filtrate"},{"word":"Filtrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Filtrate"},{"word":"Filtrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation."},{"word":"Filtrate","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration."},{"word":"Filtration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it."},{"word":"Finble","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Fimble hemp"},{"word":"Fimble","type":"()","description":"Light summer hemp, that bears no seed."},{"word":"Fimbriae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fimbria"},{"word":"Fimbria","type":"(n.)","description":"A fringe, or fringed border."},{"word":"Fimbria","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain."},{"word":"Fimbriate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube."},{"word":"Fimbriated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fimbriate"},{"word":"Fimbriating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fimbriate"},{"word":"Fimbriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hem; to fringe."},{"word":"Fimbriated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a fringed border; fimbriate."},{"word":"Fimbriated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary."},{"word":"Fimbricate","type":"(a.)","description":"Fringed; jagged; fimbriate."},{"word":"Fimbricate","type":"(a.)","description":"fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennae of certain insects."},{"word":"Finned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fin"},{"word":"Finning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fin"},{"word":"Fin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carve or cut up, as a chub."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"End; conclusion; object."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin"},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"The hand."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"A blade of whalebone."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"A feather; a spline."},{"word":"Fin","type":"(n.)","description":"A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats."},{"word":"Finable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense."},{"word":"Final","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term."},{"word":"Final","type":"(a.)","description":"Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue."},{"word":"Final","type":"(a.)","description":"Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view."},{"word":"Finale","type":"(n.)","description":"Close; termination"},{"word":"Finale","type":"(n.)","description":"The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition."},{"word":"Finale","type":"(n.)","description":"The last composition performed in any act of an opera."},{"word":"Finale","type":"(n.)","description":"The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition."},{"word":"Finalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Finality"},{"word":"Finality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement."},{"word":"Finality","type":"(n.)","description":"The relation of end or purpose to its means."},{"word":"Finally","type":"(adv.)","description":"At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered."},{"word":"Finally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Completely; beyond recovery."},{"word":"Finance","type":"(n.)","description":"The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources."},{"word":"Finance","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of raising and expending the public revenue."},{"word":"Financial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to finance."},{"word":"Financialist","type":"(n.)","description":"A financier."},{"word":"Financially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a dfinancial manner."},{"word":"Financier","type":"(n.)","description":"One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer."},{"word":"Financier","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters."},{"word":"Financiered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Financier"},{"word":"Financiering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Financier"},{"word":"Financier","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To conduct financial operations."},{"word":"Finary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Finery."},{"word":"Finative","type":"(a.)","description":"Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final."},{"word":"Finback","type":"(n.)","description":"Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus."},{"word":"Fishes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Finch"},{"word":"Finch","type":"(n.)","description":"A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae."},{"word":"Finchbacked","type":"(a.)","description":"Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle."},{"word":"Finched","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Finchbacked."},{"word":"Found","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Find"},{"word":"Finding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Find"},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person."},{"word":"Find","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff."},{"word":"Find","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin."},{"word":"Findable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of beong found; discoverable."},{"word":"Finder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily."},{"word":"Findfault","type":"(n.)","description":"A censurer or caviler."},{"word":"Findfaulting","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious."},{"word":"Finding","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc."},{"word":"Finding","type":"(n.)","description":"Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision."},{"word":"Finding","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury."},{"word":"Findy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full; heavy; firm; solid; substemtial."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not coarse, gross, or heavy"},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(superl.)","description":"(Used ironically.)"},{"word":"Fined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fine"},{"word":"Fining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fine"},{"word":"Fine","type":"(a.)","description":"To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(a.)","description":"To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(a.)","description":"To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(n.)","description":"End; conclusion; termination; extinction."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(n.)","description":"A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(n.)","description":"A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(n.)","description":"A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(n.)","description":"To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b)."},{"word":"Fine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease."},{"word":"Finedrawn","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Finedraw"},{"word":"Finedrawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Finedraw"},{"word":"Finedraw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter."},{"word":"Finedrawer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who finedraws."},{"word":"Finedrawn","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations."},{"word":"Fineer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit."},{"word":"Fineer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To veneer."},{"word":"Fineless","type":"(a.)","description":"Endless; boundless."},{"word":"Finely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fine or finished manner."},{"word":"Fineness","type":"(a.)","description":"The quality or condition of being fine."},{"word":"Fineness","type":"(a.)","description":"Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor."},{"word":"Fineness","type":"(a.)","description":"The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins."},{"word":"Fineness","type":"(a.)","description":"Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade."},{"word":"Finer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fines or purifies."},{"word":"Finery","type":"(n.)","description":"Fineness; beauty."},{"word":"Finery","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels."},{"word":"Finery","type":"(n.)","description":"A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling."},{"word":"Finespun","type":"(a.)","description":"Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories."},{"word":"Finesse","type":"(a.)","description":"Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem."},{"word":"Finesse","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2."},{"word":"Finessed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Finesse"},{"word":"Finessing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Finesse"},{"word":"Finesse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use artifice or stratagem."},{"word":"Finesse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play."},{"word":"Finestill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation."},{"word":"Finestiller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who finestills."},{"word":"Finew","type":"(n.)","description":"Moldiness."},{"word":"Finfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A finback whale."},{"word":"Finfish","type":"(n.)","description":"True fish, as distinguished from shellfish."},{"word":"Finfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica."},{"word":"Fin-footed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having palmate feet."},{"word":"Fin-footed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(n.)","description":"The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(n.)","description":"Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument."},{"word":"Fingered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Finger"},{"word":"Fingering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Finger"},{"word":"Finger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To touch lightly; to toy with."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform on an instrument of music."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To execute, as any delicate work."},{"word":"Finger","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the fingers in playing on an instrument."},{"word":"Fingered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fingers."},{"word":"Fingered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having leaflets like fingers; digitate."},{"word":"Fingered","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note."},{"word":"Fingerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fingers; a pilferer."},{"word":"Fingering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers."},{"word":"Fingering","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc."},{"word":"Fingering","type":"(n.)","description":"The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers."},{"word":"Fingering","type":"(n.)","description":"Delicate work made with the fingers."},{"word":"Fingerling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young salmon. See Parr."},{"word":"Fingle-fangle","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifle."},{"word":"Fingrigos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fingrigo"},{"word":"Fingrigo","type":"(n.)","description":"A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry."},{"word":"Finial","type":"(n.)","description":"The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself."},{"word":"Finical","type":"(a.)","description":"Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious."},{"word":"Finicality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being finical; finicalness."},{"word":"Finicking","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Finicky"},{"word":"Finicky","type":"(a.)","description":"Finical; unduly particular."},{"word":"Finific","type":"(n.)","description":"A limiting element or quality."},{"word":"Finify","type":"(a.)","description":"To make fine; to dress finically."},{"word":"Finikin","type":"(a.)","description":"Precise in trifles; idly busy."},{"word":"Fining","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imposing a fin/."},{"word":"Fining","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire."},{"word":"Fining","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is used to refine; especially, a preparation of isinglass, gelatin, etc., for clarifying beer."},{"word":"Finis","type":"(n.)","description":"An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book."},{"word":"Finished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Finish"},{"word":"Finishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Finish"},{"word":"Finish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come to an end; to terminate."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To end; to die."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(n.)","description":"That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(n.)","description":"The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(n.)","description":"The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(n.)","description":"See Finishing coat, under Finishing."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc."},{"word":"Finish","type":"(n.)","description":"Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning."},{"word":"Finished","type":"(a.)","description":"Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education."},{"word":"Finisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection."},{"word":"Finisher","type":"(n.)","description":"Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything."},{"word":"Finishing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing."},{"word":"Finishing","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use."},{"word":"Finite","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration."},{"word":"Finiteless","type":"(a.)","description":"Infinite."},{"word":"Finitely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a finite manner or degree."},{"word":"Finiteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being finite."},{"word":"Finitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Limitation."},{"word":"Finlander","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Finland."},{"word":"Finless","type":"(a.)","description":"destitute of fins."},{"word":"Finlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin."},{"word":"Finlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a fin."},{"word":"Finn","type":"(a.)","description":"A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns."},{"word":"Finnan","type":"()","description":"Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fin\"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock."},{"word":"Finned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin."},{"word":"Finner","type":"(n.)","description":"A finback whale."},{"word":"Finnic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Finns."},{"word":"Finnikin","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse."},{"word":"Finnish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language."},{"word":"Finnish","type":"(n.)","description":"A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns."},{"word":"Finns","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Natives of Finland; Finlanders."},{"word":"Finns","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders."},{"word":"Finny","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes."},{"word":"Finny","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in fishes."},{"word":"Finochio","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable."},{"word":"Finos","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Second best wool from Merino sheep."},{"word":"Finpike","type":"(n.)","description":"The bichir. See Crossopterygii."},{"word":"Fint","type":"()","description":"3d pers. sing. pr. of Find, for findeth."},{"word":"Fin-toed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate."},{"word":"Fiord","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska."},{"word":"Fiorin","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass."},{"word":"Fiorite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia."},{"word":"Fioriture","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player."},{"word":"Fippenny","type":"()","description":"The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States."},{"word":"Fipple","type":"(n.)","description":"A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music."},{"word":"Fir","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"The burning of a house or town; a conflagration."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which destroys or affects like fire."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(n.)","description":"The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire."},{"word":"Fired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fire"},{"word":"Fring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fire"},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To light up as if by fire; to illuminate."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive by fire."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cauterize."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be irritated or inflamed with passion."},{"word":"Fire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town."},{"word":"Firearm","type":"(n.)","description":"A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder."},{"word":"Fireback","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of pheasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies."},{"word":"Fireball","type":"(n.)","description":"A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen."},{"word":"Fireball","type":"(n.)","description":"A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding."},{"word":"Firebare","type":"(n.)","description":"A beacon."},{"word":"Fire","type":"()","description":"A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly."},{"word":"Firebird","type":"(n.)","description":"The Baltimore oriole."},{"word":"Fireboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use."},{"word":"Firebote","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance of fuel. See Bote."},{"word":"Firebrand","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of burning wood."},{"word":"Firebrand","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary."},{"word":"Firecracker","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cracker., n., 3."},{"word":"Firecrest","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren."},{"word":"Firedog","type":"(n.)","description":"A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron."},{"word":"Firedrake","type":"(n.)","description":"A fiery dragon."},{"word":"Firedrake","type":"(n.)","description":"A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket."},{"word":"Firedrake","type":"(n.)","description":"A worker at a furnace or fire."},{"word":"Fire-fanged","type":"(a.)","description":"Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition."},{"word":"Firefish","type":"(n.)","description":"A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins."},{"word":"Fireflaire","type":"(n.)","description":"A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw."},{"word":"Fireflame","type":"(n.)","description":"The European band fish (Cepola rubescens)."},{"word":"Fireflies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Firefly"},{"word":"Firefly","type":"(n.)","description":"Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae."},{"word":"Fireless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of fire."},{"word":"Firelock","type":"(n.)","description":"An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock."},{"word":"Firemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fireman"},{"word":"Fireman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company."},{"word":"Fireman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker."},{"word":"Fire-new","type":"(a.)","description":"Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new."},{"word":"Fireplace","type":"(n.)","description":"The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built."},{"word":"Fireproof","type":"(a.)","description":"Proof against fire; incombustible."},{"word":"Fireprrofing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process."},{"word":"Firer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary."},{"word":"Fire-set","type":"(n.)","description":"A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker."},{"word":"Fireside","type":"(n.)","description":"A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement."},{"word":"Firestone","type":"(n.)","description":"Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint."},{"word":"Firestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces."},{"word":"Firetail","type":"(n.)","description":"The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt."},{"word":"Firewarden","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward."},{"word":"Fireweed","type":"(n.)","description":"An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned."},{"word":"Fireweed","type":"(n.)","description":"The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum)."},{"word":"Firewood","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood for fuel."},{"word":"Firework","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war."},{"word":"Firework","type":"(n.)","description":"A pyrotechnic exhibition."},{"word":"Fireworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm."},{"word":"Firing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disharging firearms."},{"word":"Firing","type":"(n.)","description":"The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it."},{"word":"Firing","type":"(n.)","description":"The application of fire, or of a cautery."},{"word":"Firing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln."},{"word":"Firing","type":"(n.)","description":"Fuel; firewood or coal."},{"word":"Firk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat; to strike; to chastise."},{"word":"Firk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fly out; to turn out; to go off."},{"word":"Firk","type":"(n.)","description":"A freak; trick; quirk."},{"word":"Firkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons."},{"word":"Firkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc."},{"word":"Firlot","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000."},{"word":"Firm","type":"(superl.)","description":"Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood."},{"word":"Firm","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent."},{"word":"Firm","type":"(superl.)","description":"Solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land."},{"word":"Firm","type":"(superl.)","description":"Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance."},{"word":"Firm","type":"(a.)","description":"The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co."},{"word":"Firm","type":"(a.)","description":"To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish."},{"word":"Firm","type":"(a.)","description":"To fix or direct with firmness."},{"word":"Firmament","type":"(v. & a.)","description":"Fixed foundation; established basis."},{"word":"Firmament","type":"(v. & a.)","description":"The region of the air; the sky or heavens."},{"word":"Firmament","type":"(v. & a.)","description":"The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres."},{"word":"Firmamental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions."},{"word":"Firmans","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Firman"},{"word":"Firman","type":"(n.)","description":"In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance."},{"word":"Firmer-chisel","type":"(n.)","description":"A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it."},{"word":"Firmitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength; stability."},{"word":"Firmity","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength; firmness; stability."},{"word":"Firmless","type":"(a.)","description":"Detached from substance."},{"word":"Firmless","type":"(a.)","description":"Infirm; unstable."},{"word":"Firmly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a firm manner."},{"word":"Firmness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being firm."},{"word":"Firms","type":"(a.)","description":"The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together."},{"word":"Firring","type":"(n.)","description":"See Furring."},{"word":"Firry","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of fir; abounding in firs."},{"word":"First","type":"(a.)","description":"Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign."},{"word":"First","type":"(a.)","description":"Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others."},{"word":"First","type":"(a.)","description":"Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece."},{"word":"First","type":"(adv.)","description":"Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles."},{"word":"First","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect."},{"word":"Firstborn","type":"(a.)","description":"First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted."},{"word":"First-class","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope."},{"word":"First-hand","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent."},{"word":"Firstling","type":"(n.)","description":"The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock."},{"word":"Firstling","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing first thought or done."},{"word":"Firstling","type":"(a.)","description":"Firstborn."},{"word":"Firstly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first."},{"word":"First-rate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation."},{"word":"First-rate","type":"(n.)","description":"A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class."},{"word":"Firth","type":"(n.)","description":"An arm of the sea; a frith."},{"word":"Fir","type":"()","description":"See Fir."},{"word":"Fisc","type":"(n.)","description":"A public or state treasury."},{"word":"Fiscal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue."},{"word":"Fiscal","type":"(n.)","description":"The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer."},{"word":"Fiscal","type":"(n.)","description":"A treasurer."},{"word":"Fiscal","type":"(n.)","description":"A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal."},{"word":"Fiscal","type":"(n.)","description":"The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general."},{"word":"Fisetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to fustet or fisetin."},{"word":"Fisetin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; -- called also fisetic acid."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(n.)","description":"A counter, used in various games."},{"word":"Fishes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fish"},{"word":"Fish","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fish"},{"word":"Fish","type":"(n.)","description":"A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(n.)","description":"An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(n.)","description":"The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(n.)","description":"The flesh of fish, used as food."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(n.)","description":"A purchase used to fish the anchor."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard."},{"word":"Fished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fish"},{"word":"Fishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fish"},{"word":"Fish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To search by raking or sweeping."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream."},{"word":"Fish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n."},{"word":"Fish-bellied","type":"(a.)","description":"Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail."},{"word":"Fish-block","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fish-tackle."},{"word":"Fisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fishes."},{"word":"Fisher","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the \"black cat.\""},{"word":"Fishermen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fisherman"},{"word":"Fisherman","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to catch fish."},{"word":"Fisherman","type":"(n.)","description":"A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery."},{"word":"Fisheries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fishery"},{"word":"Fishery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business or practice of catching fish; fishing."},{"word":"Fishery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for catching fish."},{"word":"Fishery","type":"(n.)","description":"The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters."},{"word":"Fishful","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with fish."},{"word":"Fishgig","type":"(n.)","description":"A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish."},{"word":"Fishhawk","type":"(n.)","description":"The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard."},{"word":"Fishhook","type":"(n.)","description":"A hook for catching fish."},{"word":"Fishhook","type":"(n.)","description":"A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked."},{"word":"Fishify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change to fish."},{"word":"Fishiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike."},{"word":"Fishing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, practice, or art of one who fishes."},{"word":"Fishing","type":"(n.)","description":"A fishery."},{"word":"Fishing","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village."},{"word":"Fishlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish."},{"word":"Fishmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in fish."},{"word":"Fishskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of a fish (dog fish, shark, etc.)"},{"word":"Fishskin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ichthyosis."},{"word":"Fish-tackle","type":"(n.)","description":"A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block."},{"word":"Fish-tail","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish."},{"word":"Fishwife","type":"(n.)","description":"A fishwoman."},{"word":"Fishwomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fishwoman"},{"word":"Fishwoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who retails fish."},{"word":"Fishy","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish."},{"word":"Fishy","type":"(a.)","description":"Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul."},{"word":"Fisk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run about; to frisk; to whisk."},{"word":"Fissigemmation","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation."},{"word":"Fissile","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals."},{"word":"Fissilingual","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the tongue forked."},{"word":"Fissilinguia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards."},{"word":"Fissility","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being fissile."},{"word":"Fission","type":"(n.)","description":"A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts."},{"word":"Fission","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division."},{"word":"Fission","type":"(n.)","description":"A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation."},{"word":"Fissipalmate","type":"(a.)","description":"Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves."},{"word":"Fissipara","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Animals which reproduce by fission."},{"word":"Fissiparism","type":"(n.)","description":"Reproduction by spontaneous fission."},{"word":"Fissiparity","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism."},{"word":"Fissiparous","type":"(a.)","description":"Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission."},{"word":"Fissipation","type":"(n.)","description":"Reproduction by fission; fissiparism."},{"word":"Fissiped","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fissipedal"},{"word":"Fissipedal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the toes separated to the base. [See Aves.]"},{"word":"Fissiped","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Fissipedia."},{"word":"Fissipedia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia."},{"word":"Fissirostral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers."},{"word":"Fissirostres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft."},{"word":"Fissural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain."},{"word":"Fissuration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured."},{"word":"Fissure","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock."},{"word":"Fissure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture."},{"word":"Fissurella","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet."},{"word":"Fist","type":"(n.)","description":"The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow."},{"word":"Fist","type":"(n.)","description":"The talons of a bird of prey."},{"word":"Fist","type":"(n.)","description":"the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows."},{"word":"Fisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fist"},{"word":"Fisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fist"},{"word":"Fist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with the fist."},{"word":"Fist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gripe with the fist."},{"word":"Fistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes."},{"word":"Fisticuff","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuff or blow with the fist or hand"},{"word":"Fisticuff","type":"(n.)","description":"a fight with the fists; boxing."},{"word":"Fistinut","type":"(n.)","description":"A pistachio nut."},{"word":"Fistuca","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles."},{"word":"Fistulae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fistula"},{"word":"Fistula","type":"(n.)","description":"A reed; a pipe."},{"word":"Fistula","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe for convejing water."},{"word":"Fistula","type":"(n.)","description":"A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula."},{"word":"Fistular","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed."},{"word":"Fistularia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity."},{"word":"Fistularioid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia."},{"word":"Fistulate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe."},{"word":"Fistule","type":"(n.)","description":"A fistula."},{"word":"Fistuliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped."},{"word":"Fistulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike."},{"word":"Fistulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer."},{"word":"Fistulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose."},{"word":"Fit","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Fight."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(superl.)","description":"Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(superl.)","description":"Prepared; ready."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(superl.)","description":"Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper."},{"word":"Fitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fit"},{"word":"Fitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fit"},{"word":"Fit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be proper or becoming."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"The coincidence of parts that come in contact."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke or blow."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction; an impulse and irregular action."},{"word":"Fit","type":"(n.)","description":"A darting point; a sudden emission."},{"word":"Fitches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fitch"},{"word":"Fitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A vetch."},{"word":"Fitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt."},{"word":"Fitch","type":"(n.)","description":"The European polecat; also, its fur."},{"word":"Fitche","type":"(a.)","description":"Sharpened to a point; pointed."},{"word":"Fitched","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitche."},{"word":"Fitchet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fitchew"},{"word":"Fitchew","type":"(n.)","description":"The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat."},{"word":"Fitchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fitches or vetches."},{"word":"Fitchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitche."},{"word":"Fitful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable."},{"word":"Fithel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fithul"},{"word":"Fithul","type":"(n.)","description":"A fiddle."},{"word":"Fitly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied."},{"word":"Fitment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment."},{"word":"Fitness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office."},{"word":"Fitt","type":"(n.)","description":"See 2d Fit."},{"word":"Fittable","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable; fit."},{"word":"Fittedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation."},{"word":"Fitter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fits or makes to fit;"},{"word":"Fitter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress."},{"word":"Fitter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other."},{"word":"Fitter","type":"(n.)","description":"A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper."},{"word":"Fitter","type":"(n.)","description":"A little piece; a flitter; a flinder."},{"word":"Fitting","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything used in fitting up"},{"word":"Fitting","type":"(n.)","description":"necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings."},{"word":"Fitting","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper."},{"word":"Fitweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits."},{"word":"Fitz","type":"(n.)","description":"A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence."},{"word":"Five","type":"(a.)","description":"Four and one added; one more than four."},{"word":"Five","type":"(n.)","description":"The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects."},{"word":"Five","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V."},{"word":"Five-finger","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cinquefoil."},{"word":"Five-finger","type":"(n.)","description":"A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens."},{"word":"Fivefold","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple."},{"word":"Five-leaf","type":"(n.)","description":"Cinquefoil; five-finger."},{"word":"Five-leafed","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Five-leaved"},{"word":"Five-leaved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper."},{"word":"Fiveling","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals."},{"word":"Fives","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game."},{"word":"Fives","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives."},{"word":"Five-twenties","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(a.)","description":"Fixed; solidified."},{"word":"Fixed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fix"},{"word":"Fixing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fix"},{"word":"Fix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transfix; to pierce."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(n.)","description":"A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma."},{"word":"Fix","type":"(n.)","description":"fettling."},{"word":"Fixable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being fixed."},{"word":"Fixation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed."},{"word":"Fixation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements."},{"word":"Fixation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm."},{"word":"Fixation","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals."},{"word":"Fixative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant."},{"word":"Fixed","type":"(a.)","description":"Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable."},{"word":"Fixed","type":"(a.)","description":"Stable; non-volatile."},{"word":"Fixedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fixed, stable, or constant manner."},{"word":"Fixedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness."},{"word":"Fixedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold."},{"word":"Fixidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fixedness."},{"word":"Fixing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making fixed."},{"word":"Fixing","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is fixed; a fixture."},{"word":"Fixing","type":"(n.)","description":"Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments."},{"word":"Fixity","type":"(n.)","description":"Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed."},{"word":"Fixity","type":"(n.)","description":"Coherence of parts."},{"word":"Fixture","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away."},{"word":"Fixture","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being fixed; fixedness."},{"word":"Fixture","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others."},{"word":"Fixure","type":"(n.)","description":"Fixed position; stable condition; firmness."},{"word":"Fizgig","type":"(n.)","description":"A fishgig."},{"word":"Fizgig","type":"(n.)","description":"A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes."},{"word":"Fizgig","type":"(n.)","description":"A gadding, flirting girl."},{"word":"Fizzed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fizz"},{"word":"Fizzing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fizz"},{"word":"Fizz","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse."},{"word":"Fizz","type":"(n.)","description":"A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly."},{"word":"Fizzled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fizzle"},{"word":"Fizzling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fizzle"},{"word":"Fizzle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a hissing sound."},{"word":"Fizzle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking."},{"word":"Fizzle","type":"(n.)","description":"A failure or abortive effort."},{"word":"Fjord","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fiord."},{"word":"Flabbergast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements."},{"word":"Flabbergastation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being flabbergasted."},{"word":"Flabbily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flabby manner."},{"word":"Flabbiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality or state of being flabby."},{"word":"Flabby","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh."},{"word":"Flabel","type":"(n.)","description":"A fan."},{"word":"Flabellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Flabelliform."},{"word":"Flabellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance."},{"word":"Flabelliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate."},{"word":"Flabellinerved","type":"(a.)","description":"Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf."},{"word":"Flabellum","type":"(n.)","description":"A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers."},{"word":"Flabile","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be blown about."},{"word":"Flaccid","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh."},{"word":"Flaccidity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being flaccid."},{"word":"Flacker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flutter, as a bird."},{"word":"Flacket","type":"(n.)","description":"A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon."},{"word":"Flagged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flag"},{"word":"Flagging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flag"},{"word":"Flag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(n.)","description":"That which flags or hangs down loosely."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(n.)","description":"A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(n.)","description":"A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(n.)","description":"The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or deck out with flags."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat stone used for paving."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(n.)","description":"Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones."},{"word":"Flag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay with flags of flat stones."},{"word":"Flagellant","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant."},{"word":"Flagellata","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad."},{"word":"Flagellated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flagellate"},{"word":"Flagellating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flagellate"},{"word":"Flagellate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whip; to scourge; to flog."},{"word":"Flagellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Flagelliform."},{"word":"Flagellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Flagellata."},{"word":"Flagellation","type":"(n.)","description":"A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging."},{"word":"Flagellator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges."},{"word":"Flagelliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering."},{"word":"Flagellums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flagellum"},{"word":"Flagella","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flagellum"},{"word":"Flagellum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses."},{"word":"Flagellum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata."},{"word":"Flagellum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail."},{"word":"Flagellum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped."},{"word":"Flageolet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder."},{"word":"Flagginess","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness."},{"word":"Flagging","type":"(n.)","description":"A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively."},{"word":"Flagging","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying."},{"word":"Flaggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak; flexible; limber."},{"word":"Flaggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple."},{"word":"Flaggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh."},{"word":"Flagitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion."},{"word":"Flagitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Importunity; urgent demand."},{"word":"Flagitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc."},{"word":"Flagitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons."},{"word":"Flagitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times."},{"word":"Flagmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flagman"},{"word":"Flagman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes signals with a flag."},{"word":"Flagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass."},{"word":"Flagrance","type":"(n.)","description":"Flagrancy."},{"word":"Flagrancies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flagrancy"},{"word":"Flagrancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A burning; great heat; inflammation."},{"word":"Flagrancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess."},{"word":"Flagrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent."},{"word":"Flagrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging."},{"word":"Flagrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked."},{"word":"Flagrantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flagrant manner."},{"word":"Flagrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burn."},{"word":"Flagration","type":"(n.)","description":"A conflagration."},{"word":"Flagship","type":"(n.)","description":"The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant."},{"word":"-staves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flagstaff"},{"word":"-staffs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flagstaff"},{"word":"Flagstaff","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff on which a flag is hoisted."},{"word":"Flagstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone."},{"word":"Flagworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A worm or grub found among flags and sedge."},{"word":"Flail","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely."},{"word":"Flail","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded."},{"word":"Flaily","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting like a flail."},{"word":"Flain","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Flay."},{"word":"Flake","type":"(n.)","description":"A paling; a hurdle."},{"word":"Flake","type":"(n.)","description":"A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things."},{"word":"Flake","type":"(n.)","description":"A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc."},{"word":"Flake","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish."},{"word":"Flake","type":"(n.)","description":"A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash."},{"word":"Flake","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes."},{"word":"Flaked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flake"},{"word":"Flaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flake"},{"word":"Flake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into flakes."},{"word":"Flake","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off."},{"word":"Flakiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being flaky."},{"word":"Flaky","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike."},{"word":"Flam","type":"(n.)","description":"A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion."},{"word":"Flammed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flam"},{"word":"Flamming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flam"},{"word":"Flam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive with a falsehood."},{"word":"Flambeaux","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flambeau"},{"word":"Flambeaus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flambeau"},{"word":"Flambeau","type":"(n.)","description":"A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch."},{"word":"Flamboyant","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style."},{"word":"Flamboyer","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia."},{"word":"Flame","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire."},{"word":"Flame","type":"(n.)","description":"Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger."},{"word":"Flame","type":"(n.)","description":"Ardor of affection; the passion of love."},{"word":"Flame","type":"(n.)","description":"A person beloved; a sweetheart."},{"word":"Flamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flame"},{"word":"Flaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flame"},{"word":"Flame","type":"(n.)","description":"To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze."},{"word":"Flame","type":"(n.)","description":"To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor."},{"word":"Flame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kindle; to inflame; to excite."},{"word":"Flame-colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color."},{"word":"Flameless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of flame."},{"word":"Flamelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small flame."},{"word":"Flammens","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flamen"},{"word":"Flamines","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flamen"},{"word":"Flamen","type":"(n.)","description":"A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis."},{"word":"Flamineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical."},{"word":"Flaming","type":"(a.)","description":"Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating."},{"word":"Flaming","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling."},{"word":"Flaming","type":"(a.)","description":"Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue."},{"word":"Flamingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flaming manner."},{"word":"Flamingoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flamingo"},{"word":"Flamingo","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum."},{"word":"Flaminical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a flamen."},{"word":"Flammability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being flammable; inflammability."},{"word":"Flammable","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflammable."},{"word":"Flammation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of setting in a flame or blaze."},{"word":"Flammeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame."},{"word":"Flammiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing flame."},{"word":"Flammivomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Vomiting flames, as a volcano."},{"word":"Flammulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a reddish color."},{"word":"Flamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame."},{"word":"Flanches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flanch"},{"word":"Flanch","type":"(n.)","description":"A flange."},{"word":"Flanch","type":"(n.)","description":"A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side."},{"word":"Flanched","type":"(a.)","description":"Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings."},{"word":"Flanconade","type":"(n.)","description":"A thrust in the side."},{"word":"Flaneur","type":"(n.)","description":"One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer."},{"word":"Flang","type":"(n.)","description":"A miner's two-pointed pick."},{"word":"Flange","type":"(n.)","description":"An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc."},{"word":"Flange","type":"(n.)","description":"A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe."},{"word":"Flanged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flange"},{"word":"Flanging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flange"},{"word":"Flange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange."},{"word":"Flange","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be bent into a flange."},{"word":"Flanged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel."},{"word":"Flank","type":"(n.)","description":"The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef."},{"word":"Flank","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side."},{"word":"Flank","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet."},{"word":"Flank","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of any building."},{"word":"Flank","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line."},{"word":"Flanked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flank"},{"word":"Flanking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flank"},{"word":"Flank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon."},{"word":"Flank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of."},{"word":"Flank","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To border; to touch."},{"word":"Flank","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be posted on the side."},{"word":"Flanker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body."},{"word":"Flankered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flanker"},{"word":"Flankering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flanker"},{"word":"Flanker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defend by lateral fortifications."},{"word":"Flanker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack sideways."},{"word":"Flannel","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture."},{"word":"Flanneled","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered or wrapped in flannel."},{"word":"Flannen","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or consisting of flannel."},{"word":"Flap","type":"(v.)","description":"Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment."},{"word":"Flap","type":"(v.)","description":"A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter."},{"word":"Flap","type":"(v.)","description":"The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing."},{"word":"Flap","type":"(v.)","description":"A disease in the lips of horses."},{"word":"Flapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flap"},{"word":"Flapping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flap"},{"word":"Flap","type":"(n.)","description":"To beat with a flap; to strike."},{"word":"Flap","type":"(n.)","description":"To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat."},{"word":"Flap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air."},{"word":"Flap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing."},{"word":"Flapdragon","type":"(n.)","description":"A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing."},{"word":"Flapdragon","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing thus caught and eaten."},{"word":"Flapdragon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour."},{"word":"Flap-eared","type":"(a.)","description":"Having broad, loose, dependent ears."},{"word":"Flapjack","type":"(n.)","description":"A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake."},{"word":"Flapjack","type":"(n.)","description":"A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover."},{"word":"Flap-mouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having broad, hangling lips."},{"word":"Flapper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, flaps."},{"word":"Flapper","type":"(n.)","description":"See Flipper."},{"word":"Flared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flare"},{"word":"Flaring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flare"},{"word":"Flare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares."},{"word":"Flare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light."},{"word":"Flare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy."},{"word":"Flare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be exposed to too much light."},{"word":"Flare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare."},{"word":"Flare","type":"(n.)","description":"An unsteady, broad, offensive light."},{"word":"Flare","type":"(n.)","description":"A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace."},{"word":"Flare","type":"(n.)","description":"Leaf of lard."},{"word":"Flare-up","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute."},{"word":"Flaring","type":"(a.)","description":"That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light."},{"word":"Flaring","type":"(a.)","description":"Opening or speading outwards."},{"word":"Flaringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flaring manner."},{"word":"Flashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flash"},{"word":"Flashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flash"},{"word":"Flash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b)."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"To trick up in a showy manner."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash."},{"word":"Flashes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flash"},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(a.)","description":"Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"A pool."},{"word":"Flash","type":"(n.)","description":"A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal."},{"word":"Flashboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard."},{"word":"Flasher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, flashes."},{"word":"Flasher","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of more appearance of wit than reality."},{"word":"Flasher","type":"(n.)","description":"A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis)."},{"word":"Flasher","type":"(n.)","description":"The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher."},{"word":"Flashily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flashy manner; with empty show."},{"word":"Flashiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being flashy."},{"word":"Flashing","type":"(n.)","description":"The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing."},{"word":"Flashing","type":"(n.)","description":"Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting."},{"word":"Flashing","type":"(n.)","description":"The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated."},{"word":"Flashing","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass."},{"word":"Flashy","type":"(a.)","description":"Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright."},{"word":"Flashy","type":"(a.)","description":"Fiery; vehement; impetuous."},{"word":"Flashy","type":"(a.)","description":"Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress."},{"word":"Flashy","type":"(a.)","description":"Without taste or spirit."},{"word":"Flask","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine."},{"word":"Flask","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc."},{"word":"Flask","type":"(n.)","description":"A bed in a gun carriage."},{"word":"Flask","type":"(n.)","description":"The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc."},{"word":"Flasket","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, shallow basket, with two handles."},{"word":"Flasket","type":"(n.)","description":"A small flask."},{"word":"Flasket","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel in which viands are served."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(superl.)","description":"Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flat manner; directly; flatly."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without allowance for accrued interest."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"Something broad and flat in form"},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(n.)","description":"A homaloid space or extension."},{"word":"Flatted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flat"},{"word":"Flatting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flat"},{"word":"Flat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make flat; to flatten; to level."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface."},{"word":"Flat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall form the pitch."},{"word":"Flatbill","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the genus Flatyrynchus. They belong to the family of flycatchers."},{"word":"Flatboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters."},{"word":"Flat-bottomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat."},{"word":"Flat-cap","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London."},{"word":"Flatfish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder."},{"word":"Flat","type":"()","description":"A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot."},{"word":"Flat-footed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep."},{"word":"Flat-footed","type":"(a.)","description":"Firm-footed; determined."},{"word":"Flathead","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians."},{"word":"Flathead","type":"(n.)","description":"A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1."},{"word":"Flat-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail."},{"word":"Flatiron","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes."},{"word":"Flative","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing wind; flatulent."},{"word":"Flating","type":"(a.)","description":"With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position."},{"word":"Flatlong","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the flat side downward; not edgewise."},{"word":"Flatly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly."},{"word":"Flatness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being flat."},{"word":"Flatness","type":"(n.)","description":"Eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level."},{"word":"Flatness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression."},{"word":"Flatness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity."},{"word":"Flatness","type":"(n.)","description":"Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness."},{"word":"Flatour","type":"(n.)","description":"A flatterer."},{"word":"Flattened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flatten"},{"word":"Flattening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flatten"},{"word":"Flatten","type":"(a.)","description":"To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane."},{"word":"Flatten","type":"(a.)","description":"To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit."},{"word":"Flatten","type":"(a.)","description":"To make vapid or insipid; to render stale."},{"word":"Flatten","type":"(a.)","description":"To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch."},{"word":"Flatten","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch."},{"word":"Flatter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens."},{"word":"Flatter","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat-faced fulling hammer."},{"word":"Flatter","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc."},{"word":"Flattered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flatter"},{"word":"Flattering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flatter"},{"word":"Flatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle."},{"word":"Flatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations."},{"word":"Flatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him."},{"word":"Flatter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use flattery or insincere praise."},{"word":"Flatterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who flatters."},{"word":"Flattering","type":"(a.)","description":"That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech."},{"word":"Flatteringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With flattery."},{"word":"Flatteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flattery"},{"word":"Flattery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise."},{"word":"Flatting","type":"(n.)","description":"The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out."},{"word":"Flatting","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss."},{"word":"Flatting","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size."},{"word":"Flatting","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls."},{"word":"Flattish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat flat."},{"word":"Flatulence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Flatlency"},{"word":"Flatlency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being flatulent."},{"word":"Flatulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy."},{"word":"Flatulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach."},{"word":"Flatulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor."},{"word":"Flatulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity."},{"word":"Flatulently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flatulent manner; with flatulence."},{"word":"Flatuosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Flatulence."},{"word":"Flatuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Windy; generating wind."},{"word":"Flatuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flatus"},{"word":"Flatus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flatus"},{"word":"Flatus","type":"(n.)","description":"A breath; a puff of wind."},{"word":"Flatus","type":"(n.)","description":"Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body."},{"word":"Flatware","type":"(n.)","description":"Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware."},{"word":"Flatwise","type":"(a. / adv.)","description":"With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise."},{"word":"Flatworm","type":"(n.)","description":"Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians."},{"word":"Flaundrish","type":"(a.)","description":"Flemish."},{"word":"Flaunted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flaunt"},{"word":"Flaunting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flaunt"},{"word":"Flaunt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show."},{"word":"Flaunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of."},{"word":"Flaunt","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything displayed for show."},{"word":"Flauntingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flaunting way."},{"word":"Flautist","type":"(n.)","description":"A player on the flute; a flutist."},{"word":"Flauto","type":"(n.)","description":"A flute."},{"word":"Flavaniline","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline."},{"word":"Flavescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning yellow; yellowish."},{"word":"Flavicomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having yellow hair."},{"word":"Flavin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron."},{"word":"Flavine","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially."},{"word":"Flavol","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl derivative of it."},{"word":"Flavor","type":"(n.)","description":"That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose."},{"word":"Flavor","type":"(n.)","description":"That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink."},{"word":"Flavor","type":"(n.)","description":"That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors."},{"word":"Flavor","type":"(n.)","description":"That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts."},{"word":"Flavored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flavor"},{"word":"Flavoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flavor"},{"word":"Flavor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest."},{"word":"Flavored","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine."},{"word":"Flavorles","type":"(a.)","description":"Without flavor; tasteless."},{"word":"Flavorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid."},{"word":"Flavous","type":"(a.)","description":"Yellow."},{"word":"Flaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase."},{"word":"Flaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute."},{"word":"Flaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel."},{"word":"Flaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration."},{"word":"Flawed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flaw"},{"word":"Flawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flaw"},{"word":"Flaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To crack; to make flaws in."},{"word":"Flaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break; to violate; to make of no effect."},{"word":"Flawless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from flaws."},{"word":"Flawn","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of flat custard or pie."},{"word":"Flawter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scrape o/ pare, as a skin."},{"word":"Flawy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty."},{"word":"Flawy","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind."},{"word":"Flax","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed."},{"word":"Flax","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing."},{"word":"Flaxen","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair."},{"word":"Flax-plant","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth."},{"word":"Flaxseed","type":"(n.)","description":"The seed of the flax; linseed."},{"word":"Flaxweed","type":"(n.)","description":"See Toadflax."},{"word":"Flaxy","type":"(a.)","description":"Like flax; flaxen."},{"word":"Flayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flay"},{"word":"Flaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flay"},{"word":"Flay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth."},{"word":"Flayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who strips off the skin."},{"word":"Flea","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flay."},{"word":"Flea","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Fleabane","type":"(n.)","description":"One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria."},{"word":"Flea-beetle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species."},{"word":"Flea-bite","type":"(n.)","description":"The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite."},{"word":"Flea-bite","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea."},{"word":"Flea-bitten","type":"(a.)","description":"Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face."},{"word":"Flea-bitten","type":"(a.)","description":"White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse."},{"word":"Fleagh","type":"()","description":"imp. of Fly."},{"word":"Fleak","type":"(n.)","description":"A flake; a thread or twist."},{"word":"Fleaking","type":"(n.)","description":"A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses."},{"word":"Flea-louse","type":"(n.)","description":"A jumping plant louse of the family Psyllidae, of many species. That of the pear tree is Psylla pyri."},{"word":"Fleam","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet."},{"word":"Fleamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Bloody; clotted."},{"word":"Flear","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Fleer."},{"word":"Fleawort","type":"(n.)","description":"An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds."},{"word":"Fleche","type":"(n.)","description":"A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge."},{"word":"Fleck","type":"(n.)","description":"A flake; also, a lock, as of wool."},{"word":"Fleck","type":"(n.)","description":"A spot; a streak; a speckle."},{"word":"Flecked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fleck"},{"word":"Flecking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fleck"},{"word":"Fleck","type":"(n.)","description":"To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple."},{"word":"Flecker","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fleck."},{"word":"Fleckless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without spot or blame."},{"word":"Flection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bending, or state of being bent."},{"word":"Flection","type":"(n.)","description":"The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection."},{"word":"Flectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection."},{"word":"Flector","type":"(n.)","description":"A flexor."},{"word":"Fled","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Flee."},{"word":"Fledge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly."},{"word":"Fledged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fledge"},{"word":"Fledging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fledge"},{"word":"Fledge","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight."},{"word":"Fledge","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To furnish or adorn with any soft covering."},{"word":"Fledgeling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young bird just fledged."},{"word":"Fled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flee"},{"word":"Fleeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flee"},{"word":"Flee","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive."},{"word":"Fleece","type":"(n.)","description":"The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time."},{"word":"Fleece","type":"(n.)","description":"Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece."},{"word":"Fleece","type":"(n.)","description":"The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine."},{"word":"Fleeced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fleece"},{"word":"Fleecing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fleece"},{"word":"Fleece","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool."},{"word":"Fleece","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions."},{"word":"Fleece","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread over as with wool."},{"word":"Fleeced","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced."},{"word":"Fleeced","type":"(a.)","description":"Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed."},{"word":"Fleeceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a fleece."},{"word":"Fleecer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund."},{"word":"Fleecy","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece."},{"word":"Fleen","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Obs. pl. of Flea."},{"word":"Fleer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who flees."},{"word":"Fleered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fleer"},{"word":"Fleering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fleer"},{"word":"Fleer","type":"()","description":"To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout."},{"word":"Fleer","type":"()","description":"To grin with an air of civility; to leer."},{"word":"Fleer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mock; to flout at."},{"word":"Flear","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or look of derision or mockery."},{"word":"Flear","type":"(n.)","description":"A grin of civility; a leer."},{"word":"Fleerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fleers."},{"word":"Fleeringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fleering manner."},{"word":"Fleeted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fleet"},{"word":"Fleeting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fleet"},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"To sail; to float."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up)."},{"word":"Fleet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take the cream from; to skim."},{"word":"Fleeten","type":"(n.)","description":"Fleeted or skimmed milk."},{"word":"Fleet-foot","type":"(a.)","description":"Swift of foot."},{"word":"Fleeting","type":"(a.)","description":"Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments."},{"word":"Fleetingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fleeting manner; swiftly."},{"word":"Fleetings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds."},{"word":"Fleetly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fleet manner; rapidly."},{"word":"Fleetness","type":"(n.)","description":"Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time."},{"word":"Fleigh","type":"()","description":"imp. of Fly."},{"word":"Fleme","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To banish; to drive out; to expel."},{"word":"Flemer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, banishes or expels."},{"word":"Fleming","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Flanders."},{"word":"Flemish","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings."},{"word":"Flemish","type":"(n.)","description":"The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders."},{"word":"Flench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Flence."},{"word":"Flense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"The human eace; mankind; humanity."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"Human nature"},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"Kindred; stock; race."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(n.)","description":"The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten."},{"word":"Fleshed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flesh"},{"word":"Fleshing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flesh"},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom."},{"word":"Flesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides."},{"word":"Fleshed","type":"(a.)","description":"Corpulent; fat; having flesh."},{"word":"Fleshed","type":"(a.)","description":"Glutted; satiated; initiated."},{"word":"Flesher","type":"(n.)","description":"A butcher."},{"word":"Flesher","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife."},{"word":"Fleshhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation."},{"word":"Fleshiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness."},{"word":"Fleshings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers."},{"word":"Fleshless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of flesh; lean."},{"word":"Fleshliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites."},{"word":"Fleshing","type":"(n.)","description":"A person devoted to fleshly things."},{"word":"Fleshly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal."},{"word":"Fleshly","type":"(a.)","description":"Animal; not/vegetable."},{"word":"Fleshly","type":"(a.)","description":"Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine."},{"word":"Fleshly","type":"(a.)","description":"Carnal; wordly; lascivious."},{"word":"Fleshly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously."},{"word":"Fleshment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning."},{"word":"Fleshmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander."},{"word":"Fleshpot","type":"(n.)","description":"A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked"},{"word":"Fleshpot","type":"(n.)","description":"plenty; high living."},{"word":"Fleshquake","type":"(n.)","description":"A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver."},{"word":"Fleshy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross."},{"word":"Fleshy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Human."},{"word":"Fleshy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants."},{"word":"Flet","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Skimmed."},{"word":"Fletched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fletch"},{"word":"Fletching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fletch"},{"word":"Fletch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feather, as an arrow."},{"word":"Fletcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows."},{"word":"Flete","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To float; to swim."},{"word":"Fletiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing tears."},{"word":"Fleurs-de-lis","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fleur-de-lis"},{"word":"Fleur-de-lis","type":"(n.)","description":"The iris. See Flower-de-luce."},{"word":"Fleur-de-lis","type":"(n.)","description":"A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France."},{"word":"Fleury","type":"(a.)","description":"Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated."},{"word":"Flew","type":"()","description":"imp. of Fly."},{"word":"Flewed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having large flews."},{"word":"Flews","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound."},{"word":"Flexed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flex"},{"word":"Flexing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flex"},{"word":"Flex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend; as, to flex the arm."},{"word":"Flex","type":"(n.)","description":"Flax."},{"word":"Flexanimous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to change the mind."},{"word":"Flexibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light."},{"word":"Flexible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle."},{"word":"Flexible","type":"(a.)","description":"Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering."},{"word":"Flexible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language."},{"word":"Flexicostate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having bent or curved ribs."},{"word":"Flexile","type":"(a.)","description":"Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable."},{"word":"Flexion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flexing or bending; a turning."},{"word":"Flexion","type":"(n.)","description":"A bending; a part bent; a fold."},{"word":"Flexion","type":"(n.)","description":"Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection."},{"word":"Flexion","type":"(n.)","description":"The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension."},{"word":"Flexor","type":"(n.)","description":"A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor."},{"word":"Flexuose","type":"(a.)","description":"Flexuous."},{"word":"Flexuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having turns, windings, or flexures."},{"word":"Flexuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner."},{"word":"Flexuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Wavering; not steady; flickering."},{"word":"Flexural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity."},{"word":"Flexure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending."},{"word":"Flexure","type":"(n.)","description":"A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve."},{"word":"Flexure","type":"(n.)","description":"The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird."},{"word":"Flexure","type":"(n.)","description":"The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion."},{"word":"Flibbergib","type":"(n.)","description":"A sycophant."},{"word":"Flibbertigibbet","type":"(n.)","description":"An imp."},{"word":"Flibustier","type":"(n.)","description":"A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster."},{"word":"Flicked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flick"},{"word":"Flicking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flick"},{"word":"Flick","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots."},{"word":"Flick","type":"(n.)","description":"A flitch; as, a flick of bacon."},{"word":"Flickered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flicker"},{"word":"Flickering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flicker"},{"word":"Flicker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flutter; to flap the wings without flying."},{"word":"Flicker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light."},{"word":"Flicker","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame."},{"word":"Flicker","type":"(n.)","description":"The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca."},{"word":"Flickeringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flickering manner."},{"word":"Flickermouse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Flittermouse."},{"word":"Flidge","type":"(a.)","description":"Fledged; fledge."},{"word":"Flidge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become fledged; to fledge."},{"word":"Flier","type":"(v.)","description":"One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive."},{"word":"Flier","type":"(v.)","description":"A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b)."},{"word":"Flier","type":"(n.)","description":"See Flyer, n., 5."},{"word":"Flier","type":"(n.)","description":"See Flyer, n., 4."},{"word":"Flight","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying."},{"word":"Flight","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure."},{"word":"Flight","type":"(n.)","description":"Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly."},{"word":"Flight","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows."},{"word":"Flight","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another."},{"word":"Flight","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft."},{"word":"Flight","type":"(n.)","description":"The husk or glume of oats."},{"word":"Flighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition."},{"word":"Flighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Feathered; -- said of arrows."},{"word":"Flighter","type":"(n.)","description":"A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor."},{"word":"Flightily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flighty manner."},{"word":"Flightiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being flighty."},{"word":"Flight-shot","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile."},{"word":"Flighty","type":"(a.)","description":"Fleeting; swift; transient."},{"word":"Flighty","type":"(a.)","description":"Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious."},{"word":"Flimflam","type":"(n.)","description":"A freak; a trick; a lie."},{"word":"Flimsily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flimsy manner."},{"word":"Flimsiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being flimsy."},{"word":"Flimsy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection."},{"word":"Flimsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Thin or transfer paper."},{"word":"Flimsy","type":"(n.)","description":"A bank note."},{"word":"Flinched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flinch"},{"word":"Flinching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flinch"},{"word":"Flinch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat."},{"word":"Flinch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet."},{"word":"Flinch","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flinching."},{"word":"Flincher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who flinches or fails."},{"word":"Flinchingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flinching manner."},{"word":"Flindermouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A bat; a flittermouse."},{"word":"Flinders","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Small pieces or splinters; fragments."},{"word":"Flung","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fling"},{"word":"Flinging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fling"},{"word":"Fling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shed forth; to emit; to scatter."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(n.)","description":"A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(n.)","description":"A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling."},{"word":"Fling","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifing matter; an object of contempt."},{"word":"Flingdust","type":"(n.)","description":"One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner."},{"word":"Flinger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who flings; one who jeers."},{"word":"Flint","type":"(n.)","description":"A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel."},{"word":"Flint","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks."},{"word":"Flint","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint."},{"word":"Flint","type":"()","description":"A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass."},{"word":"Flint-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard-hearted."},{"word":"Flintiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty."},{"word":"Flintlock","type":"(n.)","description":"A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming."},{"word":"Flintlock","type":"(n.)","description":"A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies."},{"word":"Flintware","type":"(n.)","description":"A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely."},{"word":"Flintwood","type":"(n.)","description":"An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis."},{"word":"Flinty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart."},{"word":"Flip","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron."},{"word":"Flipped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flip"},{"word":"Flipping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flip"},{"word":"Flip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent."},{"word":"Flipe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on."},{"word":"Flip-flap","type":"(n.)","description":"The repeated stroke of something long and loose."},{"word":"Flip-flap","type":"(adv.)","description":"With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose."},{"word":"Flippancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being flippant."},{"word":"Flippant","type":"(a.)","description":"Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative."},{"word":"Flippant","type":"(a.)","description":"Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant."},{"word":"Flippant","type":"(n.)","description":"A flippant person."},{"word":"Flippantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flippant manner."},{"word":"Flippantness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being flippant."},{"word":"Flipper","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc."},{"word":"Flipper","type":"(n.)","description":"The hand."},{"word":"Flirted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flirt"},{"word":"Flirting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flirt"},{"word":"Flirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief."},{"word":"Flirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan."},{"word":"Flirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock."},{"word":"Flirt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men."},{"word":"Flirt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe."},{"word":"Flirt","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer."},{"word":"Flirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl."},{"word":"Flirt","type":"(a.)","description":"Pert; wanton."},{"word":"Flirtation","type":"(n.)","description":"Playing at courtship; coquetry."},{"word":"Flirt-gill","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt."},{"word":"Flirtigig","type":"(n.)","description":"A wanton, pert girl."},{"word":"Flirtingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flirting manner."},{"word":"Flisk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To frisk; to skip; to caper."},{"word":"Flisk","type":"(n.)","description":"A caper; a spring; a whim."},{"word":"Flitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flit"},{"word":"Flitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flit"},{"word":"Flit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along."},{"word":"Flit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flutter; to rove on the wing."},{"word":"Flit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate."},{"word":"Flit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remove from one place or habitation to another."},{"word":"Flit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be unstable; to be easily or often moved."},{"word":"Flit","type":"(a.)","description":"Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet."},{"word":"Flitches","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flitch"},{"word":"Flitch","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon."},{"word":"Flitch","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam."},{"word":"Flitch","type":"(n.)","description":"The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab."},{"word":"Flite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To scold; to quarrel."},{"word":"Flitter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flutter."},{"word":"Flitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards."},{"word":"Flitter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment."},{"word":"Flittermouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse."},{"word":"Flittern","type":"(a.)","description":"A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees."},{"word":"Flittiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unsteadiness; levity; lightness."},{"word":"Flitting","type":"(n.)","description":"A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering."},{"word":"Flitting","type":"(n.)","description":"A removal from one habitation to another."},{"word":"Flittingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flitting manner."},{"word":"Flitty","type":"(a.)","description":"Unstable; fluttering."},{"word":"Flix","type":"(n.)","description":"Down; fur."},{"word":"Flix","type":"(n.)","description":"The flux; dysentery."},{"word":"Flon","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flo"},{"word":"Flo","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrow."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A float board. See Float board (below)."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of flowing; flux; flow."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A polishing block used in marble working; a runner."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A coal cart."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The sea; a wave. See Flote, n."},{"word":"Floated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Float"},{"word":"Floating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Float"},{"word":"Float","type":"(n.)","description":"To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up."},{"word":"Float","type":"(n.)","description":"To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flood; to overflow; to cover with water."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet."},{"word":"Float","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation."},{"word":"Floatable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be floated."},{"word":"Floatage","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Flotage."},{"word":"Floatation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Flotation."},{"word":"Floater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who floats or swims."},{"word":"Floater","type":"(n.)","description":"A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface."},{"word":"Floating","type":"(a.)","description":"Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air."},{"word":"Floating","type":"(a.)","description":"Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals."},{"word":"Floating","type":"(a.)","description":"Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt."},{"word":"Floating","type":"(n.)","description":"Floating threads. See Floating threads, above."},{"word":"Floating","type":"(n.)","description":"The second coat of three-coat plastering."},{"word":"Floatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a floating manner."},{"word":"Floaty","type":"(a.)","description":"Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light."},{"word":"Flobert","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap."},{"word":"Floccillation","type":"(n.)","description":"A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases."},{"word":"Floccose","type":"(n.)","description":"Spotted with small tufts like wool."},{"word":"Floccose","type":"(n.)","description":"Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous."},{"word":"Floccular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the flocculus."},{"word":"Flocculated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flocculate"},{"word":"Flocculating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flocculate"},{"word":"Flocculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To aggregate into small lumps."},{"word":"Flocculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects."},{"word":"Flocculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps."},{"word":"Flocculence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being flocculent."},{"word":"Flocculent","type":"(a.)","description":"Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly."},{"word":"Flocculent","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds."},{"word":"Flocculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flocculus"},{"word":"Flocculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe."},{"word":"Flocci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Floccus"},{"word":"Floccus","type":"(n.)","description":"The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals."},{"word":"Floccus","type":"(n.)","description":"A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds."},{"word":"Floccus","type":"(n.)","description":"A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi."},{"word":"Flock","type":"(n.)","description":"A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl."},{"word":"Flock","type":"(n.)","description":"A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge."},{"word":"Flocked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flock"},{"word":"Flocking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flock"},{"word":"Flock","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gather in companies or crowds."},{"word":"Flock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flock to; to crowd."},{"word":"Flock","type":"(n.)","description":"A lock of wool or hair."},{"word":"Flock","type":"(n.)","description":"Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture."},{"word":"Flock","type":"(sing. / pl.)","description":"Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose."},{"word":"Flock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock."},{"word":"Flockling","type":"(n.)","description":"A lamb."},{"word":"Flockly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In flocks; in crowds."},{"word":"Flockmel","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flock; in a body."},{"word":"Flocky","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with flocks; floccose."},{"word":"Floe","type":"(n.)","description":"A low, flat mass of floating ice."},{"word":"Flogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flog"},{"word":"Flogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flog"},{"word":"Flog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows."},{"word":"Flogger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who flogs."},{"word":"Flogger","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung."},{"word":"Flogging","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"from Flog, v. t."},{"word":"Flon","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Flo."},{"word":"Flong","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Fling."},{"word":"Flood","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation."},{"word":"Flood","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood."},{"word":"Flood","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency."},{"word":"Flood","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Menstrual disharge; menses."},{"word":"Flooded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flood"},{"word":"Flooding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flood"},{"word":"Flood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley."},{"word":"Flood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency."},{"word":"Floodage","type":"(n.)","description":"Inundation."},{"word":"Flooder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who floods anything."},{"word":"Flooding","type":"(n.)","description":"The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess."},{"word":"Flooding","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus."},{"word":"Flook","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluke of an anchor."},{"word":"Flookan","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Flukan"},{"word":"Flukan","type":"(n.)","description":"See Flucan."},{"word":"Flooky","type":"(a.)","description":"Fluky."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"A story of a building. See Story."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the house assigned to the members."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"The right to speak."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(n.)","description":"A horizontal, flat ore body."},{"word":"Floored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Floor"},{"word":"Flooring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Floor"},{"word":"Floor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent."},{"word":"Floor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination."},{"word":"Floorage","type":"(n.)","description":"Floor space."},{"word":"Floorer","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities."},{"word":"Floorheads","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel."},{"word":"Flooring","type":"(n.)","description":"A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n."},{"word":"Flooring","type":"(n.)","description":"Material for the construction of a floor or floors."},{"word":"Floorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no floor."},{"word":"Floorwalker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director."},{"word":"Flopped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flop"},{"word":"Flopping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flop"},{"word":"Flop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap."},{"word":"Flop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat."},{"word":"Flop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops."},{"word":"Flop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground."},{"word":"Flop","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of flopping."},{"word":"Floppy","type":"(n.)","description":"Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim."},{"word":"Flopwing","type":"(n.)","description":"The lapwing."},{"word":"Flora","type":"(n.)","description":"The goddess of flowers and spring."},{"word":"Flora","type":"(n.)","description":"The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants."},{"word":"Floral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths."},{"word":"Floral","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters."},{"word":"Florally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a floral manner."},{"word":"Floramour","type":"(n.)","description":"The plant love-lies-bleeding."},{"word":"Floran","type":"(n.)","description":"Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine."},{"word":"Floreal","type":"(n.)","description":"The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare."},{"word":"Floren","type":"(n.)","description":"A cerain gold coin; a Florence."},{"word":"Florence","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value."},{"word":"Florence","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cloth."},{"word":"Florentine","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy."},{"word":"Florentine","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy."},{"word":"Florentine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of silk."},{"word":"Florentine","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie."},{"word":"Florescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A bursting into flower; a blossoming."},{"word":"Florescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Expanding into flowers; blossoming."},{"word":"Floret","type":"(n.)","description":"A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion."},{"word":"Floret","type":"(n.)","description":"A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing."},{"word":"Floriage","type":"(n.)","description":"Bloom; blossom."},{"word":"Floriated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars."},{"word":"Floricomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the head adorned with flowers."},{"word":"Floricultural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants."},{"word":"Floriculture","type":"(n.)","description":"The cultivation of flowering plants."},{"word":"Floriculturist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist."},{"word":"Florid","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery."},{"word":"Florid","type":"(a.)","description":"Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance."},{"word":"Florid","type":"(a.)","description":"Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence."},{"word":"Florid","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations."},{"word":"Florida","type":"()","description":"The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean."},{"word":"Florida","type":"()","description":"One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens."},{"word":"Florideae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species."},{"word":"Floridity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being florid; floridness."},{"word":"Floridly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a florid manner."},{"word":"Floridness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being florid."},{"word":"Floriferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing flowers."},{"word":"Florification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence."},{"word":"Floriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped."},{"word":"Floriken","type":"(n.)","description":"An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis."},{"word":"Florilege","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gathering flowers."},{"word":"Florimer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Floramour."},{"word":"Florin","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents."},{"word":"Florist","type":"(n.)","description":"A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers."},{"word":"Florist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes a flora, or an account of plants."},{"word":"Floroon","type":"(n.)","description":"A border worked with flowers."},{"word":"Florulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowery; blossoming."},{"word":"Floscular","type":"(a.)","description":"Flosculous."},{"word":"Floscularian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk."},{"word":"Floscule","type":"(n.)","description":"A floret."},{"word":"Flosculous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of many gamopetalous florets."},{"word":"Flos-ferri","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore."},{"word":"Flosh","type":"(n.)","description":"A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps."},{"word":"Floss","type":"(n.)","description":"The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk."},{"word":"Floss","type":"(n.)","description":"Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering."},{"word":"Floss","type":"(n.)","description":"A small stream of water."},{"word":"Floss","type":"(n.)","description":"Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present."},{"word":"Flossification","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowering; florification."},{"word":"Flossy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy."},{"word":"Flota","type":"(n.)","description":"A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America."},{"word":"Flotage","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of floating."},{"word":"Flotage","type":"(n.)","description":"That which floats on the sea or in rivers."},{"word":"Flotant","type":"(a.)","description":"Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant."},{"word":"Flotation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or state of floating."},{"word":"Flotation","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of floating bodies."},{"word":"Flote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fleet; to skim."},{"word":"Flote","type":"(n.)","description":"A wave."},{"word":"Flotery","type":"(a.)","description":"Wavy; flowing."},{"word":"Flotilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels."},{"word":"Flotsam","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Flotson"},{"word":"Flotson","type":"(n.)","description":"Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson."},{"word":"Flotten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Skimmed."},{"word":"Flounced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flounce"},{"word":"Flouncing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flounce"},{"word":"Flounce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure."},{"word":"Flounce","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body."},{"word":"Flounce","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging."},{"word":"Flounce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock."},{"word":"Flounder","type":"(n.)","description":"A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species."},{"word":"Flounder","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool used in crimping boot fronts."},{"word":"Floundered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flounder"},{"word":"Floundering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flounder"},{"word":"Flounder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce."},{"word":"Flounder","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of floundering."},{"word":"Flour","type":"(n.)","description":"The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard."},{"word":"Floured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flour"},{"word":"Flouring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flour"},{"word":"Flour","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat."},{"word":"Flour","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle with flour."},{"word":"Floured","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process."},{"word":"Flourished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flourish"},{"word":"Flourishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flourish"},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To boast; to vaunt; to brag."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To develop; to make thrive; to expand."},{"word":"Flourishes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flourish"},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(n.)","description":"A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(n.)","description":"Decoration; ornament; beauty."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(n.)","description":"Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(n.)","description":"A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(n.)","description":"A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare."},{"word":"Flourish","type":"(n.)","description":"The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword."},{"word":"Flourisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who flourishes."},{"word":"Flourishingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously."},{"word":"Floury","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour."},{"word":"Flouted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flout"},{"word":"Flouting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flout"},{"word":"Flout","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mock or insult; to treat with contempt."},{"word":"Flout","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at."},{"word":"Flout","type":"(n.)","description":"A mock; an insult."},{"word":"Flouter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who flouts; a mocker."},{"word":"Floutingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly."},{"word":"Flow","type":"()","description":"imp. sing. of Fly, v. i."},{"word":"Flowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flow"},{"word":"Flowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flow"},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become liquid; to melt."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discharge blood in excess from the uterus."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with varnish."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(n.)","description":"Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(n.)","description":"The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb."},{"word":"Flow","type":"(n.)","description":"A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog."},{"word":"Flowage","type":"(n.)","description":"An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows."},{"word":"Flowen","type":"()","description":"imp. pl. of Fly, v. i."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(n.)","description":"In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(n.)","description":"The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(n.)","description":"Grain pulverized; meal; flour."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of speech; an ornament of style."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(n.)","description":"Menstrual discharges."},{"word":"Flowered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flower"},{"word":"Flowering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flower"},{"word":"Flower","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come into the finest or fairest condition."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come off as flowers by sublimation."},{"word":"Flower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk."},{"word":"Flowerage","type":"(n.)","description":"State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general."},{"word":"Flower-de-luce","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem."},{"word":"Flowerer","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant which flowers or blossoms."},{"word":"Floweret","type":"(n.)","description":"A small flower; a floret."},{"word":"Flower-fence","type":"(n.)","description":"A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies."},{"word":"Flowerful","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with flowers."},{"word":"Flower-gentle","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus)."},{"word":"Floweriness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being flowery."},{"word":"Flowering","type":"(a.)","description":"Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc."},{"word":"Flowering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification."},{"word":"Flowering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adorning with flowers."},{"word":"Flowerless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no flowers."},{"word":"Flowerlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being without flowers."},{"word":"Flowerpot","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown."},{"word":"Flowery","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms."},{"word":"Flowery","type":"(a.)","description":"Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style."},{"word":"Flowery-kirtled","type":"(a.)","description":"Dressed with garlands of flowers."},{"word":"Flowing","type":"(a.)","description":"That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious."},{"word":"Flowing","type":"()","description":"a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t."},{"word":"Flowingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flowing manner."},{"word":"Flowingness","type":"(n.)","description":"Flowing tendency or quality; fluency."},{"word":"Flowk","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Fluke."},{"word":"Flown","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown."},{"word":"Flown","type":"(a.)","description":"Flushed, inflated."},{"word":"Floxed","type":"()","description":"See Floss silk, under Floss."},{"word":"Floyte","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"A variant of Flute."},{"word":"Fluate","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluoride."},{"word":"Fluavil","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil."},{"word":"Flucan","type":"(n.)","description":"Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it."},{"word":"Fluctiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to produce waves."},{"word":"Fluctisonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Sounding like waves."},{"word":"Fluctuability","type":"(n.)","description":"The capacity or ability to fluctuate."},{"word":"Fluctuant","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving like a wave; wavering"},{"word":"Fluctuant","type":"(a.)","description":"showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor."},{"word":"Fluctuant","type":"(a.)","description":"Floating on the waves."},{"word":"Fluctuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fluctuate"},{"word":"Fluctuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fluctuate"},{"word":"Fluctuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air."},{"word":"Fluctuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate."},{"word":"Fluctuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion."},{"word":"Fluctuation","type":"(n.)","description":"A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea."},{"word":"Fluctuation","type":"(n.)","description":"A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices."},{"word":"Fluctuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion."},{"word":"Flue","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage"},{"word":"Flue","type":"(n.)","description":"A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air."},{"word":"Flue","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another."},{"word":"Flue","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes."},{"word":"Flue","type":"(n.)","description":"Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair."},{"word":"Fluence","type":"(n.)","description":"Fluency."},{"word":"Fluency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility."},{"word":"Fluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving."},{"word":"Fluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech."},{"word":"Fluent","type":"(n.)","description":"A current of water; a stream."},{"word":"Fluent","type":"(n.)","description":"A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral."},{"word":"Fluently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fluent manner."},{"word":"Fluentness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fluent."},{"word":"Fluework","type":"(n.)","description":"A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork."},{"word":"Fluey","type":"(a.)","description":"Downy; fluffy."},{"word":"Fluff","type":"(n.)","description":"Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers."},{"word":"Fluffy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy."},{"word":"Flugel","type":"(n.)","description":"A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped."},{"word":"Flugelman","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fugleman."},{"word":"Fluid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous."},{"word":"Fluid","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves."},{"word":"Fluidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion."},{"word":"Fluinity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aeriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity."},{"word":"Fluidized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fluidize"},{"word":"Fluidizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fluidize"},{"word":"Fluidize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render fluid."},{"word":"Fluidness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being flluid; fluidity."},{"word":"Fluidounce","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fluid ounce, under Fluid."},{"word":"Fluidrachm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fluid dram, under Fluid."},{"word":"Flukan","type":"(n.)","description":"Flucan."},{"word":"Fluke","type":"(n.)","description":"The European flounder. See Flounder."},{"word":"Fluke","type":"(n.)","description":"A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot."},{"word":"Fluke","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor."},{"word":"Fluke","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor."},{"word":"Fluke","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting."},{"word":"Fluke","type":"(n.)","description":"An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke."},{"word":"Flukeworm","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as 1st Fluke, 2."},{"word":"Fluky","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed like, or having, a fluke."},{"word":"Flume","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity."},{"word":"Fluminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama."},{"word":"Flummery","type":"(n.)","description":"A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap."},{"word":"Flummery","type":"(n.)","description":"Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing."},{"word":"Flung","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Fling."},{"word":"Flunked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flunk"},{"word":"Flunking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flunk"},{"word":"Flunk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear."},{"word":"Flunk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty."},{"word":"Flunk","type":"(n.)","description":"A failure or backing out"},{"word":"Flunk","type":"(n.)","description":"a total failure in a recitation."},{"word":"Flunkies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flunky"},{"word":"Flunky","type":"(n.)","description":"A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman."},{"word":"Flunky","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob."},{"word":"Flunky","type":"(n.)","description":"One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber."},{"word":"Flunkydom","type":"(n.)","description":"The place or region of flunkies."},{"word":"Flunlyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism."},{"word":"Fluo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene."},{"word":"Fluoborate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride."},{"word":"Fluoboric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron."},{"word":"Fluoboride","type":"(n.)","description":"See Borofluoride."},{"word":"Fluocerine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fluocerite"},{"word":"Fluocerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral."},{"word":"Fluohydric","type":"(a.)","description":"See Hydrofluoric."},{"word":"Fluophosphate","type":"(n.)","description":"A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids."},{"word":"Fluor","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluid state."},{"word":"Fluor","type":"(n.)","description":"Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses."},{"word":"Fluor","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fluorite."},{"word":"Fluor","type":"()","description":"The whites; leucorrhaea."},{"word":"Fluoranthene","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline hydrocarbon C/H/, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar."},{"word":"Fluorated","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride."},{"word":"Fluorene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially."},{"word":"Fluorescein","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin."},{"word":"Fluorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light."},{"word":"Fluorescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of fluorescence."},{"word":"Fluorescin","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation."},{"word":"Fluoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine."},{"word":"Fluoride","type":"(n.)","description":"A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical."},{"word":"Fluorine","type":"(n.)","description":"A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19."},{"word":"Fluorite","type":"(n.)","description":"Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor."},{"word":"Fluoroid","type":"(n.)","description":"A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite."},{"word":"Fluoroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence."},{"word":"Fluorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to fluor."},{"word":"Fluor","type":"()","description":"See Fluorite."},{"word":"Fluosilicate","type":"(n.)","description":"A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride."},{"word":"Fluosilicic","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine."},{"word":"Flurried","type":"(a.)","description":"Agitated; excited."},{"word":"Flurries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flurry"},{"word":"Flurry","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind."},{"word":"Flurry","type":"(n.)","description":"A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind."},{"word":"Flurry","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry."},{"word":"Flurry","type":"(n.)","description":"The violent spasms of a dying whale."},{"word":"Flurried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flurry"},{"word":"Flurrying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flurry"},{"word":"Flurry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm."},{"word":"Flurt","type":"(n.)","description":"A flirt."},{"word":"Flushed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flush"},{"word":"Flushing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flush"},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite; to animate; to stir."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to start, as a hunter a bird."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(n.)","description":"A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(n.)","description":"Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(n.)","description":"A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(n.)","description":"A hand of cards of the same suit."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(a.)","description":"Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(a.)","description":"Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of cards of one suit."},{"word":"Flush","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to be level or even."},{"word":"Flushboard","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Flashboard."},{"word":"Flusher","type":"(n.)","description":"A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water."},{"word":"Flusher","type":"(n.)","description":"The red-backed shrike. See Flasher."},{"word":"Flushing","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the /"},{"word":"Flushing","type":"(n.)","description":"A surface formed of floating threads."},{"word":"Flushingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a flushing manner."},{"word":"Flushness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being flush; abundance."},{"word":"Flustered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fluster"},{"word":"Flustering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fluster"},{"word":"Fluster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle."},{"word":"Fluster","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused."},{"word":"Fluster","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder."},{"word":"Flusteration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster."},{"word":"Flustrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fluster."},{"word":"Flustration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry."},{"word":"Flute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole."},{"word":"Flute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n."},{"word":"Flute","type":"(n.)","description":"A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle."},{"word":"Flute","type":"(n.)","description":"A long French breakfast roll."},{"word":"Flute","type":"(n.)","description":"A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound."},{"word":"Flute","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of flyboat; a storeship."},{"word":"Flute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound."},{"word":"Fluted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flute"},{"word":"Fluting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flute"},{"word":"Flute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute."},{"word":"Flute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc."},{"word":"Flute","type":"()","description":"A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet."},{"word":"Fluted","type":"(a.)","description":"Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes."},{"word":"Fluted","type":"(a.)","description":"Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum."},{"word":"Flutemouth","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout."},{"word":"Fluter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist."},{"word":"Fluter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes grooves or flutings."},{"word":"Fluting","type":"(n.)","description":"Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle."},{"word":"Flutist","type":"(n.)","description":"A performer on the flute; a flautist."},{"word":"Flutist","type":"(n.)","description":"To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan."},{"word":"Flutist","type":"(n.)","description":"To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result."},{"word":"Flutist","type":"(n.)","description":"To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty."},{"word":"Flutter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings."},{"word":"Flutter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion."},{"word":"Flutter","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan."},{"word":"Flutter","type":"(n.)","description":"Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder."},{"word":"Flutterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, flutters."},{"word":"Flutteringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fluttering manner."},{"word":"Fluty","type":"(a.)","description":"Soft and clear in tone, like a flute."},{"word":"Fluvial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant."},{"word":"Fluvialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams."},{"word":"Fluviatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile."},{"word":"Fluviatile","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants."},{"word":"Fluvio-marine","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(n.)","description":"The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being liquid through heat; fusion."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(n.)","description":"The matter thus discharged."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(n.)","description":"Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable."},{"word":"Fluxed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Flux"},{"word":"Fluxing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Flux"},{"word":"Flux","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become fluid; to fuse."},{"word":"Flux","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause a discharge from; to purge."},{"word":"Fluxation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fluxing."},{"word":"Fluxibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fluxible."},{"word":"Fluxible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral."},{"word":"Fluxile","type":"(a.)","description":"Fluxible."},{"word":"Fluxility","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being fluxible."},{"word":"Fluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flowing."},{"word":"Fluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"The matter that flows."},{"word":"Fluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state."},{"word":"Fluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination."},{"word":"Fluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"A constantly varying indication."},{"word":"Fluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential."},{"word":"Fluxion","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method."},{"word":"Fluxional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant."},{"word":"Fluxionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Fluxional."},{"word":"Fluxionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage."},{"word":"Fluxionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in fluxions."},{"word":"Fluxions","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Fluxion, 6(b)."},{"word":"Fluxive","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing; also, wanting solidity."},{"word":"Fluxure","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fluid."},{"word":"Fluxure","type":"(n.)","description":"Fluid matter."},{"word":"Flew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Fly"},{"word":"Flown","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Fly"},{"word":"Flying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fly"},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hunt with a hawk."},{"word":"Flies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fly"},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A parasite."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the \"union\" to the extreme end."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below)."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly."},{"word":"Fly","type":"(a.)","description":"Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning."},{"word":"Flybane","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric."},{"word":"Fly-bitten","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies."},{"word":"Flyblow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows."},{"word":"Flyblow","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly."},{"word":"Flyblown","type":"(a.)","description":"Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul."},{"word":"Flyboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A large Dutch coasting vessel."},{"word":"Flyboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals."},{"word":"Fly-case","type":"(n.)","description":"The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles."},{"word":"Flycatcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing."},{"word":"Fly-catching","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the habit of catching insects on the wing."},{"word":"Flyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One that uses wings."},{"word":"Flyer","type":"(n.)","description":"The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6."},{"word":"Flyer","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc."},{"word":"Flyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder."},{"word":"Flyer","type":"(n.)","description":"The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11."},{"word":"Flyer","type":"(n.)","description":"The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers."},{"word":"Flyer","type":"(n.)","description":"A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture."},{"word":"Flyfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors."},{"word":"Fly-fish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To angle, using flies for bait."},{"word":"Flying","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement."},{"word":"Flying","type":"()","description":"A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans."},{"word":"Flying","type":"()","description":"One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps."},{"word":"Flymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Flyman"},{"word":"Flyman","type":"(n.)","description":"The driver of a fly, or light public carriage."},{"word":"Flysch","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary."},{"word":"Flyspeck","type":"(n.)","description":"A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot."},{"word":"Flyspeck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soil with flyspecks."},{"word":"Flytrap","type":"(n.)","description":"A trap for catching flies."},{"word":"Flytrap","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves."},{"word":"Fnese","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To breathe heavily; to snort."},{"word":"Fo","type":"(n.)","description":"The Chinese name of Buddha."},{"word":"Foal","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly."},{"word":"Foaled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foal"},{"word":"Foaling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foal"},{"word":"Foal","type":"(v.t.)","description":"To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass."},{"word":"Foal","type":"(v.i.)","description":"To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind."},{"word":"Foalfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coltsfoot."},{"word":"Foam","type":"(n.)","description":"The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea."},{"word":"Foamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foam"},{"word":"Foaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foam"},{"word":"Foam","type":"(n.)","description":"To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam."},{"word":"Foam","type":"(n.)","description":"To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action."},{"word":"Foam","type":"(v.t.)","description":"To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam."},{"word":"Foamingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With foam; frothily."},{"word":"Foamless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no foam."},{"word":"Foamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with foam; frothy; spumy."},{"word":"Fob","type":"(n.)","description":"A little pocket for a watch."},{"word":"Fobbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fob"},{"word":"Fobbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fob"},{"word":"Fob","type":"(v.t.)","description":"To beat; to maul."},{"word":"Fob","type":"(v.t.)","description":"To cheat; to trick; to impose on."},{"word":"Focal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point."},{"word":"Focalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized."},{"word":"Focalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Focalize"},{"word":"Focalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Focalize"},{"word":"Focalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate."},{"word":"Focillate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To nourish."},{"word":"Focillation","type":"(n.)","description":"Comfort; support."},{"word":"Focimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera."},{"word":"Focuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Focus"},{"word":"Foci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Focus"},{"word":"Focus","type":"(n.)","description":"A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror."},{"word":"Focus","type":"(n.)","description":"A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant."},{"word":"Focus","type":"(n.)","description":"A central point; a point of concentration."},{"word":"Focused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Focus"},{"word":"Focusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Focus"},{"word":"Focus","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera."},{"word":"Fodder","type":"(n.)","description":"A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother."},{"word":"Fodder","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc."},{"word":"Foddered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fodder"},{"word":"Foddering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fodder"},{"word":"Fodder","type":"(v.t.)","description":"To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc."},{"word":"Fodderer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fodders cattle."},{"word":"Fodient","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging."},{"word":"Fodient","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Fodientia."},{"word":"Fodientia","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"A group of African edentates including the aard-vark."},{"word":"Foe","type":"(n.)","description":"One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy."},{"word":"Foe","type":"(n.)","description":"An enemy in war; a hostile army."},{"word":"Foe","type":"(n.)","description":"One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion."},{"word":"Foe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat as an enemy."},{"word":"Foehood","type":"(n.)","description":"Enmity."},{"word":"Foemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foeman"},{"word":"Foeman","type":"(n.)","description":"An enemy in war."},{"word":"Foetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Fetal."},{"word":"Foetation","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fetation."},{"word":"Foeticide","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Feticide."},{"word":"Foetor","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fetor."},{"word":"Foetus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fetus."},{"word":"Fog","type":"(n.)","description":"A second growth of grass; aftergrass."},{"word":"Fog","type":"(n.)","description":"Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage."},{"word":"Fog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from."},{"word":"Fog","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog."},{"word":"Fog","type":"(n.)","description":"Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud."},{"word":"Fog","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of mental confusion."},{"word":"Fogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fog"},{"word":"Fogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fog"},{"word":"Fog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure."},{"word":"Fog","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development."},{"word":"Foge","type":"(n.)","description":"The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin."},{"word":"Fo'gey","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fogy."},{"word":"Fog'gage","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Fog."},{"word":"Fog'ger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fogs; a pettifogger."},{"word":"Foggily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a foggy manner; obscurely."},{"word":"Fogginess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being foggy."},{"word":"Foggy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning."},{"word":"Foggy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas."},{"word":"Fogie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fogy."},{"word":"Fogless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without fog; clear."},{"word":"Fogies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fogy"},{"word":"Fogy","type":"(n.)","description":"A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old."},{"word":"Fogyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles and conduct of a fogy."},{"word":"Foh","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle."},{"word":"Fohist","type":"(n.)","description":"A Buddhist priest. See Fo."},{"word":"Foible","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak; feeble."},{"word":"Foible","type":"(n.)","description":"A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty."},{"word":"Foible","type":"(n.)","description":"The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte."},{"word":"Foiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foil"},{"word":"Foiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foil"},{"word":"Foil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tread under foot; to trample."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defile; to soil."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(n.)","description":"A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(n.)","description":"The track or trail of an animal."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection."},{"word":"Foil","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed."},{"word":"Foilable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being foiled."},{"word":"Foiler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who foils or frustrates."},{"word":"Foiling","type":"(n.)","description":"A foil."},{"word":"Foiling","type":"(n.)","description":"The track of game (as deer) in the grass."},{"word":"Foin","type":"(n.)","description":"The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten."},{"word":"Foin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name."},{"word":"Foin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge."},{"word":"Foin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prick; to st?ng."},{"word":"Foin","type":"(n.)","description":"A pass in fencing; a lunge."},{"word":"Foinery","type":"(n.)","description":"Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play."},{"word":"Foiningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a push or thrust."},{"word":"Foison","type":"(n.)","description":"Rich harvest; plenty; abundance."},{"word":"Foist","type":"(n.)","description":"A light and fast-sailing ship."},{"word":"Foisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foist"},{"word":"Foisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foist"},{"word":"Foist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in."},{"word":"Foist","type":"(n.)","description":"A foister; a sharper."},{"word":"Foist","type":"(n.)","description":"A trick or fraud; a swindle."},{"word":"Foister","type":"(n.)","description":"One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier."},{"word":"Foistied","type":"(a.)","description":"Fusty."},{"word":"Foistiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fustiness; mustiness."},{"word":"Foisty","type":"(a.)","description":"Fusty; musty."},{"word":"Folded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fold"},{"word":"Folding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fold"},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or wrap up; to conceal."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v.)","description":"A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v.)","description":"Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v.)","description":"That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(n.)","description":"A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(n.)","description":"A boundary; a limit."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine in a fold, as sheep."},{"word":"Fold","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To confine sheep in a fold."},{"word":"Foldage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Faldage."},{"word":"Folder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper."},{"word":"Folderol","type":"(n.)","description":"Nonsense."},{"word":"Folding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication."},{"word":"Folding","type":"(n.)","description":"The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc."},{"word":"Foldless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no fold."},{"word":"Foliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike."},{"word":"Foliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar."},{"word":"Foliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral."},{"word":"Foliage","type":"(n.)","description":"Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage."},{"word":"Foliage","type":"(n.)","description":"A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc."},{"word":"Foliage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves."},{"word":"Foliaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry."},{"word":"Foliar","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages."},{"word":"Foliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk."},{"word":"Foliated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foliate"},{"word":"Foliating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foliate"},{"word":"Foliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat into a leaf, or thin plate."},{"word":"Foliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass."},{"word":"Foliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell."},{"word":"Foliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch."},{"word":"Foliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure."},{"word":"Foliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose."},{"word":"Foliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver."},{"word":"Foliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of forming into a leaf or leaves."},{"word":"Foliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud."},{"word":"Foliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina."},{"word":"Foliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses."},{"word":"Foliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery."},{"word":"Foliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure."},{"word":"Foliature","type":"(n.)","description":"Foliage; leafage."},{"word":"Foliature","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being beaten into foil."},{"word":"Folier","type":"(n.)","description":"Goldsmith's foil."},{"word":"Foliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing leaves."},{"word":"Folily","type":"(a.)","description":"Foolishly."},{"word":"Folios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Folio"},{"word":"Folio","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf of a book or manuscript."},{"word":"Folio","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheet of paper once folded."},{"word":"Folio","type":"(n.)","description":"A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper."},{"word":"Folio","type":"(n.)","description":"The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand."},{"word":"Folio","type":"(n.)","description":"A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number."},{"word":"Folio","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words."},{"word":"Fol'io","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page."},{"word":"Fol'io","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3."},{"word":"Fo'liolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate."},{"word":"Foliole","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet."},{"word":"Foliomort","type":"(a.)","description":"See Feuillemort."},{"word":"Foliose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having many leaves; leafy."},{"word":"Foliosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness."},{"word":"Folious","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial."},{"word":"Folious","type":"(a.)","description":"Foliose."},{"word":"Foliums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Folium"},{"word":"Folia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Folium"},{"word":"Folium","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate."},{"word":"Folium","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy."},{"word":"Folk","type":"(n. collect. & pl.)","description":"Alt. of Folks"},{"word":"Folks","type":"(n. collect. & pl.)","description":"In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe."},{"word":"Folks","type":"(n. collect. & pl.)","description":"People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks."},{"word":"Folks","type":"(n. collect. & pl.)","description":"The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well."},{"word":"Folkland","type":"(n.)","description":"Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed."},{"word":"Folklore","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Folk lore"},{"word":"Folk","type":"()","description":"Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people."},{"word":"Folkmote","type":"(n.)","description":"An assembly of the people"},{"word":"Folkmote","type":"(n.)","description":"a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court."},{"word":"Folkmoter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court."},{"word":"Follicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed."},{"word":"Follicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle."},{"word":"Follicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt."},{"word":"Follicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle."},{"word":"Follicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles."},{"word":"Follicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis."},{"word":"Folliculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having follicles."},{"word":"Folliculous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or producing follicles."},{"word":"Folliful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of folly."},{"word":"Followed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Follow"},{"word":"Following","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Follow"},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend."},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute."},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice."},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To copy after; to take as an example."},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To succeed in order of time, rank, or office."},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise."},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument."},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling."},{"word":"Follow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate."},{"word":"Follower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer."},{"word":"Follower","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweetheart; a beau."},{"word":"Follower","type":"(n.)","description":"The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston."},{"word":"Follower","type":"(n.)","description":"A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box."},{"word":"Follower","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver."},{"word":"Follower","type":"(n.)","description":"Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed."},{"word":"Following","type":"(n.)","description":"One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively."},{"word":"Following","type":"(n.)","description":"Vocation; business; profession."},{"word":"Following","type":"(a.)","description":"Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day."},{"word":"Following","type":"(a.)","description":"(In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding."},{"word":"Follies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Folly"},{"word":"Folly","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind."},{"word":"Folly","type":"(n.)","description":"A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery."},{"word":"Folly","type":"(n.)","description":"Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness."},{"word":"Folly","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of a foolish action or enterprise."},{"word":"Folwe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To follow."},{"word":"Fomalhaut","type":"(n.)","description":"A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish."},{"word":"Fomented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foment"},{"word":"Fomenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foment"},{"word":"Foment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid."},{"word":"Foment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cherish with heat; to foster."},{"word":"Foment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors."},{"word":"Fomentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors."},{"word":"Fomentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The lotion applied to a diseased part."},{"word":"Fomentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Excitation; instigation; encouragement."},{"word":"Fomenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition."},{"word":"Fomites","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fomes"},{"word":"Fomes","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites."},{"word":"Fon","type":"(a.)","description":"A fool; an idiot."},{"word":"Fond","type":"()","description":"imp. of Find. Found."},{"word":"Fond","type":"(superl.)","description":"Foolish; silly; simple; weak."},{"word":"Fond","type":"(superl.)","description":"Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate."},{"word":"Fond","type":"(superl.)","description":"Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife."},{"word":"Fond","type":"(superl.)","description":"Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on)."},{"word":"Fond","type":"(superl.)","description":"Doted on; regarded with affection."},{"word":"Fond","type":"(superl.)","description":"Trifling; valued by folly; trivial."},{"word":"Fond","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To caress; to fondle."},{"word":"Fond","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be fond; to dote."},{"word":"Fonde","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To endeavor; to strive; to try."},{"word":"Fondled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fondle"},{"word":"Fondling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fondle"},{"word":"Fondle","type":"(v.)","description":"To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child."},{"word":"Fondler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fondles."},{"word":"Fondling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness."},{"word":"Fondling","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection."},{"word":"Fondling","type":"(n.)","description":"A fool; a simpleton; a ninny."},{"word":"Fondly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Foolishly."},{"word":"Fondly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly."},{"word":"Fondness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being fond; foolishness."},{"word":"Fondness","type":"(n.)","description":"Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles."},{"word":"Fondon","type":"(n.)","description":"A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation."},{"word":"Fondus","type":"(n.)","description":"A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other."},{"word":"Fone","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. of Foe."},{"word":"Fonge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take; to receive."},{"word":"Fonly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Foolishly; fondly."},{"word":"Fonne","type":"(n.)","description":"A fon."},{"word":"Font","type":"(n.)","description":"A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount."},{"word":"Font","type":"(n.)","description":"A fountain; a spring; a source."},{"word":"Font","type":"(n.)","description":"A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing."},{"word":"Fontal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive."},{"word":"Fontanel","type":"(n.)","description":"An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body."},{"word":"Fontanel","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation."},{"word":"Fontanelle","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fontanel, 2."},{"word":"Fontange","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of tall headdress formerly worn."},{"word":"Food","type":"(n.)","description":"What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment."},{"word":"Food","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes."},{"word":"Food","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with food."},{"word":"Foodful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile."},{"word":"Foodless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without food; barren."},{"word":"Foody","type":"(a.)","description":"Eatable; fruitful."},{"word":"Fool","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool."},{"word":"Fool","type":"(n.)","description":"One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural."},{"word":"Fool","type":"(n.)","description":"A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt."},{"word":"Fool","type":"(n.)","description":"One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person."},{"word":"Fool","type":"(n.)","description":"One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments."},{"word":"Fooled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fool"},{"word":"Fooling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fool"},{"word":"Fool","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth."},{"word":"Fool","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infatuate; to make foolish."},{"word":"Fool","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money."},{"word":"Foolahs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Fulahs."},{"word":"Fool-born","type":"(a.)","description":"Begotten by a fool."},{"word":"Fooleries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foolery"},{"word":"Foolery","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity."},{"word":"Foolery","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical."},{"word":"Foolfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The orange filefish. See Filefish."},{"word":"Foolfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The winter flounder. See Flounder."},{"word":"Fool-happy","type":"(a.)","description":"Lucky, without judgment or contrivance."},{"word":"Foolhardihood","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness."},{"word":"Foolhardily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a foolhardy manner."},{"word":"Foolhardiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness."},{"word":"Foolhardise","type":"(n.)","description":"Foolhardiness."},{"word":"Foolhardy","type":"(a.)","description":"Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold."},{"word":"Fool-hasty","type":"(a.)","description":"Foolishly hasty."},{"word":"Foolify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a fool of; to befool."},{"word":"Foolish","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise."},{"word":"Foolish","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act."},{"word":"Foolish","type":"(a.)","description":"Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible."},{"word":"Foolishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a foolish manner."},{"word":"Foolishness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being foolish."},{"word":"Foolishness","type":"(n.)","description":"A foolish practice; an absurdity."},{"word":"Fool-large","type":"(a.)","description":"Foolishly liberal."},{"word":"Fool-largesse","type":"(n.)","description":"Foolish expenditure; waste."},{"word":"Foolscap","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper."},{"word":"Feet","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foot"},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower edge of a sail."},{"word":"Footed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foot"},{"word":"Footing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foot"},{"word":"Foot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kick with the foot; to spurn."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on foot; to establish; to land."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tread; as, to foot the green."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The size or strike with the talon."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renew the foot of, as of stocking."},{"word":"Football","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather."},{"word":"Football","type":"(n.)","description":"The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals."},{"word":"Footband","type":"(n.)","description":"A band of foot soldiers."},{"word":"Footbath","type":"(n.)","description":"A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet."},{"word":"Footboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet"},{"word":"Footboard","type":"(n.)","description":"The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive."},{"word":"Footboard","type":"(n.)","description":"The foot-rest of a coachman's box."},{"word":"Footboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board forming the foot of a bedstead."},{"word":"Footboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A treadle."},{"word":"Footboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey."},{"word":"Footbreadth","type":"(n.)","description":"The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure."},{"word":"Footbridge","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow bridge for foot passengers only."},{"word":"Footcloth","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse."},{"word":"Footed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot."},{"word":"Footed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a foothold; established."},{"word":"Footfall","type":"(n.)","description":"A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep."},{"word":"Footfight","type":"(n.)","description":"A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback."},{"word":"Footglove","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of stocking."},{"word":"Foot","type":"(pl.)","description":"Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards."},{"word":"Foothalt","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease affecting the feet of sheep."},{"word":"Foothill","type":"(n.)","description":"A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains."},{"word":"Foothold","type":"(n.)","description":"A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing."},{"word":"Foothook","type":"(n.)","description":"See Futtock."},{"word":"Foothot","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"Relative condition; state."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"Tread; step; especially, measured tread."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow cotton lace, without figures."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil."},{"word":"Footing","type":"(n.)","description":"The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot."},{"word":"Footless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no feet."},{"word":"Footlicker","type":"(n.)","description":"A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick."},{"word":"Footlight","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith."},{"word":"Footmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Footman"},{"word":"Footman","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier."},{"word":"Footman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc."},{"word":"Footman","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner."},{"word":"Footman","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire."},{"word":"Footman","type":"(n.)","description":"A moth of the family Lithosidae; -- so called from its livery-like colors."},{"word":"Footmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"Art or skill of a footman."},{"word":"Footmark","type":"(n.)","description":"A footprint; a track or vestige."},{"word":"Footnote","type":"(n.)","description":"A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page."},{"word":"Footpace","type":"(n.)","description":"A walking pace or step."},{"word":"Footpace","type":"(n.)","description":"A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase."},{"word":"Footpad","type":"(n.)","description":"A highwayman or robber on foot."},{"word":"Footpaths","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Footpath"},{"word":"Footpath","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway."},{"word":"Footplate","type":"(n.)","description":"See Footboard (a)."},{"word":"Foot","type":"()","description":"A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot."},{"word":"Foot","type":"()","description":"A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal."},{"word":"Footprint","type":"(n.)","description":"The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, \"Footprints of the Creator.\""},{"word":"Footrope","type":"(n.)","description":"The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse."},{"word":"Footrope","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed."},{"word":"Foots","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead."},{"word":"Foot-sore","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle."},{"word":"Footstalk","type":"(n.)","description":"The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle."},{"word":"Footstalk","type":"(n.)","description":"The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles."},{"word":"Footstalk","type":"(n.)","description":"The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk."},{"word":"Footstalk","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step."},{"word":"Footstall","type":"(n.)","description":"The stirrup of a woman's saddle."},{"word":"Footstall","type":"(n.)","description":"The plinth or base of a pillar."},{"word":"Footstep","type":"(n.)","description":"The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom."},{"word":"Footstep","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclined plane under a hand printing press."},{"word":"Footstone","type":"(n.)","description":"The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to headstone."},{"word":"Footstool","type":"(n.)","description":"A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting."},{"word":"Footway","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage for pedestrians only."},{"word":"Footworn","type":"(a.)","description":"Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler."},{"word":"Footy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc."},{"word":"Footy","type":"(a.)","description":"Poor; mean."},{"word":"Fop","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy."},{"word":"Fop-doodle","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton."},{"word":"Fopling","type":"(n.)","description":"A petty fop."},{"word":"Fopperies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foppery"},{"word":"Foppery","type":"(n.)","description":"The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly."},{"word":"Foppery","type":"(n.)","description":"Folly; foolery."},{"word":"Foppish","type":"(a.)","description":"Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners."},{"word":"For-","type":"()","description":"A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of."},{"word":"For","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done."},{"word":"For","type":"(conj.)","description":"Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything."},{"word":"For","type":"(conj.)","description":"Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before."},{"word":"For","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it."},{"word":"Forage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc."},{"word":"Forage","type":"(n.)","description":"Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats."},{"word":"Foraged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Forage"},{"word":"Foraging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forage"},{"word":"Forage","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil."},{"word":"Forage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds."},{"word":"Forager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forages."},{"word":"Foralite","type":"(n.)","description":"A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata."},{"word":"Foramina","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foramen"},{"word":"Foramines","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foramen"},{"word":"Foramen","type":"(n.)","description":"A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra."},{"word":"Foraminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having small opening, or foramina."},{"word":"Foraminifer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the foraminifera."},{"word":"Foraminifera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda."},{"word":"Foraminiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having small openings, or foramina."},{"word":"Foraminiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud."},{"word":"Foraminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having foramina; full of holes; porous."},{"word":"Forasmuch","type":"(conj.)","description":"In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep."},{"word":"Foray","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid."},{"word":"Foray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pillage; to ravage."},{"word":"Forayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or joins in a foray."},{"word":"Forbade","type":"()","description":"imp. of Forbid."},{"word":"Forbathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bathe."},{"word":"Forbear","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Forbore","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Forbear"},{"word":"Forbare","type":"()","description":"of Forbear"},{"word":"Forborne","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forbear"},{"word":"Forbearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forbear"},{"word":"Forbear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay."},{"word":"Forbear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To refuse; to decline; to give no heed."},{"word":"Forbear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To control one's self when provoked."},{"word":"Forbear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety."},{"word":"Forbear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with consideration or indulgence."},{"word":"Forbear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cease from bearing."},{"word":"Forbearance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience."},{"word":"Forbearance","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering."},{"word":"Forbearant","type":"(a.)","description":"Forbearing."},{"word":"Forbearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forbears."},{"word":"Forbearing","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering."},{"word":"Forbade","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Forbid"},{"word":"Forbidden","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forbid"},{"word":"Forbid","type":"()","description":"of Forbid"},{"word":"Forbidding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forbid"},{"word":"Forbid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict."},{"word":"Forbid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter."},{"word":"Forbid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army."},{"word":"Forbid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accurse; to blast."},{"word":"Forbid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defy; to challenge."},{"word":"Forbid","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder."},{"word":"Forbiddance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing."},{"word":"Forbidden","type":"(a.)","description":"Prohibited; interdicted."},{"word":"Forbiddenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a forbidden or unlawful manner."},{"word":"Forbidder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forbids."},{"word":"Forbidding","type":"(a.)","description":"Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air."},{"word":"Forblack","type":"(a.)","description":"Very black."},{"word":"Forboden","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Forbid."},{"word":"Forbore","type":"()","description":"imp. of Forbear."},{"word":"Forborne","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Forbear."},{"word":"Forbruise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bruise sorely or exceedingly."},{"word":"Forby","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"Near; hard by; along; past."},{"word":"Forcarve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut completely; to cut off."},{"word":"Force","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stuff; to lard; to farce."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"A waterfall; a cascade."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"Validity; efficacy."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force."},{"word":"Forced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Force"},{"word":"Forcing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Force"},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison."},{"word":"Force","type":"(n.)","description":"To allow the force of; to value; to care for."},{"word":"Force","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor."},{"word":"Force","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard."},{"word":"Force","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter."},{"word":"Forced","type":"(a.)","description":"Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh."},{"word":"Forceful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty."},{"word":"Forceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having little or no force; feeble."},{"word":"Forcemeat","type":"(n.)","description":"Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing."},{"word":"Forcement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forcing; compulsion."},{"word":"Forceps","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc."},{"word":"Forceps","type":"(n.)","description":"The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig."},{"word":"Force","type":"()","description":"A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston."},{"word":"Force","type":"()","description":"A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger."},{"word":"Forcer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, forces or drives."},{"word":"Forcer","type":"(n.)","description":"The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump."},{"word":"Forcer","type":"(n.)","description":"A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc."},{"word":"Forcible","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential."},{"word":"Forcible","type":"(a.)","description":"Violent; impetuous."},{"word":"Forcible","type":"(a.)","description":"Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction."},{"word":"Forcible-feeble","type":"(a.)","description":"Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid."},{"word":"Forcibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being forcible."},{"word":"Forcibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a forcible manner."},{"word":"Forcing","type":"(n.)","description":"The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition."},{"word":"Forcing","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat."},{"word":"Forcipal","type":"(a.)","description":"Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps."},{"word":"Forcipate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Forcipated"},{"word":"Forcipated","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth."},{"word":"Forcipation","type":"(n.)","description":"Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers."},{"word":"Forcut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut completely; to cut off."},{"word":"Ford","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading."},{"word":"Ford","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A stream; a current."},{"word":"Forded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ford"},{"word":"Fording","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ford"},{"word":"Ford","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through."},{"word":"Fordable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being forded."},{"word":"Fordless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a ford."},{"word":"Fordo","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To destroy; to undo; to ruin."},{"word":"Fordo","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust."},{"word":"Fordone","type":"(a.)","description":"Undone; ruined."},{"word":"Fordrive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive about; to drive here and there."},{"word":"Fordrunken","type":"(a.)","description":"Utterly drunk; very drunk."},{"word":"Fordry","type":"(a.)","description":"Entirely dry; withered."},{"word":"Fordwine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dwindle away; to disappear."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Journey; way; method of proceeding."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(adv.)","description":"Formerly; previously; afore."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(adv.)","description":"In or towards the bows of a ship."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(adv.)","description":"Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(n.)","description":"The front; hence, that which is in front; the future."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(prep.)","description":"Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before."},{"word":"Foreadmonish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event."},{"word":"Foreadvise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event."},{"word":"Forealleged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foreallege"},{"word":"Forealleging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foreallege"},{"word":"Foreallege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allege or cite before."},{"word":"Foreappoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set, order, or appoint, beforehand."},{"word":"Foreappointment","type":"(n.)","description":"Previous appointment; preordinantion."},{"word":"Forearm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need."},{"word":"Forearm","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium."},{"word":"Forebeam","type":"(n.)","description":"The breast beam of a loom."},{"word":"Forebear","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancestor. See Forbear."},{"word":"Foreboded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Forebode"},{"word":"Foreboding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forebode"},{"word":"Forebode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foretell."},{"word":"Forebode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly."},{"word":"Forebode","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fortell; to presage; to augur."},{"word":"Forebode","type":"(n.)","description":"Prognostication; presage."},{"word":"Forebodement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded."},{"word":"Foreboder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forebodes."},{"word":"Foreboding","type":"(n.)","description":"Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune."},{"word":"Forebodingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a foreboding manner."},{"word":"Forebrace","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail."},{"word":"Forebrain","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain."},{"word":"Foreby","type":"(prep.)","description":"Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby."},{"word":"Forecast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project."},{"word":"Forecast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for."},{"word":"Forecast","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contrive or plan beforehand."},{"word":"Forecast","type":"(n.)","description":"Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination."},{"word":"Forecast","type":"(n.)","description":"Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation."},{"word":"Forecaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forecast."},{"word":"Forecastle","type":"(n.)","description":"A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks."},{"word":"Forecastle","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels."},{"word":"Forecastle","type":"(n.)","description":"In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live."},{"word":"Forechosen","type":"(a.)","description":"Chosen beforehand."},{"word":"Forecited","type":"(a.)","description":"Cited or quoted before or above."},{"word":"Foreclosed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foreclose"},{"word":"Foreclosing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foreclose"},{"word":"Foreclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude."},{"word":"Foreclosure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate."},{"word":"Foreconceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preconceive; to imagine beforehand."},{"word":"Foredate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To date before the true time; to antendate."},{"word":"Foredeck","type":"(n.)","description":"The fore part of a deck, or of a ship."},{"word":"Foredeem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode."},{"word":"Foredeem","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To know or discover beforehand; to foretell."},{"word":"Foredesign","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plan beforehand; to intend previously."},{"word":"Foredetermine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine or decree beforehand."},{"word":"Foredispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestow beforehand."},{"word":"Foredoom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To doom beforehand; to predestinate."},{"word":"Foredoom","type":"(n.)","description":"Doom or sentence decreed in advance."},{"word":"Forefather","type":"(n.)","description":"One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor."},{"word":"Forefeel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of."},{"word":"Forefence","type":"(n.)","description":"Defense in front."},{"word":"Forefend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend."},{"word":"Forefinger","type":"(n.)","description":"The finger next to the thumb; the index."},{"word":"Foreflow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flow before."},{"word":"Forefoot","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot."},{"word":"Forefoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem."},{"word":"Foreefront","type":"(n.)","description":"Foremost part or place."},{"word":"Foregame","type":"(n.)","description":"A first game; first plan."},{"word":"Foreganger","type":"(n.)","description":"A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached."},{"word":"Foregather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Same as Forgather."},{"word":"Foregift","type":"(n.)","description":"A premium paid by / lessee when taking his lease."},{"word":"Foregleam","type":"(n.)","description":"An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light."},{"word":"Forewent","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Forego"},{"word":"Foregone","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forego"},{"word":"Foregoing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forego"},{"word":"Forego","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quit; to relinquish; to leave."},{"word":"Forego","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated."},{"word":"Forego","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles."},{"word":"Foregoer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor."},{"word":"Foregoer","type":"(n.)","description":"A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household."},{"word":"Foregoer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forbears to enjoy."},{"word":"Foreground","type":"(n.)","description":"On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6."},{"word":"Foreguess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conjecture."},{"word":"Foregut","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct."},{"word":"Forehand","type":"(n.)","description":"All that part of a horse which is before the rider."},{"word":"Forehand","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief or most important part."},{"word":"Forehand","type":"(n.)","description":"Superiority; advantage; start; precedence."},{"word":"Forehand","type":"(a.)","description":"Done beforehand; anticipative."},{"word":"Forehanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Early; timely; seasonable."},{"word":"Forehanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer."},{"word":"Forehanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed in the forehand or fore parts."},{"word":"Forehead","type":"(n.)","description":"The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow."},{"word":"Forehead","type":"(n.)","description":"The aspect or countenance; assurance."},{"word":"Forehead","type":"(n.)","description":"The front or fore part of anything."},{"word":"Forehear","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To hear beforehand."},{"word":"Forehearth","type":"(n.)","description":"The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp."},{"word":"Forehend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Forhend."},{"word":"Forehew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hew or cut in front."},{"word":"Forehold","type":"(n.)","description":"The forward part of the hold of a ship."},{"word":"Foreholding","type":"(n.)","description":"Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication."},{"word":"Forehook","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook."},{"word":"Foreign","type":"(a.)","description":"Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government."},{"word":"Foreign","type":"(a.)","description":"Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits."},{"word":"Foreign","type":"(a.)","description":"Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature."},{"word":"Foreign","type":"(a.)","description":"Held at a distance; excluded; exiled."},{"word":"Foreigner","type":"(n.)","description":"A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger."},{"word":"Foreignism","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom."},{"word":"Foreignness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness."},{"word":"Forein","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreign."},{"word":"Forejudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge."},{"word":"Forejudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court."},{"word":"Forejudger","type":"(n.)","description":"A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question."},{"word":"Forejudgment","type":"(n.)","description":"Prejudgment."},{"word":"Foreknew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Foreknow"},{"word":"Foreknown","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Foreknow"},{"word":"Foreknowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foreknow"},{"word":"Foreknow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand."},{"word":"Foreknowa-ble","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be foreknown."},{"word":"Foreknower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who foreknows."},{"word":"Foreknowingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With foreknowledge."},{"word":"Foreknowledge","type":"(n.)","description":"Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience."},{"word":"Forel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill."},{"word":"Forel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind with a forel."},{"word":"Foreland","type":"(n.)","description":"A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England."},{"word":"Foreland","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat."},{"word":"Foreland","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force."},{"word":"Forelay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay down beforehand."},{"word":"Forelay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To waylay. See Forlay."},{"word":"Foreleader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who leads others by his example; aguide."},{"word":"Forelend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Forlend."},{"word":"Forelet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Forlet."},{"word":"Forelie","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie in front of."},{"word":"Forelift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lift up in front."},{"word":"Forelock","type":"(n.)","description":"The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head."},{"word":"Forelock","type":"(n.)","description":"A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun."},{"word":"Forelook","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To look beforehand or forward."},{"word":"Foremen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foreman"},{"word":"Foreman","type":"(n.)","description":"The first or chief man"},{"word":"Foreman","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker."},{"word":"Foreman","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer."},{"word":"Foremast","type":"(n.)","description":"The mast nearest the bow."},{"word":"Foremeant","type":"(a.)","description":"Intended beforehand; premeditated."},{"word":"Forementioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned."},{"word":"Foremilk","type":"(n.)","description":"The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum."},{"word":"Foremost","type":"(a.)","description":"First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army."},{"word":"Foremostly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the foremost place or order; among the foremost."},{"word":"Foremother","type":"(n.)","description":"A female ancestor."},{"word":"Forename","type":"(n.)","description":"A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name."},{"word":"Forename","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To name or mention before."},{"word":"Forenamed","type":"(a.)","description":"Named before; aforenamed."},{"word":"Forenenst","type":"(prep.)","description":"Over against; opposite to."},{"word":"Fore-night","type":"(n.)","description":"The evening between twilight and bedtime."},{"word":"Forenoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon."},{"word":"Forenotice","type":"(n.)","description":"Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning."},{"word":"Forensal","type":"(a.)","description":"Forensic."},{"word":"Forensic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes."},{"word":"Forensic","type":"(n.)","description":"An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis."},{"word":"Forensical","type":"(a.)","description":"Forensic."},{"word":"Foreordain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine."},{"word":"Foreordinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foreordain."},{"word":"Foreordination","type":"(n.)","description":"Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Forepart"},{"word":"Forepart","type":"(n.)","description":"The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning."},{"word":"Forepast","type":"(a.)","description":"Bygone."},{"word":"Forepossessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding or held formerly in possession."},{"word":"Forepossessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Preoccupied; prepossessed; preengaged."},{"word":"Foreprize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prize or rate beforehand."},{"word":"Forepromised","type":"(a.)","description":"Promised beforehand; preengaged."},{"word":"Forequoted","type":"(a.)","description":"Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay."},{"word":"Foreran","type":"()","description":"imp. of Forerun."},{"word":"Forerank","type":"(n.)","description":"The first rank; the front."},{"word":"Forereach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled."},{"word":"Forereach","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays."},{"word":"Foreread","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine."},{"word":"Forerecited","type":"(a.)","description":"Named or recited before."},{"word":"Foreremembered","type":"(a.)","description":"Called to mind previously."},{"word":"Foreright","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready; directly forward; going before."},{"word":"Foreright","type":"(adv.)","description":"Right forward; onward."},{"word":"Forerun","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following)."},{"word":"Forerun","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce."},{"word":"Forerunner","type":"(n.)","description":"A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever."},{"word":"Forerunner","type":"(n.)","description":"A predecessor; an ancestor."},{"word":"Forerunner","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of rag terminating the log line."},{"word":"Foresaid","type":"(a.)","description":"Mentioned before; aforesaid."},{"word":"Foresail","type":"(n.)","description":"The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast."},{"word":"Foresail","type":"(n.)","description":"The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner."},{"word":"Foresail","type":"(n.)","description":"The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast."},{"word":"Foresay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foretell."},{"word":"Foresee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow."},{"word":"Foresee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide."},{"word":"Foresee","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have or exercise foresight."},{"word":"Foreseen","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Provided; in case that; on condition that."},{"word":"Foreseer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who foresees or foreknows."},{"word":"Foreseize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize beforehand."},{"word":"Foreshadow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure."},{"word":"Foreshew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Foreshow."},{"word":"Foreship","type":"(n.)","description":"The fore part of a ship."},{"word":"Foreshorten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective."},{"word":"Foreshorten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination."},{"word":"Foreshortening","type":"(n.)","description":"Representation in a foreshortened mode or way."},{"word":"Foreshot","type":"(n.)","description":"In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil."},{"word":"Foreshow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell."},{"word":"Foreshower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who predicts."},{"word":"Foreside","type":"(n.)","description":"The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea."},{"word":"Foreside","type":"(n.)","description":"The outside or external covering."},{"word":"Foresight","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge."},{"word":"Foresight","type":"(n.)","description":"Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought."},{"word":"Foresight","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction."},{"word":"Foresight","type":"(n.)","description":"Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a."},{"word":"Foresighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future."},{"word":"Foresightful","type":"(a.)","description":"Foresighted."},{"word":"Foresignify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify."},{"word":"Foreskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce."},{"word":"Foreskirt","type":"(n.)","description":"The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train."},{"word":"Foreslack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Forslack."},{"word":"Foresleeve","type":"(n.)","description":"The sleeve below the elbow."},{"word":"Foreslow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t."},{"word":"Foreslow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To loiter. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. i."},{"word":"Forespeak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Forspeak."},{"word":"Forespeak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foretell; to predict."},{"word":"Forespeaking","type":"(n.)","description":"A prediction; also, a preface."},{"word":"Forespeech","type":"(n.)","description":"A preface."},{"word":"Forespent","type":"(a.)","description":"Already spent; gone by; past."},{"word":"Forespent","type":"(a.)","description":"See Forspent."},{"word":"Forespurrer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rides before; a harbinger."},{"word":"Forest","type":"(n.)","description":"An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated."},{"word":"Forest","type":"(n.)","description":"A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own."},{"word":"Forest","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan."},{"word":"Forest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with trees or wood."},{"word":"Forestaff","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff."},{"word":"Forestage","type":"(n.)","description":"A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters."},{"word":"Forestage","type":"(n.)","description":"A service paid by foresters to the king."},{"word":"Forestal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights."},{"word":"Forestalled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Forestall"},{"word":"Forestalling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forestall"},{"word":"Forestall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate."},{"word":"Forestall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance."},{"word":"Forestall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive; -- with of."},{"word":"Forestall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market."},{"word":"Forestaller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market."},{"word":"Forestay","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship."},{"word":"Forester","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game."},{"word":"Forester","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of a forest."},{"word":"Forester","type":"(n.)","description":"A forest tree."},{"word":"Forester","type":"(n.)","description":"A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine."},{"word":"Forestick","type":"(n.)","description":"Front stick of a hearth fire."},{"word":"Forestry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber."},{"word":"Foreswart","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Foreswart"},{"word":"Foreswart","type":"(a.)","description":"See Forswat."},{"word":"Foretaste","type":"(n.)","description":"A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation."},{"word":"Foretaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate."},{"word":"Foretaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taste before another."},{"word":"Foretaster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who tastes beforehand, or before another."},{"word":"Foreteach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To teach beforehand."},{"word":"Foretold","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foretell"},{"word":"Foretelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foretell"},{"word":"Foretell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow."},{"word":"Foretell","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter predictions."},{"word":"Foreteller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who predicts."},{"word":"Forethink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate."},{"word":"Forethink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contrive (something) beforehend."},{"word":"Forethink","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contrive beforehand."},{"word":"Forethought","type":"(a.)","description":"Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate."},{"word":"Forethought","type":"(n.)","description":"A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care."},{"word":"Forethoughtful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having forethought."},{"word":"Foretime","type":"(n.)","description":"The past; the time before the present."},{"word":"Foretoken","type":"(n.)","description":"Prognostic; previous omen."},{"word":"Foretokened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foretoken"},{"word":"Foretokening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foretoken"},{"word":"Foretoken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate."},{"word":"Fore","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fore tooth"},{"word":"Fore","type":"()","description":"One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor."},{"word":"Foretop","type":"(n.)","description":"The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse."},{"word":"Foretop","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig."},{"word":"Foretop","type":"(n.)","description":"The platform at the head of the foremast."},{"word":"Fore-topgallant","type":"(a.)","description":"Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail."},{"word":"Fore-topmast","type":"(n.)","description":"The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship."},{"word":"Fore-topsail","type":"(n.)","description":"See Sail."},{"word":"Forever","type":"(adv.)","description":"Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally."},{"word":"Forever","type":"(adv.)","description":"At all times; always."},{"word":"Forevouched","type":"(a.)","description":"Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance."},{"word":"Foreward","type":"(n.)","description":"The van; the front."},{"word":"Forewarned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Forewarn"},{"word":"Forewarning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forewarn"},{"word":"Forewarn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance."},{"word":"Forewaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Forewaste."},{"word":"Forewend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go before."},{"word":"Forewish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wish beforehand."},{"word":"Forewit","type":"(n.)","description":"A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste."},{"word":"Forewit","type":"(n.)","description":"Foresight; prudence."},{"word":"Forewot","type":"(pres. indic. sing., 1st & 3d pers.)","description":"of Forewite"},{"word":"Forewost","type":"(2d person)","description":"of Forewite"},{"word":"Forewiten","type":"(pl.)","description":"of Forewite"},{"word":"Forewiste","type":"(imp. sing.)","description":"of Forewite"},{"word":"Forewisten","type":"(pl.)","description":"of Forewite"},{"word":"Forewiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forewite"},{"word":"Forewite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foreknow."},{"word":"Forewomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Forewoman"},{"word":"Forewoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman."},{"word":"Foreword","type":"(n.)","description":"A preface."},{"word":"Foreworn","type":"(a.)","description":"Worn out; wasted; used up."},{"word":"Forewot","type":"()","description":"pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite."},{"word":"Foreyard","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowermost yard on the foremast."},{"word":"Forfalture","type":"(n.)","description":"Forfeiture."},{"word":"Forfeit","type":"(n.)","description":"Injury; wrong; mischief."},{"word":"Forfeit","type":"(n.)","description":"A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life."},{"word":"Forfeit","type":"(n.)","description":"Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits."},{"word":"Forfeit","type":"(n.)","description":"Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure."},{"word":"Forfeited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Forfeit"},{"word":"Forfeiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forfeit"},{"word":"Forfeit","type":"(n.)","description":"To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited."},{"word":"Forfeit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress."},{"word":"Forfeit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail to keep an obligation."},{"word":"Forfeit","type":"(p. p. / a.)","description":"In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation."},{"word":"Fourfeitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture."},{"word":"Forfeiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture."},{"word":"Forfeiture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act."},{"word":"Forfeiture","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct."},{"word":"Forfend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prohibit; to forbid; to avert."},{"word":"Forfered","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Excessively alarmed; in great fear."},{"word":"Forfete","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To incur a penalty; to transgress."},{"word":"Forfex","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of shears."},{"word":"Forficate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds."},{"word":"Forficula","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1."},{"word":"Forgather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally."},{"word":"Forgave","type":"()","description":"imp. of Forgive."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(n.)","description":"The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies."},{"word":"Forged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Forge"},{"word":"Forging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forge"},{"word":"Forge","type":"(n.)","description":"To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(n.)","description":"To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(n.)","description":"To coin."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(n.)","description":"To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To commit forgery."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead."},{"word":"Forge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward."},{"word":"Forgemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Forgeman"},{"word":"Forgeman","type":"(n.)","description":"A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him."},{"word":"Forger","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier."},{"word":"Forger","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document."},{"word":"Forgeries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Forgery"},{"word":"Forgery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forging metal into shape."},{"word":"Forgery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond."},{"word":"Forgery","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited."},{"word":"Forgot","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Forget"},{"word":"Forgat","type":"()","description":"of Forget"},{"word":"Forgotten","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forget"},{"word":"Forgot","type":"()","description":"of Forget"},{"word":"Forgetting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forget"},{"word":"Forget","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing."},{"word":"Forget","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect."},{"word":"Forgetful","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory."},{"word":"Forgetful","type":"(a.)","description":"Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive."},{"word":"Forgetful","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious."},{"word":"Forgetfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a forgetful manner."},{"word":"Forgetfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind."},{"word":"Forgetfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion."},{"word":"Forgetfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty."},{"word":"Forgetive","type":"(a.)","description":"Inventive; productive; capable."},{"word":"Forget-me-not","type":"(n.)","description":"A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity."},{"word":"Forgettable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten."},{"word":"Forgetter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forgets; a heedless person."},{"word":"Forgettingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By forgetting."},{"word":"Forging","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing."},{"word":"Forging","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of counterfeiting."},{"word":"Forging","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel."},{"word":"Forgivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial."},{"word":"Forgave","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Forgive"},{"word":"Forgiven","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forgive"},{"word":"Forgiving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forgive"},{"word":"Forgive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign."},{"word":"Forgive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven."},{"word":"Forgive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending."},{"word":"Forgiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries."},{"word":"Forgiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive."},{"word":"Forgiver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forgives."},{"word":"Forgiving","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper."},{"word":"Forwent","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Forgo"},{"word":"Forgone","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forgo"},{"word":"Forgoing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forgo"},{"word":"Forgo","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego."},{"word":"Forgot","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Forget."},{"word":"Forgotten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Forget."},{"word":"Forhall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harass; to torment; to distress."},{"word":"Forhend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize upon."},{"word":"Forinsecal","type":"(a.)","description":"Foreign; alien."},{"word":"Forisfamiliated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Forisfamiliate"},{"word":"Forisfamiliating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forisfamiliate"},{"word":"Forisfamiliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority."},{"word":"Forisfamiliate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance."},{"word":"Forisfamiliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forisfamiliating."},{"word":"Fork","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything."},{"word":"Fork","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork."},{"word":"Fork","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow."},{"word":"Fork","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road."},{"word":"Fork","type":"(n.)","description":"The gibbet."},{"word":"Forked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fork"},{"word":"Forking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fork"},{"word":"Fork","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot into blades, as corn."},{"word":"Fork","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks."},{"word":"Fork","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil."},{"word":"Forkbeard","type":"(n.)","description":"A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard."},{"word":"Forkbeard","type":"(n.)","description":"The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard."},{"word":"Forked","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting."},{"word":"Forked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal."},{"word":"Forkerve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Forcarve, v. t."},{"word":"Forkiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner."},{"word":"Forkless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no fork."},{"word":"Forktail","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking."},{"word":"Forktail","type":"(n.)","description":"A salmon in its fourth year's growth."},{"word":"Fork-tailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds."},{"word":"Forky","type":"(a.)","description":"Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated."},{"word":"Forlaft","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Forleave."},{"word":"Forlay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lie in wait for; to ambush."},{"word":"Forleave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leave off wholly."},{"word":"Forlend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up wholly."},{"word":"Forlore","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forlese"},{"word":"Forlorn","type":"()","description":"of Forlese"},{"word":"Forlese","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lose utterly."},{"word":"Forlet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give up; to leave; to abandon."},{"word":"Forlie","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Forelie."},{"word":"Forlore","type":"()","description":"imp. pl. & p. p. of Forlese."},{"word":"Forlorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Deserted; abandoned; lost."},{"word":"Forlorn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate."},{"word":"Forlorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A lost, forsaken, or solitary person."},{"word":"Forlorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A forlorn hope; a vanguard."},{"word":"Forlornly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a forlorn manner."},{"word":"Forlornness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being forlorn."},{"word":"Forlye","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Same as Forlie."},{"word":"form","type":"(n.)","description":"A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"A shape; an image; a phantom."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"The seat or bed of a hare."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant."},{"word":"Formed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Form"},{"word":"Forming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Form"},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9."},{"word":"Form","type":"(n.)","description":"To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes."},{"word":"Form","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column."},{"word":"Form","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run to a form, as a hare."},{"word":"Formal","type":"(n.)","description":"See Methylal."},{"word":"Formal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing."},{"word":"Formal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect."},{"word":"Formal","type":"(a.)","description":"Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent."},{"word":"Formal","type":"(a.)","description":"Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation."},{"word":"Formal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc."},{"word":"Formal","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent in form; conventional."},{"word":"Formal","type":"(a.)","description":"Sound; normal."},{"word":"Formaldehyde","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid."},{"word":"Formalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion."},{"word":"Formalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion."},{"word":"Formalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Formality"},{"word":"Formality","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc."},{"word":"Formality","type":"(n.)","description":"Form without substance."},{"word":"Formality","type":"(n.)","description":"Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality."},{"word":"Formality","type":"(n.)","description":"An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode."},{"word":"Formality","type":"(n.)","description":"The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal."},{"word":"Formality","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is formal; the formal part."},{"word":"Formality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence."},{"word":"Formality","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities."},{"word":"Formalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Formalize"},{"word":"Formalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Formalize"},{"word":"Formalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give form, or a certain form, to; to model."},{"word":"Formalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render formal."},{"word":"Formalize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To affect formality."},{"word":"Formally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely."},{"word":"Formate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of formic acid."},{"word":"Formation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping."},{"word":"Formation","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart."},{"word":"Formation","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance formed or deposited."},{"word":"Formation","type":"(n.)","description":"Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations."},{"word":"Formation","type":"(n.)","description":"A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation."},{"word":"Formation","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc."},{"word":"Formative","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts."},{"word":"Formative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative."},{"word":"Formative","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter."},{"word":"Formative","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word."},{"word":"Formative","type":"(n.)","description":"A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root."},{"word":"Forme","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Pate or Patte."},{"word":"Forme","type":"(a.)","description":"First."},{"word":"Formed","type":"(a.)","description":"Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars."},{"word":"Formed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n."},{"word":"Formedon","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished."},{"word":"Formell","type":"(n.)","description":"The female of a hawk or falcon."},{"word":"Former","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forms; a maker; a creator."},{"word":"Former","type":"(n.)","description":"A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed."},{"word":"Former","type":"(n.)","description":"A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped."},{"word":"Former","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting die."},{"word":"Former","type":"(a.)","description":"Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past."},{"word":"Former","type":"(a.)","description":"Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument."},{"word":"Former","type":"(a.)","description":"Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned."},{"word":"Formeret","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs."},{"word":"Formerly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore."},{"word":"Formful","type":"(a.)","description":"Creative; imaginative."},{"word":"Formic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether."},{"word":"Formica","type":"(n.)","description":"A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant."},{"word":"Formicaroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridae or ant thrushes."},{"word":"Formicary","type":"(n.)","description":"The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill."},{"word":"Formicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants."},{"word":"Formication","type":"(n.)","description":"A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin."},{"word":"Formicid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ants."},{"word":"Formicid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the family Formicidae, or ants."},{"word":"Formidability","type":"(n.)","description":"Formidableness."},{"word":"Formidable","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming."},{"word":"Formidableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread."},{"word":"Formidably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a formidable manner."},{"word":"Formidolose","type":"(a.)","description":"Very much afraid."},{"word":"Forming","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers."},{"word":"Formless","type":"(a.)","description":"Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape."},{"word":"Formulas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Formula"},{"word":"Formulae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Formula"},{"word":"Formula","type":"(n.)","description":"A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said."},{"word":"Formula","type":"(n.)","description":"A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines."},{"word":"Formula","type":"(n.)","description":"A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula."},{"word":"Formula","type":"(n.)","description":"A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound."},{"word":"Formula","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound."},{"word":"Formularistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization."},{"word":"Formularization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition."},{"word":"Formularize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a forula; to formulate."},{"word":"Formulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Stated; prescribed; ritual."},{"word":"Formularies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Formulary"},{"word":"Formulary","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents."},{"word":"Formulary","type":"(n.)","description":"Prescribed form or model; formula."},{"word":"Formulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Formulate"},{"word":"Formulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Formulate"},{"word":"Formulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression."},{"word":"Formulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula."},{"word":"Formule","type":"(n.)","description":"A set or prescribed model; a formula."},{"word":"Formulization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized."},{"word":"Formulized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Formulize"},{"word":"Formulizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Formulize"},{"word":"Formulize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a formula; to formulate."},{"word":"Formyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde."},{"word":"Formyl","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3."},{"word":"Forncast","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Predestined."},{"word":"Fornical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a fornix."},{"word":"Fornicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fornicated"},{"word":"Fornicated","type":"(a.)","description":"Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched."},{"word":"Fornicated","type":"(a.)","description":"Arching over; overarched."},{"word":"Fornicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse."},{"word":"Fornication","type":"(n.)","description":"Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery."},{"word":"Fornication","type":"(n.)","description":"Adultery."},{"word":"Fornication","type":"(n.)","description":"Incest."},{"word":"Fornication","type":"(n.)","description":"Idolatry."},{"word":"Fornicator","type":"(n.)","description":"An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication."},{"word":"Fornicatress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman guilty of fornication."},{"word":"Fornices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fornix"},{"word":"Fornix","type":"(n.)","description":"An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva."},{"word":"Fornix","type":"(n.)","description":"Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain."},{"word":"Forold","type":"(a.)","description":"Very old."},{"word":"Forpass","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To pass by or along; to pass over."},{"word":"Forpine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To waste away completely by suffering or torment."},{"word":"Forray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foray; to ravage; to pillage."},{"word":"Forray","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See Foray."},{"word":"Forrill","type":"(n.)","description":"Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel."},{"word":"Forsook","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Forsake"},{"word":"Forsaken","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forsake"},{"word":"Forsaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forsake"},{"word":"Forsake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity."},{"word":"Forsake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renounce; to reject; to refuse."},{"word":"Forsaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forsakes or deserts."},{"word":"Forsay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny."},{"word":"Forshape","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render misshapen."},{"word":"Forslack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth."},{"word":"Forslouthe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lose by sloth or negligence."},{"word":"Forslow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off."},{"word":"Forslow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To loiter."},{"word":"Forslugge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lsoe by idleness or slotch."},{"word":"Forsooth","type":"(adv.)","description":"In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously."},{"word":"Forsooth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To address respectfully with the term forsooth."},{"word":"Forsooth","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person."},{"word":"Forspeak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forbid; to prohibit."},{"word":"Forspeak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bewitch."},{"word":"Forspent","type":"(a.)","description":"Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted."},{"word":"Forstall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forestall."},{"word":"Forster","type":"(n.)","description":"A forester."},{"word":"Forstraught","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Distracted."},{"word":"Forswat","type":"(a.)","description":"Spent with heat; covered with sweat."},{"word":"Forswore","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Forswear"},{"word":"Forsworn","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Forswear"},{"word":"Forswearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forswear"},{"word":"Forswear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations."},{"word":"Forswear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deny upon oath."},{"word":"Forswear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swear falsely; to commit perjury."},{"word":"Forswearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath."},{"word":"Forswonk","type":"(a.)","description":"Overlabored; exhausted; worn out."},{"word":"Forswore","type":"()","description":"imp. of Forswear."},{"word":"Forsworn","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Forswear."},{"word":"Forswornness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being forsworn."},{"word":"Forsythia","type":"(a.)","description":"A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms."},{"word":"Fort","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification."},{"word":"Fortalice","type":"(n.)","description":"A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace."},{"word":"Forte","type":"(n.)","description":"The strong point; that in which one excels."},{"word":"Forte","type":"(n.)","description":"The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible."},{"word":"Forte","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Loudly; strongly; powerfully."},{"word":"Forted","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts."},{"word":"Forth","type":"(adv.)","description":"Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth."},{"word":"Forth","type":"(adv.)","description":"Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves."},{"word":"Forth","type":"(adv.)","description":"Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out."},{"word":"Forth","type":"(adv.)","description":"Throughly; from beginning to end."},{"word":"Forth","type":"(prep.)","description":"Forth from; out of."},{"word":"Forth","type":"(n.)","description":"A way; a passage or ford."},{"word":"Forthby","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Forby."},{"word":"Forthcoming","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready or about to appear; making appearance."},{"word":"Forthgoing","type":"(n.)","description":"A going forth; an utterance."},{"word":"Forthgoing","type":"(a.)","description":"Going forth."},{"word":"Forthink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret."},{"word":"Forthputing","type":"(a.)","description":"Bold; forward; aggressive."},{"word":"Forthright","type":"(adv.)","description":"Straight forward; in a straight direction."},{"word":"Forthright","type":"(a.)","description":"Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man."},{"word":"Forthright","type":"(n.)","description":"A straight path."},{"word":"Forthrightness","type":"(n.)","description":"Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness."},{"word":"Forthward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Forward."},{"word":"Forthwith","type":"(adv.)","description":"Immediately; without delay; directly."},{"word":"Forthwith","type":"(adv.)","description":"As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object."},{"word":"Forthy","type":"(adv.)","description":"Therefore."},{"word":"Forties","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Forty."},{"word":"Fortieth","type":"(a.)","description":"Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts."},{"word":"Fortieth","type":"(a.)","description":"Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided."},{"word":"Fortieth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth."},{"word":"Fortifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being fortified."},{"word":"Fortification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy."},{"word":"Fortification","type":"(n.)","description":"That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle."},{"word":"Fortifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds."},{"word":"Fortified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fortify"},{"word":"Fortifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fortify"},{"word":"Fortify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack."},{"word":"Fortify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces."},{"word":"Fortify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To raise defensive works."},{"word":"Fortilage","type":"(n.)","description":"A little fort; a blockhouse."},{"word":"Fortin","type":"(n.)","description":"A little fort; a fortlet."},{"word":"Fortissimo","type":"(adv.)","description":"Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness."},{"word":"Fortition","type":"(n.)","description":"Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard."},{"word":"Fortitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Power to resist attack; strength; firmness."},{"word":"Fortitude","type":"(n.)","description":"That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble."},{"word":"Fortitudinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fortitude; courageous."},{"word":"Fortlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little fort."},{"word":"Fortnight","type":"(n.)","description":"The space of fourteen days; two weeks."},{"word":"Fortnightly","type":"(a.)","description":"Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication."},{"word":"Fortnightly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight."},{"word":"Fortread","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tread down; to trample upon."},{"word":"Fortresses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fortress"},{"word":"Fortress","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security."},{"word":"Fortress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify."},{"word":"Fortuitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms."},{"word":"Fortuitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes."},{"word":"Fortuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Accident; chance; casualty."},{"word":"Fortunate","type":"(n.)","description":"Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment."},{"word":"Fortunate","type":"(n.)","description":"Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky."},{"word":"Fortunately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily."},{"word":"Fortunateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness."},{"word":"Fortune","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life."},{"word":"Fortune","type":"(n.)","description":"That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune."},{"word":"Fortune","type":"(n.)","description":"That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort."},{"word":"Fortune","type":"(n.)","description":"Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune."},{"word":"Fortune","type":"(n.)","description":"To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to."},{"word":"Fortune","type":"(n.)","description":"To provide with a fortune."},{"word":"Fortune","type":"(n.)","description":"To presage; to tell the fortune of."},{"word":"Fortune","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall out; to happen."},{"word":"Fortuneless","type":"(a.)","description":"Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion."},{"word":"Fortunize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regulate the fortune of; to make happy."},{"word":"Forty","type":"(a.)","description":"Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more."},{"word":"Forties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Forty"},{"word":"Forty","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of four tens; forty units or objects."},{"word":"Forty","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl."},{"word":"Forty-spot","type":"(n.)","description":"The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus)."},{"word":"Forums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Forum"},{"word":"Fora","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Forum"},{"word":"Forum","type":"(n.)","description":"A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people."},{"word":"Forum","type":"(n.)","description":"A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes."},{"word":"Forwaked","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Tired out with excessive waking or watching."},{"word":"Forwander","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness."},{"word":"Forward","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreement; a covenant; a promise."},{"word":"Forward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Forwards"},{"word":"Forwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward."},{"word":"Forward","type":"(a.)","description":"Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet."},{"word":"Forward","type":"(a.)","description":"Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty."},{"word":"Forward","type":"(a.)","description":"Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years."},{"word":"Forward","type":"(a.)","description":"Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring."},{"word":"Forwarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Forward"},{"word":"Forwarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Forward"},{"word":"Forward","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement."},{"word":"Forward","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter."},{"word":"Forwarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forwards or promotes; a promoter."},{"word":"Forwarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant."},{"word":"Forwarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One employed in forwarding."},{"word":"Forwarding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others."},{"word":"Forwarding","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher."},{"word":"Forwardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively."},{"word":"Forwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel."},{"word":"Forwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness."},{"word":"Forwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"Eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth."},{"word":"Forwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty."},{"word":"Forwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of advance beyond the usual degree; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil."},{"word":"Forwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Same as Forward."},{"word":"Forwaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To desolate or lay waste utterly."},{"word":"Forwweary","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weary extremely; to dispirit."},{"word":"Forweep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To weep much."},{"word":"Forwete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Forewite."},{"word":"Forwhy","type":"(conj.)","description":"Wherefore; because."},{"word":"Forworn","type":"(a.)","description":"Much worn."},{"word":"Forwot","type":"()","description":"pres. indic. 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forwete."},{"word":"Forwrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wrap up; to conceal."},{"word":"Foryelde","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repay; to requite."},{"word":"Foryete","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forget."},{"word":"Foryetten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Foryete."},{"word":"Forzando","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Sforzato."},{"word":"FossAe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fossa"},{"word":"Fossa","type":"(n.)","description":"A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds."},{"word":"Fossane","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet."},{"word":"Fosse","type":"(n.)","description":"A ditch or moat."},{"word":"Fosse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fossa."},{"word":"Fosset","type":"(n.)","description":"A faucet."},{"word":"Fossette","type":"(n.)","description":"A little hollow; hence, a dimple."},{"word":"Fossette","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea."},{"word":"Fosseway","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry."},{"word":"Fossil","type":"(a.)","description":"Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt."},{"word":"Fossil","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells."},{"word":"Fossil","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance dug from the earth."},{"word":"Fossil","type":"(n.)","description":"The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living."},{"word":"Fossil","type":"(n.)","description":"A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present."},{"word":"Fossiliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or composed of fossils."},{"word":"Fossilification","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of becoming fossil."},{"word":"Fossilism","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or state of fossils."},{"word":"Fossilism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions."},{"word":"Fossilist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist."},{"word":"Fossilization","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil."},{"word":"Fossilized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fossilize"},{"word":"Fossilizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fossilize"},{"word":"Fossilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood."},{"word":"Fossilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden."},{"word":"Fossilize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become fossil."},{"word":"Fossilize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress."},{"word":"Fossilized","type":"(a.)","description":"Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions."},{"word":"Fossores","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched."},{"word":"Fossoria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Fossores."},{"word":"Fossorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal."},{"word":"Fossorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects."},{"word":"Fossulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows."},{"word":"Fostered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foster"},{"word":"Fostering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foster"},{"word":"Foster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up."},{"word":"Foster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius."},{"word":"Foster","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be nourished or trained up together."},{"word":"Foster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood."},{"word":"Foster","type":"(n.)","description":"A forester."},{"word":"Fosterage","type":"(n.)","description":"The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing."},{"word":"Foster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, fosters."},{"word":"Fosterling","type":"(n.)","description":"A foster child."},{"word":"Fosterment","type":"(n.)","description":"Food; nourishment."},{"word":"Fostress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse."},{"word":"Fother","type":"(n.)","description":"A wagonload; a load of any sort."},{"word":"Fother","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fodder, a unit of weight."},{"word":"Fothered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fother"},{"word":"Fothering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fother"},{"word":"Fother","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack."},{"word":"Fotive","type":"(a.)","description":"Nourishing."},{"word":"Fotmal","type":"(n.)","description":"Seventy pounds of lead."},{"word":"Fougade","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fougasse"},{"word":"Fougasse","type":"(n.)","description":"A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy."},{"word":"Fought","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Fight."},{"word":"Foughten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Fight."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(superl.)","description":"Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(superl.)","description":"Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(superl.)","description":"Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(superl.)","description":"Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(superl.)","description":"Ugly; homely; poor."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out."},{"word":"Fouled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Foul"},{"word":"Fouling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Foul"},{"word":"Foul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(n.)","description":"An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race."},{"word":"Foul","type":"(n.)","description":"See Foul ball, under Foul, a."},{"word":"Foulard","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere."},{"word":"Foulder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder."},{"word":"Foule","type":"(adv.)","description":"Foully."},{"word":"Foully","type":"(v.)","description":"In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably."},{"word":"Foul-mouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive."},{"word":"Foulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being foul."},{"word":"Foul-spoken","type":"(a.)","description":"Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language."},{"word":"Foumart","type":"(a.)","description":"The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat."},{"word":"Found","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Find."},{"word":"Founded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Found"},{"word":"Founding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Found"},{"word":"Found","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast."},{"word":"Found","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, single-cut file for combmakers."},{"word":"Founded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Found"},{"word":"Founding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Found"},{"word":"Found","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly."},{"word":"Found","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family."},{"word":"Foundation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect."},{"word":"Foundation","type":"(n.)","description":"That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis."},{"word":"Foundation","type":"(n.)","description":"The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry."},{"word":"Foundation","type":"(n.)","description":"A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment."},{"word":"Foundation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity."},{"word":"Foundationer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school."},{"word":"Foundationless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no foundation."},{"word":"Founder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows."},{"word":"Founder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types."},{"word":"Foundered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Founder"},{"word":"Foundering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Founder"},{"word":"Founder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship."},{"word":"Founder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse."},{"word":"Founder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fail; to miscarry."},{"word":"Founder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him."},{"word":"Founder","type":"(n.)","description":"A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh."},{"word":"Founder","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder."},{"word":"Founderous","type":"(a.)","description":"Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road."},{"word":"Foundershaft","type":"(n.)","description":"The first shaft sunk."},{"word":"Founderies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foundery"},{"word":"Foundery","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Foundry."},{"word":"Founding","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of smelting and casting metals."},{"word":"Foundling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner."},{"word":"Foundress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund."},{"word":"Foundries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foundry"},{"word":"Foundry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or art of casting metals."},{"word":"Foundry","type":"(n.)","description":"The buildings and works for casting metals."},{"word":"Fount","type":"(n.)","description":"A font."},{"word":"Fount","type":"(n.)","description":"A fountain."},{"word":"Fountain","type":"(n.)","description":"A spring of water issuing from the earth."},{"word":"Fountain","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament."},{"word":"Fountain","type":"(n.)","description":"A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc."},{"word":"Fountain","type":"(n.)","description":"The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source."},{"word":"Fountainless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water."},{"word":"Fountful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fountains."},{"word":"Four","type":"(a.)","description":"One more than three; twice two."},{"word":"Four","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of four units; four units or objects."},{"word":"Four","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv."},{"word":"Four","type":"(n.)","description":"Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four."},{"word":"Fourb","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fourbe"},{"word":"Fourbe","type":"(n.)","description":"A trickly fellow; a cheat."},{"word":"Fourche","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross."},{"word":"Fourchette","type":"(n.)","description":"A table fork."},{"word":"Fourchette","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva."},{"word":"Fourchette","type":"(n.)","description":"The wishbone or furculum of birds."},{"word":"Fourchette","type":"(n.)","description":"The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals."},{"word":"Fourchette","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum."},{"word":"Fourchette","type":"(n.)","description":"The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed."},{"word":"Four-cornered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having four corners or angles."},{"word":"Fourdrinier","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery."},{"word":"Fourfold","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division."},{"word":"Fourfold","type":"(n.)","description":"Four times as many or as much."},{"word":"Fourfold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple."},{"word":"Fourfooted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts."},{"word":"Fourgon","type":"(n.)","description":"An ammunition wagon."},{"word":"Fourgon","type":"(n.)","description":"A French baggage wagon."},{"word":"Fourhanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having four hands; quadrumanous."},{"word":"Fourhanded","type":"(a.)","description":"Requiring four \"hands\" or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards."},{"word":"Fourierism","type":"(n.)","description":"The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common."},{"word":"Fourierist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fourierite"},{"word":"Fourierite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adopts the views of Fourier."},{"word":"Four-in-hand","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-hand coach."},{"word":"Four-in-hand","type":"(n.)","description":"A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team."},{"word":"Fourling","type":"(n.)","description":"One of four children born at the same time."},{"word":"Fourling","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals."},{"word":"Fourneau","type":"(n.)","description":"The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed."},{"word":"Four-o'clock","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Mirabilis. There are about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four-o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady."},{"word":"Four-o'clock","type":"(n.)","description":"The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words."},{"word":"Fourpence","type":"(n.)","description":"A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat."},{"word":"Fourpence","type":"(n.)","description":"A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents."},{"word":"Four-poster","type":"(n.)","description":"A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains."},{"word":"Fourrier","type":"(n.)","description":"A harbinger."},{"word":"Fourscore","type":"(n.)","description":"Four times twenty; eighty."},{"word":"Fourscore","type":"(n.)","description":"The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects."},{"word":"Foursquare","type":"(a.)","description":"Having four sides and four equal angles."},{"word":"Fourteen","type":"(a.)","description":"Four and ten more; twice seven."},{"word":"Fourteen","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects."},{"word":"Fourteen","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv."},{"word":"Fourteenth","type":"(a.)","description":"Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month."},{"word":"Fourteenth","type":"(a.)","description":"Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived."},{"word":"Fourteenth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth."},{"word":"Fourteenth","type":"(n.)","description":"The octave of the seventh."},{"word":"Fourth","type":"(a.)","description":"Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four."},{"word":"Fourth","type":"(a.)","description":"Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided."},{"word":"Fourth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third."},{"word":"Fourth","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key."},{"word":"Fourthly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the fourth place."},{"word":"Four-way","type":"(a.)","description":"Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve."},{"word":"Four-wheeled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having four wheels."},{"word":"Four-wheeler","type":"(n.)","description":"A vehicle having four wheels."},{"word":"Foussa","type":"(n.)","description":"A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws."},{"word":"Fouter","type":"(n.)","description":"A despicable fellow."},{"word":"Foutra","type":"(n.)","description":"A fig; -- a word of contempt."},{"word":"Fouty","type":"(a.)","description":"Despicable."},{"word":"Foveae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fovea"},{"word":"Fovea","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight depression or pit; a fossa."},{"word":"Foveate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having pits or depressions; pitted."},{"word":"Foveolae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Foveola"},{"word":"Foveola","type":"(n.)","description":"A small depression or pit; a fovea."},{"word":"Foveolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers."},{"word":"Foveolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Foveolate."},{"word":"Fovillae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fovilla"},{"word":"Fovilla","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain."},{"word":"Fowls","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fowl"},{"word":"Fowl","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird; esp., any large edible bird."},{"word":"Fowl","type":"(n.)","description":"Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus)."},{"word":"Fowled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fowl"},{"word":"Fowling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fowl"},{"word":"Fowl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc."},{"word":"Fowler","type":"(n.)","description":"A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food."},{"word":"Fowlerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc."},{"word":"Fowler's","type":"()","description":"An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium, of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid, or white arsenic; -- named from Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use."},{"word":"Foxes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fox"},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"The European dragonet."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"A sly, cunning fellow."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies."},{"word":"Foxed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fox"},{"word":"Foxing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fox"},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(n.)","description":"To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of."},{"word":"Fox","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting."},{"word":"Foxearth","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself."},{"word":"Fracas","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl."},{"word":"Fracho","type":"(n.)","description":"A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed."},{"word":"Fracid","type":"(a.)","description":"Rotten from being too ripe; overripe."},{"word":"Fract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break; to violate."},{"word":"Fracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary."},{"word":"Foxed","type":"(a.)","description":"Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings."},{"word":"Foxed","type":"(a.)","description":"Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots."},{"word":"Foxery","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior like that of a fox; cunning."},{"word":"Foxes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Fox, n., 7."},{"word":"Foxfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark."},{"word":"Foxfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The european dragonet. See Dragonet."},{"word":"Foxglove","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis."},{"word":"Foxhound","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes."},{"word":"Fox-hunting","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes."},{"word":"Foxiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness."},{"word":"Foxiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration."},{"word":"Foxiness","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse and sour taste in grapes."},{"word":"Foxish","type":"(a.)","description":"Foxlike."},{"word":"Foxlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy."},{"word":"Foxly","type":"(a.)","description":"Foxlike."},{"word":"Foxship","type":"(n.)","description":"Foxiness; craftiness."},{"word":"Foxtail","type":"(n.)","description":"The tail or brush of a fox."},{"word":"Foxtail","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria."},{"word":"Foxtail","type":"(n.)","description":"The last cinders obtained in the fining process."},{"word":"Foxy","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily."},{"word":"Foxy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color."},{"word":"Foxy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling."},{"word":"Foxy","type":"(a.)","description":"Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape."},{"word":"Foy","type":"(n.)","description":"Faith; allegiance; fealty."},{"word":"Foy","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast given by one about to leave a place."},{"word":"Foyer","type":"(n.)","description":"A lobby in a theater; a greenroom."},{"word":"Foyer","type":"(n.)","description":"The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal."},{"word":"Foyson","type":"(n.)","description":"See Foison."},{"word":"Foziness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness."},{"word":"Fozy","type":"(a.)","description":"Spongy; soft; fat and puffy."},{"word":"Fra","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"Fro."},{"word":"Fra","type":"(n.)","description":"Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo."},{"word":"Frab","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To scold; to nag."},{"word":"Frabbit","type":"(a.)","description":"Crabbed; peevish."},{"word":"Fraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence."},{"word":"Fraction","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion; a fragment."},{"word":"Fraction","type":"(n.)","description":"One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude."},{"word":"Fraction","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum."},{"word":"Fractional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers."},{"word":"Fractional","type":"(a.)","description":"Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population."},{"word":"Fractionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions."},{"word":"Fractionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Fractional."},{"word":"Fractionate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids."},{"word":"Fractious","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse."},{"word":"Fractural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture."},{"word":"Fracture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach."},{"word":"Fracture","type":"(n.)","description":"The breaking of a bone."},{"word":"Fracture","type":"(n.)","description":"The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture."},{"word":"Fractured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fracture"},{"word":"Fracturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fracture"},{"word":"Fracture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull."},{"word":"Fraenula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fraenulum"},{"word":"Fraenulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A fraenum."},{"word":"Fraenums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frenum"},{"word":"Fraena","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frenum"},{"word":"Fraenum","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Frenum"},{"word":"Frenum","type":"(n.)","description":"A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue."},{"word":"Fragile","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed."},{"word":"Fragility","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility."},{"word":"Fragility","type":"(n.)","description":"Weakness; feebleness."},{"word":"Fragility","type":"(n.)","description":"Liability to error and sin; frailty."},{"word":"Fragment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing."},{"word":"Fragmentak","type":"(a.)","description":"Fragmentary."},{"word":"Fragmentak","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc."},{"word":"Fragmental","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragmentary rock."},{"word":"Fragmentarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal."},{"word":"Fragmentariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity."},{"word":"Fragmentary","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire."},{"word":"Fragmentary","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of the fragments of other rocks."},{"word":"Fragmented","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken into fragments."},{"word":"Fragmentist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbuttel."},{"word":"Fragor","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash."},{"word":"Fragor","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong or sweet scent."},{"word":"Fragrance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fragrancy"},{"word":"Fragrancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume."},{"word":"Fragrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume."},{"word":"Fraight","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Fraught."},{"word":"Frail","type":"(n.)","description":"A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins."},{"word":"Frail","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail."},{"word":"Frail","type":"(n.)","description":"A rush for weaving baskets."},{"word":"Frail","type":"(superl)","description":"Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm."},{"word":"Frail","type":"(superl)","description":"Tender."},{"word":"Frail","type":"(superl)","description":"Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women."},{"word":"Frailly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Weakly; infirmly."},{"word":"Frailness","type":"(n.)","description":"Frailty."},{"word":"Frailties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frailty"},{"word":"Frailty","type":"(a.)","description":"The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced."},{"word":"Frailty","type":"(a.)","description":"A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity."},{"word":"Fraischeur","type":"(a.)","description":"Freshness; coolness."},{"word":"Fraise","type":"(n.)","description":"A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it."},{"word":"Fraise","type":"(n.)","description":"A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position."},{"word":"Fraise","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter."},{"word":"Fraise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward."},{"word":"Fraised","type":"(a.)","description":"Fortified with a fraise."},{"word":"Fraken","type":"(n.)","description":"A freckle."},{"word":"Framable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being framed."},{"word":"Frambaesia","type":"(n.)","description":"The yaws. See Yaws."},{"word":"Framed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frame"},{"word":"Framing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frame"},{"word":"Frame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause; to bring about; to produce."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To support."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with a frame, as a picture."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed; to go."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched"},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame."},{"word":"Frame","type":"(n.)","description":"Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming."},{"word":"Framer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution."},{"word":"Framework","type":"(n.)","description":"The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society."},{"word":"Framework","type":"(n.)","description":"Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom."},{"word":"Framing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames."},{"word":"Framing","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework, or a sy/ of frames."},{"word":"Frampel","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Frampoid"},{"word":"Frampoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome."},{"word":"Franc","type":"(a.)","description":"A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes."},{"word":"Franchise","type":"(a.)","description":"Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty."},{"word":"Franchise","type":"(a.)","description":"A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote."},{"word":"Franchise","type":"(a.)","description":"The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary."},{"word":"Franchise","type":"(a.)","description":"Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility."},{"word":"Franchised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Franchise"},{"word":"Franchising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Franchise"},{"word":"Franchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to."},{"word":"Franchisement","type":"(n.)","description":"Release; deliverance; freedom."},{"word":"Francic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish."},{"word":"Franciscan","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans."},{"word":"Franciscan","type":"(n.)","description":"A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit."},{"word":"Francolin","type":"(n.)","description":"A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia."},{"word":"Francolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire."},{"word":"Frangent","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing fracture; breaking."},{"word":"Frangibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being frangible."},{"word":"Frangible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken."},{"word":"Frangipane","type":"(n.)","description":"A perfume of jasmine; frangipani."},{"word":"Frangipane","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds."},{"word":"Frangipani","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Frangipanni"},{"word":"Frangipanni","type":"(n.)","description":"A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria."},{"word":"Frangulic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Frangulinic"},{"word":"Frangulinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn."},{"word":"Frangulin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin."},{"word":"Franion","type":"(n.)","description":"A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(n.)","description":"A pigsty."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(n.)","description":"The common heron; -- so called from its note."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(n.)","description":"Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(n.)","description":"Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberal; generous; profuse."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(n.)","description":"Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense."},{"word":"Franked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frank"},{"word":"Franking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frank"},{"word":"Frank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send by public conveyance free of expense."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(a.)","description":"The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(a.)","description":"A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(a.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant."},{"word":"Frank","type":"(a.)","description":"A French coin. See Franc."},{"word":"Frankalmoigne","type":"(a.)","description":"A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms."},{"word":"Frank-chase","type":"(n.)","description":"The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase."},{"word":"Frank-fee","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold."},{"word":"Frankfort","type":"()","description":"A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc."},{"word":"Frankincense","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified."},{"word":"Franking","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter."},{"word":"Frankish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to, the Franks."},{"word":"Frank-law","type":"(n.)","description":"The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights."},{"word":"Franklin","type":"(a.)","description":"An English freeholder, or substantial householder."},{"word":"Franklinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin."},{"word":"Franklinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of mineral of the spinel group."},{"word":"Franklin","type":"()","description":"A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves."},{"word":"Frankly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a frank manner; freely."},{"word":"Frank-marriage","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten."},{"word":"Frankness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality."},{"word":"Frankpledge","type":"(n.)","description":"A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety."},{"word":"Frankpledge","type":"(n.)","description":"The tithing itself."},{"word":"Frantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted."},{"word":"Frapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frap"},{"word":"Frapping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frap"},{"word":"Frap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together."},{"word":"Frap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum."},{"word":"Frape","type":"(n.)","description":"A crowd, a rabble."},{"word":"Frapler","type":"(n.)","description":"A blusterer; a rowdy."},{"word":"Frater","type":"(n.)","description":"A monk; also, a frater house."},{"word":"Fraternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace."},{"word":"Fraternate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fraternize; to hold fellowship."},{"word":"Fraternation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fraternism"},{"word":"Fraternism","type":"(n.)","description":"Fraternization."},{"word":"Fraternities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fraternity"},{"word":"Fraternity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood."},{"word":"Fraternity","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc."},{"word":"Fraternity","type":"(n.)","description":"Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes."},{"word":"Fraternization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers."},{"word":"Fraternized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fraternize"},{"word":"Fraternizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fraternize"},{"word":"Fraternize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings."},{"word":"Fraternize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy."},{"word":"Fraternizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fraternizes."},{"word":"Fratery","type":"(n.)","description":"A frater house. See under Frater."},{"word":"Fratrage","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin."},{"word":"Fratricelli","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century."},{"word":"Fratricelli","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli."},{"word":"Fratricidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide."},{"word":"Fratricide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who murders or kills his own brother."},{"word":"Fratricide","type":"(n.)","description":"One who murders or kills his own brother."},{"word":"Fraud","type":"(n.)","description":"Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick."},{"word":"Fraud","type":"(n.)","description":"An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another."},{"word":"Fraud","type":"(n.)","description":"A trap or snare."},{"word":"Fraudful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things."},{"word":"Fraudless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from fraud."},{"word":"Fraudulence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fraudulency"},{"word":"Fraudulency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness."},{"word":"Fraudulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest."},{"word":"Fraudulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain."},{"word":"Fraudulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest."},{"word":"Fraudulently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fraudulent manner."},{"word":"Fraught","type":"(n.)","description":"A freight; a cargo."},{"word":"Fraught","type":"(a.)","description":"Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged."},{"word":"Fraughted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fraught"},{"word":"Fraught","type":"()","description":"of Fraught"},{"word":"Fraughting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fraught"},{"word":"Fraught","type":"(n.)","description":"To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd."},{"word":"Fraughtage","type":"(n.)","description":"Freight; loading; cargo."},{"word":"Fraughting","type":"(a.)","description":"Constituting the freight or cargo."},{"word":"Fraunhofer","type":"()","description":"The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist."},{"word":"Fraxin","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin."},{"word":"Fraxinus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees."},{"word":"Fray","type":"(n.)","description":"Affray; broil; contest; combat."},{"word":"Frayed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fray"},{"word":"Fraying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fray"},{"word":"Fray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frighten; to terrify; to alarm."},{"word":"Fray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear the expense of; to defray."},{"word":"Fray","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head."},{"word":"Fray","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rub."},{"word":"Fray","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly."},{"word":"Fray","type":"(n.)","description":"A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing."},{"word":"Fraying","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin which a deer frays from his horns."},{"word":"Freaked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Freak"},{"word":"Freaking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Freak"},{"word":"Freak","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To variegate; to checker; to streak."},{"word":"Freak","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice."},{"word":"Freaking","type":"(a.)","description":"Freakish."},{"word":"Freakish","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious."},{"word":"Freck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To checker; to diversify."},{"word":"Freckle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands."},{"word":"Freckle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any small spot or discoloration."},{"word":"Freckled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Freckle"},{"word":"Freckling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Freckle"},{"word":"Freckle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot."},{"word":"Freckle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted."},{"word":"Freckled","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with freckles; spotted."},{"word":"Freckledness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being freckled."},{"word":"Freckly","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled."},{"word":"Fred","type":"(n.)","description":"Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic."},{"word":"Fredstole","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fridstol."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren."},{"word":"Free","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells."},{"word":"Free","type":"(adv.)","description":"Freely; willingly."},{"word":"Free","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without charge; as, children admitted free."},{"word":"Freed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Free"},{"word":"Freeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Free"},{"word":"Free","type":"(a.)","description":"To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences."},{"word":"Free","type":"(a.)","description":"To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of."},{"word":"Free","type":"(a.)","description":"To frank."},{"word":"Freebooter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber."},{"word":"Freebootery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting."},{"word":"Freebooting","type":"(n.)","description":"Robbery; plunder; a pillaging."},{"word":"Freebooting","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing."},{"word":"Freebooty","type":"(n.)","description":"Freebootery."},{"word":"Freeborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom."},{"word":"Free-denizen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make free."},{"word":"Freedmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Freedman"},{"word":"Freedman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who has been a slave, and has been set free."},{"word":"Freedom","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence."},{"word":"Freedom","type":"(n.)","description":"Privileges; franchises; immunities."},{"word":"Freedom","type":"(n.)","description":"Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will."},{"word":"Freedom","type":"(n.)","description":"Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom."},{"word":"Freedom","type":"(n.)","description":"Frankness; openness; unreservedness."},{"word":"Freedom","type":"(n.)","description":"Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license."},{"word":"Freedom","type":"(n.)","description":"Generosity; liberality."},{"word":"Freedstool","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fridstol."},{"word":"Free-hand","type":"(a.)","description":"Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing."},{"word":"Free-handed","type":"(a.)","description":"Open-handed; liberal."},{"word":"Free-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth."},{"word":"Freehold","type":"(n.)","description":"An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held."},{"word":"Freeholder","type":"(n.)","description":"The possessor of a freehold."},{"word":"Free-liver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking."},{"word":"Free-living","type":"(n.)","description":"Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites."},{"word":"Free-love","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage."},{"word":"Free-lover","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in or practices free-love."},{"word":"Freelte","type":"(n.)","description":"Frailty."},{"word":"Freely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously."},{"word":"Freemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Freeman"},{"word":"Freeman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal."},{"word":"Freeman","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman."},{"word":"Free-martin","type":"(n.)","description":"An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male."},{"word":"Freemason","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance."},{"word":"Freemasonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal."},{"word":"Freemasonry","type":"(n.)","description":"The institutions or the practices of freemasons."},{"word":"Free-milling","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment."},{"word":"Free-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perplexed; having a mind free from care."},{"word":"Freeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness."},{"word":"Freer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frees, or sets free."},{"word":"Free-soil","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856."},{"word":"Free-spoken","type":"(a.)","description":"Accustomed to speak without reserve."},{"word":"Freestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought."},{"word":"Freestone","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches."},{"word":"Free-swimming","type":"(a.)","description":"Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals."},{"word":"Freethinker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century."},{"word":"Freethinking","type":"(n.)","description":"Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief."},{"word":"Freethinking","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical."},{"word":"Free-tongued","type":"(a.)","description":"Speaking without reserve."},{"word":"Free","type":"()","description":"A will free from improper coercion or restraint."},{"word":"Free","type":"()","description":"The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity."},{"word":"Freewill","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering."},{"word":"Freezable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being frozen."},{"word":"Freeze","type":"(n.)","description":"A frieze."},{"word":"Froze","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Freeze"},{"word":"Frozen","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Freeze"},{"word":"Freezing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Freeze"},{"word":"Freeze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body."},{"word":"Freeze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins."},{"word":"Freeze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat."},{"word":"Freeze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill."},{"word":"Freeze","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed."},{"word":"Freezer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream."},{"word":"Freezing","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner."},{"word":"Freieslebenite","type":"(n.)","description":"A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals."},{"word":"Freight","type":"(n.)","description":"That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight."},{"word":"Freight","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired."},{"word":"Freight","type":"(n.)","description":"The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods."},{"word":"Freight","type":"(n.)","description":"Freight transportation, or freight line."},{"word":"Freight","type":"(a.)","description":"Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car."},{"word":"Freighted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Freight"},{"word":"Freighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Freight"},{"word":"Freight","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car."},{"word":"Freightage","type":"(n.)","description":"Charge for transportation; expense of carriage."},{"word":"Freightage","type":"(n.)","description":"The transportation of freight."},{"word":"Freightage","type":"(n.)","description":"Freight; cargo; lading. Milton."},{"word":"Freighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship."},{"word":"Freighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One employed in receiving and forwarding freight."},{"word":"Freighter","type":"(n.)","description":"One for whom freight is transported."},{"word":"Freighter","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel used mainly to carry freight."},{"word":"Freightless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of freight."},{"word":"Frelte","type":"(n.)","description":"Frailty."},{"word":"Fremd","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fremed"},{"word":"Fremed","type":"(a.)","description":"Strange; foreign."},{"word":"Fren","type":"(a.)","description":"A stranger."},{"word":"French","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants."},{"word":"French","type":"(n.)","description":"The language spoken in France."},{"word":"French","type":"(n.)","description":"Collectively, the people of France."},{"word":"Frenchified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frenchify"},{"word":"Frenchifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frenchify"},{"word":"Frenchify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize."},{"word":"Frenchism","type":"(n.)","description":"A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language."},{"word":"Frenchmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frenchman"},{"word":"Frenchman","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or one of the people of France."},{"word":"Frenetir","type":"(a.)","description":"Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic."},{"word":"Frenetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Frenetic; frantic; frenzied."},{"word":"Frenums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frenum"},{"word":"Frena","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frenum"},{"word":"Frenum","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheek stripe of color."},{"word":"Frenum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fraenum."},{"word":"Frenzical","type":"(a.)","description":"Frantic."},{"word":"Frenzied","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened."},{"word":"Frenzies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frenzy"},{"word":"Frenzy","type":"(n.)","description":"Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage."},{"word":"Frenzy","type":"(a.)","description":"Mad; frantic."},{"word":"Frenzy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness"},{"word":"Frequence","type":"(n.)","description":"A crowd; a throng; a concourse."},{"word":"Frequence","type":"(n.)","description":"Frequency; abundance."},{"word":"Frequencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frequency"},{"word":"Frequency","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles."},{"word":"Frequency","type":"(n.)","description":"A crowd; a throng."},{"word":"Frequent","type":"(n.)","description":"Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits."},{"word":"Frequent","type":"(n.)","description":"Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent."},{"word":"Frequent","type":"(n.)","description":"Full; crowded; thronged."},{"word":"Frequent","type":"(n.)","description":"Often or commonly reported."},{"word":"Frequented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frequent"},{"word":"Frequenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frequent"},{"word":"Frequent","type":"(a.)","description":"To visit often; to resort to often or habitually."},{"word":"Frequent","type":"(a.)","description":"To make full; to fill."},{"word":"Frequentable","type":"(a.)","description":"Accessible."},{"word":"Frequentage","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or habit of frequenting."},{"word":"Frequentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort."},{"word":"Frequentative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb."},{"word":"Frequentative","type":"(n.)","description":"A frequentative verb."},{"word":"Frequenter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily."},{"word":"Frequently","type":"(adv.)","description":"At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly."},{"word":"Frequentness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being frequent."},{"word":"Frere","type":"(n.)","description":"A friar."},{"word":"Frescade","type":"(a.)","description":"A cool walk; shady place."},{"word":"Frescoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fresco"},{"word":"Frescos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fresco"},{"word":"Fresco","type":"(a.)","description":"A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade."},{"word":"Fresco","type":"(a.)","description":"The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries."},{"word":"Fresco","type":"(a.)","description":"In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner."},{"word":"Fresco","type":"(a.)","description":"A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b."},{"word":"Frescoed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fresco"},{"word":"Frescoing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fresco"},{"word":"Fresco","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint in fresco, as walls."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(superl)","description":"Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(superl)","description":"New; original; additional."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(superl)","description":"Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(superl)","description":"Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(superl)","description":"In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(superl)","description":"Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(superl)","description":"Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted."},{"word":"Freshes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fresh"},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(n.)","description":"A stream or spring of fresh water."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(n.)","description":"A flood; a freshet."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(n.)","description":"The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea."},{"word":"Fresh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refresh; to freshen."},{"word":"Freshened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Freshen"},{"word":"Freshening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Freshen"},{"word":"Freshen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh."},{"word":"Freshen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refresh; to revive."},{"word":"Freshen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse."},{"word":"Freshen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow fresh; to lose saltness."},{"word":"Freshen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens."},{"word":"Freshet","type":"(a.)","description":"A stream of fresh water."},{"word":"Freshet","type":"(a.)","description":"A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation."},{"word":"Freshly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly."},{"word":"Freshmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Freshman"},{"word":"Freshman","type":"(n.)","description":"novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university."},{"word":"Freshmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a freshman."},{"word":"Freshment","type":"(n.)","description":"Refreshment."},{"word":"Freshness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fresh."},{"word":"Fresh-new","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpracticed."},{"word":"Fresh-water","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels."},{"word":"Fresh-water","type":"(a.)","description":"Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor."},{"word":"Fresh-water","type":"(a.)","description":"Unskilled; raw."},{"word":"Fresnel","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Fres'nel' lan'tern"},{"word":"Fres'nel'","type":"()","description":"A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens."},{"word":"Fresnel","type":"()","description":"See under Lens."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Frith."},{"word":"Fretted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fret"},{"word":"Fretting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fret"},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devour."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impair; to wear away; to diminish."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tease; to irritate; to vex."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat in; to make way by corrosion."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"Herpes; tetter."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"A saltire interlaced with a mascle."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(n.)","description":"A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed."},{"word":"Fret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music."},{"word":"Fretful","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper."},{"word":"Frett","type":"(n.)","description":"The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4."},{"word":"Frett","type":"(n.)","description":"A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda."},{"word":"Fretted","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Rubbed or worn away; chafed."},{"word":"Fretted","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Agitated; vexed; worried."},{"word":"Fretted","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface."},{"word":"Fretted","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries."},{"word":"Fretten","type":"(a.)","description":"Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox."},{"word":"Fretter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, frets."},{"word":"Fretty","type":"(a.)","description":"Adorned with fretwork."},{"word":"Freta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fretum"},{"word":"Fretum","type":"(n.)","description":"A strait, or arm of the sea."},{"word":"Fretwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like."},{"word":"Freya","type":"(n.)","description":"The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct."},{"word":"Friabiiity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being friable; friableness."},{"word":"Friable","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder."},{"word":"Friar","type":"(n.)","description":"A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary."},{"word":"Friar","type":"(n.)","description":"A white or pale patch on a printed page."},{"word":"Friar","type":"(n.)","description":"An American fish; the silversides."},{"word":"Friarly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a friar; inexperienced."},{"word":"Friary","type":"(n.)","description":"Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent."},{"word":"Friary","type":"(n.)","description":"A monastery; a convent of friars."},{"word":"Friary","type":"(n.)","description":"The institution or praactices of friars."},{"word":"Friation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breaking up or pulverizing."},{"word":"Frible","type":"(a.)","description":"Frivolous; trifling; sily."},{"word":"Fribble","type":"(n.)","description":"A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop."},{"word":"Fribble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously."},{"word":"Fribble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To totter."},{"word":"Fribbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A trifler; a fribble."},{"word":"Fribbling","type":"(a.)","description":"Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious."},{"word":"Friborg","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Friborgh"},{"word":"Friborgh","type":"(n.)","description":"The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge."},{"word":"Fricace","type":"(n.)","description":"Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce."},{"word":"Fricace","type":"(n.)","description":"An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent."},{"word":"Fricandeau","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fricando"},{"word":"Fricando","type":"(n.)","description":"A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel."},{"word":"Fricassee","type":"(n.)","description":"A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy."},{"word":"Fricassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frlcassee"},{"word":"Fricasseeing","type":"(p. pr. &. vb. n.)","description":"of Frlcassee"},{"word":"Frlcassee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress like a fricassee."},{"word":"Frication","type":"(n.)","description":"Friction."},{"word":"Fricative","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc."},{"word":"Fricative","type":"(n.)","description":"A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc."},{"word":"Fricatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A lewd woman; a harlot."},{"word":"Frickle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bushel basket."},{"word":"Ftiction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action."},{"word":"Ftiction","type":"(n.)","description":"The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion."},{"word":"Ftiction","type":"(n.)","description":"A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress."},{"word":"Frictional","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity."},{"word":"Frictionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no friction."},{"word":"Friday","type":"(n.)","description":"The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday."},{"word":"Fridge","type":"(n.)","description":"To rub; to fray."},{"word":"Fridstol","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Frithstool"},{"word":"Frithstool","type":"(n.)","description":"A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary."},{"word":"Fried","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Fry."},{"word":"Friend","type":"(n.)","description":"One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant."},{"word":"Friend","type":"(n.)","description":"One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address."},{"word":"Friend","type":"(n.)","description":"One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution."},{"word":"Friend","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers."},{"word":"Friend","type":"(n.)","description":"A paramour of either sex."},{"word":"Friended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Friend"},{"word":"Friending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Friend"},{"word":"Friend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend."},{"word":"Friended","type":"(a.)","description":"Having friends;"},{"word":"Friended","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to love; well-disposed."},{"word":"Friending","type":"(n.)","description":"Friendliness."},{"word":"Friendless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of friends; forsaken."},{"word":"Friendlily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a friendly manner."},{"word":"Friendliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being friendly."},{"word":"Friendly","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable."},{"word":"Friendly","type":"(a.)","description":"Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable."},{"word":"Friendly","type":"(a.)","description":"Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state."},{"word":"Friendly","type":"(a.)","description":"Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale."},{"word":"Friendly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends."},{"word":"Friendship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will."},{"word":"Friendship","type":"(n.)","description":"Kindly aid; help; assistance,"},{"word":"Friendship","type":"(n.)","description":"Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence."},{"word":"Frier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fries."},{"word":"Friese","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Friesic, n."},{"word":"Friesic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands."},{"word":"Friesic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark."},{"word":"Friesish","type":"(a.)","description":"Friesic."},{"word":"Frieze","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture."},{"word":"Frieze","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column."},{"word":"Frieze","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side."},{"word":"Frieze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2."},{"word":"Friezed","type":"(a.)","description":"Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2."},{"word":"Friezer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes."},{"word":"Frigate","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them."},{"word":"Frigate","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small vessel on the water."},{"word":"Frigate-built","type":"(a.)","description":"Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle."},{"word":"Frigatoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged."},{"word":"Frigefaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making cold. [Obs.]"},{"word":"Frigefactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Cooling."},{"word":"Frigerate","type":"(e. t.)","description":"To make cool."},{"word":"Frigg","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Frigga"},{"word":"Frigga","type":"(n.)","description":"The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya."},{"word":"Fright","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm."},{"word":"Fright","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion."},{"word":"Frighted","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Fright"},{"word":"Frighting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fright"},{"word":"Fright","type":"(n.)","description":"To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare."},{"word":"Frightened","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Frighten"},{"word":"Frightening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frighten"},{"word":"Frighten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify."},{"word":"Frightful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fright; affrighted; frightened."},{"word":"Frightful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance."},{"word":"Frightfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree."},{"word":"Frightfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being frightful."},{"word":"Frightless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from fright; fearless."},{"word":"Frightment","type":"(n.)","description":"Fear; terror."},{"word":"Frigid","type":"(a.)","description":"Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate."},{"word":"Frigid","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service."},{"word":"Frigid","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent."},{"word":"Frigidaria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frigidarium"},{"word":"Frigidarium","type":"(n.)","description":"The cooling room of the Roman thermae, furnished with a cold bath."},{"word":"Prigidity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth."},{"word":"Prigidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc."},{"word":"Prigidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age."},{"word":"Frigidly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection."},{"word":"Frigidness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness."},{"word":"Frigorific","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Frigorifical"},{"word":"Frigorifical","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing cold; producing or generating cold."},{"word":"Frilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frill"},{"word":"Frilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frill"},{"word":"Frill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills."},{"word":"Frill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film."},{"word":"Frill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap."},{"word":"Frill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold."},{"word":"Frill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal."},{"word":"Frill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals."},{"word":"Frill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells."},{"word":"Frill","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce."},{"word":"Frilled","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a frill or frills."},{"word":"Frim","type":"(a.)","description":"Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous."},{"word":"Frimaire","type":"(n.)","description":"The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire."},{"word":"Fringe","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like."},{"word":"Fringe","type":"(n.)","description":"Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine."},{"word":"Fringe","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe."},{"word":"Fringe","type":"(n.)","description":"The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome."},{"word":"Fringed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fringe"},{"word":"Fringing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. a.)","description":"of Fringe"},{"word":"Fringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe."},{"word":"Fringed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a fringe."},{"word":"Fringeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no fringe."},{"word":"Fringent","type":"(a.)","description":"Encircling like a fringe; bordering."},{"word":"Fringilla","type":"(a.)","description":"A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling."},{"word":"Fringillaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fringilline."},{"word":"Fringilline","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the family Fringillidae; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike."},{"word":"Fringy","type":"(a.)","description":"Aborned with fringes."},{"word":"Fripper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in frippery or in old clothes."},{"word":"Fripperer","type":"(n.)","description":"A fripper."},{"word":"Frippery","type":"(n.)","description":"Coast-off clothes."},{"word":"Frippery","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance."},{"word":"Frippery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where old clothes are sold."},{"word":"Frippery","type":"(n.)","description":"The trade or traffic in old clothes."},{"word":"Frippery","type":"(a.)","description":"Trifling; contemptible."},{"word":"Friseur'","type":"(n.)","description":"A hairdresser."},{"word":"Frisian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic."},{"word":"Frisian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n."},{"word":"Frisk","type":"(a.)","description":"Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky."},{"word":"Frisk","type":"(a.)","description":"A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap."},{"word":"Frisked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frisk"},{"word":"Frisking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frisk"},{"word":"Frisk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety."},{"word":"Friskal","type":"(n.)","description":"A leap or caper."},{"word":"Frisker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person."},{"word":"Frisket","type":"(a.)","description":"The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing."},{"word":"Friskful","type":"(a.)","description":"Brisk; lively; frolicsome."},{"word":"Friskily'","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a frisky manner."},{"word":"Friskiness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being frisky."},{"word":"Frisky","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay."},{"word":"Frislet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of small ruffle."},{"word":"Frist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sell upon credit, as goods."},{"word":"Frisure","type":"(n.)","description":"The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling."},{"word":"Frit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients."},{"word":"Frit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The material for glaze of pottery."},{"word":"Fritted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frit"},{"word":"Fritting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frit"},{"word":"Frit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially."},{"word":"Frit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fritter; -- with away."},{"word":"Frith","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth."},{"word":"Frith","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of weir for catching fish."},{"word":"Frith","type":"(a.)","description":"A forest; a woody place."},{"word":"Frith","type":"(a.)","description":"A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure."},{"word":"Frithy","type":"(a.)","description":"Woody."},{"word":"Fritillaria","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial."},{"word":"Fritillary","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria."},{"word":"Fritillary","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite."},{"word":"Fritinancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket."},{"word":"Fritter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters."},{"word":"Fritter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A fragment; a shred; a small piece."},{"word":"Frittered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fritter"},{"word":"Frittering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fritter"},{"word":"Fritter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying."},{"word":"Fritter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break into small pieces or fragments."},{"word":"Fritting","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion."},{"word":"Frivolism","type":"(n.)","description":"Frivolity."},{"word":"Frivolities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frivolity"},{"word":"Frivolity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition."},{"word":"Frivolous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument."},{"word":"Frivolous","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters."},{"word":"Frizzed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Friz"},{"word":"Frizzing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Friz"},{"word":"Friz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp."},{"word":"Friz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth."},{"word":"Friz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument."},{"word":"Frizzes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Friz"},{"word":"Friz","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle."},{"word":"Frize","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Frieze."},{"word":"Frizel","type":"(a.)","description":"A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock."},{"word":"Frizette","type":"(n.)","description":"A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out."},{"word":"Frizz","type":"(v. t. & n.)","description":"See Friz, v. t. & n."},{"word":"Frizzled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frizzle"},{"word":"Frizzling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frizzle"},{"word":"Frizzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle."},{"word":"Frizzle","type":"(n.)","description":"A curl; a lock of hair crisped."},{"word":"Frizzler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frizzles."},{"word":"Frizzly","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Frizzy"},{"word":"Frizzy","type":"(a.)","description":"Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair."},{"word":"Fro","type":"(adv.)","description":"From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To."},{"word":"Fro","type":"(prep.)","description":"From."},{"word":"Frock","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock."},{"word":"Frock","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord."},{"word":"Frock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe in a frock."},{"word":"Frock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock."},{"word":"Frocked","type":"(a.)","description":"Clothed in a frock."},{"word":"Frockless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a frock."},{"word":"Froe","type":"(n.)","description":"A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow."},{"word":"Froe","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow."},{"word":"Frog","type":"(n.)","description":"An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime."},{"word":"Frog","type":"(n.)","description":"The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette."},{"word":"Frog","type":"(n.)","description":"A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it."},{"word":"Frog","type":"(n.)","description":"An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole."},{"word":"Frog","type":"(n.)","description":"The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword."},{"word":"Frog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4."},{"word":"Frogbit","type":"(n.)","description":"A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers."},{"word":"Frogbit","type":"(n.)","description":"An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits."},{"word":"Frogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"See Angler, n., 2."},{"word":"Frogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish."},{"word":"Frogged","type":"(a.)","description":"Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4."},{"word":"Froggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in frogs."},{"word":"Frogmouth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidae); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills."},{"word":"Frogs-bit","type":"(n.)","description":"Frogbit."},{"word":"Frogshell","type":"(n.)","description":"One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera."},{"word":"Froise","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise."},{"word":"Frolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry."},{"word":"Frolic","type":"(n.)","description":"A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth."},{"word":"Frolic","type":"(n.)","description":"A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking."},{"word":"Frolicked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frolic"},{"word":"Frolicking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frolic"},{"word":"Frolic","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport."},{"word":"Frolicful","type":"(a.)","description":"Frolicsome."},{"word":"Frolicky","type":"(a.)","description":"Frolicsome."},{"word":"Frolicly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety."},{"word":"Frolicsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive."},{"word":"From","type":"(prep.)","description":"Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony."},{"word":"Fromward","type":"(prep.)","description":"Alt. of Fromwards"},{"word":"Fromwards","type":"(prep.)","description":"A way from; -- the contrary of toward."},{"word":"Frond","type":"(n.)","description":"The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree."},{"word":"Frondation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning."},{"word":"Fronde","type":"(n.)","description":"A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party."},{"word":"Fronded","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with fronds."},{"word":"Frondent","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree."},{"word":"Frondesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unfold leaves, as plants."},{"word":"Frondescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves."},{"word":"Frondescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bursting into leaf."},{"word":"Frondeur","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Fronde."},{"word":"Frondiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fronds."},{"word":"Frondlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond."},{"word":"Frondose","type":"(a.)","description":"Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves."},{"word":"Frondose","type":"(a.)","description":"Leafy."},{"word":"Frondous","type":"(a.)","description":"Frondose."},{"word":"Frons","type":"(n.)","description":"The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex."},{"word":"Front","type":"(n.)","description":"The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face."},{"word":"Front","type":"(n.)","description":"The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front."},{"word":"Front","type":"(n.)","description":"The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army."},{"word":"Front","type":"(n.)","description":"A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house."},{"word":"Front","type":"(n.)","description":"The most conspicuous part."},{"word":"Front","type":"(n.)","description":"That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women."},{"word":"Front","type":"(n.)","description":"The beginning."},{"word":"Front","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view."},{"word":"Fronted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Front"},{"word":"Fronting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Front"},{"word":"Front","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner."},{"word":"Front","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appear before; to meet."},{"word":"Front","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street."},{"word":"Front","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church."},{"word":"Front","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel."},{"word":"Front","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east."},{"word":"Frontage","type":"(n.)","description":"The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front."},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the front part; being in front"},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones."},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(n.)","description":"Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet"},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental band for the hair."},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(n.)","description":"The metal face guard of a soldier."},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(n.)","description":"A little pediment over a door or window."},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies."},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicament or application for the forehead."},{"word":"Frontal","type":"(n.)","description":"The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium."},{"word":"Frontate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fron'tated"},{"word":"Fron'tated","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate."},{"word":"Fronted","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed with a front; drawn up in line."},{"word":"Frontier","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization."},{"word":"Frontier","type":"(n.)","description":"An outwork."},{"word":"Frontier","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town."},{"word":"Frontier","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a frontier."},{"word":"Frontier","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on."},{"word":"Frontiered","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Placed on the frontiers."},{"word":"Frontiersmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Floatiersman"},{"word":"Floatiersman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man living on the frontier."},{"word":"Frontignac","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Frontignan"},{"word":"Frontignan","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France."},{"word":"Frontignan","type":"(n.)","description":"A grape of many varieties and colors."},{"word":"Frontingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fronting or facing position; opposingly."},{"word":"Frontiniac","type":"(n.)","description":"See Frontignac."},{"word":"Frontispiece","type":"(n.)","description":"The part which first meets the eye"},{"word":"Frontispiece","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal front of a building."},{"word":"Frontispiece","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself."},{"word":"Frontless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent."},{"word":"Frontlessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Shamelessly; impudently."},{"word":"Frontlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead."},{"word":"Frontlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A frown (likened to a frontlet)."},{"word":"Frontlet","type":"(n.)","description":"The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles."},{"word":"Fronto-","type":"()","description":"A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc."},{"word":"Fronton","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Frontal, 2."},{"word":"Froppish","type":"(a.)","description":"Peevish; froward."},{"word":"Frore","type":"(adv.)","description":"Frostily."},{"word":"Frorn","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Frozen."},{"word":"Frory","type":"(a.)","description":"Frozen; stiff with cold."},{"word":"Frory","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a froth like hoarfrost."},{"word":"Frost","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids."},{"word":"Frost","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather."},{"word":"Frost","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost."},{"word":"Frost","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character."},{"word":"Frostted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frost"},{"word":"Frosting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frost"},{"word":"Frost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants."},{"word":"Frost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass."},{"word":"Frost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather."},{"word":"Frostbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The golden plover."},{"word":"Frostbite","type":"(n.)","description":"The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose."},{"word":"Frostbite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost."},{"word":"Frost-bitten","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing."},{"word":"Frost-blite","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache."},{"word":"Frost-blite","type":"(n.)","description":"The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album)."},{"word":"Frosted","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass."},{"word":"Frostfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod."},{"word":"Frostfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The smelt."},{"word":"Frostfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish."},{"word":"Frostily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a frosty manner."},{"word":"Frostiness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being frosty."},{"word":"Frosting","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc."},{"word":"Frosting","type":"(n.)","description":"A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish."},{"word":"Frostless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from frost; as, a frostless winter."},{"word":"Frostweed","type":"(n.)","description":"An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic."},{"word":"Frostwork","type":"(n.)","description":"The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone."},{"word":"Frostwort","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Frostweed."},{"word":"Frosty","type":"(a.)","description":"Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night."},{"word":"Frosty","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty."},{"word":"Frosty","type":"(a.)","description":"Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage."},{"word":"Frosty","type":"(a.)","description":"Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head."},{"word":"Frote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe."},{"word":"Froterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes."},{"word":"Froth","type":"(n.)","description":"The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement."},{"word":"Froth","type":"(n.)","description":"Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought."},{"word":"Froth","type":"(n.)","description":"Light, unsubstantial matter."},{"word":"Frothed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Froth"},{"word":"Frothing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Froth"},{"word":"Froth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to foam."},{"word":"Froth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spit, vent, or eject, as froth."},{"word":"Froth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain."},{"word":"Froth","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths."},{"word":"Frothily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a frothy manner."},{"word":"Frothiness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being frothy."},{"word":"Frothing","type":"(n.)","description":"Exaggerated declamation; rant."},{"word":"Frothless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from froth."},{"word":"Frothy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy."},{"word":"Frothy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not firm or solid; soft; unstable."},{"word":"Frothy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue."},{"word":"Frounced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frounce"},{"word":"Frouncing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frounce"},{"word":"Frounce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair."},{"word":"Frounce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown."},{"word":"Frounce","type":"(n.)","description":"A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown."},{"word":"Frounce","type":"(n.)","description":"An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill."},{"word":"Frounceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without frounces."},{"word":"Frouzy","type":"(a.)","description":"Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy."},{"word":"Frow","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman."},{"word":"Frow","type":"(n.)","description":"A dirty woman; a slattern."},{"word":"Frow","type":"(n.)","description":"A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower."},{"word":"Frow","type":"(a.)","description":"Brittle."},{"word":"Froward","type":"(a.)","description":"Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child."},{"word":"Frower","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool. See 2d Frow."},{"word":"Frowey","type":"(a.)","description":"Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber."},{"word":"Frowned","type":"(imp. &, p. p.)","description":"of Frown"},{"word":"Frowning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frown"},{"word":"Frown","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look."},{"word":"Frown","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness."},{"word":"Frown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence."},{"word":"Frown","type":"(n.)","description":"A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl."},{"word":"Frown","type":"(n.)","description":"Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune."},{"word":"Frowningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a frowning manner."},{"word":"Frowny","type":"(a.)","description":"Frowning; scowling."},{"word":"Frowy","type":"(a.)","description":"Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter."},{"word":"Frowzy","type":"(a.)","description":"Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy."},{"word":"Froze","type":"()","description":"imp. of Freeze."},{"word":"Frozen","type":"(a.)","description":"Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook."},{"word":"Frozen","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones."},{"word":"Frozen","type":"(a.)","description":"Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding."},{"word":"Frozenness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being frozen."},{"word":"Frubish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub up: to furbish."},{"word":"Fructed","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon."},{"word":"Fructescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The maturing or ripening of fruit."},{"word":"Fructiculose","type":"(a.)","description":"Fruitful; full of fruit."},{"word":"Fructidor","type":"(n.)","description":"The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendemiaire."},{"word":"Fructiferuos","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or producing fruit."},{"word":"Fructification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation."},{"word":"Fructification","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores."},{"word":"Fructification","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores."},{"word":"Fructify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bear fruit."},{"word":"Fructified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fructify"},{"word":"Fructifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fructify"},{"word":"Fructify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth."},{"word":"Fructose","type":"(n.)","description":"Fruit sugar; levulose."},{"word":"Fructuaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fructuary"},{"word":"Fructuary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything."},{"word":"Fructuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Produce; fruit."},{"word":"Fructuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fruitful; productive; profitable."},{"word":"Fructure","type":"(n.)","description":"Use; fruition; enjoyment."},{"word":"Frue","type":"()","description":"A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle."},{"word":"Frugal","type":"(n.)","description":"Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time."},{"word":"Frugal","type":"(n.)","description":"Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune."},{"word":"Frugalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frugality"},{"word":"Frugality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance."},{"word":"Frugality","type":"(n.)","description":"A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise."},{"word":"Frugally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Thriftily; prudently."},{"word":"Frugalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being frugal; frugality."},{"word":"Frugiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous."},{"word":"Frugivora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit."},{"word":"Frugivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals."},{"word":"Fruit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural."},{"word":"Fruit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3."},{"word":"Fruit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it."},{"word":"Fruit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them."},{"word":"Fruit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body."},{"word":"Fruit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance."},{"word":"Fruit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bear fruit."},{"word":"Fruitage","type":"(n.)","description":"Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery."},{"word":"Fruitage","type":"(n.)","description":"Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill."},{"word":"Fruiter","type":"(a.)","description":"A ship for carrying fruit."},{"word":"Fruiterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits."},{"word":"Fruiteress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who sells fruit."},{"word":"Fruiteries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fruitery"},{"word":"Fruitery","type":"(n.)","description":"Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage."},{"word":"Fruitery","type":"(n.)","description":"A repository for fruit."},{"word":"Fruitestere","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruiteress."},{"word":"Fruitful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife."},{"word":"Fruiting","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or producing, fruit."},{"word":"Fruiting","type":"(n.)","description":"The bearing of fruit."},{"word":"Fruition","type":"(n.)","description":"Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use."},{"word":"Fruitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Enjoying; possessing."},{"word":"Fruitless","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage."},{"word":"Fruitless","type":"(a.)","description":"Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy."},{"word":"Fruit'y","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful."},{"word":"Frumentaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain."},{"word":"Frumentarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to wheat or grain."},{"word":"Frumentation","type":"(n.)","description":"A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy."},{"word":"Frumenty","type":"(n.)","description":"Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc."},{"word":"Frump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub."},{"word":"Frump","type":"(n.)","description":"A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout."},{"word":"Frump","type":"(n.)","description":"A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip."},{"word":"Frumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A mocker."},{"word":"Frumpish","type":"(a.)","description":"Cross-tempered; scornful."},{"word":"Frumpish","type":"(a.)","description":"Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress."},{"word":"Frush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To batter; to break in pieces."},{"word":"Frush","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily broken; brittle; crisp."},{"word":"Frush","type":"(n.)","description":"Noise; clatter; crash."},{"word":"Frush","type":"(n.)","description":"The frog of a horse's foot."},{"word":"Frush","type":"(n.)","description":"A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush."},{"word":"Frustrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated."},{"word":"Frustraneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Vain; useless; unprofitable."},{"word":"Frustrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect."},{"word":"Frustrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Frustrate"},{"word":"Frustrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Frustrate"},{"word":"Frustrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose."},{"word":"Frustrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed."},{"word":"Frustrately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In vain."},{"word":"Frustration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs"},{"word":"Frustrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to defeat; fallacious."},{"word":"Frustratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal."},{"word":"Frustule","type":"(n.)","description":"The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover."},{"word":"Frustulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in fragments."},{"word":"Frusta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frustum"},{"word":"Frustums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Frustum"},{"word":"Frustum","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other."},{"word":"Frustum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the drums of the shaft of a column."},{"word":"Frutage","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit."},{"word":"Frutage","type":"(n.)","description":"A confection of fruit."},{"word":"Frutescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria."},{"word":"Frutex","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub."},{"word":"Fruticant","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of shoots."},{"word":"Fruticose","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem."},{"word":"Fruticous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fruticose."},{"word":"Fruticulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub."},{"word":"Fried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fry"},{"word":"Frying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fry"},{"word":"Fry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts."},{"word":"Fry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat."},{"word":"Fry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To simmer; to boil."},{"word":"Fry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat."},{"word":"Fry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be agitated; to be greatly moved."},{"word":"Ery","type":"(n.)","description":"A dish of anything fried."},{"word":"Ery","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry."},{"word":"Fry","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of any fish."},{"word":"Fry","type":"(n.)","description":"A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general."},{"word":"Frying","type":"(n.)","description":"The process denoted by the verb fry."},{"word":"Fuage","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fumage."},{"word":"Fuar","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Feuar."},{"word":"Fub","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fubs"},{"word":"Fubs","type":"(n.)","description":"A plump young person or child."},{"word":"Fub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put off by trickery; to cheat."},{"word":"Fubbery","type":"(n.)","description":"Cheating; deception."},{"word":"Fubby","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fubsy"},{"word":"Fubsy","type":"(a.)","description":"Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa."},{"word":"Fucate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Fucated"},{"word":"Fucated","type":"(a.)","description":"Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show."},{"word":"Fuchs","type":"(n.)","description":"A student of the first year."},{"word":"Fuchsias","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fuchsia"},{"word":"Fuchslae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fuchsia"},{"word":"Fuchsia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation."},{"word":"Fuchsine","type":"(n.)","description":"Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline."},{"word":"Fucivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating fucus or other seaweeds."},{"word":"Fucoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character."},{"word":"Fucoid","type":"(a.)","description":"In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds."},{"word":"Fucoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a."},{"word":"Fucoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Fucoid."},{"word":"Fucoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone."},{"word":"Fuci","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fucus"},{"word":"Fucus","type":"(n.)","description":"A paint; a dye; also, false show."},{"word":"Fucus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed."},{"word":"Fucusol","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds."},{"word":"Fud","type":"(n.)","description":"The tail of a hare, coney, etc."},{"word":"Fud","type":"(n.)","description":"Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy."},{"word":"Fudder","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fodder, a weight."},{"word":"Fuddled","type":"(imp. & p. p.,)","description":"of Fuddle"},{"word":"Fuddling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fuddle"},{"word":"Fuddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated."},{"word":"Fuddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drink to excess."},{"word":"Fuddler","type":"(n.)","description":"A drunkard."},{"word":"Fudge","type":"(n.)","description":"A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt."},{"word":"Fudged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fudge"},{"word":"Fudging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fudge"},{"word":"Fudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate."},{"word":"Fudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To foist; to interpolate."},{"word":"Fudge","type":"()","description":"A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole."},{"word":"Fuegian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego."},{"word":"Fuegian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Terra del Fuego."},{"word":"Fuel","type":"(n.)","description":"Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc."},{"word":"Fuel","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement."},{"word":"Fuel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed with fuel."},{"word":"Fuel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To store or furnish with fuel or firing."},{"word":"Fueler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, supplies fuel."},{"word":"Fuero","type":"(n.)","description":"A code; a charter; a grant of privileges."},{"word":"Fuero","type":"(n.)","description":"A custom having the force of law."},{"word":"Fuero","type":"(n.)","description":"A declaration by a magistrate."},{"word":"Fuero","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where justice is administered."},{"word":"Fuero","type":"(n.)","description":"The jurisdiction of a tribunal."},{"word":"Fuff","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To puff."},{"word":"Fuffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Light; puffy."},{"word":"Fuga","type":"(n.)","description":"A fugue."},{"word":"Fugacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile."},{"word":"Fugacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual."},{"word":"Fugaciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fugacity."},{"word":"Fugacity","type":"(a.)","description":"The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits."},{"word":"Fugacity","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncertainty; instability."},{"word":"Fugacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Banishment."},{"word":"Fugato","type":"(a.)","description":"in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue."},{"word":"Fugato","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition resembling a fugue."},{"word":"Fugh","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh."},{"word":"Fughetta","type":"(n.)","description":"a short, condensed fugue."},{"word":"Fugitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor."},{"word":"Fugitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea."},{"word":"Fugitive","type":"(n.)","description":"One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice."},{"word":"Fugitive","type":"(n.)","description":"Something hard to be caught or detained."},{"word":"Fugitively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fugitive manner."},{"word":"Fugitiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability."},{"word":"Fugle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To maneuver; to move hither and thither."},{"word":"Fuglemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fugleman"},{"word":"Fugleman","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing."},{"word":"Fugleman","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, one who leads the way."},{"word":"Fugue","type":"(n.)","description":"A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears."},{"word":"Fuguist","type":"(n.)","description":"A musician who composes or performs fugues."},{"word":"-ful","type":"(a.)","description":"A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful."},{"word":"Fulahs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Foolahs"},{"word":"Foolahs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language."},{"word":"Fulbe","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Fulahs."},{"word":"Fuldble","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being propped up."},{"word":"Fulciment","type":"(n.)","description":"A prop; a fulcrum."},{"word":"Fulcra","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Fulcrum."},{"word":"Fulcrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Propped; supported by accessory organs."},{"word":"Fulcrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with fulcrums."},{"word":"Fulcra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fulcrum"},{"word":"Fulcrums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fulcrum"},{"word":"Fulcrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A prop or support."},{"word":"Fulcrum","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body."},{"word":"Fulcrum","type":"(n.)","description":"An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like."},{"word":"Fulcrum","type":"(n.)","description":"The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects."},{"word":"Fulcrum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes."},{"word":"Fulcrum","type":"(n.)","description":"The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye."},{"word":"Fulfilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fulfill"},{"word":"Fulfilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fulfill"},{"word":"Fulfill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill up; to make full or complete."},{"word":"Fulfill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate."},{"word":"Fulfiller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fulfills."},{"word":"Fulfillment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy."},{"word":"Fulfillment","type":"(n.)","description":"Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise."},{"word":"Fulgency","type":"(n.)","description":"Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence."},{"word":"Fulgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent."},{"word":"Fulgently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Dazzlingly; glitteringly."},{"word":"Fulgid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shining; glittering; dazzling."},{"word":"Fulgidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Splendor; resplendence; effulgence."},{"word":"Fulgor","type":"(n.)","description":"Dazzling brightness; splendor."},{"word":"Fulgurant","type":"(a.)","description":"Lightening."},{"word":"Fulgurata","type":"(n.)","description":"A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed."},{"word":"Fulgurate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flash as lightning."},{"word":"Fulgurating","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy."},{"word":"Fulguration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of lightening."},{"word":"Fulguration","type":"(n.)","description":"The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick."},{"word":"Fulgurite","type":"(n.)","description":"A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge."},{"word":"Fulgury","type":"(n.)","description":"Lightning."},{"word":"Fulham","type":"(n.)","description":"A false die."},{"word":"Fuliginosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke."},{"word":"Fuliginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky."},{"word":"Fuliginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke."},{"word":"Fuliginously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a smoky manner."},{"word":"Fulimart","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Foumart."},{"word":"Full","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people."},{"word":"Full","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture."},{"word":"Full","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon."},{"word":"Full","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Sated; surfeited."},{"word":"Full","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information."},{"word":"Full","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project."},{"word":"Full","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Filled with emotions."},{"word":"Full","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Impregnated; made pregnant."},{"word":"Full","type":"(n.)","description":"Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree."},{"word":"Full","type":"(adv.)","description":"Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely."},{"word":"Full","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight."},{"word":"Fulled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Full"},{"word":"Fulling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Full"},{"word":"Full","type":"(n.)","description":"To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill."},{"word":"Full","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well."},{"word":"Fullage","type":"(n.)","description":"The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth."},{"word":"Fullam","type":"(n.)","description":"A false die. See Fulham."},{"word":"Full-blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a full supply of blood."},{"word":"Full-blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse."},{"word":"Full-bloomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a perfect blossom."},{"word":"Full-blown","type":"(a.)","description":"Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose."},{"word":"Full-blown","type":"(a.)","description":"Fully distended with wind, as a sail."},{"word":"Full-bottomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain."},{"word":"Full-bottomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Of great capacity below the water line."},{"word":"Full-butt","type":"(adv.)","description":"With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision."},{"word":"Full-drive","type":"(adv.)","description":"With full speed."},{"word":"Fuller","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One whose occupation is to full cloth."},{"word":"Fuller","type":"(a.)","description":"A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser."},{"word":"Fuller","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet."},{"word":"Fulleries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fullery"},{"word":"Fullery","type":"(n.)","description":"The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on."},{"word":"Full-formed","type":"(a.)","description":"Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh."},{"word":"Full-grown","type":"(a.)","description":"Having reached the limits of growth; mature."},{"word":"Full-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of courage or confidence."},{"word":"Full-hot","type":"(a.)","description":"Very fiery."},{"word":"Fulling","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure."},{"word":"Full-manned","type":"(a.)","description":"Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship."},{"word":"Fullmart","type":"(n.)","description":"See Foumart."},{"word":"Fullness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness."},{"word":"Fullonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a fuller of cloth."},{"word":"Full-orbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon."},{"word":"Full-sailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation."},{"word":"Full-winged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having large and strong or complete wings."},{"word":"Full-winged","type":"(a.)","description":"Beady for flight; eager."},{"word":"Fully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition."},{"word":"Fulmar","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea)."},{"word":"Fulminant","type":"(a.)","description":"Thundering; fulminating."},{"word":"Fulminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fulminate"},{"word":"Fulminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fulminate"},{"word":"Fulminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report."},{"word":"Fulminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces."},{"word":"Fulminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to explode."},{"word":"Fulminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority."},{"word":"Fulminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic."},{"word":"Fulminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A fulminating powder."},{"word":"Fulminating","type":"(a.)","description":"Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner."},{"word":"Fulminating","type":"(a.)","description":"Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures."},{"word":"Fulmination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation."},{"word":"Fulmination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority."},{"word":"Fulmination","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure."},{"word":"Fulminatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Thundering; striking terror."},{"word":"Fulmine","type":"(v.)","description":"To thunder."},{"word":"Fulmine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence."},{"word":"Fulmineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or concerning thunder."},{"word":"Fulmiaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid."},{"word":"Fulminuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called."},{"word":"Falness","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fullness."},{"word":"Fulsamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Fulsome."},{"word":"Fulsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled."},{"word":"Fulsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery."},{"word":"Fulsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity."},{"word":"Fulvid","type":"(a.)","description":"Fulvous."},{"word":"Fulvous","type":"(a.)","description":"Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown."},{"word":"Fum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play upon a fiddle."},{"word":"Fumacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco."},{"word":"Fumades","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fumado"},{"word":"Fumadoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fumado"},{"word":"Fumade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Fumado"},{"word":"Fumado","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard."},{"word":"Fumage","type":"(n.)","description":"Hearth money."},{"word":"Fumarate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of fumaric acid."},{"word":"Fumaric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis)."},{"word":"Fumarine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance."},{"word":"Fumarole","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue."},{"word":"Fumatory","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fumitory."},{"word":"Fumbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fumble"},{"word":"Fumbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fumble"},{"word":"Fumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something."},{"word":"Fumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse."},{"word":"Fumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over."},{"word":"Fumble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together."},{"word":"Fumbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who fumbles."},{"word":"Fumblingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of one who fumbles."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(n.)","description":"Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(n.)","description":"The incense of praise; inordinate flattery."},{"word":"Fumed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fume"},{"word":"Fuming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fume"},{"word":"Fume","type":"(n.)","description":"To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(n.)","description":"To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(n.)","description":"To pass off in fumes or vapors."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(n.)","description":"To be in a rage; to be hot with anger."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise inordinately; to flatter."},{"word":"Fume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor."},{"word":"Fumeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from fumes."},{"word":"Fumer","type":"(n.)","description":"One that fumes."},{"word":"Fumer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or uses perfumes."},{"word":"Fumerell","type":"(n.)","description":"See Femerell."},{"word":"Fumet","type":"(n.)","description":"The dung of deer."},{"word":"Fumet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fumette"},{"word":"Fumette","type":"(n.)","description":"The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long."},{"word":"Fumetere","type":"(n.)","description":"Fumitory."},{"word":"Fumid","type":"(a.)","description":"Smoky; vaporous."},{"word":"Fumidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fumidness"},{"word":"Fumidness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being fumid; smokiness."},{"word":"Fumiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing smoke."},{"word":"Fumifugist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes."},{"word":"Fumify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to the action of smoke."},{"word":"Fumigant","type":"(a.)","description":"Fuming."},{"word":"Fumigated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fumigate"},{"word":"Fumigating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fumigate"},{"word":"Fumigate","type":"(n.)","description":"To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors."},{"word":"Fumigate","type":"(n.)","description":"To smoke; to perfume."},{"word":"Fumigation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection."},{"word":"Fumigation","type":"(n.)","description":"Vapor raised in the process of fumigating."},{"word":"Fumigator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating."},{"word":"Fumigatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of purifying by smoke."},{"word":"Fumlly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Smokily; with fume."},{"word":"Fuming","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fumes, or vapors."},{"word":"Fumingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fuming manner; angrily."},{"word":"Famish","type":"(a.)","description":"Smoky; hot; choleric."},{"word":"Fumishness","type":"(n.)","description":"Choler; fretfulness; passion."},{"word":"Fumitez","type":"(n.)","description":"Fumitory."},{"word":"Fumitory","type":"(n.)","description":"The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic."},{"word":"Fummel","type":"(n.)","description":"A hinny."},{"word":"Fumosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The fumes of drink."},{"word":"Fumous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing smoke; smoky."},{"word":"Fumous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fumes; full of fumes."},{"word":"Fumy","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fumes; fumous."},{"word":"Fun","type":"(n.)","description":"Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement."},{"word":"Funambulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To walk or to dance on a rope."},{"word":"Funambulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Ropedancing."},{"word":"Funambulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Performing like a ropedancer."},{"word":"Funambulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer."},{"word":"Funambulist","type":"(n.)","description":"A ropewalker or ropedancer."},{"word":"Funambulo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Funambulus"},{"word":"Funambulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A ropewalker or ropedancer."},{"word":"Function","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance."},{"word":"Function","type":"(n.)","description":"The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body."},{"word":"Function","type":"(n.)","description":"The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind."},{"word":"Function","type":"(n.)","description":"The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession."},{"word":"Function","type":"(n.)","description":"A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x."},{"word":"Function","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Functionate"},{"word":"Functionate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business."},{"word":"Functional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official."},{"word":"Functional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general."},{"word":"Functionalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assign to some function or office."},{"word":"Functionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity."},{"word":"Functionaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Functionary"},{"word":"Functionary","type":"(n.)","description":"One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries."},{"word":"Functionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin."},{"word":"Fund","type":"(n.)","description":"An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence."},{"word":"Fund","type":"(n.)","description":"A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc."},{"word":"Fund","type":"(n.)","description":"The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds."},{"word":"Fund","type":"(n.)","description":"An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object."},{"word":"Fund","type":"(n.)","description":"A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense."},{"word":"Funded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fund"},{"word":"Funding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fund"},{"word":"Fund","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes."},{"word":"Fund","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a fund, as money."},{"word":"Fund","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt."},{"word":"Fundable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds."},{"word":"Fundament","type":"(n.)","description":"Foundation."},{"word":"Fundament","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus."},{"word":"Fundamental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom."},{"word":"Fundamental","type":"(n.)","description":"A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith."},{"word":"Fundamentally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents."},{"word":"Funded","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt."},{"word":"Funded","type":"(a.)","description":"Invested in public funds; as, funded money."},{"word":"Fundholder","type":"(a.)","description":"One who has money invested in the public funds."},{"word":"Funding","type":"(a.)","description":"Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt."},{"word":"Funding","type":"(a.)","description":"Investing in the public funds."},{"word":"Funuless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of funds."},{"word":"Fundus","type":"(n.)","description":"The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye."},{"word":"Funebrial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal."},{"word":"Funebrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Funebrial."},{"word":"Funeral","type":"(n.)","description":"The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural."},{"word":"Funeral","type":"(n.)","description":"The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment."},{"word":"Funeral","type":"(n.)","description":"A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Funeral","type":"(n.)","description":"Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies."},{"word":"Funerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bury with funeral rites."},{"word":"Funeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of burying with funeral rites."},{"word":"Funereal","type":"(a.)","description":"Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful."},{"word":"Funest","type":"(a.)","description":"Lamentable; doleful."},{"word":"Fungal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to fungi."},{"word":"Fungate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of fungic acid."},{"word":"Funge","type":"(n.)","description":"A blockhead; a dolt; a fool."},{"word":"Fungi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Fungus."},{"word":"Fungia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter."},{"word":"Fungian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals."},{"word":"Fungian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Fungidae."},{"word":"Fungibles","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things."},{"word":"Fungibles","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually."},{"word":"Fungic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid."},{"word":"Fungicide","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that kills fungi."},{"word":"Fungiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a fungus or mushroom."},{"word":"Fungilliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a small fungus."},{"word":"Fungin","type":"(n.)","description":"A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms."},{"word":"Fungite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil coral resembling Fungia."},{"word":"Fungivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails."},{"word":"Fungoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a fungus; fungous; spongy."},{"word":"Fungologist","type":"(n.)","description":"A mycologist."},{"word":"Fungology","type":"(n.)","description":"Mycology."},{"word":"Fungosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence."},{"word":"Fungous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of fungi; spongy."},{"word":"Fungous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable."},{"word":"Fungi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fungus"},{"word":"Funguses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fungus"},{"word":"Fungus","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each."},{"word":"Fungus","type":"(n.)","description":"A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds."},{"word":"Funic","type":"(a.)","description":"Funicular."},{"word":"Funicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cord, ligature, or fiber."},{"word":"Funicle","type":"(n.)","description":"The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta."},{"word":"Funicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of a small cord or fiber."},{"word":"Funicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent on the tension of a cord."},{"word":"Funicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament."},{"word":"Funiculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Forming a narrow ridge."},{"word":"Funiculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Funiculus"},{"word":"Funiculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord."},{"word":"Funiculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion."},{"word":"Funiculus","type":"(n.)","description":"In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema."},{"word":"Funiliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees."},{"word":"Funis","type":"(n.)","description":"A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string."},{"word":"Funk","type":"(n.)","description":"An offensive smell; a stench."},{"word":"Funk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke."},{"word":"Funk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emit an offensive smell; to stink."},{"word":"Funk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice."},{"word":"Funk","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Funking"},{"word":"Funking","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrinking back through fear."},{"word":"Funky","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking."},{"word":"Funnel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel."},{"word":"Funnel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like."},{"word":"Funnelform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform."},{"word":"Funny","type":"(superl.)","description":"Droll; comical; amusing; laughable."},{"word":"Funnies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Funny"},{"word":"Funny","type":"(n.)","description":"A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.)."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"Any coating considered as resembling fur"},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade."},{"word":"Furred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fur"},{"word":"Furring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fur"},{"word":"Fur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue."},{"word":"Fur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp."},{"word":"Furacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to theft; thievish."},{"word":"Furacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Addictedness to theft; thievishness."},{"word":"Furbelow","type":"(n.)","description":"A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment."},{"word":"Furbelowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Furhelow"},{"word":"Furbelowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Furhelow"},{"word":"Furhelow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a furbelow on; to ornament."},{"word":"Furbished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Furbish"},{"word":"Furbishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Furbish"},{"word":"Furbish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear."},{"word":"Furbishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being furbished."},{"word":"Furbisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons."},{"word":"Furcate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Furcated"},{"word":"Furcated","type":"(a.)","description":"Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs."},{"word":"Furcation","type":"(n.)","description":"A branching like a. fork."},{"word":"Furciferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rascally; scandalous."},{"word":"Furcula","type":"(n.)","description":"A forked process; the wishbone or furculum."},{"word":"Furcular","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a fork; furcate."},{"word":"Furculum","type":"(n.)","description":"The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles."},{"word":"Furdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw up into a bundle; to roll up."},{"word":"Furfur","type":"(n.)","description":"Scurf; dandruff."},{"word":"Furfuraceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of bran; like bran; scurfy."},{"word":"Furfuran","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol."},{"word":"Furfuration","type":"(n.)","description":"Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation."},{"word":"Furfurine","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol."},{"word":"Furfurol","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural."},{"word":"Furfurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of bran; furfuraceous."},{"word":"Furial","type":"(a.)","description":"Furious; raging; tormenting."},{"word":"Furibundal","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of rage."},{"word":"Furies","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Fury, 3."},{"word":"Furile","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin."},{"word":"Furilic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid."},{"word":"Furioso","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"With great force or vigor; vehemently."},{"word":"Furious","type":"(a.)","description":"Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal."},{"word":"Furious","type":"(a.)","description":"Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm."},{"word":"Furld","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Furl"},{"word":"Furling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Furl"},{"word":"Furl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten."},{"word":"Furlong","type":"(a.)","description":"A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards."},{"word":"Furlough","type":"(a.)","description":"Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence."},{"word":"Furloughed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Furlough"},{"word":"Furloughing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Furlough"},{"word":"Furlough","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier."},{"word":"Furmonty","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Furmity"},{"word":"Furmity","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Frumenty."},{"word":"Furnace","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc."},{"word":"Furnace","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline."},{"word":"Furnace","type":"(n.)","description":"To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace."},{"word":"Furniment","type":"(n.)","description":"Furniture."},{"word":"Furnished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Furnish"},{"word":"Furnishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Furnish"},{"word":"Furnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house."},{"word":"Furnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense."},{"word":"Furnish","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply."},{"word":"Furnisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who supplies or fits out."},{"word":"Furnishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture."},{"word":"Furniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment."},{"word":"Furniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc."},{"word":"Furniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc."},{"word":"Furniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The masts and rigging of a ship."},{"word":"Furniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The mountings of a gun."},{"word":"Furniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings."},{"word":"Furniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase."},{"word":"Furniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture."},{"word":"Furoin","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol."},{"word":"Furore","type":"(n.)","description":"Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm."},{"word":"Furrier","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods."},{"word":"Furriery","type":"(n.)","description":"Furs, in general."},{"word":"Furriery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a furrier; trade in furs."},{"word":"Furring","type":"(n.)","description":"The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3."},{"word":"Furring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The strips thus laid on."},{"word":"Furring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Double planking of a ship's side."},{"word":"Furring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit."},{"word":"Furrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow."},{"word":"Furrow","type":"(n.)","description":"Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age."},{"word":"Furrowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Furrow"},{"word":"Furrowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Furrow"},{"word":"Furrow","type":"(n.)","description":"To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea."},{"word":"Furrow","type":"(n.)","description":"To mark with channels or with wrinkles."},{"word":"Furrowy","type":"(a.)","description":"Furrowed."},{"word":"Furry","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with fur; dressed in fur."},{"word":"Furry","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils."},{"word":"Furry","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling fur."},{"word":"Further","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther."},{"word":"Further","type":"(superl.)","description":"More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther."},{"word":"Further","type":"(superl.)","description":"Beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest."},{"word":"Furthered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Further"},{"word":"Furthering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Further"},{"word":"Further","type":"(adv.)","description":"To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist."},{"word":"Furtherance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress."},{"word":"Fartherer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter."},{"word":"Furthermore","type":"(adv.)","description":"or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said."},{"word":"Furthermost","type":"(a.)","description":"Most remote; furthest."},{"word":"Furthersome","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous."},{"word":"Furthest","type":"(a.)","description":"superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a."},{"word":"Furthest","type":"(adv.)","description":"At the greatest distance; farthest."},{"word":"Furtive","type":"(a.)","description":"Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look."},{"word":"Furtively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Stealthily by theft."},{"word":"Furuncle","type":"(n.)","description":"A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil."},{"word":"Faruncular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles."},{"word":"Fury","type":"(n.)","description":"A thief."},{"word":"Furies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Fury"},{"word":"Fury","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm."},{"word":"Fury","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence."},{"word":"Fury","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides."},{"word":"Fury","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos."},{"word":"Fury","type":"(n.)","description":"A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant."},{"word":"Furze","type":"(n.)","description":"A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus."},{"word":"Furzechat","type":"(n.)","description":"The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck."},{"word":"Furzeling","type":"(n.)","description":"An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler."},{"word":"Furzen","type":"(a.)","description":"Furzy; gorsy."},{"word":"Furzy","type":"(a. a.)","description":"bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze."},{"word":"Fusain","type":"(n.)","description":"Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement."},{"word":"Fusain","type":"(n.)","description":"A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal."},{"word":"Fusarole","type":"(n.)","description":"A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture."},{"word":"Fuscation","type":"(n.)","description":"A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation."},{"word":"Fuscin","type":"(n.)","description":"A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin."},{"word":"Fuscine","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil."},{"word":"Fuscous","type":"(a.)","description":"Brown or grayish black; darkish."},{"word":"Fused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fuse"},{"word":"Fusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fuse"},{"word":"Fuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt."},{"word":"Fuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite or blend, as if melted together."},{"word":"Fuse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt."},{"word":"Fuse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be blended, as if melted together."},{"word":"Fuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze."},{"word":"Fusee","type":"(n.)","description":"A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil."},{"word":"Fusee","type":"(n.)","description":"A fuse. See Fuse, n."},{"word":"Fusee","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar."},{"word":"Fusee","type":"(n.)","description":"A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer."},{"word":"Fusee","type":"(n.)","description":"The track of a buck."},{"word":"Fusee","type":"(n.)","description":"The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring."},{"word":"Fusee","type":"(n.)","description":"A similar wheel used in other machinery."},{"word":"Fusel","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Fusel oil"},{"word":"Fusel","type":"()","description":"A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol."},{"word":"Fusibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fusible."},{"word":"Fusible","type":"(v. t.)","description":"CapabIe of being melted or liquefied."},{"word":"Fusiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell."},{"word":"Fusil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible."},{"word":"Fusil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Running or flowing, as a liquid."},{"word":"Fusil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded."},{"word":"Fusil","type":"(n.)","description":"A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use."},{"word":"Fusil","type":"(n.)","description":"A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle."},{"word":"Fusile","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Fusil, a."},{"word":"Fusileer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fusilier"},{"word":"Fusilier","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:"},{"word":"Fusilier","type":"(n.)","description":"A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, \"The Royal Fusiliers,\" etc."},{"word":"Fusillade","type":"(n.)","description":"A simultaneous discharge of firearms."},{"word":"Fusillader","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fusillade"},{"word":"Fusillading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fusillade"},{"word":"Fusillade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms."},{"word":"Fusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals."},{"word":"Fusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion."},{"word":"Fusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The union or blending together of things, as, melted together."},{"word":"Fusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues."},{"word":"Fusome","type":"(a.)","description":"Handy; reat; handsome; notable."},{"word":"Fuss","type":"(n.)","description":"A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles."},{"word":"Fuss","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is unduly anxious about trifles."},{"word":"Fussed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Fuss"},{"word":"Fussing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Fuss"},{"word":"Fuss","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado."},{"word":"Fussily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a fussy manner."},{"word":"Fussiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being fussy."},{"word":"Fussy","type":"(superl)","description":"Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety."},{"word":"Fast","type":"(n.)","description":"The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster."},{"word":"Fust","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong, musty smell; mustiness."},{"word":"Fust","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become moldy; to smell ill."},{"word":"Fusted","type":"(a.)","description":"Moldy; ill-smelling."},{"word":"Fusteric","type":"(n.)","description":"The coloring matter of fustet."},{"word":"Fustet","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant."},{"word":"Fustian","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc."},{"word":"Fustian","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast."},{"word":"Fustian","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of fustian."},{"word":"Fustian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history."},{"word":"Fustianist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of fustian."},{"word":"Fustic","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic."},{"word":"Fustigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cudgel."},{"word":"Fustigation","type":"(n.)","description":"A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling."},{"word":"Fastilarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel."},{"word":"Fustilug","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Fustilugs"},{"word":"Fustilugs","type":"(n.)","description":"A gross, fat, unwieldy person."},{"word":"Fusiness","type":"(n.)","description":"A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness."},{"word":"Fusty","type":"(superl)","description":"Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank."},{"word":"Fusty","type":"(superl)","description":"Moping."},{"word":"Fussure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Act of fusing; fusion."},{"word":"Futchel","type":"(n.)","description":"The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted."},{"word":"Futile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Talkative; loquacious; tattling."},{"word":"Futile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless."},{"word":"Futilely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a futile manner."},{"word":"Futility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity."},{"word":"Futility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness."},{"word":"Futilous","type":"(a.)","description":"Futile; trifling."},{"word":"Futtock","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel."},{"word":"Futurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being future; possible to occur."},{"word":"Future","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present."},{"word":"Future","type":"(a.)","description":"Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come."},{"word":"Future","type":"(a.)","description":"The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him."},{"word":"Future","type":"(a.)","description":"A future tense."},{"word":"Futureless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without prospect of betterment in the future."},{"word":"Futurely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In time to come."},{"word":"Futurist","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant."},{"word":"Futurist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future."},{"word":"Futuritial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future."},{"word":"Futurition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being future; futurity."},{"word":"Futurities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Futurity"},{"word":"Futurity","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being that is yet to come; future state."},{"word":"Futurity","type":"(n.)","description":"Future time; time to come; the future."},{"word":"Futurity","type":"(n.)","description":"Event to come; a future event."},{"word":"Fuze","type":"(n.)","description":"A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n."},{"word":"Fuzz","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make drunk."},{"word":"Fuzz","type":"(n.)","description":"Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter."},{"word":"Fuzz","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fly off in minute particles."},{"word":"Fuzzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle."},{"word":"Fuzzy","type":"(n.)","description":"Not firmly woven; that ravels."},{"word":"Fuzzy","type":"(n.)","description":"Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach."},{"word":"-fy","type":"()","description":"A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc."},{"word":"Fy","type":"(interj.)","description":"A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie."},{"word":"Fyke","type":"(n.)","description":"A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net."},{"word":"Fyllot","type":"(n.)","description":"A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika."},{"word":"Fyrd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Fyrdung"},{"word":"Fyrdung","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms."},{"word":"Fytte","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fit a song."},{"word":"G","type":"()","description":"G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246."},{"word":"G","type":"()","description":"G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G/ (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A."},{"word":"Gab","type":"(n.)","description":"The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric."},{"word":"Gab","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness."},{"word":"Gab","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deceive; to lie."},{"word":"Gab","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk idly; to prate; to chatter."},{"word":"Gabarage","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods."},{"word":"Gabardine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gaberdine"},{"word":"Gaberdine","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress."},{"word":"Gabber","type":"(n.)","description":"A liar; a deceiver."},{"word":"Gabber","type":"(n.)","description":"One addicted to idle talk."},{"word":"Gabbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gabble"},{"word":"Gabbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gabble"},{"word":"Gabble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber."},{"word":"Gabble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls."},{"word":"Gabble","type":"(n.)","description":"Loud or rapid talk without meaning."},{"word":"Gabble","type":"(n.)","description":"Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls."},{"word":"Gabbier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gabbles; a prater."},{"word":"Gabbro","type":"(n.)","description":"A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro)."},{"word":"Gabel","type":"(n.)","description":"A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise."},{"word":"Gabeler","type":"(n.)","description":"A collector of gabels or taxes."},{"word":"Gabelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A tax, especially on salt."},{"word":"Gabelleman","type":"(n.)","description":"A gabeler."},{"word":"Gaberdine","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gabardine."},{"word":"Gaber-lunzie","type":"(n.)","description":"A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar."},{"word":"Gabert","type":"(n.)","description":"A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation."},{"word":"Gabion","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire."},{"word":"Gabion","type":"(n.)","description":"An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement."},{"word":"Gabionade","type":"(n.)","description":"A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire."},{"word":"Gabionade","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements."},{"word":"Gabionage","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a fortification built of gabions."},{"word":"Gabioned","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Furnished with gabions."},{"word":"Gabionnade","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gabionade."},{"word":"Gable","type":"(n.)","description":"A cable."},{"word":"Gable","type":"(n.)","description":"The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like."},{"word":"Gable","type":"(n.)","description":"The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side."},{"word":"Gable","type":"(n.)","description":"A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway."},{"word":"Gablet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc."},{"word":"Gablock","type":"(n.)","description":"A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock."},{"word":"Gaby","type":"(n.)","description":"A simpleton; a dunce; a lout."},{"word":"Gad","type":"(n.)","description":"The point of a spear, or an arrowhead."},{"word":"Gad","type":"(n.)","description":"A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc."},{"word":"Gad","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp-pointed rod; a goad."},{"word":"Gad","type":"(n.)","description":"A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling."},{"word":"Gad","type":"(n.)","description":"A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel."},{"word":"Gad","type":"(n.)","description":"A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with."},{"word":"Gadded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gad"},{"word":"Gadding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gad"},{"word":"Gad","type":"(n.)","description":"To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled."},{"word":"Gadabout","type":"(n.)","description":"A gadder"},{"word":"Gadbee","type":"(n.)","description":"The gadfly."},{"word":"Gadder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip."},{"word":"Gadding","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Going about much, needlessly or without purpose."},{"word":"Gaddingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a roving, idle manner."},{"word":"Gaddish","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to gad."},{"word":"Gade","type":"(n.)","description":"A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family."},{"word":"Gade","type":"(n.)","description":"A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead."},{"word":"Gadere","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Alt. of Gadre"},{"word":"Gadre","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To gather."},{"word":"Gadflies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gadfly"},{"word":"Gadfly","type":"(n.)","description":"Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies."},{"word":"Gadhelic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx."},{"word":"Gadic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid."},{"word":"Gaditanian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain."},{"word":"Gaditanian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Cadiz."},{"word":"Gadling","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gad, n., 4."},{"word":"Gadling","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Gadding about."},{"word":"Gadling","type":"(n.)","description":"A roving vagabond."},{"word":"Gadman","type":"(n.)","description":"A gadsman."},{"word":"Gadoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidae) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake."},{"word":"Gadoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Gadidae."},{"word":"Gadolinia","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc."},{"word":"Gadolinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or containing gadolinium."},{"word":"Gadolinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron."},{"word":"Gadolinium","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined."},{"word":"Gadsman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses a gad or goad in driving."},{"word":"Gaduin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil."},{"word":"Gadwall","type":"(n.)","description":"A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck."},{"word":"Gael","type":"(n.sing. & pl.)","description":"A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin."},{"word":"Gaelic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language."},{"word":"Gaelic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic."},{"word":"Gaff","type":"(n.)","description":"A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish."},{"word":"Gaff","type":"(n.)","description":"The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended."},{"word":"Gaff","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gaffle, 1."},{"word":"Gaffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gaff"},{"word":"Gaffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gaff"},{"word":"Gaff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon."},{"word":"Gaffer","type":"(n.)","description":"An old fellow; an aged rustic."},{"word":"Gaffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers."},{"word":"Gaffle","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks."},{"word":"Gaffle","type":"(n.)","description":"A lever to bend crossbows."},{"word":"Gaff-topsail","type":"(n.)","description":"A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast."},{"word":"Gagged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gag"},{"word":"Gagging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gag"},{"word":"Gag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to."},{"word":"Gag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pry or hold open by means of a gag."},{"word":"Gag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to heave with nausea."},{"word":"Gag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To heave with nausea; to retch."},{"word":"Gag","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3."},{"word":"Gag","type":"(n.)","description":"Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking."},{"word":"Gag","type":"(n.)","description":"A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat."},{"word":"Gag","type":"(n.)","description":"A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion."},{"word":"Gagate","type":"(n.)","description":"Agate."},{"word":"Gage","type":"(n.)","description":"A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security."},{"word":"Gage","type":"(n.)","description":"A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance."},{"word":"Gage","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage."},{"word":"Gaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gage"},{"word":"Gaging","type":"(p. pr & vb. n.)","description":"of Gage"},{"word":"Gage","type":"(n.)","description":"To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge."},{"word":"Gage","type":"(n.)","description":"To bind by pledge, or security; to engage."},{"word":"Gage","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure or standard. See Gauge, n."},{"word":"Gage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To measure. See Gauge, v. t."},{"word":"Gager","type":"(n.)","description":"A measurer. See Gauger."},{"word":"Gagger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gags."},{"word":"Gagger","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place."},{"word":"Gaggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gaggle"},{"word":"Gaggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gaggle"},{"word":"Gaggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a noise like a goose; to cackle."},{"word":"Gaggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A flock of wild geese."},{"word":"Gagtooth","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting tooth."},{"word":"Gag-toothed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having gagteeth."},{"word":"Gahnite","type":"(n.)","description":"Zinc spinel; automolite."},{"word":"Gaidic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid."},{"word":"Gaiety","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gayety."},{"word":"Gailer","type":"(n.)","description":"A jailer."},{"word":"Gaillard","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; brisk; merry; galliard."},{"word":"Gailliarde","type":"(n.)","description":"A lively French and Italian dance."},{"word":"Gaily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Merrily; showily. See gaily."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(n.)","description":"A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(a.)","description":"Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation."},{"word":"Gained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gain"},{"word":"Gaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gain"},{"word":"Gain","type":"(n.)","description":"To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(n.)","description":"To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(n.)","description":"To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(n.)","description":"To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(n.)","description":"To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage."},{"word":"Gain","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily."},{"word":"Gainable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Capable of being obtained or reached."},{"word":"Gainage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage."},{"word":"Gainage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself."},{"word":"Gainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gains."},{"word":"Gainful","type":"(a.)","description":"Profitable; advantageous; lucrative."},{"word":"Gaingiving","type":"(n.)","description":"A misgiving."},{"word":"Gainless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not producing gain; unprofitable."},{"word":"Gainly","type":"(a.)","description":"Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously."},{"word":"Gainpain","type":"(n.)","description":"Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier."},{"word":"Gainsaid","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gainsay"},{"word":"Gainsaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gainsay"},{"word":"Gainsay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid."},{"word":"Gainsayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies."},{"word":"Gainsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Gainful."},{"word":"Gainsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Prepossessing; well-favored."},{"word":"'Gainst","type":"(prep.)","description":"A contraction of Against."},{"word":"Gainstood","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gainstand"},{"word":"gainstanding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gainstand"},{"word":"Gainstand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withstand; to resist."},{"word":"Gainstrive","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To strive or struggle against; to withstand."},{"word":"Gairfowl","type":"(n.)","description":"See Garefowl."},{"word":"Gairish","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gairish/ness"},{"word":"Gairishly","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gairish/ness"},{"word":"Gairish/ness","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness."},{"word":"Gait","type":"(n.)","description":"A going; a walk; a march; a way."},{"word":"Gait","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving."},{"word":"Gaited","type":"(a.)","description":"Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited."},{"word":"Gaiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe."},{"word":"Gaiter","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle."},{"word":"Gaiter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress with gaiters."},{"word":"Gaitre","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gaytre"},{"word":"Gaytre","type":"(n.)","description":"The dogwood tree."},{"word":"Gala","type":"(n.)","description":"Pomp, show, or festivity."},{"word":"Galacta-gogue","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent exciting secretion of milk."},{"word":"Galactic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid."},{"word":"Galactic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way."},{"word":"Galactin","type":"(n.)","description":"An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent."},{"word":"Galactin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron)."},{"word":"Galactin","type":"(n.)","description":"An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose."},{"word":"Galactodensimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Galactometer."},{"word":"Galactometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer."},{"word":"Galactophagist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eats, or subsists on, milk."},{"word":"Galactophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding on milk."},{"word":"Galactophorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands."},{"word":"Galactopoietic","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance."},{"word":"Galactose","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper)."},{"word":"Galage","type":"(n.)","description":"See Galoche."},{"word":"Galagos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Galago"},{"word":"Galago","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species."},{"word":"Galanga","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Galangal"},{"word":"Galangal","type":"(n.)","description":"The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family."},{"word":"Galantine","type":"(n.)","description":"A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold."},{"word":"Galapee","type":"()","description":"The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves."},{"word":"Galatian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor."},{"word":"Galaxies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Galaxy"},{"word":"Galaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars."},{"word":"Galaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"A splendid assemblage of persons or things."},{"word":"Galban","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Galbanum"},{"word":"Galbanum","type":"(n.)","description":"A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish."},{"word":"Gale","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests."},{"word":"Gale","type":"(n.)","description":"A moderate current of air; a breeze."},{"word":"Gale","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity."},{"word":"Gale","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sale, or sail fast."},{"word":"Gale","type":"(n.)","description":"A song or story."},{"word":"Gale","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sing."},{"word":"Gale","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America."},{"word":"Gale","type":"(n.)","description":"The payment of a rent or annuity."},{"word":"Galea","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower."},{"word":"Galea","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of bandage for the head."},{"word":"Galea","type":"(n.)","description":"Headache extending all over the head."},{"word":"Galea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell."},{"word":"Galea","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects."},{"word":"Galeas","type":"(n.)","description":"See Galleass."},{"word":"Galeate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Galeated"},{"word":"Galeated","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet."},{"word":"Galeated","type":"(a.)","description":"Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped."},{"word":"Galei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks."},{"word":"Galena","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca."},{"word":"Galena","type":"(n.)","description":"Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage."},{"word":"Galenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Galenical"},{"word":"Galenical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, galena."},{"word":"Galenic","type":"(an.)","description":"Alt. of Galenical"},{"word":"Galenical","type":"(an.)","description":"Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases."},{"word":"Galenism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines of Galen."},{"word":"Galenist","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Galen."},{"word":"Galenite","type":"(n.)","description":"Galena; lead ore."},{"word":"Gale-opithecus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo."},{"word":"Galericu-late","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered as with a hat or cap."},{"word":"Galerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites."},{"word":"Galician","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland."},{"word":"Galician","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan."},{"word":"Galilean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope."},{"word":"Galilean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Galilee."},{"word":"Galilean","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans."},{"word":"Galilean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite."},{"word":"Galilean","type":"(n.)","description":"A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans."},{"word":"Galilee","type":"(n.)","description":"A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals."},{"word":"Galimatias","type":"(n.)","description":"Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture."},{"word":"Galingale","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus."},{"word":"Galiot","type":"(n.)","description":"A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers."},{"word":"Galiot","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail."},{"word":"Galipot","type":"(n.)","description":"An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(n.)","description":"The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(n.)","description":"The gall bladder."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(n.)","description":"Impudence; brazen assurance."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(n.)","description":"An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts."},{"word":"Galled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gall"},{"word":"Galling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gall"},{"word":"Gall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To scoff; to jeer."},{"word":"Gall","type":"(n.)","description":"A wound in the skin made by rubbing."},{"word":"Gallant","type":"(a.)","description":"Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed."},{"word":"Gallant","type":"(a.)","description":"Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer."},{"word":"Gallant","type":"(a.)","description":"Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous."},{"word":"Gallant","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood."},{"word":"Gallant","type":"(n.)","description":"One fond of paying attention to ladies."},{"word":"Gallant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer."},{"word":"Gallanted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gallant"},{"word":"Gallanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gallant"},{"word":"Gallant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play."},{"word":"Gallant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan."},{"word":"Gallantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer."},{"word":"Gallantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gallant manner."},{"word":"Gallantness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being gallant."},{"word":"Gallantries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gallantry"},{"word":"Gallantry","type":"(n.)","description":"Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery."},{"word":"Gallantry","type":"(n.)","description":"Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry."},{"word":"Gallantry","type":"(n.)","description":"Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue."},{"word":"Gallantry","type":"(n.)","description":"Gallant persons, collectively."},{"word":"Gallate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of gallic acid."},{"word":"Gallature","type":"(n.)","description":"The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg."},{"word":"Galleass","type":"(n.)","description":"A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley."},{"word":"Gallegan","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gallego"},{"word":"Gallego","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician."},{"word":"Gallein","type":"(n.)","description":"A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids."},{"word":"Galleon","type":"(n.)","description":"A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel."},{"word":"Galleot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Galiot."},{"word":"Galleries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gallery"},{"word":"Gallery","type":"(a.)","description":"A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal."},{"word":"Gallery","type":"(a.)","description":"A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc."},{"word":"Gallery","type":"(a.)","description":"A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall."},{"word":"Gallery","type":"(a.)","description":"A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850."},{"word":"Gallery","type":"(a.)","description":"Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery."},{"word":"Gallery","type":"(a.)","description":"A working drift or level."},{"word":"Galletyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A little tile of glazed earthenware."},{"word":"Galleys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Galley"},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not"},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century."},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars."},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure."},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war."},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose."},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace."},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc."},{"word":"Galley","type":"(n.)","description":"A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof."},{"word":"Galley-bird","type":"(n.)","description":"The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker."},{"word":"Galley-worm","type":"(n.)","description":"A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or \"thousand legs.\" See Chilognatha."},{"word":"Gallflies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gallfly"},{"word":"Gallfly","type":"(n.)","description":"An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall."},{"word":"Gallyambic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse."},{"word":"Gallian","type":"(a.)","description":"Gallic; French."},{"word":"Galliard","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; brisk; active."},{"word":"Galliard","type":"(n.)","description":"A brisk, gay man."},{"word":"Galliard","type":"(a.)","description":"A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde."},{"word":"Galliardise","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessive gayety; merriment."},{"word":"Galliardness","type":"(n.)","description":"Gayety."},{"word":"Galliass","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Galleass."},{"word":"Gallic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, gallium."},{"word":"Gallic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like."},{"word":"Gallic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican."},{"word":"Gallican","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy."},{"word":"Gallican","type":"(n.)","description":"An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism."},{"word":"Gallicanism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church."},{"word":"Gallicism","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom."},{"word":"Gallicized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gallicize"},{"word":"Gallicizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gallicize"},{"word":"Gallicize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conform to the French mode or idiom."},{"word":"Gallied","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Worried; flurried; frightened."},{"word":"Galliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure."},{"word":"Galligaskins","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense."},{"word":"Gallimatia","type":"(n.)","description":"Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See Galimatias."},{"word":"Gallimaufries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gallimaufry"},{"word":"Gallimaufry","type":"(n.)","description":"A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout."},{"word":"Gallimaufry","type":"(n.)","description":"Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch."},{"word":"Gallin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein."},{"word":"Gallinaceae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Gallinae."},{"word":"Gallinacean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds."},{"word":"Gallinaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae."},{"word":"Gallinae","type":"(n.)","description":"An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores."},{"word":"Galling","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating."},{"word":"Gallinipper","type":"(n.)","description":"A large mosquito."},{"word":"Gallinule","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata)."},{"word":"Galliot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Galiot."},{"word":"Gallipoli","type":"()","description":"An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy."},{"word":"Gallipot","type":"(n.)","description":"A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc."},{"word":"Gallium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86/ F., 30/C). Symbol Ga. Atomic weight 69.9."},{"word":"Gallivant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan."},{"word":"Gallivat","type":"(n.)","description":"A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast."},{"word":"Galliwasp","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous."},{"word":"Gallnut","type":"(n.)","description":"A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall."},{"word":"Gallomania","type":"(n.)","description":"An excessive admiration of what is French."},{"word":"Gallon","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure."},{"word":"Galloon","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental."},{"word":"Galloon","type":"(n.)","description":"A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace."},{"word":"Gallooned","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished or adorned with galloon."},{"word":"Galloped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gallop"},{"word":"Galloping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gallop"},{"word":"Gallop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed."},{"word":"Gallop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ride a horse at a gallop."},{"word":"Gallop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination."},{"word":"Gallop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to gallop."},{"word":"Gallop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds."},{"word":"Gallopade","type":"(n.)","description":"I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop."},{"word":"Gallopade","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop."},{"word":"Gallopaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gallopade"},{"word":"Gallopading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gallopade"},{"word":"Gallopade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gallop, as on horseback."},{"word":"Gallopade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the dance called gallopade."},{"word":"Galloper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, gallops."},{"word":"Galloper","type":"(n.)","description":"A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber."},{"word":"Gallopin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy."},{"word":"Galloping","type":"(a.)","description":"Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse."},{"word":"Gallotannic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls."},{"word":"Gallow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t."},{"word":"Galloway","type":"(n.)","description":"A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron."},{"word":"Gallowglass","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward /"},{"word":"Gallowses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gallows"},{"word":"Gallows","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gallows"},{"word":"Gallows","type":"(n. sing.)","description":"A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything."},{"word":"Gallows","type":"(n. sing.)","description":"A wretch who deserves the gallows."},{"word":"Gallows","type":"(n. sing.)","description":"The rest for the tympan when raised."},{"word":"Gallows","type":"(n. sing.)","description":"A pair of suspenders or braces."},{"word":"Gallstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1."},{"word":"Gally","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frighten; to worry."},{"word":"Gally","type":"(a.)","description":"Like gall; bitter as gall."},{"word":"Gally","type":"(n.)","description":"See Galley, n., 4."},{"word":"Gallygaskins","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Galligaskins."},{"word":"Galoche","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Galoshe"},{"word":"Galoshe","type":"()","description":"A clog or patten."},{"word":"Galoshe","type":"()","description":"Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather."},{"word":"Galoshe","type":"()","description":"A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg."},{"word":"Galoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy."},{"word":"Galop","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance."},{"word":"Galore","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"Plenty; abundance; in abundance."},{"word":"Galoshe","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Galoche."},{"word":"Galpe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gape,; to yawn."},{"word":"Galsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Angry; malignant."},{"word":"Galt","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gault."},{"word":"Galvanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents."},{"word":"Galvanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity."},{"word":"Galvanism","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents."},{"word":"Galvanist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in galvanism."},{"word":"Galvanization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of process of galvanizing."},{"word":"Galvanized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Galvanize"},{"word":"Galvanizing","type":"(p pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Galvanize"},{"word":"Galvanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents."},{"word":"Galvanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity."},{"word":"Galvanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity."},{"word":"Galvanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron."},{"word":"Galvanizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, galvanize."},{"word":"Galvanocaustic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine."},{"word":"Galvanocautery","type":"(n.)","description":"Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current."},{"word":"Galvanoglyphy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Glyphography."},{"word":"Galvanograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate."},{"word":"Galvanographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to galvanography."},{"word":"Galvanography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy."},{"word":"Galvanography","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates."},{"word":"Galvanologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism."},{"word":"Galvanology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena."},{"word":"Galvanometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle."},{"word":"Galvanometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or measured by, a galvanometer."},{"word":"Galvanometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents."},{"word":"Galvanoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like."},{"word":"Galvanoplasty","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of electrotypy."},{"word":"Galvanopuncture","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Electro-puncture."},{"word":"Galvanoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity."},{"word":"Galvanoscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope."},{"word":"Galvanoscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of galvanism in physiological experiments."},{"word":"Galvanotonus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Electrotonus."},{"word":"Galvanotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current."},{"word":"Galwes","type":"(n.)","description":"Gallows."},{"word":"Gama","type":"()","description":"A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass."},{"word":"Gamashes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing."},{"word":"Gamba","type":"(n.)","description":"A viola da gamba."},{"word":"Gambadoes","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gamashes."},{"word":"Gambeson","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gambison."},{"word":"Gambet","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler."},{"word":"Gambier","type":"(n.)","description":"The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing."},{"word":"Gambier","type":"(n.)","description":"Catechu."},{"word":"Gambison","type":"(n.)","description":"A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted."},{"word":"Gambist","type":"(n.)","description":"A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola."},{"word":"Gambit","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position."},{"word":"Gambled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gamble"},{"word":"Gambling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gamble"},{"word":"Gamble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play or game for money or other stake."},{"word":"Gamble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away."},{"word":"Gambler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gambles."},{"word":"Gamboge","type":"(n.)","description":"A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic."},{"word":"Gambogian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gambogic"},{"word":"Gambogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge."},{"word":"Gambol","type":"(n.)","description":"A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank."},{"word":"Gamboled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gambol"},{"word":"Gambolled","type":"()","description":"of Gambol"},{"word":"Gamboling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gambol"},{"word":"Gambolling","type":"()","description":"of Gambol"},{"word":"Gambol","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs."},{"word":"Gambrel","type":"(n.)","description":"The hind leg of a horse."},{"word":"Gambrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals."},{"word":"Gambrel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel."},{"word":"Gambroon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining."},{"word":"Game","type":"(n.)","description":"Crooked; lame; as, a game leg."},{"word":"Game","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Sport of any kind; jest, frolic."},{"word":"Game","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc."},{"word":"Game","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards."},{"word":"Game","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game."},{"word":"Game","type":"(v. i.)","description":"In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest."},{"word":"Game","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project."},{"word":"Game","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table."},{"word":"Game","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky."},{"word":"Game","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting."},{"word":"Gamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Game"},{"word":"Gaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Game"},{"word":"Game","type":"(n.)","description":"To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative."},{"word":"Game","type":"(n.)","description":"To play at any sport or diversion."},{"word":"Game","type":"(n.)","description":"To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble."},{"word":"Gamecock","type":"(n.)","description":"The male game fowl."},{"word":"Game","type":"()","description":"A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males."},{"word":"Gameful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of game or games."},{"word":"Gamekeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve."},{"word":"Gameless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of game."},{"word":"Gamely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a plucky manner; spiritedly."},{"word":"Gameness","type":"(n.)","description":"Endurance; pluck."},{"word":"Gamesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry."},{"word":"Gamester","type":"(n.)","description":"A merry, frolicsome person."},{"word":"Gamester","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games."},{"word":"Gamester","type":"(n.)","description":"A prostitute; a strumpet."},{"word":"Gamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements."},{"word":"Gamin","type":"(n.)","description":"A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab."},{"word":"Gaming","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling."},{"word":"Gamma","type":"(n.)","description":"The third letter (/, / = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet."},{"word":"Gammadion","type":"(n.)","description":"A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot."},{"word":"Gammer","type":"(n.)","description":"An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man."},{"word":"Gammon","type":"(n.)","description":"The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch."},{"word":"Gammoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gammon"},{"word":"Gammoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gammon"},{"word":"Gammon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke."},{"word":"Gammon","type":"(n.)","description":"Backgammon."},{"word":"Gammon","type":"(n.)","description":"An imposition or hoax; humbug."},{"word":"Gammon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his \"men\" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person."},{"word":"Gammon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impose on; to hoax; to cajole."},{"word":"Gammon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron."},{"word":"Gammoning","type":"(n.)","description":"The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays."},{"word":"Gammoning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person."},{"word":"Gamogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis."},{"word":"Gamogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to gamogenesis."},{"word":"Gamomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species."},{"word":"Gamopetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous."},{"word":"Gamophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent)."},{"word":"Gamosepalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed of united sepals; monosepalous."},{"word":"Gamut","type":"(n.)","description":"The scale."},{"word":"Gamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored."},{"word":"Gamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout."},{"word":"Gan","type":"(v.)","description":"Began; commenced."},{"word":"Ganch","type":"(n.)","description":"To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment."},{"word":"Gander","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of any species of goose."},{"word":"Gane","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yawn; to gape."},{"word":"Ganesa","type":"(n.)","description":"The Hindoo god of wisdom or prudence."},{"word":"Gang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go; to walk."},{"word":"Gang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A going; a course."},{"word":"Gang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves."},{"word":"Gang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows."},{"word":"Gang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays."},{"word":"Gang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue."},{"word":"Ganger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who oversees a gang of workmen."},{"word":"Gangetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangetic shark."},{"word":"Gang-flower","type":"(n.)","description":"The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week."},{"word":"Gangion","type":"(n.)","description":"A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n."},{"word":"Gangliac","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ganglial"},{"word":"Ganglial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic."},{"word":"Gangliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gangliated"},{"word":"Gangliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system."},{"word":"Gangliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ganglioform"},{"word":"Ganglioform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a ganglion."},{"word":"Ganglia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ganglion"},{"word":"Ganglions","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ganglion"},{"word":"Ganglion","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve."},{"word":"Ganglion","type":"(n.)","description":"A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion."},{"word":"Ganglion","type":"(n.)","description":"A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew."},{"word":"Ganglionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Ganglionic."},{"word":"Ganglionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord."},{"word":"Gangrel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Wandering; vagrant."},{"word":"Gangrenate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gangrene."},{"word":"Gangrene","type":"(n.)","description":"A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage."},{"word":"Gangrened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gangrene"},{"word":"Gangrening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gangrene"},{"word":"Gangrene","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene."},{"word":"Gangrenescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to mortification or gangrene."},{"word":"Gangrenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene."},{"word":"Gangue","type":"(n.)","description":"The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore."},{"word":"Gangway","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks."},{"word":"Gangway","type":"(v. i.)","description":"In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition."},{"word":"Gangway","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it."},{"word":"Gangway","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist."},{"word":"Ganil","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of brittle limestone."},{"word":"Ganister","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gannister"},{"word":"Gannister","type":"(n.)","description":"A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads."},{"word":"Ganja","type":"(n.)","description":"The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating."},{"word":"Gannet","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans."},{"word":"Ganocephala","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes."},{"word":"Ganocephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala."},{"word":"Ganoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei."},{"word":"Ganoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Ganoid."},{"word":"Ganoidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales."},{"word":"Ganoidian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Ganoid."},{"word":"Ganoine","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale."},{"word":"Gansa","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ganza."},{"word":"Gantlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed."},{"word":"Gantlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A glove. See Gauntlet."},{"word":"Gantline","type":"(n.)","description":"A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline."},{"word":"Gantlope","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gantlet."},{"word":"Gantry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gauntree."},{"word":"Ganza","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world."},{"word":"Gaol","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail."},{"word":"Gaoler","type":"(n.)","description":"The keeper of a jail. See Jailer."},{"word":"Gap","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass."},{"word":"Gap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To notch, as a sword or knife."},{"word":"Gap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an opening in; to breach."},{"word":"Gaped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gape"},{"word":"Gaping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gape"},{"word":"Gape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To open the mouth wide"},{"word":"Gape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape."},{"word":"Gape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn."},{"word":"Gape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus."},{"word":"Gape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at."},{"word":"Gape","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gaping; a yawn."},{"word":"Gape","type":"(n.)","description":"The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc."},{"word":"The","type":"()","description":"A fit of yawning."},{"word":"The","type":"()","description":"A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm."},{"word":"Gaper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gapes."},{"word":"Gaper","type":"(n.)","description":"A European fish. See 4th Comber."},{"word":"Gaper","type":"(n.)","description":"A large edible clam (Schizothaerus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam."},{"word":"Gaper","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills."},{"word":"Gapeseed","type":"(n.)","description":"Any strange sight."},{"word":"Gapesing","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of gazing about; sightseeing."},{"word":"Gapeworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Gapingstock","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder."},{"word":"Gap-toothed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having interstices between the teeth."},{"word":"Gar","type":"(v.)","description":"Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish."},{"word":"Gar","type":"(v.)","description":"The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike."},{"word":"Gar","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause; to make."},{"word":"Garancin","type":"(n.)","description":"An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin."},{"word":"Garb","type":"(n.)","description":"Clothing in general."},{"word":"Garb","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge."},{"word":"Garb","type":"(n.)","description":"Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century."},{"word":"Garb","type":"(n.)","description":"External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech."},{"word":"Garb","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified)."},{"word":"Garb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe; array; deck."},{"word":"Garbage","type":"(n.)","description":"Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome."},{"word":"Garbage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip of the bowels; to clean."},{"word":"Garbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Dressed; habited; clad."},{"word":"Garbel","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Garboard."},{"word":"Garbel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken."},{"word":"Garbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garble"},{"word":"Garbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garble"},{"word":"Garble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices."},{"word":"Garble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account."},{"word":"Garble","type":"(n.)","description":"Refuse; rubbish."},{"word":"Garble","type":"(n.)","description":"Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings."},{"word":"Garbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who garbles."},{"word":"Garboard","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake."},{"word":"Garboil","type":"(n.)","description":"Tumult; disturbance; disorder."},{"word":"Garcinia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin."},{"word":"Gard","type":"(n.)","description":"Garden."},{"word":"Gard","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"See Guard."},{"word":"Gardant","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast."},{"word":"Garden","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables."},{"word":"Garden","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country."},{"word":"Gardened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garden"},{"word":"Gardening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garden"},{"word":"Garden","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture."},{"word":"Garden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cultivate as a garden."},{"word":"Gardener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist."},{"word":"Gardenia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden."},{"word":"Gardening","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture."},{"word":"Gardenless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a garden."},{"word":"Gardenly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a garden."},{"word":"Gardenship","type":"(n.)","description":"Horticulture."},{"word":"Gardon","type":"(n.)","description":"A European cyprinoid fish; the id."},{"word":"Gardyloo","type":"(n.)","description":"An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh."},{"word":"Gare","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarse wool on the legs of sheep."},{"word":"Garefowl","type":"(n.)","description":"The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk."},{"word":"Garfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike."},{"word":"Garfish","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species."},{"word":"Gargalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gargle; to rinse."},{"word":"Garganey","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal."},{"word":"Gargantuan","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate."},{"word":"Gargarism","type":"(n.)","description":"A gargle."},{"word":"Gargarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat."},{"word":"Garget","type":"(n.)","description":"The throat."},{"word":"Garget","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands."},{"word":"Garget","type":"(n.)","description":"A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite."},{"word":"Garget","type":"(n.)","description":"See Poke."},{"word":"Gargil","type":"(n.)","description":"A distemper in geese, affecting the head."},{"word":"Gargle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gargoyle."},{"word":"Garggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gargle"},{"word":"Gargling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gargle"},{"word":"Gargle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs."},{"word":"Gargle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To warble; to sing as if gargling"},{"word":"Gargle","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect."},{"word":"Gargol","type":"(n.)","description":"A distemper in swine; garget."},{"word":"Gargoulette","type":"(n.)","description":"A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet."},{"word":"Gargoyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely."},{"word":"Gargyle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gargoyle."},{"word":"Garibaldi","type":"(n.)","description":"A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi."},{"word":"Garibaldi","type":"(n.)","description":"A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color."},{"word":"Garish","type":"(a.)","description":"Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention."},{"word":"Garish","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay to extravagance; flighty."},{"word":"Garland","type":"(n.)","description":"The crown of a king."},{"word":"Garland","type":"(n.)","description":"A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath."},{"word":"Garland","type":"(n.)","description":"The top; the thing most prized."},{"word":"Garland","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology."},{"word":"Garland","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in."},{"word":"Garland","type":"(n.)","description":"A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling."},{"word":"Garlanded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garland"},{"word":"Garlanding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garland"},{"word":"Garland","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deck with a garland."},{"word":"Garlandless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a garland."},{"word":"Garlic","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable."},{"word":"Garlic","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of jig or farce."},{"word":"Garlicky","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or containing garlic."},{"word":"Garment","type":"(n.)","description":"Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc."},{"word":"Garmented","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment."},{"word":"Garmenture","type":"(n.)","description":"Clothing; dress."},{"word":"Garner","type":"(n.)","description":"A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation."},{"word":"Garnered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garner"},{"word":"Garnering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garner"},{"word":"Garner","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure."},{"word":"Garnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms."},{"word":"Garnet","type":"(n.)","description":"A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out."},{"word":"Garnetiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing garnets."},{"word":"Garnierite","type":"(n.)","description":"An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel."},{"word":"Garnished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garnish"},{"word":"Garnishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garnish"},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish."},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley."},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish; to supply."},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit with fetters."},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t."},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(n.)","description":"Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated."},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(n.)","description":"Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2."},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fetters."},{"word":"Garnish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer."},{"word":"Garnishee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money."},{"word":"Garnisheed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garnishee"},{"word":"Garnisheeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garnishee"},{"word":"Garnishee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish."},{"word":"Garnishee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee."},{"word":"Garnisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, garnishes."},{"word":"Garnishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornament; embellishment; decoration."},{"word":"Garnishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter."},{"word":"Garnishment","type":"(n.)","description":"Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee."},{"word":"Garnishment","type":"(n.)","description":"A fee. See Garnish, n., 4."},{"word":"Garniture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress."},{"word":"Garookuh","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf."},{"word":"Garous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, garum."},{"word":"Gar","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Garpike"},{"word":"Garpike","type":"()","description":"See under Gar."},{"word":"Garran","type":"(n.)","description":"See Galloway."},{"word":"Garret","type":"(n.)","description":"A turret; a watchtower."},{"word":"Garret","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic."},{"word":"Garreted","type":"(a.)","description":"Protected by turrets."},{"word":"Garreteer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack."},{"word":"Garreting","type":"(n.)","description":"Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry."},{"word":"Garrison","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town."},{"word":"Garrison","type":"(n.)","description":"A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security."},{"word":"Garrisoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garrison"},{"word":"Garrisoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garrison"},{"word":"Garrison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town."},{"word":"Garrison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory."},{"word":"Garron","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Garran."},{"word":"Garrot","type":"(n.)","description":"A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb."},{"word":"Garrot","type":"(n.)","description":"The European golden-eye."},{"word":"Garrote","type":"(n.)","description":"A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted."},{"word":"Garroted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garrote"},{"word":"Garroting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garrote"},{"word":"Garrote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob."},{"word":"Garroter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him."},{"word":"Garrulity","type":"(n.)","description":"Talkativeness; loquacity."},{"word":"Garrulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious."},{"word":"Garrulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller."},{"word":"Garrupa","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish."},{"word":"Garter","type":"(n.)","description":"A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg."},{"word":"Garter","type":"(n.)","description":"The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself."},{"word":"Garter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Bendlet."},{"word":"Gartered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Garter"},{"word":"Gartering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Garter"},{"word":"Garter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind with a garter."},{"word":"Garter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with the Order of the Garter."},{"word":"Garth","type":"(n.)","description":"A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth."},{"word":"Garth","type":"(n.)","description":"A dam or weir for catching fish."},{"word":"Garth","type":"(n.)","description":"A hoop or band."},{"word":"Garum","type":"(n.)","description":"A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients."},{"word":"Garvie","type":"(n.)","description":"The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock."},{"word":"Gases","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gas"},{"word":"Gas","type":"(n.)","description":"An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state."},{"word":"Gas","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes."},{"word":"Gas","type":"(n.)","description":"Laughing gas."},{"word":"Gas","type":"(n.)","description":"Any irrespirable aeriform fluid."},{"word":"Gasalier","type":"(n.)","description":"A chandelier arranged to burn gas."},{"word":"Gas-burner","type":"(n.)","description":"The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices."},{"word":"Gascoines","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Gaskins, 1."},{"word":"Gascon","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering."},{"word":"Gascon","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade."},{"word":"Gasconade","type":"(n.)","description":"A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio."},{"word":"Gasconaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gasconade"},{"word":"Gasconading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gasconade"},{"word":"Gasconade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To boast; to brag; to bluster."},{"word":"Gasconader","type":"(n.)","description":"A great boaster; a blusterer."},{"word":"Gascoynes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Gaskins."},{"word":"Gaseity","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being gaseous."},{"word":"Gaseous","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid."},{"word":"Gaseous","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous."},{"word":"Gashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gash"},{"word":"Gashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gash"},{"word":"Gash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh."},{"word":"Gash","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh."},{"word":"Gashful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of gashes; hideous; frightful."},{"word":"Gasification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of converting into gas."},{"word":"Gasiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a form of gas; gaseous."},{"word":"Gasified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gasify"},{"word":"Gasifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gasify"},{"word":"Gasify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes."},{"word":"Gasify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state."},{"word":"Gasket","type":"(n.)","description":"A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket."},{"word":"Gasket","type":"(n.)","description":"The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps."},{"word":"Gasket","type":"(n.)","description":"Any ring or washer of packing."},{"word":"Gaskins","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins."},{"word":"Gaskins","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"Packing of hemp."},{"word":"Gaskins","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"A horse's thighs."},{"word":"Gaslight","type":"(n.)","description":"The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas."},{"word":"Gaslight","type":"(n.)","description":"A gas jet or burner."},{"word":"Gasogen","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid."},{"word":"Gasogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas."},{"word":"Gasolene","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gasoline."},{"word":"Gasolier","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gasalier."},{"word":"Gasoline","type":"(n.)","description":"A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor."},{"word":"Gasometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required."},{"word":"Gasometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gasometrical"},{"word":"Gasometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis."},{"word":"Gasometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids."},{"word":"Gasoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house."},{"word":"Gasped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gasp"},{"word":"Gasping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gasp"},{"word":"Gasp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently."},{"word":"Gasp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire."},{"word":"Gasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc."},{"word":"Gasp","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath."},{"word":"Gaspereau","type":"(n.)","description":"The alewife."},{"word":"Gasserian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion."},{"word":"Gassing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing."},{"word":"Gassing","type":"(n.)","description":"Boasting; insincere or empty talk."},{"word":"Gassy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk."},{"word":"Gast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast."},{"word":"Gaster","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gast."},{"word":"Gasteromycetes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs."},{"word":"Gasteropod","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gastropod."},{"word":"Gasteropoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Gastropoda."},{"word":"Gasteropodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Gastropodous."},{"word":"Gastful","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gastly"},{"word":"Gastly","type":"(a.)","description":"See Ghastful, Ghastly."},{"word":"Gastight","type":"(a.)","description":"So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas."},{"word":"Gastness","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ghastness."},{"word":"Gastornis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin."},{"word":"Gastraea","type":"(n.)","description":"A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula."},{"word":"Gastralgia","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders."},{"word":"Gastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery."},{"word":"Gastriloquist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist."},{"word":"Gastriloquous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ventriloquous."},{"word":"Gastriloquy","type":"(n.)","description":"A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy."},{"word":"Gastritis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane."},{"word":"Gastro-","type":"()","description":"A combining form from the Gr. /, /, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy."},{"word":"Gastrocnemius","type":"(n.)","description":"The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg."},{"word":"Gastrocolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum."},{"word":"Gastrodisc","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst."},{"word":"Gastroduodenal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery."},{"word":"Gastroduodenitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice."},{"word":"Gastroelytrotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Caesarean operation, and less dangerous."},{"word":"Gastroenteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Gastrointestinal."},{"word":"Gastroenteritis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines."},{"word":"Gastroepiploic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum."},{"word":"Gastrohepatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum."},{"word":"Gastrohysterotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Caesarean section. See under Caesarean."},{"word":"Gastrointestinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric."},{"word":"Gastrolith","type":"(n.)","description":"See Crab's eyes, under Crab."},{"word":"Gastrology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach."},{"word":"Gastromalacia","type":"(n.)","description":"A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change."},{"word":"Gastromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach."},{"word":"Gastromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art."},{"word":"Gastromyces","type":"(n.)","description":"The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc."},{"word":"Gastromyth","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist."},{"word":"Gastronome","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gastronomer"},{"word":"Gastronomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One fond of good living; an epicure."},{"word":"Gastronomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gastronomical"},{"word":"Gastronomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to gastromony."},{"word":"Gastronomist","type":"(n.)","description":"A gastromomer."},{"word":"Gastronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer."},{"word":"Gastrophrenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament."},{"word":"Gastropneumatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes."},{"word":"Gastropod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Gastropoda."},{"word":"Gastropoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca."},{"word":"Gastropodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda."},{"word":"Gastroraphy","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen."},{"word":"Gastroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach."},{"word":"Gastroscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gastroscopy."},{"word":"Gastroscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope."},{"word":"Gastrosplenic","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament."},{"word":"Gastrostege","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent."},{"word":"Gastrostomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food."},{"word":"Gastrotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach."},{"word":"Gastrotricha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids."},{"word":"Gastrotrocha","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side."},{"word":"Gastrovascular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates."},{"word":"Gastrulae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gastrula"},{"word":"Gastrula","type":"(n.)","description":"An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea."},{"word":"Gastrula","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a gastrula."},{"word":"Gastrulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed."},{"word":"Gastrura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Stomatopoda."},{"word":"Gastrurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Gastrura."},{"word":"Gat","type":"()","description":"imp. of Get."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with a gate."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate)."},{"word":"Gate","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner; gait."},{"word":"Gated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having gates."},{"word":"Gatehouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house connected or associated with a gate."},{"word":"Gateless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no gate."},{"word":"Gateman","type":"(n.)","description":"A gate keeper; a gate tender."},{"word":"Gatepost","type":"(n.)","description":"A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post."},{"word":"Gatepost","type":"(n.)","description":"A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post."},{"word":"Gateway","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense."},{"word":"Gatewise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a gate."},{"word":"Gathered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gather"},{"word":"Gathering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gather"},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gain; to win."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow larger by accretion; to increase."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To collect or bring things together."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(n.)","description":"A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(n.)","description":"The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward."},{"word":"Gather","type":"(n.)","description":"The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7."},{"word":"Gatherable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises."},{"word":"Gatherer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gathers or collects."},{"word":"Gatherer","type":"(n.)","description":"An attachment for making gathers in the cloth."},{"word":"Gathering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of collecting or bringing together."},{"word":"Gathering","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is gathered, collected, or brought together"},{"word":"Gathering","type":"(n.)","description":"A crowd; an assembly; a congregation."},{"word":"Gathering","type":"(n.)","description":"A charitable contribution; a collection."},{"word":"Gathering","type":"(n.)","description":"A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess."},{"word":"Gathering","type":"(a.)","description":"Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating."},{"word":"Gatling","type":"()","description":"An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired."},{"word":"Gatten","type":"()","description":"A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus)."},{"word":"Gat-toothed","type":"(a.)","description":"Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton."},{"word":"Gauche","type":"(n.)","description":"Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy."},{"word":"Gauche","type":"(n.)","description":"Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces."},{"word":"Gaucherie","type":"(n.)","description":"An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness."},{"word":"Gauchos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gaucho"},{"word":"Gaucho","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle."},{"word":"Gaud","type":"(n.)","description":"Trick; jest; sport."},{"word":"Gaud","type":"(n.)","description":"Deceit; fraud; artifice; device."},{"word":"Gaud","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket."},{"word":"Gaud","type":"(n.)","description":"To sport or keep festival."},{"word":"Gauded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gaud"},{"word":"Gauding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gaud"},{"word":"Gaud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint."},{"word":"Gaud-day","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gaudy, a feast."},{"word":"Gaudery","type":"(n.)","description":"Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display."},{"word":"Gaudful","type":"(a.)","description":"Joyful; showy."},{"word":"Gaudily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gaudy manner."},{"word":"Gaudiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being gaudy."},{"word":"Gaudish","type":"(a.)","description":"Gaudy."},{"word":"Gaudless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of ornament."},{"word":"Gaudy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious."},{"word":"Gaudy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Gay; merry; festal."},{"word":"Gaudies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gaudy"},{"word":"Gaudy","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited."},{"word":"Gaudy","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day."},{"word":"Gaudygreen","type":"(a. / n.)","description":"Light green."},{"word":"Gauffer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer."},{"word":"Gauffering","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of plaiting or fluting."},{"word":"Gauffre","type":"(n.)","description":"A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher."},{"word":"Gauged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gauge"},{"word":"Gauging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gauge"},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To measure or determine with a gauge."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"Measure; dimensions; estimate."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance between the rails of a railway."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting."},{"word":"Gauge","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles."},{"word":"Gaugeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being gauged."},{"word":"Gauged","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge."},{"word":"Gauger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks."},{"word":"Gauger-ship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a gauger."},{"word":"Gauging","type":"()","description":"See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n."},{"word":"Gaul","type":"(n.)","description":"The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul)."},{"word":"Gaul","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Gaul."},{"word":"Gaulish","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic."},{"word":"Gault","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period."},{"word":"Gaultheria","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon)."},{"word":"Gaunt","type":"(a.)","description":"Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim."},{"word":"Gauntlet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gantlet."},{"word":"Gauntlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds."},{"word":"Gauntlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A long glove, covering the wrist."},{"word":"Gauntlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying."},{"word":"Gauntletted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a gauntlet."},{"word":"Gauntly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gaunt manner; meagerly."},{"word":"Gauntree","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gauntry"},{"word":"Gauntry","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere."},{"word":"Gauntry","type":"(n.)","description":"A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure."},{"word":"Gaur","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition."},{"word":"Gaure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gaze; to stare."},{"word":"Gauze","type":"(n.)","description":"A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze."},{"word":"Gauze","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing."},{"word":"Gauziness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness."},{"word":"Gauzy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze."},{"word":"Gave","type":"()","description":"imp. of Give."},{"word":"Gavel","type":"(n.)","description":"A gable."},{"word":"Gavel","type":"(n.)","description":"A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle."},{"word":"Gavel","type":"(n.)","description":"The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc."},{"word":"Gavel","type":"(n.)","description":"A mason's setting maul."},{"word":"Gavel","type":"(n.)","description":"Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel."},{"word":"Gavelet","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent."},{"word":"Gavelkind","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent."},{"word":"Gaveloche","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gavelock."},{"word":"Gavelock","type":"(n.)","description":"A spear or dart."},{"word":"Gavelock","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron crow or lever."},{"word":"Gaverick","type":"(n.)","description":"The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus)."},{"word":"Gaviae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns."},{"word":"Gavial","type":"(n.)","description":"A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile."},{"word":"Gavot","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over."},{"word":"Gawby","type":"(n.)","description":"A baby; a dunce."},{"word":"Gawk","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuckoo."},{"word":"Gawk","type":"(n.)","description":"A simpleton; a booby; a gawky."},{"word":"Gawk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act like a gawky."},{"word":"Gawky","type":"(superl.)","description":"Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk."},{"word":"Gawn","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tub or lading vessel."},{"word":"Gawntree","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gauntree."},{"word":"Gay","type":"(superl.)","description":"Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry."},{"word":"Gay","type":"(superl.)","description":"Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed."},{"word":"Gay","type":"(superl.)","description":"Loose; dissipated; lewd."},{"word":"Gay","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament"},{"word":"Gayal","type":"(n.)","description":"A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis)."},{"word":"Gaydiang","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk."},{"word":"Gayeties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gayety"},{"word":"Gayety","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season."},{"word":"Gayety","type":"(a.)","description":"Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress."},{"word":"Gaylussite","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water."},{"word":"Gayly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully."},{"word":"Gayly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming."},{"word":"Gayne","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To avail."},{"word":"Gayness","type":"(n.)","description":"Gayety; finery."},{"word":"Gaysome","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag."},{"word":"Gaytre","type":"(n.)","description":"The dogwood tree."},{"word":"Gazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gaze"},{"word":"Gazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gaze"},{"word":"Gaze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention."},{"word":"Gaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To view with attention; to gaze on ."},{"word":"Gaze","type":"(n.)","description":"A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention."},{"word":"Gaze","type":"(n.)","description":"The object gazed on."},{"word":"Gazeebo","type":"(n.)","description":"A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect."},{"word":"Gazeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Gazing."},{"word":"Gazehound","type":"(n.)","description":"A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent."},{"word":"Gazel","type":"(n.)","description":"The black currant; also, the wild plum."},{"word":"Gazel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gazelle."},{"word":"Gazelle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes."},{"word":"Gazement","type":"(n.)","description":"View."},{"word":"Gazer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gazes."},{"word":"Gazet","type":"(n.)","description":"A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents."},{"word":"Gazette","type":"(n.)","description":"A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices."},{"word":"Gazetted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gazette"},{"word":"Gazetting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gazette"},{"word":"Gazette","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy."},{"word":"Gazetteer","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority."},{"word":"Gazetteer","type":"(n.)","description":"A newspaper; a gazette."},{"word":"Gazetteer","type":"(n.)","description":"A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places."},{"word":"Gazetteer","type":"(n.)","description":"An alphabetical descriptive list of anything."},{"word":"Gazingstock","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt."},{"word":"Gazogene","type":"(n.)","description":"A portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale."},{"word":"Gazon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks."},{"word":"Ge-","type":"()","description":"An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-."},{"word":"Geal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To congeal."},{"word":"Gean","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color."},{"word":"Geanticlinal","type":"(n.)","description":"An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"Clothing; garments; ornaments."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"Goods; property; household stuff."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"The harness of horses or cattle; trapping."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"Warlike accouterments."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner; custom; behavior."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"Business matters; affairs; concern."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"See 1st Jeer (b)."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish."},{"word":"Geared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gear"},{"word":"Gearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gear"},{"word":"Gear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress; to put gear on; to harness."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with gearing."},{"word":"Gear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in, or come into, gear."},{"word":"Gearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Harness."},{"word":"Gearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery."},{"word":"Geason","type":"(a.)","description":"Rare; wonderful."},{"word":"Geat","type":"(n.)","description":"The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting."},{"word":"Gecarcinian","type":"(n.)","description":"A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera."},{"word":"Geck","type":"(n.)","description":"Scorn, derision, or contempt."},{"word":"Geck","type":"(n.)","description":"An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull."},{"word":"Geck","type":"(n.)","description":"To deride; to scorn; to mock."},{"word":"Geck","type":"(n.)","description":"To cheat; trick, or gull."},{"word":"Geck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jeer; to show contempt."},{"word":"Geckoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gecko"},{"word":"Gecko","type":"(n.)","description":"Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot."},{"word":"Geckotian","type":"(n.)","description":"A gecko."},{"word":"Ged","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gedd"},{"word":"Gedd","type":"(n.)","description":"The European pike."},{"word":"Geed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gee"},{"word":"Geeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gee"},{"word":"Gee","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree; to harmonize."},{"word":"Gee","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi."},{"word":"Gee","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver."},{"word":"Geer","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Geering"},{"word":"Geering","type":"()","description":"See Gear, Gearing."},{"word":"Geese","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. of Goose."},{"word":"Geest","type":"(n.)","description":"Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin."},{"word":"Geet","type":"(n.)","description":"Jet."},{"word":"Geez","type":"(n.)","description":"The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic."},{"word":"Gehenna","type":"(n.)","description":"The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell."},{"word":"Geic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold."},{"word":"Gein","type":"(n.)","description":"See Humin."},{"word":"Geissler","type":"()","description":"A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it."},{"word":"Geitonogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant."},{"word":"Gelable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly."},{"word":"Gelada","type":"(n.)","description":"A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male."},{"word":"Gelastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing."},{"word":"Gelatification","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of gelatin."},{"word":"Gelatigenous","type":"(n.)","description":"Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues."},{"word":"Gelatin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gelatine"},{"word":"Gelatine","type":"(n.)","description":"Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order."},{"word":"Gelatinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gelatinate"},{"word":"Gelatinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gelatinate"},{"word":"Gelatinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly."},{"word":"Gelatinate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be converted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly."},{"word":"Gelatination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly."},{"word":"Gelatine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gelatin."},{"word":"Gelatiniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination."},{"word":"Gelatiniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of gelatin."},{"word":"Gelatinization","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gelatination."},{"word":"Gelatinize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t."},{"word":"Gelatinize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin."},{"word":"Gelatinize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Same as Gelatinate, v. i."},{"word":"Gelatinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous."},{"word":"Gelation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying."},{"word":"Geld","type":"(n.)","description":"Money; tribute; compensation; ransom."},{"word":"Gelded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Geld"},{"word":"Gelding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Geld"},{"word":"Geld","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To castrate; to emasculate."},{"word":"Geld","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of anything essential."},{"word":"Geld","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate."},{"word":"Geldable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being gelded."},{"word":"Geldable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to taxation."},{"word":"Gelder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gelds or castrates."},{"word":"Gelder-rose","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Guelder-rose."},{"word":"Gelding","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male."},{"word":"Gelding","type":"(p. pr. a. & vb. n.)","description":"from Geld, v. t."},{"word":"Gelid","type":"(a.)","description":"Cold; very cold; frozen."},{"word":"Gelidity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gelid."},{"word":"Gelidly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gelid manner; coldly."},{"word":"Gelidness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gelid; gelidity."},{"word":"Gelly","type":"(n.)","description":"Jelly."},{"word":"Geloscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of laughter."},{"word":"Gelose","type":"(n.)","description":"An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds."},{"word":"Gelsemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Gelseminic."},{"word":"Gelsemine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia."},{"word":"Gelseminic","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin."},{"word":"Gelsemium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers."},{"word":"Gelsemium","type":"(n.)","description":"The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc."},{"word":"Gelt","type":"(n.)","description":"Trubute, tax."},{"word":"Gelt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A gelding."},{"word":"Gelt","type":"(n.)","description":"Gilding; tinsel."},{"word":"Gem","type":"(n.)","description":"A bud."},{"word":"Gem","type":"(n.)","description":"A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel."},{"word":"Gem","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying."},{"word":"Gemmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gem"},{"word":"Gemming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gem"},{"word":"Gem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put forth in the form of buds."},{"word":"Gem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with gems or precious stones."},{"word":"Gem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops."},{"word":"Gemara","type":"(n.)","description":"The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text)."},{"word":"Gemaric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Gemara."},{"word":"Gemarist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings."},{"word":"Gemel","type":"(a.)","description":"Coupled; paired."},{"word":"Gemel","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the twins."},{"word":"Gemel","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a."},{"word":"Gemellipa-rous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing twins."},{"word":"Geminal","type":"(a.)","description":"A pair."},{"word":"Geminate","type":"(a.)","description":"In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers."},{"word":"Geminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To double."},{"word":"Gemination","type":"(n.)","description":"A doubling; duplication; repetition."},{"word":"Gemini","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th."},{"word":"Geminiflorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the flowers arranged in pairs."},{"word":"Geminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Double; in pairs."},{"word":"Geminy","type":"(n.)","description":"Twins; a pair; a couple."},{"word":"Gemitores","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of birds including the true pigeons."},{"word":"Gemmae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gemma"},{"word":"Gemma","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud."},{"word":"Gemma","type":"(n.)","description":"A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell."},{"word":"Gemmaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmae; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmae."},{"word":"Gemmary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gems."},{"word":"Gemmary","type":"(n.)","description":"A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively."},{"word":"Gemmate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having buds; reproducing by buds."},{"word":"Gemmated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels."},{"word":"Gemmation","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding."},{"word":"Gemmation","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud."},{"word":"Gemmeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems."},{"word":"Gemmiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing gems or buds"},{"word":"Gemmiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"multiplying by buds."},{"word":"Gemmification","type":"(n.)","description":"The production of a bud or gem."},{"word":"Gemmiflorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having flowers like buds."},{"word":"Gemminess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness."},{"word":"Gemmipara","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Gemmipares"},{"word":"Gemmipares","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids."},{"word":"Gemmiparity","type":"(n.)","description":"Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding."},{"word":"Gemmiparous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1."},{"word":"Gemmosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel."},{"word":"Gemmulation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gemmation."},{"word":"Gemmule","type":"(n.)","description":"A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons."},{"word":"Gemmule","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the buds of mosses."},{"word":"Gemmule","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the reproductive spores of algae."},{"word":"Gemmule","type":"(n.)","description":"An ovule."},{"word":"Gemmule","type":"(n.)","description":"A bud produced in generation by gemmation."},{"word":"Gemmule","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis."},{"word":"Gemmuliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or producing gemmules or buds."},{"word":"Gemmy","type":"(n.)","description":"Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem."},{"word":"Gemmy","type":"(n.)","description":"Spruce; smart."},{"word":"Gemote","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men."},{"word":"Gems","type":"(n.)","description":"The chamois."},{"word":"Gemsbok","type":"(n.)","description":"A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns."},{"word":"Gems-horn","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ stop with conical tin pipes."},{"word":"Gemul","type":"(n.)","description":"A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns."},{"word":"-gen","type":"()","description":"A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen."},{"word":"-gen","type":"()","description":"A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen."},{"word":"Gena","type":"()","description":"The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird."},{"word":"Gena","type":"()","description":"The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached."},{"word":"Genappe","type":"(n.)","description":"A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc."},{"word":"Gendarmes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gendarme"},{"word":"Gens","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gendarme"},{"word":"Gendarme","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a body of heavy cavalry."},{"word":"Gendarme","type":"(n.)","description":"An armed policeman in France."},{"word":"Gendarmery","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of gendarmes."},{"word":"Gender","type":"(n.)","description":"Kind; sort."},{"word":"Gender","type":"(n.)","description":"Sex, male or female."},{"word":"Gender","type":"(n.)","description":"A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex."},{"word":"Gendered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gender"},{"word":"Gendering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gender"},{"word":"Gender","type":"(n.)","description":"To beget; to engender."},{"word":"Gender","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To copulate; to breed."},{"word":"Genderless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no gender."},{"word":"Geneagenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Alternate generation. See under Generation."},{"word":"Genealogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Genealogical."},{"word":"Genealogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order."},{"word":"Genealogist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families."},{"word":"Genealogize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To investigate, or relate the history of, descents."},{"word":"Genealogies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Genealogy"},{"word":"Genealogy","type":"(n.)","description":"An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree."},{"word":"Genealogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage."},{"word":"Genearch","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief of a family or tribe."},{"word":"Genera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Genus."},{"word":"Generability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being generated."},{"word":"Generable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being generated or produced."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"As a whole; in gross; for the most part."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule."},{"word":"General","type":"(a.)","description":"The public; the people; the vulgar."},{"word":"Generalia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Generalities; general terms."},{"word":"Generalissimo","type":"(a.)","description":"The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries."},{"word":"Generalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Generality"},{"word":"Generality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars."},{"word":"Generality","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase."},{"word":"Generality","type":"(n.)","description":"The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind."},{"word":"Generalizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule."},{"word":"Generalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars."},{"word":"Generalization","type":"(n.)","description":"A general inference."},{"word":"Generalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Generalize"},{"word":"Generalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Generalize"},{"word":"Generalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera."},{"word":"Generalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule."},{"word":"Generalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars."},{"word":"Generalize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views."},{"word":"Generalized","type":"(a.)","description":"Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type."},{"word":"Generalizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes general or comprehensive views."},{"word":"Generally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently."},{"word":"Generally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively."},{"word":"Generally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Collectively; as a whole; without omissions."},{"word":"Generalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness."},{"word":"Generalship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general."},{"word":"Generalship","type":"(n.)","description":"Military skill in a general officer or commander."},{"word":"Generalship","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Leadership; management."},{"word":"Generalty","type":"(n.)","description":"Generality."},{"word":"Generant","type":"(a.)","description":"Generative; producing"},{"word":"Generant","type":"(a.)","description":"acting as a generant."},{"word":"Generant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which generates."},{"word":"Generant","type":"(n.)","description":"A generatrix."},{"word":"Generated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Generate"},{"word":"Generating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Generate"},{"word":"Generate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species."},{"word":"Generate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to be; to bring into life."},{"word":"Generate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause."},{"word":"Generate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order."},{"word":"Generation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals."},{"word":"Generation","type":"(n.)","description":"Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc."},{"word":"Generation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring."},{"word":"Generation","type":"(n.)","description":"A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age."},{"word":"Generation","type":"(n.)","description":"Race; kind; family; breed; stock."},{"word":"Generation","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc."},{"word":"Generation","type":"(n.)","description":"The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction."},{"word":"Generative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing."},{"word":"Generator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces."},{"word":"Generator","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc."},{"word":"Generator","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone."},{"word":"Generatrices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Generatrix"},{"word":"Generatrixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Generatrix"},{"word":"Generatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent."},{"word":"Generic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Generical"},{"word":"Generical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name."},{"word":"Generical","type":"(a.)","description":"Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; -- opposed to specific."},{"word":"Generically","type":"(adv.)","description":"With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied."},{"word":"Genericalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being generic."},{"word":"Generification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of generalizing."},{"word":"Generosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Noble birth."},{"word":"Generosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness."},{"word":"Generosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Liberality in giving; munificence."},{"word":"Generous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of honorable birth or origin; highborn."},{"word":"Generous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous."},{"word":"Generous","type":"(a.)","description":"Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father."},{"word":"Generous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table."},{"word":"Generous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine."},{"word":"Genesee","type":"()","description":"The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York."},{"word":"Genesial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to generation."},{"word":"Genesiolgy","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or science of generation."},{"word":"Genesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination."},{"word":"Genesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race."},{"word":"Genesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Generation."},{"word":"Genet","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Genette"},{"word":"Genette","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch."},{"word":"Genette","type":"(n.)","description":"The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur."},{"word":"Genet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet."},{"word":"Genethliac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth."},{"word":"Genethliac","type":"(n.)","description":"A birthday poem."},{"word":"Genethliac","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in genethliacs."},{"word":"Genethliacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Genethliac."},{"word":"Genethliacs","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth."},{"word":"Genethlialogy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology."},{"word":"Genethliatic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who calculates nativities."},{"word":"Genetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Genetical."},{"word":"Genetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development."},{"word":"Genetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a genetical manner."},{"word":"Geneva","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief city of Switzerland."},{"word":"Geneva","type":"(n.)","description":"A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands."},{"word":"Genevan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevese."},{"word":"Genevan","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Geneva."},{"word":"Genevan","type":"(n.)","description":"A supported of Genevanism."},{"word":"Genevanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Strict Calvinism."},{"word":"Genevese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan."},{"word":"Genevese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Geneva; collectively, the inhabitants of Geneva; people of Geneva."},{"word":"Genial","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Genian."},{"word":"Genial","type":"(a.)","description":"Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive."},{"word":"Genial","type":"(a.)","description":"Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition."},{"word":"Genial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn."},{"word":"Genial","type":"(a.)","description":"Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature."},{"word":"Geniality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners."},{"word":"Genially","type":"(adv.)","description":"By genius or nature; naturally."},{"word":"Genially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Gayly; cheerfully."},{"word":"Genialness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being genial."},{"word":"Genian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence."},{"word":"Geniculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal."},{"word":"Geniculated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Geniculate"},{"word":"Geniculating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Geniculate"},{"word":"Geniculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form joints or knots on."},{"word":"Geniculated","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Geniculate."},{"word":"Geniculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of kneeling."},{"word":"Geniculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bent abruptly at an angle."},{"word":"Genie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Genius."},{"word":"Genio","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of a particular turn of mind."},{"word":"Geniohyoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle."},{"word":"Genipap","type":"(n.)","description":"The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceae. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice."},{"word":"Genista","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe."},{"word":"Genital","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs."},{"word":"Genitals","type":"(a.)","description":"The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts."},{"word":"Geniting","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of apple that ripens very early."},{"word":"Genitival","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb."},{"word":"Genitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English."},{"word":"Genitive","type":"(n.)","description":"The genitive case."},{"word":"Genitocrural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; -- applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves."},{"word":"Genitor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who begets; a generator; an originator."},{"word":"Genitor","type":"(n.)","description":"The genitals."},{"word":"Genitourinary","type":"(a.)","description":"See Urogenital."},{"word":"Geniture","type":"(n.)","description":"Generation; procreation; birth."},{"word":"Geniuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Genius"},{"word":"Genii","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Genius"},{"word":"Genius","type":"(n.)","description":"A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee."},{"word":"Genius","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting."},{"word":"Genius","type":"(n.)","description":"Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language."},{"word":"Genius","type":"(n.)","description":"Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius."},{"word":"Genius","type":"(n.)","description":"A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius."},{"word":"Genoese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Genoa, a city of Italy."},{"word":"Genoese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Genoa; collectively, the people of Genoa."},{"word":"Genouillere","type":"(n.)","description":"A metal plate covering the knee."},{"word":"Genouillere","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure."},{"word":"-genous","type":"()","description":"A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous."},{"word":"Genre","type":"(n.)","description":"A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners."},{"word":"Gentes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gens"},{"word":"Gens","type":"(a.)","description":"A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe."},{"word":"Gens","type":"(a.)","description":"A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem."},{"word":"Gent","type":"(a.)","description":"Gentle; noble; of gentle birth."},{"word":"Gent","type":"(a.)","description":"Neat; pretty; fine; elegant."},{"word":"Genteel","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address."},{"word":"Genteel","type":"(a.)","description":"Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law."},{"word":"Genteel","type":"(a.)","description":"Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance."},{"word":"Genteelish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat genteel."},{"word":"Genteelly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a genteel manner."},{"word":"Genteelness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being genteel."},{"word":"Genterie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gentrie"},{"word":"Gentrie","type":"(n.)","description":"Nobility of birth or of character; gentility."},{"word":"Gentian","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule."},{"word":"Gentianaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Gentianaceae) of which the gentian is the type."},{"word":"Gentianella","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of blue color."},{"word":"Gentianic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or derived from the gentian; as, gentianic acid."},{"word":"Gentianine","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian."},{"word":"Gentianose","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian."},{"word":"Gentil","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Gentle."},{"word":"Gentile","type":"(a.)","description":"One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen."},{"word":"Gentile","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people."},{"word":"Gentile","type":"(a.)","description":"Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective."},{"word":"Gentile-falcon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Falcon-gentil."},{"word":"Gentilesse","type":"(a.)","description":"Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility."},{"word":"Gentilish","type":"(a.)","description":"Heathenish; pagan."},{"word":"Gentilism","type":"(n.)","description":"Hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods."},{"word":"Gentilism","type":"(n.)","description":"Tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens."},{"word":"Gentilitial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gentilitious"},{"word":"Gentilitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Peculiar to a people; national."},{"word":"Gentilitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Hereditary; entailed on a family."},{"word":"Gentility","type":"(n.)","description":"Good extraction; dignity of birth."},{"word":"Gentility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding."},{"word":"Gentility","type":"(n.)","description":"The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry."},{"word":"Gentility","type":"(n.)","description":"Paganism; heathenism."},{"word":"Gentilize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To live like a gentile or heathen."},{"word":"Gentilize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act the gentleman; -- with it (see It, 5)."},{"word":"Gentilize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones."},{"word":"Gentilly","type":"(a.)","description":"In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly."},{"word":"Gentiopikrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian."},{"word":"Gentisin","type":"(n.)","description":"A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(superl.)","description":"A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable; as, a gentle horse."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop ."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(n.)","description":"One well born; a gentleman."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(n.)","description":"A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(n.)","description":"A dipterous larva used as fish bait."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable."},{"word":"Gentle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make kind and docile, as a horse."},{"word":"Gentlefolk","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Gentlefolks"},{"word":"Gentlefolks","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Persons of gentle or good family and breeding."},{"word":"Gentle-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a kind or gentle disposition."},{"word":"Gentlemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gentleman"},{"word":"Gentleman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman."},{"word":"Gentleman","type":"(n.)","description":"One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man."},{"word":"Gentleman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who bears arms, but has no title."},{"word":"Gentleman","type":"(n.)","description":"The servant of a man of rank."},{"word":"Gentleman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc."},{"word":"Gentlemanhood","type":"(n.)","description":"The qualities or condition of a gentleman."},{"word":"Gentlemanlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gentlemanly"},{"word":"Gentlemanly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well-behaved; courteous; polite."},{"word":"Gentlemanliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners."},{"word":"Gentlemanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The carriage or quality of a gentleman."},{"word":"Gentleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness."},{"word":"Gentleship","type":"(n.)","description":"The deportment or conduct of a gentleman."},{"word":"Gentlesse","type":"(n.)","description":"Gentilesse; gentleness."},{"word":"Gentlewomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gentlewoman"},{"word":"Gentlewoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar."},{"word":"Gentlewoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who attends a lady of high rank."},{"word":"Gently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gentle manner."},{"word":"Gentoos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gentoo"},{"word":"Gentoo","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo."},{"word":"Gentry","type":"(a.)","description":"Birth; condition; rank by birth."},{"word":"Gentry","type":"(a.)","description":"People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry."},{"word":"Gentry","type":"(a.)","description":"Courtesy; civility; complaisance."},{"word":"Genty","type":"(a.)","description":"Neat; trim."},{"word":"Genua","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Genu"},{"word":"Genu","type":"(n.)","description":"The knee."},{"word":"Genu","type":"(n.)","description":"The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain."},{"word":"Genuflected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Genuflect"},{"word":"Genuflecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Genuflect"},{"word":"Genuflect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend the knee, as in worship."},{"word":"Genuflection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship."},{"word":"Genuine","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials."},{"word":"Genera","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Genus"},{"word":"Genus","type":"(n.)","description":"A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms."},{"word":"Genus","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus."},{"word":"Genys","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gonys."},{"word":"Geocentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geocentrical"},{"word":"Geocentrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet."},{"word":"Geocentrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having reference to the center of the earth."},{"word":"Geocentrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a geocentric manner."},{"word":"Geocronite","type":"(n.)","description":"A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic."},{"word":"Geocyclic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine."},{"word":"Geocyclic","type":"(a.)","description":"Circling the earth periodically."},{"word":"Geode","type":"(n.)","description":"A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter."},{"word":"Geode","type":"(n.)","description":"The cavity in such a nodule."},{"word":"Geodephagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles."},{"word":"Geodesic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geodesical"},{"word":"Geodesical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic."},{"word":"Geodesic","type":"(n.)","description":"A geodetic line or curve."},{"word":"Geodesist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in geodesy."},{"word":"Geodesy","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast."},{"word":"Geodetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geodetical"},{"word":"Geodetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers."},{"word":"Geodetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a geodetic manner; according to geodesy."},{"word":"Geodetics","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Geodesy."},{"word":"Geodiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing geodes; containing geodes."},{"word":"Geoduck","type":"(n.)","description":"A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food."},{"word":"Geognosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Knowledge of the earth."},{"word":"Geognost","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in geognosy; a geologist."},{"word":"Geognostic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geognostical"},{"word":"Geognostical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological."},{"word":"Geognosy","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution."},{"word":"Geogonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geogonical"},{"word":"Geogonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth."},{"word":"Geogony","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth."},{"word":"Geographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in geography."},{"word":"Geographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geographical"},{"word":"Geographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to geography."},{"word":"Geographically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a geographical manner or method; according to geography."},{"word":"Geographies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Geography"},{"word":"Geography","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited."},{"word":"Geography","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on this science."},{"word":"Geolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"The worship of the earth."},{"word":"Geologer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Geologian"},{"word":"Geologian","type":"(n.)","description":"A geologist."},{"word":"Geologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geological"},{"word":"Geological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth."},{"word":"Geologically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a geological manner."},{"word":"Geologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the science of geology."},{"word":"Geologized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Geologize"},{"word":"Geologizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Geologize"},{"word":"Geologize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist."},{"word":"Geologies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Geology"},{"word":"Geology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats: (a) Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. See Chart of The Geological Series."},{"word":"Geology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on the science."},{"word":"Geomalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation."},{"word":"Geomancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy."},{"word":"Geomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper."},{"word":"Geomantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geomantical"},{"word":"Geomantical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or belonging to geomancy."},{"word":"Geometer","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician."},{"word":"Geometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid."},{"word":"Geometral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to geometry."},{"word":"Geometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geometrical"},{"word":"Geometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem."},{"word":"Geometrically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the rules or laws of geometry."},{"word":"Geometrician","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician."},{"word":"Geometrid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or belonging to the Geometridae."},{"word":"Geometrid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms."},{"word":"Geometrized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Geometrize"},{"word":"Geometrizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Geometrize"},{"word":"Geometrize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry."},{"word":"Geometries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Geometry"},{"word":"Geometry","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space."},{"word":"Geometry","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on this science."},{"word":"Geophagism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt."},{"word":"Geophagist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc."},{"word":"Geophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Earth-eating."},{"word":"Geophila","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs."},{"word":"Geoponic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Geoponical"},{"word":"Geoponical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture."},{"word":"Geoponics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of cultivating the earth; agriculture."},{"word":"Georama","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside."},{"word":"Geordie","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp."},{"word":"George","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter."},{"word":"George","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of brown loaf."},{"word":"George","type":"()","description":"A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n."},{"word":"Georgian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Georgia, in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States."},{"word":"Georgian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era."},{"word":"Georgian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of, or dweller in, Georgia."},{"word":"Georgic","type":"(a.)","description":"A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil."},{"word":"Georgic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Georgical"},{"word":"Georgical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to agriculture and rural affairs."},{"word":"Georgium","type":"()","description":"The planet Uranus, so named by its discoverer, Sir W. Herschel."},{"word":"Geoscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection."},{"word":"Geoselenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena."},{"word":"Geostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance."},{"word":"Geosynclinal","type":"(n.)","description":"the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal."},{"word":"Geothermometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground."},{"word":"Geotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to earth; terrestrial."},{"word":"Geotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or showing, geotropism."},{"word":"Geotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"A disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ."},{"word":"Gephyrea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae."},{"word":"Gephyrean","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Gephyrea. -- n. One of the Gerphyrea."},{"word":"Gephyreoid","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Gephyrean."},{"word":"Gepound","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gipoun."},{"word":"Gerah","type":"(n.)","description":"A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel."},{"word":"Geraniaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (Geraniaceae) which includes the genera Geranium, Pelargonium, and many others."},{"word":"Geraniine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Geranine"},{"word":"Geranine","type":"(n.)","description":"A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill."},{"word":"Geranine","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill (Geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor."},{"word":"Geranium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill."},{"word":"Geranium","type":"(n.)","description":"A cultivated pelargonium."},{"word":"Gerant","type":"(n.)","description":"The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc."},{"word":"Gerbe","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of ornamental firework."},{"word":"Gerbil","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gerbille"},{"word":"Gerbille","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe."},{"word":"Gerboa","type":"(n.)","description":"The jerboa."},{"word":"Gere","type":"(n.)","description":"Gear."},{"word":"Gerent","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing; carrying."},{"word":"Gerfalcon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gyrfalcon."},{"word":"Gerful","type":"(a.)","description":"Changeable; capricious."},{"word":"Gerland","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gerlond"},{"word":"Gerlond","type":"(n.)","description":"A garland."},{"word":"Gerlind","type":"(n.)","description":"A salmon returning from the sea the second time."},{"word":"Germ","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears."},{"word":"Germ","type":"(n.)","description":"That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty."},{"word":"Germ","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To germinate."},{"word":"Germain","type":"(a.)","description":"See Germane."},{"word":"German","type":"(a.)","description":"Nearly related; closely akin."},{"word":"Germans","type":"(pl. )","description":"of German"},{"word":"German","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or one of the people of Germany."},{"word":"German","type":"(n.)","description":"The German language."},{"word":"German","type":"(n.)","description":"A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures."},{"word":"German","type":"(n.)","description":"A social party at which the german is danced."},{"word":"German","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Germany."},{"word":"Germander","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamaedrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs."},{"word":"Germane","type":"(a.)","description":"Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant."},{"word":"Germanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, germanium."},{"word":"Germanic","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy."},{"word":"Germanic","type":"(n.)","description":"Teutonic."},{"word":"Germanism","type":"(n.)","description":"An idiom of the German language."},{"word":"Germanism","type":"(n.)","description":"A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism."},{"word":"Germanium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3."},{"word":"Germanization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of Germanizing."},{"word":"Germanized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Germanize"},{"word":"Germanizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Germanize"},{"word":"Germanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society."},{"word":"Germanize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reason or write after the manner of the Germans."},{"word":"Germarium","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ in which the ova are developed in certain Turbellaria."},{"word":"Germens","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Germen"},{"word":"Germina","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Germen"},{"word":"Germen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Germ."},{"word":"Germicidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Germicide."},{"word":"Germicide","type":"(a.)","description":"Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases."},{"word":"Germicide","type":"(n.)","description":"A germicide agent."},{"word":"Germinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle."},{"word":"Germinal","type":"(n.)","description":"The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendEmiaire."},{"word":"Germinant","type":"(a.)","description":"Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds."},{"word":"Germinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Germinate"},{"word":"Germinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Germinate"},{"word":"Germinate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ."},{"word":"Germinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to sprout."},{"word":"Germination","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable."},{"word":"Germinative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop."},{"word":"Germiparity","type":"(n.)","description":"Reproduction by means of germs."},{"word":"Germless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without germs."},{"word":"Germogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed."},{"word":"Germogen","type":"(n.)","description":"The primitive cell in certain embryonic forms."},{"word":"Germ","type":"()","description":"See Plasmogen, and Idioplasm."},{"word":"Germule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small germ."},{"word":"Gern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grin or yawn."},{"word":"Gerner","type":"(n.)","description":"A garner."},{"word":"Gerocomia","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gerocomy."},{"word":"Gerocomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to gerocomy."},{"word":"Gerocomy","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people."},{"word":"Gerontes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority."},{"word":"Gerontocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by old men."},{"word":"Geropigia","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines."},{"word":"-gerous","type":"()","description":"A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous."},{"word":"Gerrymandered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gerrymander"},{"word":"Gerrymandering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gerrymander"},{"word":"Gerrymander","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent."},{"word":"Gerund","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle."},{"word":"Gerund","type":"(n.)","description":"A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, \"Ic haebbe mete to etanne\" (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone."},{"word":"Gerundial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; as, a gerundial use."},{"word":"Gerundive","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial."},{"word":"Gerundive","type":"(n.)","description":"The future passive participle; as, amandus, i. e., to be loved."},{"word":"Gerundively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a gerund; as, or in place of, a gerund."},{"word":"Gery","type":"(a.)","description":"Changeable; fickle."},{"word":"Gesling","type":"(n.)","description":"A gosling."},{"word":"Gesse","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To guess."},{"word":"Gest","type":"(n.)","description":"A guest."},{"word":"Gest","type":"(n.)","description":"Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure."},{"word":"Gest","type":"(n.)","description":"An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony."},{"word":"Gest","type":"(n.)","description":"A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story."},{"word":"Gest","type":"(n.)","description":"Gesture; bearing; deportment."},{"word":"Gest","type":"(n.)","description":"A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest."},{"word":"Gest","type":"(n.)","description":"A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office."},{"word":"Gestant","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant."},{"word":"Gestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments)."},{"word":"Gestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy."},{"word":"Gestation","type":"(n.)","description":"Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise."},{"word":"Gestatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy."},{"word":"Gestatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being carried or worn."},{"word":"Geste","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tell stories or gests."},{"word":"Gestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary."},{"word":"Gestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; -- said especially with reference to dancing."},{"word":"Gesticulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gesticulate"},{"word":"Gesticulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gesticulate"},{"word":"Gesticulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures."},{"word":"Gesticulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent by gesture; to act."},{"word":"Gesticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments."},{"word":"Gesticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments."},{"word":"Gesticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Antic tricks or motions."},{"word":"Gesticulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gesticulates."},{"word":"Gesticulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Representing by, or belonging to, gestures."},{"word":"Gestour","type":"(n.)","description":"A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller."},{"word":"Gestural","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to gesture."},{"word":"Gesture","type":"(n.)","description":"Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture."},{"word":"Gesture","type":"(n.)","description":"A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion."},{"word":"Gestured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gesture"},{"word":"Gesturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gesture"},{"word":"Gesture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate."},{"word":"Gesture","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make gestures; to gesticulate."},{"word":"Gestureless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from gestures."},{"word":"Gesturement","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of making gestures; gesturing."},{"word":"Get","type":"(n.)","description":"Jet, the mineral."},{"word":"Get","type":"(n.)","description":"Fashion; manner; custom."},{"word":"Get","type":"(n.)","description":"Artifice; contrivance."},{"word":"Got","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Get"},{"word":"Gat","type":"()","description":"of Get"},{"word":"Got","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Get"},{"word":"Gotten","type":"()","description":"of Get"},{"word":"Getting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Get"},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc."},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have."},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beget; to procreate; to generate."},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson."},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prevail on; to induce; to persuade."},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle."},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use."},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased."},{"word":"Get","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected."},{"word":"Get","type":"(n.)","description":"Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion."},{"word":"Geten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Get."},{"word":"Geth","type":"()","description":"the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go."},{"word":"Get-penny","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair."},{"word":"Gettable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be obtained."},{"word":"Getter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates."},{"word":"Getterup","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc."},{"word":"Getting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition."},{"word":"Getting","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is got or obtained; gain; profit."},{"word":"Get-up","type":"(n.)","description":"General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc."},{"word":"Gewgaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble."},{"word":"Gewgaw","type":"(a.)","description":"Showy; unreal; pretentious."},{"word":"Geyser","type":"(n.)","description":"A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam."},{"word":"Geyserite","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers."},{"word":"Gharry","type":"(n.)","description":"Any wheeled cart or carriage."},{"word":"Ghast","type":"(a.)","description":"To strike aghast; to affright."},{"word":"Ghastful","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit to make one aghast; dismal."},{"word":"Ghastliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look."},{"word":"Ghastly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal."},{"word":"Ghastly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous."},{"word":"Ghastly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a ghastly manner; hideously."},{"word":"Ghastness","type":"(n.)","description":"Ghastliness."},{"word":"Ghat","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ghaut"},{"word":"Ghaut","type":"(n.)","description":"A pass through a mountain."},{"word":"Ghaut","type":"(n.)","description":"A range of mountains."},{"word":"Ghaut","type":"(n.)","description":"Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf."},{"word":"Ghawazi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Egyptian dancing girls, of a lower sort than the almeh."},{"word":"Gheber","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee."},{"word":"Ghee","type":"(n.)","description":"Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil."},{"word":"Gherkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles."},{"word":"Gherkin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Sea gherkin."},{"word":"Ghess","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Guess."},{"word":"Ghetto","type":"(n.)","description":"The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city."},{"word":"Ghibelline","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses."},{"word":"Ghole","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ghoul."},{"word":"Ghost","type":"(n.)","description":"The spirit; the soul of man."},{"word":"Ghost","type":"(n.)","description":"The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter."},{"word":"Ghost","type":"(n.)","description":"Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea."},{"word":"Ghost","type":"(n.)","description":"A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses."},{"word":"Ghost","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To die; to expire."},{"word":"Ghost","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition."},{"word":"Ghostfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth."},{"word":"Ghostless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without life or spirit."},{"word":"Ghostlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a ghost; ghastly."},{"word":"Ghostliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being ghostly."},{"word":"Ghostly","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor."},{"word":"Ghostly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to apparitions."},{"word":"Ghostly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Spiritually; mystically."},{"word":"Ghostology","type":"(n.)","description":"Ghost lore."},{"word":"Ghoul","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies."},{"word":"Ghoulish","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike."},{"word":"Ghyll","type":"(n.)","description":"A ravine. See Gill a woody glen."},{"word":"Giallolino","type":"(n.)","description":"A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot."},{"word":"Giambeux","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Greaves; armor for the legs."},{"word":"Giant","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of extraordinari bulk and stature."},{"word":"Giant","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual."},{"word":"Giant","type":"(n.)","description":"Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power."},{"word":"Giant","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son."},{"word":"Giantess","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman of extraordinary size."},{"word":"Giantize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the giant."},{"word":"Giantly","type":"(a.)","description":"Appropriate to a giant."},{"word":"Giantry","type":"(n.)","description":"The race of giants."},{"word":"Giantship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant."},{"word":"Giaour","type":"(n.)","description":"An infidel; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians."},{"word":"Gib","type":"(n.)","description":"A male cat; a tomcat."},{"word":"Gib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act like a cat."},{"word":"Gib","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw."},{"word":"Gibbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gib"},{"word":"Gibbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gib"},{"word":"Gib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs."},{"word":"Gib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To balk. See Jib, v. i."},{"word":"Gibbartas","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale."},{"word":"Gibber","type":"(n.)","description":"A balky horse."},{"word":"Gibbered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gibber"},{"word":"Gibbering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gibber"},{"word":"Gibber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak rapidly and inarticulately."},{"word":"Gibberish","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon."},{"word":"Gibberish","type":"(a.)","description":"Unmeaning; as, gibberish language."},{"word":"Gibbet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning."},{"word":"Gibbet","type":"(n.)","description":"The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib."},{"word":"Gibbeted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gibbet"},{"word":"Gibbeting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gibbet"},{"word":"Gibbet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hang and expose on a gibbet."},{"word":"Gibbet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose to infamy; to blacken."},{"word":"Gibbier","type":"(n.)","description":"Wild fowl; game."},{"word":"Gibbon","type":"(n.)","description":"Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing."},{"word":"Gib","type":"()","description":"See Jib boom."},{"word":"Gibbose","type":"(a.)","description":"Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations."},{"word":"Gibbostity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness."},{"word":"Gibbous","type":"(a.)","description":"Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon."},{"word":"Gibbous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hunched; hump-backed."},{"word":"Gibbsite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrate of alumina."},{"word":"Gib-cat","type":"(n.)","description":"A male cat, esp. an old one. See lst Gib. n."},{"word":"Gibed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gibe"},{"word":"Gibing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gibe"},{"word":"Gibe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff."},{"word":"Gibe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock."},{"word":"Gibe","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer."},{"word":"Gibel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp."},{"word":"Giber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who utters gibes."},{"word":"Gibfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of the salmon."},{"word":"Gibingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gibing manner; scornfully."},{"word":"Giblet","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie."},{"word":"Giblets","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry."},{"word":"Gibstaff","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff to guage water, or to push a boat."},{"word":"Gibstaff","type":"(n.)","description":"A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage."},{"word":"Gid","type":"(a.)","description":"A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus."},{"word":"Giddily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a giddy manner."},{"word":"Giddiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being giddy."},{"word":"Giddy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy."},{"word":"Giddy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice."},{"word":"Giddy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling."},{"word":"Giddy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless."},{"word":"Giddy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reel; to whirl."},{"word":"Giddy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dizzy or unsteady."},{"word":"Giddy-head","type":"(n.)","description":"A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment."},{"word":"Giddy-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Thoughtless; unsteady."},{"word":"Giddy-paced","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle."},{"word":"Gie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To guide. See Gye ."},{"word":"Gie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give."},{"word":"Gier-eagle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)."},{"word":"Gier-falcon","type":"(n.)","description":"The gyrfalcon."},{"word":"Gieseckite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elaeolite."},{"word":"Gif","type":"(conj.)","description":"If."},{"word":"Giffard","type":"()","description":"See under Injector."},{"word":"Giffgaff","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutial accommodation; mutual giving."},{"word":"Giffy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jiffy."},{"word":"Gift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering."},{"word":"Gift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President."},{"word":"Gift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A bribe; anything given to corrupt."},{"word":"Gift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking."},{"word":"Gift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession."},{"word":"Gifted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gift"},{"word":"Gifting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gift"},{"word":"Gift","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endow with some power or faculty."},{"word":"Giftedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gifted."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(n.)","description":"A fiddle."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engender."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fish with a gig."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(n.)","description":"A playful or wanton girl; a giglot."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(n.)","description":"A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(n.)","description":"A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig."},{"word":"Gig","type":"(n.)","description":"A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth."},{"word":"Gigantean","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a giant; mighty; gigantic."},{"word":"Gigantesque","type":"(a.)","description":"Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent."},{"word":"Gigantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of extraordinary size; like a giant."},{"word":"Gigantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness."},{"word":"Gigantical","type":"(a.)","description":"Bulky, big."},{"word":"Giganticide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant."},{"word":"Gigantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Gigantic."},{"word":"Gigantology","type":"(n.)","description":"An account or description of giants."},{"word":"Gigantomachy","type":"(n.)","description":"A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven."},{"word":"Gide","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Guide"},{"word":"Guide","type":"(n.)","description":"The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder."},{"word":"Gigeria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gigerium"},{"word":"Gigerium","type":"(n.)","description":"The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds."},{"word":"Gigget","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gigot."},{"word":"Giggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Giggle"},{"word":"Giggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Giggle"},{"word":"Giggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity."},{"word":"Giggle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh."},{"word":"Giggler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who giggles or titters."},{"word":"Giggly","type":"(a.)","description":"Prone to giggling."},{"word":"Giggot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gigot."},{"word":"Giggyng","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield."},{"word":"Giglot","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Giglet"},{"word":"Giglet","type":"(n.)","description":"A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl."},{"word":"Giglot","type":"(a.)","description":"Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton."},{"word":"Gigot","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Giggot"},{"word":"Giggot","type":"(n.)","description":"A leg of mutton."},{"word":"Giggot","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of flesh; a slice."},{"word":"Gila","type":"()","description":"A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth."},{"word":"Gilded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gild"},{"word":"Gilt","type":"()","description":"of Gild"},{"word":"Gilding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gild"},{"word":"Gild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold."},{"word":"Gild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten."},{"word":"Gild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie."},{"word":"Gild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make red with drinking."},{"word":"Gildale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share."},{"word":"Gilden","type":"(a.)","description":"Gilded."},{"word":"Gilder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold."},{"word":"Gilder","type":"(n.)","description":"A Dutch coin. See Guilder."},{"word":"Guilding","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold."},{"word":"Guilding","type":"(n.)","description":"Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface."},{"word":"Guilding","type":"(n.)","description":"Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine."},{"word":"Gile","type":"(n.)","description":"Guile."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"The flesh under or about the chin."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"A leech."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names."},{"word":"Gill","type":"(n.)","description":"Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy."},{"word":"Gill-flirt","type":"(n.)","description":"A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill."},{"word":"Gillhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A shop where gill is sold."},{"word":"Gillian","type":"(n.)","description":"A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill."},{"word":"Gillie","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands."},{"word":"Gillyflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white."},{"word":"Gillyflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core."},{"word":"Gilour","type":"(n.)","description":"A guiler; deceiver."},{"word":"Gilse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grilse."},{"word":"Gilt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A female pig, when young."},{"word":"Gilt","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Gild."},{"word":"Gilt","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow."},{"word":"Gilt","type":"(n.)","description":"Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding."},{"word":"Gilt","type":"(n.)","description":"Money."},{"word":"Gilt-edge","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gilt-edged"},{"word":"Gilt-edged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper."},{"word":"Gilt-edged","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc."},{"word":"Gilthead","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine fish."},{"word":"Gilthead","type":"(n.)","description":"The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll."},{"word":"Gilthead","type":"(n.)","description":"The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge."},{"word":"Giltif","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty."},{"word":"Gilttail","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow-tailed worm or larva."},{"word":"Gim","type":"(a.)","description":"Neat; spruce."},{"word":"Gimbal","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gimbals"},{"word":"Gimbals","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first."},{"word":"Gimblet","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Gimlet."},{"word":"Gimcrack","type":"(n.)","description":"A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing."},{"word":"Gimlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle."},{"word":"Gimleted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gimlet"},{"word":"Gimleting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gimlet"},{"word":"Gimlet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce or make with a gimlet."},{"word":"Gimlet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet."},{"word":"Gimmal","type":"(n.)","description":"Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings."},{"word":"Gimmal","type":"(n.)","description":"A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer."},{"word":"Gommal","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or consisting of interlocked ring/ or links; as, gimmal mail."},{"word":"Gimmer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gimmor"},{"word":"Gimmor","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack."},{"word":"Gimp","type":"(a.)","description":"Smart; spruce; trim; nice."},{"word":"Gimp","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc."},{"word":"Gimp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To notch; to indent; to jag."},{"word":"Gin","type":"(n.)","description":"Against; near by; towards; as, gin night."},{"word":"Gin","type":"(conj.)","description":"If."},{"word":"Gan","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gin"},{"word":"Gon","type":"()","description":"of Gin"},{"word":"Gun","type":"()","description":"of Gin"},{"word":"Ginning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gin"},{"word":"Gin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan."},{"word":"Gin","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine."},{"word":"Gin","type":"(n.)","description":"Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare."},{"word":"Gin","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc."},{"word":"Gin","type":"(n.)","description":"A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim."},{"word":"Gin","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin."},{"word":"Ginned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gin"},{"word":"Ginning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gin"},{"word":"Gin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch in a trap."},{"word":"Gin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton."},{"word":"Ging","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gang, n., 2."},{"word":"Gingal","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jingal."},{"word":"Ginger","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale."},{"word":"Ginger","type":"(n.)","description":"The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine."},{"word":"Gingerbread","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes."},{"word":"Gingerly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily."},{"word":"Gingerness","type":"(n.)","description":"Cautiousness; tenderness."},{"word":"Gingham","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints."},{"word":"Ginging","type":"(n.)","description":"The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving."},{"word":"Gingival","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the gums."},{"word":"Gingle","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Jingle."},{"word":"Ginglyform","type":"(a.)","description":"Ginglymoid."},{"word":"Ginglymodi","type":"(n.)","description":"An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel."},{"word":"Ginglymoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ginglymoidal"},{"word":"Ginglymoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform."},{"word":"Ginglymi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ginglymus"},{"word":"Ginglymus","type":"(n.)","description":"A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle."},{"word":"Ginhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A building where cotton is ginned."},{"word":"Ginkgoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ginkgo"},{"word":"Ginkgo","type":"(n.)","description":"A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree."},{"word":"Ginn","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ginnee"},{"word":"Ginnee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jinnee."},{"word":"Ginnet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Genet, a horse."},{"word":"Ginning","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Beginning."},{"word":"Ginny-carriage","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad."},{"word":"Ginseng","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness."},{"word":"Ginshop","type":"(n.)","description":"A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage."},{"word":"Gip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out the entrails of (herrings)."},{"word":"Gip","type":"(n.)","description":"A servant. See Gyp."},{"word":"Gipoun","type":"(n.)","description":"A short cassock."},{"word":"Gipser","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gipsire"},{"word":"Gipsire","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle."},{"word":"Gipsy","type":"(n. a.)","description":"See Gypsy."},{"word":"Gipsyism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gypsyism."},{"word":"Giraffe","type":"(n.)","description":"An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs."},{"word":"Girandole","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental branched candlestick."},{"word":"Girandole","type":"(n.)","description":"A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form."},{"word":"Girandole","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of revolving firework."},{"word":"Girandole","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of chambers in defensive mines."},{"word":"Girasole","type":"(n.)","description":"See Heliotrope."},{"word":"Girasole","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(n.)","description":"A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(v.)","description":"To strike; to smite."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(v.)","description":"To sneer at; to mock; to gibe."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms."},{"word":"Girt","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gird"},{"word":"Girded","type":"()","description":"of Gird"},{"word":"Girding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gird"},{"word":"Gird","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle or bind with any flexible band."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround; to encircle, or encompass."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe; to swathe; to invest."},{"word":"Gird","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest."},{"word":"Girder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who girds; a satirist."},{"word":"Girder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, girds."},{"word":"Girder","type":"(n.)","description":"A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double."},{"word":"Girding","type":"(n.)","description":"That with which one is girded; a girdle."},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(n.)","description":"A griddle."},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(n.)","description":"That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus."},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(n.)","description":"The zodiac; also, the equator."},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(n.)","description":"The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant."},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin bed or stratum of stone."},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(n.)","description":"The clitellus of an earthworm."},{"word":"Girdled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Girdle"},{"word":"Girdling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Girdle"},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind with a belt or sash; to gird."},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose; to environ; to shut in."},{"word":"Girdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it."},{"word":"Girdler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who girdles."},{"word":"Girdler","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker of girdles."},{"word":"Girdler","type":"(n.)","description":"An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae."},{"word":"Girdlestead","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the body where the girdle is worn."},{"word":"Girdlestead","type":"(n.)","description":"The lap."},{"word":"Gire","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gyre."},{"word":"Girkin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gherkin."},{"word":"Girl","type":"(n.)","description":"A young person of either sex; a child."},{"word":"Girl","type":"(n.)","description":"A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden."},{"word":"Girl","type":"(n.)","description":"A female servant; a maidservant."},{"word":"Girl","type":"(n.)","description":"A roebuck two years old."},{"word":"Girlhood","type":"(n.)","description":"State or time of being a girl."},{"word":"Girlish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief."},{"word":"Girlond","type":"(n.)","description":"A garland; a prize."},{"word":"Girn","type":"(n.)","description":"To grin."},{"word":"Girondist","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde."},{"word":"Girondist","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Girondists."},{"word":"Girrock","type":"(n.)","description":"A garfish."},{"word":"Girt","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Gird."},{"word":"Girted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Girt"},{"word":"Girting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Girt"},{"word":"Girt","type":"(v.)","description":"To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree."},{"word":"Girt","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide."},{"word":"Girt","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Girth."},{"word":"Girth","type":"(n.)","description":"A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse."},{"word":"Girth","type":"(n.)","description":"The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything."},{"word":"Girth","type":"(n.)","description":"A small horizontal brace or girder."},{"word":"Girth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind as with a girth."},{"word":"Girtline","type":"(n.)","description":"A gantline."},{"word":"Gisarm","type":"(n.)","description":"A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers."},{"word":"Gise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed or pasture."},{"word":"Gise","type":"(n.)","description":"Guise; manner."},{"word":"Gisle","type":"(n.)","description":"A pledge."},{"word":"Gismondine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gismondite"},{"word":"Gismondite","type":"(n.)","description":"A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome."},{"word":"Gist","type":"(n.)","description":"A resting place."},{"word":"Gist","type":"(n.)","description":"The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question."},{"word":"Git","type":"(n.)","description":"See Geat."},{"word":"Gite","type":"(n.)","description":"A gown."},{"word":"Gith","type":"(n.)","description":"The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower."},{"word":"Gittern","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument like a guitar."},{"word":"Gittern","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play on gittern."},{"word":"Gittith","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv."},{"word":"Guist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Joust."},{"word":"Giusto","type":"(a.)","description":"In just, correct, or suitable time."},{"word":"Gave","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Give"},{"word":"Given","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Give"},{"word":"Giving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Give"},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To allow or admit by way of supposition."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To attribute; to assign; to adjudge."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To pledge; as, to give one's word."},{"word":"Give","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc."},{"word":"Give","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give a gift or gifts."},{"word":"Give","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet."},{"word":"Give","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become soft or moist."},{"word":"Give","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move; to recede."},{"word":"Give","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shed tears; to weep."},{"word":"Give","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a misgiving."},{"word":"Give","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To open; to lead."},{"word":"Given","type":"()","description":"p. p. & a. from Give, v."},{"word":"Given","type":"(v.)","description":"Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise."},{"word":"Given","type":"(v.)","description":"Disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given."},{"word":"Given","type":"(adv.)","description":"Stated; fixed; as, in a given time."},{"word":"Giver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes."},{"word":"Gives","type":"(n.)","description":"Fetters."},{"word":"Giving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting."},{"word":"Giving","type":"(n.)","description":"A gift; a benefaction."},{"word":"Giving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of softening, breaking, or yielding."},{"word":"Gizzard","type":"(n.)","description":"The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium."},{"word":"Gizzard","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals."},{"word":"Gizzard","type":"(n.)","description":"A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks."},{"word":"Glabell/","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Glabella"},{"word":"Glabella","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon."},{"word":"Glabella","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Glabellum"},{"word":"Glabellum","type":"(n.)","description":"The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite."},{"word":"Glabrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming smooth or glabrous from age."},{"word":"Glabreate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Glabriate"},{"word":"Glabriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make smooth, plain, or bare."},{"word":"Glabrity","type":"(n.)","description":"Smoothness; baldness."},{"word":"Glabrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness."},{"word":"Glacial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena."},{"word":"Glacial","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids."},{"word":"Glacialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers."},{"word":"Glaciate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn to ice."},{"word":"Glaciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into, or cover with, ice."},{"word":"Glaciate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc."},{"word":"Glaciation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of freezing."},{"word":"Glaciation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is formed by freezing; ice."},{"word":"Glaciation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena."},{"word":"Glacier","type":"(n.)","description":"An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland."},{"word":"Glacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy."},{"word":"Glacis","type":"(n.)","description":"A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)."},{"word":"Glad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason."},{"word":"Glad","type":"(superl.)","description":"Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating."},{"word":"Gladded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glad"},{"word":"Gladding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glad"},{"word":"Glad","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate."},{"word":"Glad","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be glad; to rejoice."},{"word":"Gladdened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gladden"},{"word":"Gladdening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gladden"},{"word":"Gladden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate."},{"word":"Gladden","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or become glad; to rejoice."},{"word":"Gladder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes glad."},{"word":"Glade","type":"(n.)","description":"An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest."},{"word":"Glade","type":"(n.)","description":"An everglade."},{"word":"Glade","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice."},{"word":"Gladen","type":"(n.)","description":"Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima."},{"word":"Gladeye","type":"(n.)","description":"The European yellow-hammer."},{"word":"Gladful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of gladness; joyful; glad."},{"word":"Gladiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus."},{"word":"Gladiator","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement."},{"word":"Gladiator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy."},{"word":"Gladiatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gladiatorian"},{"word":"Gladiatorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general."},{"word":"Gladiatorism","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of a gladiator."},{"word":"Gladiatorship","type":"(n.)","description":"Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator."},{"word":"Gladiatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Gladiatorial."},{"word":"Gladiature","type":"(n.)","description":"Swordplay; fencing; gladiatorial contest."},{"word":"Gladiole","type":"(n.)","description":"A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also corn flag."},{"word":"Gladioli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gladiolus"},{"word":"Gladioluses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gladiolus"},{"word":"Gladiolus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily."},{"word":"Gladiolus","type":"(n.)","description":"The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum."},{"word":"Gladii","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gladius"},{"word":"Gladius","type":"(n.)","description":"The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids."},{"word":"Gladly","type":"(a.)","description":"Preferably; by choice."},{"word":"Gladly","type":"(a.)","description":"With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly."},{"word":"Gladness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness."},{"word":"Gladship","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of gladness."},{"word":"Gladsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Pleased; joyful; cheerful."},{"word":"Gladsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing joy, pleasure, or cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing."},{"word":"Gladstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman."},{"word":"Gladwyn","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gladen."},{"word":"Glair","type":"(a.)","description":"The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc."},{"word":"Glair","type":"(a.)","description":"Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg."},{"word":"Glair","type":"(a.)","description":"A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd."},{"word":"Glaired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glair"},{"word":"Glairing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glair"},{"word":"Glair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smear with the white of an egg."},{"word":"Glaire","type":"(n.)","description":"See Glair."},{"word":"Glaireous","type":"(a.)","description":"Glairy; covered with glair."},{"word":"Glairin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin."},{"word":"Glairy","type":"(a.)","description":"Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy."},{"word":"Glaive","type":"(n.)","description":"A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head."},{"word":"Glaive","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword; -- used poetically and loosely."},{"word":"Glama","type":"(n.)","description":"A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude."},{"word":"Glamour","type":"(n.)","description":"A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are."},{"word":"Glamour","type":"(n.)","description":"Witchcraft; magic; a spell."},{"word":"Glamour","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are."},{"word":"Glamour","type":"(n.)","description":"Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified."},{"word":"Glamourie","type":"(n.)","description":"Glamour."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden flash of light or splendor."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(n.)","description":"A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(n.)","description":"An incidental or passing thought or allusion."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance."},{"word":"Glanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glance"},{"word":"Glancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glance"},{"word":"Glance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. \"Your arrow hath glanced\"."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye."},{"word":"Glance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly."},{"word":"Glancing","type":"(a.)","description":"Shooting, as light."},{"word":"Glancing","type":"(a.)","description":"Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot."},{"word":"Glancingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly."},{"word":"Gland","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth."},{"word":"Gland","type":"(n.)","description":"An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known."},{"word":"Gland","type":"(n.)","description":"A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product."},{"word":"Gland","type":"(n.)","description":"Any very small prominence."},{"word":"Gland","type":"(n.)","description":"The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing."},{"word":"Gland","type":"(n.)","description":"The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch."},{"word":"Glandage","type":"(n.)","description":"A feeding on nuts or mast."},{"word":"Glandered","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse."},{"word":"Glanderous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders."},{"word":"Glanders","type":"(n.)","description":"A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings."},{"word":"Glandiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees."},{"word":"Glandiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland."},{"word":"Glandular","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands."},{"word":"Glandulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants."},{"word":"Glandule","type":"(n.)","description":"A small gland or secreting vessel."},{"word":"Glanduliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing glandules."},{"word":"Glandulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Glandulous."},{"word":"Glandulosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands."},{"word":"Glandulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands."},{"word":"Glandes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Glans"},{"word":"Glans","type":"(n.)","description":"The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris."},{"word":"Glans","type":"(n.)","description":"The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits."},{"word":"Glans","type":"(n.)","description":"Goiter."},{"word":"Glans","type":"(n.)","description":"A pessary."},{"word":"Glared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glare"},{"word":"Glaring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glare"},{"word":"Glare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine with a bright, dazzling light."},{"word":"Glare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely."},{"word":"Glare","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay."},{"word":"Glare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light."},{"word":"Glare","type":"(n.)","description":"A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light."},{"word":"Glare","type":"(n.)","description":"A fierce, piercing look or stare."},{"word":"Glare","type":"(n.)","description":"A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair."},{"word":"Glare","type":"(n.)","description":"A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice."},{"word":"Glare","type":"(n.)","description":"Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice."},{"word":"Glareous","type":"(a.)","description":"Glairy."},{"word":"Glariness","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glaringness"},{"word":"Glaringness","type":"(n.)","description":"A dazzling luster or brilliancy."},{"word":"Glaring","type":"(a.)","description":"Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime."},{"word":"Glary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Anything made of glass."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A looking-glass; a mirror."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A weatherglass; a barometer."},{"word":"Glassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glass"},{"word":"Glassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glass"},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To case in glass."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher."},{"word":"Glass-crab","type":"(n.)","description":"The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma."},{"word":"Glassen","type":"(a.)","description":"Glassy; glazed."},{"word":"Glasseye","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike."},{"word":"Glasseye","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis."},{"word":"Glass-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another."},{"word":"Glassfuls","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Glassful"},{"word":"Glassful","type":"(n.)","description":"The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold."},{"word":"Glassful","type":"(a.)","description":"Glassy; shining like glass."},{"word":"Glass-gazing","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical."},{"word":"Glasshouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware."},{"word":"Glassily","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to resemble glass."},{"word":"Glassiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being glassy."},{"word":"Glassite","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is \"no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding.\" The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass."},{"word":"Glass","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glassmaker"},{"word":"Glassmaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes, or manufactures, glass."},{"word":"Glass-rope","type":"(n.)","description":"A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together."},{"word":"Glass-snail","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina."},{"word":"Glass-snake","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World."},{"word":"Glass-sponge","type":"(n.)","description":"A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella."},{"word":"Glassware","type":"(n.)","description":"Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass."},{"word":"Glasswork","type":"(n.)","description":"Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass."},{"word":"Glasswort","type":"(n.)","description":"A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap."},{"word":"Glassy","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance."},{"word":"Glassy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep."},{"word":"Glassy","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes."},{"word":"Glasstonbury","type":"()","description":"A variety of the common hawthorn."},{"word":"Glasynge","type":"(n.)","description":"Glazing or glass."},{"word":"Glauberite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime."},{"word":"Glauber's","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Glauber's salts"},{"word":"Glauber's","type":"()","description":"Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called \"salts.\""},{"word":"Glaucescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous."},{"word":"Glaucic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid."},{"word":"Glaucine","type":"(a.)","description":"Glaucous or glaucescent."},{"word":"Glaucine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance."},{"word":"Glaucodot","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic."},{"word":"Glaucoma","type":"(n.)","description":"Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball."},{"word":"Glaucomatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of glaucoma."},{"word":"Glaucometer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gleucometer."},{"word":"Glauconite","type":"(n.)","description":"The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand."},{"word":"Glaucophane","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks."},{"word":"Glaucosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Glaucoma."},{"word":"Glaucous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue."},{"word":"Glaucous","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf."},{"word":"Glaucus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white."},{"word":"Glaum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grope with the hands, as in the dark."},{"word":"Glave","type":"(n.)","description":"See Glaive."},{"word":"Glaver","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prate; to jabber; to babble."},{"word":"Glaver","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flatter; to wheedle."},{"word":"Glaverer","type":"(n.)","description":"A flatterer."},{"word":"Glaymore","type":"(n.)","description":"A claymore."},{"word":"Glased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glase"},{"word":"Glazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glase"},{"word":"Glase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass."},{"word":"Glase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like."},{"word":"Glase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect."},{"word":"Glaze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become glazed of glassy."},{"word":"Glaze","type":"(n.)","description":"The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3."},{"word":"Glaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes."},{"word":"Glaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A glazing oven. See Glost oven."},{"word":"Glazen","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed."},{"word":"Glazer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like."},{"word":"Glazer","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc."},{"word":"Glazier","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose business is to set glass."},{"word":"Glazing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy."},{"word":"Glazing","type":"(n.)","description":"The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc."},{"word":"Glazing","type":"(n.)","description":"The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper."},{"word":"Glazing","type":"(n.)","description":"Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect."},{"word":"Glazy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron."},{"word":"Glead","type":"(n.)","description":"A live coal. See Gleed."},{"word":"Gleam","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To disgorge filth, as a hawk."},{"word":"Gleam","type":"(n.)","description":"A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse."},{"word":"Gleam","type":"(n.)","description":"Brightness; splendor."},{"word":"Gleamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gleam"},{"word":"Gleaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gleam"},{"word":"Gleam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east."},{"word":"Gleam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shine; to cast light; to glitter."},{"word":"Gleam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.)."},{"word":"Gleamy","type":"(a.)","description":"Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating."},{"word":"Gleaned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glean"},{"word":"Gleaning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glean"},{"word":"Glean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering."},{"word":"Glean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left."},{"word":"Glean","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain."},{"word":"Glean","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers."},{"word":"Glean","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pick up or gather anything by degrees."},{"word":"Glean","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection made by gleaning."},{"word":"Glean","type":"(n.)","description":"Cleaning; afterbirth."},{"word":"Gleaner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gathers after reapers."},{"word":"Gleaner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gathers slowly with labor."},{"word":"Gleaning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning."},{"word":"Glebe","type":"(n.)","description":"A lump; a clod."},{"word":"Glebe","type":"(n.)","description":"Turf; soil; ground; sod."},{"word":"Glebe","type":"(n.)","description":"The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice."},{"word":"Glebeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no glebe."},{"word":"Glebosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being glebous."},{"word":"Glebous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gleby"},{"word":"Gleby","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful."},{"word":"Glede","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard."},{"word":"Glede","type":"(n.)","description":"A live coal."},{"word":"Glee","type":"(n.)","description":"Music; minstrelsy; entertainment."},{"word":"Glee","type":"(n.)","description":"Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast."},{"word":"Glee","type":"(n.)","description":"An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome."},{"word":"Gleed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A live or glowing coal; a glede."},{"word":"Gleeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Merry; gay; joyous."},{"word":"Gleek","type":"(n.)","description":"A jest or scoff; a trick or deception."},{"word":"Gleek","type":"(n.)","description":"An enticing look or glance."},{"word":"Gleek","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly."},{"word":"Gleek","type":"(n.)","description":"A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons."},{"word":"Gleek","type":"(n.)","description":"Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything."},{"word":"Gleemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gleeman"},{"word":"Gleeman","type":"(n.)","description":"A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician."},{"word":"Gleen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To glisten; to gleam."},{"word":"Gleesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Merry; joyous; gleeful."},{"word":"Gleet","type":"(n.)","description":"A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea."},{"word":"Gleet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet."},{"word":"Gleet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow slowly, as water."},{"word":"Gleety","type":"(a.)","description":"Ichorous; thin; limpid."},{"word":"Gleg","type":"(a.)","description":"Quick of perception; alert; sharp."},{"word":"Gleire","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gleyre"},{"word":"Gleyre","type":"(n.)","description":"See Glair."},{"word":"Glen","type":"(n.)","description":"A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills."},{"word":"Glenlivat","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glenlivet"},{"word":"Glenlivet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made."},{"word":"Glenoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates."},{"word":"Glenoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Glenoid."},{"word":"Glent","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Glint."},{"word":"Gleucometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must."},{"word":"Glew","type":"(n.)","description":"See Glue."},{"word":"Gley","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things."},{"word":"Gley","type":"(adv.)","description":"Asquint; askance; obliquely."},{"word":"Gliadin","type":"(n.)","description":"Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin."},{"word":"Glib","type":"(superl.)","description":"Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib."},{"word":"Glib","type":"(superl.)","description":"Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech."},{"word":"Glib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make glib."},{"word":"Glib","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes."},{"word":"Glib","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To castrate; to geld; to emasculate."},{"word":"Gilbbery","type":"(a.)","description":"Slippery; changeable."},{"word":"Gilbbery","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving easily; nimble; voluble."},{"word":"Glibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly."},{"word":"Glibness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being glib."},{"word":"Glicke","type":"(n.)","description":"An ogling look."},{"word":"Glidden","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Glide."},{"word":"Glidder","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gliddery"},{"word":"Gliddery","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery."},{"word":"Glide","type":"(n.)","description":"The glede or kite."},{"word":"Glided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glide"},{"word":"Gliding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glide"},{"word":"Glide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice."},{"word":"Glide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass with a glide, as the voice."},{"word":"Glide","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction."},{"word":"Glide","type":"(n.)","description":"A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191)."},{"word":"Gliden","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Glide."},{"word":"Glider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, glides."},{"word":"Glidingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gliding manner."},{"word":"Gliff","type":"(n.)","description":"A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear."},{"word":"Gliff","type":"(n.)","description":"A moment: as, for a gliff."},{"word":"Glike","type":"(n.)","description":"A sneer; a flout."},{"word":"Glim","type":"(n.)","description":"Brightness; splendor."},{"word":"Glim","type":"(n.)","description":"A light or candle."},{"word":"Glimmered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glimmer"},{"word":"Glimmering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glimmer"},{"word":"Glimmer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp."},{"word":"Glimmer","type":"(n.)","description":"A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam."},{"word":"Glimmer","type":"(n.)","description":"Mica. See Mica."},{"word":"Glimmering","type":"(n.)","description":"Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer."},{"word":"Glimmering","type":"(n.)","description":"A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling."},{"word":"Glimpse","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden flash; transient luster."},{"word":"Glimpse","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight."},{"word":"Glimpse","type":"(n.)","description":"A faint idea; an inkling."},{"word":"Glimpsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glimpse"},{"word":"Glimpsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glimpse"},{"word":"Glimpse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses."},{"word":"Glimpse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of."},{"word":"Glint","type":"(n.)","description":"A glimpse, glance, or gleam."},{"word":"Glinted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glint"},{"word":"Glinting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glint"},{"word":"Glint","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter."},{"word":"Glint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye."},{"word":"Glioma","type":"(n.)","description":"A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system."},{"word":"Glires","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of mammals; the Rodentia."},{"word":"Glissade","type":"(n.)","description":"A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps."},{"word":"Glissando","type":"(n. & a.)","description":"A gliding effect; gliding."},{"word":"Glissette","type":"(n.)","description":"The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant."},{"word":"Glist","type":"(n.)","description":"Glimmer; mica."},{"word":"Glistened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glisten"},{"word":"Glistening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glisten"},{"word":"Glisten","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars."},{"word":"Glistered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glister"},{"word":"Glistering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glister"},{"word":"Glister","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter."},{"word":"Glister","type":"(n.)","description":"Glitter; luster."},{"word":"Glisteringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a glistering manner."},{"word":"Glittered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glitter"},{"word":"Glittering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glitter"},{"word":"Glitter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword."},{"word":"Glitter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court."},{"word":"Glitter","type":"(n.)","description":"A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage."},{"word":"Glitterand","type":"(a.)","description":"Glittering."},{"word":"Glitteringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a glittering manner."},{"word":"Gloam","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky."},{"word":"Gloam","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be sullen or morose."},{"word":"Gloam","type":"(n.)","description":"The twilight; gloaming."},{"word":"Gloaming","type":"(n.)","description":"Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening."},{"word":"Gloaming","type":"(n.)","description":"Sullenness; melancholy."},{"word":"Gloar","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To squint; to stare."},{"word":"Gloated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gloat"},{"word":"Gloating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gloat"},{"word":"Gloat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice."},{"word":"Globard","type":"(n.)","description":"A glowworm."},{"word":"Globate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Globated"},{"word":"Globated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a globe; spherical."},{"word":"Globe","type":"(n.)","description":"A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere."},{"word":"Globe","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp."},{"word":"Globe","type":"(n.)","description":"The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article."},{"word":"Globe","type":"(n.)","description":"A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe."},{"word":"Globe","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square."},{"word":"Globed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Globe"},{"word":"Globing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Globe"},{"word":"Globe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gather or form into a globe."},{"word":"Globefish","type":"(n.)","description":"A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon."},{"word":"Globeflower","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Trollius (T. Europaeus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers."},{"word":"Globeflower","type":"(n.)","description":"The American plant Trollius laxus."},{"word":"Globe-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a globe."},{"word":"Globiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a round or globular tip."},{"word":"Globigerin/","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Globigerina"},{"word":"Globigerina","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera."},{"word":"Globose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical."},{"word":"Globosely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a globular manner; globularly."},{"word":"Globosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Sphericity."},{"word":"Globous","type":"(a.)","description":"Spherical."},{"word":"Globular","type":"(a.)","description":"Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms."},{"word":"Globularity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity."},{"word":"Globularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Spherically."},{"word":"Globularness","type":"(n.)","description":"Sphericity; globosity."},{"word":"Globule","type":"(n.)","description":"A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form."},{"word":"Globule","type":"(n.)","description":"A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc."},{"word":"Globule","type":"(n.)","description":"A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists."},{"word":"Globulet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little globule."},{"word":"Globuliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock."},{"word":"Globulimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood."},{"word":"Globulin","type":"(n.)","description":"An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions."},{"word":"Globulite","type":"(n.)","description":"A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape."},{"word":"Globulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Globular; spherical; orbicular."},{"word":"Globy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular."},{"word":"Glochidiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles."},{"word":"Glochidia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Glochidium"},{"word":"Glochidium","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills."},{"word":"Glode","type":"()","description":"imp. of Glide."},{"word":"Glombe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Glome"},{"word":"Glome","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen."},{"word":"Glome","type":"(n.)","description":"Gloom."},{"word":"Glome","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot."},{"word":"Glomerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate."},{"word":"Glomerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glomerate"},{"word":"Glomerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glomerate"},{"word":"Glomerate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads."},{"word":"Glomeration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration."},{"word":"Glomeration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is formed into a ball; a ball."},{"word":"Glomerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass."},{"word":"Glomerule","type":"(n.)","description":"A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood."},{"word":"Glomerule","type":"(n.)","description":"A glomerulus."},{"word":"Glomeruli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Glomerulus"},{"word":"Glomerulus","type":"(n.)","description":"The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney."},{"word":"Glomuliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences."},{"word":"Glonoin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glonoine"},{"word":"Glonoine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Nitroglycerin; -- called also oil of glonoin."},{"word":"Glonoine","type":"(n.)","description":"A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic."},{"word":"Gloom","type":"(n.)","description":"Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight."},{"word":"Gloom","type":"(n.)","description":"A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove."},{"word":"Gloom","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness."},{"word":"Gloom","type":"(n.)","description":"In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven."},{"word":"Gloomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gloom"},{"word":"Glooming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gloom"},{"word":"Gloom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer."},{"word":"Gloom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight."},{"word":"Gloom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken."},{"word":"Gloom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen."},{"word":"Gloomily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gloomy manner."},{"word":"Gloominess","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being gloomy."},{"word":"Glooming","type":"(n.)","description":"Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming."},{"word":"Gloomth","type":"(n.)","description":"Gloom."},{"word":"Gloomy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy."},{"word":"Gloomy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance."},{"word":"Gloppen","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished."},{"word":"Glore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To glare; to glower."},{"word":"Gloria","type":"(n.)","description":"A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches."},{"word":"Gloria","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of the Mass (Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Glory be to God on high), and also of the communion service in some churches. In the Episcopal Church the version in English is used."},{"word":"Gloria","type":"(n.)","description":"The musical setting of a gloria."},{"word":"Gloriation","type":"(n.)","description":"Boast; a triumphing."},{"word":"Gloried","type":"(a.)","description":"Illustrious; honorable; noble."},{"word":"Glorification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of glorifyng or of giving glory to."},{"word":"Glorification","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being glorifed; as, the glorification of Christ after his resurrection."},{"word":"Glorified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glorify"},{"word":"Glorifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glorify"},{"word":"Glorify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory."},{"word":"Glorify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make glorious in thought or with the heart, by ascribing glory to; to asknowledge the excellence of; to render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore."},{"word":"Gloriole","type":"(n.)","description":"An aureole."},{"word":"Gloriosa","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India."},{"word":"Glorioser","type":"(n.)","description":"A boaster."},{"word":"Glorioso","type":"(n.)","description":"A boaster."},{"word":"Glorious","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds."},{"word":"Glorious","type":"(n.)","description":"Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious."},{"word":"Glorious","type":"(n.)","description":"Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink."},{"word":"Glory","type":"(n.)","description":"Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown."},{"word":"Glory","type":"(n.)","description":"That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor."},{"word":"Glory","type":"(n.)","description":"Pride; boastfulness; arrogance."},{"word":"Glory","type":"(n.)","description":"The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven."},{"word":"Glory","type":"(n.)","description":"An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line."},{"word":"Gloried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glory"},{"word":"Glorying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glory"},{"word":"Glory","type":"(n.)","description":"To exult with joy; to rejoice."},{"word":"Glory","type":"(n.)","description":"To boast; to be proud."},{"word":"Glose","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Gloze."},{"word":"Gloser","type":"(n.)","description":"See Glosser."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(n.)","description":"Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(n.)","description":"A specious appearance; superficial quality or show."},{"word":"Glossed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gloss"},{"word":"Glossing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gloss"},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(n.)","description":"A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(n.)","description":"An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(n.)","description":"A false or specious explanation."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make comments; to comment; to explain."},{"word":"Gloss","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make sly remarks, or insinuations."},{"word":"Gloss/","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Glossa"},{"word":"Glossa","type":"(n.)","description":"The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera."},{"word":"Glossal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual."},{"word":"Glossanthrax","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue."},{"word":"Glossarial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary."},{"word":"Glossarially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a glossary."},{"word":"Glossarist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast."},{"word":"Gossaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Glossary"},{"word":"Glossary","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words."},{"word":"Glossata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Lepidoptera."},{"word":"Glossator","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator."},{"word":"Glosser","type":"(n.)","description":"A polisher; one who gives a luster."},{"word":"Glosser","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator."},{"word":"Glossic","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only."},{"word":"Glossily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a glossy manner."},{"word":"Glossiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface."},{"word":"Glossist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of comments."},{"word":"Glossitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the tongue."},{"word":"Glossly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Like gloss; specious."},{"word":"Glossocomon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of hoisting winch."},{"word":"Glossoepiglottic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds."},{"word":"Glossographer","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast."},{"word":"Glossographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to glossography."},{"word":"Glossography","type":"(n.)","description":"The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author."},{"word":"Glossohyal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone."},{"word":"Glossolalia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glossolaly"},{"word":"Glossolaly","type":"(n.)","description":"The gift of tongues. Farrar."},{"word":"Glossological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to glossology."},{"word":"Glassologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology."},{"word":"Glossology","type":"(n.)","description":"The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary."},{"word":"Glossology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology."},{"word":"Glossopharyngeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves."},{"word":"Glossy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface."},{"word":"Glossy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit."},{"word":"Glost","type":"()","description":"An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze."},{"word":"Glottal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic."},{"word":"Glottic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Glottidean"},{"word":"Glottidean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal."},{"word":"Glottis","type":"(n.)","description":"The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx."},{"word":"Glottological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to glottology."},{"word":"Glottologist","type":"(n.)","description":"A linguist; a philologist."},{"word":"Glottology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology."},{"word":"Glout","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pout; to look sullen."},{"word":"Glout","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at."},{"word":"Glove","type":"(n.)","description":"A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten."},{"word":"Glove","type":"(n.)","description":"A boxing glove."},{"word":"Gloved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glove"},{"word":"Gloving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glove"},{"word":"Glove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with, or as with, a glove."},{"word":"Glover","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves."},{"word":"Glowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glow"},{"word":"Glowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glow"},{"word":"Glow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent."},{"word":"Glow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc."},{"word":"Glow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn."},{"word":"Glow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism."},{"word":"Glow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hot; to flush."},{"word":"Glow","type":"(n.)","description":"White or red heat; incandscence."},{"word":"Glow","type":"(n.)","description":"Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks."},{"word":"Glow","type":"(n.)","description":"Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor."},{"word":"Glow","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc."},{"word":"Glowbard","type":"(n.)","description":"The glowworm."},{"word":"Glowered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glower"},{"word":"Glowering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glower"},{"word":"Glower","type":"(v. i.)","description":"to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl."},{"word":"Glowingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion."},{"word":"Glowlamp","type":"(n.)","description":"An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic."},{"word":"Glowlamp","type":"(n.)","description":"An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a."},{"word":"Glowworm","type":"(n.)","description":"A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments."},{"word":"Gloxinia","type":"(n.)","description":"American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist."},{"word":"Glozed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gloze"},{"word":"Glozing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gloze"},{"word":"Gloze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly."},{"word":"Gloze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret."},{"word":"Gloze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smooth over; to palliate."},{"word":"Gloze","type":"(n.)","description":"Flattery; adulation; smooth speech."},{"word":"Gloze","type":"(n.)","description":"Specious show; gloss."},{"word":"Glozer","type":"(n.)","description":"A flatterer."},{"word":"Glucic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar; as, glucic acid."},{"word":"Glucina","type":"(n.)","description":"A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine."},{"word":"Glucinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide."},{"word":"Glucinum","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium."},{"word":"Glucogen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Glycogen."},{"word":"Glucogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Glycogenesis."},{"word":"Gluconic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose."},{"word":"Glucose","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose."},{"word":"Glucose","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc."},{"word":"Glucose","type":"(n.)","description":"The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc."},{"word":"Glucoside","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates."},{"word":"Glucosuria","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine; diabetes mellitus."},{"word":"Glue","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances."},{"word":"Glued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glue"},{"word":"Gluing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glue"},{"word":"Glue","type":"(n.)","description":"To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten."},{"word":"Gluepot","type":"(n.)","description":"A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue."},{"word":"Gluer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cements with glue."},{"word":"Gluey","type":"(a.)","description":"Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue."},{"word":"Glueyness","type":"(n.)","description":"Viscidity."},{"word":"Gluish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat gluey."},{"word":"Glum","type":"(n.)","description":"Sullenness."},{"word":"Glum","type":"(a.)","description":"Moody; silent; sullen."},{"word":"Glum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum."},{"word":"Glumaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having glumes; consisting of glumes."},{"word":"Glumal","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume."},{"word":"Glume","type":"(n.)","description":"The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt."},{"word":"Glumella","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glumelle"},{"word":"Glumelle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses."},{"word":"Glumly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily."},{"word":"Glummy","type":"(a.)","description":"dark; gloomy; dismal."},{"word":"Glumness","type":"(n.)","description":"Moodiness; sullenness."},{"word":"Glump","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To manifest sullenness; to sulk."},{"word":"Glumpy","type":"(a.)","description":"Glum; sullen; sulky."},{"word":"Glunch","type":"(a.)","description":"Frowning; sulky; sullen."},{"word":"Glunch","type":"(n.)","description":"A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike."},{"word":"Glutted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glut"},{"word":"Glutting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glut"},{"word":"Glut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat gluttonously or to satiety."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is swallowed."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"Something that fills up an opening; a clog."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"A block used for a fulcrum."},{"word":"Glut","type":"(n.)","description":"The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc."},{"word":"Glutaconic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids."},{"word":"Glutaeus","type":"(n.)","description":"The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals."},{"word":"Glutamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gluten."},{"word":"Glutaric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers."},{"word":"Glutazine","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous substance, forming a heavy, sandy powder, white or nearly so. It is a derivative of pyridine."},{"word":"Gluteal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutaeus."},{"word":"Gluten","type":"(n.)","description":"The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough."},{"word":"Gluteus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Glut/us."},{"word":"Glutin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gliadin."},{"word":"Glutin","type":"(n.)","description":"Sometimes synonymous with Gelatin."},{"word":"Glutinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Glutinate"},{"word":"Glutinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Glutinate"},{"word":"Glutinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together."},{"word":"Glutination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of uniting with glue; sticking together."},{"word":"Glutinative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous."},{"word":"Glutinosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being glutinous; viscousness."},{"word":"Glutinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey."},{"word":"Glutinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland."},{"word":"Glutinousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being glutinous."},{"word":"Glutton","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer."},{"word":"Glutton","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: One who gluts himself."},{"word":"Glutton","type":"(n.)","description":"A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia."},{"word":"Glutton","type":"(a.)","description":"Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing."},{"word":"Glutton","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To glut; to eat voraciously."},{"word":"Gluttonish","type":"(a.)","description":"Gluttonous; greedy."},{"word":"Gluttonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gluttonize"},{"word":"Gluttonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gluttonize"},{"word":"Gluttonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize."},{"word":"Gluttonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age."},{"word":"Gluttonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gluttony"},{"word":"Gluttony","type":"(n.)","description":"Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity."},{"word":"Glycerate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of glyceric acid."},{"word":"Glyceric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin."},{"word":"Glyceride","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially."},{"word":"Glycerin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glycerine"},{"word":"Glycerine","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin."},{"word":"Glycerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin."},{"word":"Glycerol","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Glycerin."},{"word":"Clycerole","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Glycerite."},{"word":"Glyceryl","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl."},{"word":"Glycide","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also glycidic alcohol."},{"word":"Glycidic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide; as, glycidic acid."},{"word":"Glycin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Glycocoll."},{"word":"Glycocholate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of glycocholic acid; as, sodium glycocholate."},{"word":"Glycocholic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, glycocoll and cholic acid."},{"word":"Glycocin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Glycocoll."},{"word":"Glycocoll","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also glycin, and glycocin."},{"word":"Glycogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments."},{"word":"Glycogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or caused by, glycogen; as, the glycogenic function of the liver."},{"word":"Glycogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glycogenesis"},{"word":"Glycogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver."},{"word":"Glycol","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin."},{"word":"Glycol","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type."},{"word":"Glycolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid."},{"word":"Glycolide","type":"(n.)","description":"A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid."},{"word":"Glycoluric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid."},{"word":"Glycoluril","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoin."},{"word":"Glycolyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds."},{"word":"Glyconian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Glyconic."},{"word":"Glyconic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry."},{"word":"Glyconic","type":"(n.)","description":"A glyconic verse."},{"word":"Glyconin","type":"(n.)","description":"An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc."},{"word":"Glycosine","type":"(n.)","description":"An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal."},{"word":"Glycosuria","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Glucosuria."},{"word":"Glycyrrhiza","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bittersweet mucilaginous taste."},{"word":"Glycyrrhiza","type":"(n.)","description":"The root of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice root), used as a demulcent, etc."},{"word":"Glycyrrhizimic","type":"(a.)","description":"From, or pertaining to, glycyrrhizin; as, glycyrrhizimic acid."},{"word":"Glycyrrhizin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste."},{"word":"Glyn","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Glynne"},{"word":"Glynne","type":"(n.)","description":"A glen. See Glen. [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.]"},{"word":"Glyoxal","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, amorphous, deliquescent powder, (CO.H)2, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycol. It is a double aldehyde, between glycol and oxalic acid."},{"word":"Glyoxalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid."},{"word":"Glyoxaline","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline."},{"word":"Glyoxime","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime."},{"word":"Glyph","type":"(n.)","description":"A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph."},{"word":"Glyphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs."},{"word":"Glyphograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate."},{"word":"Glyphographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to glyphography."},{"word":"Glyphography","type":"(n.)","description":"A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from."},{"word":"Glyptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gem engraving."},{"word":"Glyptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Figured; marked as with figures."},{"word":"Glyptics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of engraving on precious stones."},{"word":"Glyptodon","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth."},{"word":"Glyptodont","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a family (Glyptodontidae) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known."},{"word":"Glyptographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones."},{"word":"Glyptography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of engraving on precious stones."},{"word":"Glyptotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"A building or room devoted to works of sculpture."},{"word":"Glyster","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Clyster."},{"word":"Gmelinite","type":"(n.)","description":"A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite."},{"word":"Gnaphalium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting."},{"word":"Gnar","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr."},{"word":"Gnarred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gnar"},{"word":"Gnarring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gnar"},{"word":"Gnar","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr."},{"word":"Gnarled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gnarl"},{"word":"Gnarling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gnarl"},{"word":"Gnarl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To growl; to snarl."},{"word":"Gnarl","type":"(n.)","description":"a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree."},{"word":"Gnarled","type":"(a.)","description":"Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained."},{"word":"Gnarly","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained."},{"word":"Gnashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gnash"},{"word":"Gnashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gnash"},{"word":"Gnash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth."},{"word":"Gnash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grind or strike the teeth together."},{"word":"Gnashingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With gnashing."},{"word":"Gnat","type":"(n.)","description":"A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito."},{"word":"Gnat","type":"(n.)","description":"Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc."},{"word":"Gnathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the jaw."},{"word":"Gnathidia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gnathidium"},{"word":"Gnathidium","type":"(n.)","description":"The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural."},{"word":"Gnathite","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds."},{"word":"Gnathonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gnathonical"},{"word":"Gnathonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Flattering; deceitful."},{"word":"Gnathopod","type":"(n.)","description":"A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped."},{"word":"Gnathopodite","type":"(n.)","description":"Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds."},{"word":"Gnathastegite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs."},{"word":"Gnathostoma","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them."},{"word":"GnathothecAe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gnathotheca"},{"word":"Gnathotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird."},{"word":"Gnatling","type":"(n.)","description":"A small gnat."},{"word":"Gnatworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler."},{"word":"Gnawed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gnaw"},{"word":"Gnawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gnaw"},{"word":"Gnaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at."},{"word":"Gnaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bite in agony or rage."},{"word":"Gnaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To corrode; to fret away; to waste."},{"word":"Gnaw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable."},{"word":"Gnawer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, gnaws."},{"word":"Gnawer","type":"(n.)","description":"A rodent."},{"word":"Gneiss","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss."},{"word":"Gneissic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss."},{"word":"Gneissoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss."},{"word":"Gneissose","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the structure of gneiss."},{"word":"Gnew","type":"()","description":"imp. of Gnaw."},{"word":"Gnide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces."},{"word":"Gnof","type":"(n.)","description":"Churl; curmudgeon."},{"word":"Gnome","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc."},{"word":"Gnome","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance."},{"word":"Gnome","type":"(n.)","description":"A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States."},{"word":"Gnome","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief reflection or maxim."},{"word":"Gnomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gnomical"},{"word":"Gnomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic."},{"word":"Gnomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Gnomonical."},{"word":"Gnomically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner."},{"word":"Gnomologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gnomological"},{"word":"Gnomological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology."},{"word":"Gnomology","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections."},{"word":"Gnomon","type":"(n.)","description":"The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis."},{"word":"Gnomon","type":"(n.)","description":"A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow."},{"word":"Gnomon","type":"(n.)","description":"The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df."},{"word":"Gnomon","type":"(n.)","description":"The index of the hour circle of a globe."},{"word":"Gnomonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gnomonical"},{"word":"Gnomonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the gnomon, or the art of dialing."},{"word":"Gnomonically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the principles of the gnomonic projection."},{"word":"Gnomonics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon."},{"word":"Gnomonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in gnomonics."},{"word":"Gnomonology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on gnomonics."},{"word":"Gnoscopine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium."},{"word":"Gnosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics."},{"word":"Gnostic","type":"(a.)","description":"Knowing; wise; shrewd."},{"word":"Gnostic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy."},{"word":"Gnostic","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons."},{"word":"Gnosticism","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics."},{"word":"Gnow","type":"(imp.)","description":"Gnawed."},{"word":"Gnu","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes."},{"word":"Go","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Gone."},{"word":"Went","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Go"},{"word":"Gone","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Go"},{"word":"Going","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Go"},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in."},{"word":"Go","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling."},{"word":"Go","type":"(n.)","description":"Act; working; operation."},{"word":"Go","type":"(n.)","description":"A circumstance or occurrence; an incident."},{"word":"Go","type":"(n.)","description":"The fashion or mode; as, quite the go."},{"word":"Go","type":"(n.)","description":"Noisy merriment; as, a high go."},{"word":"Go","type":"(n.)","description":"A glass of spirits."},{"word":"Go","type":"(n.)","description":"Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him."},{"word":"Go","type":"(n.)","description":"That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one."},{"word":"Goa","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet."},{"word":"Goad","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates."},{"word":"Goaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Goad"},{"word":"Goading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Goad"},{"word":"Goad","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate."},{"word":"Goafs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Goaf"},{"word":"Goaves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Goaf"},{"word":"Goaf","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob ."},{"word":"Goal","type":"(n.)","description":"The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end."},{"word":"Goal","type":"(n.)","description":"The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain."},{"word":"Goal","type":"(n.)","description":"A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts."},{"word":"Goa","type":"()","description":"A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained."},{"word":"Goar","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as lst Gore."},{"word":"Goarish","type":"(a.)","description":"Patched; mean."},{"word":"Goat","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin."},{"word":"Goatee","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat."},{"word":"Goatfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet."},{"word":"Goatherd","type":"(n.)","description":"One who tends goats."},{"word":"Goatish","type":"(a.)","description":"Characteristic of a goat; goatlike."},{"word":"Goatlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a goat; goatish."},{"word":"Goatskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of a goat, or leather made from it."},{"word":"Goatskin","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of the skin of a goat."},{"word":"Goatsucker","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk."},{"word":"Goaves","type":"(n.)","description":"Old workings. See Goaf."},{"word":"Gob","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Goaf."},{"word":"Gob","type":"(n.)","description":"A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful."},{"word":"Gob","type":"(n.)","description":"The mouth."},{"word":"Gobbet","type":"(n.)","description":"A mouthful; a lump; a small piece."},{"word":"Gobbet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets."},{"word":"Gobbetly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In pieces."},{"word":"Gobbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff."},{"word":"Gobbing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of packing with waste rock; stowing."},{"word":"Gobbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gobble"},{"word":"Gobbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gobble"},{"word":"Gobble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp."},{"word":"Gobble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock."},{"word":"Gobble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat greedily."},{"word":"Gobble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a noise like that of a turkey cock."},{"word":"Gobble","type":"(n.)","description":"A noise made in the throat."},{"word":"Gobbler","type":"(n.)","description":"A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock."},{"word":"Gobelin","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667."},{"word":"Gobemouche","type":"(n.)","description":"Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person."},{"word":"Gobet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gobbet."},{"word":"Go-between","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense."},{"word":"Gobioid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius."},{"word":"Gobioid","type":"(n.)","description":"A gobioid fish."},{"word":"Goblet","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle."},{"word":"Goblin","type":"(n.)","description":"An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome."},{"word":"Gobline","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline."},{"word":"Goblinize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transform into a goblin."},{"word":"Gobies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Goby"},{"word":"Goby","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera."},{"word":"Go-by","type":"(n.)","description":"A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by."},{"word":"Gocart","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk."},{"word":"God","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Good."},{"word":"God","type":"(n.)","description":"A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol."},{"word":"God","type":"(n.)","description":"The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah."},{"word":"God","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard."},{"word":"God","type":"(n.)","description":"Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power."},{"word":"God","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat as a god; to idolize."},{"word":"Godchild","type":"(n.)","description":"One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather."},{"word":"Goddaughter","type":"(n.)","description":"A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism."},{"word":"Goddess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex."},{"word":"Goddess","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman of superior charms or excellence."},{"word":"Gode","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Good."},{"word":"Godelich","type":"(a.)","description":"Goodly."},{"word":"Godfather","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction."},{"word":"Godfather","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care."},{"word":"God-fearing","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious."},{"word":"Godhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood."},{"word":"Godhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The Deity; God; the Supreme Being."},{"word":"Godhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A god or goddess; a divinity."},{"word":"Godhood","type":"(n.)","description":"Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead."},{"word":"Godild","type":"()","description":"A corruption of God yield, i. e., God reward or bless."},{"word":"Godless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked."},{"word":"Godlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue."},{"word":"Godlily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Righteously."},{"word":"Godliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Careful observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety."},{"word":"Godling","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminutive god."},{"word":"Godly","type":"(n.)","description":"Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life."},{"word":"Godly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Piously; devoutly; righteously."},{"word":"Godlyhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Goodness."},{"word":"Godmother","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather"},{"word":"Godown","type":"(n.)","description":"A warehouse."},{"word":"Godroon","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding."},{"word":"Godsend","type":"(n.)","description":"Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune."},{"word":"Godship","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess."},{"word":"Godsib","type":"(n.)","description":"A gossip."},{"word":"Godson","type":"(n.)","description":"A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather."},{"word":"Godspeed","type":"(n.)","description":"Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, \"God speed you.\""},{"word":"Godward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward God."},{"word":"Godwit","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin."},{"word":"Goel","type":"(a.)","description":"Yellow."},{"word":"Goeland","type":"(n.)","description":"A white tropical tern (Cygis candida)."},{"word":"Goemin","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss."},{"word":"Goen","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Go."},{"word":"Goer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker"},{"word":"Goer","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot."},{"word":"Goer","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer."},{"word":"Goety","type":"(n.)","description":"Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft."},{"word":"Goff","type":"(n.)","description":"A silly clown."},{"word":"Goff","type":"(n.)","description":"A game. See Golf."},{"word":"Goffered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Goffer"},{"word":"Goffering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Goffer"},{"word":"Goffer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer."},{"word":"Gog","type":"(n.)","description":"Haste; ardent desire to go."},{"word":"Goggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Goggle"},{"word":"Goggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Goggle"},{"word":"Goggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To roll the eyes; to stare."},{"word":"Goggle","type":"(a.)","description":"Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes."},{"word":"Goggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A strained or affected rolling of the eye."},{"word":"Goggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc."},{"word":"Goggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Colored glasses for relief from intense light."},{"word":"Goggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting."},{"word":"Goggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through."},{"word":"Goggled","type":"(a.)","description":"Prominent; staring, as the eye."},{"word":"Goggle-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidae, esp. Chaenobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes."},{"word":"Goggle-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The goggler."},{"word":"Goggle-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes."},{"word":"Goggler","type":"(n.)","description":"A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra."},{"word":"Goglet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gurglet."},{"word":"Going","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad."},{"word":"Going","type":"(n.)","description":"Departure."},{"word":"Going","type":"(n.)","description":"Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing."},{"word":"Going","type":"(n.)","description":"Course of life; behavior; doings; ways."},{"word":"Goiter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Goitre"},{"word":"Goitre","type":"(n.)","description":"An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland."},{"word":"Goitered","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Goitred"},{"word":"Goitred","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with goiter."},{"word":"Goitrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele."},{"word":"Gold","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Goolde"},{"word":"Golde","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Goolde"},{"word":"Goolde","type":"(n.)","description":"An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole."},{"word":"Gold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7."},{"word":"Gold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Money; riches; wealth."},{"word":"Gold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold."},{"word":"Gold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold."},{"word":"Gold-beaten","type":"(a.)","description":"Gilded."},{"word":"Gold-beating","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer."},{"word":"Gold-bound","type":"(a.)","description":"Encompassed with gold."},{"word":"Goldcrest","type":"(n.)","description":"The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet."},{"word":"Goldcup","type":"(n.)","description":"The cuckoobud."},{"word":"Golden","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of gold; consisting of gold."},{"word":"Golden","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain."},{"word":"Golden","type":"(a.)","description":"Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions."},{"word":"Golden-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common."},{"word":"Goden","type":"(adv.)","description":"In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully."},{"word":"Golden-rod","type":"(n.)","description":"A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago."},{"word":"Goldfinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William."},{"word":"Goldfinch","type":"(n.)","description":"The yellow-hammer."},{"word":"Goldfinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird."},{"word":"Goldfinny","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two or more species of European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also goldsinny, and goldney."},{"word":"Goldfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope."},{"word":"Goldfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi."},{"word":"Gold-hammer","type":"(n.)","description":"The yellow-hammer."},{"word":"Goldie","type":"(n.)","description":"The European goldfinch."},{"word":"Goldie","type":"(n.)","description":"The yellow-hammer."},{"word":"Goldilocks","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Goldylocks."},{"word":"Goldin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Golding"},{"word":"Golding","type":"(n.)","description":"A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum)."},{"word":"Goldless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of gold."},{"word":"Goldney","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gilthead."},{"word":"Goldseed","type":"(n.)","description":"Dog's-tail grass."},{"word":"Goldsinny","type":"(n.)","description":"See Goldfinny."},{"word":"Goldsmith","type":"(n.)","description":"An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold."},{"word":"Goldsmith","type":"(n.)","description":"A banker."},{"word":"Goldtit","type":"(n.)","description":"See Verdin."},{"word":"Goldylocks","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup."},{"word":"Golet","type":"(n.)","description":"The gullet."},{"word":"Golet","type":"(n.)","description":"A California trout. See Malma."},{"word":"Golf","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner."},{"word":"Golfer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays golf."},{"word":"Golgotha","type":"(n.)","description":"Calvary. See the Note under Calvary."},{"word":"Goliard","type":"(n.)","description":"A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs."},{"word":"Goliardery","type":"(n.)","description":"The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards."},{"word":"Goliath","type":"()","description":"Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles."},{"word":"Goll","type":"(n.)","description":"A hand, paw, or claw."},{"word":"Goloe-shoe","type":"(n.)","description":"A galoche."},{"word":"Golore","type":"(n.)","description":"See Galore."},{"word":"Goloshe","type":"(n.)","description":"See Galoche."},{"word":"Goltschut","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ingot of gold."},{"word":"Goltschut","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver ingot, used in Japan as money."},{"word":"Golyardeys","type":"(n.)","description":"A buffoon. See Gollard."},{"word":"Goman","type":"(n.)","description":"A husband; a master of a family."},{"word":"Gomarist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gomarite"},{"word":"Gomarite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians."},{"word":"Gombo","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gumbo."},{"word":"Gome","type":"(n.)","description":"A man."},{"word":"Gome","type":"(n.)","description":"The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm."},{"word":"Gomer","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew measure. See Homer."},{"word":"Gomer","type":"(n.)","description":"A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor."},{"word":"Gommelin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dextrin."},{"word":"Gomphiasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets."},{"word":"Gomphosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws."},{"word":"Gomuti","type":"(n.)","description":"A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo."},{"word":"Gon","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Go."},{"word":"Gonads","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gonad"},{"word":"Gonad","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland."},{"word":"Gonakie","type":"(n.)","description":"An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii)."},{"word":"Gonangia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gonangium"},{"word":"Gonangiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gonangium"},{"word":"Gonangium","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gonotheca."},{"word":"Gondola","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now."},{"word":"Gondola","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat-bottomed boat for freight."},{"word":"Gondola","type":"(n.)","description":"A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads."},{"word":"Gondolet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small gondola."},{"word":"Gondolier","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who rows a gondola."},{"word":"Gone","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Go."},{"word":"Goneness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger."},{"word":"Gonfalon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gonfanon"},{"word":"Gonfanon","type":"(n.)","description":"The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope."},{"word":"Gonfanon","type":"(n.)","description":"A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself."},{"word":"Gonfalonier","type":"(n.)","description":"He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer"},{"word":"Gonfalonier","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church."},{"word":"Gonfalonier","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediaeveal Italy."},{"word":"Gonfalonier","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish general, and standard keeper."},{"word":"Gong","type":"(n.)","description":"A privy or jakes."},{"word":"Gong","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise."},{"word":"Gong","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; -- called also gong bell."},{"word":"Goniatite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic."},{"word":"Gonidial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia."},{"word":"Gonidial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian."},{"word":"Gonidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa."},{"word":"Gonidia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gonidium"},{"word":"Gonidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens."},{"word":"Gonimia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia."},{"word":"Gonimous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells."},{"word":"Goniometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes."},{"word":"Goniometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Goniometrical"},{"word":"Goniometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric."},{"word":"Goniometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring angles; trigonometry."},{"word":"Gonoblastid","type":"(n.)","description":"A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore."},{"word":"Gonoblastidia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gonoblastidium"},{"word":"Gonoblastidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A blastostyle."},{"word":"Gonocalyx","type":"(n.)","description":"The bell of a sessile gonozooid."},{"word":"Gonochorism","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism."},{"word":"Gonochorism","type":"(n.)","description":"In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs."},{"word":"Gonochorism","type":"(n.)","description":"In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless."},{"word":"Gonococcus","type":"(n.)","description":"A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease."},{"word":"Gonoph","type":"(n.)","description":"A pickpocket or thief."},{"word":"Gonophore","type":"(n.)","description":"A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome."},{"word":"Gonophore","type":"(n.)","description":"A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner."},{"word":"Gonorrhea","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gonorrhoea"},{"word":"Gonorrhoea","type":"(n.)","description":"A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap."},{"word":"Gonorrheal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gonorrhoeal"},{"word":"Gonorrhoeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism."},{"word":"Gonosome","type":"(n.)","description":"The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively."},{"word":"Gonothec/","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gonotheca"},{"word":"Gonotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian."},{"word":"Gonozooid","type":"(n.)","description":"A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian."},{"word":"Gonydial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak."},{"word":"Gonys","type":"(n.)","description":"The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united."},{"word":"Goober","type":"(n.)","description":"A peanut."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; -- said of persons or actions."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; -- followed especially by for."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed especially by at."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not lacking or deficient; full; complete."},{"word":"Good","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc."},{"word":"Good","type":"(n.)","description":"That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil."},{"word":"Good","type":"(n.)","description":"Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc."},{"word":"Good","type":"(n.)","description":"Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property."},{"word":"Good","type":"(adv.)","description":"Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible."},{"word":"Good","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make good; to turn to good."},{"word":"Good","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manure; to improve."},{"word":"Good-by","type":"(n. / interj.)","description":"Alt. of Good-bye"},{"word":"Good-bye","type":"(n. / interj.)","description":"Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep."},{"word":"Good-den","type":"(interj.)","description":"A form of salutation."},{"word":"Good-fellowship","type":"(n.)","description":"Agreeable companionship; companionableness."},{"word":"Goodgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gudgeon, 5."},{"word":"Good-humored","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good-natured."},{"word":"Good-humoredly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner."},{"word":"Goodish","type":"(a.)","description":"Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable."},{"word":"Goodless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no goods."},{"word":"Goodlich","type":"(a.)","description":"Goodly."},{"word":"Goodliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness."},{"word":"Good-looking","type":"(a.)","description":"Handsome."},{"word":"Goodly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Excellently."},{"word":"Goodly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pleasant; agreeable; desirable."},{"word":"Goodly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses."},{"word":"Goodly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number."},{"word":"Goodlyhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Goodlyhood"},{"word":"Goodlyhood","type":"(n.)","description":"Goodness; grace; goodliness."},{"word":"Goodman","type":"(n.)","description":"A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to \"My friend\", \"Good sir\", \"Mister;\" -- sometimes used ironically."},{"word":"Goodman","type":"(n.)","description":"A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly."},{"word":"Good-natured","type":"(a.)","description":"Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked."},{"word":"Good-naturedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With maldness of temper."},{"word":"Goodness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc."},{"word":"Good","type":"()","description":"An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty."},{"word":"Goods","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Good, n., 3."},{"word":"Goodship","type":"(n.)","description":"Favor; grace."},{"word":"Good-tempered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured."},{"word":"Goodwife","type":"(n.)","description":"The mistress of a house."},{"word":"Goodies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Goody"},{"word":"Goody","type":"(n.)","description":"A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl."},{"word":"Goody","type":"(n.)","description":"An American fish; the lafayette or spot."},{"word":"Goodies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Goody"},{"word":"Goody","type":"(n.)","description":"Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport."},{"word":"Gode-year","type":"(n.)","description":"The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath."},{"word":"Goody-goody","type":"(a.)","description":"Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness."},{"word":"Goodyship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of a goody or goodwife"},{"word":"Gooroo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Guru"},{"word":"Guru","type":"(n.)","description":"A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos."},{"word":"Goosander","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser."},{"word":"Geese","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Goose"},{"word":"Goose","type":"(n.)","description":"Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres."},{"word":"Goose","type":"(n.)","description":"Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose."},{"word":"Goose","type":"(n.)","description":"A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose."},{"word":"Goose","type":"(n.)","description":"A silly creature; a simpleton."},{"word":"Goose","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted."},{"word":"Gooseberries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gooseberry"},{"word":"Gooseberry","type":"(a.)","description":"Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated."},{"word":"Gooseberry","type":"(a.)","description":"A silly person; a goose cap."},{"word":"Goosefish","type":"(n.)","description":"See Angler."},{"word":"Goosefoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed."},{"word":"Gooseries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Goosery"},{"word":"Goosery","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for keeping geese."},{"word":"Goosery","type":"(n.)","description":"The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness."},{"word":"Goosewing","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled."},{"word":"Goosewinged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a \"goosewing.\""},{"word":"Goosewinged","type":"(a.)","description":"Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing."},{"word":"Goosish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a goose; foolish."},{"word":"Goost","type":"(n.)","description":"Ghost; spirit."},{"word":"Goot","type":"(n.)","description":"A goat."},{"word":"Go-out","type":"(n.)","description":"A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out."},{"word":"Gopher","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan."},{"word":"Gopher","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile."},{"word":"Gopher","type":"(n.)","description":"A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows."},{"word":"Gopher","type":"(n.)","description":"A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States."},{"word":"Gopher","type":"()","description":"A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark."},{"word":"Goracco","type":"(n.)","description":"A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India."},{"word":"Goral","type":"(n.)","description":"An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois."},{"word":"Goramy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gourami."},{"word":"Gor-bellied","type":"(a.)","description":"Bog-bellied."},{"word":"Gor-belly","type":"(n.)","description":"A prominent belly; a big-bellied person."},{"word":"Gorce","type":"(n.)","description":"A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear."},{"word":"Gorcock","type":"(n.)","description":"The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse."},{"word":"Gorcrow","type":"(n.)","description":"The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow."},{"word":"Gord","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice."},{"word":"Gordiacea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Gordian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable."},{"word":"Gordian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Gordiacea."},{"word":"Gordian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Gordiacea."},{"word":"Gordius","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs."},{"word":"Gore","type":"(n.)","description":"Dirt; mud."},{"word":"Gore","type":"(n.)","description":"Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted."},{"word":"Gore","type":"(v.)","description":"A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part."},{"word":"Gore","type":"(v.)","description":"A small traingular piece of land."},{"word":"Gore","type":"(v.)","description":"One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point."},{"word":"Gored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gore"},{"word":"Goring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gore"},{"word":"Gore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab."},{"word":"Gore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron."},{"word":"Gorebill","type":"(n.)","description":"The garfish."},{"word":"Gorflies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gorfly"},{"word":"Gorfly","type":"(n.)","description":"A dung fly."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow passage or entrance"},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"A defile between mountains."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"A concave molding; a cavetto."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"The groove of a pulley."},{"word":"Gorged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gorge"},{"word":"Gorging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gorge"},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(n.)","description":"To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate."},{"word":"Gorge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat greedily and to satiety."},{"word":"Gorged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a gorge or throat."},{"word":"Gorged","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck."},{"word":"Gorged","type":"(a.)","description":"Glutted; fed to the full."},{"word":"Gorgelet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small gorget, as of a humming bird."},{"word":"Gorgeous","type":"(n.)","description":"Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent."},{"word":"Gorgerin","type":"(n.)","description":"In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column."},{"word":"Gorget","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century."},{"word":"Gorget","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor."},{"word":"Gorget","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies."},{"word":"Gorget","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruff worn by women."},{"word":"Gorget","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting instrument used in lithotomy."},{"word":"Gorget","type":"(n.)","description":"A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget."},{"word":"Gorget","type":"(n.)","description":"A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal."},{"word":"Gorgon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa."},{"word":"Gorgon","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything very ugly or horrid."},{"word":"Gorgon","type":"(n.)","description":"The brindled gnu. See Gnu."},{"word":"Gorgon","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face."},{"word":"Gorgonacea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Gorgoniacea."},{"word":"Gorgonean","type":"(a.)","description":"See Gorgonian, 1."},{"word":"Gorgoneia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gorgoneion"},{"word":"Gorgoneion","type":"(n.)","description":"A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head."},{"word":"Gorgonia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis."},{"word":"Gorgonia","type":"(n.)","description":"Any slender branched gorgonian."},{"word":"Gorgoniacea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c/nenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated."},{"word":"Gorgonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific."},{"word":"Gorgonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral."},{"word":"Gorgonian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Gorgoniacea."},{"word":"Gorgonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify."},{"word":"Gorhen","type":"(n.)","description":"The female of the gorcock."},{"word":"Gorilla","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man."},{"word":"Goring","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Goring cloth"},{"word":"Goring","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot."},{"word":"Gorm","type":"(n.)","description":"Axle grease. See Gome."},{"word":"Gorm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky."},{"word":"Gorma","type":"(n.)","description":"The European cormorant."},{"word":"Gormand","type":"(n.)","description":"A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand."},{"word":"Gormand","type":"(a.)","description":"Gluttonous; voracious."},{"word":"Gormander","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gormand, n."},{"word":"Gormandism","type":"(n.)","description":"Gluttony."},{"word":"Gormandized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gormandize"},{"word":"Gormandizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gormandize"},{"word":"Gormandize","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton."},{"word":"Gormandizer","type":"(n.)","description":"A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton."},{"word":"Goroon","type":"()","description":"A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale)."},{"word":"Gorse","type":"(n.)","description":"Furze. See Furze."},{"word":"Gory","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with gore or clotted blood."},{"word":"Gory","type":"(a.)","description":"Bloody; murderous."},{"word":"Goshawk","type":"(n.)","description":"Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Novae-Hollandiae) is pure white."},{"word":"Gosherd","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes care of geese."},{"word":"Goslet","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia."},{"word":"Gosling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young or unfledged goose."},{"word":"Gosling","type":"(n.)","description":"A catkin on nut trees and pines."},{"word":"Gospel","type":"(v.)","description":"Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation."},{"word":"Gospel","type":"(v.)","description":"One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."},{"word":"Gospel","type":"(v.)","description":"A selection from one of the gospels, for use in a religious service; as, the gospel for the day."},{"word":"Gospel","type":"(v.)","description":"Any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel."},{"word":"Gospel","type":"(v.)","description":"Anything propounded or accepted as infallibly true; as, they took his words for gospel."},{"word":"Gospel","type":"(a.)","description":"Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as, gospel righteousness."},{"word":"Gospel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instruct in the gospel."},{"word":"Gospeler","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the four evangelists."},{"word":"Gospeler","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan."},{"word":"Gospeler","type":"(n.)","description":"A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service."},{"word":"Gospelized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gospelize"},{"word":"Gospelizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gospelize"},{"word":"Gospelize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form according to the gospel; as, a command gospelized to us."},{"word":"Gospelize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages."},{"word":"Goss","type":"(n.)","description":"Gorse."},{"word":"Gossamer","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders."},{"word":"Gossamer","type":"(n.)","description":"Any very thin gauzelike fabric; also, a thin waterproof stuff."},{"word":"Gossamer","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer."},{"word":"Gossamery","type":"(a.)","description":"Like gossamer; flimsy."},{"word":"Gossan","type":"(n.)","description":"Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein."},{"word":"Gossaniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or producing gossan."},{"word":"Gossat","type":"(n.)","description":"A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling."},{"word":"Gossib","type":"(n.)","description":"A gossip."},{"word":"Gossip","type":"(n.)","description":"A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother."},{"word":"Gossip","type":"(n.)","description":"A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance."},{"word":"Gossip","type":"(n.)","description":"One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler."},{"word":"Gossip","type":"(n.)","description":"The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor."},{"word":"Gossip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stand sponsor to."},{"word":"Gossiped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gossip"},{"word":"Gossiping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gossip"},{"word":"Gossip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make merry."},{"word":"Gossip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prate; to chat; to talk much."},{"word":"Gossip","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales."},{"word":"Gossiper","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to gossip."},{"word":"Gossiprede","type":"(n.)","description":"The relationship between a person and his sponsors."},{"word":"Gossipry","type":"(n.)","description":"Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy."},{"word":"Gossipry","type":"(n.)","description":"Idle talk; gossip."},{"word":"Gossipy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of, or given to, gossip."},{"word":"Gossoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy; a servant."},{"word":"Gossypium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these."},{"word":"Got","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get."},{"word":"Gote","type":"(n.)","description":"A channel for water."},{"word":"Goter","type":"(n.)","description":"a gutter."},{"word":"Goth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire."},{"word":"Goth","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person."},{"word":"Gothamist","type":"(n.)","description":"A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders."},{"word":"Gothamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A gothamist."},{"word":"Gothamite","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of New York city."},{"word":"Gothic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous."},{"word":"Gothic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital."},{"word":"Gothic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth."},{"word":"Gothic","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines."},{"word":"Gothic","type":"(n.)","description":"The style described in Gothic, a., 2."},{"word":"Gothicism","type":"(n.)","description":"A Gothic idiom."},{"word":"Gothicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture."},{"word":"Gothicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Rudeness of manners; barbarousness."},{"word":"Gothicized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gothicize"},{"word":"Gothicizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gothicize"},{"word":"Gothicize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism."},{"word":"Gothite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Goethite"},{"word":"Goethite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown."},{"word":"Gotten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Get."},{"word":"Gouache","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted."},{"word":"Goud","type":"(n.)","description":"Woad."},{"word":"Goudron","type":"(n.)","description":"a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts."},{"word":"Gouge","type":"(n.)","description":"A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood."},{"word":"Gouge","type":"(n.)","description":"A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve."},{"word":"Gouge","type":"(n.)","description":"An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc."},{"word":"Gouge","type":"(n.)","description":"Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein."},{"word":"Gouge","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge."},{"word":"Gouge","type":"(n.)","description":"Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person."},{"word":"Gouged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Bouge"},{"word":"Gouging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Bouge"},{"word":"Bouge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scoop out with a gouge."},{"word":"Bouge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb."},{"word":"Bouge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat in a bargain; to chouse."},{"word":"Gouger","type":"(n.)","description":"See Plum Gouger."},{"word":"Gougeshell","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus."},{"word":"Goujere","type":"(n.)","description":"The venereal disease."},{"word":"Gouland","type":"(n.)","description":"See Golding."},{"word":"Goulards","type":"()","description":"An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract."},{"word":"Gour","type":"(n.)","description":"A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber."},{"word":"Gour","type":"(n.)","description":"See Koulan."},{"word":"Goura","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of large, crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, inhabiting New Guinea and adjacent islands. The Queen Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata) are among the beat known species."},{"word":"Gourami","type":"(n.)","description":"A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe."},{"word":"Gourd","type":"(n.)","description":"A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes."},{"word":"Gourd","type":"(n.)","description":"A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle."},{"word":"Gourd","type":"(n.)","description":"A false die. See Gord."},{"word":"Gourd","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gourde"},{"word":"Gourde","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc."},{"word":"Gourdiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gourdy."},{"word":"Gourd","type":"()","description":"A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America."},{"word":"Gourdworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The fluke of sheep. See Fluke."},{"word":"Gourdy","type":"(a.)","description":"Swelled in the legs."},{"word":"Gourmand","type":"(n.)","description":"A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand."},{"word":"Gourmet","type":"(n.)","description":"A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure."},{"word":"Gournet","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish. See Gurnet."},{"word":"Gout","type":"(n.)","description":"A drop; a clot or coagulation."},{"word":"Gout","type":"(n.)","description":"A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc."},{"word":"Gout","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn."},{"word":"Gout","type":"(n.)","description":"Taste; relish."},{"word":"Goutily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gouty manner."},{"word":"Goutiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gouty; gout."},{"word":"Goutweed","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Goutwort"},{"word":"Goutwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard."},{"word":"Gouty","type":"(a.)","description":"Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint."},{"word":"Gouty","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the gout."},{"word":"Gouty","type":"(a.)","description":"Swollen, as if from gout."},{"word":"Gouty","type":"(a.)","description":"Boggy; as, gouty land."},{"word":"Gove","type":"(n.)","description":"A mow; a rick for hay."},{"word":"Governed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Govern"},{"word":"Governing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Govern"},{"word":"Govern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority."},{"word":"Govern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse."},{"word":"Govern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case."},{"word":"Govern","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control."},{"word":"Governability","type":"(n.)","description":"Governableness."},{"word":"Governable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient."},{"word":"Governableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being governable; manageableness."},{"word":"Governal","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Governail"},{"word":"Governail","type":"(n.)","description":"Management; mastery."},{"word":"Governance","type":"(n.)","description":"Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement."},{"word":"Governante","type":"(n.)","description":"A governess."},{"word":"Governess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes."},{"word":"Governing","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state."},{"word":"Governing","type":"(a.)","description":"Requiring a particular case."},{"word":"Government","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government."},{"word":"Government","type":"(n.)","description":"The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law."},{"word":"Government","type":"(n.)","description":"The right or power of governing; authority."},{"word":"Government","type":"(n.)","description":"The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration."},{"word":"Government","type":"(n.)","description":"The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe."},{"word":"Government","type":"(n.)","description":"Management of the limbs or body."},{"word":"Government","type":"(n.)","description":"The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case."},{"word":"Governmental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties."},{"word":"Governor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania."},{"word":"Governor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian."},{"word":"Governor","type":"(n.)","description":"A pilot; a steersman."},{"word":"Governor","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable."},{"word":"Governor","type":"()","description":"A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India."},{"word":"Governorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a governor."},{"word":"Gowan","type":"(n.)","description":"The daisy, or mountain daisy."},{"word":"Gowan","type":"(n.)","description":"Decomposed granite."},{"word":"Gowany","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, abounding in, or decked with, daisies."},{"word":"Gowd","type":"(n.)","description":"Gold; wealth."},{"word":"Gowden","type":"(a.)","description":"Golden."},{"word":"Gowdie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dragont."},{"word":"Gowdnook","type":"(n.)","description":"The saury pike; -- called also gofnick."},{"word":"Gowk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a, booby of one); to stupefy."},{"word":"Gowk","type":"(n.)","description":"The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky."},{"word":"Gowk","type":"(n.)","description":"A simpleton; a gawk or gawky."},{"word":"Gowl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To howl."},{"word":"Gown","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose, flowing upper garment"},{"word":"Gown","type":"(n.)","description":"The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown."},{"word":"Gown","type":"(n.)","description":"The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military."},{"word":"Gown","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown."},{"word":"Gown","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sort of dress or garb."},{"word":"Gowned","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Dressed in a gown; clad."},{"word":"-men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gownman"},{"word":"Gownsman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gownman"},{"word":"Gownman","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier."},{"word":"Gozzard","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gosherd."},{"word":"Graafian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician."},{"word":"Graal","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grail., a dish."},{"word":"Grab","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts."},{"word":"Grabbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grab"},{"word":"Grabbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grab"},{"word":"Grab","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch."},{"word":"Grab","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden grasp or seizure."},{"word":"Grab","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven."},{"word":"Grabber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who seizes or grabs."},{"word":"Grabbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grabble"},{"word":"Grabbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grabble"},{"word":"Grabble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grope; to feel with the hands."},{"word":"Grabble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"Thanks."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(n.)","description":"A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops."},{"word":"Graced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grace"},{"word":"Gracing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grace"},{"word":"Grace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with heavenly grace."},{"word":"Grace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to."},{"word":"Graced","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable."},{"word":"Graceful","type":"(a.)","description":"Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech."},{"word":"Graceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt."},{"word":"Graceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4."},{"word":"Gracile","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gracillent"},{"word":"Gracillent","type":"(a.)","description":"Slender; thin."},{"word":"Gracility","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being gracilent; slenderness."},{"word":"Gracious","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty."},{"word":"Gracious","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent."},{"word":"Gracious","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections."},{"word":"Graciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly."},{"word":"Graciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Fortunately; luckily."},{"word":"Graciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being gracious."},{"word":"Grackle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow."},{"word":"Grackle","type":"(n.)","description":"An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna."},{"word":"Gradate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize."},{"word":"Gradate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution."},{"word":"Gradation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes."},{"word":"Gradation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of bringing to a certain grade."},{"word":"Gradation","type":"(n.)","description":"Any degree or relative position in an order or series."},{"word":"Gradation","type":"(n.)","description":"A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing."},{"word":"Gradation","type":"(n.)","description":"A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords."},{"word":"Gradation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form with gradations."},{"word":"Gradational","type":"(a.)","description":"By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation."},{"word":"Gradatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual."},{"word":"Gradatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land."},{"word":"Gradatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of steps from a cloister into a church."},{"word":"Grade","type":"(n.)","description":"A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour."},{"word":"Grade","type":"(n.)","description":"The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264."},{"word":"Grade","type":"(n.)","description":"A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient."},{"word":"Grade","type":"(n.)","description":"The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade."},{"word":"Graded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grade"},{"word":"Grading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grade"},{"word":"Grade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc."},{"word":"Grade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road."},{"word":"Grade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of."},{"word":"Gradely","type":"(a.)","description":"Decent; orderly."},{"word":"Gradely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Decently; in order."},{"word":"Grader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated."},{"word":"Gradient","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata."},{"word":"Gradient","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad."},{"word":"Gradient","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds."},{"word":"Gradient","type":"(n.)","description":"The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade."},{"word":"Gradient","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade."},{"word":"Gradient","type":"(n.)","description":"The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient."},{"word":"Gradin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gradine"},{"word":"Gradine","type":"(n.)","description":"Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another."},{"word":"Gradine","type":"(n.)","description":"A toothed chised by sculptors."},{"word":"Grading","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade."},{"word":"Gradinos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gradino"},{"word":"Gradino","type":"(n.)","description":"A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin."},{"word":"Gradual","type":"(n.)","description":"Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline."},{"word":"Gradual","type":"(n.)","description":"An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps."},{"word":"Gradual","type":"(n.)","description":"A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass."},{"word":"Gradual","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of steps."},{"word":"Graduality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gradual; gradualness."},{"word":"Gradually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gradual manner."},{"word":"Gradually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In degree."},{"word":"Gradualness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness."},{"word":"Graduated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Graduate"},{"word":"Graduating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Graduate"},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(n.)","description":"To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(n.)","description":"To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(n.)","description":"To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(n.)","description":"To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To taper, as the tail of certain birds."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(n.)","description":"A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated."},{"word":"Graduate","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated."},{"word":"Graduated","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades."},{"word":"Graduated","type":"(a.)","description":"Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer."},{"word":"Graduateship","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being a graduate."},{"word":"Graduation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc."},{"word":"Graduation","type":"(n.)","description":"The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale."},{"word":"Graduation","type":"(n.)","description":"The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation."},{"word":"Graduator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments."},{"word":"Graduator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals."},{"word":"Graduator","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air."},{"word":"Gradus","type":"(n.)","description":"A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry."},{"word":"Graf","type":"(n.)","description":"A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl."},{"word":"Graff","type":"(n.)","description":"A steward; an overseer."},{"word":"Graff","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Graft."},{"word":"Graffage","type":"(n.)","description":"The scarp of a ditch or moat."},{"word":"Graffer","type":"(n.)","description":"a notary or scrivener."},{"word":"Graffiti","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii."},{"word":"Graft","type":"(n.)","description":"A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit."},{"word":"Graft","type":"(n.)","description":"A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot."},{"word":"Graft","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty."},{"word":"Grafted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Graft"},{"word":"Grafting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Graft"},{"word":"Graft","type":"(n.)","description":"To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon."},{"word":"Graft","type":"(n.)","description":"To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union."},{"word":"Graft","type":"(n.)","description":"To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union."},{"word":"Graft","type":"(n.)","description":"To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns."},{"word":"Graft","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting."},{"word":"Grafter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting."},{"word":"Grafter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument by which grafting is facilitated."},{"word":"Grafter","type":"(n.)","description":"The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree."},{"word":"Grafting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc."},{"word":"Grafting","type":"(n.)","description":"The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty."},{"word":"Grafting","type":"(n.)","description":"A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another."},{"word":"Graham","type":"()","description":"Bread made of unbolted wheat flour."},{"word":"Grahamite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who follows the dietetic system of Graham."},{"word":"Grail","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual."},{"word":"Grail","type":"(n.)","description":"A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail."},{"word":"Grail","type":"(n.)","description":"Small particles of earth; gravel."},{"word":"Grail","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small feathers of a hawk."},{"word":"Graille","type":"(n.)","description":"A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"See Groan."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(a.)","description":"Temper; natural disposition; inclination."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(a.)","description":"A sort of spice, the grain of paradise."},{"word":"Grained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grain"},{"word":"Graining.","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grain"},{"word":"Grain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.)."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"To yield fruit."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"A tine, prong, or fork."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"One the branches of a valley or of a river."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"A blade of a sword, knife, etc."},{"word":"Grain","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core."},{"word":"Grained","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough."},{"word":"Grained","type":"(a.)","description":"Dyed in grain; ingrained."},{"word":"Grained","type":"(a.)","description":"Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc."},{"word":"Grained","type":"(a.)","description":"Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers."},{"word":"Grainer","type":"(n.)","description":"An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate."},{"word":"Grainer","type":"(n.)","description":"A knife for taking the hair off skins."},{"word":"Grainer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining."},{"word":"Grainfield","type":"(n.)","description":"A field where grain is grown."},{"word":"Graining","type":"(n.)","description":"Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins."},{"word":"Graining","type":"(n.)","description":"A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised."},{"word":"Graining","type":"(n.)","description":"Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc."},{"word":"Graining","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt."},{"word":"Graining","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace."},{"word":"Grains","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b)."},{"word":"Grains","type":"(n.)","description":"Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1."},{"word":"Grainy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling grains; granular."},{"word":"Graip","type":"(n.)","description":"A dungfork."},{"word":"Graith","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Greith."},{"word":"Graith","type":"(n.)","description":"Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc."},{"word":"Grakle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grackle."},{"word":"Grallae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores."},{"word":"Grallatores","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Grallae."},{"word":"Grallatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Grallatory"},{"word":"Grallatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders."},{"word":"Grallic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Grallae."},{"word":"Gralline","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Grallae."},{"word":"Gralloch","type":"(n.)","description":"Offal of a deer."},{"word":"Gralloch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove the offal from (a deer)."},{"word":"-gram","type":"()","description":"A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram."},{"word":"Gram","type":"(a.)","description":"Angry."},{"word":"Gram","type":"(n.)","description":"The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food."},{"word":"Gram","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gramme"},{"word":"Gramme","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4."},{"word":"Grama","type":"()","description":"The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya."},{"word":"Gramarye","type":"(n.)","description":"Necromancy; magic."},{"word":"Gramashes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings."},{"word":"Grame","type":"(a.)","description":"Anger; wrath; scorn."},{"word":"Grame","type":"(a.)","description":"Sorrow; grief; misery."},{"word":"Gramercy","type":"(interj.)","description":"A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks."},{"word":"Graminaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the grasses; gramineous; as, graminaceous plants."},{"word":"Gramineal","type":"(a.)","description":"Gramineous."},{"word":"Gramineous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, Or pertaining to, grass. See Grass, n., 2."},{"word":"Graminifolious","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing leaves resembling those of grass."},{"word":"Graminivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals."},{"word":"Grammalogue","type":"(n.)","description":"Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman."},{"word":"Grammar","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing."},{"word":"Grammar","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar."},{"word":"Grammar","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing."},{"word":"Grammar","type":"(n.)","description":"treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography."},{"word":"Grammar","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar."},{"word":"Grammarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist."},{"word":"Grammarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes on, or teaches, grammar."},{"word":"Grammarianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians."},{"word":"Grammarless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without grammar."},{"word":"Grammates","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Rudiments; first principles, as of grammar."},{"word":"Grammatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Grammatical."},{"word":"Grammatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule."},{"word":"Grammatical","type":"(a.)","description":"According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical."},{"word":"Grammaticaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender."},{"word":"Grammatication","type":"(n.)","description":"A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule."},{"word":"Grammaticism","type":"(n.)","description":"A point or principle of grammar."},{"word":"Grammaticized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grammaticize"},{"word":"Grammaticizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grammaticize"},{"word":"Grammaticize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render grammatical."},{"word":"Grammatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A petty grammarian."},{"word":"Gramme","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gram the weight."},{"word":"Gramme","type":"()","description":"A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme."},{"word":"Grampuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Grampus"},{"word":"Grampus","type":"(n.)","description":"A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii."},{"word":"Grampus","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of tongs used in a bloomery."},{"word":"Granade","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Granado"},{"word":"Granado","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grenade."},{"word":"Granadilla","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices."},{"word":"Granaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Granary"},{"word":"Granary","type":"(n.)","description":"A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain."},{"word":"Granate","type":"(n.)","description":"See Garnet."},{"word":"Granatin","type":"(n.)","description":"Mannite; -- so called because found in the pomegranate."},{"word":"Granatite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Staurolite."},{"word":"Grand","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake."},{"word":"Grand","type":"(superl.)","description":"Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception."},{"word":"Grand","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc."},{"word":"Grand","type":"(superl.)","description":"Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc."},{"word":"Grandam","type":"(n.)","description":"An old woman; specifically, a grandmother."},{"word":"Grandaunt","type":"(n.)","description":"The aunt of one's father or mother."},{"word":"Grandchild","type":"(n.)","description":"A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent."},{"word":"Granddaughter","type":"(n.)","description":"The daughter of one's son or daughter."},{"word":"Grandee","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence."},{"word":"Grandeeship","type":"(n.)","description":"The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship."},{"word":"Grandeur","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action."},{"word":"Grandevity","type":"(n.)","description":"Great age; long life."},{"word":"Grandevous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of great age; aged; longlived."},{"word":"Grand-ducal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a grand duke."},{"word":"Grandfather","type":"(n.)","description":"A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent."},{"word":"Grandfatherly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent."},{"word":"Grandific","type":"(a.)","description":"Making great."},{"word":"Grandiloquence","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense."},{"word":"Grandiloquent","type":"(a.)","description":"Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic."},{"word":"Grandiloquous","type":"(a.)","description":"Grandiloquent."},{"word":"Grandinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of hail; abounding in hail."},{"word":"Grandiose","type":"(a.)","description":"Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense."},{"word":"Grandiose","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style."},{"word":"Grandiosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being grandiose,"},{"word":"Grandity","type":"(n.)","description":"Grandness."},{"word":"Grandly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grand manner."},{"word":"Grandma","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Grandmamma"},{"word":"Grandmamma","type":"(n.)","description":"A grandmother."},{"word":"Grand","type":"()","description":"See Gramercy."},{"word":"Grandmother","type":"(n.)","description":"The mother of one's father or mother."},{"word":"Grandmotherly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent."},{"word":"Grandnephew","type":"(n.)","description":"The grandson of one's brother or sister."},{"word":"Grandness","type":"(n.)","description":"Grandeur."},{"word":"Grandniece","type":"(n.)","description":"The granddaughter of one's brother or sister."},{"word":"Grandpa","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Grandpapa"},{"word":"Grandpapa","type":"(n.)","description":"A grandfather."},{"word":"Grandsire","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor."},{"word":"Grandson","type":"(n.)","description":"A son's or daughter's son."},{"word":"Granduncle","type":"(n.)","description":"A father's or mother's uncle."},{"word":"Grane","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"See Groan."},{"word":"Grange","type":"(n.)","description":"A building for storing grain; a granary."},{"word":"Grange","type":"(n.)","description":"A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes."},{"word":"Grange","type":"(n.)","description":"A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited."},{"word":"Grange","type":"(n.)","description":"A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors."},{"word":"Grange","type":"(n.)","description":"An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867."},{"word":"Granger","type":"(n.)","description":"A farm steward."},{"word":"Granger","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a grange."},{"word":"Grangerism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books."},{"word":"Grangerite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book."},{"word":"Grangerize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books."},{"word":"Graniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing grain, or seeds like grain."},{"word":"Graniform","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed like of corn."},{"word":"Granilla","type":"(n.)","description":"Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect."},{"word":"Granite","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure."},{"word":"Granite","type":"()","description":"New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite."},{"word":"Granitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture."},{"word":"Granitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains."},{"word":"Granitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Granitic."},{"word":"Granitification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the process of forming into granite."},{"word":"Granitiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling granite in structure or shape."},{"word":"Granitoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement."},{"word":"Granivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds."},{"word":"Grannam","type":"(n.)","description":"A grandam."},{"word":"Granny","type":"(n.)","description":"A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman."},{"word":"Granolithic","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements."},{"word":"Granted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grant"},{"word":"Granting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grant"},{"word":"Grant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition."},{"word":"Grant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give."},{"word":"Grant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede."},{"word":"Grant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To assent; to consent."},{"word":"Grant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission."},{"word":"Grant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The yielding or admission of something in dispute."},{"word":"Grant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon."},{"word":"Grant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made."},{"word":"Grantable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being granted."},{"word":"Grantee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made."},{"word":"Granter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grants."},{"word":"Grantor","type":"(n.)","description":"The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made."},{"word":"Granular","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance."},{"word":"Granularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a granular form."},{"word":"Granulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Granular."},{"word":"Granulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Granulate"},{"word":"Granulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Granulate"},{"word":"Granulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal."},{"word":"Granulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface."},{"word":"Granulate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar."},{"word":"Granulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Granulated"},{"word":"Granulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar."},{"word":"Granulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen."},{"word":"Granulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar."},{"word":"Granulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being granulated."},{"word":"Granulation","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing."},{"word":"Granulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of the formation of such prominences."},{"word":"Granule","type":"(n.)","description":"A little grain a small particle; a pellet."},{"word":"Granuliferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of granulations."},{"word":"Granuliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone."},{"word":"Granulite","type":"(n.)","description":"A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite."},{"word":"Granulose","type":"(n.)","description":"The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments."},{"word":"Granulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular."},{"word":"Grape","type":"(n.)","description":"A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins."},{"word":"Grape","type":"(n.)","description":"The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine."},{"word":"Grape","type":"(n.)","description":"A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse."},{"word":"Grape","type":"(n.)","description":"Grapeshot."},{"word":"Grape","type":"()","description":"The shaddock."},{"word":"Grapeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes."},{"word":"Grapery","type":"(n.)","description":"A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes."},{"word":"Grapeshot","type":"(n.)","description":"A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags."},{"word":"Grapestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A seed of the grape."},{"word":"Grapevine","type":"(n.)","description":"A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes."},{"word":"Graphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Graphical"},{"word":"Graphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing."},{"word":"Graphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the art of writing."},{"word":"Graphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines."},{"word":"Graphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Well delineated; clearly and vividly described."},{"word":"Graphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a graphic writer."},{"word":"Graphically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a graphic manner; vividly."},{"word":"Graphicness","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Graphicalness"},{"word":"Graphicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being graphic."},{"word":"Graphics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like."},{"word":"Graphiscope","type":"(n.)","description":"See Graphoscope."},{"word":"Graphite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead."},{"word":"Graphitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite."},{"word":"Graphitoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Graphitoidal"},{"word":"Graphitoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling graphite or plumbago."},{"word":"Grapholite","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of slate suitable to be written on."},{"word":"Graphology","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting."},{"word":"Graphoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones."},{"word":"Graphotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief."},{"word":"-graphy","type":"()","description":"A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography."},{"word":"Grapnel","type":"(n.)","description":"A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel."},{"word":"Grappled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grapple"},{"word":"Grappling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grapple"},{"word":"Grapple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist."},{"word":"Grapple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly."},{"word":"Grapple","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another."},{"word":"Grapple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold."},{"word":"Grapple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab."},{"word":"Grapple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A grappling iron."},{"word":"Grapplement","type":"(n.)","description":"A grappling; close fight or embrace."},{"word":"Grappling","type":"(n.)","description":"A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel."},{"word":"Grappling","type":"(n.)","description":"A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear."},{"word":"Grapsoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the genus Grapsus or the family Grapsidae."},{"word":"Grapsoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A grapsoid crab."},{"word":"Graptolite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids."},{"word":"Graptolitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate."},{"word":"Grapy","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of, or resembling, grapes."},{"word":"Grasper","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grasp"},{"word":"Qraspine","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grasp"},{"word":"Grasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of."},{"word":"Grasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend."},{"word":"Grasp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive."},{"word":"Grasp","type":"(n.)","description":"A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms."},{"word":"Grasp","type":"(n.)","description":"Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp."},{"word":"Grasp","type":"(n.)","description":"Forcible possession; hold."},{"word":"Grasp","type":"(n.)","description":"Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey."},{"word":"Grasp","type":"(n.)","description":"The handle of a sword or of an oar."},{"word":"Graspable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being grasped."},{"word":"Graaper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds."},{"word":"Grasping","type":"(a.)","description":"Seizing; embracing; catching."},{"word":"Grasping","type":"(a.)","description":"Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man."},{"word":"Graspless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a grasp; relaxed."},{"word":"Grass","type":"(n.)","description":"Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture."},{"word":"Grass","type":"(n.)","description":"An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single."},{"word":"Grass","type":"(n.)","description":"The season of fresh grass; spring."},{"word":"Grass","type":"(n.)","description":"Metaphorically used for what is transitory."},{"word":"Grassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grass"},{"word":"Grassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grass"},{"word":"Grass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with grass or with turf."},{"word":"Grass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc."},{"word":"Grass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish."},{"word":"Grass","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To produce grass."},{"word":"Grassation","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting."},{"word":"Grass-green","type":"(a.)","description":"Green with grass."},{"word":"Grass-green","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green."},{"word":"Grass-grown","type":"(a.)","description":"Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road."},{"word":"Grasshopper","type":"(n.)","description":"Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust."},{"word":"Grasshopper","type":"(n.)","description":"In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper."},{"word":"Grassiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state."},{"word":"Grassless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of grass."},{"word":"Grassplot","type":"(n.)","description":"A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn."},{"word":"Grass","type":"()","description":"An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called \"blackboys\" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides."},{"word":"Grass","type":"()","description":"A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis)."},{"word":"Grassy","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn."},{"word":"Grassy","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling grass; green."},{"word":"Grate","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to gratify; agreeable."},{"word":"Grate","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters."},{"word":"Grate","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning."},{"word":"Grated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grate"},{"word":"Grating","type":"(p. pr. &. vb. n.)","description":"of Grate"},{"word":"Grate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window."},{"word":"Grate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing."},{"word":"Grate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg."},{"word":"Grate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fret; to irritate; to offend."},{"word":"Grate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a harsh sound by friction."},{"word":"Grate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity."},{"word":"Grated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows."},{"word":"Grateful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart."},{"word":"Grateful","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep."},{"word":"Grater","type":"(a.)","description":"One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs."},{"word":"Graticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions."},{"word":"Graticule","type":"(n.)","description":"A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions."},{"word":"Gratification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart."},{"word":"Gratification","type":"(n.)","description":"That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight."},{"word":"Gratification","type":"(n.)","description":"A reward; a recompense; a gratuity."},{"word":"Glatified","type":"(a.)","description":"Pleased; indulged according to desire."},{"word":"Gratifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gratifies or pleases."},{"word":"Gratified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gratify"},{"word":"Gratifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gratify"},{"word":"Gratify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc."},{"word":"Gratify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To requite; to recompense."},{"word":"Grating","type":"(n.)","description":"A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent."},{"word":"Grating","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating."},{"word":"Grating","type":"(n.)","description":"The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats."},{"word":"Grating","type":"(a.)","description":"That grates; making a harsh sound; harsh."},{"word":"Grating","type":"(n.)","description":"A harsh sound caused by attrition."},{"word":"Gratiolin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis)."},{"word":"Gratis","type":"(adv.)","description":"For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously."},{"word":"Gratitude","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness."},{"word":"Gratuitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice."},{"word":"Gratuitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not called for by the circumstances; without reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous assumption."},{"word":"Gtratuities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gratuity"},{"word":"Gratuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present."},{"word":"Gratuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment."},{"word":"Grqatulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gratulate"},{"word":"Gratulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gratulate"},{"word":"Gratulate","type":"(a.)","description":"To salute with declaration of joy; to congratulate."},{"word":"Gratulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of gratulation."},{"word":"Gratulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation."},{"word":"Gratulatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory."},{"word":"Graunt","type":"(v. & n.)","description":"See Grant."},{"word":"Grauwacke","type":"(n.)","description":"Graywacke."},{"word":"Gravamina","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gravamen"},{"word":"Gravamens","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gravamen"},{"word":"Gravamen","type":"(a.)","description":"The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier."},{"word":"-grave","type":"()","description":"A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of great weight; heavy; ponderous."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(superl.)","description":"Slow and solemn in movement."},{"word":"Graved","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Grave"},{"word":"Graven","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Grave"},{"word":"Graved","type":"()","description":"of Grave"},{"word":"Graving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grave"},{"word":"Grave","type":"(n.)","description":"To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(n.)","description":"To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(n.)","description":"To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(n.)","description":"To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(n.)","description":"To entomb; to bury."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving."},{"word":"Grave","type":"(n.)","description":"An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction."},{"word":"Graveclothes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred."},{"word":"Gravedigger","type":"(n.)","description":"A digger of graves."},{"word":"Gravedigger","type":"(n.)","description":"See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t."},{"word":"Gravel","type":"(n.)","description":"Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand."},{"word":"Gravel","type":"(n.)","description":"A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom."},{"word":"Graveled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gravel"},{"word":"Gravelled","type":"()","description":"of Gravel"},{"word":"Graveling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gravel"},{"word":"Gravelling","type":"()","description":"of Gravel"},{"word":"Gravel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk."},{"word":"Gravel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand."},{"word":"Gravel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex."},{"word":"Gravel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot."},{"word":"Graveless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a grave; unburied."},{"word":"Graveling","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gravelling"},{"word":"Gravelling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of covering with gravel."},{"word":"Gravelling","type":"(n.)","description":"A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.)."},{"word":"Graveling","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gravelling"},{"word":"Gravelling","type":"(n.)","description":"A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea."},{"word":"Gravelliness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being gravelly."},{"word":"Gravelly","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil."},{"word":"Gravel-stone","type":"(n.)","description":"A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus."},{"word":"Gravely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grave manner."},{"word":"Graven","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Carved."},{"word":"Graveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being grave."},{"word":"Gravenstein","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality."},{"word":"Graveolence","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong and offensive smell; rancidity."},{"word":"Graveolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a rank smell."},{"word":"Graver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material."},{"word":"Graver","type":"(n.)","description":"An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin."},{"word":"Gravery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving."},{"word":"Graves","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves."},{"word":"Graves'","type":"()","description":"Same as Basedow's disease."},{"word":"Gravestone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone."},{"word":"Graveyard","type":"(n.)","description":"A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery."},{"word":"Gravic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction."},{"word":"Gravid","type":"(a.)","description":"Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety."},{"word":"Gravidated","type":"(a.)","description":"Made pregnant; big."},{"word":"Gravidation","type":"(n.)","description":"Gravidity."},{"word":"Gravidity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being gravidated; pregnancy."},{"word":"Gravigrade","type":"(a.)","description":"Slow-paced."},{"word":"Gravigrade","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pachyderms."},{"word":"Gravimeter","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies."},{"word":"Gravimetric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight."},{"word":"Graving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of cleaning a ship's bottom."},{"word":"Graving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, esp. by incision or in intaglio."},{"word":"Graving","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is graved or carved."},{"word":"Graving","type":"(n.)","description":"Impression, as upon the mind or heart."},{"word":"Gravitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gravitate"},{"word":"Gravitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gravitate"},{"word":"Gravitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object."},{"word":"Gravitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gravitating."},{"word":"Gravitation","type":"(n.)","description":"That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. See Attraction, and Weight."},{"word":"Gravitational","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units."},{"word":"Gravitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing to gravitate; tending to a center."},{"word":"Gravities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gravity"},{"word":"Gravity","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead."},{"word":"Gravity","type":"(a.)","description":"Sobriety of character or demeanor."},{"word":"Gravity","type":"(a.)","description":"Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense."},{"word":"Gravity","type":"(a.)","description":"The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation."},{"word":"Gravity","type":"(a.)","description":"Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness."},{"word":"Gravies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gravy"},{"word":"Gravy","type":"(n.)","description":"The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up."},{"word":"Gravy","type":"(n.)","description":"Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc."},{"word":"Gray","type":"(superl.)","description":"White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove."},{"word":"Gray","type":"(superl.)","description":"Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary."},{"word":"Gray","type":"(superl.)","description":"Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames."},{"word":"Gray","type":"(n.)","description":"A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint."},{"word":"Gray","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon."},{"word":"Grayback","type":"(n.)","description":"The California gray whale."},{"word":"Grayback","type":"(n.)","description":"The redbreasted sandpiper or knot."},{"word":"Grayback","type":"(n.)","description":"The dowitcher."},{"word":"Grayback","type":"(n.)","description":"The body louse."},{"word":"Graybeard","type":"(n.)","description":"An old man."},{"word":"Grayfly","type":"(n.)","description":"The trumpet fly."},{"word":"Grayhound","type":"(n.)","description":"See Greyhound."},{"word":"Grayish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat gray."},{"word":"Graylag","type":"(n.)","description":"The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose."},{"word":"Grayling","type":"(a.)","description":"A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish."},{"word":"Grayling","type":"(a.)","description":"An American fish of the genus Thymallus, having similar habits to the above; one species (T. Ontariensis), inhabits several streams in Michigan; another (T. montanus), is found in the Yellowstone region."},{"word":"Grayness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being gray."},{"word":"Gtraystone","type":"(n.)","description":"A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt."},{"word":"Graywacke","type":"(n.)","description":"A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together."},{"word":"Grazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Graze"},{"word":"Grazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Graze"},{"word":"Graze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for."},{"word":"Graze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse."},{"word":"Graze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing."},{"word":"Graze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall."},{"word":"Graze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows."},{"word":"Graze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To yield grass for grazing."},{"word":"Graze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To touch something lightly in passing."},{"word":"Graze","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of grazing; the cropping of grass."},{"word":"Graze","type":"(n.)","description":"A light touch; a slight scratch."},{"word":"Grazer","type":"(n.)","description":"One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage."},{"word":"Grazier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market."},{"word":"Grazing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who, or that which, grazes."},{"word":"Grazing","type":"(n.)","description":"A pasture; growing grass."},{"word":"Grazioso","type":"(adv.)","description":"Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly."},{"word":"Gre","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gree, a step."},{"word":"Gre","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gree, good will."},{"word":"Grease","type":"(n.)","description":"Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind."},{"word":"Grease","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences."},{"word":"Greased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grease"},{"word":"Greasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grease"},{"word":"Grease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon."},{"word":"Grease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bribe; to corrupt with presents."},{"word":"Grease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat or cozen; to overreach."},{"word":"Grease","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease."},{"word":"Greaser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc."},{"word":"Greaser","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type."},{"word":"Greasily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a greasy manner."},{"word":"Greasily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gross or indelicate manner."},{"word":"Greasiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness."},{"word":"Greasy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish."},{"word":"Greasy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Smeared or defiled with grease."},{"word":"Greasy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone."},{"word":"Greasy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Fat of body; bulky."},{"word":"Greasy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Gross; indelicate; indecent."},{"word":"Greasy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Affected with the disease called grease; as, the heels of a horse. See Grease, n., 2."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pregnant; big (with young)."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain."},{"word":"Great","type":"(superl.)","description":"Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc."},{"word":"Great","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great."},{"word":"Great-bellied","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming."},{"word":"Greatcoat","type":"(n.)","description":"An overcoat."},{"word":"Greaten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand."},{"word":"Greaten","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become large; to dilate."},{"word":"Great-grandchild","type":"(n.)","description":"The child of one's grandson or granddaughter."},{"word":"Great-granddaughter","type":"(n.)","description":"A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter."},{"word":"Great-grandfather","type":"(n.)","description":"The father of one's grandfather or grandmother."},{"word":"Great-grandmother","type":"(n.)","description":"The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother."},{"word":"Great-grandson","type":"(n.)","description":"A son of one's grandson or granddaughter."},{"word":"Great-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"High-spirited; fearless."},{"word":"Great-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Generous; magnanimous; noble."},{"word":"Great-heartedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity."},{"word":"Greatly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a great degree; much."},{"word":"Greatly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously."},{"word":"Greatness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc."},{"word":"Greatness","type":"(n.)","description":"Pride; haughtiness."},{"word":"Greave","type":"(n.)","description":"A grove."},{"word":"Greave","type":"(n.)","description":"Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Greaved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Greave"},{"word":"Greaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Greave"},{"word":"Greave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave."},{"word":"Greaves","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings."},{"word":"Grebe","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus (formerly Podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes."},{"word":"Grecian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek."},{"word":"Grecian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek."},{"word":"Grecian","type":"(n.)","description":"A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist."},{"word":"Grecian","type":"(n.)","description":"One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history."},{"word":"Grecism","type":"(n.)","description":"An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism."},{"word":"Grecized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grecize"},{"word":"Grecizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grecize"},{"word":"Grecize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized."},{"word":"Grecize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To translate into Greek."},{"word":"Grecize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Grecianize"},{"word":"Grecianize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech."},{"word":"Greco-Roman","type":"(a.)","description":"Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture."},{"word":"Grecque","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander."},{"word":"Gree","type":"(n.)","description":"Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably."},{"word":"Gree","type":"(n.)","description":"Rank; degree; position."},{"word":"Gree","type":"(n.)","description":"The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize."},{"word":"Gree","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree."},{"word":"Grees","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gree"},{"word":"Greece","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gree"},{"word":"Grice","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gree"},{"word":"Grise","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gree"},{"word":"Grize","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gree"},{"word":"Gree","type":"(n.)","description":"A step."},{"word":"Greece","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Gree a step."},{"word":"Greed","type":"(n.)","description":"An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain."},{"word":"Greedily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a greedy manner."},{"word":"Greediness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire."},{"word":"Greedy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey."},{"word":"Greedy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain."},{"word":"Greedy-gut","type":"(n.)","description":"A glutton."},{"word":"Greegree","type":"(n.)","description":"An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm."},{"word":"Greek","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian."},{"word":"Greek","type":"(n.)","description":"A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece."},{"word":"Greek","type":"(n.)","description":"A swindler; a knave; a cheat."},{"word":"Greek","type":"(n.)","description":"Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me."},{"word":"Greekess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female Greek."},{"word":"Greekish","type":"(a.)","description":"Peculiar to Greece."},{"word":"Greekling","type":"(n.)","description":"A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions."},{"word":"Green","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald."},{"word":"Green","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having a sickly color; wan."},{"word":"Green","type":"(superl.)","description":"Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound."},{"word":"Green","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc."},{"word":"Green","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not roasted; half raw."},{"word":"Green","type":"(superl.)","description":"Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment."},{"word":"Green","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc."},{"word":"Green","type":"(n.)","description":"The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue."},{"word":"Green","type":"(n.)","description":"A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green."},{"word":"Green","type":"(n.)","description":"Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Green","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food."},{"word":"Green","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance or pigment of a green color."},{"word":"Greened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Green"},{"word":"Greening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Green"},{"word":"Green","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make green."},{"word":"Green","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become or grow green."},{"word":"Greenback","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the legal tender notes of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits."},{"word":"Greenbacker","type":"(n.)","description":"One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments."},{"word":"Greenbone","type":"(n.)","description":"Any garfish (Belone or Tylosurus)."},{"word":"Greenbone","type":"(n.)","description":"The European eelpout."},{"word":"Green-broom","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed."},{"word":"Greencloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates."},{"word":"Greenery","type":"(n.)","description":"Green plants; verdure."},{"word":"Green-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having green eyes."},{"word":"Green-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts."},{"word":"Greenfinch","type":"(n.)","description":"A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep."},{"word":"Greenfinch","type":"(n.)","description":"The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head."},{"word":"Greenfish","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bluefish, and Pollock."},{"word":"Greengage","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage."},{"word":"Greengill","type":"(n.)","description":"An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood."},{"word":"Greengrocer","type":"(n.)","description":"A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state."},{"word":"Greenhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The mallard."},{"word":"Greenhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The striped bass. See Bass."},{"word":"Greenhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Greenhood"},{"word":"Greenhood","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of greenness; verdancy."},{"word":"Greenhorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon."},{"word":"Greenhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather."},{"word":"Greening","type":"(n.)","description":"A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality."},{"word":"Greenish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow."},{"word":"Greenlander","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Greenland."},{"word":"Green-leek","type":"(n.)","description":"An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot."},{"word":"Greenlet","type":"(n.)","description":"l. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo."},{"word":"Greenlet","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of Cyclorhis, a genus of tropical American birds allied to the tits."},{"word":"Greenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely."},{"word":"Greenly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a green color."},{"word":"Greenness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow."},{"word":"Greenness","type":"(n.)","description":"Freshness; vigor; newness."},{"word":"Greenness","type":"(n.)","description":"Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth."},{"word":"Greenockite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation."},{"word":"Greenroom","type":"(n.)","description":"The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater."},{"word":"Greensand","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime."},{"word":"Greenshank","type":"(n.)","description":"A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover."},{"word":"Green-stall","type":"(n.)","description":"A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale."},{"word":"Greenstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc."},{"word":"Greensward","type":"(n.)","description":"Turf green with grass."},{"word":"Greenth","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being green; verdure."},{"word":"Greenweed","type":"(n.)","description":"See Greenbroom."},{"word":"Greenwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A forest as it appears is spring and summer."},{"word":"Greenwood","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade."},{"word":"Greet","type":"(a.)","description":"Great."},{"word":"Greet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To weep; to cry; to lament."},{"word":"Greet","type":"(n.)","description":"Mourning."},{"word":"Greeted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Greet"},{"word":"Greeting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Greet"},{"word":"Greet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token."},{"word":"Greet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad."},{"word":"Greet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accost; to address."},{"word":"Greet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet and give salutations."},{"word":"Greet","type":"(n.)","description":"Greeting."},{"word":"Greeter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who greets or salutes another."},{"word":"Greeter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who weeps or mourns."},{"word":"Greeting","type":"(n.)","description":"Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent."},{"word":"Greeve","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grieve, an overseer."},{"word":"Greeze","type":"(n.)","description":"A step. See Gree, a step."},{"word":"Greffier","type":"(n.)","description":"A registrar or recorder; a notary."},{"word":"Gregal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, a flock."},{"word":"Gregarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common."},{"word":"\\d8Gregarin\\91","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria."},{"word":"Gregarine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Gregarinae."},{"word":"Gregarine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Gregarinae."},{"word":"\\d8Gregarinida","type":"()","description":"Gregarinae."},{"word":"Gregarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone."},{"word":"Grege","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Gregge"},{"word":"Gregge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make heavy; to increase."},{"word":"Greggoe","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Grego"},{"word":"Grego","type":"(n.)","description":"A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant."},{"word":"Gregorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name."},{"word":"Greillade","type":"(n.)","description":"Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process."},{"word":"Greisen","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony."},{"word":"Greit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Greet, to weep."},{"word":"Greith","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make ready; -- often used reflexively."},{"word":"Greith","type":"(v.)","description":"Goods; furniture."},{"word":"Gremial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom."},{"word":"Gremial","type":"(n.)","description":"A bosom friend."},{"word":"Gremial","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests."},{"word":"Grenade","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies."},{"word":"Grenadier","type":"(n.)","description":"Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc."},{"word":"Grenadier","type":"(n.)","description":"Any marine fish of the genus Macrurus, in which the body and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called also onion fish, and rat-tail fish."},{"word":"Grenadier","type":"(n.)","description":"A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black."},{"word":"Grenadillo","type":"(n.)","description":"A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony."},{"word":"Grenadine","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear."},{"word":"Grenadine","type":"(n.)","description":"A trade name for a dyestuff, consisting essentially of impure fuchsine."},{"word":"Grenado","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Grenade."},{"word":"Grene","type":"(a.)","description":"Green."},{"word":"Gres","type":"(n.)","description":"Grass."},{"word":"Gressorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gressorious"},{"word":"Gressorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves."},{"word":"Gret","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Grete"},{"word":"Grete","type":"(a.)","description":"Great."},{"word":"Gretto","type":"()","description":"imp. of Greet, to salute."},{"word":"Greve","type":"(n.)","description":"A grove."},{"word":"Grew","type":"()","description":"imp. of Grow."},{"word":"Grewsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gruesome"},{"word":"Gruesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Ugly; frightful."},{"word":"Grey","type":"(a.)","description":"See Gray (the correct orthography)."},{"word":"Greyhound","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments."},{"word":"Greylag","type":"(n.)","description":"See Graylag."},{"word":"Gribble","type":"(n.)","description":"A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America."},{"word":"Grice","type":"(n.)","description":"A little pig."},{"word":"Grice","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gree, a step."},{"word":"Grid","type":"(n.)","description":"A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron."},{"word":"Griddle","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes."},{"word":"Griddle","type":"(n.)","description":"A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners."},{"word":"Griddlecake","type":"(n.)","description":"A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour."},{"word":"Grided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gride"},{"word":"Griding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gride"},{"word":"Gride","type":"(e. i.)","description":"To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword."},{"word":"Grade","type":"(n.)","description":"A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating."},{"word":"Gridelin","type":"(n.)","description":"A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet."},{"word":"Gridiron","type":"(n.)","description":"A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals."},{"word":"Gridiron","type":"(n.)","description":"An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs."},{"word":"Gridiron","type":"(n.)","description":"A football field."},{"word":"Grief","type":"(a.)","description":"Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness."},{"word":"Grief","type":"(a.)","description":"Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance."},{"word":"Grief","type":"(a.)","description":"Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady."},{"word":"Griefful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of grief or sorrow."},{"word":"Griefless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without grief."},{"word":"Griego","type":"(n.)","description":"See Greggoe."},{"word":"Grievable","type":"(a.)","description":"Lamentable."},{"word":"Grievance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury."},{"word":"Grievance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Grieving; grief; affliction."},{"word":"Grievancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint."},{"word":"Grieve","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Greeve"},{"word":"Greeve","type":"(n.)","description":"A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff."},{"word":"Grieved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grieve"},{"word":"Grieving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grieve"},{"word":"Grieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try."},{"word":"Grieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate."},{"word":"Grieve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over."},{"word":"Griever","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, grieves."},{"word":"Grieving","type":"(a.)","description":"Sad; sorrowful; causing grief."},{"word":"Grieving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved."},{"word":"Grievous","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful."},{"word":"Grievous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin."},{"word":"Grievous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry."},{"word":"Griff","type":"(n.)","description":"Grasp; reach."},{"word":"Griff","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods."},{"word":"Griffe","type":"(n.)","description":"The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto."},{"word":"Griffin","type":"(n.)","description":"An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe."},{"word":"Griffin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Griffon"},{"word":"Griffon","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art."},{"word":"Griffon","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge."},{"word":"Griffon","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the \"eagle\" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir."},{"word":"Griffon","type":"(n.)","description":"An English early apple."},{"word":"Grig","type":"(n.)","description":"A cricket or grasshopper."},{"word":"Grig","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small eel."},{"word":"Grig","type":"(n.)","description":"The broad-nosed eel. See Glut."},{"word":"Grig","type":"(n.)","description":"Heath."},{"word":"Gril","type":"(a.)","description":"Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough."},{"word":"Grill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A gridiron."},{"word":"Grill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc."},{"word":"Grilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grill"},{"word":"Grilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grill"},{"word":"Grill","type":"(n.)","description":"To broil on a grill or gridiron."},{"word":"Grill","type":"(n.)","description":"To torment, as if by broiling."},{"word":"Grillade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled."},{"word":"Grillage","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil."},{"word":"Grille","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A lattice or grating."},{"word":"Grilly","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To broil; to grill; hence, To harass."},{"word":"Grilse","type":"(n.)","description":"A young salmon after its first return from the sea."},{"word":"Grim","type":"(Compar.)","description":"Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible."},{"word":"Grimace","type":"(n.)","description":"A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face."},{"word":"Grimace","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces."},{"word":"Grimaced","type":"(a.)","description":"Distorted; crabbed."},{"word":"Grimalkin","type":"(n.)","description":"An old cat, esp. a she-cat."},{"word":"Grime","type":"(n.)","description":"Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained."},{"word":"Grime","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sully or soil deeply; to dirt."},{"word":"Grimily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grimy manner."},{"word":"Griminess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being grimy."},{"word":"Grimly","type":"(a.)","description":"Grim; hideous; stern."},{"word":"Grimly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grim manner; fiercely."},{"word":"Grimme","type":"(n.)","description":"A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon."},{"word":"Grimness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness."},{"word":"Grimsir","type":"(n.)","description":"A stern man."},{"word":"Grimy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul."},{"word":"Grin","type":"(n.)","description":"A snare; a gin."},{"word":"Grinned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grin"},{"word":"Grinning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grin"},{"word":"Grin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl."},{"word":"Grin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain."},{"word":"Grin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express by grinning."},{"word":"Grin","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grind"},{"word":"Grinding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grind"},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To oppress by severe exactions; to harass."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To study hard for examination."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(n.)","description":"Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study."},{"word":"Grind","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard student; a dig."},{"word":"Grinded","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Ground."},{"word":"Grindelia","type":"(n.)","description":"The dried stems and leaves of tarweed (Grindelia), used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis."},{"word":"Grinder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, grinds."},{"word":"Grinder","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar."},{"word":"Grinder","type":"(n.)","description":"The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes."},{"word":"Grindery","type":"(n.)","description":"Leather workers' materials."},{"word":"Grinding","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"from Grind."},{"word":"Grindingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grinding manner."},{"word":"Grindle","type":"(n.)","description":"The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle."},{"word":"Grindle","type":"()","description":"A grindstone."},{"word":"Grindlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small drain."},{"word":"Grindstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects."},{"word":"Grinner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grins."},{"word":"Grinningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grinning manner."},{"word":"Grint","type":"()","description":"3d pers. sing. pres. of Grind, contr. from grindeth."},{"word":"Grinte","type":"()","description":"imp. of Grin, v. i., 1."},{"word":"Grinting","type":"(n.)","description":"Grinding."},{"word":"Grip","type":"(n.)","description":"The griffin."},{"word":"Grip","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ditch or furrow."},{"word":"Grip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trench; to drain."},{"word":"Grip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping."},{"word":"Grip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip."},{"word":"Grip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword."},{"word":"Grip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A device for grasping or holding fast to something."},{"word":"Grip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"A vulture; the griffin."},{"word":"Griped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gripe"},{"word":"Griping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gripe"},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suffer griping pains."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind."},{"word":"Gripe","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging."},{"word":"Gripeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to gripe; extortionate."},{"word":"Griper","type":"(a.)","description":"One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner."},{"word":"Gripingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a griping or oppressive manner."},{"word":"Griman","type":"(n.)","description":"The man who manipulates a grip."},{"word":"Grippe","type":"(n.)","description":"The influenza or epidemic catarrh."},{"word":"Gripper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, grips or seizes."},{"word":"Gripper","type":"(n.)","description":"In printing presses, the fingers or nippers."},{"word":"Gripple","type":"(n.)","description":"A grasp; a gripe."},{"word":"Gripple","type":"(a.)","description":"Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious."},{"word":"Grippleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being gripple."},{"word":"Gripsack","type":"(n.)","description":"A traveler's handbag."},{"word":"Gris","type":"(a.)","description":"Gray."},{"word":"Gris","type":"(a.)","description":"A costly kind of fur."},{"word":"Gris","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A little pig."},{"word":"Grisaille","type":"(n.)","description":"Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass."},{"word":"Grisaille","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of French fancy dress goods."},{"word":"Grisamber","type":"(n.)","description":"Ambergris."},{"word":"Grise","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grice, a pig."},{"word":"Grise","type":"(n.)","description":"A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree."},{"word":"Griseous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly."},{"word":"Grisette","type":"(n.)","description":"A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry."},{"word":"Griskin","type":"(n.)","description":"The spine of a hog."},{"word":"Grisled","type":"(a.)","description":"See Grizzled."},{"word":"Grisliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being grisly; horrid."},{"word":"Grisly","type":"(a.)","description":"Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter."},{"word":"Grison","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton."},{"word":"Grison","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous."},{"word":"Grisons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps."},{"word":"Grisons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons."},{"word":"Grist","type":"(n.)","description":"Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces."},{"word":"Grist","type":"(n.)","description":"Supply; provision."},{"word":"Grist","type":"(n.)","description":"In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands."},{"word":"Gristle","type":"(n.)","description":"Cartilage. See Cartilage."},{"word":"Gristly","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous."},{"word":"Gristmill","type":"(n.)","description":"A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill."},{"word":"Grit","type":"(n.)","description":"Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles."},{"word":"Grit","type":"(n.)","description":"The coarse part of meal."},{"word":"Grit","type":"(n.)","description":"Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats."},{"word":"Grit","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit."},{"word":"Grit","type":"(n.)","description":"Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit."},{"word":"Grit","type":"(n.)","description":"Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude."},{"word":"Grit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind."},{"word":"Gritted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grit"},{"word":"Gritting","type":"(p. pr. &, vb. n.)","description":"of Grit"},{"word":"Grit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth."},{"word":"Grith","type":"(n.)","description":"Peace; security; agreement."},{"word":"Gritrock","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gritstone"},{"word":"Gritstone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grit, n., 4."},{"word":"Grittiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being gritty."},{"word":"Gritty","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles."},{"word":"Gritty","type":"(a.)","description":"Spirited; resolute; unyielding."},{"word":"Grivet","type":"(n.)","description":"A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota."},{"word":"Grize","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as 2d Grise."},{"word":"Grizelin","type":"(a.)","description":"See Gridelin."},{"word":"Grizzle","type":"(n.)","description":"Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black."},{"word":"Grizzled","type":"(a.)","description":"Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black."},{"word":"Grizzly","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat gray; grizzled."},{"word":"Grizzlies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Grizzly"},{"word":"Grizzly","type":"(n.)","description":"A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a."},{"word":"Grizzly","type":"(a.)","description":"In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices."},{"word":"Groaned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Groan"},{"word":"Groaning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Groan"},{"word":"Groan","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan."},{"word":"Groan","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strive after earnestly, as with groans."},{"word":"Groan","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect by groans."},{"word":"Groan","type":"(n.)","description":"A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans."},{"word":"Groanful","type":"(a.)","description":"Agonizing; sad."},{"word":"Groat","type":"(n.)","description":"An old English silver coin, equal to four pence."},{"word":"Groat","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small sum of money."},{"word":"Groats","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits."},{"word":"Grocer","type":"(n.)","description":"A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities."},{"word":"Groceries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Grocery"},{"word":"Grocery","type":"(n.)","description":"The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense."},{"word":"Grocery","type":"(n.)","description":"A retail grocer's shop or store."},{"word":"Grog","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor."},{"word":"Groggeries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Groggery"},{"word":"Groggery","type":"(n.)","description":"A grogshop."},{"word":"Grogginess","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being groggy."},{"word":"Grogginess","type":"(n.)","description":"Tenderness or stiffness in the foot of a horse, which causes him to move in a hobbling manner."},{"word":"Groggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs."},{"word":"Groggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists."},{"word":"Groggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse."},{"word":"Grogram","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Grogran"},{"word":"Grogran","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk."},{"word":"Grogshop","type":"(n.)","description":"A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop."},{"word":"Groin","type":"(n.)","description":"The snout of a swine."},{"word":"Groin","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur."},{"word":"Groin","type":"(n.)","description":"The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen."},{"word":"Groin","type":"(n.)","description":"The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit."},{"word":"Groin","type":"(n.)","description":"The surface formed by two such vaults."},{"word":"Groin","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle."},{"word":"Groined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Groin"},{"word":"Groining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Groin"},{"word":"Groin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fashion into groins; to build with groins."},{"word":"Groined","type":"(a.)","description":"Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault."},{"word":"Gromet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Grommet."},{"word":"Gromill","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gromwell."},{"word":"Grommet","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet."},{"word":"Grommet","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place."},{"word":"Gromwell","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera."},{"word":"Grond","type":"()","description":"obs. imp. of Grind."},{"word":"Gronte","type":"()","description":"obs. imp. of Groan."},{"word":"Groom","type":"(n.)","description":"A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable."},{"word":"Groom","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole."},{"word":"Groom","type":"(n.)","description":"A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom."},{"word":"Groomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Groom"},{"word":"Grooming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Groom"},{"word":"Groom","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse."},{"word":"Groomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses."},{"word":"Groomsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Groomsman"},{"word":"Groomsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the correlative of bridesmaid."},{"word":"Grooper","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grouper."},{"word":"Groove","type":"(n.)","description":"A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut."},{"word":"Groove","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine."},{"word":"Groove","type":"(n.)","description":"A shaft or excavation."},{"word":"Grooved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Groove"},{"word":"Groving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Groove"},{"word":"Groove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow."},{"word":"Groover","type":"(n.)","description":"One who or that which grooves."},{"word":"Groover","type":"(n.)","description":"A miner."},{"word":"Grooving","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves."},{"word":"Groped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grope"},{"word":"Groping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grope"},{"word":"Grope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feel with or use the hands; to handle."},{"word":"Grope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see."},{"word":"Grope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight."},{"word":"Grope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To examine; to test; to sound."},{"word":"Groper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling."},{"word":"Groping-ly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a groping manner."},{"word":"Gros","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours."},{"word":"Grosbeak","type":"(n.)","description":"One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris."},{"word":"Groschen","type":"(n.)","description":"A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire."},{"word":"Grosgrain","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(superl.)","description":"Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(superl.)","description":"Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(superl.)","description":"Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(superl.)","description":"Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(superl.)","description":"Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(superl.)","description":"Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(a.)","description":"The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass."},{"word":"Gross","type":"(sing. & pl.)","description":"The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens."},{"word":"Grossbeak","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grosbeak."},{"word":"Gross-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Thick-skulled; stupid."},{"word":"Grossification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so."},{"word":"Grossification","type":"(n.)","description":"The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow."},{"word":"Grossly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully."},{"word":"Grossness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness."},{"word":"Grossular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet."},{"word":"Grossular","type":"(a.)","description":"A translucent garnet of a pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also grossularite."},{"word":"Grossularia","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Grossular."},{"word":"Grossulin","type":"(n.)","description":"A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits."},{"word":"Grot","type":"(n.)","description":"A grotto."},{"word":"Grot","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Grote"},{"word":"Grote","type":"(n.)","description":"A groat."},{"word":"Grotesgue","type":"(a.)","description":"Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic."},{"word":"Grotesque","type":"(n.)","description":"A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes."},{"word":"Grotesque","type":"(n.)","description":"Artificial grotto-work."},{"word":"Grotesquely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grotesque manner."},{"word":"Grotesqueness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being grotesque."},{"word":"Grottoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Grotto"},{"word":"Grotto","type":"(n.)","description":"A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment."},{"word":"Grotto-work","type":"(n.)","description":"Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Brussels."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(n.)","description":"The pit of a theater."},{"word":"Grounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ground"},{"word":"Grounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ground"},{"word":"Ground","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay, set, or run, on the ground."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instruct in elements or first principles."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament."},{"word":"Ground","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar."},{"word":"Ground","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Grind."},{"word":"Groundage","type":"(n.)","description":"A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port."},{"word":"Groundedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grounded or firmly established manner."},{"word":"Grounden","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Grind."},{"word":"Grounding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis."},{"word":"Groundless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion."},{"word":"Groundling","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach."},{"word":"Groundling","type":"(n.)","description":"A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches."},{"word":"Groundly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Solidly; deeply; thoroughly."},{"word":"Groundnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the Arachis hypogaea (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut."},{"word":"Groundnut","type":"(n.)","description":"A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste."},{"word":"Groundnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The dwarf ginseng (Aralia trifolia)."},{"word":"Groundnut","type":"(n.)","description":"A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum), having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut."},{"word":"Groundsel","type":"(v.)","description":"An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe."},{"word":"Groundsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Groundsill"},{"word":"Groundsill","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ground plate (a), under Ground"},{"word":"Groundwork","type":"(n.)","description":"That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle."},{"word":"Group","type":"(n.)","description":"A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles."},{"word":"Group","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata."},{"word":"Group","type":"(n.)","description":"A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders."},{"word":"Group","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes."},{"word":"Grouped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Group"},{"word":"Grouping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Group"},{"word":"Group","type":"(n.)","description":"To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of."},{"word":"Grouper","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico."},{"word":"Grouper","type":"(n.)","description":"The tripletail (Lobotes)."},{"word":"Grouper","type":"(n.)","description":"In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes."},{"word":"Grouping","type":"(n.)","description":"The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design."},{"word":"Grouse","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet."},{"word":"Grouse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seek or shoot grouse."},{"word":"Grouse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To complain or grumble."},{"word":"Grouser","type":"(n.)","description":"A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage."},{"word":"Grout","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats."},{"word":"Grout","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a kind of beer or ale."},{"word":"Grout","type":"(n.)","description":"Lees; dregs; grounds."},{"word":"Grout","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt."},{"word":"Grouted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grout"},{"word":"Grouting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grout"},{"word":"Grout","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones."},{"word":"Grouthead","type":"(n.)","description":"See Growthead."},{"word":"Grouting","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in."},{"word":"Groutnol","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Growthead."},{"word":"Grouty","type":"(a.)","description":"Cross; sulky; sullen."},{"word":"Grove","type":"(v.)","description":"A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent."},{"word":"Groveled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grovel"},{"word":"Grovelled","type":"()","description":"of Grovel"},{"word":"Groveling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grovel"},{"word":"Grovelling","type":"()","description":"of Grovel"},{"word":"Grovel","type":"(adv.)","description":"To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl."},{"word":"Grovel","type":"(adv.)","description":"To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean."},{"word":"Groveler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grovels; an abject wretch."},{"word":"Groveling","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying prone; low; debased."},{"word":"Grovy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a grove; situated in, or frequenting, groves."},{"word":"Grew","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Grow"},{"word":"Grown","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Grow"},{"word":"Growing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grow"},{"word":"Grow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs."},{"word":"Grow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue."},{"word":"Grow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries."},{"word":"Grow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale."},{"word":"Grow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become attached of fixed; to adhere."},{"word":"Grow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco."},{"word":"Growable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of growth."},{"word":"Growan","type":"(n.)","description":"A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall."},{"word":"Grower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower."},{"word":"Growled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Growl"},{"word":"Growling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. e.)","description":"of Growl"},{"word":"Growl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound."},{"word":"Growl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express by growling."},{"word":"Growl","type":"(n.)","description":"The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound."},{"word":"Growler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who growls."},{"word":"Growler","type":"(n.)","description":"The large-mouthed black bass."},{"word":"Growler","type":"(n.)","description":"A four-wheeled cab."},{"word":"Growlingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a growling manner."},{"word":"Grown","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Grow."},{"word":"Growse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shiver; to have chills."},{"word":"Growth","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth."},{"word":"Growth","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result."},{"word":"Growthead","type":"(n.)","description":"A lazy person; a blockhead."},{"word":"Growthful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having capacity of growth."},{"word":"Groyne","type":"(n.)","description":"See Groin."},{"word":"Grozing","type":"()","description":"A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass."},{"word":"Grozing","type":"()","description":"A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe."},{"word":"Grubbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grub"},{"word":"Grubbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grub"},{"word":"Grub","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging."},{"word":"Grub","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drudge; to do menial work."},{"word":"Grub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge."},{"word":"Grub","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with food."},{"word":"Grub","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith."},{"word":"Grub","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, thick man; a dwarf."},{"word":"Grub","type":"(n.)","description":"Victuals; food."},{"word":"Grubber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc."},{"word":"Grubbla","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To feel or grope in the dark."},{"word":"Grubby","type":"(a.)","description":"Dirty; unclean."},{"word":"Grubby","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of Cottus; a sculpin."},{"word":"Grubworm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grub, n., 1."},{"word":"Grucche","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To murmur; to grumble."},{"word":"Grudger","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grudge"},{"word":"Grudging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grudge"},{"word":"Grudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects."},{"word":"Grudge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously."},{"word":"Grudge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant."},{"word":"Grudge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feel compunction or grief."},{"word":"Grudge","type":"(n.)","description":"Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel."},{"word":"Grudge","type":"(n.)","description":"Slight symptom of disease."},{"word":"Grudgeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of grudge; envious."},{"word":"Grudgeons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Gurgeons"},{"word":"Gurgeons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Coarse meal."},{"word":"Gruddger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grudges."},{"word":"Grudgingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grudging manner."},{"word":"Grudgingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of grudging, or of being full of grudge or unwillingness."},{"word":"Gruel","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge."},{"word":"Gruelly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like gruel; of the consistence of gruel."},{"word":"Gruesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Grewsome."},{"word":"Gruf","type":"(adv.)","description":"Forwards; with one's face to the ground."},{"word":"Gruff","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh."},{"word":"Grugru","type":"()","description":"A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw."},{"word":"Grugru","type":"()","description":"The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy."},{"word":"Grum","type":"(a.)","description":"Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim."},{"word":"Grum","type":"(a.)","description":"Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as,"},{"word":"Grunbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grumble"},{"word":"Grumbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grumble"},{"word":"Grumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner."},{"word":"Grumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To growl; to snarl in deep tones; as, a lion grumbling over his prey."},{"word":"Grumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rumble; to make a low, harsh, and heavy sound; to mutter; as, the distant thunder grumbles."},{"word":"Grumble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express or utter with grumbling."},{"word":"Grumble","type":"(n.)","description":"The noise of one that grumbles."},{"word":"Grumble","type":"(n.)","description":"A grumbling, discontented disposition."},{"word":"Grumbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who grumbles."},{"word":"Grumblingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grumbling manner."},{"word":"Grume","type":"(n.)","description":"A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood."},{"word":"Grumbly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grum manner."},{"word":"Grumose","type":"(a.)","description":"Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous."},{"word":"Grumous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling or containing grume; thick; concreted; clotted; as, grumous blood."},{"word":"Grumous","type":"(a.)","description":"See Grumose."},{"word":"Grumousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being grumous."},{"word":"Grumpily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a surly manner; sullenly."},{"word":"Grumpy","type":"(a.)","description":"Surly; dissatisfied; grouty."},{"word":"Grundel","type":"(n.)","description":"A groundling (fish)."},{"word":"Grundsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Groundsel."},{"word":"Grunted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Grunt"},{"word":"Grunting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Grunt"},{"word":"Grunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound."},{"word":"Grunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog."},{"word":"Grunt","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken."},{"word":"Grunter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog."},{"word":"Grunter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several American marine fishes. See Sea robin, and Grunt, n., 2."},{"word":"Grunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A hook used in lifting a crucible."},{"word":"Gruntingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a grunting manner."},{"word":"Gruntle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grunt; to grunt repeatedly."},{"word":"Gruntling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young hog."},{"word":"Grutch","type":"(v.)","description":"See Grudge."},{"word":"Gruyere","type":"()","description":"A kind of cheese made at Gruyere, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkase."},{"word":"Gry","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure equal to one tenth of a line."},{"word":"Gry","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything very small, or of little value."},{"word":"Gryde","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gride. See Gride."},{"word":"Gryfon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Griffin."},{"word":"Gryllus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of insects including the common crickets."},{"word":"Grype","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gripe."},{"word":"Grype","type":"(n.)","description":"A vulture; the griffin."},{"word":"Gryphaea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster."},{"word":"Gryphite","type":"(n.)","description":"A shell of the genus Gryphea."},{"word":"Gryphon","type":"(n.)","description":"The griffin vulture."},{"word":"Grysbok","type":"(n.)","description":"A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn."},{"word":"Guacharo","type":"(n.)","description":"A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird."},{"word":"Guachos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Guacho"},{"word":"Guacho","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo."},{"word":"Guacho","type":"(n.)","description":"An Indian who serves as a messenger."},{"word":"Guaco","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites."},{"word":"Guaco","type":"(n.)","description":"The Mikania Guaco, of Brazil, used for the same purpose."},{"word":"Guaiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum."},{"word":"Guaiac","type":"(n.)","description":"Guaiacum."},{"word":"Guaiacum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America."},{"word":"Guaiacum","type":"(n.)","description":"The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine."},{"word":"Guan","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated."},{"word":"Guana","type":"(n.)","description":"See Iguana."},{"word":"Guanacos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Guanaco"},{"word":"Guanaco","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American mammal (Auchenia huanaco), allied to the llama, but of larger size and more graceful form, inhabiting the southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state."},{"word":"Guanidine","type":"(n.)","description":"A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia."},{"word":"Guaniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding guano."},{"word":"Guanin","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline substance (C5H5N5O) contained in guano. It is also a constituent of the liver, pancreas, and other glands in mammals."},{"word":"Guanos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Guano"},{"word":"Guano","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer."},{"word":"Guara","type":"(n.)","description":"The scarlet ibis. See Ibis."},{"word":"Guara","type":"(n.)","description":"A large-maned wild dog of South America (Canis jubatus) -- named from its cry."},{"word":"Guarana","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache."},{"word":"Guaranine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine."},{"word":"Guarantees","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Guarantee"},{"word":"Guarantee","type":"(n.)","description":"In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty."},{"word":"Guarantee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor."},{"word":"Guarantee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor."},{"word":"guaranteed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Guarantee"},{"word":"Guaranteeing","type":"(p, pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Guarantee"},{"word":"Guarantee","type":"(n.)","description":"In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty."},{"word":"Guarantor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety."},{"word":"Guarantor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who engages to secure another in any right or possession."},{"word":"Guaranies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Guaranty"},{"word":"Guaranty","type":"(n.)","description":"In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security."},{"word":"Guarantied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Guaranty"},{"word":"Guarantying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Guaranty"},{"word":"Guaranty","type":"(n.)","description":"In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t."},{"word":"Guarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Guard"},{"word":"Gurding","type":"(p. pr. &, vb. n.)","description":"of Guard"},{"word":"Guard","type":"(n.)","description":"To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(n.)","description":"To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(n.)","description":"To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(n.)","description":"To fasten by binding; to gird."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss"},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard."},{"word":"Guard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites."},{"word":"Guardable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Capable of being guarded or protected."},{"word":"Guardage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Wardship"},{"word":"Guardant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Acting as guardian."},{"word":"Guardant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Gardant."},{"word":"Guardant","type":"(n.)","description":"A guardian."},{"word":"Guarded","type":"(a.)","description":"Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded."},{"word":"Guardenage","type":"(n.)","description":"Guardianship."},{"word":"Guarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who guards."},{"word":"Guardfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The garfish."},{"word":"Guardful","type":"(a.)","description":"Cautions; wary; watchful."},{"word":"Guardhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up."},{"word":"Guardian","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden."},{"word":"Guardian","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs."},{"word":"Guardian","type":"(a.)","description":"Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care."},{"word":"Guardianage","type":"(n.)","description":"Guardianship."},{"word":"Guardiance","type":"(n.)","description":"Guardianship."},{"word":"Guardianess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female guardian."},{"word":"Guardianless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a guardian."},{"word":"Guardianship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch."},{"word":"Guardless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a guard or defense; unguarded."},{"word":"Guardroom","type":"(n.)","description":"The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined."},{"word":"Guards","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A body of picked troops; as, \"The Household Guards.\""},{"word":"Guardship","type":"(n.)","description":"Care; protection."},{"word":"Guardsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Guardsman"},{"word":"Guardsman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who guards; a guard."},{"word":"Guardsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards."},{"word":"Guarish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heal."},{"word":"Guatemala","type":"()","description":"See Teosinte."},{"word":"Guava","type":"(n.)","description":"A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly."},{"word":"Gubernance","type":"(n.)","description":"Government."},{"word":"Gubernate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To govern."},{"word":"Gubernation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of governing; government"},{"word":"Gubernative","type":"(a.)","description":"Governing."},{"word":"Gubernatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a governor, or to government."},{"word":"Gudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons."},{"word":"Gudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"What may be got without skill or merit."},{"word":"Gudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A person easily duped or cheated."},{"word":"Gudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal."},{"word":"Gudgeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder."},{"word":"Gudgeon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon."},{"word":"Gue","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharper; a rogue."},{"word":"Gueber","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Guebre"},{"word":"Guebre","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gheber."},{"word":"Guelderrose'","type":"(n.)","description":"A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree."},{"word":"Guelph","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Guelf"},{"word":"Guelf","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors."},{"word":"Guelphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Guelfic"},{"word":"Guelfic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs."},{"word":"Guenon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet."},{"word":"Gueparde","type":"(n.)","description":"The cheetah."},{"word":"Guerdon","type":"(n.)","description":"A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense."},{"word":"Guerdon","type":"(n.)","description":"To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for."},{"word":"Guerdonable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of reward."},{"word":"Guerdonless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without reward or guerdon."},{"word":"Guereza","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white."},{"word":"Guerilla","type":"(a.)","description":"See Guerrilla."},{"word":"Guerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions."},{"word":"Guernsey","type":"()","description":"A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey."},{"word":"Guerrilla","type":"(n.)","description":"An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war."},{"word":"Guerrilla","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time."},{"word":"Guerrilla","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare."},{"word":"Guessed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Guess"},{"word":"Guessing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Guess"},{"word":"Guess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture."},{"word":"Guess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive."},{"word":"Guess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs."},{"word":"Guess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hit upon or reproduce by memory."},{"word":"Guess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause."},{"word":"Guess","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc."},{"word":"Guess","type":"(n.)","description":"An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise."},{"word":"Guessable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being guessed."},{"word":"Guesser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing."},{"word":"Guessingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of conjecture."},{"word":"Guessive","type":"(a.)","description":"Conjectural."},{"word":"Guess","type":"()","description":"A guess warp."},{"word":"Guess","type":"()","description":"A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object."},{"word":"Guesswork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture."},{"word":"Guest","type":"(n.)","description":"A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay."},{"word":"Guest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive or entertain hospitably."},{"word":"Guest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be, or act the part of, a guest."},{"word":"Guest","type":"()","description":"The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom."},{"word":"Guestwise","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a guest."},{"word":"Gue'vi","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several very small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus Cephalophus, as the Cape guevi or kleeneboc (Cephalophus pygmaea); -- called also pygmy antelope."},{"word":"Guffaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh."},{"word":"Guffer","type":"(n.)","description":"The eelpout; guffer eel."},{"word":"Guggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Gurgle."},{"word":"Guhr","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher."},{"word":"Guiac","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Guaiac."},{"word":"Guiacol","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin."},{"word":"Guiacum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Guaiacum."},{"word":"Guib","type":"(n.)","description":"A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba."},{"word":"Guicowar","type":"(n.)","description":"[Mahratta g/ekw/r, prop., a cowherd.] The title of the sovereign of Guzerat, in Western India; -- generally called the Guicowar of Baroda, which is the capital of the country."},{"word":"Guidable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled."},{"word":"Guidage","type":"(n.)","description":"The reward given to a guide for services."},{"word":"Guidage","type":"(n.)","description":"Guidance; lead; direction."},{"word":"Guidance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading."},{"word":"Guided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Guide"},{"word":"Guiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Guide"},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler."},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train."},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook."},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator."},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator"},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets."},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A grooved director for a probe or knife."},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting."},{"word":"Guide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics."},{"word":"Guideboard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road."},{"word":"Guidebook","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc."},{"word":"Guideless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a guide."},{"word":"Guidepost","type":"(n.)","description":"A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers."},{"word":"Guider","type":"(n.)","description":"A guide; a director."},{"word":"Guideress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female guide."},{"word":"Guidguid","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird."},{"word":"Guidon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon."},{"word":"Guidon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who carries a flag."},{"word":"Guidon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land."},{"word":"Gulge","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gige."},{"word":"Guild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority."},{"word":"Guild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A guildhall."},{"word":"Guild","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work."},{"word":"Guildable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to a tax."},{"word":"Guilder","type":"(n.)","description":"A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden."},{"word":"Guildhall","type":"(n.)","description":"The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall."},{"word":"Guile","type":"(n.)","description":"Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery."},{"word":"Guile","type":"(n.)","description":"To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude."},{"word":"Guileful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty."},{"word":"Guileless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from guile; artless."},{"word":"Guilor","type":"(n.)","description":"A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile."},{"word":"Guillemet","type":"(n.)","description":"A quotation mark."},{"word":"Guillemot","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers."},{"word":"Guillevat","type":"(n.)","description":"A vat for fermenting liquors."},{"word":"Guilloche","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments."},{"word":"Guilloched","type":"(a.)","description":"Waved or engine-turned."},{"word":"Guillotine","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim."},{"word":"Guillotine","type":"(n.)","description":"Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine."},{"word":"Guillotined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Guillotine"},{"word":"Guillotining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Guillotine"},{"word":"Guillotine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To behead with the guillotine."},{"word":"Guilt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right."},{"word":"Guilt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture."},{"word":"Guiltily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a guilty manner."},{"word":"Guiltiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being guilty."},{"word":"Guiltless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from guilt; innocent."},{"word":"Guiltless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with)."},{"word":"Guilt-sick","type":"(a.)","description":"Made sick by consciousness of guilt."},{"word":"Guilty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment."},{"word":"Guilty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling."},{"word":"Guilty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Conscious; cognizant."},{"word":"Guilty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Condemned to payment."},{"word":"Guiltylike","type":"(adv.)","description":"Guiltily."},{"word":"Guinea","type":"(n.)","description":"A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named."},{"word":"Guinea","type":"(n.)","description":"A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817."},{"word":"Guipure","type":"(n.)","description":"A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides."},{"word":"Guirland","type":"(n.)","description":"See Garland."},{"word":"Guise","type":"(n.)","description":"Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself."},{"word":"Guise","type":"(n.)","description":"External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape."},{"word":"Guise","type":"(n.)","description":"Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism."},{"word":"Guiser","type":"(n.)","description":"A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer."},{"word":"Guitar","type":"(n.)","description":"A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers."},{"word":"Guitguit","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidae, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit."},{"word":"GulAe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gula"},{"word":"Gulas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gula"},{"word":"Gula","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat."},{"word":"Gula","type":"(n.)","description":"A plate which in most insects supports the submentum."},{"word":"Gula","type":"(n.)","description":"A capping molding. Same as Cymatium."},{"word":"Gular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. See Illust. of Bird, and Bowfin."},{"word":"Gulaund","type":"(n.)","description":"An arctic sea bird."},{"word":"Gulch","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of gulching or gulping."},{"word":"Gulch","type":"(n.)","description":"A glutton."},{"word":"Gulch","type":"(n.)","description":"A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully."},{"word":"Gulch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow greedily; to gulp down."},{"word":"Guid","type":"(n.)","description":"A flower. See Gold."},{"word":"Gulden","type":"(n.)","description":"See Guilder."},{"word":"Gule","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give the color of gules to."},{"word":"Gule","type":"(n.)","description":"The throat; the gullet."},{"word":"Gules","type":"(n.)","description":"The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red."},{"word":"Gulf","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,"},{"word":"Gulf","type":"(n.)","description":"That which swallows; the gullet."},{"word":"Gulf","type":"(n.)","description":"That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy."},{"word":"Gulf","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico."},{"word":"Gulf","type":"(n.)","description":"A large deposit of ore in a lode."},{"word":"Gulfy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of whirlpools or gulfs."},{"word":"Gulgul","type":"(n.)","description":"A cement made in India from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms."},{"word":"Gulist","type":"(n.)","description":"A glutton."},{"word":"Gulled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gull"},{"word":"Gulling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gull"},{"word":"Gull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud."},{"word":"Gull","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud."},{"word":"Gull","type":"(n.)","description":"One easily cheated; a dupe."},{"word":"Gull","type":"(n.)","description":"One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera."},{"word":"Gullage","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of being gulled."},{"word":"Guller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gulls; a deceiver."},{"word":"Gullery","type":"(n.)","description":"An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud."},{"word":"Gullet","type":"(n.)","description":"The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus."},{"word":"Gullet","type":"(n.)","description":"Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions"},{"word":"Gullet","type":"(n.)","description":"A channel for water."},{"word":"Gullet","type":"(n.)","description":"A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons."},{"word":"Gullet","type":"(n.)","description":"A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades."},{"word":"Gulleting","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels."},{"word":"Gullible","type":"(a.)","description":"Easily gulled; that may be duped."},{"word":"Gullish","type":"(a.)","description":"Foolish; stupid."},{"word":"Gulles","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gully"},{"word":"Gully","type":"(n.)","description":"A large knife."},{"word":"Gullies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gully"},{"word":"Gully","type":"(n.)","description":"A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry."},{"word":"Gully","type":"(n.)","description":"A grooved iron rail or tram plate."},{"word":"Gullied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gully"},{"word":"Gullying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gully"},{"word":"Gully","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wear into a gully or into gullies."},{"word":"Gully","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow noisily."},{"word":"Gulosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity."},{"word":"Gulped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gulp"},{"word":"Gulping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gulp"},{"word":"Gulp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow."},{"word":"Gulp","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once."},{"word":"Gulp","type":"(n.)","description":"A disgorging."},{"word":"Gulph","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gulf."},{"word":"Gult","type":"(n.)","description":"Guilt. See Guilt."},{"word":"Gulty","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty."},{"word":"Guly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gules; red."},{"word":"Gum","type":"(n.)","description":"The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws."},{"word":"Gum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer."},{"word":"Gum","type":"(n.)","description":"A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins."},{"word":"Gum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gum tree, below."},{"word":"Gum","type":"(n.)","description":"A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log."},{"word":"Gum","type":"(n.)","description":"A rubber overshoe."},{"word":"Gummed","type":"(imp. &. p.)","description":"of Gum"},{"word":"Gumming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gum"},{"word":"Gum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance."},{"word":"Gum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exude or from gum; to become gummy."},{"word":"Gumbo","type":"(n.)","description":"A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup."},{"word":"Gumbo","type":"(n.)","description":"The okra plant or its pods."},{"word":"Gumboil","type":"(n.)","description":"A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum."},{"word":"Gummata","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gumma"},{"word":"Gumma","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin."},{"word":"Gummatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or resembling, gumma."},{"word":"Gummer","type":"(n.)","description":"A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw."},{"word":"Gummiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing gum; gum-bearing."},{"word":"Gumminess","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness."},{"word":"Gummite","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite."},{"word":"Gummosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature."},{"word":"Gummous","type":"(a.)","description":"Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy."},{"word":"Gummous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a gumma."},{"word":"Gummy","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum."},{"word":"Gump","type":"(n.)","description":"A dolt; a dunce."},{"word":"Gumption","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity; shrewdness; common sense."},{"word":"Gumption","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of preparing colors."},{"word":"Gumption","type":"(n.)","description":"Megilp."},{"word":"Gun","type":"(n.)","description":"A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary."},{"word":"Gun","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon."},{"word":"Gun","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent blasts of wind."},{"word":"Gun","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning."},{"word":"Guna","type":"(n.)","description":"In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages."},{"word":"Gunarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gynarchy."},{"word":"Gunboat","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns."},{"word":"Guncotton","type":"()","description":"See under Gun."},{"word":"Gundelet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gondola."},{"word":"Gunflint","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps."},{"word":"Gunjah","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ganja."},{"word":"Gunlock","type":"(n.)","description":"The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock."},{"word":"Gunnage","type":"(n.)","description":"The number of guns carried by a ship of war."},{"word":"Gunnel","type":"(n.)","description":"A gunwale."},{"word":"Gunnel","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel."},{"word":"Gunner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer."},{"word":"Gunner","type":"(n.)","description":"A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel."},{"word":"Gunner","type":"(n.)","description":"The great northern diver or loon. See Loon."},{"word":"Gunner","type":"(n.)","description":"The sea bream."},{"word":"Gunnery","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance."},{"word":"Gunnie","type":"(n.)","description":"Space left by the removal of ore."},{"word":"Gunning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun."},{"word":"Gunny","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Gunny cloth"},{"word":"Gunny","type":"()","description":"A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage."},{"word":"Gunocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gyneocracy."},{"word":"Gunpowder","type":"(n.)","description":"A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting."},{"word":"Gunreach","type":"(n.)","description":"The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot."},{"word":"Gunroom","type":"(n.)","description":"An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy."},{"word":"Gunshot","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of firing a gun; a shot."},{"word":"Gunshot","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun."},{"word":"Gunshot","type":"(a.)","description":"Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound."},{"word":"Gunsmith","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer."},{"word":"Gunsmithery","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gunsmith ing"},{"word":"Gunsmith","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or business of a gunsmith."},{"word":"Gunstick","type":"(n.)","description":"A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod."},{"word":"Gunstock","type":"(n.)","description":"The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened."},{"word":"Gunstome","type":"(n.)","description":"A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone."},{"word":"Gunter","type":"()","description":"A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast."},{"word":"Gunter's","type":"()","description":"The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale."},{"word":"Gunter's","type":"()","description":"A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers."},{"word":"Gunter's","type":"()","description":"A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale."},{"word":"Gunter's","type":"()","description":"A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant."},{"word":"Gunwale","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull."},{"word":"Gurge","type":"(n.)","description":"A whirlpool."},{"word":"Gurge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow up."},{"word":"Gurgeons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Grudgeons."},{"word":"Gurgled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gurgle"},{"word":"Gurgling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gurgle"},{"word":"Gurgle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones."},{"word":"Gurgle","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. \"Tinkling gurgles.\""},{"word":"Gurglet","type":"(n.)","description":"A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation."},{"word":"Gurgling-ly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gurgling manner."},{"word":"Gurgoyle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gargoyle."},{"word":"Gurjun","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint."},{"word":"Gurl","type":"(n.)","description":"A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See Girl."},{"word":"Gurlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge."},{"word":"Gurmy","type":"(n.)","description":"A level; a working."},{"word":"Gurnard","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gurnet"},{"word":"Gurnet","type":"(n.)","description":"One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins."},{"word":"Gurniad","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gwiniad."},{"word":"Gurry","type":"(n.)","description":"An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter."},{"word":"Gurry","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fort."},{"word":"Gurt","type":"(n.)","description":"A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift."},{"word":"Gurts","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Groatts."},{"word":"Gushed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gush"},{"word":"Gushing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gush"},{"word":"Gush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously."},{"word":"Gush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner."},{"word":"Gush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird."},{"word":"Gush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment."},{"word":"Gusher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gushes."},{"word":"Gushing","type":"(a.)","description":"Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters."},{"word":"Gushing","type":"(a.)","description":"Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental."},{"word":"Gushingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gushing manner; copiously."},{"word":"Gushingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Weakly; sentimentally; effusively."},{"word":"Gusset","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement."},{"word":"Gusset","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling a gusset in a garment"},{"word":"Gusset","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms."},{"word":"Gusset","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler."},{"word":"Gusset","type":"(n.)","description":"An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset."},{"word":"Gust","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw."},{"word":"Gust","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden violent burst of passion."},{"word":"Gust","type":"(n.)","description":"The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto."},{"word":"Gust","type":"(n.)","description":"Gratification of any kind, particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment."},{"word":"Gust","type":"(n.)","description":"Intellectual taste; fancy."},{"word":"Gust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taste; to have a relish for."},{"word":"Gustable","type":"(v.)","description":"Capable of being tasted; tastable."},{"word":"Gustable","type":"(v.)","description":"Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory."},{"word":"Gustable","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that can be tasted."},{"word":"Gustard","type":"(n.)","description":"The great bustard."},{"word":"Gustation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of tasting."},{"word":"Gustatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue."},{"word":"Gustful","type":"(a.)","description":"Tasteful; well-tasted."},{"word":"Gustful","type":"(a.)","description":"Gusty."},{"word":"Gustless","type":"(a.)","description":"Tasteless; insipid."},{"word":"Gusto","type":"(n.)","description":"Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy."},{"word":"Gustoso","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner."},{"word":"Gusty","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous."},{"word":"Gut","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso."},{"word":"Gut","type":"(n.)","description":"An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails."},{"word":"Gut","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut."},{"word":"Gut","type":"(n.)","description":"The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line."},{"word":"Gutted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gut"},{"word":"Gutting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gut"},{"word":"Gut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate."},{"word":"Gut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse."},{"word":"GuttAe","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gutta"},{"word":"Gutta","type":"(n.)","description":"A drop."},{"word":"Gutta","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop."},{"word":"Gutta-percha","type":"(n.)","description":"A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, / Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material."},{"word":"Guttate","type":"(a.)","description":"Spotted, as if discolored by drops."},{"word":"Guttated","type":"(a.)","description":"Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots."},{"word":"Guttatrap","type":"(n.)","description":"The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality."},{"word":"Gutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough."},{"word":"Gutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water."},{"word":"Gutter","type":"(n.)","description":"Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing."},{"word":"Guttered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gutter"},{"word":"Guttering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gutter"},{"word":"Gutter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel."},{"word":"Gutter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with a gutter or gutters."},{"word":"Gutter","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind."},{"word":"Guttifer","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant that exudes gum or resin."},{"word":"Guttiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Yielding gum or resinous substances."},{"word":"Guttiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttiferae) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap."},{"word":"Guttiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Drop-shaped, as a spot of color."},{"word":"Guttle","type":"(n.)","description":"To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange."},{"word":"Guttler","type":"(n.)","description":"A greedy eater; a glutton."},{"word":"Guttulous","type":"(a.)","description":"In droplike form."},{"word":"Guttural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat."},{"word":"Guttural","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound."},{"word":"Gutturalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A [in the 16th cent.]"},{"word":"Gutturality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being guttural."},{"word":"Gutturalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To speak gutturally; to give a guttural sound to."},{"word":"Gutturally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a guttural manner."},{"word":"Gutturalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being guttural."},{"word":"Gutturine","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the throat."},{"word":"Gutturize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make in the throat; to gutturalize."},{"word":"Gutturo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo-nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal."},{"word":"Gutty","type":"(a.)","description":"Charged or sprinkled with drops."},{"word":"Gutwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa."},{"word":"Guy","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened."},{"word":"Guyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Guy"},{"word":"Guying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Guy"},{"word":"Guy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steady or guide with a guy."},{"word":"Guy","type":"(n.)","description":"A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot."},{"word":"Guy","type":"(n.)","description":"A person of queer looks or dress."},{"word":"Guy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule."},{"word":"Guyle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To guile."},{"word":"Guze","type":"(n.)","description":"A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture."},{"word":"Guzzled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Guzzle"},{"word":"Guzzling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Guzzle"},{"word":"Guzzle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently."},{"word":"Guzzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer."},{"word":"Guzzle","type":"(n.)","description":"An insatiable thing or person."},{"word":"Guzzler","type":"(n.)","description":"An immoderate drinker."},{"word":"Gwiniad","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly."},{"word":"Gyall","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gayal."},{"word":"Gyb","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gybe"},{"word":"Gybe","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jib."},{"word":"Gybe","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Gibe."},{"word":"Gybed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gybe"},{"word":"Gybing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gybe"},{"word":"Gybe","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side."},{"word":"Gye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To guide; to govern."},{"word":"Gyle","type":"(n.)","description":"Fermented wort used for making vinegar."},{"word":"Gymnal","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Gimmal."},{"word":"Gymnasiarch","type":"(n.)","description":"An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense."},{"word":"Gymnasiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gymnasium"},{"word":"Gymnasia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gymnasium"},{"word":"Gymnasium","type":"(n.)","description":"A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics."},{"word":"Gymnasium","type":"(n.)","description":"A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind."},{"word":"Gymnast","type":"(n.)","description":"One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete."},{"word":"Gymnastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gymnastical"},{"word":"Gymnastical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc."},{"word":"Gymnastic","type":"(n.)","description":"A gymnast."},{"word":"Gymnastically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a gymnastic manner."},{"word":"Gymnastics","type":"(n.)","description":"Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character."},{"word":"Gymnic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gymnical"},{"word":"Gymnical","type":"(a.)","description":"Athletic; gymnastic."},{"word":"Gymnic","type":"(n.)","description":"Athletic exercise."},{"word":"Gymnite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous silicate of magnesia."},{"word":"Gymnoblastea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule."},{"word":"Gymnoblastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea."},{"word":"Gymnocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth."},{"word":"Gymnochroa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See Hydra."},{"word":"Gymnocladus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee."},{"word":"Gymnocopa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having setae only in the cephalic appendages."},{"word":"Gymnocyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus."},{"word":"Gymnocytode","type":"(n.)","description":"A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus."},{"word":"Gymnodont","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon."},{"word":"Gymnogen","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm."},{"word":"Gymnoglossa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth."},{"word":"Gymnolaema","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Gymnolaemata"},{"word":"Gymnolaemata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Bryozoa, having no epistome."},{"word":"Gymnonoti","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The order of fishes which includes the Gymnotus or electrical eel. The dorsal fin is wanting."},{"word":"Gymnopaedic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopaedic; -- said of certain birds."},{"word":"Gymnophiona","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha."},{"word":"Gymnophthalmata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids."},{"word":"Gymnoplast","type":"(n.)","description":"A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle."},{"word":"Gymnorhinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds."},{"word":"Gymnosomata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the orders of Pteropoda. They have no shell."},{"word":"Gymnosophist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature."},{"word":"Gymnosophy","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines of the Gymnosophists."},{"word":"Gymnosperm","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm."},{"word":"Gymnospermous","type":"(n.)","description":"Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel."},{"word":"Gymnospermous","type":"(n.)","description":"Belonging to the class of plants consisting of gymnosperms."},{"word":"Gymnotoka","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Athecata."},{"word":"Gymnotus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power."},{"word":"Gyn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To begin [Obs.] See Gin."},{"word":"Gynaeceum","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Gynaecium"},{"word":"Gynaecium","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women."},{"word":"Gynaecian","type":"(a.)","description":"The same as Gynecian."},{"word":"Gynaecophore","type":"(n.)","description":"A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some di/cious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Haematozoa."},{"word":"Gynander","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil."},{"word":"Gynandria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil."},{"word":"Gynandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Gynandrous"},{"word":"Gynandrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria."},{"word":"Gynandromorph","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal affected with gynandromorphism,"},{"word":"Gynandromorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female."},{"word":"Gynandromorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected, with gynandromorphism."},{"word":"Gynantherous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils."},{"word":"Gynarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by a woman."},{"word":"Gyneceum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gynaeceum."},{"word":"Gynecian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to women."},{"word":"Gynecocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy."},{"word":"Gynecological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to gynecology."},{"word":"Gynecology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women."},{"word":"Gyneocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gynecocracy."},{"word":"Gyneolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"The adoration or worship of woman."},{"word":"Gynephobia","type":"(n.)","description":"Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women."},{"word":"Gynno","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To begin. See Gin."},{"word":"Gynobase","type":"(n.)","description":"A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary."},{"word":"Gynobasic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having, a gynobase."},{"word":"Gynocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Female government; gynecocracy."},{"word":"Gynodioecious","type":"(a.)","description":"Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers."},{"word":"Gynoecium","type":"(n.)","description":"The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore."},{"word":"Gynophore","type":"(n.)","description":"The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower."},{"word":"Gynophore","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora."},{"word":"Gyp","type":"(n.)","description":"A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout."},{"word":"Gypse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gypsum."},{"word":"Gypseous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum."},{"word":"Gypsey","type":"(n.)","description":"A gypsy. See Gypsy."},{"word":"Gypsiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing gypsum."},{"word":"Gyp'sine","type":"(a.)","description":"Gypseous."},{"word":"Gypsography","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of engraving on gypsum."},{"word":"Gypsoplast","type":"(n.)","description":"A cast taken in plaster of Paris, or in white lime."},{"word":"Gypsum","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety."},{"word":"Gypsies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gypsy"},{"word":"Gypsy","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany."},{"word":"Gypsy","type":"(n.)","description":"The language used by the gypsies."},{"word":"Gypsy","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark-complexioned person."},{"word":"Gypsy","type":"(n.)","description":"A cunning or crafty person"},{"word":"Gypsy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies."},{"word":"Gypsy","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods."},{"word":"Gypsyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery."},{"word":"Gypsyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of a gypsy."},{"word":"Gypsywort","type":"(n.)","description":"A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europaeus). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice."},{"word":"Gyracanthus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines."},{"word":"Gyral","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving in a circular path or way; whirling; gyratory."},{"word":"Gyral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a gyrus, or convolution."},{"word":"Gyrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Gyrating."},{"word":"Gyrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course."},{"word":"Gyrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Gyrate"},{"word":"Gyrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Gyrate"},{"word":"Gyrate","type":"(n.)","description":"To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve."},{"word":"Gyration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution."},{"word":"Gyration","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell."},{"word":"Gyratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around."},{"word":"Gyre","type":"(n.)","description":"A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit."},{"word":"Gyre","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To turn round; to gyrate."},{"word":"Gyreful","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in gyres."},{"word":"Gyrencephala","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted."},{"word":"Gyrfalcon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species F. Islandicus, both of which are circumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the former. See Illust. of Accipiter."},{"word":"Gyri","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Gyrus."},{"word":"Gyrland","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To garland."},{"word":"Gyrodus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of extinct oolitic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing."},{"word":"Gyrogonite","type":"(n.)","description":"The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort."},{"word":"Gyroidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Spiral in arrangement or action."},{"word":"Gyroidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the planes arranged spirally, so that they incline all to the right (or left) of a vertical line; -- said of certain hemihedral forms."},{"word":"Gyroidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left."},{"word":"Gyrolepis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds."},{"word":"Gyroma","type":"(n.)","description":"A turning round."},{"word":"Gyromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it."},{"word":"Gyron","type":"(n.)","description":"A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner."},{"word":"Gyronny","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons; -- said of an escutcheon."},{"word":"Gyropigeon","type":"(n.)","description":"A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches."},{"word":"Gyroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope."},{"word":"Gyroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion."},{"word":"Gyroscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the gyroscope; resembling the motion of the gyroscope."},{"word":"Gy-rose","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro."},{"word":"Gyrostat","type":"(n.)","description":"A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies."},{"word":"Gyrostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics."},{"word":"Gyrostatics","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or theory of the gyrostat, or of the phenomena of rotating bodies."},{"word":"Gyri","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Gyrus"},{"word":"Gyrus","type":"(n.)","description":"A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain."},{"word":"Gyse","type":"(n.)","description":"Guise."},{"word":"Gyte","type":"(a.)","description":"Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte."},{"word":"Gyve","type":"(n.)","description":"A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter."},{"word":"Gyve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fetter; to shackle; to chain."},{"word":"H","type":"()","description":"the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 153, 179, 181-3, 237-8."},{"word":"H","type":"()","description":"The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B."},{"word":"Ha","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to \"Well, it is so.\""},{"word":"Haaf","type":"(n.)","description":"The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles."},{"word":"Haak","type":"(n.)","description":"A sea fish. See Hake."},{"word":"Haar","type":"(n.)","description":"A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind."},{"word":"Habeas","type":"()","description":"A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial."},{"word":"Habendum","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum."},{"word":"Haberdash","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deal in small wares."},{"word":"Haberdasher","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter."},{"word":"Haberdasher","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc."},{"word":"Haberdashery","type":"(n.)","description":"The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles."},{"word":"Haberdine","type":"(n.)","description":"A cod salted and dried."},{"word":"Habergeon","type":"(n.)","description":"Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk."},{"word":"Habilatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes."},{"word":"Habile","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit; qualified; also, apt."},{"word":"Habiliment","type":"(n.)","description":"A garment; an article of clothing."},{"word":"Habiliment","type":"(n.)","description":"Dress, in general."},{"word":"Habilimented","type":"(a.)","description":"Clothed. Taylor (1630)."},{"word":"Habilitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Qualified or entitled."},{"word":"Habilitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle."},{"word":"Habilitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Equipment; qualification."},{"word":"Hability","type":"(n.)","description":"Ability; aptitude."},{"word":"Habit","type":"(n.)","description":"The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body."},{"word":"Habit","type":"(n.)","description":"The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism."},{"word":"Habit","type":"(n.)","description":"Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior."},{"word":"Habit","type":"(n.)","description":"Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit."},{"word":"Habited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Habit"},{"word":"Habiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Habit"},{"word":"Habit","type":"(n.)","description":"To inhabit."},{"word":"Habit","type":"(n.)","description":"To dress; to clothe; to array."},{"word":"Habit","type":"(n.)","description":"To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman."},{"word":"Habitability","type":"(n.)","description":"Habitableness."},{"word":"Habitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world."},{"word":"Habitakle","type":"(v.)","description":"A dwelling place."},{"word":"Habitan","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Habitant, 2."},{"word":"Habitance","type":"(n.)","description":"Dwelling; abode; residence."},{"word":"Habiitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Inhabitancy."},{"word":"Habitant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An inhabitant; a dweller."},{"word":"Habitant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural."},{"word":"Habitat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant."},{"word":"Habitat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Place where anything is commonly found."},{"word":"Habitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy."},{"word":"Habitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house."},{"word":"Habitator","type":"(n.)","description":"A dweller; an inhabitant."},{"word":"Habited","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd."},{"word":"Habited","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Fixed by habit; accustomed."},{"word":"Habited","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Inhabited."},{"word":"Habitual","type":"(n.)","description":"Formed or acquired by habit or use."},{"word":"Habitual","type":"(n.)","description":"According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin."},{"word":"Habituated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Habituate"},{"word":"Habituating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Habituate"},{"word":"Habituate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize."},{"word":"Habituate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To settle as an inhabitant."},{"word":"Habituate","type":"(a.)","description":"Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual."},{"word":"Habituation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated."},{"word":"Habitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations."},{"word":"Habitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity."},{"word":"Habitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Habit of body or of action."},{"word":"Habitue","type":"(n.)","description":"One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater."},{"word":"Habiture","type":"(n.)","description":"Habitude."},{"word":"Habitus","type":"(n.)","description":"Habitude; mode of life; general appearance."},{"word":"Hable","type":"(a.)","description":"See Habile."},{"word":"Habnab","type":"(adv.)","description":"By chance."},{"word":"Hachure","type":"(n.)","description":"A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching."},{"word":"Hacienda","type":"(n.)","description":"A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying."},{"word":"Hacked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hack"},{"word":"Hacking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hack"},{"word":"Hack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To mangle in speaking."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"A notch; a cut."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"A kick on the shins."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(n.)","description":"A procuress."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(a.)","description":"Hackneyed; hired; mercenary."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use as a hack; to let out for hire."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute."},{"word":"Hack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To live the life of a drudge or hack."},{"word":"Hackamore","type":"(n.)","description":"A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal."},{"word":"Hackberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States."},{"word":"Hackbolt","type":"(n.)","description":"The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon."},{"word":"Hackbuss","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hagbut."},{"word":"Hackee","type":"(n.)","description":"The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel."},{"word":"Hacker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack."},{"word":"Hackery","type":"(n.)","description":"A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks."},{"word":"Hackle","type":"(n.)","description":"A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel."},{"word":"Hackle","type":"(n.)","description":"Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk."},{"word":"Hackle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used."},{"word":"Hackle","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers."},{"word":"Hackled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hackle"},{"word":"Hackling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hackle"},{"word":"Hackle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel."},{"word":"Hackle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tear asunder; to break in pieces."},{"word":"Hackly","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough or broken, as if hacked."},{"word":"Hackly","type":"(a.)","description":"Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as, the hackly fracture of metallic iron."},{"word":"Hackmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hackman"},{"word":"Hackman","type":"(n.)","description":"The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire."},{"word":"Hackmatack","type":"(n.)","description":"The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack."},{"word":"Hackneys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hackney"},{"word":"Hackney","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony."},{"word":"Hackney","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse or pony kept for hire."},{"word":"Hackney","type":"(n.)","description":"A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach."},{"word":"Hackney","type":"(n.)","description":"A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute."},{"word":"Hackney","type":"(a.)","description":"Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors."},{"word":"Hackneyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hackney"},{"word":"Hackneying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hackney"},{"word":"Hackney","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation."},{"word":"Hackney","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry in a hackney coach."},{"word":"Hackneymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hackneyman"},{"word":"Hackneyman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who lets horses and carriages for hire."},{"word":"Hackster","type":"(n.)","description":"A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin."},{"word":"Hacqueton","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Acton."},{"word":"Had","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"See Have."},{"word":"Hadder","type":"(n.)","description":"Heather; heath."},{"word":"Haddie","type":"(n.)","description":"The haddock."},{"word":"Haddock","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie."},{"word":"Hade","type":"(n.)","description":"The descent of a hill."},{"word":"Hade","type":"(n.)","description":"The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein."},{"word":"Hade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode."},{"word":"Hades","type":"(n.)","description":"The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave."},{"word":"Hadj","type":"(n.)","description":"The pilgrimage to Mecca, performed by Mohammedans."},{"word":"Hadji","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mohammedan pilgrim to Mecca; -- used among Orientals as a respectful salutation or a title of honor."},{"word":"Hadji","type":"(n.)","description":"A Greek or Armenian who has visited the holy sepulcher at Jerusalem."},{"word":"Hadrosaurus","type":"(n.)","description":"An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation."},{"word":"Haecceity","type":"()","description":"Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book."},{"word":"Haema-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Haemo-"},{"word":"Haemato-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Haemo-"},{"word":"Haemo-","type":"()","description":"Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, haemapod, haematogenesis, haemoscope."},{"word":"Haemachrome","type":"(n.)","description":"Hematin."},{"word":"Haemacyanin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color."},{"word":"Haemacytometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood."},{"word":"Haemad","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the haemal side; on the haemal side of; -- opposed to neurad."},{"word":"Haemadrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Haemadremometer"},{"word":"Haemadremometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemadrometer."},{"word":"Haemadrometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Haemadromometry"},{"word":"Haemadromometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemadrometry."},{"word":"Haemadromograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood."},{"word":"Haemadynameter","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Haemadynamometer"},{"word":"Haemadynamometer","type":"()","description":"Same as Hemadynamometer."},{"word":"Haemadynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemadynamics."},{"word":"Haemal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also, ventral. See Hemal."},{"word":"Haemaphaein","type":"(n.)","description":"A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice."},{"word":"Haemapod","type":"(n.)","description":"An haemapodous animal."},{"word":"Haemapodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the ventral or hemal side, as in vertebrates; -- opposed to neuropodous."},{"word":"Haemapoietic","type":"(a.)","description":"Bloodforming; as, the haemapoietic function of the spleen."},{"word":"Haemapophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemapophysis."},{"word":"Haemastatics","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemastatics."},{"word":"Haematachometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood."},{"word":"Haematachometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The measurement of the velocity of the blood."},{"word":"Haematemesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hematemesis."},{"word":"Haematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red."},{"word":"Haematin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hematin."},{"word":"Haematinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hematinometer."},{"word":"Haematinometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hematinometric."},{"word":"Haematite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hematite."},{"word":"Haematitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red."},{"word":"Haemato-","type":"(prefix.)","description":"See Haema-."},{"word":"Haematoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate."},{"word":"Haematocrya","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya."},{"word":"Haematocryal","type":"(a.)","description":"Cold-blooded."},{"word":"Haematocrystallin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hematocrystallin."},{"word":"Haematodynamometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemadynamometer."},{"word":"Haematogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The origin and development of blood."},{"word":"Haematogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The transformation of venous arterial blood by respiration; hematosis."},{"word":"Haematogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to haematogenesis."},{"word":"Haematogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Originating in the blood."},{"word":"Haematoglobulin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hematoglobin."},{"word":"Haematoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hematoid."},{"word":"Haematoidin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hematoidin."},{"word":"Haematoin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance formed from the hematin of blood, by removal of the iron through the action of concentrated sulphuric acid. Two like bodies, called respectively haematoporphyrin and haematolin, are formed in a similar manner."},{"word":"Haematolin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haematoin."},{"word":"Haematology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology."},{"word":"Haematometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemadynamometer."},{"word":"Haematometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood."},{"word":"Haematophlina","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire."},{"word":"Haematoplast","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haematoblast."},{"word":"Haematoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels."},{"word":"Haematoporphyrin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haematoin."},{"word":"Haematosac","type":"(n.)","description":"A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum."},{"word":"Haematoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A haemoscope."},{"word":"Haematosin","type":"(n.)","description":"Hematin."},{"word":"Haematosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hematosis."},{"word":"Haematotherma","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Hematotherma."},{"word":"Haematothermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Warm-blooded; homoiothermal."},{"word":"Haematothorax","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemothorax."},{"word":"Haematexylin","type":"(n.)","description":"The coloring principle of logwood. It is obtained as a yellow crystalline substance, C16H14O6, with a sweetish taste. Formerly called also hematin."},{"word":"Haematoxylon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan."},{"word":"Haematozoa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Haematozoon"},{"word":"Haematozoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A parasite inhabiting the blood"},{"word":"Haematozoon","type":"(n.)","description":"Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc."},{"word":"Haematozoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The trematode, Bilharzia haematobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death."},{"word":"Haemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the blood; hemal."},{"word":"Haemin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemin."},{"word":"Haemo-","type":"(prefix.)","description":"See Haema-."},{"word":"Haemochrome","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haemachrome."},{"word":"Haemochromogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A body obtained from hemoglobin, by the action of reducing agents in the absence of oxygen."},{"word":"Haemochromometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color."},{"word":"Haemocyanin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haemacyanin."},{"word":"Haemocytolysis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haemocytotrypsis."},{"word":"Haemocytometer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haemacytometer."},{"word":"Haemocytotrypsis","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or haemcytolysis."},{"word":"Haemodromograph","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haemadromograph."},{"word":"Haemodynameter","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemadynamics."},{"word":"Haemoglobin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemoglobin."},{"word":"Haemoglobinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemochromometer."},{"word":"Haemolutein","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hematoidin."},{"word":"Haemomanometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemadynamometer."},{"word":"Haemometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemadynamometer."},{"word":"Haemony","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant described by Milton as \"of sovereign use against all enchantments.\""},{"word":"Haemoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Haematoplastic."},{"word":"Haemorrhoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hemorrhoidal."},{"word":"Haemoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination."},{"word":"Haemostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hemostatic."},{"word":"Haemotachometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haematachometer."},{"word":"Haemotachometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haematachometry."},{"word":"Haf","type":"(imp.)","description":"Hove."},{"word":"Haffle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate."},{"word":"Haft","type":"(n.)","description":"A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt."},{"word":"Haft","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwelling."},{"word":"Haft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger."},{"word":"Hafter","type":"(n.)","description":"A caviler; a wrangler."},{"word":"Hag","type":"(n.)","description":"A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard."},{"word":"Hag","type":"(n.)","description":"An ugly old woman."},{"word":"Hag","type":"(n.)","description":"A fury; a she-monster."},{"word":"Hag","type":"(n.)","description":"An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken."},{"word":"Hag","type":"(n.)","description":"The hagdon or shearwater."},{"word":"Hag","type":"(n.)","description":"An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair."},{"word":"Hagged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hag"},{"word":"Hagging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hag"},{"word":"Hag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harass; to weary with vexation."},{"word":"Hag","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled."},{"word":"Hag","type":"(n.)","description":"A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut."},{"word":"Hagberry","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry."},{"word":"Hagborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Born of a hag or witch."},{"word":"Hagbut","type":"(n.)","description":"A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim."},{"word":"Hagbutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus."},{"word":"Hagdon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater."},{"word":"Haggadoth","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Haggada"},{"word":"Haggada","type":"(n.)","description":"A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament."},{"word":"Haggard","type":"(a.)","description":"Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk."},{"word":"Haggard","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes."},{"word":"Haggard","type":"(a.)","description":"A young or untrained hawk or falcon."},{"word":"Haggard","type":"(a.)","description":"A fierce, intractable creature."},{"word":"Haggard","type":"(a.)","description":"A hag."},{"word":"Haggard","type":"(n.)","description":"A stackyard."},{"word":"Haggardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a haggard manner."},{"word":"Hagged","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a hag; lean; ugly."},{"word":"Haggis","type":"(n.)","description":"A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck."},{"word":"Haggish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled."},{"word":"Haggishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of a hag."},{"word":"Haggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Haggle"},{"word":"Haggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Haggle"},{"word":"Haggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood."},{"word":"Haggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle."},{"word":"Haggle","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of haggling."},{"word":"Haggler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining."},{"word":"Haggler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets."},{"word":"Hagiarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A sacred government; by holy orders of men."},{"word":"Hagiocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by a priesthood; hierarchy."},{"word":"Hagiographa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles."},{"word":"Hagiographa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The lives of the saints."},{"word":"Hagiographal","type":"()","description":"Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings."},{"word":"Hagiographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints."},{"word":"Hagiography","type":"(n.)","description":"Same Hagiographa."},{"word":"Hagiolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"The invocation or worship of saints."},{"word":"Hagiologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer."},{"word":"Hagiology","type":"(n.)","description":"The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints."},{"word":"Hagioscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint."},{"word":"Hag-ridden","type":"(a.)","description":"Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare."},{"word":"Hagseed","type":"(n.)","description":"The offspring of a hag."},{"word":"Hagship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or title of a hag."},{"word":"Hag-taper","type":"(n.)","description":"The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus)."},{"word":"Haguebut","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hagbut."},{"word":"Hah","type":"(interj.)","description":"Same as Ha."},{"word":"Ha-ha","type":"(n.)","description":"A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it."},{"word":"Haidingerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna."},{"word":"Haiduck","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts."},{"word":"Haik","type":"(n.)","description":"A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment."},{"word":"Haikal","type":"(n.)","description":"The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(n.)","description":"Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones."},{"word":"Halled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hail"},{"word":"Halting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hail"},{"word":"Hail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour forcibly down, as hail."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(a.)","description":"Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling)."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To name; to designate; to call."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting."},{"word":"Hail","type":"(n.)","description":"A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call."},{"word":"Hail-fellow","type":"(n.)","description":"An intimate companion."},{"word":"Hailse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To greet; to salute."},{"word":"Hailshot","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Small shot which scatter like hailstones."},{"word":"Hailstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail."},{"word":"Hailstorm","type":"(n.)","description":"A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail."},{"word":"Haily","type":"(a.)","description":"Of hail."},{"word":"Han","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass."},{"word":"Hain't","type":"()","description":"A contraction of have not or has not; as, I hain't, he hain't, we hain't."},{"word":"Hair","type":"(n.)","description":"The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body."},{"word":"Hair","type":"(n.)","description":"One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin."},{"word":"Hair","type":"(n.)","description":"Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions."},{"word":"Hair","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth."},{"word":"Hair","type":"(n.)","description":"An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar)."},{"word":"Hair","type":"(n.)","description":"A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm."},{"word":"Hair","type":"(n.)","description":"A haircloth."},{"word":"Hair","type":"(n.)","description":"Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth."},{"word":"Hairbell","type":"(n.)","description":"See Harebell."},{"word":"Hairbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The chipping sparrow."},{"word":"Hairbrained","type":"(a.)","description":"See Harebrained."},{"word":"Hairbreadth","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hair'sbreadth"},{"word":"Hair'sbreadth","type":"()","description":"The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch."},{"word":"Hairbreadth","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape."},{"word":"Hair-brown","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green."},{"word":"Hairbrush","type":"(n.)","description":"A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair."},{"word":"Haircloth","type":"(n.)","description":"Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair."},{"word":"Hairdresser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber."},{"word":"Haired","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hair."},{"word":"Haired","type":"(a.)","description":"In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired."},{"word":"Hairen","type":"(a.)","description":"Hairy."},{"word":"Hair","type":"()","description":"A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia."},{"word":"Hairiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair."},{"word":"Hairless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of hair."},{"word":"Hairpin","type":"(n.)","description":"A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women."},{"word":"Hair-salt","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers."},{"word":"Hairsplitter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles."},{"word":"Hairsplitting","type":"(a.)","description":"Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle."},{"word":"Hairsplitting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of making trivial distinctions."},{"word":"Hairspring","type":"(n.)","description":"The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece."},{"word":"Hairstreak","type":"(n.)","description":"A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi)."},{"word":"Hairtail","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish."},{"word":"Hairworm","type":"()","description":"A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius, resembling a hair. See Gordius."},{"word":"Hairy","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute."},{"word":"Haitian","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Haytian."},{"word":"Haye","type":"(n.)","description":"The Egyptian asp or cobra (Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp."},{"word":"Hake","type":"(n.)","description":"A drying shed, as for unburned tile."},{"word":"Hake","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling."},{"word":"Hake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To loiter; to sneak."},{"word":"Hake's-dame","type":"(n.)","description":"See Forkbeard."},{"word":"Haketon","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Acton."},{"word":"Hakim","type":"(n.)","description":"A wise man; a physician, esp. a Mohammedan."},{"word":"Hakim","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mohammedan title for a ruler; a judge."},{"word":"Halachoth","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Halacha"},{"word":"Halacha","type":"(n.)","description":"The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash."},{"word":"Halation","type":"(n.)","description":"An appearance as of a halo of light, surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture."},{"word":"Halberd","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form."},{"word":"Halberdier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is armed with a halberd."},{"word":"Halberd-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Hastate."},{"word":"Halcyon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia."},{"word":"Halcyon","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice."},{"word":"Halcyon","type":"(a.)","description":"Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy."},{"word":"Halcyonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Halcyon; calm."},{"word":"Halcyonold","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"See Alcyonoid."},{"word":"Hale","type":"(a.)","description":"Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body."},{"word":"Hale","type":"(n.)","description":"Welfare."},{"word":"Haled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hale"},{"word":"Haling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hale"},{"word":"Hale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pull; to drag; to haul."},{"word":"Halesia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels."},{"word":"Half","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view."},{"word":"Half","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge."},{"word":"Half","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious."},{"word":"Halves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Half"},{"word":"Half","type":"(a.)","description":"Part; side; behalf."},{"word":"Half","type":"(a.)","description":"One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple."},{"word":"Half","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To halve. [Obs.] See Halve."},{"word":"Half-and-half","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts."},{"word":"Halfbeak","type":"(n.)","description":"Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo."},{"word":"Half","type":"()","description":"The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4."},{"word":"Half","type":"(n.)","description":"A person so related to another."},{"word":"Half","type":"(n.)","description":"A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed."},{"word":"Half-blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep."},{"word":"Half-blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Degenerate; mean."},{"word":"Half-boot","type":"(n.)","description":"A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress."},{"word":"Half-bound","type":"(n.)","description":"Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book."},{"word":"Half-bred","type":"(a.)","description":"Half-blooded."},{"word":"Half-bred","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained."},{"word":"Half-breed","type":"(a.)","description":"Half-blooded."},{"word":"Half-breed","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race."},{"word":"Half-brother","type":"(n.)","description":"A brother by one parent, but not by both."},{"word":"Half-caste","type":"(n.)","description":"One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents."},{"word":"Half-clammed","type":"(a.)","description":"Half-filled."},{"word":"Halfcocked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Halfcock"},{"word":"Halfcocking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Halfcock"},{"word":"Halfcock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch."},{"word":"Half-cracked","type":"(a.)","description":"Half-demented; half-witted."},{"word":"Half-deck","type":"(n.)","description":"A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell."},{"word":"Half-deck","type":"(n.)","description":"See Half deck, under Deck."},{"word":"Half-decked","type":"(a.)","description":"Partially decked."},{"word":"Halfen","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting half its due qualities."},{"word":"Halfendeal","type":"(adv.)","description":"Half; by the part."},{"word":"Halfendeal","type":"(n.)","description":"A half part."},{"word":"Halfer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares."},{"word":"Halfer","type":"(n.)","description":"A male fallow deer gelded."},{"word":"Half-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager."},{"word":"Half-fish","type":"(n.)","description":"A salmon in its fifth year of growth."},{"word":"Half-hatched","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs."},{"word":"Half-heard","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperfectly or partly heard to the end."},{"word":"Half-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind."},{"word":"Half-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm."},{"word":"Half-hourly","type":"(a.)","description":"Done or happening at intervals of half an hour."},{"word":"Half-learned","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperfectly learned."},{"word":"Half-length","type":"(a.)","description":"Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture."},{"word":"Half-mast","type":"(n.)","description":"A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.)."},{"word":"Half-moon","type":"(n.)","description":"The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated."},{"word":"Half-moon","type":"(n.)","description":"The shape of a half-moon; a crescent."},{"word":"Half-moon","type":"(n.)","description":"An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin."},{"word":"Half-moon","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna."},{"word":"Halfness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being half; incompleteness."},{"word":"Halfpace","type":"(n.)","description":"A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace."},{"word":"Half-pike","type":"(n.)","description":"A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon."},{"word":"Half-port","type":"(n.)","description":"One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole."},{"word":"Half-ray","type":"(n.)","description":"A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions."},{"word":"Half-read","type":"(a.)","description":"Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow."},{"word":"Half","type":"()","description":"Half drunk."},{"word":"Half-sighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment."},{"word":"Half-sister","type":"(n.)","description":"A sister by one parent only."},{"word":"Half-strained","type":"(a.)","description":"Half-bred; imperfect."},{"word":"Half-sword","type":"(n.)","description":"Half the length of a sword; close fight."},{"word":"Half-timbered","type":"(a.)","description":"Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings."},{"word":"Half-tounue","type":"(n.)","description":"A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens."},{"word":"Halfway","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded."},{"word":"Halfway","type":"(a.)","description":"Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway."},{"word":"Half-wit","type":"(n.)","description":"A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce."},{"word":"Half-witted","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak in intellect; silly."},{"word":"Half-yearly","type":"(a.)","description":"Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually."},{"word":"Halibut","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish."},{"word":"Halichondriae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea."},{"word":"Halicore","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dugong."},{"word":"Halidom","type":"(n.)","description":"Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths."},{"word":"Halidom","type":"(n.)","description":"Holy doom; the Last Day."},{"word":"Halieutics","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology."},{"word":"Halmas","type":"(a.)","description":"The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas."},{"word":"Haliographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes about or describes the sea."},{"word":"Haliography","type":"(n.)","description":"Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea."},{"word":"Haliotis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone."},{"word":"Haliotoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped."},{"word":"Halisauria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Enaliosauria."},{"word":"Halite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native salt; sodium chloride."},{"word":"Halituous","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous."},{"word":"Halk","type":"(n.)","description":"A nook; a corner."},{"word":"Hall","type":"(n.)","description":"A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London."},{"word":"Hall","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment."},{"word":"Hall","type":"(n.)","description":"A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times."},{"word":"Hall","type":"(n.)","description":"Any corridor or passage in a building."},{"word":"Hall","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house."},{"word":"Hall","type":"(n.)","description":"A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college)."},{"word":"Hall","type":"(n.)","description":"The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock."},{"word":"Hall","type":"(n.)","description":"Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation."},{"word":"Hallage","type":"(n.)","description":"A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall."},{"word":"Halleluiah","type":"(n. & interj.)","description":"Alt. of Hallelujah"},{"word":"Hallelujah","type":"(n. & interj.)","description":"Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration."},{"word":"Hallelujatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs."},{"word":"Halliard","type":"(n.)","description":"See Halyard."},{"word":"Hallidome","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Halidom."},{"word":"Hallier","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of net for catching birds."},{"word":"Hall-mark","type":"(n.)","description":"The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers."},{"word":"Halloa","type":"()","description":"See Halloo."},{"word":"Halloo","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout."},{"word":"Hallooed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Halloo"},{"word":"Halloing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Halloo"},{"word":"Halloo","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo."},{"word":"Halloo","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encourage with shouts."},{"word":"Halloo","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chase with shouts or outcries."},{"word":"Halloo","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call or shout to; to hail."},{"word":"Halloo","type":"(n.)","description":"An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one."},{"word":"Hallowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hallow"},{"word":"Hallowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hallow"},{"word":"Hallow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence."},{"word":"Halloween","type":"(n.)","description":"The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day."},{"word":"Hallowmas","type":"(n.)","description":"The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows."},{"word":"Halloysite","type":"(n.)","description":"A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color."},{"word":"Hallucal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the hallux."},{"word":"Hallucinate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes."},{"word":"Hallucination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder."},{"word":"Hallucination","type":"(n.)","description":"The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion."},{"word":"Hallucinator","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations."},{"word":"Hallucinatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination."},{"word":"Hallux","type":"(n.)","description":"The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds."},{"word":"Halm","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haulm."},{"word":"Halma","type":"(n.)","description":"The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon."},{"word":"Halos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Halo"},{"word":"Halo","type":"(n.)","description":"A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions."},{"word":"Halo","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus."},{"word":"Halo","type":"(n.)","description":"An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object."},{"word":"Halo","type":"(n.)","description":"A colored circle around a nipple; an areola."},{"word":"Haloed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Halo"},{"word":"Haloing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Halo"},{"word":"Halo","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo."},{"word":"Haloed","type":"(a.)","description":"Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified."},{"word":"Halogen","type":"(n.)","description":"An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine."},{"word":"Halogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of a halogen."},{"word":"Haloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides."},{"word":"Haloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A haloid substance."},{"word":"Halomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Alomancy."},{"word":"Halometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer."},{"word":"Halones","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds."},{"word":"Halophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea."},{"word":"Haloscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like."},{"word":"Halotrichite","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color."},{"word":"Haloxyline","type":"(n.)","description":"An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder."},{"word":"Halp","type":"(imp.)","description":"Helped."},{"word":"Halpace","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haut pas."},{"word":"Hals","type":"(n.)","description":"The neck or throat."},{"word":"Halse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet."},{"word":"Halse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjure; to beseech; to entreat."},{"word":"Halsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Halse"},{"word":"Halsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Halse"},{"word":"Halse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To haul; to hoist."},{"word":"Halsening","type":"(a.)","description":"Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough."},{"word":"Halser","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hawser."},{"word":"Halt","type":"()","description":"3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth."},{"word":"Halt","type":"(n.)","description":"A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress."},{"word":"Halted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Halt"},{"word":"Halting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Halt"},{"word":"Halt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still."},{"word":"Halt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain."},{"word":"Halt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment."},{"word":"Halt","type":"(a.)","description":"Halting or stopping in walking; lame."},{"word":"Halt","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of limping; lameness."},{"word":"Halt","type":"(a.)","description":"To walk lamely; to limp."},{"word":"Halt","type":"(a.)","description":"To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective."},{"word":"Halter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who halts or limps; a cripple."},{"word":"Halter","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong strap or cord."},{"word":"Halter","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse."},{"word":"Halter","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose."},{"word":"Haltered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Halter"},{"word":"Haltering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Halter"},{"word":"Halter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter."},{"word":"Halteres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera."},{"word":"Halter-sack","type":"(n.)","description":"A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged."},{"word":"Haltingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a halting or limping manner."},{"word":"Halvans","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Impure ore; dirty ore."},{"word":"Halve","type":"(n.)","description":"A half."},{"word":"Halved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Halve"},{"word":"Halving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Halve"},{"word":"Halve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of."},{"word":"Halve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together."},{"word":"Halved","type":"(a.)","description":"Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate."},{"word":"Halves","type":"(n.)","description":"pl. of Half."},{"word":"Halwe","type":"(n.)","description":"A saint."},{"word":"Hal'yard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc."},{"word":"Halysites","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain."},{"word":"Ham","type":"(n.)","description":"Home."},{"word":"Ham","type":"(n.)","description":"The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock."},{"word":"Ham","type":"(n.)","description":"The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking."},{"word":"Hamadryads","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hamadryad"},{"word":"Hamadryades","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hamadryad"},{"word":"Hamadryad","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode."},{"word":"Hamadryad","type":"(n.)","description":"A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras."},{"word":"Hamadryas","type":"(n.)","description":"The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas)."},{"word":"Hamamelis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally."},{"word":"Hamate","type":"(a.)","description":"Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous."},{"word":"Hamated","type":"(a.)","description":"Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate."},{"word":"Hamatum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Unciform."},{"word":"Hamble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hamstring."},{"word":"Hamburg","type":"(n.)","description":"A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe."},{"word":"Hame","type":"(n.)","description":"Home."},{"word":"Hame","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them."},{"word":"Hamel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Hamele."},{"word":"Hamesecken","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hamesucken"},{"word":"Hamesucken","type":"(n.)","description":"The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house."},{"word":"Hamiform","type":"(n.)","description":"Hook-shaped."},{"word":"Hamilton","type":"()","description":"A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology."},{"word":"Haminura","type":"(n.)","description":"A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana."},{"word":"Hamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form."},{"word":"Hamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20."},{"word":"Haitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Ham or his descendants."},{"word":"Hamlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country."},{"word":"Hamleted","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Confined to a hamlet."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(n.)","description":"Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer"},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(n.)","description":"The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(n.)","description":"The malleus."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(n.)","description":"Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies."},{"word":"Hammered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hammer"},{"word":"Hammering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hammer"},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer."},{"word":"Hammer","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively."},{"word":"Hammerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer."},{"word":"Hammer-beam","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam."},{"word":"Hammercloth","type":"(n.)","description":"The cloth which covers a coach box."},{"word":"Hammer-dressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone."},{"word":"Hammerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works with a hammer."},{"word":"Hammer-harden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state."},{"word":"Hammerhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish."},{"word":"Hammerhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller."},{"word":"Hammerhead","type":"(n.)","description":"An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle."},{"word":"Hammerkop","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird of the Heron family; the umber."},{"word":"Hammer-less","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch."},{"word":"Hammermen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hammerman"},{"word":"Hammerman","type":"(n.)","description":"A hammerer; a forgeman."},{"word":"Hammochrysos","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone with spangles of gold color in it."},{"word":"Hammock","type":"(n.)","description":"A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends."},{"word":"Hammock","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land."},{"word":"Hamose","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hamous"},{"word":"Hamous","type":"()","description":"Having the end hooked or curved."},{"word":"Hamper","type":"(n.)","description":"A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels."},{"word":"Hampered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hamper"},{"word":"Hampering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hamper"},{"word":"Hamper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a hamper."},{"word":"Hamper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber."},{"word":"Hamper","type":"(n.)","description":"A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes."},{"word":"Hamper","type":"(n.)","description":"Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times."},{"word":"Hamshackle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb."},{"word":"Hamster","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations."},{"word":"Hamstring","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh."},{"word":"Hamstrung","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hamstring"},{"word":"Hamstringing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hamstring"},{"word":"Hamstring","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable."},{"word":"Hamular","type":"(a.)","description":"Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone."},{"word":"Hamulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped."},{"word":"Hamule","type":"(n.)","description":"A little hook."},{"word":"Hamulose","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing a small hook at the end."},{"word":"Hamuli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hamulus"},{"word":"Hamulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A hook, or hooklike process."},{"word":"Hamulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A hooked barbicel of a feather."},{"word":"Han","type":"(inf. & plural pres.)","description":"To have; have."},{"word":"Hanap","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich goblet, esp. one used on state occasions."},{"word":"Hanaper","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper."},{"word":"Hance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise; to elevate."},{"word":"Hance","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hanch"},{"word":"Hanch","type":"()","description":"See Hanse."},{"word":"Hanch","type":"()","description":"A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand"},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"Side; part; direction, either right or left."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"Rate; price."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once"},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"The quota of cards received from the dealer."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(n.)","description":"The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hand"},{"word":"Handed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hand"},{"word":"Handing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hand"},{"word":"Hand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage; as, I hand my oar."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize; to lay hands on."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pledge by the hand; to handfast."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furl; -- said of a sail."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cooperate."},{"word":"Handbarrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand."},{"word":"Handbill","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand."},{"word":"Handbill","type":"(n.)","description":"A pruning hook."},{"word":"Handbook","type":"(n.)","description":"A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook."},{"word":"Handbreadth","type":"(n.)","description":"A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm."},{"word":"Handcart","type":"(n.)","description":"A cart drawn or pushed by hand."},{"word":"Handcloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A handkerchief."},{"word":"Handcraft","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Handicraft."},{"word":"-men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Handcraftsman"},{"word":"Handcraftsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A handicraftsman."},{"word":"Handcuff","type":"(n.)","description":"A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural."},{"word":"Handcuffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Handcuff"},{"word":"Handcuffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Handcuff"},{"word":"Handcuff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply handcuffs to; to manacle."},{"word":"Handed","type":"(a.)","description":"With hands joined; hand in hand."},{"word":"Handed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a peculiar or characteristic hand."},{"word":"Hander","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession."},{"word":"Handfast","type":"(n.)","description":"Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping."},{"word":"Handfast","type":"(n.)","description":"Contract; specifically, espousal."},{"word":"Handfast","type":"(a.)","description":"Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands."},{"word":"Handfasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Handfast"},{"word":"Handfasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Handfast"},{"word":"Handfast","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage."},{"word":"Handfast","type":"(n.)","description":"Strong; steadfast."},{"word":"Handfastly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a handfast or publicly pledged manner."},{"word":"Handfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The frogfish."},{"word":"Hand","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Handful"},{"word":"Handful","type":"(n.)","description":"As much as the hand will grasp or contain."},{"word":"Handful","type":"(n.)","description":"A hand's breadth; four inches."},{"word":"Handful","type":"(n.)","description":"A small quantity."},{"word":"Hand-hole","type":"(n.)","description":"A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc."},{"word":"Handicap","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like."},{"word":"Handicap","type":"(n.)","description":"A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors."},{"word":"Handicap","type":"(n.)","description":"An old game at cards."},{"word":"Handicapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Handicap"},{"word":"Handicapping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Handicap"},{"word":"Handicap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped."},{"word":"Handicapper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who determines the conditions of a handicap."},{"word":"Handicraft","type":"(n.)","description":"A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft."},{"word":"Handicraft","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman."},{"word":"-men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Handi-craftsman"},{"word":"Handi-craftsman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man skilled or employed in handcraft."},{"word":"Handily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently."},{"word":"Handiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being handy."},{"word":"Handiron","type":"(n.)","description":"See Andrion."},{"word":"Handiwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally."},{"word":"Handkercher","type":"(n.)","description":"A handkerchief."},{"word":"Handkerchief","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands."},{"word":"Handkerchief","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth."},{"word":"Handled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Handle"},{"word":"Handling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Handle"},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deal with; to make a business of."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat; to use, well or ill."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage; to control; to practice skill upon."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the hands."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc."},{"word":"Handle","type":"(n.)","description":"That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool."},{"word":"Handleable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being handled."},{"word":"Handless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a hand."},{"word":"Handling","type":"(n.)","description":"A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t."},{"word":"Handling","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch."},{"word":"Handmade","type":"(a.)","description":"Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes."},{"word":"Handmaid","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Handmaiden"},{"word":"Handmaiden","type":"(n.)","description":"A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant."},{"word":"Handsaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A saw used with one hand."},{"word":"Handsel","type":"(n.)","description":"A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc."},{"word":"Handsel","type":"(n.)","description":"Price; payment."},{"word":"Handseled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Handsel"},{"word":"Handseled","type":"()","description":"of Handsel"},{"word":"Handseling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Handsel"},{"word":"Handselling","type":"()","description":"of Handsel"},{"word":"Handsel","type":"(n.)","description":"To give a handsel to."},{"word":"Handsel","type":"(n.)","description":"To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally."},{"word":"Handsome","type":"(superl.)","description":"Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons."},{"word":"Handsome","type":"(superl.)","description":"Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse."},{"word":"Handsome","type":"(superl.)","description":"Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc."},{"word":"Handsome","type":"(superl.)","description":"Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous."},{"word":"Handsome","type":"(superl.)","description":"Ample; moderately large."},{"word":"Hadsome","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render handsome."},{"word":"Handsomely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a handsome manner."},{"word":"Handsomely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Carefully; in shipshape style."},{"word":"Handsomeness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being handsome."},{"word":"Handspike","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes."},{"word":"Handspring","type":"(n.)","description":"A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground."},{"word":"Hand-tight","type":"(a.)","description":"As tight as can be made by the hand."},{"word":"Handwheel","type":"(n.)","description":"Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted."},{"word":"Hand-winged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See Cheiroptera."},{"word":"Handwriting","type":"(n.)","description":"The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography."},{"word":"Handwriting","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is written by hand; manuscript."},{"word":"Handy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Performed by the hand."},{"word":"Handy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit."},{"word":"Handy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume."},{"word":"Handy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel."},{"word":"Handyy-dandy","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit."},{"word":"Handyfight","type":"(n.)","description":"A fight with the hands; boxing."},{"word":"Handygripe","type":"(n.)","description":"Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting."},{"word":"Handystroke","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow with the hand."},{"word":"Hand-work","type":"(n.)","description":"See Handiwork."},{"word":"Hanged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hang"},{"word":"Hung","type":"()","description":"of Hang"},{"word":"Hanging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hang"},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be, or be like, a suspended weight."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lean or incline; to incline downward."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To slope down; as, hanging grounds."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse."},{"word":"Hang","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharp or steep declivity or slope."},{"word":"Hangbird","type":"(n.)","description":"The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole."},{"word":"Hang-bies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hang-by"},{"word":"Hang-by","type":"(n.)","description":"A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt."},{"word":"Hangdog","type":"(n.)","description":"A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird."},{"word":"Hangdog","type":"(a.)","description":"Low; sneaking; ashamed."},{"word":"Hanger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman."},{"word":"Hanger","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which a thing is suspended."},{"word":"Hanger","type":"(n.)","description":"A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended."},{"word":"Hanger","type":"(n.)","description":"A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft."},{"word":"Hanger","type":"(n.)","description":"A bridle iron."},{"word":"Hanger","type":"(n.)","description":"That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword."},{"word":"Hanger","type":"(n.)","description":"A steep, wooded declivity."},{"word":"Hangers-on","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hanger-on"},{"word":"Hanger-on","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted."},{"word":"Hanging","type":"(a.)","description":"Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter."},{"word":"Hanging","type":"(a.)","description":"Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves."},{"word":"Hanging","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges."},{"word":"Hanging","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended."},{"word":"Hanging","type":"(n.)","description":"Death by suspension; execution by a halter."},{"word":"Hanging","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural."},{"word":"Hangmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hangman"},{"word":"Hangman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office."},{"word":"Hangmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or character of a hangman."},{"word":"Hangnail","type":"(n.)","description":"A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail."},{"word":"Hangnest","type":"(n.)","description":"A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket."},{"word":"Hangnest","type":"(n.)","description":"A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird."},{"word":"Hank","type":"(n.)","description":"A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together."},{"word":"Hank","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope or withe for fastening a gate."},{"word":"Hank","type":"(n.)","description":"Hold; influence."},{"word":"Hank","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay."},{"word":"Hank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten with a rope, as a gate."},{"word":"Hank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into hanks."},{"word":"Hankered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hanker"},{"word":"Hankering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hanker"},{"word":"Hanker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town."},{"word":"Hanker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To linger in expectation or with desire."},{"word":"Hankeringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hankering manner."},{"word":"Hankey-pankey","type":"(n.)","description":"Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery."},{"word":"Hanoverian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England."},{"word":"Hanoverian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover."},{"word":"Han","type":"(n.)","description":"See 2d Hanse."},{"word":"Hansard","type":"(n.)","description":"An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers."},{"word":"Hansard","type":"(n.)","description":"A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse."},{"word":"Hanse","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost."},{"word":"Hanse","type":"(n.)","description":"An association; a league or confederacy."},{"word":"Hanseatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy."},{"word":"Hansel","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Handsel."},{"word":"Hanselines","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of breeches."},{"word":"Hansom","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hansom cab"},{"word":"Hansom","type":"()","description":"A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top."},{"word":"Han't","type":"()","description":"A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't."},{"word":"Hanuman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hoonoomaun."},{"word":"Hap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe; to wrap."},{"word":"Hap","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloak or plaid."},{"word":"Hap","type":"(n.)","description":"That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot."},{"word":"Hap","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To happen; to befall; to chance."},{"word":"Hap'penny","type":"(n.)","description":"A half-penny."},{"word":"Haphazard","type":"(n.)","description":"Extra hazard; chance; accident; random."},{"word":"Hapless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid."},{"word":"Haplessly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hapless, unlucky manner."},{"word":"Haplomi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes."},{"word":"Haplostemonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous."},{"word":"Haply","type":"(adv.)","description":"By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be."},{"word":"Happed","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Wrapped; covered; cloaked."},{"word":"Happened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Happen"},{"word":"Happening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Happen"},{"word":"Happen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out."},{"word":"Happen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take place; to occur."},{"word":"Happily","type":"(adv.)","description":"By chance; peradventure; haply."},{"word":"Happily","type":"(adv.)","description":"By good fortune; fortunately; luckily."},{"word":"Happily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife."},{"word":"Happily","type":"(adv.)","description":"With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success."},{"word":"Happiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Good luck; good fortune; prosperity."},{"word":"Happiness","type":"(n.)","description":"An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness."},{"word":"Happiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language."},{"word":"Happy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen."},{"word":"Happy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts."},{"word":"Happy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous."},{"word":"Hapuku","type":"(n.)","description":"A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more."},{"word":"Haquebut","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hagbut."},{"word":"Hara-kiri","type":"(n.)","description":"Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari."},{"word":"Harangue","type":"(n.)","description":"A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting."},{"word":"Harangued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harangue"},{"word":"Haranguing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harangue"},{"word":"Harangue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an harangue; to declaim."},{"word":"Harangue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To address by an harangue."},{"word":"Harangueful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of harangue."},{"word":"Haranguer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer."},{"word":"Harassed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harass"},{"word":"Harassing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harass"},{"word":"Harass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out."},{"word":"Harass","type":"(n.)","description":"Devastation; waste."},{"word":"Harass","type":"(n.)","description":"Worry; harassment."},{"word":"Harasser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who harasses."},{"word":"Harassment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety."},{"word":"Harberous","type":"(a.)","description":"Harborous."},{"word":"Harbinger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings."},{"word":"Harbinger","type":"(n.)","description":"A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger."},{"word":"Harbingered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harbinger"},{"word":"Harbingering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harbinger"},{"word":"Harbinger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To usher in; to be a harbinger of."},{"word":"Harbor","type":"(n.)","description":"A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter."},{"word":"Harbor","type":"(n.)","description":"Specif.: A lodging place; an inn."},{"word":"Harbor","type":"(n.)","description":"The mansion of a heavenly body."},{"word":"Harbor","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven."},{"word":"Harbor","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixing box materials."},{"word":"Harbored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harbor"},{"word":"Harboring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harbor"},{"word":"Harbor","type":"(n.)","description":"To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought)."},{"word":"Harbor","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor."},{"word":"Harborage","type":"(n.)","description":"Shelter; entertainment."},{"word":"Harborer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, harbors."},{"word":"Harborless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a harbor; shelterless."},{"word":"Harbor","type":"()","description":"An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor."},{"word":"Harborough","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Harbrough"},{"word":"Harbrough","type":"()","description":"A shelter."},{"word":"Harborous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hospitable."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Difficult to resist or control; powerful."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(adv.)","description":"With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(adv.)","description":"With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(adv.)","description":"Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to raise difficulties."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(adv.)","description":"With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(adv.)","description":"Close or near."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harden; to make hard."},{"word":"Hard","type":"(n.)","description":"A ford or passage across a river or swamp."},{"word":"Hardbake","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc."},{"word":"Hardbeam","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam."},{"word":"Hardened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harden"},{"word":"Hardening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harden"},{"word":"Harden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron."},{"word":"Harden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable."},{"word":"Harden","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying."},{"word":"Harden","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense."},{"word":"Hardened","type":"(a.)","description":"Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice."},{"word":"Hardener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools."},{"word":"Hardening","type":"(n.)","description":"Making hard or harder."},{"word":"Hardening","type":"(n.)","description":"That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel."},{"word":"Harder","type":"(n.)","description":"A South African mullet, salted for food."},{"word":"Harderian","type":"(a.)","description":"A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate."},{"word":"Hard-favored","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored."},{"word":"Hardfavoredness","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarseness of features."},{"word":"Hard-featured","type":"(a.)","description":"Having coarse, unattractive or stern features."},{"word":"Hardfern","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America."},{"word":"Hard-fisted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer."},{"word":"Hard-fisted","type":"(a.)","description":"Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly."},{"word":"Hard-fought","type":"(a. 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See Menhaden."},{"word":"Hardhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe."},{"word":"Hardhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A California salmon; the steelhead."},{"word":"Hardhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The gray whale."},{"word":"Hardhead","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura)."},{"word":"Hard-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd."},{"word":"Hard-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless."},{"word":"Harddihead","type":"(n.)","description":"Hardihood."},{"word":"Harddihood","type":"(n.)","description":"Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence."},{"word":"Hardily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Same as Hardly."},{"word":"Hardily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Boldly; stoutly; resolutely."},{"word":"Hardiment","type":"(n.)","description":"Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action."},{"word":"Hardiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of endurance."},{"word":"Hardiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance."},{"word":"Hardiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Hardship; fatigue."},{"word":"Hardish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat hard."},{"word":"Hard-labored","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied."},{"word":"Hardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty."},{"word":"Hardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unwillingly; grudgingly."},{"word":"Hardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly."},{"word":"Hardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Severely; harshly; roughly."},{"word":"Hardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Confidently; hardily."},{"word":"Hardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Certainly; surely; indeed."},{"word":"Hard-mouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse."},{"word":"Hardness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively."},{"word":"Hardness","type":"(n.)","description":"The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes."},{"word":"Hardness","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes."},{"word":"Hardock","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hordock."},{"word":"Hardpan","type":"(n.)","description":"The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard, a."},{"word":"Hards","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow."},{"word":"Hard-shell","type":"(a.)","description":"Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict."},{"word":"Hardship","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc."},{"word":"Hardspun","type":"(a.)","description":"Firmly twisted in spinning."},{"word":"Hard-tack","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread."},{"word":"Hardtail","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jurel."},{"word":"Hard-visaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured."},{"word":"Hardware","type":"(n.)","description":"Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery."},{"word":"Hardwaremen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hardwareman"},{"word":"Hardwareman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes, or deals in, hardware."},{"word":"Hardy","type":"(a.)","description":"Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid."},{"word":"Hardy","type":"(a.)","description":"Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless."},{"word":"Hardy","type":"(a.)","description":"Strong; firm; compact."},{"word":"Hardy","type":"(a.)","description":"Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner."},{"word":"Hardy","type":"(a.)","description":"Able to withstand the cold of winter."},{"word":"Hardy","type":"(n.)","description":"A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole."},{"word":"Hare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry."},{"word":"Hare","type":"(n.)","description":"A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity."},{"word":"Hare","type":"(n.)","description":"A small constellation situated south of and under the foot of Orion; Lepus."},{"word":"Harebell","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell."},{"word":"Hare'brained'","type":"(a.)","description":"Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless."},{"word":"Harefoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs."},{"word":"Harefoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot."},{"word":"Hare-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Timorous; timid; easily frightened."},{"word":"Harehound","type":"(n.)","description":"See Harrier."},{"word":"Hareld","type":"(n.)","description":"The long-tailed duck."},{"word":"Harelip","type":"(n.)","description":"A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare."},{"word":"Harem","type":"(n.)","description":"The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families."},{"word":"Harem","type":"(n.)","description":"The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio."},{"word":"Harengiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Herring-shaped."},{"word":"Hare's-ear","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium ); -- so named from the shape of its leaves."},{"word":"Hare's-foot","type":"()","description":"A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name."},{"word":"Hare's-tail","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton."},{"word":"Harfang","type":"(n.)","description":"The snowy owl."},{"word":"Hariali","type":"()","description":"The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass."},{"word":"Haricot","type":"(n.)","description":"A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables."},{"word":"Haricot","type":"(n.)","description":"The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots."},{"word":"Harier","type":"(n.)","description":"See Harrier."},{"word":"Harikari","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hara-kiri."},{"word":"Harioiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Prognostication; soothsaying."},{"word":"Harish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a hare."},{"word":"Hark","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To listen; to hearken."},{"word":"Harken","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To hearken."},{"word":"Harl","type":"(n.)","description":"A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp."},{"word":"Harl","type":"(n.)","description":"A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies."},{"word":"Harle","type":"(n.)","description":"The red-breasted merganser."},{"word":"Harlech","type":"()","description":"A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales."},{"word":"Harlequin","type":"(n.)","description":"A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy."},{"word":"Harlequin","type":"(n. i.)","description":"To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks."},{"word":"Harlequin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick."},{"word":"Harlequinade","type":"(n.)","description":"A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin."},{"word":"Harlock","type":"(n.)","description":"Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock."},{"word":"Harlot","type":"(n.)","description":"A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth."},{"word":"Harlot","type":"(n.)","description":"A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal."},{"word":"Harlot","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet."},{"word":"Harlot","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanton; lewd; low; base."},{"word":"Harlot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the harlot; to practice lewdness."},{"word":"Harlotize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To harlot."},{"word":"Harlotry","type":"(n.)","description":"Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story."},{"word":"Harlotry","type":"(n.)","description":"The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness."},{"word":"Harlotry","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art."},{"word":"Harlotry","type":"(n.)","description":"A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage."},{"word":"Harm","type":"(n.)","description":"Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune."},{"word":"Harm","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes injury, damage, or loss."},{"word":"Harmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harm"},{"word":"Harming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harm"},{"word":"Harm","type":"(n.)","description":"To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong."},{"word":"Harmaline","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts."},{"word":"Harmattan","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun."},{"word":"Harmel","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation."},{"word":"Harmful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous."},{"word":"Harmine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance."},{"word":"Harmless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless."},{"word":"Harmless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive."},{"word":"Harmonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Harmonical"},{"word":"Harmonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds."},{"word":"Harmonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body."},{"word":"Harmonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like."},{"word":"Harmonic","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics."},{"word":"Harmonica","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones."},{"word":"Harmonica","type":"(n.)","description":"A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers."},{"word":"Har","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an harmonical manner; harmoniously."},{"word":"Har","type":"(adv.)","description":"In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct."},{"word":"Har","type":"(adv.)","description":"In harmonical progression."},{"word":"Harmonicon","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds."},{"word":"Harmonics","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or science of musical sounds."},{"word":"Harmonics","type":"(n.)","description":"Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones."},{"word":"Harmonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical."},{"word":"Harmonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family."},{"word":"Harmonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious."},{"word":"Harmoniphon","type":"(n.)","description":"An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube."},{"word":"Harmonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists."},{"word":"Harmonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer."},{"word":"Harmonist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Harmonite"},{"word":"Harmonite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony."},{"word":"Harmonium","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops."},{"word":"Harmonization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of harmonizing."},{"word":"Harmonized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harmonize"},{"word":"Harmonizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harmonize"},{"word":"Harmonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize."},{"word":"Harmonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations."},{"word":"Harmonize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly."},{"word":"Harmonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of."},{"word":"Harmonize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody."},{"word":"Harmonizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who harmonizes."},{"word":"Harmonometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges."},{"word":"Harmonies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Harmony"},{"word":"Harmony","type":"(n.)","description":"The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe."},{"word":"Harmony","type":"(n.)","description":"Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony."},{"word":"Harmony","type":"(n.)","description":"A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels."},{"word":"Harmony","type":"(n.)","description":"A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation."},{"word":"Harmony","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of their construction and progression."},{"word":"Harmony","type":"(n.)","description":"See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic."},{"word":"Harmost","type":"(n.)","description":"A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them."},{"word":"Harmotome","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone."},{"word":"Harness","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor."},{"word":"Harness","type":"(n.)","description":"The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling."},{"word":"Harness","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle."},{"word":"Harnessed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harness"},{"word":"Harnessing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harness"},{"word":"Harness","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array."},{"word":"Harness","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense."},{"word":"Harness","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively."},{"word":"Harness","type":"()","description":"A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub."},{"word":"Harnesser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who harnesses."},{"word":"Harns","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The brains."},{"word":"Harp","type":"(n.)","description":"A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers."},{"word":"Harp","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre."},{"word":"Harp","type":"(n.)","description":"A grain sieve."},{"word":"Harped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harp"},{"word":"Harping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harp"},{"word":"Harp","type":"(n.)","description":"To play on the harp."},{"word":"Harp","type":"(n.)","description":"To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon."},{"word":"Harp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon."},{"word":"Harpa","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs."},{"word":"Harpagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A grappling iron."},{"word":"Harper","type":"(n.)","description":"A player on the harp; a minstrel."},{"word":"Harper","type":"(n.)","description":"A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland."},{"word":"Harping","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies."},{"word":"Harping","type":"()","description":"A harpoon."},{"word":"Harpings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem."},{"word":"Harpist","type":"(n.)","description":"A player on the harp; a harper."},{"word":"Harpoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun."},{"word":"Harpooned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harpoon"},{"word":"Harpooning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harpoon"},{"word":"Harpoon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon."},{"word":"Harpooneer","type":"(n.)","description":"An harpooner."},{"word":"Harpooner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who throws the harpoon."},{"word":"Harpress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female harper."},{"word":"Harpsichon","type":"(n.)","description":"A harpsichord."},{"word":"Harpsichord","type":"(n.)","description":"A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano."},{"word":"Harpies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Harpy"},{"word":"Harpy","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three."},{"word":"Harpy","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner."},{"word":"Harpy","type":"(n.)","description":"The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)."},{"word":"Harpy","type":"(n.)","description":"A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil."},{"word":"Harquebus","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Harquebuse"},{"word":"Harquebuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock."},{"word":"Harrage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harass; to plunder from."},{"word":"Harre","type":"(n.)","description":"A hinge."},{"word":"Harridan","type":"(n.)","description":"A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag."},{"word":"Harrier","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares."},{"word":"Harrier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who harries."},{"word":"Harrier","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the European marsh harrier (Circus aerunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus)."},{"word":"Harrow","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown."},{"word":"Harrow","type":"(n.)","description":"An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried."},{"word":"Harrowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harrow"},{"word":"Harrowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harrow"},{"word":"Harrow","type":"(n.)","description":"To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land."},{"word":"Harrow","type":"(n.)","description":"To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex."},{"word":"Harrow","type":"(interj.)","description":"Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry."},{"word":"Harrow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pillage; to harry; to oppress."},{"word":"Harrower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who harrows."},{"word":"Harrower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who harries."},{"word":"Harried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harry"},{"word":"Harrying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harry"},{"word":"Harry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land."},{"word":"Harry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass."},{"word":"Harry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste."},{"word":"Harsh","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough; disagreeable; grating"},{"word":"Harsh","type":"(a.)","description":"disagreeable to the touch."},{"word":"Harsh","type":"(a.)","description":"disagreeable to the taste."},{"word":"Harsh","type":"(a.)","description":"disagreeable to the ear."},{"word":"Harsh","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough."},{"word":"Harsh","type":"(a.)","description":"Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony."},{"word":"Harshly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely."},{"word":"Harshness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being harsh."},{"word":"Harslet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haslet."},{"word":"Hart","type":"(n.)","description":"A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck."},{"word":"Hartbeest","type":"(n.)","description":"A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white."},{"word":"Harten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hearten; to encourage; to incite."},{"word":"Hartford","type":"(n.)","description":"The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds."},{"word":"Harts","type":"()","description":"Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot."},{"word":"Hart's-ear","type":"(n.)","description":"An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India."},{"word":"Hartshorn","type":"(n.)","description":"The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer."},{"word":"Hartshorn","type":"(n.)","description":"Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts."},{"word":"Hart-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America."},{"word":"Hart-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida."},{"word":"Hartwort","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum)."},{"word":"Harum-scarum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless."},{"word":"Haruspication","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haruspicy."},{"word":"Haruspice","type":"(n.)","description":"A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice."},{"word":"Haruspicy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy."},{"word":"Harvest","type":"(n.)","description":"The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn."},{"word":"Harvest","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit."},{"word":"Harvest","type":"(n.)","description":"The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward."},{"word":"Harvested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Harvest"},{"word":"Harvesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Harvest"},{"word":"Harvest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reap or gather, as any crop."},{"word":"Harvester","type":"(n.)","description":"One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper."},{"word":"Harvester","type":"(n.)","description":"A harvesting ant."},{"word":"Harvest-home","type":"(n.)","description":"The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest."},{"word":"Harvest-home","type":"(n.)","description":"The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself."},{"word":"Harvest-home","type":"(n.)","description":"A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States."},{"word":"Harvest-home","type":"(n.)","description":"The opportunity of gathering treasure."},{"word":"Harvesting","type":"()","description":"a. & n., from Harvest, v. t."},{"word":"Harvestless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren."},{"word":"Harvestmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Harvestman"},{"word":"Harvestman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man engaged in harvesting."},{"word":"Harvestman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Daddy longlegs, 1."},{"word":"Harvestry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested."},{"word":"Hary","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw; to drag; to carry off by violence."},{"word":"Has","type":"()","description":"3d pers. sing. pres. of Have."},{"word":"Hasard","type":"(n.)","description":"Hazard."},{"word":"Hase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Haze, v. t."},{"word":"Hash","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed."},{"word":"Hash","type":"(n.)","description":"A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition."},{"word":"Hashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hash"},{"word":"Hashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hash"},{"word":"Hash","type":"(n.)","description":"To /hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat."},{"word":"Hasheesh","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hashish"},{"word":"Hashish","type":"(n.)","description":"A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja."},{"word":"Hask","type":"(n.)","description":"A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish."},{"word":"Haslet","type":"(n.)","description":"The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog."},{"word":"Hasp","type":"(n.)","description":"A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door."},{"word":"Hasp","type":"(n.)","description":"A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on."},{"word":"Hasp","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for cutting the surface of grass land; a scarifier."},{"word":"Hasped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hasp"},{"word":"Hasping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hasp"},{"word":"Hasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut or fasten with a hasp."},{"word":"Hassock","type":"(n.)","description":"A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock."},{"word":"Hassock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use."},{"word":"Hast","type":"()","description":"2d pers. sing. pres. of. Have, contr. of havest."},{"word":"Hastate","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hastated"},{"word":"Hastated","type":"(n.)","description":"Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf."},{"word":"Haste","type":"(n.)","description":"Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals."},{"word":"Haste","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence."},{"word":"Hasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Haste"},{"word":"Hasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Haste"},{"word":"Haste","type":"(n.)","description":"To hasten; to hurry."},{"word":"Hastened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hasten"},{"word":"Hastening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hasten"},{"word":"Hasten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry."},{"word":"Hasten","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly."},{"word":"Hastener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hastens."},{"word":"Hastener","type":"(n.)","description":"That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it."},{"word":"Hastif","type":"(a.)","description":"Hasty."},{"word":"Hastile","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hastate."},{"word":"Hastily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly."},{"word":"Hastily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly."},{"word":"Hastily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Passionately; impatiently."},{"word":"Hastiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper."},{"word":"Hastings","type":"(v.)","description":"Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease."},{"word":"Hastings","type":"()","description":"The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England."},{"word":"Hastive","type":"(n.)","description":"Forward; early; -- said of fruits."},{"word":"Hasty","type":"(n.)","description":"Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch."},{"word":"Hasty","type":"(n.)","description":"Demanding haste or immediate action."},{"word":"Hasty","type":"(n.)","description":"Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager."},{"word":"Hasty","type":"(n.)","description":"Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution."},{"word":"Hasty","type":"(n.)","description":"Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper."},{"word":"Hasty","type":"(n.)","description":"Forward; early; first ripe."},{"word":"Hasty","type":"()","description":"A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush."},{"word":"Hasty","type":"()","description":"A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk."},{"word":"Hat","type":"(a.)","description":"Hot."},{"word":"Hat","type":"()","description":"sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf."},{"word":"Hat","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament."},{"word":"Hatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable."},{"word":"Hatband","type":"(n.)","description":"A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning."},{"word":"Hatbox","type":"(n.)","description":"A box for a hat."},{"word":"Hatched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hatch"},{"word":"Hatching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hatch"},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hatching."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"Development; disclosure; discovery."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A flood gate; a a sluice gate."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"A bedstead."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening into, or in search of, a mine."},{"word":"Hatch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To close with a hatch or hatches."},{"word":"Hatch-boat","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries."},{"word":"Hatchel","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle."},{"word":"Hatcheled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hatchel"},{"word":"Hatchelled","type":"()","description":"of Hatchel"},{"word":"Hatcheling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hatchel"},{"word":"Hatchelling","type":"()","description":"of Hatchel"},{"word":"Hatchel","type":"(n.)","description":"To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts."},{"word":"Hatchel","type":"(n.)","description":"To tease; to worry; to torment."},{"word":"Hatcheler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses a hatchel."},{"word":"Hatcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator."},{"word":"Hatcher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who contrives or originates; a plotter."},{"word":"Hatchery","type":"(n.)","description":"A house for hatching fish, etc."},{"word":"Hatchet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand."},{"word":"Hatchet","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically, a tomahawk."},{"word":"Hatchettine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hatchettite"},{"word":"Hatchettite","type":"(n.)","description":"Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color."},{"word":"Hatching","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching."},{"word":"Hatchment","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement."},{"word":"Hatchment","type":"(n.)","description":"A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity."},{"word":"Hatchure","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hachure."},{"word":"Hatchway","type":"(n.)","description":"A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar."},{"word":"Hated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hate"},{"word":"Hating","type":"(p. pr. & pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hate"},{"word":"Hate","type":"(n.)","description":"To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy."},{"word":"Hate","type":"(n.)","description":"To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted."},{"word":"Hate","type":"(n.)","description":"To love less, relatively."},{"word":"Hate","type":"(v.)","description":"Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love."},{"word":"Hateful","type":"(a.)","description":"Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent."},{"word":"Hateful","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious."},{"word":"Hatel","type":"(a.)","description":"Hateful; detestable."},{"word":"Hater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hates."},{"word":"Hath","type":"(3d pers. sing. pres.)","description":"Has."},{"word":"Hatless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no hat."},{"word":"Hatrack","type":"(n.)","description":"A hatstand; hattree."},{"word":"Hatred","type":"(n.)","description":"Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil."},{"word":"Hatstand","type":"(n.)","description":"A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc."},{"word":"Hatte","type":"()","description":"pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote."},{"word":"Hatted","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a hat."},{"word":"Hatter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tire or worry; -- out."},{"word":"Hatter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or sells hats."},{"word":"Hatteria","type":"(n.)","description":"A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, and Tuatera."},{"word":"Hatting","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of making hats; also, stuff for hats."},{"word":"Hatti-sherif","type":"(n.)","description":"A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan."},{"word":"Hattree","type":"(n.)","description":"A hatstand."},{"word":"Haubergeon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Habergeon."},{"word":"Hauberk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon."},{"word":"Hauerite","type":"(n.)","description":"Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral."},{"word":"Haugh","type":"(n.)","description":"A low-lying meadow by the side of a river."},{"word":"Haught","type":"(a.)","description":"High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud."},{"word":"Haughtily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a haughty manner; arrogantly."},{"word":"Haughtiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance."},{"word":"Haughty","type":"(superl.)","description":"High; lofty; bold."},{"word":"Haughty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing."},{"word":"Haughty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage."},{"word":"Hauled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Haul"},{"word":"Hauling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Haul"},{"word":"Haul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pull or draw with force; to drag."},{"word":"Haul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill."},{"word":"Haul","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t."},{"word":"Haul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked."},{"word":"Haul","type":"(n.)","description":"A pulling with force; a violent pull."},{"word":"Haul","type":"(n.)","description":"A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul."},{"word":"Haul","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net."},{"word":"Haul","type":"(n.)","description":"Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul."},{"word":"Haul","type":"(n.)","description":"A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred."},{"word":"Haulage","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling."},{"word":"Hauler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hauls."},{"word":"Haulm","type":"(n.)","description":"The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw."},{"word":"Haulm","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a harness; a hame."},{"word":"Hauls","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hals."},{"word":"Haulse","type":"(v.)","description":"See Halse."},{"word":"Hault","type":"(a.)","description":"Lofty; haughty."},{"word":"Haum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haulm, stalk."},{"word":"Haunce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enhance."},{"word":"Haunch","type":"(n.)","description":"The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part."},{"word":"Haunch","type":"(n.)","description":"Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison."},{"word":"Haunched","type":"(a.)","description":"Having haunches."},{"word":"Haunted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Haunt"},{"word":"Haunting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Haunt"},{"word":"Haunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon."},{"word":"Haunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition."},{"word":"Haunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To practice; to devote one's self to."},{"word":"Haunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accustom; to habituate."},{"word":"Haunt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To persist in staying or visiting."},{"word":"Haunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts."},{"word":"Haunt","type":"(n.)","description":"The habit of resorting to a place."},{"word":"Haunt","type":"(n.)","description":"Practice; skill."},{"word":"Haunted","type":"(a.)","description":"Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost."},{"word":"Haunter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, haunts."},{"word":"Haurient","type":"(a.)","description":"In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air."},{"word":"Hausen","type":"(n.)","description":"A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long."},{"word":"Hausse","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon."},{"word":"Haustellata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis."},{"word":"Haustellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis."},{"word":"Haustellate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Haustellata."},{"word":"Haustella","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Haustellum"},{"word":"Haustellum","type":"(n.)","description":"The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera."},{"word":"Haustoria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Haustorium"},{"word":"Haustorium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy."},{"word":"Haut","type":"(a.)","description":"Haughty."},{"word":"Hautboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe."},{"word":"Hautboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior)."},{"word":"Hautboyist","type":"(n.)","description":"A player on the hautboy."},{"word":"Hautein","type":"(a.)","description":"Haughty; proud."},{"word":"Hautein","type":"(a.)","description":"High; -- said of the voice or flight of birds."},{"word":"Hauteur","type":"(n.)","description":"Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance."},{"word":"Hautgout","type":"(n.)","description":"High relish or flavor; high seasoning."},{"word":"Hautpas","type":"(n.)","description":"A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais."},{"word":"Hauynite","type":"(n.)","description":"A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/ rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime."},{"word":"Havana","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar"},{"word":"Havana","type":"(n.)","description":"An Havana cigar."},{"word":"Havanese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba."},{"word":"Havanese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana."},{"word":"Had","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Have"},{"word":"Having","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Have"},{"word":"have","type":"(Indic. present)","description":"of Have"},{"word":"hast","type":"()","description":"of Have"},{"word":"has","type":"()","description":"of Have"},{"word":"have","type":"()","description":"of Have"},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accept possession of; to take or accept."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get possession of; to obtain; to get."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold, regard, or esteem."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause or force to go; to take."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To understand."},{"word":"Have","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him."},{"word":"Haveless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having little or nothing."},{"word":"Havelock","type":"(n.)","description":"A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke."},{"word":"Haven","type":"(n.)","description":"A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port."},{"word":"Haven","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum."},{"word":"Haven","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shelter, as in a haven."},{"word":"Havenage","type":"(n.)","description":"Harbor dues; port dues."},{"word":"Havened","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Sheltered in a haven."},{"word":"Havener","type":"(n.)","description":"A harbor master."},{"word":"Haver","type":"(n.)","description":"A possessor; a holder."},{"word":"Haver","type":"(n.)","description":"The oat; oats."},{"word":"Haver","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter."},{"word":"Haversack","type":"(n.)","description":"A bag for oats or oatmeal."},{"word":"Haversack","type":"(n.)","description":"A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack."},{"word":"Haversack","type":"(n.)","description":"A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading."},{"word":"Haversian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century."},{"word":"Havildar","type":"(n.)","description":"In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant."},{"word":"Having","type":"(n.)","description":"Possession; goods; estate."},{"word":"Havior","type":"(n.)","description":"Behavior; demeanor."},{"word":"Havoc","type":"(n.)","description":"Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste."},{"word":"Havoc","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste."},{"word":"Havoc","type":"(n.)","description":"A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter."},{"word":"Haw","type":"(n.)","description":"A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard."},{"word":"Haw","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the hawthorn."},{"word":"Haw","type":"(n.)","description":"The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate."},{"word":"Haw","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made."},{"word":"Haw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation."},{"word":"Hawed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Haw"},{"word":"Hawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Haw"},{"word":"Haw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee."},{"word":"Haw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen."},{"word":"Hawaiian","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii."},{"word":"Hawaiian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Hawaii."},{"word":"Hawebake","type":"(n.)","description":"Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2."},{"word":"Hawfinch","type":"(n.)","description":"The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble."},{"word":"Haw-haw","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ha-ha."},{"word":"Hawhaw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To laugh boisterously."},{"word":"Hawk","type":"(n.)","description":"One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk."},{"word":"Hawked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hawk"},{"word":"Hawking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hawk"},{"word":"Hawk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry."},{"word":"Hawk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies."},{"word":"Hawk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances."},{"word":"Hawk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise by hawking, as phlegm."},{"word":"Hawk","type":"(n.)","description":"An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise."},{"word":"Hawk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets."},{"word":"Hawk","type":"(n.)","description":"A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar."},{"word":"Hawkbill","type":"(n.)","description":"A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret."},{"word":"Hawkbit","type":"(n.)","description":"The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale)."},{"word":"Hawked","type":"(a.)","description":"Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked."},{"word":"Hawker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman."},{"word":"Hawker","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sell goods by outcry in the street."},{"word":"Hawker","type":"(n.)","description":"A falconer."},{"word":"Hawkey","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hockey."},{"word":"Hawk-eyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a keen eye; sharpsighted; discerning."},{"word":"Hawk","type":"()","description":"Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm."},{"word":"Hawkweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision."},{"word":"Hawkweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius)."},{"word":"Hawm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haulm, straw."},{"word":"Hawm","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lounge; to loiter."},{"word":"Hawse","type":"(n.)","description":"A hawse hole."},{"word":"Hawse","type":"(n.)","description":"The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow."},{"word":"Hawse","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse."},{"word":"Hawse","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables."},{"word":"Hawser","type":"(n.)","description":"A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns."},{"word":"Hawser-laid","type":"(a.)","description":"Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage."},{"word":"Hawthorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed."},{"word":"Hay","type":"(n.)","description":"A hedge."},{"word":"Hay","type":"(n.)","description":"A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit."},{"word":"Hay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lay snares for rabbits."},{"word":"Hay","type":"(n.)","description":"Grass cut and cured for fodder."},{"word":"Hay","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cut and cure grass for hay."},{"word":"Haybird","type":"(n.)","description":"The European spotted flycatcher."},{"word":"Haybird","type":"(n.)","description":"The European blackcap."},{"word":"Haybote","type":"(n.)","description":"An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote."},{"word":"Haycock","type":"(n.)","description":"A conical pile or hear of hay in the field."},{"word":"Hay-cutter","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle."},{"word":"Hayfield","type":"(n.)","description":"A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow."},{"word":"Hayfork","type":"(n.)","description":"A fork for pitching and tedding hay."},{"word":"Hayloft","type":"(n.)","description":"A loft or scaffold for hay."},{"word":"Haymaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cuts and cures hay."},{"word":"Haymaker","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for curing hay in rainy weather."},{"word":"Haymaking","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay."},{"word":"Haymow","type":"(n.)","description":"A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation."},{"word":"Haymow","type":"(n.)","description":"The place in a barn where hay is deposited."},{"word":"Hayrack","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging."},{"word":"Hayrake","type":"(n.)","description":"A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses."},{"word":"Hayrick","type":"(n.)","description":"A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air."},{"word":"Haystack","type":"(n.)","description":"A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air."},{"word":"Haystalk","type":"(n.)","description":"A stalk of hay."},{"word":"Haythorn","type":"(n.)","description":"Hawthorn."},{"word":"Haytian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of pertaining to Hayti."},{"word":"Haytian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Hayti."},{"word":"Hayward","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large."},{"word":"Hazard","type":"(n.)","description":"A game of chance played with dice."},{"word":"Hazard","type":"(n.)","description":"The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty."},{"word":"Hazard","type":"(n.)","description":"Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life."},{"word":"Hazard","type":"(n.)","description":"Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard)."},{"word":"Hazard","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming."},{"word":"Hazarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hazard"},{"word":"Hazarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. /)","description":"of Hazard"},{"word":"Hazard","type":"(n.)","description":"To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk."},{"word":"Hazard","type":"(n.)","description":"To venture to incur, or bring on."},{"word":"Hazard","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger."},{"word":"Hazardable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky."},{"word":"Hazardable","type":"(a.)","description":"Such as can be hazarded or risked."},{"word":"Hazarder","type":"(n.)","description":"A player at the game of hazard; a gamester."},{"word":"Hazarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hazards or ventures."},{"word":"Hazardize","type":"(n.)","description":"A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard."},{"word":"Hazardous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky."},{"word":"Hazardry","type":"(n.)","description":"Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling."},{"word":"Hazardry","type":"(n.)","description":"Rashness; temerity."},{"word":"Haze","type":"(n.)","description":"Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness."},{"word":"Haze","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be hazy, or tick with haze."},{"word":"Hazed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Haze"},{"word":"Hazing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Haze"},{"word":"Haze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work."},{"word":"Haze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman."},{"word":"Hazel","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert."},{"word":"Hazel","type":"(n.)","description":"A miner's name for freestone."},{"word":"Hazel","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand."},{"word":"Hazel","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut."},{"word":"Hazeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of haze."},{"word":"Hazelly","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown."},{"word":"Hazelnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The nut of the hazel."},{"word":"Hazelwort","type":"(n.)","description":"The asarabacca."},{"word":"Hazily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly."},{"word":"Haziness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being hazy."},{"word":"Hazle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make dry; to dry."},{"word":"Hazy","type":"(n.)","description":"Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent."},{"word":"Hazy","type":"(n.)","description":"Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect."},{"word":"He","type":"(obj.)","description":"The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated."},{"word":"He","type":"(obj.)","description":"Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun."},{"word":"He","type":"(obj.)","description":"Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively."},{"word":"-head","type":"(suffix.)","description":"A variant of -hood."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"Power; armed force."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"The antlers of a deer."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"Tiles laid at the eaves of a house."},{"word":"Head","type":"(a.)","description":"Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook."},{"word":"Headed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Head"},{"word":"Heading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Head"},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot."},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail."},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To behead; to decapitate."},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees."},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship."},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on the head; as, to head a cask."},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river."},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?"},{"word":"Head","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early."},{"word":"Headache","type":"(n.)","description":"Pain in the head; cephalalgia."},{"word":"Headachy","type":"(a.)","description":"Afflicted with headache."},{"word":"Headband","type":"(n.)","description":"A fillet; a band for the head."},{"word":"Headband","type":"(n.)","description":"The band at each end of the back of a book."},{"word":"Headbeard","type":"(n.)","description":"A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave."},{"word":"Headborough","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Headborrow"},{"word":"Headborrow","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder."},{"word":"Headborrow","type":"(n.)","description":"A petty constable."},{"word":"Head-cheese","type":"(n.)","description":"A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass."},{"word":"Headdress","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire."},{"word":"Headdress","type":"(n.)","description":"A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc."},{"word":"Headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster."},{"word":"Headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage."},{"word":"Header","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading."},{"word":"Header","type":"(n.)","description":"One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader."},{"word":"Header","type":"(n.)","description":"A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall."},{"word":"Header","type":"(n.)","description":"In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces."},{"word":"Header","type":"(n.)","description":"A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only."},{"word":"Header","type":"(n.)","description":"A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header."},{"word":"Headfirst","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Headforemost"},{"word":"Headforemost","type":"(adv.)","description":"With the head foremost."},{"word":"Headfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The sunfish (Mola)."},{"word":"Head","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Headgear"},{"word":"Headgear","type":"(n.)","description":"Headdress."},{"word":"Headgear","type":"(n.)","description":"Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well."},{"word":"Head-hunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters."},{"word":"Headily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately."},{"word":"Headiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being heady."},{"word":"Heading","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head."},{"word":"Heading","type":"(n.)","description":"That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper."},{"word":"Heading","type":"(n.)","description":"Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc."},{"word":"Heading","type":"(n.)","description":"A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift."},{"word":"Heading","type":"(n.)","description":"The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch."},{"word":"Heading","type":"(n.)","description":"That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward."},{"word":"Headland","type":"(n.)","description":"A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water."},{"word":"Headland","type":"(n.)","description":"A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence."},{"word":"Headless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass."},{"word":"Headless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a chief or leader."},{"word":"Headless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate."},{"word":"Headlight","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel."},{"word":"Headline","type":"(n.)","description":"The line at the head or top of a page."},{"word":"Headline","type":"(n.)","description":"See Headrope."},{"word":"Headlong","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong."},{"word":"Headlong","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation."},{"word":"Headlong","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Hastily; without delay or respite."},{"word":"Headlong","type":"(a.)","description":"Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly."},{"word":"Headlong","type":"(a.)","description":"Steep; precipitous."},{"word":"Head-lugged","type":"(a.)","description":"Lugged or dragged by the head."},{"word":"Headmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Headman"},{"word":"Headman","type":"(n.)","description":"A head or leading man, especially of a village community."},{"word":"Headmold","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Headmould shot"},{"word":"Headmould","type":"()","description":"An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures."},{"word":"Headmost","type":"(a.)","description":"Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet."},{"word":"Headnote","type":"(n.)","description":"A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court."},{"word":"Headpan","type":"(n.)","description":"The brainpan."},{"word":"Headpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"Head."},{"word":"Headpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages."},{"word":"Headpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"Understanding; mental faculty."},{"word":"Headpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page."},{"word":"Headquarters","type":"(n. sing.)","description":"The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order."},{"word":"Headrace","type":"(n.)","description":"See Race, a water course."},{"word":"Headroom","type":"(n.)","description":"See Headway, 2."},{"word":"Headrope","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail."},{"word":"Headsail","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sail set forward of the foremast."},{"word":"Headshake","type":"(n.)","description":"A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial."},{"word":"Headship","type":"(n.)","description":"Authority or dignity; chief place."},{"word":"Headsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Headsman"},{"word":"Headsman","type":"(n.)","description":"An executioner who cuts off heads."},{"word":"Headspring","type":"(n.)","description":"Fountain; source."},{"word":"Headstall","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head."},{"word":"Headstock","type":"(n.)","description":"A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine"},{"word":"Headstock","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock."},{"word":"Headstock","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc."},{"word":"Headstone","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone."},{"word":"Headstone","type":"(n.)","description":"The stone at the head of a grave."},{"word":"Headstrong","type":"(a.)","description":"Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn."},{"word":"Headstrong","type":"(a.)","description":"Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy."},{"word":"Headstrongness","type":"(n.)","description":"Obstinacy."},{"word":"Headtire","type":"(n.)","description":"A headdress."},{"word":"Headtire","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place."},{"word":"Headway","type":"(n.)","description":"The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind."},{"word":"Headway","type":"(n.)","description":"Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath."},{"word":"Headwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Mental labor."},{"word":"Heady","type":"(a.)","description":"Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable."},{"word":"Heady","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong."},{"word":"Heady","type":"(a.)","description":"Violent; impetuous."},{"word":"Heal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like."},{"word":"Healed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heal"},{"word":"Healing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heal"},{"word":"Heal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health."},{"word":"Heal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound."},{"word":"Heal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restore to original purity or integrity."},{"word":"Heal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions."},{"word":"Heal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over."},{"word":"Heal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Health."},{"word":"Healable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being healed."},{"word":"Healall","type":"(n.)","description":"A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea."},{"word":"Heald","type":"(n.)","description":"A heddle."},{"word":"Healful","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or serving to heal; healing."},{"word":"Healing","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words."},{"word":"Healingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to heal or cure."},{"word":"Health","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain."},{"word":"Health","type":"(n.)","description":"A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast."},{"word":"Healthful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant."},{"word":"Healthful","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet."},{"word":"Healthful","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition."},{"word":"Healthful","type":"(a.)","description":"Well-disposed; favorable."},{"word":"Healthfully","type":"(adv.)","description":"In health; wholesomely."},{"word":"Healthfulness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being healthful."},{"word":"Healthily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a healthy manner."},{"word":"Healthiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease."},{"word":"Healthless","type":"(n.)","description":"Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm."},{"word":"Healthless","type":"(n.)","description":"Not conducive to health; unwholesome."},{"word":"Healthlessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being health/ess."},{"word":"Healthsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Wholesome; salubrious."},{"word":"Healthward","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency."},{"word":"Healthy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant."},{"word":"Healthy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion."},{"word":"Healthy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate."},{"word":"Heam","type":"(n.)","description":"The afterbirth or secundines of a beast."},{"word":"Heap","type":"(n.)","description":"A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons."},{"word":"Heap","type":"(n.)","description":"A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile."},{"word":"Heap","type":"(n.)","description":"A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones."},{"word":"Heaped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heap"},{"word":"Heaping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heap"},{"word":"Heap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures."},{"word":"Heap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal."},{"word":"Heap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full."},{"word":"Heaper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who heaps, piles, or amasses."},{"word":"Heapy","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying in heaps."},{"word":"Heard","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hear"},{"word":"Hearing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hear"},{"word":"Hear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call."},{"word":"Hear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed; to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be heard to-morrow."},{"word":"Hear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a concert; to hear Mass."},{"word":"Hear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give attention to as a teacher or judge."},{"word":"Hear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer favorably; to favor."},{"word":"Hear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound."},{"word":"Hear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen."},{"word":"Hear","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter."},{"word":"Heard","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Hear."},{"word":"Hearer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hears; an auditor."},{"word":"Hearing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good."},{"word":"Hearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing."},{"word":"Hearing","type":"(n.)","description":"A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues."},{"word":"Hearing","type":"(n.)","description":"Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot."},{"word":"Hearkened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hearken"},{"word":"Hearkening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hearken"},{"word":"Hearken","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply."},{"word":"Hearken","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To inquire; to seek information."},{"word":"Hearken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hear by listening."},{"word":"Hearken","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give heed to; to hear attentively."},{"word":"Hearkener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hearkens; a listener."},{"word":"Hearsal","type":"(n.)","description":"Rehearsal."},{"word":"Hearsay","type":"(n.)","description":"Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another."},{"word":"Hearse","type":"(n.)","description":"A hind in the year of its age."},{"word":"Hearse","type":"(n.)","description":"A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies."},{"word":"Hearse","type":"(n.)","description":"A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument."},{"word":"Hearse","type":"(n.)","description":"A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave."},{"word":"Hearse","type":"(n.)","description":"A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave."},{"word":"Hearse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a hearse; to entomb."},{"word":"Hearsecloth","type":"(n.)","description":"A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall."},{"word":"Hearselike","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable to a funeral."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"Courage; courageous purpose; spirit."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"Vital part; secret meaning; real intention."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(n.)","description":"A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit."},{"word":"Heart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage."},{"word":"Heartache","type":"(n.)","description":"Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang."},{"word":"Heartbreak","type":"(n.)","description":"Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief."},{"word":"Heartbreaking","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing overpowering sorrow."},{"word":"Heartbroken","type":"(a.)","description":"Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved."},{"word":"Heartburn","type":"(n.)","description":"An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints."},{"word":"Heartburned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having heartburn."},{"word":"Heartburning","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing discontent."},{"word":"Heartburning","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Heartburn."},{"word":"Heartburning","type":"(n.)","description":"Discontent; secret enmity."},{"word":"Heartdear","type":"(a.)","description":"Sincerely beloved."},{"word":"Heartdeep","type":"(a.)","description":"Rooted in the heart."},{"word":"Heart-eating","type":"(a.)","description":"Preying on the heart."},{"word":"Hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character)."},{"word":"Hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a heart; cordate."},{"word":"Hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Seated or laid up in the heart."},{"word":"Heartedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness."},{"word":"Hearten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden."},{"word":"Hearten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To restore fertility or strength to, as to land."},{"word":"Heartener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up."},{"word":"Heartfelt","type":"(a.)","description":"Hearty; sincere."},{"word":"Heartgrief","type":"(n.)","description":"Heartache; sorrow."},{"word":"Hearth","type":"(n.)","description":"The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove."},{"word":"Hearth","type":"(n.)","description":"The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside."},{"word":"Hearth","type":"(n.)","description":"The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles."},{"word":"Hearthstone","type":"(n.)","description":"Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home."},{"word":"Heartily","type":"(adv.)","description":"From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity."},{"word":"Heartily","type":"(adv.)","description":"With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince."},{"word":"Heariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of a greeting."},{"word":"Heartless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a heart."},{"word":"Heartless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent."},{"word":"Heartless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel."},{"word":"Heartlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little heart."},{"word":"Heartlings","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance."},{"word":"Heartpea","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Heartseed."},{"word":"Heartquake","type":"(n.)","description":"Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear."},{"word":"Heartrending","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing."},{"word":"Heart-robbing","type":"(a.)","description":"Depriving of thought; ecstatic."},{"word":"Heart-robbing","type":"(a.)","description":"Stealing the heart or affections; winning."},{"word":"Heart's-ease","type":"(n.)","description":"Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling."},{"word":"Heart's-ease","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of violet (Viola tricolor); -- called also pansy."},{"word":"Heartseed","type":"(n.)","description":"A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart."},{"word":"Heartshaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of a heart; cordate."},{"word":"Heartsick","type":"(a.)","description":"Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent."},{"word":"Heartsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Merry; cheerful; lively."},{"word":"Heart-spoon","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of the breastbone."},{"word":"Heartstricken","type":"(a.)","description":"Shocked; dismayed."},{"word":"Heartstrike","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect at heart; to shock."},{"word":"Heartstring","type":"(n.)","description":"A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart."},{"word":"Heartstruck","type":"(a.)","description":"Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind."},{"word":"Heartstruck","type":"(a.)","description":"Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken."},{"word":"Heartswelling","type":"(a.)","description":"Rankling in, or swelling, the heart."},{"word":"Heart-whole","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the heart or affections free; not in love."},{"word":"Heart-whole","type":"(a.)","description":"With unbroken courage; undismayed."},{"word":"Heart-whole","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a single and sincere heart."},{"word":"Heartwood","type":"(n.)","description":"The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum."},{"word":"Heart-wounded","type":"(a.)","description":"Wounded to the heart with love or grief."},{"word":"Hearty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government."},{"word":"Hearty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber."},{"word":"Hearty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal."},{"word":"Hearties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hearty"},{"word":"Hearty","type":"(n.)","description":"Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors."},{"word":"Heartyhale","type":"(a.)","description":"Good for the heart."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"Sexual excitement in animals."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(n.)","description":"Fermentation."},{"word":"Heated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heat"},{"word":"Heating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heat"},{"word":"Heat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill."},{"word":"Heat","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot."},{"word":"Heater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, heats."},{"word":"Heater","type":"(n.)","description":"Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated."},{"word":"Heath","type":"(n.)","description":"A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling."},{"word":"Heath","type":"(n.)","description":"Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather."},{"word":"Heath","type":"(n.)","description":"A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage."},{"word":"Heathclad","type":"(a.)","description":"Clad or crowned with heath."},{"word":"Heathens","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Heathen"},{"word":"Heathen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Heathen"},{"word":"Heathen","type":"(n.)","description":"An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater."},{"word":"Heathen","type":"(n.)","description":"An irreligious person."},{"word":"Heathen","type":"(a.)","description":"Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author."},{"word":"Heathen","type":"(a.)","description":"Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish."},{"word":"Heathen","type":"(a.)","description":"Irreligious; scoffing."},{"word":"Heathendom","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively."},{"word":"Heathendom","type":"(n.)","description":"Heathenism."},{"word":"Heathenesse","type":"(n.)","description":"Heathendom."},{"word":"Heathenish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens."},{"word":"Heathenish","type":"(a.)","description":"Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel."},{"word":"Heathenish","type":"(a.)","description":"Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living."},{"word":"Heathenishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a heathenish manner."},{"word":"Heathenishness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being heathenish."},{"word":"Heathenism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism."},{"word":"Heathenism","type":"(n.)","description":"The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism."},{"word":"Heathenized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heathenize"},{"word":"Heathenizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heathenize"},{"word":"Heathenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render heathen or heathenish."},{"word":"Heathenness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being heathen or like the heathen."},{"word":"Heathenry","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, quality, or character of the heathen."},{"word":"Heathenry","type":"(n.)","description":"Heathendom; heathen nations."},{"word":"Heather","type":"(n.)","description":"Heath."},{"word":"Heathery","type":"(a.)","description":"Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath."},{"word":"Heathy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills."},{"word":"Heating","type":"(a.)","description":"That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications."},{"word":"Heatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated."},{"word":"Heatless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of heat; cold."},{"word":"Heaved","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Heave"},{"word":"Hove","type":"()","description":"of Heave"},{"word":"Heaved","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Heave"},{"word":"Hove","type":"()","description":"of Heave"},{"word":"Hoven","type":"()","description":"of Heave"},{"word":"Heaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heave"},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(n.)","description":"An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(n.)","description":"An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like."},{"word":"Heave","type":"(n.)","description":"A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode."},{"word":"Heaven","type":"(n.)","description":"The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense."},{"word":"Heaven","type":"(n.)","description":"The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death."},{"word":"Heaven","type":"(n.)","description":"The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2."},{"word":"Heaven","type":"(n.)","description":"Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight."},{"word":"Heavened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heaven"},{"word":"Heavening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heaven"},{"word":"Heaven","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify."},{"word":"Heavenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render like heaven or fit for heaven."},{"word":"Heavenliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being heavenly."},{"word":"Heavenly","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music."},{"word":"Heavenly","type":"(a.)","description":"Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng."},{"word":"Heavenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner resembling that of heaven."},{"word":"Heavenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By the influence or agency of heaven."},{"word":"Heavenlyminded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious."},{"word":"Heavenward","type":"(a & adv.)","description":"Toward heaven."},{"word":"Heave","type":"()","description":"An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering."},{"word":"Heaver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver."},{"word":"Heaver","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar used as a lever."},{"word":"Heaves","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind."},{"word":"Heavily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded."},{"word":"Heavily","type":"(adv.)","description":"As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully."},{"word":"Heaviness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness."},{"word":"Heaving","type":"(n.)","description":"A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing."},{"word":"Heavisome","type":"(a.)","description":"Heavy; dull."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the heaves."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(superl.)","description":"With child; pregnant."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(adv.)","description":"Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make heavy."},{"word":"Heavy-armed","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms."},{"word":"Heavy-haded","type":"(a.)","description":"Clumsy; awkward."},{"word":"Heavy-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull; stupid."},{"word":"Heavy","type":"()","description":"Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals."},{"word":"Hebdomad","type":"(n.)","description":"A week; a period of seven days."},{"word":"Hebdomadal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hebdomadary"},{"word":"Hebdomadary","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly."},{"word":"Hebdomadally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In periods of seven days; weekly."},{"word":"Hebdomadary","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors."},{"word":"Hebdomatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Weekly; hebdomadal."},{"word":"Hebe","type":"(n.)","description":"The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them."},{"word":"Hebe","type":"(n.)","description":"An African ape; the hamadryas."},{"word":"Heben","type":"(n.)","description":"Ebony."},{"word":"Hebenon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Henbane."},{"word":"Hebetated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hebetate"},{"word":"Hebetating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hebetate"},{"word":"Hebetate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties."},{"word":"Hebetate","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtuse; dull."},{"word":"Hebetate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a dull or blunt and soft point."},{"word":"Hebetation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid."},{"word":"Hebetation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being blunted or dulled."},{"word":"Hebete","type":"(a.)","description":"Dull; stupid."},{"word":"Hebetude","type":"(n.)","description":"Dullness; stupidity."},{"word":"Hebraic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews."},{"word":"Hebraically","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language."},{"word":"Hebraism","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language."},{"word":"Hebraism","type":"(n.)","description":"The type of character of the Hebrews."},{"word":"Hebraist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the Hebrew language and learning."},{"word":"Hebraistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom."},{"word":"Hebraistically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a Hebraistic sense or form."},{"word":"Hebraize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic."},{"word":"Hebraized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hebraize"},{"word":"Hebraizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hebraize"},{"word":"Hebraize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs."},{"word":"Hebrew","type":"(n.)","description":"An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew."},{"word":"Hebrew","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages."},{"word":"Hebrew","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites."},{"word":"Hebrewess","type":"(n.)","description":"An Israelitish woman."},{"word":"Hebrician","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebraist."},{"word":"Hebridean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hebridian"},{"word":"Hebridian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland."},{"word":"Hebridian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides."},{"word":"Hecatomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims."},{"word":"Hecatompedon","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate."},{"word":"Hecdecane","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane."},{"word":"Heck","type":"(n.)","description":"The bolt or latch of a door."},{"word":"Heck","type":"(n.)","description":"A rack for cattle to feed at."},{"word":"Heck","type":"(n.)","description":"A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door."},{"word":"Heck","type":"(n.)","description":"A latticework contrivance for catching fish."},{"word":"Heck","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine."},{"word":"Heck","type":"(n.)","description":"A bend or winding of a stream."},{"word":"Heckimal","type":"(n.)","description":"The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus)."},{"word":"Heckle","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"Same as Hackle."},{"word":"Hectare","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres."},{"word":"Hectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush."},{"word":"Hectic","type":"(a.)","description":"In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient."},{"word":"Hectic","type":"(n.)","description":"Hectic fever."},{"word":"Hectic","type":"(n.)","description":"A hectic flush."},{"word":"Hectocotylized","type":"(a.)","description":"Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis."},{"word":"Hectocotyli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hectocotylus"},{"word":"Hectocotylus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes."},{"word":"Hectogram","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois."},{"word":"Hectogramme","type":"(n.)","description":"The same as Hectogram."},{"word":"Hectograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin."},{"word":"Hectoliter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hectolitre"},{"word":"Hectolitre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels."},{"word":"Hectometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hectometre"},{"word":"Hectometre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet."},{"word":"Hector","type":"(n.)","description":"A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes."},{"word":"Hectored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hector"},{"word":"Hectoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hector"},{"word":"Hector","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying."},{"word":"Hector","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent."},{"word":"Hectorism","type":"(n.)","description":"The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying."},{"word":"Hectorly","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting."},{"word":"Hectostere","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet."},{"word":"Heddles","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Heddle"},{"word":"Heddle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom."},{"word":"Heddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving."},{"word":"Heddle-eye","type":"(n.)","description":"The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread."},{"word":"Heddling","type":"(vb. n.)","description":"The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself."},{"word":"Hederaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy."},{"word":"Hederal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ivy."},{"word":"Hederic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series."},{"word":"Hederiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing ivy; ivy-bearing."},{"word":"Hederose","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy."},{"word":"Hedge","type":"(n.)","description":"A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden."},{"word":"Hedged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hedge"},{"word":"Hedging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hedge"},{"word":"Hedge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden."},{"word":"Hedge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out."},{"word":"Hedge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in)."},{"word":"Hedge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround so as to prevent escape."},{"word":"Hedge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations."},{"word":"Hedge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on."},{"word":"Hedge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite."},{"word":"Hedgeborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Born under a hedge; of low birth."},{"word":"Hedgebote","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haybote."},{"word":"Hedgehog","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects."},{"word":"Hedgehog","type":"(n.)","description":"The Canadian porcupine."},{"word":"Hedgehog","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called."},{"word":"Hedgehog","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of dredging machine."},{"word":"Hedgeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no hedge."},{"word":"Hedgepig","type":"(n.)","description":"A young hedgehog."},{"word":"Hedger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting."},{"word":"Hedgerow","type":"(n.)","description":"A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields."},{"word":"Hedging","type":"()","description":"A hedge bill. See under Hedge."},{"word":"Hedonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to pleasure."},{"word":"Hedonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect."},{"word":"Hedonistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hedonic, 2."},{"word":"Heeded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heed"},{"word":"Heeding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heed"},{"word":"Heed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe."},{"word":"Heed","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To mind; to consider."},{"word":"Heed","type":"(n.)","description":"Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take."},{"word":"Heed","type":"(n.)","description":"Careful consideration; obedient regard."},{"word":"Heed","type":"(n.)","description":"A look or expression of heading."},{"word":"Heedful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant."},{"word":"Heedless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant."},{"word":"Heedy","type":"(a.)","description":"Heedful."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests"},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The after end of a ship's keel."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(n.)","description":"A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen."},{"word":"Heeled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heel"},{"word":"Heeling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heel"},{"word":"Heel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe."},{"word":"Heel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting."},{"word":"Heelball","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions."},{"word":"Heeler","type":"(n.)","description":"A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs."},{"word":"Heeler","type":"(n.)","description":"A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron."},{"word":"Heelless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a heel."},{"word":"Heelpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of armor to protect the heels."},{"word":"Heelpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe."},{"word":"Heelpiece","type":"(n.)","description":"The end."},{"word":"Heelpost","type":"(n.)","description":"The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft."},{"word":"Heelpost","type":"(n.)","description":"The post to which a gate or door is hinged."},{"word":"Heelpost","type":"(n.)","description":"The quoin post of a lock gate."},{"word":"Heelspur","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter."},{"word":"Heeltap","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe."},{"word":"Heeltap","type":"(n.)","description":"A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking."},{"word":"Heeltapped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heeltap"},{"word":"Heeltapping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heeltap"},{"word":"Heeltap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)"},{"word":"Heeltool","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end."},{"word":"Heep","type":"(n.)","description":"The hip of the dog-rose."},{"word":"Heer","type":"(n.)","description":"A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle."},{"word":"Heer","type":"(n.)","description":"Hair."},{"word":"Heft","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haft, n."},{"word":"Heft","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion."},{"word":"Heft","type":"(n.)","description":"Weight; ponderousness."},{"word":"Heft","type":"(n.)","description":"The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled."},{"word":"Hefted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heft"},{"word":"Heft","type":"()","description":"of Heft"},{"word":"Hefting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heft"},{"word":"Heft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heave up; to raise aloft."},{"word":"Heft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prove or try the weight of by raising."},{"word":"Hefty","type":"(a.)","description":"Moderately heavy."},{"word":"Hegelian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Hegelianism."},{"word":"Hegelian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Hegel."},{"word":"Hegelianism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hegelism"},{"word":"Hegelism","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831)."},{"word":"Hegemonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hegemonical"},{"word":"Hegemonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Leading; controlling; ruling; predominant."},{"word":"Hegemony","type":"(n.)","description":"Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates."},{"word":"Hegge","type":"(n.)","description":"A hedge."},{"word":"Hegira","type":"(n.)","description":"The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed."},{"word":"Heifer","type":"(n.)","description":"A young cow."},{"word":"Heigh-ho","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc."},{"word":"Height","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being high; elevated position."},{"word":"Height","type":"(n.)","description":"The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature."},{"word":"Height","type":"(n.)","description":"Degree of latitude either north or south."},{"word":"Height","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights."},{"word":"Height","type":"(n.)","description":"Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence."},{"word":"Height","type":"(n.)","description":"Progress toward eminence; grade; degree."},{"word":"Height","type":"(n.)","description":"Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest."},{"word":"Heightened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Heighten"},{"word":"Heightening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Heighten"},{"word":"Heighten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make high; to raise higher; to elevate."},{"word":"Heighten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint."},{"word":"Heightener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, heightens."},{"word":"Heinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character."},{"word":"Heir","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter."},{"word":"Heir","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues."},{"word":"Heir","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inherit; to succeed to."},{"word":"Heirdom","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of an heir; succession by inheritance."},{"word":"Heiress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female heir."},{"word":"Heirless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of an heir."},{"word":"Heirloom","type":"(n.)","description":"Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations."},{"word":"Heirship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting."},{"word":"Hejira","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hegira."},{"word":"Hektare","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hektometer"},{"word":"Hektogram","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hektometer"},{"word":"Hektoliter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hektometer"},{"word":"Hektometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer."},{"word":"Hektograph","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hectograph."},{"word":"Helamys","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jumping hare, under Hare."},{"word":"Helcoplasty","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation."},{"word":"Held","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Hold."},{"word":"Hele","type":"(n.)","description":"Health; welfare."},{"word":"Hele","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide; to cover; to roof."},{"word":"Helena","type":"(n.)","description":"See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint."},{"word":"Helenin","type":"(n.)","description":"A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste."},{"word":"Heliac","type":"(a.)","description":"Heliacal."},{"word":"Heliacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun."},{"word":"Heliacally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a heliacal manner."},{"word":"Helianthin","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange."},{"word":"Helianthoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea."},{"word":"Helianthoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria."},{"word":"Helical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring."},{"word":"Helichrysum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called \"everlasting flowers.\""},{"word":"Heliciform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a helix; spiral."},{"word":"Helicin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)"},{"word":"Helicine","type":"(a.)","description":"Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis."},{"word":"Helicograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane."},{"word":"Helicoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell."},{"word":"Helicoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family."},{"word":"Helicoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it."},{"word":"Helicoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Helicoid."},{"word":"Helicon","type":"(n.)","description":"A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses."},{"word":"Heliconia","type":"(n.)","description":"One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white."},{"word":"Heliconian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Helicon."},{"word":"Heliconian","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the butterflies of the genus Heliconius."},{"word":"Helicotrema","type":"(n.)","description":"The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear."},{"word":"Helio-","type":"()","description":"A combining form from Gr. \"h`lios the sun."},{"word":"Heliocentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heliocentrical"},{"word":"Heliocentrical","type":"(a.)","description":"pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical."},{"word":"Heliochrome","type":"(n.)","description":"A photograph in colors."},{"word":"Heliochromic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy."},{"word":"Heliochromy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of producing photographs in color."},{"word":"Heliograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture taken by heliography; a photograph."},{"word":"Heliograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for taking photographs of the sun."},{"word":"Heliograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3."},{"word":"Heliographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography."},{"word":"Heliography","type":"(n.)","description":"Photography."},{"word":"Heliogravure","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of photographic engraving."},{"word":"Heliolater","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper of the sun."},{"word":"Heliolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Sun worship. See Sabianism."},{"word":"Heliolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks."},{"word":"Heliometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope."},{"word":"Heliometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heliometrical"},{"word":"Heliometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry."},{"word":"Heliometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer."},{"word":"Heliopora","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral."},{"word":"Helioscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light."},{"word":"Heliostat","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope."},{"word":"Heliotrope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line."},{"word":"Heliotrope","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers."},{"word":"Heliotrope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror."},{"word":"Heliotrope","type":"(n.)","description":"See Bloodstone (a)."},{"word":"Heliotroper","type":"(n.)","description":"The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope."},{"word":"Heliotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun."},{"word":"Heliotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers."},{"word":"Heliotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy."},{"word":"Heliotypic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy."},{"word":"Heliotypy","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography."},{"word":"Heliozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule."},{"word":"Helispheric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Helispherical"},{"word":"Helispherical","type":"(a.)","description":"Spiral."},{"word":"Helium","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals."},{"word":"Helices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Helix"},{"word":"Helixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Helix"},{"word":"Helix","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane."},{"word":"Helix","type":"(n.)","description":"A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital."},{"word":"Helix","type":"(n.)","description":"The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear."},{"word":"Helix","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of land snails, including a large number of species."},{"word":"Hell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades."},{"word":"Hell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish."},{"word":"Hell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A place where outcast persons or things are gathered"},{"word":"Hell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention."},{"word":"Hell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A gambling house."},{"word":"Hell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type."},{"word":"Hell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overwhelm."},{"word":"Hellanodic","type":"(n.)","description":"A judge or umpire in games or combats."},{"word":"Hellbender","type":"(n.)","description":"A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog."},{"word":"Hellborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Born in or of hell."},{"word":"Hellbred","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced in hell."},{"word":"Hellbrewed","type":"(a.)","description":"Prepared in hell."},{"word":"Hellbroth","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation."},{"word":"Hell-cat","type":"(n.)","description":"A witch; a hag."},{"word":"Hell-diver","type":"(n.)","description":"The dabchick."},{"word":"Helldoomed","type":"(a.)","description":"Doomed to hell."},{"word":"Hellebore","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients."},{"word":"Hellebore","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially V. album and V. viride, both called white hellebore."},{"word":"Helleborein","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin."},{"word":"Helleborin","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin."},{"word":"Helleborism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine."},{"word":"Hellene","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek."},{"word":"Hellenian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks."},{"word":"Hellenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian."},{"word":"Hellenic","type":"(n.)","description":"The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander."},{"word":"Hellenism","type":"(n.)","description":"A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism."},{"word":"Hellenism","type":"(n.)","description":"The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection."},{"word":"Hellenist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1)."},{"word":"Hellenist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist."},{"word":"Hellenistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hellenistical"},{"word":"Hellenistical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Hellenists."},{"word":"Hellenistically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect."},{"word":"Hellenize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize."},{"word":"Hellenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a Greek form or character to; to Grecize; as, to Hellenize a word."},{"word":"Hellenotype","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ivorytype."},{"word":"Hellespont","type":"(n.)","description":"A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora."},{"word":"Hellespontine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hellespont."},{"word":"Hellgamite","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hellgramite"},{"word":"Hellgramite","type":"(n.)","description":"The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera."},{"word":"Hellhag","type":"(n.)","description":"A hag of or fit for hell."},{"word":"Hell-haunted","type":"(a.)","description":"Haunted by devils; hellish."},{"word":"Hellhound","type":"(n.)","description":"A dog of hell; an agent of hell."},{"word":"Hellier","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher."},{"word":"Hellish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical."},{"word":"Hellkite","type":"(n.)","description":"A kite of infernal breed."},{"word":"Hello","type":"(interj. & n.)","description":"See Halloo."},{"word":"Hellward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward hell."},{"word":"Helly","type":"(a.)","description":"Hellish."},{"word":"Helm","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haulm, straw."},{"word":"Helm","type":"(n.)","description":"The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone."},{"word":"Helm","type":"(n.)","description":"The place or office of direction or administration."},{"word":"Helm","type":"(n.)","description":"One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director."},{"word":"Helm","type":"(n.)","description":"A helve."},{"word":"Helmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Helm"},{"word":"Helming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Helm"},{"word":"Helm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steer; to guide; to direct."},{"word":"Helm","type":"(n.)","description":"A helmet."},{"word":"Helm","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain."},{"word":"Helm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet."},{"word":"Helmage","type":"(n.)","description":"Guidance; direction."},{"word":"Helmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a helmet."},{"word":"Helmet","type":"(n.)","description":"A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver."},{"word":"Helmet","type":"(n.)","description":"The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form."},{"word":"Helmet","type":"(n.)","description":"A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun."},{"word":"Helmet","type":"(n.)","description":"That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc."},{"word":"Helmet","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper part of a retort."},{"word":"Helmet","type":"(n.)","description":"The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon."},{"word":"Helmet","type":"(n.)","description":"A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird."},{"word":"Helmeted","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate."},{"word":"Helmet-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of Galeate."},{"word":"Helminth","type":"(n.)","description":"An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes."},{"word":"Helminthagogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A vermifuge."},{"word":"Helminthes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha."},{"word":"Helminthiasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in which worms are present in some part of the body."},{"word":"Helminthic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms."},{"word":"Helminthic","type":"(n.)","description":"A vermifuge; an anthelmintic."},{"word":"Helminthite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails."},{"word":"Helminthoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Wormlike; vermiform."},{"word":"Helminthologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Helminthological"},{"word":"Helminthological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to helminthology."},{"word":"Helminthologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in helminthology."},{"word":"Helminthology","type":"(n.)","description":"The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms."},{"word":"Helmless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a helmet."},{"word":"Helmless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a helm or rudder."},{"word":"Helmsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Helmsman"},{"word":"Helmsman","type":"(n.)","description":"The man at the helm; a steersman."},{"word":"Helmwind","type":"(n.)","description":"A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm."},{"word":"Helot","type":"(n.)","description":"A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf."},{"word":"Helotism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery."},{"word":"Helotry","type":"(n.)","description":"The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen."},{"word":"Helped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Help"},{"word":"Holp","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Help"},{"word":"Holpen","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Help"},{"word":"Helping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Help"},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, \"Help me scale yon balcony.\""},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change for the better; to remedy."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?"},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forbear; to avoid."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business."},{"word":"Help","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman."},{"word":"Helper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish."},{"word":"Helpful","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary."},{"word":"Helpless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant."},{"word":"Helpless","type":"(a.)","description":"Beyond help; irremediable."},{"word":"Helpless","type":"(a.)","description":"Bringing no help; unaiding."},{"word":"Helpless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of."},{"word":"Helpmate","type":"(n.)","description":"A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife."},{"word":"Helpmeet","type":"(n.)","description":"A wife; a helpmate."},{"word":"Helter-skelter","type":"(adv.)","description":"In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly."},{"word":"Helve","type":"(n.)","description":"The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze."},{"word":"Helve","type":"(n.)","description":"The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer."},{"word":"Helve","type":"(n.)","description":"A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head."},{"word":"Helved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Helve"},{"word":"Helving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Helve"},{"word":"Helve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a helve, as an ax."},{"word":"Helvetian","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Helvetic."},{"word":"Helvetian","type":"(n.)","description":"A Swiss; a Switzer."},{"word":"Helvetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states."},{"word":"Helvine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Helvite"},{"word":"Helvite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur."},{"word":"Hem","type":"(pron.)","description":"Them"},{"word":"Hem","type":"(interj.)","description":"An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm."},{"word":"Hem","type":"(n.)","description":"An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention."},{"word":"Hem","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking."},{"word":"Hem","type":"(n.)","description":"The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling."},{"word":"Hem","type":"(n.)","description":"Border; edge; margin."},{"word":"Hem","type":"(n.)","description":"A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge."},{"word":"Hemmed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hem"},{"word":"Hemming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hem"},{"word":"Hem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of."},{"word":"Hem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To border; to edge"},{"word":"Hema-","type":"()","description":"Same as Haema-."},{"word":"Hemachate","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper."},{"word":"Hemachrome","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haemachrome."},{"word":"Hemacite","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc."},{"word":"Hemadrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hemadromometer"},{"word":"Hemadromometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries."},{"word":"Hemadrometry","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hemadromometry"},{"word":"Hemadromometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; haemotachometry."},{"word":"Hemadynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood."},{"word":"Hemadynamometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer."},{"word":"Hemal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural."},{"word":"Hemaphaein","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haemaphaein."},{"word":"Hemapophyses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hemapophysis"},{"word":"Hemapophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib."},{"word":"Hemastatic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Alt. of Hemastatical"},{"word":"Hemastatical","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Hemostatic."},{"word":"Hemastatics","type":"(n.)","description":"Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels."},{"word":"Hematachometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haematachometer."},{"word":"Hematein","type":"(n.)","description":"A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins."},{"word":"Hematemesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A vomiting of blood."},{"word":"Hematherm","type":"(n.)","description":"A warm-blooded animal."},{"word":"Hemathermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Warm-blooded; hematothermal."},{"word":"Hematic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Haematic."},{"word":"Hematic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood."},{"word":"Hematin","type":"(n.)","description":"Hematoxylin."},{"word":"Hematin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color."},{"word":"Hematinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of hemoglobinometer."},{"word":"Hematinometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids."},{"word":"Hematinon","type":"(n.)","description":"A red consisting of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc."},{"word":"Hematite","type":"(n.)","description":"An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown."},{"word":"Hematitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it."},{"word":"Hemato","type":"()","description":"See Haema-."},{"word":"Hematocele","type":"(n.)","description":"A tumor filled with blood."},{"word":"Hematocrya","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma."},{"word":"Hematocrystallin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hemoglobin."},{"word":"Hematoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling blood."},{"word":"Hematoidin","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called haemolutein."},{"word":"Hematology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the blood."},{"word":"Hematoma","type":"(n.)","description":"A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin."},{"word":"Hematophilia","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds."},{"word":"Hematosin","type":"(n.)","description":"The hematin of blood."},{"word":"Hematosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood."},{"word":"Hematosis","type":"(n.)","description":"The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; haematogenesis."},{"word":"Hematotherma","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya."},{"word":"Hematothermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Warm-blooded."},{"word":"Hematoxylin","type":"(n.)","description":"Haematoxylin."},{"word":"Hematuria","type":"(n.)","description":"Passage of urine mingled with blood."},{"word":"Hemautography","type":"(n.)","description":"The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper."},{"word":"Hemelytra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hemelytrum"},{"word":"Hemelytron","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hemelytrum"},{"word":"Hemelytrum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc."},{"word":"Hemeralopia","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight."},{"word":"Hemerobian","type":"(n.)","description":"A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera."},{"word":"Hemerobid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of relating to the hemerobians."},{"word":"Hemerocallis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily."},{"word":"Hemi-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying half."},{"word":"Hemialbumin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hemialbumose."},{"word":"Hemialbumose","type":"(n.)","description":"An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin."},{"word":"Hemianaesthesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Anaesthesia upon one side of the body."},{"word":"Hemibranchi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia."},{"word":"Hemicardia","type":"(n.)","description":"A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left."},{"word":"Hemicarp","type":"(n.)","description":"One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves."},{"word":"Hemicerebrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A lateral half of the cerebrum."},{"word":"Hemicollin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Semiglutin."},{"word":"Hemicrania","type":"(n.)","description":"A pain that affects only one side of the head."},{"word":"Hemicrany","type":"(n.)","description":"Hemicranis."},{"word":"Hemicycle","type":"(n.)","description":"A half circle; a semicircle."},{"word":"Hemicycle","type":"(n.)","description":"A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room."},{"word":"Hemidactyl","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath."},{"word":"Hemi-demi-semiquaver","type":"(n.)","description":"A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note."},{"word":"Hemiditone","type":"(n.)","description":"The lesser third."},{"word":"Hemigamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses."},{"word":"Hemiglyph","type":"(n.)","description":"The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order."},{"word":"Hemihedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron."},{"word":"Hemihedrism","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of crystallizing hemihedrally."},{"word":"Hemihedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron."},{"word":"Hemiholohedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes."},{"word":"Hemimellitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid."},{"word":"Hemimetabola","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis."},{"word":"Hemimetabolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches."},{"word":"Hemimorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the two ends modified with unlike planes; -- said of a crystal."},{"word":"Hemin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin."},{"word":"Heminae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hemina"},{"word":"Hemina","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of half a sextary."},{"word":"Hemina","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces."},{"word":"Hemionus","type":"(n.)","description":"A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang."},{"word":"Hemiopia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hemiopsia"},{"word":"Hemiopsia","type":"(n.)","description":"A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at."},{"word":"Hemiorthotype","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Monoclinic."},{"word":"Hemipeptone","type":"(n.)","description":"A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter."},{"word":"Hemiplegia","type":"(n.)","description":"A palsy that affects one side only of the body."},{"word":"Hemiplegy","type":"(n.)","description":"Hemiplegia."},{"word":"Hemipode","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia."},{"word":"Hemiprotein","type":"(n.)","description":"An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schutzenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone."},{"word":"Hemipter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Hemiptera."},{"word":"Hemiptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others."},{"word":"Hemipteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hemipterous"},{"word":"Hemipterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera."},{"word":"Hemipteran","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter."},{"word":"Hemisected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hemisect"},{"word":"Hemisecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hemisect"},{"word":"Hemisect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide along the mesial plane."},{"word":"Hemisection","type":"(n.)","description":"A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided."},{"word":"Hemisphere","type":"(n.)","description":"A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center."},{"word":"Hemisphere","type":"(n.)","description":"Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture."},{"word":"Hemisphere","type":"(n.)","description":"The people who inhabit a hemisphere."},{"word":"Hemispheric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hemispherical"},{"word":"Hemispherical","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body."},{"word":"Hemispheroid","type":"(n.)","description":"A half of a spheroid."},{"word":"Hemispheroidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form."},{"word":"Hemispherule","type":"(n.)","description":"A half spherule."},{"word":"Hemistich","type":"(n.)","description":"Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed."},{"word":"Hemistichal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse."},{"word":"Hemisystole","type":"(n.)","description":"Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart."},{"word":"Hemitone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Semitone."},{"word":"Hemitropal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hemitropous"},{"word":"Hemitropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned half round; half inverted."},{"word":"Hemitropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule."},{"word":"Hemitrope","type":"(a.)","description":"Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure."},{"word":"Hemitrope","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure."},{"word":"Hemitropy","type":"(n.)","description":"Twin composition in crystals."},{"word":"Hemlock","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium."},{"word":"Hemlock","type":"(n.)","description":"An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce."},{"word":"Hemlock","type":"(n.)","description":"The wood or timber of the hemlock tree."},{"word":"Hemmel","type":"(n.)","description":"A shed or hovel for cattle."},{"word":"Hemmer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, hems with a needle."},{"word":"Hemmer","type":"(n.)","description":"An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down."},{"word":"Hemmer","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem."},{"word":"Hemo-","type":"()","description":"Same as Haema-, Haemo-."},{"word":"Hemoglobin","type":"(n.)","description":"The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called haematoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called haematocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood."},{"word":"Hemoglobinometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Haemochromometer."},{"word":"Hemophilia","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hematophilia."},{"word":"Hemoptysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs."},{"word":"Hemorrhage","type":"(n.)","description":"Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels."},{"word":"Hemorrhagic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or tending to a flux of blood; consisting in, or accompanied by, hemorrhage."},{"word":"Hemorrhoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids."},{"word":"Hemorrhoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves."},{"word":"Hemorrhoids","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods."},{"word":"Hemostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to stagnation of the blood."},{"word":"Hemostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic."},{"word":"Hemostatic","type":"(n.)","description":"A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage."},{"word":"Hemoothorax","type":"(n.)","description":"An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura."},{"word":"Hemp","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber."},{"word":"Hemp","type":"(n.)","description":"The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp."},{"word":"Hempen","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord."},{"word":"Hempen","type":"(a.)","description":"Like hemp."},{"word":"Hempy","type":"(a.)","description":"Like hemp."},{"word":"Hemself","type":"(pron.)","description":"Alt. of Hemselven"},{"word":"Hemselven","type":"(pron.)","description":"Themselves; -- used reflexively."},{"word":"Hemstitched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hemstitch"},{"word":"Hemstitching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hemstitch"},{"word":"Hemstitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief."},{"word":"Hemstitched","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief."},{"word":"Hemuse","type":"(n.)","description":"The roebuck in its third year."},{"word":"Hen","type":"(n.)","description":"The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen."},{"word":"Henbane","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus."},{"word":"Henbit","type":"(n.)","description":"A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves."},{"word":"Hence","type":"(adv.)","description":"From this place; away."},{"word":"Hence","type":"(adv.)","description":"From this time; in the future; as, a week hence."},{"word":"Hence","type":"(adv.)","description":"From this reason; as an inference or deduction."},{"word":"Hence","type":"(adv.)","description":"From this source or origin."},{"word":"Hence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send away."},{"word":"Henceforth","type":"(adv.)","description":"From this time forward; henceforward."},{"word":"Henceforward","type":"(adv.)","description":"From this time forward; henceforth."},{"word":"Henchboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A page; a servant."},{"word":"-men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Henchman"},{"word":"Henchman","type":"(n.)","description":"An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term."},{"word":"Hencoop","type":"(n.)","description":"A coop or cage for hens."},{"word":"Hende","type":"(a.)","description":"Skillful; dexterous; clever."},{"word":"Hende","type":"(a.)","description":"Friendly; civil; gentle; kind."},{"word":"Hendecagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles."},{"word":"Hendecane","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane."},{"word":"Hendecasyllabic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables."},{"word":"Hendecasyllable","type":"(n.)","description":"A metrical line of eleven syllables."},{"word":"Hendecatoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid."},{"word":"Hendiadys","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups."},{"word":"Hendy","type":"(a.)","description":"See Hende."},{"word":"Henen","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hence."},{"word":"Henfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A marine fish; the sea bream."},{"word":"Henfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A young bib. See Bib, n., 2."},{"word":"Heng","type":"(imp.)","description":"Hung."},{"word":"Hen-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted."},{"word":"Henhouses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Henhouse"},{"word":"Henhouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house or shelter for fowls."},{"word":"Henhussy","type":"(n.)","description":"A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns."},{"word":"Heniquen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jeniquen."},{"word":"Henna","type":"(n.)","description":"A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc."},{"word":"Henna","type":"(n.)","description":"The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them."},{"word":"Hennery","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosed place for keeping hens."},{"word":"Hennes","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hence."},{"word":"Hennotannic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid."},{"word":"Henoge","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Henogenesis"},{"word":"Henogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ontogeny."},{"word":"Henotheism","type":"(n.)","description":"Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest."},{"word":"Henotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Harmonizing; irenic."},{"word":"Henpecked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Henpeck"},{"word":"Henpecking","type":"(p. pr. & vb.)","description":"of Henpeck"},{"word":"Henpeck","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively)."},{"word":"Henroost","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where hens roost."},{"word":"Henrys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Henry"},{"word":"Henry","type":"(n.)","description":"The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second."},{"word":"Hen's-foot","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides)."},{"word":"Hente","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Hent"},{"word":"Hent","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Hent"},{"word":"Hent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get."},{"word":"Henware","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks."},{"word":"Henxman","type":"(n.)","description":"Henchman."},{"word":"Hep","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose."},{"word":"Hepar","type":"(n.)","description":"Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/)."},{"word":"Hepar","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/)."},{"word":"Hepatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases."},{"word":"Hepatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar."},{"word":"Hepatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts."},{"word":"Hepaticae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hepatica"},{"word":"Hepatica","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup."},{"word":"Hepatica","type":"(n.)","description":"Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement."},{"word":"Hepatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Hepatic."},{"word":"Hepatite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated."},{"word":"Hepatitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the liver."},{"word":"Hepatization","type":"(n.)","description":"Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas."},{"word":"Hepatization","type":"(n.)","description":"Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air."},{"word":"Hepatized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hepatize"},{"word":"Hepatizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hepatize"},{"word":"Hepatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas."},{"word":"Hepatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs."},{"word":"Hepatocele","type":"(n.)","description":"Hernia of the liver."},{"word":"Hepatocystic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts."},{"word":"Hepatogastric","type":"(a.)","description":"See Gastrohepatic."},{"word":"Hepatogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hepatogenous"},{"word":"Hepatogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice."},{"word":"Hepatology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver."},{"word":"Hepato-pancreas","type":"(n.)","description":"A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates."},{"word":"Hepatorenal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament."},{"word":"Hepatoscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by inspecting the liver of animals."},{"word":"Heppen","type":"(a.)","description":"Neat; fit; comfortable."},{"word":"Hepper","type":"(n.)","description":"A young salmon; a parr."},{"word":"Hepta","type":"()","description":"A combining form from Gr. \"epta`, seven."},{"word":"Heptachord","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of seven sounds."},{"word":"Heptachord","type":"(n.)","description":"A lyre with seven chords."},{"word":"Heptachord","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones."},{"word":"Heptad","type":"(n.)","description":"An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective."},{"word":"Heptade","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum or number of seven."},{"word":"Heptaglot","type":"(n.)","description":"A book in seven languages."},{"word":"Heptagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles."},{"word":"Heptagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seven angles or sides."},{"word":"Heptagynia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean order of plants having seven pistils."},{"word":"Heptagynian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heptagynous"},{"word":"Heptagynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seven pistils."},{"word":"Heptahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid figure with seven sides."},{"word":"Heptamerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens."},{"word":"Heptandria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants having seven stamens."},{"word":"Heptandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heptandrous"},{"word":"Heptandrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seven stamens."},{"word":"Heptane","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc."},{"word":"Heptangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seven angles."},{"word":"Heptaphyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seven leaves."},{"word":"Heptarch","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Heptarchist."},{"word":"Heptarchic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy."},{"word":"Heptarchist","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruler of one division of a heptarchy."},{"word":"Heptarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers."},{"word":"Heptaspermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seven seeds."},{"word":"Heptastich","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition consisting of seven lines or verses."},{"word":"Heptateuch","type":"(n.)","description":"The first seven books of the Testament."},{"word":"Heptavalent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of heptad elements or radicals."},{"word":"Heptene","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Heptylene."},{"word":"Heptine","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series."},{"word":"Heptoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid."},{"word":"Heptone","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid hydrocarbon, C7H10, of the valylene series."},{"word":"Hep","type":"()","description":"The wild dog-rose."},{"word":"Heptyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds."},{"word":"Heptylene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also heptene."},{"word":"Heptylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. /nanthylic."},{"word":"Her","type":"(pron. & a.)","description":"The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out."},{"word":"Her","type":"(pron. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Here"},{"word":"Here","type":"(pron. pl.)","description":"Of them; their."},{"word":"Heracleonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church."},{"word":"Herakline","type":"(n.)","description":"A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting."},{"word":"Herald","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character."},{"word":"Herald","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms."},{"word":"Herald","type":"(n.)","description":"A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame."},{"word":"Herald","type":"(n.)","description":"A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger."},{"word":"Herald","type":"(n.)","description":"Any messenger."},{"word":"Heralded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Herald"},{"word":"Heralding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Herald"},{"word":"Herald","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in."},{"word":"Heraldic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language."},{"word":"Heraldically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry."},{"word":"Heraldry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies."},{"word":"Heraldship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a herald."},{"word":"Herapathite","type":"(n.)","description":"The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light."},{"word":"Heraud","type":"(n.)","description":"A herald."},{"word":"Herb","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering."},{"word":"Herb","type":"(n.)","description":"Grass; herbage."},{"word":"Herbaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem."},{"word":"Herbage","type":"(n.)","description":"Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture."},{"word":"Herbage","type":"(n.)","description":"The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man."},{"word":"Herbaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with grass."},{"word":"Herbal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to herbs."},{"word":"Herbal","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing the names and descriptions of plants."},{"word":"Herbal","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium."},{"word":"Herbalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The knowledge of herbs."},{"word":"Herbalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs."},{"word":"Herbar","type":"(n.)","description":"An herb."},{"word":"Herbarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A herbalist."},{"word":"Herbarist","type":"(n.)","description":"A herbalist."},{"word":"Herbariums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Herbarium"},{"word":"Herbaria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Herbarium"},{"word":"Herbarium","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged."},{"word":"Herbarium","type":"(n.)","description":"A book or case for preserving dried plants."},{"word":"Herbarize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Herborize."},{"word":"Herbary","type":"(n.)","description":"A garden of herbs; a cottage garden."},{"word":"Herber","type":"(n.)","description":"A garden; a pleasure garden."},{"word":"Herbergage","type":"(n.)","description":"Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor."},{"word":"Herbergeour","type":"(n.)","description":"A harbinger."},{"word":"Herbergh","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Herberwe"},{"word":"Herberwe","type":"(n.)","description":"A harbor."},{"word":"Herbescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing into herbs."},{"word":"Herbid","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with herbs."},{"word":"Herbiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing herbs or vegetation."},{"word":"Herbist","type":"(n.)","description":"A herbalist."},{"word":"Herbivora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation."},{"word":"Herbivore","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Herbivora."},{"word":"Herbivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora."},{"word":"Herbless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of herbs or of vegetation."},{"word":"Herblet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small herb."},{"word":"Herborist","type":"(n.)","description":"A herbalist."},{"word":"Herborization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of herborizing."},{"word":"Herborization","type":"(n.)","description":"The figure of plants in minerals or fossils."},{"word":"Herborized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Herborize"},{"word":"Herborizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Herborize"},{"word":"Herborize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them."},{"word":"Herborize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form the figures of plants in; -- said in reference to minerals. See Arborized."},{"word":"Herborough","type":"(n.)","description":"A harbor."},{"word":"Herbose","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Herbous"},{"word":"Herbous","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with herbs."},{"word":"Herb-women","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Herb-woman"},{"word":"Herb-woman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman that sells herbs."},{"word":"Herby","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage."},{"word":"Hercogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy."},{"word":"Herculean","type":"(a.)","description":"Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task."},{"word":"Herculean","type":"(a.)","description":"Having extraordinary strength or size; as, Herculean limbs."},{"word":"Hercules","type":"(n.)","description":"A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or \"labors.\""},{"word":"Hercules","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra."},{"word":"Hercynian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz mountains."},{"word":"Herd","type":"(a.)","description":"Haired."},{"word":"Herd","type":"(n.)","description":"A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle."},{"word":"Herd","type":"(n.)","description":"A crowd of low people; a rabble."},{"word":"Herd","type":"(n.)","description":"One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like."},{"word":"Herded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Herd"},{"word":"Herding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Herd"},{"word":"Herd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills."},{"word":"Herd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company."},{"word":"Herd","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as a herdsman or a shepherd."},{"word":"Herd","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or put into a herd."},{"word":"Herdbook","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register."},{"word":"Herder","type":"(n.)","description":"A herdsman."},{"word":"Herderite","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals."},{"word":"Herdess","type":"(n.)","description":"A shepherdess; a female herder."},{"word":"Herdgroom","type":"(n.)","description":"A herdsman."},{"word":"Herdic","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of low-hung cab."},{"word":"-men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Herdsman"},{"word":"Herdman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Herdsman"},{"word":"Herdsman","type":"(n.)","description":"The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle."},{"word":"women","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Herdswoman"},{"word":"Herdswoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who tends a herd."},{"word":"Here","type":"(n.)","description":"Hair."},{"word":"Here","type":"(pron.)","description":"See Her, their."},{"word":"Here","type":"(pron.)","description":"Her; hers. See Her."},{"word":"Here","type":"(adv.)","description":"In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there."},{"word":"Here","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the present life or state."},{"word":"Here","type":"(adv.)","description":"To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither."},{"word":"Here","type":"(adv.)","description":"At this point of time, or of an argument; now."},{"word":"Herea-bout","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Hereabouts"},{"word":"Hereabouts","type":"(adv.)","description":"About this place; in this vicinity."},{"word":"Hereabouts","type":"(adv.)","description":"Concerning this."},{"word":"Hereafter","type":"(adv.)","description":"In time to come; in some future time or state."},{"word":"Hereafter","type":"(n.)","description":"A future existence or state."},{"word":"Hereafterward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hereafter."},{"word":"Here-at","type":"(adv.)","description":"At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat."},{"word":"Hereby","type":"(adv.)","description":"By means of this."},{"word":"Hereby","type":"(adv.)","description":"Close by; very near."},{"word":"Hereditability","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being hereditable."},{"word":"Hereditable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable."},{"word":"Hereditable","type":"(a.)","description":"Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting."},{"word":"Hereditably","type":"(adv.)","description":"By inheritance."},{"word":"Hereditament","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir."},{"word":"Hereditarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"By inheritance; in an hereditary manner."},{"word":"Hereditary","type":"(a.)","description":"Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown."},{"word":"Hereditary","type":"(a.)","description":"Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease."},{"word":"Heredity","type":"(n.)","description":"Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis."},{"word":"Hereford","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent."},{"word":"Herehence","type":"(adv.)","description":"From hence."},{"word":"Herein","type":"(adv.)","description":"In this."},{"word":"Hereinafter","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like)."},{"word":"Hereinbefore","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.)."},{"word":"Hereinto","type":"(adv.)","description":"Into this."},{"word":"Heremit","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Heremite"},{"word":"Heremite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hermit."},{"word":"Heremitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society."},{"word":"Heren","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of hair."},{"word":"Hereof","type":"(adv.)","description":"Of this; concerning this; from this; hence."},{"word":"Hereon","type":"(adv.)","description":"On or upon this; hereupon."},{"word":"Hereout","type":"(adv.)","description":"Out of this."},{"word":"Heresiarch","type":"(n.)","description":"A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics."},{"word":"Heresiarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief or great heresy."},{"word":"Heresiographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes on heresies."},{"word":"Heresiography","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on heresy."},{"word":"Heresies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Heresy"},{"word":"Heresy","type":"(n.)","description":"An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach."},{"word":"Heresy","type":"(n.)","description":"Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy."},{"word":"Heresy","type":"(n.)","description":"An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained."},{"word":"Heretic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion."},{"word":"Heretic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith \"determined by the authority of the universal church.\""},{"word":"Heretical","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy."},{"word":"Heretically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an heretical manner."},{"word":"Hereticate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical."},{"word":"Heretification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical."},{"word":"Hereto","type":"(adv.)","description":"To this; hereunto."},{"word":"Heretoch","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Heretog"},{"word":"Heretog","type":"(n.)","description":"The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal."},{"word":"Heretofore","type":"(adv.)","description":"Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past."},{"word":"Hereunto","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unto this; up to this time; hereto."},{"word":"Hereupon","type":"(adv.)","description":"On this; hereon."},{"word":"Herewith","type":"(adv.)","description":"With this."},{"word":"Herie","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise; to worship."},{"word":"Heriot","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant."},{"word":"Heriotable","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to the payment of a heriot."},{"word":"Herisson","type":"(n.)","description":"A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage."},{"word":"Heritability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being heritable."},{"word":"Heritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable."},{"word":"Heritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance."},{"word":"Heritage","type":"(a.)","description":"That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance."},{"word":"Heritage","type":"(a.)","description":"A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge."},{"word":"Heritance","type":"(n.)","description":"Heritage; inheritance."},{"word":"Heritor","type":"(n.)","description":"A proprietor or landholder in a parish."},{"word":"Herl","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Harl, 2."},{"word":"Herling","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hirling"},{"word":"Hirling","type":"(n.)","description":"The young of the sea trout."},{"word":"Hermae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Herma"},{"word":"Herma","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hermes, 2."},{"word":"Hermaphrodeity","type":"(n.)","description":"Hermaphrodism."},{"word":"Hermaphrodism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hermaphroditism."},{"word":"Hermaphrodite","type":"(n.)","description":"An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths."},{"word":"Hermaphrodite","type":"(a.)","description":"Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower."},{"word":"Hermaphroditic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hermaphroditical"},{"word":"Hermaphroditical","type":"(a.)","description":"Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; characterized by hermaphroditism."},{"word":"Hermaphroditism","type":"(n.)","description":"The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual."},{"word":"Hermeneutic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hermeneutical"},{"word":"Hermeneutical","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase."},{"word":"Hermeneutically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically."},{"word":"Hermeneutics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained."},{"word":"Hermes","type":"(n.)","description":"See Mercury."},{"word":"Hermes","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal."},{"word":"Hermetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hermetical"},{"word":"Hermetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic."},{"word":"Hermetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine."},{"word":"Hermetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically."},{"word":"Hermetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an hermetical manner; chemically."},{"word":"Hermetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"By fusion, so as to form an air-tight closure."},{"word":"Hermit","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives."},{"word":"Hermit","type":"(n.)","description":"A beadsman; one bound to pray for another."},{"word":"Hermitage","type":"(n.)","description":"The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence."},{"word":"Hermitage","type":"(n.)","description":"A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drome."},{"word":"Hermitary","type":"(n.)","description":"A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit."},{"word":"Hermitess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female hermit."},{"word":"Hermitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit."},{"word":"Hermodactyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic."},{"word":"Hermogenian","type":"(n.)","description":"A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter."},{"word":"Hern","type":"(n.)","description":"A heron; esp., the common European heron."},{"word":"Hernani","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors."},{"word":"Herne","type":"(n.)","description":"A corner."},{"word":"Hernias","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hernia"},{"word":"Herniae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hernia"},{"word":"Hernia","type":"(n.)","description":"A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture."},{"word":"Hernial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, or connected with, hernia."},{"word":"Herniotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy."},{"word":"Hernshaw","type":"(n.)","description":"Heronshaw."},{"word":"Heroes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hero"},{"word":"Hero","type":"(n.)","description":"An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules."},{"word":"Hero","type":"(n.)","description":"A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person."},{"word":"Hero","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid."},{"word":"Herodian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ."},{"word":"Herodiones","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also Herodii."},{"word":"Heroess","type":"(n.)","description":"A heroine."},{"word":"Heroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor."},{"word":"Heroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises."},{"word":"Heroic","type":"(a.)","description":"Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure."},{"word":"Heroical","type":"(a.)","description":"Heroic."},{"word":"Heroicness","type":"(n.)","description":"Heroism."},{"word":"Heroicomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heroicomical"},{"word":"Heroicomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem."},{"word":"Heroine","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman of an heroic spirit."},{"word":"Heroine","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story."},{"word":"Heroism","type":"(n.)","description":"The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities."},{"word":"Heron","type":"(n.)","description":"Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons."},{"word":"Heroner","type":"(n.)","description":"A hawk used in hunting the heron."},{"word":"Heronry","type":"(n.)","description":"A place where herons breed."},{"word":"Heronsew","type":"(n.)","description":"A heronshaw."},{"word":"Heronshaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A heron."},{"word":"Heroologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who treats of heroes."},{"word":"Heroship","type":"(n.)","description":"The character or personality of a hero."},{"word":"Herpes","type":"(n.)","description":"An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another."},{"word":"Herpetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions."},{"word":"Herpetism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous."},{"word":"Herpetologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Herpetological"},{"word":"Herpetological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to herpetology."},{"word":"Herpetologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles."},{"word":"Herpetology","type":"(n.)","description":"The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits."},{"word":"Herpetotomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles."},{"word":"Herpetotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The anatomy or dissection of reptiles."},{"word":"Herr","type":"(n.)","description":"A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister."},{"word":"Herring","type":"(n.)","description":"One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities."},{"word":"Herringbone","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions."},{"word":"Herrnhuter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen."},{"word":"Hers","type":"(pron.)","description":"See the Note under Her, pron."},{"word":"Hersal","type":"(n.)","description":"Rehearsal."},{"word":"Herschel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Uranus."},{"word":"Herschelian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope."},{"word":"Herse","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy."},{"word":"Herse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hearse, a carriage for the dead."},{"word":"Herse","type":"(n.)","description":"A funeral ceremonial."},{"word":"Herse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Hearse, v. t."},{"word":"Herself","type":"(pron.)","description":"An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself."},{"word":"Herself","type":"(pron.)","description":"Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself."},{"word":"Hersillon","type":"(n.)","description":"A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable."},{"word":"Hert","type":"(n.)","description":"A hart."},{"word":"Herte","type":"(n.)","description":"A heart."},{"word":"Hertely","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Hearty; heartily."},{"word":"Hery","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To worship; to glorify; to praise."},{"word":"Hesitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates."},{"word":"Hesitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A stammering; a faltering in speech."},{"word":"Hesitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating."},{"word":"Hesitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Unready in speech."},{"word":"Hesitantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With hesitancy or doubt."},{"word":"Hesitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hesitate"},{"word":"Hesitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hesitate"},{"word":"Hesitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment."},{"word":"Hesitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stammer; to falter in speaking."},{"word":"Hesitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner."},{"word":"Hesitatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With hesitation or doubt."},{"word":"Hesitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation."},{"word":"Hesitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A faltering in speech; stammering."},{"word":"Hesitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Showing, or characterized by, hesitation."},{"word":"Hesitatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Hesitating."},{"word":"Hesp","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of two hanks of linen thread."},{"word":"Hesper","type":"(n.)","description":"The evening; Hesperus."},{"word":"Hesperetin","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid."},{"word":"Hesperian","type":"(a.)","description":"Western; being in the west; occidental."},{"word":"Hesperian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of a western country."},{"word":"Hesperian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers."},{"word":"Hesperian","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper."},{"word":"Hesperid","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as 3d Hesperian."},{"word":"Hesperidene","type":"(n.)","description":"An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil."},{"word":"Hesperides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides."},{"word":"Hesperides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The garden producing the golden apples."},{"word":"Hesperidin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance."},{"word":"Hesperidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange."},{"word":"Hesperornis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append."},{"word":"Hesperus","type":"(n.)","description":"Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper."},{"word":"Hesperus","type":"(n.)","description":"Evening."},{"word":"Hessian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians."},{"word":"Hessian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Hesse."},{"word":"Hessian","type":"(n.)","description":"A mercenary or venal person."},{"word":"Hessian","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a."},{"word":"Hessite","type":"(n.)","description":"A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver."},{"word":"Hest","type":"(n.)","description":"Command; precept; injunction."},{"word":"Hestern","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hesternal"},{"word":"Hesternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a."},{"word":"Hesychast","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist."},{"word":"Hetairism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hetarism"},{"word":"Hetarism","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common."},{"word":"Hetchel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Hatchel."},{"word":"Hete","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hete"},{"word":"Het","type":"()","description":"of Hete"},{"word":"Hete","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Variant of Hote."},{"word":"Heteracanth","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides."},{"word":"Heterarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"The government of an alien."},{"word":"Heterauxesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant."},{"word":"Hetero-","type":"()","description":"A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous."},{"word":"Heterocarpism","type":"(n.)","description":"The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpaea, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground."},{"word":"Heterocarpous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by heterocarpism."},{"word":"Hetercephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants."},{"word":"Heterocera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form."},{"word":"Heterocercal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks."},{"word":"Heterocercy","type":"(n.)","description":"Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail."},{"word":"Heterochromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference."},{"word":"Heterochronism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Heterochrony"},{"word":"Heterochrony","type":"(n.)","description":"In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts."},{"word":"Heteroclite","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal."},{"word":"Heteroclite","type":"(n.)","description":"A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension."},{"word":"Heteroclite","type":"(n.)","description":"Any thing or person deviating from the common rule, or from common forms."},{"word":"Heteroclitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heteroclitical"},{"word":"Heteroclitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal."},{"word":"Heteroclitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Heteroclitic."},{"word":"Heterocyst","type":"(n.)","description":"A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algae related to nostoc."},{"word":"Heterodactyl","type":"(a.)","description":"Heterodactylous."},{"word":"Heterodactyl","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Heterodactylae."},{"word":"Heterodactylae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of birds including the trogons."},{"word":"Heterodactylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons."},{"word":"Heterodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; -- opposed to homodont."},{"word":"Heterodont","type":"(n.)","description":"Any animal with heterodont dentition."},{"word":"Heterodox","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects."},{"word":"Heterodox","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons."},{"word":"Heterodox","type":"(n.)","description":"An opinion opposed to some accepted standard."},{"word":"Heterodoxal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not orthodox."},{"word":"Heterodoxy","type":"(n.)","description":"An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy."},{"word":"Heterodromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having spirals of changing direction."},{"word":"Heterodromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis."},{"word":"Heterogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster."},{"word":"Heterogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by heterogamy."},{"word":"Heterogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy."},{"word":"Heterogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate."},{"word":"Heterogangliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals."},{"word":"Heterogene","type":"(a.)","description":"Heterogenous."},{"word":"Heterogeneal","type":"(a.)","description":"Heterogeneous."},{"word":"Heterogeneity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety."},{"word":"Heterogeneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up."},{"word":"Heterogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Spontaneous generation, so called."},{"word":"Heterogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis."},{"word":"Heterogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations."},{"word":"Heterogenist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis."},{"word":"Heterogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic."},{"word":"Heterogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"Heterogenesis."},{"word":"Heterogonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by heterogony."},{"word":"Heterogony","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils."},{"word":"Heterographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic."},{"word":"Heterography","type":"(n.)","description":"That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger."},{"word":"Heterogynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless."},{"word":"Heterologous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs."},{"word":"Heterology","type":"(n.)","description":"The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology."},{"word":"Heterology","type":"(n.)","description":"The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology."},{"word":"Heteromera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi."},{"word":"Heteromerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous."},{"word":"Heteromerous","type":"(a.)","description":"With the parts not corresponding in number."},{"word":"Heteromerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras."},{"word":"Heteromerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles."},{"word":"Heteromorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower."},{"word":"Heteromorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Heteromorphy"},{"word":"Heteromorphy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being heteromorphic."},{"word":"Heteromorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Heteromorphic."},{"word":"Heteromyaria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus."},{"word":"Heteronereis","type":"(n.)","description":"A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis."},{"word":"Heteronomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to the law of another."},{"word":"Heteronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy."},{"word":"Heteronomy","type":"(n.)","description":"A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires."},{"word":"Heteronym","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym."},{"word":"Heteronymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations."},{"word":"Heteroousian","type":"(a.)","description":"Having different essential qualities; of a different nature."},{"word":"Heteroousian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father."},{"word":"Heteroousious","type":"(a.)","description":"See Heteroousian."},{"word":"Heteropathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic."},{"word":"Heteropathy","type":"(n.)","description":"That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy."},{"word":"Heteropelmous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append."},{"word":"Heterophagi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Altrices."},{"word":"Heterophemist","type":"(n.)","description":"One liable to the fault of heterophemy."},{"word":"Heterophemy","type":"(n.)","description":"The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness."},{"word":"Heterophony","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormal state of the voice."},{"word":"Heterophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant."},{"word":"Heteroplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition."},{"word":"Heteroplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone."},{"word":"Heteropod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Heteropoda."},{"word":"Heteropod","type":"(a.)","description":"Heteropodous."},{"word":"Heteropoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells."},{"word":"Heteropodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda."},{"word":"Heteropter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Heteroptera."},{"word":"Heteroptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera."},{"word":"Heteroptics","type":"(n.)","description":"False optics."},{"word":"Heteroscian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward)."},{"word":"Heterosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: \"What is life to such as me?\""},{"word":"Heterosomati","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi."},{"word":"Heterosporic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heterosporous"},{"word":"Heterosporous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other."},{"word":"Heterostyled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths."},{"word":"Heterostylism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being heterostyled."},{"word":"Heterotactous","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy."},{"word":"Heterotaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement."},{"word":"Heterotopism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Heterotopy"},{"word":"Heterotopy","type":"(n.)","description":"A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation."},{"word":"Heterotopy","type":"(n.)","description":"A deviation from the natural position of parts, supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ cells."},{"word":"Heterotricha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end."},{"word":"Heterotropal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heterotropous"},{"word":"Heterotropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous."},{"word":"Hething","type":"(n.)","description":"Contempt; scorn."},{"word":"Hetmans","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hetman"},{"word":"Hetman","type":"(n.)","description":"A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia."},{"word":"Heugh","type":"(n.)","description":"A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides."},{"word":"Heugh","type":"(n.)","description":"A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry."},{"word":"Heuk","type":"(n.)","description":"Variant of Huke."},{"word":"Heulandite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime."},{"word":"Heuristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to discover or find out."},{"word":"Heved","type":"(n.)","description":"The head."},{"word":"Hewed","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Hew"},{"word":"Hewed","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Hew"},{"word":"Hewn","type":"()","description":"of Hew"},{"word":"Hewing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hew"},{"word":"Hew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off."},{"word":"Hew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher."},{"word":"Hew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack."},{"word":"Hew","type":"(n.)","description":"Destruction by cutting down."},{"word":"Hew","type":"(n.)","description":"Hue; color."},{"word":"Hew","type":"(n.)","description":"Shape; form."},{"word":"Hewe","type":"(n.)","description":"A domestic servant; a retainer."},{"word":"Hewer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hews."},{"word":"Hewhole","type":"(n.)","description":"The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle."},{"word":"Hewn","type":"(a.)","description":"Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs."},{"word":"Hewn","type":"(a.)","description":"Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone."},{"word":"Hex-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hexa"},{"word":"Hexa","type":"()","description":"A prefix or combining form, used to denote six, sixth, etc.; as, hexatomic, hexabasic."},{"word":"Hexabasic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six hydrogen atoms or six radicals capable of being replaced or saturated by bases; -- said of acids; as, mellitic acid is hexabasic."},{"word":"Hexacapsular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six capsules or seed vessels."},{"word":"Hexachord","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones."},{"word":"Hexacid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base."},{"word":"Hexactinellid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinae."},{"word":"Hexactinelline","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Hexactinellinae, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules."},{"word":"Hexactinia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Anthozoa."},{"word":"Hexad","type":"(n.)","description":"An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective."},{"word":"Hexadactylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six fingers or toes."},{"word":"Hexade","type":"(n.)","description":"A series of six numbers."},{"word":"Hexadecane","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hecdecane."},{"word":"Hexagon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane figure of six angles."},{"word":"Hexagonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six sides and six angles; six-sided."},{"word":"Hexagonally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an hexagonal manner."},{"word":"Hexagony","type":"(n.)","description":"A hexagon."},{"word":"Hexagynia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean order of plants having six pistils."},{"word":"Hexagynian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hexagynous"},{"word":"Hexagynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six pistils."},{"word":"Hexahedral","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form of a hexahedron; having six sides or faces."},{"word":"Hexahedrons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hexahedron"},{"word":"Hexahedra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hexahedron"},{"word":"Hexahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid body of six sides or faces."},{"word":"Hexahemeron","type":"(n.)","description":"A term of six days."},{"word":"Hexahemeron","type":"(n.)","description":"The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis."},{"word":"Hexamerous","type":"(a.)","description":"In six parts; in sixes."},{"word":"Hexameter","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity."},{"word":"Hexameter","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees."},{"word":"Hexametric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hexametrical"},{"word":"Hexametrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of six metrical feet."},{"word":"Hexametrist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes in hexameters."},{"word":"Hexandria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens."},{"word":"Hexandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hex-androus"},{"word":"Hex-androus","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six stamens."},{"word":"Hexane","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms."},{"word":"Hexangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six angles or corners."},{"word":"Hexapetalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six petals."},{"word":"Hexaphyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six leaves or leaflets."},{"word":"Hexapla","type":"(sing.)","description":"A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century."},{"word":"Hexapod","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six feet."},{"word":"Hexapod","type":"(n.)","description":"An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda."},{"word":"Hexapoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids."},{"word":"Hexapodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda."},{"word":"Hexapterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six processes."},{"word":"Hexastich","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hexastichon"},{"word":"Hexastichon","type":"(n.)","description":"A poem consisting of six verses or lines."},{"word":"Hexastyle","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple."},{"word":"Hexastyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A hexastyle portico or temple."},{"word":"Hexateuch","type":"(n.)","description":"The first six books of the Old Testament."},{"word":"Hexatomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six atoms in the molecule."},{"word":"Hexatomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having six replaceable radicals."},{"word":"Hexavalent","type":"(p. pr.)","description":"Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads."},{"word":"Hexdecyl","type":"(n.)","description":"The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane."},{"word":"Hexdecylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol."},{"word":"Hexeikosane","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon."},{"word":"Hexene","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hexylene."},{"word":"Hexicology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally."},{"word":"Hexine","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene."},{"word":"Hexoctahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid having forty-eight equal triangular faces."},{"word":"Hexoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid."},{"word":"Hexone","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums."},{"word":"Hexyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds."},{"word":"Hexylene","type":"(n.)","description":"A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene."},{"word":"Hexylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol."},{"word":"Hey","type":"(a.)","description":"High."},{"word":"Hey","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement."},{"word":"Hey","type":"(interj.)","description":"A cry to set dogs on."},{"word":"Heyday","type":"(interj.)","description":"An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder."},{"word":"Heyday","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness."},{"word":"Heydeguy","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of country-dance or round."},{"word":"Heyh","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Heygh"},{"word":"Heygh","type":"(a.)","description":"High."},{"word":"Heyne","type":"(n.)","description":"A wretch; a rascal."},{"word":"Heyten","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hence."},{"word":"Hiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of gaping."},{"word":"Hiatus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hiatus"},{"word":"Hiatuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hiatus"},{"word":"Hiatus","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break."},{"word":"Hiatus","type":"(n.)","description":"The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables."},{"word":"Hibernacle","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant."},{"word":"Hibernaculum","type":"(n.)","description":"A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales."},{"word":"Hibernaculum","type":"(n.)","description":"A little case in which certain insects pass the winter."},{"word":"Hibernaculum","type":"(n.)","description":"Winter home or abiding place."},{"word":"Hibernal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish."},{"word":"Hibernated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hibernate"},{"word":"Hibernating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hibernate"},{"word":"Hibernate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects."},{"word":"Hibernation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of hibernating."},{"word":"Hibernian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish."},{"word":"Hibernian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or an inhabitant of Ireland."},{"word":"Hibernicism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hibernianism"},{"word":"Hibernianism","type":"(n.)","description":"An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish."},{"word":"Hiberno-Celtic","type":"(n.)","description":"The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj."},{"word":"Hibiscus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe."},{"word":"Hiccius","type":"()","description":"A juggler."},{"word":"Hiccough","type":"(n.)","description":"A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough."},{"word":"Hiccoughed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hiccough"},{"word":"Hiccoughing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hiccough"},{"word":"Hiccough","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a hiccough or hiccoughs."},{"word":"Hickory","type":"(n.)","description":"An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter."},{"word":"Hicksite","type":"(n.)","description":"A member or follower of the \"liberal\" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827."},{"word":"Hickup","type":"(n. & v. i.)","description":"See Hiccough."},{"word":"Hickwall","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hickway"},{"word":"Hickway","type":"(n.)","description":"The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe."},{"word":"Hid","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden."},{"word":"Hidage","type":"(n.)","description":"A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land."},{"word":"Hidalgo","type":"(n.)","description":"A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class."},{"word":"Hidden","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious."},{"word":"Hiddenite","type":"(n.)","description":"An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem."},{"word":"Hiddenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hidden manner."},{"word":"Hid","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Hide"},{"word":"Hidden","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Hide"},{"word":"Hid","type":"()","description":"of Hide"},{"word":"Hiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hide"},{"word":"Hide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete."},{"word":"Hide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing."},{"word":"Hide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove from danger; to shelter."},{"word":"Hide","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation."},{"word":"Hide","type":"(n.)","description":"An abode or dwelling."},{"word":"Hide","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres."},{"word":"Hide","type":"(n.)","description":"The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc."},{"word":"Hide","type":"(n.)","description":"The human skin; -- so called in contempt."},{"word":"Hided","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hide"},{"word":"Hiding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hide"},{"word":"Hide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flog; to whip."},{"word":"Hidebound","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal."},{"word":"Hidebound","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees."},{"word":"Hidebound","type":"(a.)","description":"Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative."},{"word":"Hidebound","type":"(a.)","description":"Niggardly; penurious."},{"word":"Hideous","type":"(a.)","description":"Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks."},{"word":"Hideous","type":"(a.)","description":"Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise."},{"word":"Hideous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hateful; shocking."},{"word":"Hider","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hides or conceals."},{"word":"Hiding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment."},{"word":"Hiding","type":"(n.)","description":"A flogging."},{"word":"Hied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hie"},{"word":"Hying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hie"},{"word":"Hie","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun."},{"word":"Hie","type":"(n.)","description":"Haste; diligence."},{"word":"Hiems","type":"(n.)","description":"Winter."},{"word":"Hierapicra","type":"(n.)","description":"A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark."},{"word":"Hierarch","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs."},{"word":"Hierarchal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hierarchic"},{"word":"Hierarchic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a hierarch."},{"word":"Hierarchical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a hierarchy."},{"word":"Hierarchism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles or authority of a hierarchy."},{"word":"Hierarchies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hierarchy"},{"word":"Hierarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"Dominion or authority in sacred things."},{"word":"Hierarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers."},{"word":"Hierarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests."},{"word":"Hierarchy","type":"(n.)","description":"A rank or order of holy beings."},{"word":"Hieratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests."},{"word":"Hierocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy."},{"word":"Hieroglyph","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hieroglyphic"},{"word":"Hieroglyphic","type":"(a.)","description":"A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a."},{"word":"Hieroglyphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark."},{"word":"Hieroglyphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hieroglyphical"},{"word":"Hieroglyphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk."},{"word":"Hieroglyphical","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable."},{"word":"Hieroglyphically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In hieroglyphics."},{"word":"Hieroglyphist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in hieroglyphics."},{"word":"Hierogram","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of sacred or hieratic writing."},{"word":"Hierogrammatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing."},{"word":"Hierogrammatist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics."},{"word":"Hierographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hierographical"},{"word":"Hierographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to sacred writing."},{"word":"Hierography","type":"(n.)","description":"Sacred writing."},{"word":"Hierolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"The worship of saints or sacred things."},{"word":"Hierologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hierological"},{"word":"Hierological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to hierology."},{"word":"Hierologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in, or whostudies, hierology."},{"word":"Hierology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on sacred things; especially, the science which treats of the ancient writings and inscriptions of the Egyptians, or a treatise on that science."},{"word":"Hieromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice."},{"word":"Hiermartyr","type":"(n.)","description":"A priest who becomes a martyr."},{"word":"Hieromnemon","type":"(n.)","description":"The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister."},{"word":"Hieromnemon","type":"(n.)","description":"A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium."},{"word":"Hieron","type":"(n.)","description":"A consecrated place; esp., a temple."},{"word":"Hieronymite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jeronymite."},{"word":"Hierophant","type":"(n.)","description":"The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion."},{"word":"Hierophantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings."},{"word":"Hieroscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice."},{"word":"-cae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hierotheca"},{"word":"Hierotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"A receptacle for sacred objects."},{"word":"Hierourgy","type":"(n.)","description":"A sacred or holy work or worship."},{"word":"Hifalutin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Highfaluting."},{"word":"Higgled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Higgle"},{"word":"Higgling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Higgle"},{"word":"Higgle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hawk or peddle provisions."},{"word":"Higgle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle."},{"word":"Higgledy-piggledy","type":"(adv.)","description":"In confusion; topsy-turvy."},{"word":"Higgler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who higgles."},{"word":"High","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hie."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection"},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note."},{"word":"High","type":"(superl.)","description":"Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11."},{"word":"High","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully."},{"word":"High","type":"(n.)","description":"An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven."},{"word":"High","type":"(n.)","description":"People of rank or high station; as, high and low."},{"word":"High","type":"(n.)","description":"The highest card dealt or drawn."},{"word":"High","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rise; as, the sun higheth."},{"word":"Highbinder","type":"(n.)","description":"A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese."},{"word":"High-blown","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflated, as with conceit."},{"word":"Highborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Of noble birth."},{"word":"High-bred","type":"(a.)","description":"Bred in high life; of pure blood."},{"word":"High-built","type":"(a.)","description":"Of lofty structure; tall."},{"word":"High-church","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a."},{"word":"High-churchism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of the high-church party."},{"word":"-men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of High-churchman"},{"word":"High-churchman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds high-church principles."},{"word":"High-churchman-ship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being a high-churchman."},{"word":"High-colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed."},{"word":"High-colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description."},{"word":"High-embowed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having lofty arches."},{"word":"Highering","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising higher; ascending."},{"word":"Highfaluting","type":"(n.)","description":"High-flown, bombastic language."},{"word":"High-fed","type":"(a.)","description":"Pampered; fed luxuriously."},{"word":"High-finished","type":"(a.)","description":"Finished with great care; polished."},{"word":"Highflier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners."},{"word":"High-flown","type":"(a.)","description":"Elevated; proud."},{"word":"High-flown","type":"(a.)","description":"Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language."},{"word":"High-flushed","type":"(a.)","description":"Elated."},{"word":"Highflying","type":"(a.)","description":"Extravagant in opinions or ambition."},{"word":"High-go","type":"(n.)","description":"A spree; a revel."},{"word":"High-handed","type":"(a.)","description":"Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act."},{"word":"High-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of courage or nobleness; high-souled."},{"word":"High-hoe","type":"(n.)","description":"The European green woodpecker or yaffle."},{"word":"High-holder","type":"(n.)","description":"The flicker; -- called also high-hole."},{"word":"Highland","type":"(n.)","description":"Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland."},{"word":"Highlander","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland."},{"word":"Highlandry","type":"(n.)","description":"Highlanders, collectively."},{"word":"High-low","type":"(n.)","description":"A laced boot, ankle high."},{"word":"Highly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed."},{"word":"Highmen","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers."},{"word":"High-mettled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed."},{"word":"High-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Proud; arrogant."},{"word":"High-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or characterized by, honorable pride; of or pertaining to elevated principles and feelings; magnanimous; -- opposed to mean."},{"word":"High-mindedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity."},{"word":"Highmost","type":"(a.)","description":"Highest."},{"word":"Highness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being high; elevation; loftiness."},{"word":"Highness","type":"(n.)","description":"A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank; as, His Royal Highness."},{"word":"High-palmed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft."},{"word":"High-pressure","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc."},{"word":"High-pressure","type":"(a.)","description":"Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life."},{"word":"High","type":"()","description":"A chief priest; esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood."},{"word":"High-priesthood","type":"(n.)","description":"The office, dignity, or position of a high priest."},{"word":"High-priestship","type":"(n.)","description":"High-priesthood."},{"word":"High-principled","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of noble or honorable principles."},{"word":"High-proof","type":"(a.)","description":"Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits."},{"word":"High-proof","type":"(a.)","description":"So as to stand any test."},{"word":"High-raised","type":"(a.)","description":"Elevated; raised aloft; upreared."},{"word":"High-raised","type":"(a.)","description":"Elated with great ideas or hopes."},{"word":"High-reaching","type":"(a.)","description":"Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring."},{"word":"High-red","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a strong red color."},{"word":"Highroad","type":"(n.)","description":"A highway; a much traveled or main road."},{"word":"High-seasoned","type":"(a.)","description":"Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant."},{"word":"High-sighted","type":"(a.)","description":"Looking upward; supercilious."},{"word":"High-souled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a high or noble spirit; honorable."},{"word":"High-sounding","type":"(a.)","description":"Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles."},{"word":"High-spirited","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition."},{"word":"High-stepper","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing."},{"word":"High-stomached","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a lofty spirit; haughty."},{"word":"High-strung","type":"(a.)","description":"Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse."},{"word":"High-swelling","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflated; boastful."},{"word":"Hight","type":"(n.)","description":"A variant of Height."},{"word":"Hight","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Hight"},{"word":"Hot","type":"()","description":"of Hight"},{"word":"Hight","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Hight"},{"word":"Hote","type":"()","description":"of Hight"},{"word":"Hoten","type":"()","description":"of Hight"},{"word":"Hight","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To be called or named."},{"word":"Hight","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To command; to direct; to impel."},{"word":"Hight","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To commit; to intrust."},{"word":"Hight","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To promise."},{"word":"Hightener","type":"(n.)","description":"That which heightens."},{"word":"Highth","type":"(n.)","description":"Variant of Height."},{"word":"High-toned","type":"(a.)","description":"High in tone or sound."},{"word":"High-toned","type":"(a.)","description":"Elevated; high-principled; honorable."},{"word":"High-top","type":"(n.)","description":"A ship's masthead."},{"word":"Highty-tighty","type":"(a.)","description":"Hoity-toity."},{"word":"Highway","type":"(n.)","description":"A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare."},{"word":"Highwaymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Highwayman"},{"word":"Highwayman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who robs on the public road; a highway robber."},{"word":"High-wrought","type":"(a.)","description":"Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate."},{"word":"High-wrought","type":"(a.)","description":"Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion."},{"word":"Higre","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eagre."},{"word":"Hig-taper","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]"},{"word":"Hijera","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hijra"},{"word":"Hijra","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hegira."},{"word":"Hilal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a hilum."},{"word":"Hilar","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the hilum."},{"word":"Hilarious","type":"(a.)","description":"Mirthful; noisy; merry."},{"word":"Hilarity","type":"(n.)","description":"Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity."},{"word":"Hilary","type":"()","description":"Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th."},{"word":"Hilding","type":"(n.)","description":"A base, menial wretch."},{"word":"Hilding","type":"(a.)","description":"Base; spiritless."},{"word":"Hile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide. See Hele."},{"word":"Hile","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hilum."},{"word":"Hill","type":"(n.)","description":"A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain."},{"word":"Hill","type":"(n.)","description":"The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t."},{"word":"Hill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes."},{"word":"Hilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hill"},{"word":"Hilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hill"},{"word":"Hill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn."},{"word":"Hilliness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being hilly."},{"word":"Hilling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants."},{"word":"Hillock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small hill."},{"word":"Hillside","type":"(n.)","description":"The side or declivity of a hill."},{"word":"Hilltop","type":"(n.)","description":"The top of a hill."},{"word":"Hilly","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country."},{"word":"Hilly","type":"(a.)","description":"Lofty; as, hilly empire."},{"word":"Hilt","type":"(n.)","description":"A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like."},{"word":"Hilted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted."},{"word":"Hilum","type":"(n.)","description":"The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile."},{"word":"Hilum","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney."},{"word":"Hilus","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hilum, 2."},{"word":"Him","type":"(pron.)","description":"Them. See Hem."},{"word":"Him","type":"(pron.)","description":"The objective case of he. See He."},{"word":"Himalayan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan."},{"word":"Himpne","type":"(n.)","description":"A hymn."},{"word":"Himself","type":"(pron.)","description":"An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself."},{"word":"Himself","type":"(pron.)","description":"One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself."},{"word":"Himself","type":"(pron. pl.)","description":"Alt. of Himselven"},{"word":"Himselven","type":"(pron. pl.)","description":"Themselves. See Hemself."},{"word":"Himselve","type":"(pron.)","description":"See 1st Himself."},{"word":"Himyaric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Himyaritic"},{"word":"Himyaritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia."},{"word":"Hin","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure."},{"word":"Hind","type":"(n.)","description":"The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag."},{"word":"Hind","type":"(n.)","description":"A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind."},{"word":"Hind","type":"(n.)","description":"A domestic; a servant."},{"word":"Hind","type":"(n.)","description":"A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant."},{"word":"Hind","type":"(a.)","description":"In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession."},{"word":"Hindberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The raspberry."},{"word":"Hindbrain","type":"(n.)","description":"The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only."},{"word":"Hinder","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse."},{"word":"Hindered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hinder"},{"word":"Hindering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hinder"},{"word":"Hinder","type":"(a.)","description":"To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going."},{"word":"Hinder","type":"(a.)","description":"To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out."},{"word":"Hinder","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance."},{"word":"Hinderance","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hindrance."},{"word":"Hinderer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, hinders."},{"word":"Hinderest","type":"(a.)","description":"Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a."},{"word":"Hinderling","type":"(a.)","description":"A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal."},{"word":"Hindermost","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hindmost"},{"word":"Hindmost","type":"(a.)","description":"Furthest in or toward the rear; last."},{"word":"Hindgut","type":"(n.)","description":"The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also."},{"word":"Hindi","type":"(n.)","description":"The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written."},{"word":"Hindleys","type":"()","description":"A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form."},{"word":"Hindoos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hindu"},{"word":"Hindus","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hindu"},{"word":"Hindoo","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hindu"},{"word":"Hindu","type":"(n.)","description":"A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda."},{"word":"Hindooism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hinduism"},{"word":"Hinduism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism."},{"word":"Hindoostanee","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hindustani"},{"word":"Hindustani","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language."},{"word":"Hindustani","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words."},{"word":"Hindrance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered."},{"word":"Hindrance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which hinders; an impediment."},{"word":"Hindu","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hindoo."},{"word":"Hine","type":"(n.)","description":"A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind."},{"word":"Hinge","type":"(n.)","description":"The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on."},{"word":"Hinge","type":"(n.)","description":"That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned."},{"word":"Hinge","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south."},{"word":"Hinged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hinge"},{"word":"Hinging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hinge"},{"word":"Hinge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attach by, or furnish with, hinges."},{"word":"Hinge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend."},{"word":"Hinge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point."},{"word":"Hinged","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with hinges."},{"word":"Hingeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a hinge or joint."},{"word":"Hink","type":"(n.)","description":"A reaping hook."},{"word":"Hinniate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Hinny"},{"word":"Hinny","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To neigh; to whinny."},{"word":"Hinnies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hinny"},{"word":"Hinny","type":"(n.)","description":"A hybrid between a stallion and an ass."},{"word":"Hinny","type":"(n.)","description":"A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey."},{"word":"Hinted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hint"},{"word":"Hinting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hint"},{"word":"Hint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion."},{"word":"Hint","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something."},{"word":"Hint","type":"(n.)","description":"A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive."},{"word":"Hintingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hinting manner."},{"word":"Hip","type":"(n.)","description":"The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle."},{"word":"Hip","type":"(n.)","description":"The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions."},{"word":"Hip","type":"(n.)","description":"In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord."},{"word":"Hipped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hip"},{"word":"Hipping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hip"},{"word":"Hip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side."},{"word":"Hip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock)."},{"word":"Hip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make with a hip or hips, as a roof."},{"word":"Hip","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina)."},{"word":"Hip","type":"(interj.)","description":"Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!"},{"word":"Hip","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hipps"},{"word":"Hipps","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hyp, n."},{"word":"Hiphalt","type":"(a.)","description":"Lame in the hip."},{"word":"Hippa","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hippe"},{"word":"Hippe","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura."},{"word":"Hipparion","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family."},{"word":"Hipped","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hippish"},{"word":"Hippish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish."},{"word":"Hippobosca","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick."},{"word":"Hippocamp","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hippocampus."},{"word":"Hippocampal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the hippocampus."},{"word":"Hippocampus","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune."},{"word":"Hippocampus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse."},{"word":"Hippocampus","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar."},{"word":"Hippocentaur","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Centaur."},{"word":"Hippocras","type":"(n.)","description":"A cordial made of spiced wine, etc."},{"word":"Hippocrates","type":"(n.)","description":"A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C."},{"word":"Hippocratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings."},{"word":"Hippocratism","type":"(n.)","description":"The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates."},{"word":"Hippocrene","type":"(n.)","description":"A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration."},{"word":"Hippocrepian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema."},{"word":"Hippocrepiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaped like a horseshoe."},{"word":"Hippodame","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous sea monster."},{"word":"Hippodrome","type":"(n.)","description":"A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races."},{"word":"Hippodrome","type":"(n.)","description":"An arena for equestrian performances; a circus."},{"word":"Hippogriff","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin."},{"word":"Hippolith","type":"(n.)","description":"A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse."},{"word":"Hippopathology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of veterinary medicine; the pathology of the horse."},{"word":"Hippophagi","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Eaters of horseflesh."},{"word":"Hippophagism","type":"(n.)","description":"Hippophagy."},{"word":"Hippophagist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eats horseflesh."},{"word":"Hippophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars."},{"word":"Hippophagy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh."},{"word":"Hippophile","type":"(n.)","description":"One who loves horses."},{"word":"Hippopotamuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hippopotamus"},{"word":"Hippopotami","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hippopotamus"},{"word":"Hippopotamus","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also zeekoe, and river horse. A smaller species (H. Liberiencis) inhabits Western Africa."},{"word":"Hippotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Anatomy of the horse."},{"word":"Hippuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid."},{"word":"Hippurite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks."},{"word":"Hip-roofed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a hip roof."},{"word":"Hipshot","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other."},{"word":"Hip","type":"()","description":"The dog-rose."},{"word":"Hir","type":"(pron.)","description":"See Here, pron."},{"word":"Hircic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin."},{"word":"Hircin","type":"(n.)","description":"Hircic acid. See Hircic."},{"word":"Hircine","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hircinous"},{"word":"Hircinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat or the goats."},{"word":"Hircinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a strong goatish smell."},{"word":"Hire","type":"(pron.)","description":"See Here, pron."},{"word":"Hire","type":"(n.)","description":"The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay."},{"word":"Hire","type":"(n.)","description":"A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward."},{"word":"Hired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hire"},{"word":"Hiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hire"},{"word":"Hire","type":"(n.)","description":"To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money."},{"word":"Hire","type":"(n.)","description":"To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate."},{"word":"Hire","type":"(n.)","description":"To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time."},{"word":"Hireless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without hire."},{"word":"Hireling","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary."},{"word":"Hireling","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary."},{"word":"Hirer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hires."},{"word":"Hires","type":"(pron.)","description":"Alt. of Hirs"},{"word":"Hirs","type":"(pron.)","description":"Hers; theirs. See Here, pron."},{"word":"Hirsute","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy."},{"word":"Hirsute","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough and coarse; boorish."},{"word":"Hirsute","type":"(a.)","description":"Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs."},{"word":"Hirsute","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds."},{"word":"Hirsuteness","type":"(n.)","description":"Hairiness."},{"word":"Hirtellous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs."},{"word":"Hirudine","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the leeches."},{"word":"Hirudinea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei."},{"word":"Hirudo","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech."},{"word":"Hirundine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the swallows."},{"word":"Hirundo","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of birds including the swallows and martins."},{"word":"His","type":"(pron.)","description":"Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete."},{"word":"His","type":"(pron.)","description":"The possessive of he; as, the book is his."},{"word":"Hisingerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron."},{"word":"Hispanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words."},{"word":"Hispanicism","type":"(n.)","description":"A Spanish idiom or mode of speech."},{"word":"Hispanicize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words."},{"word":"Hispid","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough with bristles or minute spines."},{"word":"Hispid","type":"(a.)","description":"Beset with stiff hairs or bristles."},{"word":"Hispidulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Minutely hispid."},{"word":"Hissed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hiss"},{"word":"Hissing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hiss"},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval."},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a similar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew."},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To condemn or express contempt for by hissing."},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter with a hissing sound."},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(n.)","description":"A prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth, esp. as a token of disapprobation or contempt."},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sound resembling that above described"},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(n.)","description":"The noise made by a serpent."},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(n.)","description":"The note of a goose when irritated."},{"word":"Hiss","type":"(n.)","description":"The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove."},{"word":"Hissing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of emitting a hiss or hisses."},{"word":"Hissing","type":"(n.)","description":"The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision."},{"word":"Hissingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a hissing sound."},{"word":"Hist","type":"(interj.)","description":"Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence."},{"word":"Histiology","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Histology."},{"word":"Histogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis."},{"word":"Histogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Germ history of cells, and of the tissues composed of cells."},{"word":"Histogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues."},{"word":"Histogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Histogenesis."},{"word":"Histographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who describes organic tissues; an histologist."},{"word":"Histographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to histography."},{"word":"Histography","type":"(n.)","description":"A description of, or treatise on, organic tissues."},{"word":"Histohaematin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction."},{"word":"Histoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the normal tissues; as, histoid tumors."},{"word":"Histologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Histological"},{"word":"Histological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms."},{"word":"Histologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in histology."},{"word":"Histology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology."},{"word":"Histolysis","type":"(n.)","description":"The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood."},{"word":"Histolytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues."},{"word":"Histonomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc."},{"word":"Histophyly","type":"(n.)","description":"The tribal history of cells, a division of morphophyly."},{"word":"Historial","type":"(a.)","description":"Historical."},{"word":"Historian","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist."},{"word":"Historian","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed or well informed in history."},{"word":"Historic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Historical"},{"word":"Historical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page."},{"word":"Historically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of, or in accordance with, history."},{"word":"Historicize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle."},{"word":"Historied","type":"(a.)","description":"Related in history."},{"word":"Historier","type":"(n.)","description":"An historian."},{"word":"Historiette","type":"(n.)","description":"Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story."},{"word":"Histority","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To record in or as history."},{"word":"Historiographer","type":"(n.)","description":"An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction."},{"word":"Historiographership","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an historiographer."},{"word":"Historiography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of employment of an historiographer."},{"word":"Historiology","type":"(n.)","description":"A discourse on history."},{"word":"Historionomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them."},{"word":"Historize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize."},{"word":"Histories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of History"},{"word":"History","type":"(n.)","description":"A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill."},{"word":"History","type":"(n.)","description":"A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory."},{"word":"History","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To narrate or record."},{"word":"Histotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The dissection of organic tissues."},{"word":"Histozyme","type":"(n.)","description":"A soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due."},{"word":"Histrion","type":"(n.)","description":"A player."},{"word":"Histrionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Histrionical"},{"word":"Histrionical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; -- sometimes in a bad sense."},{"word":"Histrionicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The histronic art; stageplaying."},{"word":"Histrionism","type":"(n.)","description":"Theatrical representation; acting; affectation."},{"word":"Histrionize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(pron.)","description":"It."},{"word":"Hit","type":"()","description":"3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hit"},{"word":"Hitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hit"},{"word":"Hit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at)."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To guess; to light upon or discover."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(n.)","description":"A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(n.)","description":"A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon."},{"word":"Hit","type":"(n.)","description":"A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit."},{"word":"Hit.","type":"(adj.)","description":"having become very popular or acclaimed; -- said of entertainment performances; as, a hit record, a hit movie."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere."},{"word":"Hitched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hitch"},{"word":"Hitching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hitch"},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of catching, as on a hook, etc."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc."},{"word":"Hitch","type":"(n.)","description":"A small dislocation of a bed or vein."},{"word":"Hitchel","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"See Hatchel."},{"word":"Hithe","type":"(n.)","description":"A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth."},{"word":"Hither","type":"(adv.)","description":"To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither."},{"word":"Hither","type":"(adv.)","description":"To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical."},{"word":"Hither","type":"(a.)","description":"Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill."},{"word":"Hither","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than."},{"word":"Hithermost","type":"(a.)","description":"Nearest on this side."},{"word":"Hitherto","type":"(adv.)","description":"To this place; to a prescribed limit."},{"word":"Hitherto","type":"(adv.)","description":"Up to this time; as yet; until now."},{"word":"Hitherward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward this place; hither."},{"word":"Hitter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter."},{"word":"Hive","type":"(n.)","description":"A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees."},{"word":"Hive","type":"(n.)","description":"The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees."},{"word":"Hive","type":"(n.)","description":"A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd."},{"word":"Hived","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hive"},{"word":"Hiving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hive"},{"word":"Hive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees."},{"word":"Hive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store."},{"word":"Hive","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body."},{"word":"Hiveless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a hive."},{"word":"Hiver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who collects bees into a hive."},{"word":"Hives","type":"(n.)","description":"The croup."},{"word":"Hives","type":"(n.)","description":"An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox."},{"word":"Hizz","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hiss."},{"word":"Ho","type":"(pron.)","description":"Who."},{"word":"Ho","type":"(interj.)","description":"Alt. of Hoa"},{"word":"Hoa","type":"(interj.)","description":"A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace."},{"word":"Ho","type":"(interj.)","description":"Alt. of Hoa"},{"word":"Hoa","type":"(interj.)","description":"Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach."},{"word":"Hoa","type":"(interj.)","description":"Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything."},{"word":"Hoar","type":"(a.)","description":"White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs."},{"word":"Hoar","type":"(a.)","description":"Gray or white with age; hoary."},{"word":"Hoar","type":"(a.)","description":"Musty; moldy; stale."},{"word":"Hoar","type":"(n.)","description":"Hoariness; antiquity."},{"word":"Hoar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To become moldy or musty."},{"word":"Hoard","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hoarding, 2."},{"word":"Hoard","type":"(n.)","description":"A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money."},{"word":"Hoarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hoard"},{"word":"Hoarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hoard"},{"word":"Hoard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain."},{"word":"Hoard","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lay up a store or hoard, as of money."},{"word":"Hoarder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hoards."},{"word":"Hoarding","type":"(n.)","description":"A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work."},{"word":"Hoarding","type":"(n.)","description":"A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something."},{"word":"Hoared","type":"(a.)","description":"Moldy; musty."},{"word":"Hoarfrost","type":"(n.)","description":"The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost."},{"word":"Hoarhound","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Horehound."},{"word":"Hoariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being hoary."},{"word":"Hoarse","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven."},{"word":"Hoarse","type":"(superl.)","description":"Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound."},{"word":"Hoarsely","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a harsh, grating sound or voice."},{"word":"Hoarsened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hoarsen"},{"word":"Hoarsening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hoarsen"},{"word":"Hoarsen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hoarse."},{"word":"Hoarseness","type":"(n.)","description":"Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords."},{"word":"Hoarstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone designating the /ounds of an estate; a landmark."},{"word":"Hoary","type":"(a.)","description":"White or whitish."},{"word":"Hoary","type":"(a.)","description":"White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs."},{"word":"Hoary","type":"(a.)","description":"remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity."},{"word":"Hoary","type":"(a.)","description":"Moldy; mossy; musty."},{"word":"Hoary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a pale silvery gray."},{"word":"Hoary","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent."},{"word":"Hoatzin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hoazin."},{"word":"Hoax","type":"(n.)","description":"A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke."},{"word":"Hoaxed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hoax"},{"word":"Hoaxing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hoax"},{"word":"Hoax","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively."},{"word":"Hoaxer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hoaxes."},{"word":"Hoazin","type":"(n.)","description":"A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi)."},{"word":"Hob","type":"(n.)","description":"The hub of a wheel. See Hub."},{"word":"Hob","type":"(n.)","description":"The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm."},{"word":"Hob","type":"(n.)","description":"A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc."},{"word":"Hob","type":"(n.)","description":"A fairy; a sprite; an elf."},{"word":"Hob","type":"(n.)","description":"A countryman; a rustic; a clown."},{"word":"Hobanob","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Alt. of Hobandnob"},{"word":"Hobandnob","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Same as Hobnob."},{"word":"Hobbism","type":"(n.)","description":"The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion."},{"word":"Hobbist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes."},{"word":"Hobbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hobble"},{"word":"Hobbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hobble"},{"word":"Hobble","type":"(n. i.)","description":"To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches."},{"word":"Hobble","type":"(n. i.)","description":"To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing."},{"word":"Hobble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog."},{"word":"Hobble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perplex; to embarrass."},{"word":"Hobble","type":"(n.)","description":"An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait."},{"word":"Hobble","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hopple."},{"word":"Hobble","type":"(n.)","description":"Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment."},{"word":"Hobblebush","type":"(n.)","description":"A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple."},{"word":"Hobbledehoy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hobbletehoy"},{"word":"Hobbletehoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow ."},{"word":"Hobbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hobbles."},{"word":"Hobbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby."},{"word":"Hobblingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a limping step."},{"word":"Hobbly","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road."},{"word":"Hobbies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hobby"},{"word":"Hobby","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking."},{"word":"Hobby","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hobbyhorse"},{"word":"Hobbyhorse","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag."},{"word":"Hobbyhorse","type":"(n.)","description":"A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride."},{"word":"Hobbyhorse","type":"(n.)","description":"A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion."},{"word":"Hobbyhorsical","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical."},{"word":"Hobgoblin","type":"(n.)","description":"A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow."},{"word":"Hobiler","type":"(n.)","description":"A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler."},{"word":"Hobit","type":"(n.)","description":"A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer."},{"word":"Hobnail","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes."},{"word":"Hobnail","type":"(n.)","description":"A clownish person; a rustic."},{"word":"Hobnail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes."},{"word":"Hobnailed","type":"(a.)","description":"See with hobnails, as a shoe."},{"word":"Hobnob","type":"(adv.)","description":"Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking."},{"word":"Hobnob","type":"(adv.)","description":"At random; hit or miss. (Obs.)"},{"word":"Hornobbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hobnob"},{"word":"Hornobbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hobnob"},{"word":"Hobnob","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To drink familiarly (with another)."},{"word":"Hobnob","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms."},{"word":"Hobnob","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiar, social intercourse."},{"word":"Hobornob","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Hobnob."},{"word":"Hoboy","type":"(n.)","description":"A hautboy or oboe."},{"word":"Hobson's","type":"()","description":"A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing."},{"word":"Hocco","type":"(n.)","description":"The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow."},{"word":"Hochepot","type":"(n.)","description":"Hotchpot."},{"word":"Hock","type":"(n.)","description":"A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines."},{"word":"Hock","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hough"},{"word":"Hough","type":"(n.)","description":"The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man."},{"word":"Hough","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot."},{"word":"Hough","type":"(n.)","description":"The popliteal space; the ham."},{"word":"Hock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough."},{"word":"Hockamore","type":"(n.)","description":"A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock."},{"word":"Hockday","type":"(n.)","description":"A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide."},{"word":"Hockey","type":"(n.)","description":"A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals."},{"word":"Hockey","type":"(n.)","description":"The stick used by the players."},{"word":"Hockherb","type":"(n.)","description":"The mallow."},{"word":"Hockled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hockle"},{"word":"Hockling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hockle"},{"word":"Hockle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hamstring; to hock; to hough."},{"word":"Hockle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mow, as stubble."},{"word":"Hocus","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive or cheat."},{"word":"Hocus","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker."},{"word":"Hocus","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stupefy with drugged liquor."},{"word":"Hocus","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cheats or deceives."},{"word":"Hocus","type":"(n.)","description":"Drugged liquor."},{"word":"Hocuspocus","type":"(n.)","description":"A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations."},{"word":"Hocuspocus","type":"(n.)","description":"A juggler or trickster."},{"word":"Hocuspocus","type":"(n.)","description":"A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense."},{"word":"Hocuspocus","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cheat."},{"word":"Hod","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc."},{"word":"Hod","type":"(n.)","description":"A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle."},{"word":"Hoddengray","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants."},{"word":"Hoddy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dun crow, under Dun, a."},{"word":"Hoddydoddy","type":"(n.)","description":"An awkward or foolish person."},{"word":"Hodgepodge","type":"(n.)","description":"A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot."},{"word":"Hodgkin's","type":"()","description":"A morbid condition characterized by progressive anaemia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician."},{"word":"Hodiern","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hodiernal"},{"word":"Hodiernal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of this day; belonging to the present day."},{"word":"Hodmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hodman"},{"word":"Hodman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender."},{"word":"Hodmandod","type":"(n.)","description":"See Dodman."},{"word":"Hodograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces."},{"word":"Hodometer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Odometer."},{"word":"Hoe","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle."},{"word":"Hoe","type":"(n.)","description":"The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish."},{"word":"Hoed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hoe"},{"word":"Hoeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hoe"},{"word":"Hoe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn."},{"word":"Hoe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe."},{"word":"Hoecake","type":"(n.)","description":"A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe."},{"word":"Hoemother","type":"(n.)","description":"The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver."},{"word":"Hoful","type":"(a.)","description":"Careful; wary."},{"word":"Hog","type":"(n.)","description":"A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow."},{"word":"Hog","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow."},{"word":"Hog","type":"(n.)","description":"A young sheep that has not been shorn."},{"word":"Hog","type":"(n.)","description":"A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water."},{"word":"Hog","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made."},{"word":"Hogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hog"},{"word":"Hogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hog"},{"word":"Hog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse."},{"word":"Hog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom."},{"word":"Hog","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form."},{"word":"Hogback","type":"(n.)","description":"An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber."},{"word":"Hogback","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hogframe."},{"word":"Hogback","type":"(n.)","description":"A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides."},{"word":"Hogchain","type":"(n.)","description":"A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging."},{"word":"Hogchoker","type":"(n.)","description":"An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value."},{"word":"Hogcote","type":"(n.)","description":"A shed for swine; a sty."},{"word":"Hogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolaemus)."},{"word":"Hogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The pigfish or sailor's choice."},{"word":"Hogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"An American fresh-water fish; the log perch."},{"word":"Hogfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa)."},{"word":"Hogframe","type":"(n.)","description":"A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback."},{"word":"Hogged","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i."},{"word":"Hogger","type":"(n.)","description":"A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work."},{"word":"Hoggerel","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash."},{"word":"Hoggerpipe","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump."},{"word":"Hogger-pump","type":"(n.)","description":"The for pump in the pit."},{"word":"Hoggery","type":"(n.)","description":"Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness."},{"word":"Hogget","type":"(n.)","description":"A young boar of the second year."},{"word":"Hogget","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year."},{"word":"Hogging","type":"(n.)","description":"Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging."},{"word":"Hoggish","type":"(a.)","description":"Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish."},{"word":"Hogh","type":"(n.)","description":"A hill; a cliff."},{"word":"Hogherd","type":"(n.)","description":"A swineherd."},{"word":"Hogmanay","type":"(n.)","description":"The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant."},{"word":"Hognosesnake","type":"()","description":"A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper."},{"word":"Hognut","type":"(n.)","description":"The pignut."},{"word":"Hognut","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant."},{"word":"Hogo","type":"(n.)","description":"High flavor; strong scent."},{"word":"Hogpen","type":"(n.)","description":"A pen or sty for hogs."},{"word":"Hogreeve","type":"(n.)","description":"A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large."},{"word":"Hogringer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who puts rings into the snouts of hogs."},{"word":"Hog's-back","type":"(n.)","description":"A hogback."},{"word":"Hogscore","type":"(n.)","description":"A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee."},{"word":"Hogshead","type":"(n.)","description":"An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe."},{"word":"Hogshead","type":"(n.)","description":"A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; esp. one containing from 100 to 140 gallons."},{"word":"Hogskin","type":"(n.)","description":"Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively."},{"word":"Hogsties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hogsty"},{"word":"Hogsty","type":"(n.)","description":"A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs."},{"word":"Hogwash","type":"(n.)","description":"Swill."},{"word":"Hogweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A common weed (Ambrosia artemisiaege). See Ambrosia, 3."},{"word":"Hogweed","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium."},{"word":"Hoiden","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude, clownish youth."},{"word":"Hoiden","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude, bold girl; a romp."},{"word":"Hoiden","type":"(a.)","description":"Rustic; rude; bold."},{"word":"Hoiden","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To romp rudely or indecently."},{"word":"Hoidenhood","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being a hoiden."},{"word":"Hoidenish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden."},{"word":"Hoise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hoist."},{"word":"Hoisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hoist"},{"word":"Hoisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hoist"},{"word":"Hoist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight."},{"word":"Hoist","type":"(n.)","description":"That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods."},{"word":"Hoist","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hoisting; a lift."},{"word":"Hoist","type":"(n.)","description":"The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff."},{"word":"Hoist","type":"(n.)","description":"The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay."},{"word":"Hoist","type":"(p. p.)","description":"Hoisted."},{"word":"Hoistaway","type":"(n.)","description":"A mechanical lift. See Elevator."},{"word":"Hoistway","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom."},{"word":"Hoit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To leap; to caper; to romp noisily."},{"word":"Hoity-toity","type":"(a.)","description":"Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt."},{"word":"Hokeday","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hockday."},{"word":"Hoker","type":"(n.)","description":"Scorn; derision; abusive talk."},{"word":"Hol","type":"(a.)","description":"Whole."},{"word":"Holaspidean","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds."},{"word":"Holcad","type":"(n.)","description":"A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed."},{"word":"Held","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hold"},{"word":"Holding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hold"},{"word":"Holden","type":"()","description":"of Hold"},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n. i.)","description":"In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence:"},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n. i.)","description":"Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n. i.)","description":"Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n. i.)","description":"Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n. i.)","description":"Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n. i.)","description":"To restrain one's self; to refrain."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n. i.)","description":"To derive right or title; -- generally with of."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n.)","description":"The authority or ground to take or keep; claim."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n.)","description":"Binding power and influence."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n.)","description":"Something that may be grasped; means of support."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold."},{"word":"Hold","type":"(n.)","description":"A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona."},{"word":"Holdback","type":"(n.)","description":"Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle."},{"word":"Holdback","type":"(n.)","description":"The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used."},{"word":"Holder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is employed in the hold of a vessel."},{"word":"Holder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, holds."},{"word":"Holder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant."},{"word":"Holder","type":"(n.)","description":"The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it."},{"word":"Holder-forth","type":"(n.)","description":"One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher."},{"word":"Holdfast","type":"(n.)","description":"Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support."},{"word":"Holdfast","type":"(n.)","description":"A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture."},{"word":"Holding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining."},{"word":"Holding","type":"(n.)","description":"A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another."},{"word":"Holding","type":"(n.)","description":"That which holds, binds, or influences."},{"word":"Holding","type":"(n.)","description":"The burden or chorus of a song."},{"word":"Hole","type":"(a.)","description":"Whole."},{"word":"Hole","type":"(n.)","description":"A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure."},{"word":"Hole","type":"(n.)","description":"An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation."},{"word":"Hole","type":"(n.)","description":"To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars."},{"word":"Hole","type":"(n.)","description":"To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball."},{"word":"Hole","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go or get into a hole."},{"word":"Holethnic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race."},{"word":"Holethnos","type":"(n.)","description":"A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes."},{"word":"Holibut","type":"(n.)","description":"See Halibut."},{"word":"Holidam","type":"(n.)","description":"See Halidom."},{"word":"Holiday","type":"(n.)","description":"A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday."},{"word":"Holiday","type":"(n.)","description":"A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day."},{"word":"Holiday","type":"(n.)","description":"A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday."},{"word":"Holiday","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay."},{"word":"Holiday","type":"(a.)","description":"Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion."},{"word":"Holily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner."},{"word":"Holily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Sacredly; inviolably."},{"word":"Holiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence."},{"word":"Holiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness."},{"word":"Holing","type":"(n.)","description":"Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass."},{"word":"Holla","type":"(interj.)","description":"Hollo."},{"word":"Hollaed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Holla"},{"word":"Hollaing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Holla"},{"word":"Holla","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Hollo, v. i."},{"word":"Holland","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands."},{"word":"Hollander","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman."},{"word":"Hollander","type":"(n.)","description":"A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker."},{"word":"Hollandish","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Holland; Dutch."},{"word":"Hollands","type":"(n.)","description":"Gin made in Holland."},{"word":"Hollands","type":"(n.)","description":"See Holland."},{"word":"Hollo","type":"(interj. & n.)","description":"Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo."},{"word":"Holloed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hollo"},{"word":"Holloing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hollo"},{"word":"Hollo","type":"(interj.)","description":"To call out or exclaim; to halloo. This form is now mostly replaced by hello."},{"word":"Holloa","type":"(n. & v. i.)","description":"Same as Hollo."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(a.)","description":"Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(a.)","description":"Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(n.)","description":"A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel."},{"word":"Hollowed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hollow"},{"word":"Hollowing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hollow"},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(adv.)","description":"Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(interj.)","description":"Hollo."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shout; to hollo."},{"word":"Hollow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To urge or call by shouting."},{"word":"Hollow-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within."},{"word":"Hollow-horned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle."},{"word":"Hollowly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Insincerely; deceitfully."},{"word":"Hollowness","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being hollow."},{"word":"Hollowness","type":"(n.)","description":"Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery."},{"word":"Holly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Wholly."},{"word":"Holly","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas."},{"word":"Holly","type":"(n.)","description":"The holm oak. See 1st Holm."},{"word":"Hollyhock","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow."},{"word":"Holm","type":"(n.)","description":"A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly."},{"word":"Holm","type":"(n.)","description":"An islet in a river."},{"word":"Holm","type":"(n.)","description":"Low, flat land."},{"word":"Holmia","type":"(n.)","description":"An oxide of holmium."},{"word":"Holmium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite."},{"word":"Holmos","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to a vase having a rounded body"},{"word":"Holmos","type":"(n.)","description":"A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal."},{"word":"Holmos","type":"(n.)","description":"A drinking cup having a foot and stem."},{"word":"Holo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form fr. Gr. \"o`los whole."},{"word":"Holoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast."},{"word":"Holoblastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic."},{"word":"Holocaust","type":"(n.)","description":"A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations."},{"word":"Holocaust","type":"(n.)","description":"Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]"},{"word":"Holocephali","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimaera; also Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Holocryptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered."},{"word":"Holocrystalline","type":"(a.)","description":"Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline."},{"word":"Holograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be."},{"word":"Holographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs."},{"word":"Holohedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral."},{"word":"Holohemihedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes."},{"word":"Holometabola","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola."},{"word":"Holometabolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees."},{"word":"Holometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for making of angular measurements."},{"word":"Holophanerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Holometabolic."},{"word":"Holophotal","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss."},{"word":"Holophote","type":"(n.)","description":"A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses."},{"word":"Holophrastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America."},{"word":"Holophytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Wholly or distinctively vegetable."},{"word":"Holorhinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nasal bones contiguous."},{"word":"Holosiderite","type":"(n.)","description":"Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter."},{"word":"Holostean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Holostei."},{"word":"Holostei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Holosteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Wholly solid; -- said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid."},{"word":"Holostomata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture."},{"word":"Holostomate","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Holostomatous."},{"word":"Holostomatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells."},{"word":"Holostome","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Holostomata."},{"word":"Holostraca","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell."},{"word":"Holothure","type":"(n.)","description":"A holothurian."},{"word":"Holothurian","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Holothurioidea."},{"word":"Holothurian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Holothurioidea."},{"word":"Holothurioidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the classes of echinoderms."},{"word":"Holotricha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body."},{"word":"Holour","type":"(n.)","description":"A whoremonger."},{"word":"Holp","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Holpen"},{"word":"Holpen","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Help."},{"word":"Holsom","type":"(a.)","description":"Wholesome."},{"word":"Holster","type":"(n.)","description":"A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle."},{"word":"Holstered","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing holsters."},{"word":"Holt","type":"()","description":"3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth."},{"word":"Holt","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill."},{"word":"Holt","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place."},{"word":"Holwe","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow."},{"word":"Holy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood."},{"word":"Holy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God."},{"word":"Holy","type":"()","description":"The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion."},{"word":"Holyday","type":"(n.)","description":"A religious festival."},{"word":"Holyday","type":"(n.)","description":"A secular festival; a holiday."},{"word":"Holystone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships."},{"word":"Holystone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel."},{"word":"Homacanth","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes."},{"word":"Homage","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign."},{"word":"Homage","type":"(n.)","description":"Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance."},{"word":"Homage","type":"(n.)","description":"Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection."},{"word":"Homaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Homage"},{"word":"Homaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Homage"},{"word":"Homage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay reverence to by external action."},{"word":"Homage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to pay homage."},{"word":"Homageable","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to homage."},{"word":"Homager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal."},{"word":"Homalographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Homolographic."},{"word":"Homaloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homaloidal"},{"word":"Homaloidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true."},{"word":"Homarus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters."},{"word":"Homatropine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose."},{"word":"Homaxonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology."},{"word":"Home","type":"(n.)","description":"See Homelyn."},{"word":"Home","type":"(n.)","description":"One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace."},{"word":"Home","type":"(n.)","description":"One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt."},{"word":"Home","type":"(n.)","description":"The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections."},{"word":"Home","type":"(n.)","description":"The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine."},{"word":"Home","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul."},{"word":"Home","type":"(n.)","description":"The home base; he started for home."},{"word":"Home","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts."},{"word":"Home","type":"(a.)","description":"Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust."},{"word":"Home","type":"(adv.)","description":"To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home."},{"word":"Home","type":"(adv.)","description":"Close; closely."},{"word":"Home","type":"(adv.)","description":"To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home."},{"word":"Homeborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Native; indigenous; not foreign."},{"word":"Homeborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the home or family."},{"word":"Home-bound","type":"(a.)","description":"Kept at home."},{"word":"Home-bred","type":"(a.)","description":"Bred at home; domestic; not foreign."},{"word":"Home-bred","type":"(a.)","description":"Not polished; rude; uncultivated."},{"word":"Home-coming","type":"(n.)","description":"Return home."},{"word":"Home-driven","type":"(a.)","description":"Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close."},{"word":"Home-dwelling","type":"(a.)","description":"Keeping at home."},{"word":"Home-felt","type":"(a.)","description":"Felt in one's own breast; inward; private."},{"word":"Homefield","type":"(n.)","description":"A field adjacent to its owner's home."},{"word":"Home-keeping","type":"(a.)","description":"Staying at home; not gadding."},{"word":"Home-keeping","type":"(n.)","description":"A staying at home."},{"word":"Homeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a home."},{"word":"Homelike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly."},{"word":"Homelily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Plainly; inelegantly."},{"word":"Homeliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Domesticity; care of home."},{"word":"Homeliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Familiarity; intimacy."},{"word":"Homeliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Plainness; want of elegance or beauty."},{"word":"Homeliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language."},{"word":"Homeling","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling."},{"word":"Homely","type":"(n.)","description":"Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate."},{"word":"Homely","type":"(n.)","description":"Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners."},{"word":"Homely","type":"(n.)","description":"Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome."},{"word":"Homely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed."},{"word":"Homelyn","type":"(n.)","description":"The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray."},{"word":"Homemade","type":"(a.)","description":"Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country."},{"word":"Homeopath","type":"(n.)","description":"A practitioner of homeopathy."},{"word":"Homeopathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy."},{"word":"Homeopathically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to the practice of homeopathy."},{"word":"Homeopathist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy."},{"word":"Homeopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy."},{"word":"Homer","type":"(n.)","description":"A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance."},{"word":"Homer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hoemother."},{"word":"Homer","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts."},{"word":"Homeric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer."},{"word":"Homesick","type":"(a.)","description":"Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition."},{"word":"Home-speaking","type":"(n.)","description":"Direct, forcible, and effective speaking."},{"word":"Homespun","type":"(a.)","description":"Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain."},{"word":"Homespun","type":"(a.)","description":"Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse."},{"word":"Homespun","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun."},{"word":"Homespun","type":"(n.)","description":"An unpolished, rustic person."},{"word":"Homestall","type":"(n.)","description":"Place of a home; homestead."},{"word":"Homestead","type":"(n.)","description":"The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it."},{"word":"Homestead","type":"(n.)","description":"The home or seat of a family; place of origin."},{"word":"Homestead","type":"(n.)","description":"The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family."},{"word":"Homesteader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner."},{"word":"Homeward","type":"(a.)","description":"Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way."},{"word":"Homeward","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Homewards"},{"word":"Homewards","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country."},{"word":"Homicidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous."},{"word":"Homicide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The killing of one human being by another."},{"word":"Homicide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who kills another; a manslayer."},{"word":"Homiform","type":"(a.)","description":"In human form."},{"word":"Homilete","type":"(n.)","description":"A homilist."},{"word":"Homiletic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homiletical"},{"word":"Homiletical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable."},{"word":"Homiletical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory."},{"word":"Homiletics","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them."},{"word":"Homilist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation."},{"word":"Homilite","type":"(n.)","description":"A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition."},{"word":"Homilies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Homily"},{"word":"Homily","type":"(n.)","description":"A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse."},{"word":"Homily","type":"(n.)","description":"A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life."},{"word":"Homing","type":"(a.)","description":"Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons."},{"word":"Hominy","type":"(n.)","description":"Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water."},{"word":"Homish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a home or a home circle."},{"word":"Hommock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock."},{"word":"Hommocky","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice."},{"word":"Homo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form from Gr. \"omo`s, one and the same, common, joint."},{"word":"Homocategoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related."},{"word":"Homocentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same center."},{"word":"Homocercal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal."},{"word":"Homocercy","type":"(n.)","description":"The possession of a homocercal tail."},{"word":"Homocerebrin","type":"(n.)","description":"A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin."},{"word":"Homochromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color."},{"word":"Homodemic","type":"(a.)","description":"A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality."},{"word":"Homodermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer."},{"word":"Homodermy","type":"(n.)","description":"Homology of the germinal layers."},{"word":"Homodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont."},{"word":"Homodromal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homodromous"},{"word":"Homodromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches."},{"word":"Homodromous","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving in the same direction; -- said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis."},{"word":"Homodynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Homodynamous."},{"word":"Homodynamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals."},{"word":"Homodynamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The homology of metameres. See Metamere."},{"word":"Homoeomeria","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts."},{"word":"Homoeomeric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homoeomerical"},{"word":"Homoeomerical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, sameness of parts; receiving or advocating the doctrine of homogeneity of elements or first principles."},{"word":"Homoeomerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds."},{"word":"Homoeomery","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Homoeomeria."},{"word":"Homoeomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds. See Isomorphism."},{"word":"Homoeomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Manifesting homoeomorphism."},{"word":"Homoeopathic","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Homoeopathy"},{"word":"Homoeopathist","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Homoeopathy"},{"word":"Homoeopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy."},{"word":"Homoeothermal","type":"(a.)","description":"See Homoiothermal."},{"word":"Homoeozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of life; as, homoeozoic belts on the earth's surface."},{"word":"Homogamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all the flowers alike; -- said of such composite plants as Eupatorium, and the thistels."},{"word":"Homogamy","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being homogamous."},{"word":"Homogangliate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate."},{"word":"Homogene","type":"(a.)","description":"Homogeneous."},{"word":"Homogeneal","type":"(a.)","description":"Homogeneous."},{"word":"Homogenealness","type":"(n.)","description":"Homogeneousness."},{"word":"Homogeneity","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Homogeneousness."},{"word":"Homogeneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies."},{"word":"Homogeneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing the same number of factors of a given kind; as, a homogeneous polynomial."},{"word":"Homogeneousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material."},{"word":"Homogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis."},{"word":"Homogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry."},{"word":"Homogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic."},{"word":"Homogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"Joint nature."},{"word":"Homogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor."},{"word":"Homogonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils."},{"word":"Homogony","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of having homogonous flowers."},{"word":"Homograph","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful."},{"word":"Homographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words."},{"word":"Homographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing the property of homography."},{"word":"Homography","type":"(n.)","description":"That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other."},{"word":"Homography","type":"(n.)","description":"A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic."},{"word":"Homoioptoton","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally."},{"word":"Homoiothermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium."},{"word":"Homoiousian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the semi-Arians of the 4th century, who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoousian."},{"word":"Homoiousian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Homoiousians, or their belief."},{"word":"Homologated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Homologate"},{"word":"Homologating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Homologate"},{"word":"Homologate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding."},{"word":"Homologation","type":"(n.)","description":"Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor."},{"word":"Homological","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology."},{"word":"Homologinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, homology; as, homologinic qualities, or differences."},{"word":"Homologize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine the homologies or structural relations of."},{"word":"Homologon","type":"(n.)","description":"See Homologue."},{"word":"Homologoumena","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena."},{"word":"Homologous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure."},{"word":"Homologous","type":"(a.)","description":"Corresponding in relative position and proportion."},{"word":"Homologous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion."},{"word":"Homologous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. See Homology, 3."},{"word":"Homologous","type":"(a.)","description":"Being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and the fore foot of a horse are homologous that correspond in their structural relations, that is, in their relations to the type structure of the fore limb in vertebrates."},{"word":"Homolographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Preserving the mutual relations of parts, especially as to size and form; maintaining relative proportion."},{"word":"Homologue","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale."},{"word":"Homology","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons."},{"word":"Homology","type":"(n.)","description":"Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of structure."},{"word":"Homology","type":"(n.)","description":"The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, CH4, ethane, C2H6, propane, C3H8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. In an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said to be in homology with each other. Cf. Heterology."},{"word":"Homomallous","type":"(a.)","description":"Uniformly bending or curving to one side; -- said of leaves which grow on several sides of a stem."},{"word":"Homomorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homomorphous"},{"word":"Homomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by homomorphism."},{"word":"Homomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Homomorphy."},{"word":"Homomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"The possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism."},{"word":"Homomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"The possession of but one kind of larvae or young, as in most insects."},{"word":"Homomorphy","type":"(n.)","description":"Similarity of form; resemblance in external characters, while widely different in fundamental structure; resemblance in geometric ground form. See Homophyly, Promorphology."},{"word":"Homonomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to homonomy."},{"word":"Homonomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes."},{"word":"Homonym","type":"(n.)","description":"A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear."},{"word":"Homonymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; -- opposed to heteronymous."},{"word":"Homonymous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous."},{"word":"Homonymously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation."},{"word":"Homonymously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Equivocally; ambiguously."},{"word":"Homonymy","type":"(n.)","description":"Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations."},{"word":"Homonymy","type":"(n.)","description":"Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity."},{"word":"Homoorgan","type":"()","description":"Same as Homoplast."},{"word":"Homoousian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian."},{"word":"Homoousian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held."},{"word":"Homophone","type":"(n.)","description":"A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another."},{"word":"Homophone","type":"(n.)","description":"A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright."},{"word":"Homophonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homophonous"},{"word":"Homophonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic."},{"word":"Homophonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody."},{"word":"Homophonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as, bay and bey."},{"word":"Homophony","type":"(n.)","description":"Sameness of sound."},{"word":"Homophony","type":"(n.)","description":"Sameness of sound; unison."},{"word":"Homophony","type":"(n.)","description":"Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. See Homophonous."},{"word":"Homophylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to homophily."},{"word":"Homophyly","type":"(n.)","description":"That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting."},{"word":"Homoplasmy","type":"(n.)","description":"Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances."},{"word":"Homoplast","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan."},{"word":"Homoplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms."},{"word":"Homoplasty","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of homologous tissues."},{"word":"Homoplasy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Homogeny."},{"word":"Homopolic","type":"(a.)","description":"In promorphology, pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. See Promorphology."},{"word":"Homopter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Homoptera."},{"word":"Homoptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera."},{"word":"Homopteran","type":"(n.)","description":"An homopter."},{"word":"Homopterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Homoptera."},{"word":"Homostyled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants."},{"word":"Homosystemic","type":"(a.)","description":"Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates."},{"word":"Homotaxia","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Homotaxis."},{"word":"Homotaxial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homotaxic"},{"word":"Homotaxic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to homotaxis."},{"word":"Homotaxis","type":"(n.)","description":"Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of heterotaxy."},{"word":"Homotaxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Homotaxis."},{"word":"Homothermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homothermous"},{"word":"Homothermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; haematothermal."},{"word":"Homotonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation."},{"word":"Homotropal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homotropous"},{"word":"Homotropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned in the same direction with something else."},{"word":"Homotropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the radicle of the seed directed towards the hilum."},{"word":"Homotypal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts."},{"word":"Homotype","type":"(n.)","description":"That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc."},{"word":"Homotypic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Homotypical"},{"word":"Homotypical","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Homotypal."},{"word":"Homotypy","type":"(n.)","description":"A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype."},{"word":"Homunculi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Homunculus"},{"word":"Homunculus","type":"(n.)","description":"A little man; a dwarf; a manikin."},{"word":"Hond","type":"(n.)","description":"Hand."},{"word":"Hone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pine; to lament; to long."},{"word":"Hone","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of swelling in the cheek."},{"word":"Hone","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone."},{"word":"Honed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hone"},{"word":"Honing","type":"(p]. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hone"},{"word":"Hone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor."},{"word":"Honest","type":"(a.)","description":"Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming."},{"word":"Honest","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession."},{"word":"Honest","type":"(a.)","description":"Open; frank; as, an honest countenance."},{"word":"Honest","type":"(a.)","description":"Chaste; faithful; virtuous."},{"word":"Honest","type":"(a.)","description":"To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable."},{"word":"Honestation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of honesting; grace; adornment."},{"word":"Honestetee","type":"(n.)","description":"Honesty; honorableness."},{"word":"Honestly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Honorably; becomingly; decently."},{"word":"Honestly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly."},{"word":"Honesty","type":"(a.)","description":"Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency."},{"word":"Honesty","type":"(a.)","description":"The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile."},{"word":"Honesty","type":"(a.)","description":"Chastity; modesty."},{"word":"Honesty","type":"(a.)","description":"Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty."},{"word":"Honewort","type":"(n.)","description":"An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone."},{"word":"Honey","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb."},{"word":"Honey","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey."},{"word":"Honey","type":"(n.)","description":"Sweet one; -- a term of endearment."},{"word":"Honeyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Honey"},{"word":"Honeying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Honey"},{"word":"Honey","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn."},{"word":"Honey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey."},{"word":"Honey-bag","type":"(n.)","description":"The receptacle for honey in a honeybee."},{"word":"Honeybee","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced."},{"word":"Honeybird","type":"(n.)","description":"The honey guide."},{"word":"Honeycomb","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs."},{"word":"Honeycomb","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb."},{"word":"Honeycombed","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or perforated like a honeycomb."},{"word":"Honeydew","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids."},{"word":"Honeydew","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses."},{"word":"Honeyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with honey."},{"word":"Honeyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Sweet, as, honeyed words."},{"word":"Honeyless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of honey."},{"word":"Honeymoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The first month after marriage."},{"word":"Honey-mouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive."},{"word":"Honeystone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Mellite."},{"word":"Honeysucker","type":"(n.)","description":"See Honey eater, under Honey."},{"word":"Honeysuckle","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance."},{"word":"Honeysuckled","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with honeysuckles."},{"word":"Honey-sweet","type":"(a.)","description":"Sweet as honey."},{"word":"Honey-tongued","type":"(a.)","description":"Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive."},{"word":"Honeyware","type":"(n.)","description":"See Badderlocks."},{"word":"Honeywort","type":"(n.)","description":"A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees."},{"word":"Hong","type":"(n.)","description":"A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage."},{"word":"Hong","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To hang."},{"word":"Honied","type":"(a.)","description":"See Honeyed."},{"word":"Honiton","type":"()","description":"A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England."},{"word":"Honk","type":"(n.)","description":"The cry of a wild goose."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"Fame; reputation; credit."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as, His Honor the Mayor. See Note under Honorable."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors."},{"word":"Honored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Honor"},{"word":"Honoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Honor"},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to treat in a complimentary manner or with civility."},{"word":"Honor","type":"(n.)","description":"To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange."},{"word":"Honorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious."},{"word":"Honorable","type":"(a.)","description":"High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation."},{"word":"Honorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive."},{"word":"Honorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds."},{"word":"Honorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude."},{"word":"Honorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial."},{"word":"Honorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Of reputable association or use; respectable."},{"word":"Honorable","type":"(a.)","description":"An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman."},{"word":"Honorableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction."},{"word":"Honorableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness."},{"word":"Honorably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor."},{"word":"Honorably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Decently; becomingly."},{"word":"Honorarium","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Honorary"},{"word":"Honorary","type":"(a.)","description":"A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars."},{"word":"Honorary","type":"(a.)","description":"An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price."},{"word":"Honorary","type":"(a.)","description":"Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services."},{"word":"Honorary","type":"(a.)","description":"Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree."},{"word":"Honorary","type":"(a.)","description":"Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society."},{"word":"Honorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who honors."},{"word":"Honorific","type":"(a.)","description":"Conferring honor; tending to honor."},{"word":"Honorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of honor; not honored."},{"word":"Hont","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See under Hunt."},{"word":"Hoo","type":"(interj.)","description":"See Ho."},{"word":"Hoo","type":"(interj.)","description":"Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy."},{"word":"-hood","type":"()","description":"A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"State; condition."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment"},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for a horse's head."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything resembling a hood in form or use"},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"The top or head of a carriage."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"The top of a pump."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering for a mortar."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering or porch for a companion hatch."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(n.)","description":"The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern."},{"word":"Hooded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hood"},{"word":"Hooding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hood"},{"word":"Hood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage."},{"word":"Hood","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover; to hide; to blind."},{"word":"Hoodcap","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hooded seal, under Hooded."},{"word":"Hooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a hood."},{"word":"Hooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a hood or something like a hood."},{"word":"Hooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip."},{"word":"Hooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds."},{"word":"Hooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake."},{"word":"Hoodless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no hood."},{"word":"Hoodlum","type":"(n.)","description":"A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow."},{"word":"Hoodman","type":"(n.)","description":"The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind."},{"word":"Hoodman-blind","type":"(n.)","description":"An old term for blindman's buff."},{"word":"Hood","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hood moulding"},{"word":"Hood","type":"()","description":"A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold."},{"word":"Hoodoo","type":"(n.)","description":"One who causes bad luck."},{"word":"Hoodwink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blind by covering the eyes."},{"word":"Hoodwink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover; to hide."},{"word":"Hoodwink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon."},{"word":"Hoody","type":"(n.)","description":"The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull."},{"word":"Hoofs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hoof"},{"word":"Hooves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hoof"},{"word":"Hoof","type":"(n.)","description":"The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc."},{"word":"Hoof","type":"(n.)","description":"A hoofed animal; a beast."},{"word":"Hoof","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ungula."},{"word":"Hoof","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To walk as cattle."},{"word":"Hoof","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be on a tramp; to foot."},{"word":"Hoofbound","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness."},{"word":"Hoofed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with hoofs."},{"word":"Hoofless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of hoofs."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(n.)","description":"An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(n.)","description":"See Eccentric, and V-hook."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(n.)","description":"A snare; a trap."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(n.)","description":"A field sown two years in succession."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(n.)","description":"The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones."},{"word":"Hooked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hook"},{"word":"Hooking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hook"},{"word":"Hook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steal."},{"word":"Hook","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend; to curve as a hook."},{"word":"Hookah","type":"(n.)","description":"A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water."},{"word":"Hook-billed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a strongly curved bill."},{"word":"Hooked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird."},{"word":"Hooked","type":"(a.)","description":"Provided with a hook or hooks."},{"word":"Hookedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation."},{"word":"Hooker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, hooks."},{"word":"Hooker","type":"(n.)","description":"A Dutch vessel with two masts."},{"word":"Hooker","type":"(n.)","description":"A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland."},{"word":"Hooker","type":"(n.)","description":"A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft."},{"word":"Hooke's","type":"()","description":"Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle."},{"word":"Hooke's","type":"()","description":"A universal joint. See under Universal."},{"word":"Hookey","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hockey."},{"word":"Hooklet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little hook."},{"word":"Hook-nosed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a hooked or aquiline nose."},{"word":"Hooky","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks."},{"word":"Hool","type":"(a.)","description":"Whole."},{"word":"Hoolock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam."},{"word":"Hoom","type":"(n.)","description":"Home."},{"word":"Hoonoomaun","type":"(n.)","description":"An Indian monkey. See Entellus."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(n.)","description":"A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(n.)","description":"A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(n.)","description":"A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(n.)","description":"An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks."},{"word":"Hooped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hoop"},{"word":"Hooping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hoop"},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clasp; to encircle; to surround."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive or follow with a shout."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call by a shout or peculiar cry."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(n.)","description":"A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough."},{"word":"Hoop","type":"(n.)","description":"The hoopoe. See Hoopoe."},{"word":"Hooper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper."},{"word":"Hooper","type":"(n.)","description":"The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk."},{"word":"Hoopoe","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hoopoo"},{"word":"Hoopoo","type":"(n.)","description":"A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera."},{"word":"Hoosier","type":"(n.)","description":"A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana."},{"word":"Hooted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hoot"},{"word":"Hooting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hoot"},{"word":"Hoot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry out or shout in contempt."},{"word":"Hoot","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make the peculiar cry of an owl."},{"word":"Hoot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts."},{"word":"Hoot","type":"(n.)","description":"A derisive cry or shout."},{"word":"Hoot","type":"(n.)","description":"The cry of an owl."},{"word":"Hoove","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating."},{"word":"Hooven","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hoven"},{"word":"Hoven","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle."},{"word":"Hopped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hop"},{"word":"Hopping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hop"},{"word":"Hop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To walk lame; to limp; to halt."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dance."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(n.)","description":"A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(n.)","description":"A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(n.)","description":"A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops)."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(n.)","description":"The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(n.)","description":"The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate with hops."},{"word":"Hop","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]"},{"word":"Hopbine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hopbind"},{"word":"Hopbind","type":"(n.)","description":"The climbing stem of the hop."},{"word":"Hope","type":"(n.)","description":"A sloping plain between mountain ridges."},{"word":"Hope","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bay; an inlet; a haven."},{"word":"Hope","type":"(n.)","description":"A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy."},{"word":"Hope","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good."},{"word":"Hope","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is hoped for; an object of hope."},{"word":"Hoped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hope"},{"word":"Hoping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hope"},{"word":"Hope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for."},{"word":"Hope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in."},{"word":"Hope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of."},{"word":"Hope","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expect; to fear."},{"word":"Hopeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant."},{"word":"Hopeful","type":"(a.)","description":"Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect."},{"word":"Hopeite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals."},{"word":"Hopeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing."},{"word":"Hopeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause."},{"word":"Hopeless","type":"(a.)","description":"Unhoped for; despaired of."},{"word":"Hoper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hopes."},{"word":"Hopingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hopeful manner."},{"word":"Hoplite","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy-armed infantry soldier."},{"word":"Hop-o'-my-thumb","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hop-thumb"},{"word":"Hop-thumb","type":"(n.)","description":"A very diminutive person."},{"word":"Hopped","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Impregnated with hops."},{"word":"Hopper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, hops."},{"word":"Hopper","type":"(n.)","description":"A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car."},{"word":"Hopper","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grasshopper, 2."},{"word":"Hopper","type":"(n.)","description":"A game. See Hopscotch."},{"word":"Hopper","type":"(n.)","description":"See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree."},{"word":"Hopper","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of a cheese fly."},{"word":"Hopper","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow."},{"word":"Hopperings","type":"(n.)","description":"Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle."},{"word":"Hoppestere","type":"(a.)","description":"An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as \"dancing (on the wave)\"; by others as \"opposing,\" \"warlike.\""},{"word":"Hoppet","type":"(n.)","description":"A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore."},{"word":"Hoppet","type":"(n.)","description":"An infant in arms."},{"word":"Hopping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing."},{"word":"Hopping","type":"(n.)","description":"A gathering of hops."},{"word":"Hoppled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hopple"},{"word":"Hoppling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hopple"},{"word":"Hopple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse."},{"word":"Hopple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To entangle; to hamper."},{"word":"Hopple","type":"(n.)","description":"A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural."},{"word":"Hopplebush","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hobblebush."},{"word":"Hoppo","type":"(n.)","description":"A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce."},{"word":"Hoppo","type":"(n.)","description":"A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation."},{"word":"Hopscotch","type":"(n.)","description":"A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers."},{"word":"Hop-thumb","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hop-o'-my-thumb."},{"word":"Hopyard","type":"(n.)","description":"A field where hops are raised."},{"word":"Horal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours."},{"word":"Horaly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hourly."},{"word":"Horary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours."},{"word":"Horary","type":"(a.)","description":"Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral."},{"word":"Horatian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style."},{"word":"Horde","type":"(n.)","description":"A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude."},{"word":"Hordeic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid."},{"word":"Hordein","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture."},{"word":"Hordeolum","type":"(n.)","description":"A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty."},{"word":"Hordock","type":"(n.)","description":"An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock."},{"word":"Hore","type":"(a.)","description":"Hoar."},{"word":"Horehound","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc."},{"word":"Horizon","type":"(n.)","description":"The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky."},{"word":"Horizon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon."},{"word":"Horizon","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational / celestial horizon."},{"word":"Horizon","type":"(n.)","description":"The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible."},{"word":"Horizon","type":"(n.)","description":"The epoch or time during which a deposit was made."},{"word":"Horizon","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line."},{"word":"Horizontal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or near, the horizon."},{"word":"Horizontal","type":"(a.)","description":"Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface."},{"word":"Horizontal","type":"(a.)","description":"Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance."},{"word":"Horizontality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being horizontal."},{"word":"Horizontally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally."},{"word":"Hormogonium","type":"(n.)","description":"A chain of small cells in certain algae, by which the plant is propogated."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias)."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn"},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"The cornucopia, or horn of plenty."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"The pointed beak of an anvil."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"The Ionic volute."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"A curved projection on the fore part of a plane."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(n.)","description":"An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to."},{"word":"Horn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to wear horns; to cuckold."},{"word":"Hornbeak","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish. See Hornfish."},{"word":"Hornbeam","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech."},{"word":"Hornbill","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals."},{"word":"Hornblende","type":"(n.)","description":"The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species."},{"word":"Hornblendic","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende."},{"word":"Hornblower","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, blows a horn."},{"word":"Hornbook","type":"(n.)","description":"The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer."},{"word":"Hornbook","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook."},{"word":"Hornbug","type":"(n.)","description":"A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees."},{"word":"Horned","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn."},{"word":"Hornedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being horned."},{"word":"Hornel","type":"(n.)","description":"The European sand eel."},{"word":"Horner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works or deal in horn or horns."},{"word":"Horner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who winds or blows the horn."},{"word":"Horner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who horns or cuckolds."},{"word":"Horner","type":"(n.)","description":"The British sand lance or sand eel (Ammodytes lanceolatus)."},{"word":"Hornet","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits."},{"word":"Hornfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The garfish or sea needle."},{"word":"Hornfoot","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hoofs; hoofed."},{"word":"Hornify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To horn; to cuckold."},{"word":"Horning","type":"(n.)","description":"Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent."},{"word":"Hornish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat like horn; hard."},{"word":"Hornito","type":"(n.)","description":"A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit."},{"word":"Hornless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no horn."},{"word":"Horn-mad","type":"(a.)","description":"Quite mad; -- raving crazy."},{"word":"Hornotine","type":"(n.)","description":"A yearling; a bird of the year."},{"word":"Hornowl","type":"(n.)","description":"See Horned Owl."},{"word":"Hornpike","type":"(n.)","description":"The garfish."},{"word":"Hornpipe","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn."},{"word":"Hornpipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing."},{"word":"Hornpout","type":"(n.)","description":"See Horned pout, under Horned."},{"word":"Hornsnake","type":"(n.)","description":"A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below."},{"word":"Hornstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert."},{"word":"Horntail","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females."},{"word":"Hornwork","type":"(n.)","description":"An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings."},{"word":"Hornwort","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves."},{"word":"Hornwrack","type":"(n.)","description":"A bryozoan of the genus Flustra."},{"word":"Horny","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having horns or hornlike projections."},{"word":"Horny","type":"(superl.)","description":"Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn."},{"word":"Horny","type":"(superl.)","description":"Hard; callous."},{"word":"Horny-handed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the hands horny and callous from labor."},{"word":"Hornyhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus."},{"word":"Horography","type":"(n.)","description":"An account of the hours."},{"word":"Horography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials."},{"word":"Horologe","type":"(n.)","description":"A servant who called out the hours."},{"word":"Horologe","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial."},{"word":"Horologer","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology."},{"word":"Horological","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a horologe, or to horology."},{"word":"Horologiographer","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker of clocks, watches, or dials."},{"word":"Horologiographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to horologiography."},{"word":"Horologiography","type":"(n.)","description":"An account of instruments that show the hour."},{"word":"Horologiography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of constructing clocks or dials; horography."},{"word":"Horologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in horology."},{"word":"Horology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc."},{"word":"Horometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring time."},{"word":"Horometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to horometry."},{"word":"Horometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions."},{"word":"Horopter","type":"(n.)","description":"The line or surface in which are situated all the points which are seen single while the point of sight, or the adjustment of the eyes, remains unchanged."},{"word":"Horopteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the horopter."},{"word":"Horoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment."},{"word":"Horoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune."},{"word":"Horoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"The planisphere invented by Jean Paduanus."},{"word":"Horoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A table showing the length of the days and nights at all places."},{"word":"Horoscoper","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Horoscopist"},{"word":"Horoscopist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer."},{"word":"Horoscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events."},{"word":"Horoscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"Aspect of the stars at the time of a person's birth."},{"word":"Horrendous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fearful; frightful."},{"word":"Horrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling."},{"word":"Horrible","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder."},{"word":"Horribleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness."},{"word":"Horribly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly."},{"word":"Horrid","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough; rugged; bristling."},{"word":"Horrid","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive."},{"word":"Horridly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a horrid manner."},{"word":"Horridness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being horrid."},{"word":"Horrific","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing horror; frightful."},{"word":"Horrification","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes horror."},{"word":"Horrified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Horrify"},{"word":"Horrifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Horrify"},{"word":"Horrify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders."},{"word":"Horripilation","type":"(n.)","description":"A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc."},{"word":"Horrisonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Horrisonous."},{"word":"Horrisonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound."},{"word":"Horror","type":"(n.)","description":"A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement."},{"word":"Horror","type":"(n.)","description":"A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor."},{"word":"Horror","type":"(n.)","description":"A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking."},{"word":"Horror","type":"(n.)","description":"That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness."},{"word":"Horror-sticken","type":"(a.)","description":"Struck with horror; horrified."},{"word":"Horror-struck","type":"(a.)","description":"Horror-stricken; horrified."},{"word":"Hors","type":"()","description":"Out of the combat; disabled from fighting."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(n.)","description":"A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(n.)","description":"Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Footrope, a."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(a.)","description":"A breastband for a leadsman."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(a.)","description":"An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(a.)","description":"A jackstay."},{"word":"Horsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Horse"},{"word":"Horsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Horse"},{"word":"Horse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sit astride of; to bestride."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment."},{"word":"Horse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To get on horseback."},{"word":"Horseback","type":"(n.)","description":"The back of a horse."},{"word":"Horseback","type":"(n.)","description":"An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition."},{"word":"Horse-chestnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name."},{"word":"Horse-chestnut","type":"(n.)","description":"The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes."},{"word":"Horse-drench","type":"(n.)","description":"A dose of physic for a horse."},{"word":"Horse-drench","type":"(n.)","description":"The appliance by which the dose is administred."},{"word":"Horsefish","type":"(n.)","description":"The moonfish (Selene setipinnis)."},{"word":"Horsefish","type":"(n.)","description":"The sauger."},{"word":"Horseflesh","type":"(n.)","description":"The flesh of horses."},{"word":"Horseflesh","type":"(n.)","description":"Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh."},{"word":"Horseflies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Horsefly"},{"word":"Horsefly","type":"(n.)","description":"Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood."},{"word":"Horsefly","type":"(n.)","description":"The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca)."},{"word":"Horsefeet","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Horsefoot"},{"word":"Horsefoot","type":"(n.)","description":"The coltsfoot."},{"word":"Horsefoot","type":"(n.)","description":"The Limulus or horseshoe crab."},{"word":"Horse","type":"()","description":"A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign."},{"word":"Horsehair","type":"(n.)","description":"A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs."},{"word":"Horsehead","type":"(n.)","description":"The silver moonfish (Selene vomer)."},{"word":"Horsehide","type":"(n.)","description":"The hide of a horse."},{"word":"Horsehide","type":"(n.)","description":"Leather made of the hide of a horse."},{"word":"Horse-jockey","type":"(n.)","description":"A professional rider and trainer of race horses."},{"word":"Horse-jockey","type":"(n.)","description":"A trainer and dealer in horses."},{"word":"Horseknop","type":"(n.)","description":"Knapweed."},{"word":"Horselaugh","type":"(n.)","description":"A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw."},{"word":"Horse-leech","type":"(n.)","description":"A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses."},{"word":"Horse-leech","type":"(n.)","description":"A farrier; a veterinary surgeon."},{"word":"Horse-leechery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses."},{"word":"Horse-litter","type":"(n.)","description":"A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses."},{"word":"Horsemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Horseman"},{"word":"Horseman","type":"(n.)","description":"A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man."},{"word":"Horseman","type":"(n.)","description":"A mounted soldier; a cavalryman."},{"word":"Horseman","type":"(n.)","description":"A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly."},{"word":"Horseman","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus)."},{"word":"Horsemanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege."},{"word":"Horsemint","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse American plant of the Mint family (Monarda punctata)."},{"word":"Horsemint","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, the wild mint (Mentha sylvestris)."},{"word":"Horsenail","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail."},{"word":"Horseplay","type":"(n.)","description":"Rude, boisterous play."},{"word":"Horsepond","type":"(n.)","description":"A pond for watering horses."},{"word":"Horse","type":"()","description":"The power which a horse exerts."},{"word":"Horse","type":"()","description":"A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc."},{"word":"Horse","type":"()","description":"A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor."},{"word":"Horse-radish","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine."},{"word":"Horserake","type":"(n.)","description":"A rake drawn by a horse."},{"word":"Horseshoe","type":"(n.)","description":"A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof."},{"word":"Horseshoe","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab."},{"word":"Horseshoe","type":"(n.)","description":"The Limulus of horsehoe crab."},{"word":"Horseshoer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who shoes horses."},{"word":"Horseshoeing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or employment of shoeing horses."},{"word":"Horsetail","type":"(n.)","description":"A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum."},{"word":"Horsetail","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish standard, denoting rank."},{"word":"Horseweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed."},{"word":"Horsewhip","type":"(n.)","description":"A whip for horses."},{"word":"Horsewhip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flog or chastise with a horsewhip."},{"word":"Horsewomen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Horsewoman"},{"word":"Horsewoman","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who rides on horseback."},{"word":"Horsewood","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms."},{"word":"Horseworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of a botfly."},{"word":"Horsiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being a horse; that which pertains to a horse."},{"word":"Horsiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Fondness for, or interest in, horses."},{"word":"Horsly","type":"(a.)","description":"Horselike."},{"word":"Horsy","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions."},{"word":"Hortation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation."},{"word":"Hortative","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative."},{"word":"Hortative","type":"(n.)","description":"An exhortation."},{"word":"Hortatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech."},{"word":"Hortensial","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit for a garden."},{"word":"Horticultor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cultivates a garden."},{"word":"Horticultural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards."},{"word":"Horticulture","type":"(n.)","description":"The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards."},{"word":"Horticulturist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices horticulture."},{"word":"Hortulan","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to a garden."},{"word":"Hortus","type":"()","description":"A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved, and arranged systematically; an herbarium."},{"word":"Hortyard","type":"(n.)","description":"An orchard."},{"word":"Hosannas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hosanna"},{"word":"Hosanna","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings."},{"word":"Hose","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hose"},{"word":"Hosen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hose"},{"word":"Hose","type":"(n.)","description":"Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee."},{"word":"Hose","type":"(n.)","description":"Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings."},{"word":"Hose","type":"(n.)","description":"A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine."},{"word":"Hosen","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Hose."},{"word":"Hosier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose."},{"word":"Hosiery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a hosier."},{"word":"Hosiery","type":"(n.)","description":"Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose."},{"word":"Hospice","type":"(n.)","description":"A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard."},{"word":"Hospitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality."},{"word":"Hospitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites."},{"word":"Hospitableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being hospitable; hospitality."},{"word":"Hospitably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hospitable manner."},{"word":"Hospitage","type":"(n.)","description":"Hospitality."},{"word":"Hospital","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn."},{"word":"Hospital","type":"(n.)","description":"A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for."},{"word":"Hospital","type":"(a.)","description":"Hospitable."},{"word":"Hospitaler","type":"(n.)","description":"One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers."},{"word":"Hospitaler","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta."},{"word":"Hospitalism","type":"(n.)","description":"A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital."},{"word":"Hospitalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hospitality"},{"word":"Hospitality","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality."},{"word":"Hospitalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital."},{"word":"Hospitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To receive hospitality; to be a guest."},{"word":"Hospitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest."},{"word":"Hospitium","type":"(n.)","description":"An inn; a lodging; a hospice."},{"word":"Hospitium","type":"(n.)","description":"An inn of court."},{"word":"Hospodar","type":"(n.)","description":"A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania."},{"word":"Host","type":"(n.)","description":"The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration."},{"word":"Host","type":"(n.)","description":"An army; a number of men gathered for war."},{"word":"Host","type":"(n.)","description":"Any great number or multitude; a throng."},{"word":"Host","type":"(n.)","description":"One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord."},{"word":"Host","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give entertainment to."},{"word":"Host","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment."},{"word":"Hostage","type":"(n.)","description":"A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released."},{"word":"Hostel","type":"(n.)","description":"An inn."},{"word":"Hostel","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge."},{"word":"Hosteler","type":"(n.)","description":"The keeper of a hostel or inn."},{"word":"Hosteler","type":"(n.)","description":"A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge."},{"word":"Hostelry","type":"(n.)","description":"An inn; a lodging house."},{"word":"Hostess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house."},{"word":"Hostess","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper."},{"word":"Hostess-ship","type":"(n.)","description":"The character, personality, or office of a hostess."},{"word":"Hostie","type":"(n.)","description":"The consecrated wafer; the host."},{"word":"Hostile","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change."},{"word":"Hostile","type":"(n.)","description":"An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural."},{"word":"Hostilely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hostile manner."},{"word":"Hostilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hostility"},{"word":"Hostility","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity."},{"word":"Hostility","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy."},{"word":"Hostilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy."},{"word":"Hosting","type":"(n.)","description":"An encounter; a battle."},{"word":"Hosting","type":"(n.)","description":"A muster or review."},{"word":"Hostler","type":"(n.)","description":"An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler."},{"word":"Hostler","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who has the care of horses at an inn or stable; hence, any one who takes care of horses; a groom; -- so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person."},{"word":"Hostler","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip."},{"word":"Hostless","type":"(a.)","description":"Inhospitable."},{"word":"Hostry","type":"(n.)","description":"A hostelry; an inn or lodging house."},{"word":"Hostry","type":"(n.)","description":"A stable for horses."},{"word":"Hot","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Hote."},{"word":"Hot","type":"(superl.)","description":"Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air."},{"word":"Hot","type":"(superl.)","description":"Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager."},{"word":"Hot","type":"(superl.)","description":"Lustful; lewd; lecherous."},{"word":"Hot","type":"(superl.)","description":"Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard."},{"word":"Hotbed","type":"(n.)","description":"A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics."},{"word":"Hotbed","type":"(n.)","description":"A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition."},{"word":"Hot","type":"()","description":"See under Blast."},{"word":"Hot-blooded","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate."},{"word":"Hot-brained","type":"(a.)","description":"Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth."},{"word":"Hotchpot","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hotchpotch"},{"word":"Hotchpotch","type":"(n.)","description":"A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge."},{"word":"Hotchpotch","type":"(n.)","description":"A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given."},{"word":"Hotcockles","type":"(n.)","description":"A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him."},{"word":"Hatte","type":"(pres. & imp.)","description":"of Hote"},{"word":"Hot","type":"()","description":"of Hote"},{"word":"Hote","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Hote"},{"word":"Hoten","type":"()","description":"of Hote"},{"word":"Hot","type":"()","description":"of Hote"},{"word":"Hote","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To command; to enjoin."},{"word":"Hote","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To promise."},{"word":"Hote","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To be called; to be named."},{"word":"Hotel","type":"(n.)","description":"A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class."},{"word":"Hotel","type":"(n.)","description":"In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth."},{"word":"Hotel-de-ville","type":"(n.)","description":"A city hall or townhouse."},{"word":"Hotel-Dieu","type":"(n.)","description":"A hospital."},{"word":"Hoten","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Hote."},{"word":"Hotfoot","type":"(adv.)","description":"In haste; foothot."},{"word":"Hot-head","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head."},{"word":"Hot-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement."},{"word":"Hothouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened."},{"word":"Hothouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A bagnio, or bathing house."},{"word":"Hothouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A brothel; a bagnio."},{"word":"Hothouse","type":"(n.)","description":"A heated room for drying green ware."},{"word":"Hot-livered","type":"(a.)","description":"Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible."},{"word":"Hotly","type":"(a.)","description":"In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued."},{"word":"Hotly","type":"(a.)","description":"In a lustful manner; lustfully."},{"word":"Hot-mouthed","type":"(a.)","description":"Headstrong."},{"word":"Hotness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being hot."},{"word":"Hotness","type":"(n.)","description":"Heat or excitement of mind or manner; violence; vehemence; impetuousity; ardor; fury."},{"word":"Hotpress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc."},{"word":"Hotpressed","type":"(a.)","description":"Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t."},{"word":"Hot-short","type":"(a.)","description":"More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron."},{"word":"Hot-spirited","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed."},{"word":"Hotspur","type":"(n.)","description":"A rash, hot-headed man."},{"word":"Hotspur","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hotspurred"},{"word":"Hotspurred","type":"(a.)","description":"Violent; impetuous; headstrong."},{"word":"Hottentot","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts."},{"word":"Hottentot","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds."},{"word":"Hottentotism","type":"(n.)","description":"A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering."},{"word":"Houdah","type":"(n.)","description":"See Howdah."},{"word":"Hough","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hock, a joint."},{"word":"Houghed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hough"},{"word":"Houghing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hough"},{"word":"Hough","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Hock, to hamstring."},{"word":"Hough","type":"(n.)","description":"An adz; a hoe."},{"word":"Hough","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut with a hoe."},{"word":"Houlet","type":"(n.)","description":"An owl. See Howlet."},{"word":"Hoult","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt."},{"word":"Hound","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc."},{"word":"Hound","type":"(n.)","description":"A despicable person."},{"word":"Hound","type":"(n.)","description":"A houndfish."},{"word":"Hound","type":"(n.)","description":"Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on."},{"word":"Hound","type":"(n.)","description":"A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle."},{"word":"Hounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hound"},{"word":"Hounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hound"},{"word":"Hound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers."},{"word":"Hound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds."},{"word":"Houndfish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish."},{"word":"Hounding","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of one who hounds."},{"word":"Hounding","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck."},{"word":"Hound's-tongue","type":"(n.)","description":"A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue."},{"word":"Houp","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hoopoe."},{"word":"Hour","type":"(n.)","description":"The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes."},{"word":"Hour","type":"(n.)","description":"The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?"},{"word":"Hour","type":"(n.)","description":"Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour."},{"word":"Hour","type":"(n.)","description":"Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers."},{"word":"Hour","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of distance traveled."},{"word":"Hourglass","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower."},{"word":"Houris","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Houri"},{"word":"Houri","type":"(n.)","description":"A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans."},{"word":"Hourly","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual."},{"word":"Hourly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Every hour; frequently; continually."},{"word":"Hours","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day."},{"word":"Housage","type":"(n.)","description":"A fee for keeping goods in a house."},{"word":"Houses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of House"},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"Those who dwell in the same house; a household."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"A firm, or commercial establishment."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"A public house; an inn; a hotel."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"The body, as the habitation of the soul."},{"word":"House","type":"(n.)","description":"The grave."},{"word":"Housed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of House"},{"word":"Housing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of House"},{"word":"House","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle."},{"word":"House","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive to a shelter."},{"word":"House","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To admit to residence; to harbor."},{"word":"House","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit and cover, as in the grave."},{"word":"House","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars."},{"word":"House","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge."},{"word":"House","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8."},{"word":"Housebote","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote."},{"word":"Housebreaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking."},{"word":"Housebreaking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break."},{"word":"Housebuilder","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose business is to build houses; a housewright."},{"word":"Housecarl","type":"(n.)","description":"A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute."},{"word":"Household","type":"(n.)","description":"Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family."},{"word":"Household","type":"(n.)","description":"A line of ancestory; a race or house."},{"word":"Household","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs."},{"word":"Householder","type":"(n.)","description":"The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family."},{"word":"Housekeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family."},{"word":"Housekeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs."},{"word":"Housekeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household."},{"word":"Housekeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps or stays much at home."},{"word":"Housekeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A house dog."},{"word":"Housekeeping","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder."},{"word":"Housekeeping","type":"(n.)","description":"Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs."},{"word":"Housekeeping","type":"(n.)","description":"Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions."},{"word":"Housekeeping","type":"(a.)","description":"Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities."},{"word":"Housel","type":"(n.)","description":"The eucharist."},{"word":"Housel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To administer the eucharist to."},{"word":"Houseleek","type":"(n.)","description":"A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen."},{"word":"Houseless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer."},{"word":"Houselessness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being houseless."},{"word":"Houseline","type":"(n.)","description":"A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing."},{"word":"Houseling","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Housling."},{"word":"Housemaid","type":"(n.)","description":"A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms."},{"word":"Housemate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dwells in the same house with another."},{"word":"Houseroom","type":"(n.)","description":"Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom."},{"word":"Housewarming","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises."},{"word":"Housewife","type":"(n.)","description":"The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household."},{"word":"Housewife","type":"(n.)","description":"A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy."},{"word":"Housewife","type":"(n.)","description":"A hussy."},{"word":"Housewife","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Housewive"},{"word":"Housewive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize."},{"word":"Housewifely","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent."},{"word":"Housewifery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns."},{"word":"Housework","type":"(n.)","description":"The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like."},{"word":"Housewright","type":"(n.)","description":"A builder of houses."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"A niche for a statue."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"A houseline. See Houseline."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings."},{"word":"Housing","type":"(n.)","description":"An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness."},{"word":"Housling","type":"(a.)","description":"Sacramental; as, housling fire."},{"word":"Houss","type":"(n.)","description":"A saddlecloth; a housing."},{"word":"Houtou","type":"(n.)","description":"A beautiful South American motmot."},{"word":"Houve","type":"(n.)","description":"A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap."},{"word":"Houyhnhnm","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men."},{"word":"Hove","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Heave."},{"word":"Hove","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell."},{"word":"Hove","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hover around; to loiter; to lurk."},{"word":"Hovel","type":"(n.)","description":"An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather."},{"word":"Hovel","type":"(n.)","description":"A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut."},{"word":"Hovel","type":"(n.)","description":"A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped."},{"word":"Hoveled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hovel"},{"word":"Hovelled","type":"()","description":"of Hovel"},{"word":"Hoveling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hovel"},{"word":"Hovelling","type":"()","description":"of Hovel"},{"word":"Hovel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a hovel; to shelter."},{"word":"Hoveler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman."},{"word":"Hoveling","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two."},{"word":"Hoven","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Heave."},{"word":"Hoven","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle."},{"word":"Hover","type":"(n.)","description":"A cover; a shelter; a protection."},{"word":"Hovered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hover"},{"word":"Hovering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hover"},{"word":"Hover","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something."},{"word":"Hover","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely."},{"word":"Hoverer","type":"(n.)","description":"A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm."},{"word":"Hover-hawk","type":"(n.)","description":"The kestrel."},{"word":"Hoveringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hovering manner."},{"word":"How","type":"(adv.)","description":"In what manner or way; by what means or process."},{"word":"How","type":"(adv.)","description":"To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality."},{"word":"How","type":"(adv.)","description":"For what reason; from what cause."},{"word":"How","type":"(adv.)","description":"In what state, condition, or plight."},{"word":"How","type":"(adv.)","description":"By what name, designation, or title."},{"word":"How","type":"(adv.)","description":"At what price; how dear."},{"word":"Howadji","type":"(n.)","description":"A traveler."},{"word":"Howadji","type":"(n.)","description":"A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers."},{"word":"Howbeit","type":"(conj.)","description":"Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however."},{"word":"Howdah","type":"(n.)","description":"A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders."},{"word":"Howdy","type":"(n.)","description":"A midwife."},{"word":"Howel","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks."},{"word":"Howel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask."},{"word":"Howell","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper stage of a porcelian furnace."},{"word":"However","type":"(adv.)","description":"In whetever manner, way, or degree."},{"word":"However","type":"(adv.)","description":"At all events; at least; in any case."},{"word":"However","type":"(conj.)","description":"Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I shall not oppose your design; I can not, however, approve of it."},{"word":"Howitz","type":"(n.)","description":"A howitzer."},{"word":"Howitzer","type":"(n.)","description":"A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar."},{"word":"Howitzer","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges."},{"word":"Howker","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hooker."},{"word":"Howled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Howl"},{"word":"Howling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Howl"},{"word":"Howl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do."},{"word":"Howl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail."},{"word":"Howl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast."},{"word":"Howl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter with outcry."},{"word":"Howl","type":"(n.)","description":"The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound."},{"word":"Howl","type":"(n.)","description":"A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail."},{"word":"Howler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who howls."},{"word":"Howler","type":"(n.)","description":"Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night."},{"word":"Howlet","type":"(n.)","description":"An owl; an owlet."},{"word":"Howp","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cry out; to whoop."},{"word":"Howso","type":"(adv.)","description":"Howsoever."},{"word":"Howsoever","type":"(adj. & conj.)","description":"In what manner soever; to whatever degree or extent; however."},{"word":"Howsoever","type":"(adj. & conj.)","description":"Although; though; however."},{"word":"Howve","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood. See Houve."},{"word":"Hox","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hock; to hamstring. See Hock."},{"word":"Hoy","type":"(n.)","description":"A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port."},{"word":"Hoy","type":"(interj.)","description":"Ho! Halloe! Stop!"},{"word":"Hoyden","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hoiden."},{"word":"Hoymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hoyman"},{"word":"Hoyman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who navigates a hoy."},{"word":"Huanaco","type":"(n.)","description":"See Guanaco."},{"word":"Hub","type":"(n.)","description":"The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box."},{"word":"Hub","type":"(n.)","description":"The hilt of a weapon."},{"word":"Hub","type":"(n.)","description":"A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby."},{"word":"Hub","type":"(n.)","description":"A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast."},{"word":"Hub","type":"(n.)","description":"A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc."},{"word":"Hub","type":"(n.)","description":"A screw hob. See Hob, 3."},{"word":"Hub","type":"(n.)","description":"A block for scotching a wheel."},{"word":"Hubble-bubble","type":"(n.)","description":"A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell."},{"word":"Hubbub","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar."},{"word":"Hubby","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby."},{"word":"Hubner","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate."},{"word":"Huch","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Huchen"},{"word":"Huchen","type":"(n.)","description":"A large salmon (Salmo, / Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout."},{"word":"Huck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To higgle in trading."},{"word":"Huckaback","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings."},{"word":"Huckle","type":"(n.)","description":"The hip; the haunch."},{"word":"Huckle","type":"(n.)","description":"A bunch or part projecting like the hip."},{"word":"Huckle-backed","type":"(a.)","description":"Round-shoulded."},{"word":"Huckleberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa."},{"word":"Huckleberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry."},{"word":"Huckster","type":"(n.)","description":"A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker."},{"word":"Huckster","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean, trickish fellow."},{"word":"Huckstered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Huckster"},{"word":"Huckstering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Huckster"},{"word":"Huckster","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains."},{"word":"Hucksterage","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling."},{"word":"Hucksterer","type":"(n.)","description":"A huckster."},{"word":"Huckstress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female huckster."},{"word":"Hud","type":"(n.)","description":"A huck or hull, as of a nut."},{"word":"Huddled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Huddle"},{"word":"Huddling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Huddle"},{"word":"Huddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd."},{"word":"Huddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system."},{"word":"Huddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together."},{"word":"Huddle","type":"(n.)","description":"A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion."},{"word":"Huddler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who huddles things together."},{"word":"Hudge","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore."},{"word":"Hudibrastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Similar to, or in the style of, the poem \"Hudibras,\" by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse."},{"word":"Hudsonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew."},{"word":"Hue","type":"(n.)","description":"Color or shade of color; tint; dye."},{"word":"Hue","type":"(n.)","description":"A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others."},{"word":"Hue","type":"(n.)","description":"A shouting or vociferation."},{"word":"Hued","type":"(a.)","description":"Having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many-hued."},{"word":"Hueless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of color."},{"word":"Huer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker."},{"word":"Huffed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Huff"},{"word":"Huffing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Huff"},{"word":"Huff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air."},{"word":"Huff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully."},{"word":"Huff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3."},{"word":"Huff","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs."},{"word":"Huff","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense."},{"word":"Huff","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece."},{"word":"Huff","type":"(n.)","description":"A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage."},{"word":"Huff","type":"(n.)","description":"A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance."},{"word":"Huffcap","type":"(n.)","description":"A blusterer; a bully."},{"word":"Huffcap","type":"(a.)","description":"Blustering; swaggering."},{"word":"Huffer","type":"(n.)","description":"A bully; a blusterer."},{"word":"Huffiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper."},{"word":"Huffingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Blusteringly; arrogantly."},{"word":"Huffish","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant."},{"word":"Huffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Puffed up; as, huffy bread."},{"word":"Huffy","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended."},{"word":"Hugged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hug"},{"word":"Hugging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hug"},{"word":"Hug","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cower; to crouch; to curl up."},{"word":"Hug","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crowd together; to cuddle."},{"word":"Hug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace."},{"word":"Hug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish."},{"word":"Hug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind."},{"word":"Hug","type":"(n.)","description":"A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling."},{"word":"Huge","type":"(superl.)","description":"Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference."},{"word":"Hugger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hugs or embraces."},{"word":"Hugger","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To conceal; to lurk ambush."},{"word":"Hugger-mugger","type":"(n.)","description":"Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy."},{"word":"Hugger-mugger","type":"(a.)","description":"Secret; clandestine; sly."},{"word":"Hugger-mugger","type":"(a.)","description":"Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings."},{"word":"Huggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hug."},{"word":"Huguenot","type":"(n.)","description":"A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century."},{"word":"Huguenotism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religion of the Huguenots in France."},{"word":"Hugy","type":"(a.)","description":"Vast."},{"word":"Huia","type":"()","description":"A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved."},{"word":"Huisher","type":"(n.)","description":"See Usher."},{"word":"Huisher","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To usher."},{"word":"Huke","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages."},{"word":"Hulan","type":"(n.)","description":"See Uhlan."},{"word":"Hulch","type":"(n.)","description":"A hunch."},{"word":"Hulchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Swollen; gibbous."},{"word":"Hulk","type":"(n.)","description":"The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service."},{"word":"Hulk","type":"(n.)","description":"A heavy ship of clumsy build."},{"word":"Hulk","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything bulky or unwieldly."},{"word":"Hulk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare."},{"word":"Hulking","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hulky"},{"word":"Hulky","type":"(a.)","description":"Bulky; unwiedly."},{"word":"Hull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk."},{"word":"Hull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging."},{"word":"Hulled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hull"},{"word":"Hulling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hull"},{"word":"Hull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn."},{"word":"Hull","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball."},{"word":"Hull","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails."},{"word":"Hullabaloo","type":"(n.)","description":"A confused noise; uproar; tumult."},{"word":"Hulled","type":"(a.)","description":"Deprived of the hulls."},{"word":"Huller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine."},{"word":"Hullo","type":"(interj.)","description":"See Hollo."},{"word":"Hully","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or containing hulls."},{"word":"Huloist","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hyloist."},{"word":"Hulotheism","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hylotheism."},{"word":"Hulver","type":"(n.)","description":"Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree."},{"word":"Hummed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hum"},{"word":"Humming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hum"},{"word":"Hum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To express satisfaction by a humming noise."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To express satisfaction with by humming."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(n.)","description":"A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(n.)","description":"Any inarticulate and buzzing sound"},{"word":"Hum","type":"(n.)","description":"The confused noise of a crowd or of machinery, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(n.)","description":"A buzz or murmur, as of approbation."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(n.)","description":"An imposition or hoax."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(interj.)","description":"An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(interj.)","description":"A kind of strong drink formerly used."},{"word":"Hum","type":"(interj.)","description":"Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation."},{"word":"Human","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices."},{"word":"Human","type":"(n.)","description":"A human being."},{"word":"Humanate","type":"(a.)","description":"Indued with humanity."},{"word":"Humane","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to man; human."},{"word":"Humane","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent."},{"word":"Humane","type":"(a.)","description":"Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine."},{"word":"Humanics","type":"(n.)","description":"The study of human nature."},{"word":"Humanify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate."},{"word":"Humanism","type":"(n.)","description":"Human nature or disposition; humanity."},{"word":"Humanism","type":"(n.)","description":"The study of the humanities; polite learning."},{"word":"Humanist","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title."},{"word":"Humanist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who purposes the study of the humanities, or polite literature."},{"word":"Humanist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in knowledge of human nature."},{"word":"Humanistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion."},{"word":"Humanistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to polite kiterature."},{"word":"Humanitarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature."},{"word":"Humanitarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid."},{"word":"Humanitarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Benevolent; philanthropic."},{"word":"Humanitarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human."},{"word":"Humanitarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual."},{"word":"Humanitarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist."},{"word":"Humanitarianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ."},{"word":"Humanitarianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations."},{"word":"Humanitian","type":"(n.)","description":"A humanist."},{"word":"Humanities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Humanity"},{"word":"Humanity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings."},{"word":"Humanity","type":"(n.)","description":"Mankind collectively; the human race."},{"word":"Humanity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness."},{"word":"Humanity","type":"(n.)","description":"Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature."},{"word":"Humanity","type":"(n.)","description":"The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters."},{"word":"Humanization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of humanizing."},{"word":"Humanized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Humanize"},{"word":"Humanizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Humanize"},{"word":"Humanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize."},{"word":"Humanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a human character or expression to."},{"word":"Humanize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph."},{"word":"Humanize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated."},{"word":"Humanizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who renders humane."},{"word":"Humankind","type":"(n.)","description":"Mankind."},{"word":"Humanly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue."},{"word":"Humanly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Kindly; humanely."},{"word":"Humanness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being human."},{"word":"Humate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of humic acid."},{"word":"Humation","type":"(n.)","description":"Interment; inhumation."},{"word":"Humbird","type":"(n.)","description":"Humming bird."},{"word":"Humble","type":"(superl.)","description":"Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage."},{"word":"Humble","type":"(superl.)","description":"Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest."},{"word":"Humble","type":"(a.)","description":"Hornless. See Hummel."},{"word":"Humbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Humble"},{"word":"Humbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Humble"},{"word":"Humble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate."},{"word":"Humble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively."},{"word":"Humblebee","type":"(n.)","description":"The bumblebee."},{"word":"Humblehead","type":"(n.)","description":"Humble condition or estate; humility."},{"word":"Humbleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being humble; humility; meekness."},{"word":"Humbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, humbles some one."},{"word":"Humbles","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Entrails of a deer."},{"word":"Humblesse","type":"(n.)","description":"Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance."},{"word":"Humbly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With humility; lowly."},{"word":"Humbug","type":"(n.)","description":"An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax."},{"word":"Humbug","type":"(n.)","description":"A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness."},{"word":"Humbug","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor."},{"word":"Humbugged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Humbug"},{"word":"Humbugging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Humbug"},{"word":"Humbug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax."},{"word":"Humbugger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who humbugs."},{"word":"Humbuggery","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of imposition."},{"word":"Humdrum","type":"(a.)","description":"Monotonous; dull; commonplace."},{"word":"Humdrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A dull fellow; a bore."},{"word":"Humdrum","type":"(n.)","description":"Monotonous and tedious routine."},{"word":"Humdrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse."},{"word":"Humect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Humectate"},{"word":"Humectate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To moisten; to wet."},{"word":"Humectant","type":"(a.)","description":"Diluent."},{"word":"Humectant","type":"(n.)","description":"A diluent drink or medicine."},{"word":"Humectation","type":"(n.)","description":"A moistening."},{"word":"Humective","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to moisten."},{"word":"Humeral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial."},{"word":"Humeri","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Humerus"},{"word":"Humerus","type":"(n.)","description":"The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb."},{"word":"Humerus","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium."},{"word":"Humic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin."},{"word":"Humicubation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of lying on the ground."},{"word":"Humid","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor."},{"word":"Humidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing."},{"word":"Humidness","type":"(n.)","description":"Humidity."},{"word":"Humifuse","type":"(a.)","description":"Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent."},{"word":"Humiliant","type":"(a.)","description":"Humiliating; humbling."},{"word":"Humiliated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Humiliate"},{"word":"Humiliating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Humiliate"},{"word":"Humiliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify."},{"word":"Humiliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification."},{"word":"Humiliation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission."},{"word":"Humilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Humility"},{"word":"Humility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness."},{"word":"Humility","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of submission or courtesy."},{"word":"Humin","type":"(n.)","description":"A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc."},{"word":"Humiri","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus Humirium."},{"word":"Humite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine."},{"word":"Hummel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate from the awns; -- said of barley."},{"word":"Hummel","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow."},{"word":"Hummeler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or a machine which, hummels."},{"word":"Hummer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming."},{"word":"Hummer","type":"(n.)","description":"A humming bird."},{"word":"Humming","type":"(a.)","description":"Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing."},{"word":"Humming","type":"(n.)","description":"A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum."},{"word":"Hummock","type":"(n.)","description":"A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface."},{"word":"Hummock","type":"(n.)","description":"A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field."},{"word":"Hummock","type":"(n.)","description":"Timbered land. See Hammock."},{"word":"Hummocking","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice."},{"word":"Hummocky","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in hummocks."},{"word":"Hummum","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweating bath or place for sweating."},{"word":"Humor","type":"(n.)","description":"Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc."},{"word":"Humor","type":"(n.)","description":"A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin."},{"word":"Humor","type":"(n.)","description":"State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor."},{"word":"Humor","type":"(n.)","description":"Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims."},{"word":"Humor","type":"(n.)","description":"That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness."},{"word":"Humored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Humor"},{"word":"Humoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Humor"},{"word":"Humor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind."},{"word":"Humor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please."},{"word":"Humoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever."},{"word":"Humoralism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being humoral."},{"word":"Humoralism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism."},{"word":"Humoralist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism."},{"word":"Humorism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism."},{"word":"Humorism","type":"(n.)","description":"The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness."},{"word":"Humorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors."},{"word":"Humorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways."},{"word":"Humorist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll."},{"word":"Humoristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist."},{"word":"Humorize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To humor."},{"word":"Humorless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of humor."},{"word":"Humorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Moist; humid; watery."},{"word":"Humorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical."},{"word":"Humorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect."},{"word":"Humorously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Capriciously; whimsically."},{"word":"Humorously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Facetiously; wittily."},{"word":"Humorousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Moodiness; capriciousness."},{"word":"Humorousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Facetiousness; jocularity."},{"word":"Humorsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Moody; whimsical; capricious."},{"word":"Humorsome","type":"(a.)","description":"Jocose; witty; humorous."},{"word":"Humorsomely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Pleasantly; humorously."},{"word":"Humorsomeness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being humorsome."},{"word":"Hump","type":"(n.)","description":"A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back."},{"word":"Hump","type":"(n.)","description":"A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale."},{"word":"Humpback","type":"(n.)","description":"A crooked back; a humped back."},{"word":"Humpback","type":"(n.)","description":"A humpbacked person; a hunchback."},{"word":"Humpback","type":"(n.)","description":"Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and M. osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is M. versabilis."},{"word":"Humpback","type":"(n.)","description":"A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America."},{"word":"Humpbacked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a humped back."},{"word":"Humped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a hump, as the back."},{"word":"Humph","type":"(interj.)","description":"An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc."},{"word":"Humpless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a hump."},{"word":"Hump-shouldered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having high, hunched shoulders."},{"word":"Humpy","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped."},{"word":"Humstrum","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played."},{"word":"Humulin","type":"(n.)","description":"An extract of hops."},{"word":"Humus","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils."},{"word":"Hun","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe."},{"word":"Hunch","type":"(n.)","description":"A hump; a protuberance."},{"word":"Hunch","type":"(n.)","description":"A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread."},{"word":"Hunch","type":"(n.)","description":"A push or thrust, as with the elbow."},{"word":"Hunched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hunch"},{"word":"Hunching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hunch"},{"word":"Hunch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly."},{"word":"Hunch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back."},{"word":"Hunchback","type":"(n.)","description":"A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person."},{"word":"Hunchbacked","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a humped back."},{"word":"Hundred","type":"(n.)","description":"The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C."},{"word":"Hundred","type":"(n.)","description":"A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen."},{"word":"Hundred","type":"(a.)","description":"Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars."},{"word":"Hundreder","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred."},{"word":"Hundreder","type":"(n.)","description":"A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs."},{"word":"Hundreder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred."},{"word":"Hundredfold","type":"(n.)","description":"A hundred times as much or as many."},{"word":"Hundredth","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units."},{"word":"Hundredth","type":"(a.)","description":"Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth."},{"word":"Hundredth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred."},{"word":"Hundredweight","type":"(n.)","description":"A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton."},{"word":"Hung","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Hang."},{"word":"Hungarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary."},{"word":"Hungarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or one of the people of Hungary."},{"word":"Hungary","type":"(n.)","description":"A country in Central Europe, now a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire."},{"word":"Hunger","type":"(n.)","description":"An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food."},{"word":"Hunger","type":"(n.)","description":"Any strong eager desire."},{"word":"Hungered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hunger"},{"word":"Hungering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hunger"},{"word":"Hunger","type":"(n.)","description":"To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger."},{"word":"Hunger","type":"(n.)","description":"To have an eager desire; to long."},{"word":"Hunger","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hungry; to famish."},{"word":"Hunger-bit","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hunger-bitten"},{"word":"Hunger-bitten","type":"(a.)","description":"Pinched or weakened by hunger."},{"word":"Hungered","type":"(a.)","description":"Hungry; pinched for food."},{"word":"Hungerer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hungers; one who longs."},{"word":"Hungerly","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting food; starved."},{"word":"Hungerly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With keen appetite."},{"word":"Hunger-starve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To starve with hunger; to famish."},{"word":"Hungred","type":"(a.)","description":"Hungered; hungry."},{"word":"Hungrily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hungry manner; voraciously."},{"word":"Hungry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire."},{"word":"Hungry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious."},{"word":"Hungry","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil."},{"word":"Hunk","type":"(n.)","description":"A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread."},{"word":"Hunker","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy."},{"word":"Hunkerism","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress."},{"word":"Hunks","type":"(n.)","description":"A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard."},{"word":"Hunted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hunt"},{"word":"Hunting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hunt"},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use or manage in the chase, as hounds."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(n.)","description":"The game secured in the hunt."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A pack of hounds."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(n.)","description":"An association of huntsmen."},{"word":"Hunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A district of country hunted over."},{"word":"Hunt-counter","type":"(n.)","description":"A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer."},{"word":"Hunte","type":"(n.)","description":"A hunter."},{"word":"Hunter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman."},{"word":"Hunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog."},{"word":"Hunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting."},{"word":"Hunter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter."},{"word":"Hunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting."},{"word":"Hunter","type":"(n.)","description":"A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover."},{"word":"Hunterian","type":"(a.)","description":"Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre."},{"word":"Hunting","type":"(n.)","description":"The pursuit of game or of wild animals."},{"word":"Huntress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana."},{"word":"Huntsmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Huntsman"},{"word":"Huntsman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hunts, or who practices hunting."},{"word":"Huntsman","type":"(n.)","description":"The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds."},{"word":"Huntsmanship","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter."},{"word":"Hunt's-up","type":"(n.)","description":"A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call."},{"word":"Hurden","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden."},{"word":"Hurdle","type":"(n.)","description":"A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes."},{"word":"Hurdle","type":"(n.)","description":"In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution."},{"word":"Hurdle","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race."},{"word":"Hurdleed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hurdle"},{"word":"Hurdleing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hurdle"},{"word":"Hurdle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles."},{"word":"Hurdlework","type":"(n.)","description":"Work after manner of a hurdle."},{"word":"Hurds","type":"(n.)","description":"The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards."},{"word":"Hurdy-gurdy","type":"(n.)","description":"A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys."},{"word":"Hurdy-gurdy","type":"(n.)","description":"In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet."},{"word":"Hurkaru","type":"(n.)","description":"In India, a running footman; a messenger."},{"word":"Hurled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hurl"},{"word":"Hurling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hurl"},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance."},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective."},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twist or turn."},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hurl one's self; to go quickly."},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another)."},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the game of hurling. See Hurling."},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling."},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(n.)","description":"Tumult; riot; hurly-burly."},{"word":"Hurl","type":"(n.)","description":"A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring."},{"word":"Hurlbat","type":"(n.)","description":"See Whirlbat."},{"word":"Hurlbone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Whirlbone."},{"word":"Hurlbone","type":"(n.)","description":"A bone near the middle of the buttock of a horse."},{"word":"Hurler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hurls, or plays at hurling."},{"word":"Hurling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of throwing with force."},{"word":"Hurling","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of game at ball, formerly played."},{"word":"Hurlwind","type":"(n.)","description":"A whirlwind."},{"word":"Hurly","type":"(n.)","description":"Noise; confusion; uproar."},{"word":"Hurly-burly","type":"(n.)","description":"Tumult; bustle; confusion."},{"word":"Huronian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to certain non-fossiliferous rocks on the borders of Lake Huron, which are supposed to correspond in time to the latter part of the Archaean age."},{"word":"Huron-Iroquous","type":"(n.)","description":"A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York."},{"word":"Hurons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"; sing. Huron. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650."},{"word":"Hurr","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a rolling or burring sound."},{"word":"Hurrah","type":"(interj.)","description":"Alt. of Hurra"},{"word":"Hurra","type":"(interj.)","description":"A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome."},{"word":"Hurrah","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheer; a shout of joy, etc."},{"word":"Hurrah","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter hurrahs; to huzza."},{"word":"Hurrah","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs."},{"word":"Hurricane","type":"(n.)","description":"A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively."},{"word":"Hurricanoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hurricano"},{"word":"Hurricano","type":"(n.)","description":"A waterspout; a hurricane."},{"word":"Hurried","type":"(a.)","description":"Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life."},{"word":"Hurried","type":"(a.)","description":"Done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless; as, a hurried job."},{"word":"Hurrier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hurries or urges."},{"word":"Hurries","type":"(n.)","description":"A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels."},{"word":"Hurried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hurry"},{"word":"Hurrying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hurry"},{"word":"Hurry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on."},{"word":"Hurry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity."},{"word":"Hurry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to be done quickly."},{"word":"Hurry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry."},{"word":"Hurry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion."},{"word":"Hurryingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hurrying manner."},{"word":"Hurry-skurry","type":"(adv.)","description":"Confusedly; in a bustle."},{"word":"Hurst","type":"(n.)","description":"A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst."},{"word":"Hurt","type":"(n.)","description":"A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions."},{"word":"Hurt","type":"(n.)","description":"A husk. See Husk, 2."},{"word":"Hurt","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hurt"},{"word":"Hurting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hurt"},{"word":"Hurt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully."},{"word":"Hurt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm."},{"word":"Hurt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve."},{"word":"Hurter","type":"(n.)","description":"A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like."},{"word":"Hurter","type":"(n.)","description":"An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin."},{"word":"Hurter","type":"(n.)","description":"Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief."},{"word":"Hurter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hurts or does harm."},{"word":"Hurter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet."},{"word":"Hurtful","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct."},{"word":"Hurtled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hurtle"},{"word":"Hurtling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hurtle"},{"word":"Hurtle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle."},{"word":"Hurtle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish."},{"word":"Hurtle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound."},{"word":"Hurtle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish."},{"word":"Hurtle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To push; to jostle; to hurl."},{"word":"Hurtleberry","type":"(n.)","description":"See Whortleberry."},{"word":"Hurtless","type":"(a.)","description":"Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm."},{"word":"Husband","type":"(n.)","description":"The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family."},{"word":"Husband","type":"(n.)","description":"A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman."},{"word":"Husband","type":"(n.)","description":"One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist."},{"word":"Husband","type":"(n.)","description":"A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife."},{"word":"Husband","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of a pair of animals."},{"word":"Husbanded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Husband"},{"word":"Husbanding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Husband"},{"word":"Husband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy."},{"word":"Husband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cultivate, as land; to till."},{"word":"Husband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with a husband."},{"word":"Husbandable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy."},{"word":"Husbandage","type":"(n.)","description":"The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband."},{"word":"Husbandless","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a husband."},{"word":"Husbandly","type":"(a.)","description":"Frugal; thrifty."},{"word":"Husbandmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Husbandman"},{"word":"Husbandman","type":"(n.)","description":"The master of a family."},{"word":"Husbandman","type":"(n.)","description":"A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground."},{"word":"Husbandry","type":"(n.)","description":"Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift."},{"word":"Husbandry","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming."},{"word":"Hushed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hush"},{"word":"Hushing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hush"},{"word":"Hush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of."},{"word":"Hush","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe."},{"word":"Hush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise."},{"word":"Hush","type":"(n.)","description":"Stillness; silence; quiet."},{"word":"Hush","type":"(a.)","description":"Silent; quiet."},{"word":"Husher","type":"(n.)","description":"An usher."},{"word":"Hushing","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming."},{"word":"Husk","type":"(n.)","description":"The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize."},{"word":"Husk","type":"(n.)","description":"The supporting frame of a run of millstones."},{"word":"Husked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Husk"},{"word":"Husking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Husk"},{"word":"Husk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn."},{"word":"Husked","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with a husk."},{"word":"Husked","type":"(a.)","description":"Stripped of husks; deprived of husks."},{"word":"Huskily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a husky manner; dryly."},{"word":"Huskiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being husky."},{"word":"Huskiness","type":"(n.)","description":"Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice."},{"word":"Husking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn."},{"word":"Husking","type":"(n.)","description":"A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also"},{"word":"Husky","type":"(n.)","description":"Abounding with husks; consisting of husks."},{"word":"Husky","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice."},{"word":"Huso","type":"(n.)","description":"A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen."},{"word":"Huso","type":"(n.)","description":"The huchen, a large salmon."},{"word":"Hussar","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, one of the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of European armies."},{"word":"Hussite","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415."},{"word":"Hussy","type":"(n.)","description":"A housewife or housekeeper."},{"word":"Hussy","type":"(n.)","description":"A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach."},{"word":"Hussy","type":"(n.)","description":"A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely."},{"word":"Hussy","type":"(n.)","description":"A case or bag. See Housewife, 2."},{"word":"Hustings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant."},{"word":"Hustings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament."},{"word":"Hustings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors."},{"word":"Hustled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hustle"},{"word":"Hustling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hustle"},{"word":"Hustle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room."},{"word":"Hustle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry."},{"word":"Huswife","type":"(n.)","description":"A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman."},{"word":"Huswife","type":"(n.)","description":"A worthless woman; a hussy."},{"word":"Huswife","type":"(n.)","description":"A case for sewing materials. See Housewife."},{"word":"Huswife","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manage with frugality; -- said of a woman."},{"word":"Huswifely","type":"(a.)","description":"Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent."},{"word":"Huswifely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a huswifely manner."},{"word":"Huswifery","type":"(n.)","description":"The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill."},{"word":"Hut","type":"(n.)","description":"A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure."},{"word":"Hutted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hutch"},{"word":"Hutting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hutch"},{"word":"Hutch","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters."},{"word":"Hutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch."},{"word":"Hutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of two Winchester bushels."},{"word":"Hutch","type":"(n.)","description":"The case of a flour bolt."},{"word":"Hutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit."},{"word":"Hutch","type":"(n.)","description":"A jig for washing ore."},{"word":"Hutched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hutch"},{"word":"Hutching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hutch"},{"word":"Hutch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hoard or lay up, in a chest."},{"word":"Hutch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wash (ore) in a box or jig."},{"word":"Hutchunsonian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology."},{"word":"Huttonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton."},{"word":"Huxter","type":"(n. & v. i.)","description":"See Huckster."},{"word":"Huyghenian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope."},{"word":"Huzz","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To buzz; to murmur."},{"word":"Huzza","type":"(interj.)","description":"A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement."},{"word":"Huzza","type":"(n.)","description":"A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah."},{"word":"Huzzaed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Huzza"},{"word":"Huzzaing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Huzza"},{"word":"Huzza","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shout huzza; to cheer."},{"word":"Huzza","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive or attend with huzzas."},{"word":"Hy","type":"(a.)","description":"High."},{"word":"Hyacine","type":"(n.)","description":"A hyacinth."},{"word":"Hyacinth","type":"(n.)","description":"A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety."},{"word":"Hyacinth","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth."},{"word":"Hyacinth","type":"(n.)","description":"The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru."},{"word":"Hyacinth","type":"(n.)","description":"A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon."},{"word":"Hyacinthian","type":"(a.)","description":"Hyacinthine."},{"word":"Hyacinthine","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth."},{"word":"Hyades","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"Alt. of Hyads"},{"word":"Hyads","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun."},{"word":"Hyaena","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hyena."},{"word":"Hyalea","type":"(n.)","description":"A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Hyalescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass."},{"word":"Hyaline","type":"(a.)","description":"Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal."},{"word":"Hyaline","type":"(n.)","description":"A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere."},{"word":"Hyaline","type":"(n.)","description":"The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates."},{"word":"Hyaline","type":"(n.)","description":"The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation."},{"word":"Hyalite","type":"(n.)","description":"A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Muller's glass."},{"word":"Hyalograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for tracing designs on glass."},{"word":"Hyalography","type":"(n.)","description":"Art of writing or engraving on glass."},{"word":"Hyaloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye."},{"word":"Hyalonema","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope."},{"word":"Hyalophane","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar."},{"word":"Hyalospongia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinae."},{"word":"Hyalotype","type":"(n.)","description":"A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency."},{"word":"Hybernacle","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hybernation"},{"word":"Hybernate","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hybernation"},{"word":"Hybernation","type":"()","description":"See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation."},{"word":"Hyblaean","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees."},{"word":"Hybodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones."},{"word":"Hybodus","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth."},{"word":"Hybrid","type":"(n.)","description":"The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel."},{"word":"Hybrid","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature."},{"word":"Hybridism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being hybrid."},{"word":"Hybridist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hybridizes."},{"word":"Hybridity","type":"(n.)","description":"Hybridism."},{"word":"Hybridizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock."},{"word":"Hybridization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized."},{"word":"Hybridized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hybridize"},{"word":"Hybridizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hybridize"},{"word":"Hybridize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks."},{"word":"Hybridizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hybridizes."},{"word":"Hybridous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hybrid."},{"word":"Hydage","type":"(n.)","description":"A land tax. See Hidage."},{"word":"Hydantoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See Glycoluric."},{"word":"Hydantoin","type":"(n.)","description":"A derivative of urea, C3H4N2O2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; -- called also glycolyl urea."},{"word":"Hydatid","type":"(n.)","description":"A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the Vocabulary."},{"word":"Hydatiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a hydatid."},{"word":"Hydatoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid."},{"word":"Hydr-","type":"()","description":"See under Hydro-."},{"word":"Hydras","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydra"},{"word":"Hydrae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydra"},{"word":"Hydra","type":"(n.)","description":"A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster."},{"word":"Hydra","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort."},{"word":"Hydra","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker."},{"word":"Hydra","type":"(n.)","description":"A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo."},{"word":"Hydrachnid","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels."},{"word":"Hydracid","type":"(n.)","description":"An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. See Acid."},{"word":"Hydracrylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lastic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water."},{"word":"Hydractinian","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata."},{"word":"Hydraemia","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormally watery state of the blood; anaemia."},{"word":"Hydragogue","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy."},{"word":"Hydragogue","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic."},{"word":"Hydramide","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes."},{"word":"Hydramine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines."},{"word":"Hydrangea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan."},{"word":"Hydrant","type":"(n.)","description":"A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug."},{"word":"Hydranth","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea."},{"word":"Hydrargochloride","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride."},{"word":"Hydrargyrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury."},{"word":"Hydrargyrism","type":"(n.)","description":"A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism."},{"word":"Hydrargyrum","type":"(n.)","description":"Quicksilver; mercury."},{"word":"Hydrarthrosis","type":"(n.)","description":"An effusion of watery liquid into the cavity of a joint."},{"word":"Hydrastine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge."},{"word":"Hydra-tainted","type":"(a.)","description":"Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly."},{"word":"Hydrate","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts."},{"word":"Hydrate","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents (hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxyl) so arranged that water may be eliminated; hence, a derivative of, or compound with, hydroxyl; hydroxide; as, ethyl hydrate, or common alcohol; calcium hydrate, or slaked lime."},{"word":"Hydrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hydrate"},{"word":"Hydrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hydrate"},{"word":"Hydrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a hydrate; to combine with water."},{"word":"Hydrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed into a hydrate; combined with water."},{"word":"Hydration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate."},{"word":"Hydraulic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock."},{"word":"Hydraulical","type":"(a.)","description":"Hydraulic."},{"word":"Hydraulicon","type":"(n.)","description":"An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ."},{"word":"Hydraulics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like."},{"word":"Hydrazine","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc."},{"word":"Hydrencephsloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hydrocephaloid."},{"word":"Hydria","type":"(n.)","description":"A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form."},{"word":"Hydriad","type":"(n.)","description":"A water nymph."},{"word":"Hydric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen; as, hydric oxide."},{"word":"Hydride","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element."},{"word":"Hydriform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or structure of a hydra."},{"word":"Hydrina","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong."},{"word":"Hydriodate","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hydriodide."},{"word":"Hydriodic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and iodine; -- said of an acid produced by the combination of these elements."},{"word":"Hydriodide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of hydriodic acid with a base; -- distinguished from an iodide, in which only the iodine combines with the base."},{"word":"Hydro-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Hydr-"},{"word":"Hydr-","type":"()","description":"A combining form from Gr. /, /, water (see Hydra)."},{"word":"Hydr-","type":"()","description":"A combining form of hydrogen, indicating hydrogen as an ingredient, as hydrochloric; or a reduction product obtained by hydrogen, as hydroquinone."},{"word":"Hydrobarometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by its pressure."},{"word":"Hydrobilirubin","type":"(n.)","description":"A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin."},{"word":"Hydrobranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera."},{"word":"Hydrobromate","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hydrobromide."},{"word":"Hydrobromic","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid."},{"word":"Hydrobromide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base."},{"word":"Hydrocarbon","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives."},{"word":"Hydrocarbonaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons."},{"word":"Hydrocarbonate","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrocarbon."},{"word":"Hydrocarbonate","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous carbonate, as malachite."},{"word":"Hydrocarbostyril","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril."},{"word":"Hydrocarburet","type":"(n.)","description":"Carbureted hydrogen; also, a hydrocarbon."},{"word":"Hydrocauli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrocaulus"},{"word":"Hydrocaulus","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea."},{"word":"Hydrocele","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle."},{"word":"Hydrocephalic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain."},{"word":"Hydrocephaloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling hydrocephalus."},{"word":"Hydrocephalous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having hydrocephalus."},{"word":"Hydrocephalus","type":"(n.)","description":"An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously."},{"word":"Hydrochlorate","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hydrochloride."},{"word":"Hydrochloric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric."},{"word":"Hydrochloride","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base."},{"word":"Hydrocorallia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora."},{"word":"Hydrocyanate","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hydrocyanide."},{"word":"Hydrocyanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from the combination of, hydrogen and cyanogen."},{"word":"Hydrocyanide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines."},{"word":"Hydrodynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hydrodynamical"},{"word":"Hydrodynamical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the dynamical action of water of a liquid; of or pertaining to water power."},{"word":"Hydrodynamics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids."},{"word":"Hydrodynamometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact."},{"word":"Hydro-electric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used."},{"word":"Hydro-extractor","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal."},{"word":"Hydroferricyanic","type":"(n.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferricyanic acid. See Ferricyanic."},{"word":"Hydroferrocyanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferrous iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferrocyanic acid. See Ferrocyanic."},{"word":"Hydrofluate","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed compound of hydrofluoris acid and a base; a fluoride."},{"word":"Hydrofluoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen and fluorine; fluohydric; as, hydrofluoric acid."},{"word":"Hydrofluosilicate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of hydrofluosilic acid; a silicofluoride. See Silicofluoride."},{"word":"Hydrofluosilicic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or denoting, a compound consisting of a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon; silicofluoric. See Silicofluoric."},{"word":"Hydrogalvanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids; as, hydrogalvanic currents."},{"word":"Hydrogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas. It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad. Symbol H. Atomic weight 1."},{"word":"Hydrogenated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hydrogenate"},{"word":"Hydrogenating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hydrogenate"},{"word":"Hydrogenate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hydrogenize."},{"word":"Hydrogenation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined."},{"word":"Hydrogenide","type":"(n.)","description":"A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. [R.] See Hydride."},{"word":"Hydrogenium","type":"(n.)","description":"Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature."},{"word":"Hydrogenized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hydrogenize"},{"word":"Hydrogenizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hydrogenize"},{"word":"Hydrogenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To combine with hydrogen; to treat with, or subject to the action of, hydrogen; to reduce; -- contrasted with oxidize."},{"word":"Hydrogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hydrogen; containing hydrogen."},{"word":"Hydrognosy","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth."},{"word":"Hydrogode","type":"(n.)","description":"The negative pole or cathode."},{"word":"Hydrographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters."},{"word":"Hydrographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hydrographical"},{"word":"Hydrographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to hydrography."},{"word":"Hydrography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena."},{"word":"Hydrography","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars."},{"word":"Hydroguret","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydride."},{"word":"Hydroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea."},{"word":"Hydroid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Hydroideas."},{"word":"Hydroidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acalephae."},{"word":"Hydrokinetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic."},{"word":"Hydrological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hydrology."},{"word":"Hydrologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in hydrology."},{"word":"Hydrology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface."},{"word":"Hydrolytic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water."},{"word":"Hydromagnesite","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, early, amorphous masses."},{"word":"Hydromancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients."},{"word":"Hydromantic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to divination by water."},{"word":"Hydromechanics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion."},{"word":"Hydromedusae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydromedusa"},{"word":"Hydromedusa","type":"(n.)","description":"Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusae."},{"word":"Hydromel","type":"(n.)","description":"A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead."},{"word":"Hydromellonic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cyamellone."},{"word":"Hydrometallurgical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores."},{"word":"Hydrometallurgy","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents."},{"word":"Hydrometeor","type":"(n.)","description":"A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc."},{"word":"Hydrometeorological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hydrometeorology, or to rain, clouds, storms, etc."},{"word":"Hydrometeorology","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc."},{"word":"Hydrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc."},{"word":"Hydrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge."},{"word":"Hydrometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hydrometrical"},{"word":"Hydrometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an hydrometer, or to the determination of the specific gravity of fluids."},{"word":"Hydrometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to measurement of the velocity, discharge, etc., of running water."},{"word":"Hydrometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Made by means of an hydrometer; as, hydrometric observations."},{"word":"Hydrometrograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time."},{"word":"Hydrometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc."},{"word":"Hydrometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or operation of measuring the velocity or discharge of running water, as in rivers, etc."},{"word":"Hydromica","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite."},{"word":"Hydronephrosis","type":"(n.)","description":"An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages."},{"word":"Hydropath","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydropathist."},{"word":"Hydropathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hydropathical"},{"word":"Hydropathical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hydropathy."},{"word":"Hydropathist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor."},{"word":"Hydropathy","type":"(n.)","description":"The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally."},{"word":"Hydroperitoneum","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ascites."},{"word":"Hydrophane","type":"(n.)","description":"A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water."},{"word":"Hydrophanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Made transparent by immersion in water."},{"word":"Hydrophid","type":"(n.)","description":"Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming."},{"word":"Hydrophlorone","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline benzene derivative, C8H10O2, obtained by the reduction of phlorone."},{"word":"Hydrophobia","type":"(n.)","description":"An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:"},{"word":"Hydrophobia","type":"(n.)","description":"The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness."},{"word":"Hydrophobic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison."},{"word":"Hydrophoby","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hydrophobia."},{"word":"Hydrophora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Hydroidea."},{"word":"Hydrophore","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument used for the purpose of obtaining specimens of water from any desired depth, as in a river, a lake, or the ocean."},{"word":"Hydrophyllia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrophyllium"},{"word":"Hydrophylliums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrophyllium"},{"word":"Hydrophyllium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora."},{"word":"Hydrophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"An aquatic plant; an alga."},{"word":"Hydrophytology","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of botany which treats of water plants."},{"word":"Hydropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hydropical"},{"word":"Hydropical","type":"(a.)","description":"Dropsical, or resembling dropsy."},{"word":"Hydropically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hydropical manner."},{"word":"Hydropiper","type":"(n.)","description":"A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed."},{"word":"Hydropneumatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or depending upon, both liquid and gaseous substances; as, hydropneumatic apparatus for collecting gases over water or other liquids."},{"word":"Hydropsy","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Dropsy."},{"word":"Hydropult","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for throwing water by hand power, as a garden engine, a fire extinguisher, etc."},{"word":"Hydroquinone","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene."},{"word":"Hydrorhizae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrorhiza"},{"word":"Hydrorhizas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrorhiza"},{"word":"Hydrorhiza","type":"(n.)","description":"The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea."},{"word":"Hydrosalt","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base."},{"word":"Hydrosalt","type":"(n.)","description":"An acid salt."},{"word":"Hydrosalt","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization."},{"word":"Hydroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument designed to mark the presence of water, especially in air."},{"word":"Hydroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube."},{"word":"Hydrosome","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hydrosoma"},{"word":"Hydrosoma","type":"(n.)","description":"All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds."},{"word":"Hydrosorbic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from sorbic acid when this takes up hydrogen; as, hydrosorbic acid."},{"word":"Hydrostat","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers."},{"word":"Hydrostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hydrostatical"},{"word":"Hydrostatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids."},{"word":"Hydrostatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles."},{"word":"Hydrostatician","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics."},{"word":"Hydrostatics","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids."},{"word":"Hydrosulphate","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hydrosulphurent."},{"word":"Hydrosulphide","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of compounds, derived from hydrogen sulphide by the replacement of half its hydrogen by a base or basic radical; as, potassium hydrosulphide, KSH. The hydrosulphides are analogous to the hydrates and include the mercaptans."},{"word":"Hydrosulphite","type":"(n.)","description":"A saline compound of hydrosulphurous acid and a base."},{"word":"Hydrosulphuret","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrosulphide."},{"word":"Hydrosulphureted","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with hydrogen sulphide."},{"word":"Hydrosulphuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and sulphur; as, hydrosulphuric acid, a designation applied to the solution of hydrogen sulphide in water."},{"word":"Hydrosulphurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. See Hyposulphurous acid, under Hyposulphurous."},{"word":"Hydrotellurate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base."},{"word":"Hydrotelluric","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride."},{"word":"Hydrothecae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrotheca"},{"word":"Hydrothecas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrotheca"},{"word":"Hydrotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian."},{"word":"Hydrotherapy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hydropathy."},{"word":"Hydrothermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hot water; -- used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe."},{"word":"Hydrothorax","type":"(n.)","description":"An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest."},{"word":"Hydrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing a discharge of water or phlegm."},{"word":"Hydrotic","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrotic medicine."},{"word":"Hydrotical","type":"(a.)","description":"Hydrotic."},{"word":"Hydrotrope","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer."},{"word":"Hydrotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots."},{"word":"Hydrotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"A tendency towards moisture."},{"word":"Hydrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing water; watery."},{"word":"Hydrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing water of hydration or crystallization."},{"word":"Hydroxanthane","type":"(n.)","description":"A persulphocyanate."},{"word":"Hydroxanthic","type":"(a.)","description":"Persulphocyanic."},{"word":"Hydroxide","type":"(n.)","description":"A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide."},{"word":"Hydroxy-","type":"()","description":"A combining form, also used adjectively, indicating hydroxyl as an ingredient."},{"word":"Hydroxyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc."},{"word":"Hydroxylamine","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent."},{"word":"Hydrozoa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora."},{"word":"Hydrozoal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hydrozoa."},{"word":"Hydrozoa","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrozoon"},{"word":"Hydrozoons","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hydrozoon"},{"word":"Hydrozoon","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Hydrozoa."},{"word":"Hydruret","type":"(n.)","description":"A binary compound of hydrogen; a hydride."},{"word":"Hydrus","type":"(n.)","description":"A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole."},{"word":"Hye","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"See Hie."},{"word":"Hyemal","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to winter; done in winter."},{"word":"Hyemate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass the winter."},{"word":"Hyemation","type":"(n.)","description":"The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering."},{"word":"Hyemation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of affording shelter in winter."},{"word":"Hyen","type":"(n.)","description":"A hyena."},{"word":"Hyenas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hyena"},{"word":"Hyena","type":"(n.)","description":"Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits."},{"word":"Hyetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions."},{"word":"Hyetograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth."},{"word":"Hyetographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to to hyetography."},{"word":"Hyetography","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of physical science which treats of the geographical distribution of rain."},{"word":"Hygeia","type":"(n.)","description":"The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius."},{"word":"Hygeian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation."},{"word":"Hygeist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist."},{"word":"Hygieist","type":"(n.)","description":"A hygienist."},{"word":"Hygiene","type":"(n.)","description":"That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health."},{"word":"Hygienic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary."},{"word":"Hygienics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of health; hygiene."},{"word":"Hygienism","type":"(n.)","description":"Hygiene."},{"word":"Hygienist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in hygiene."},{"word":"Hygiology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health."},{"word":"Hygrine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor."},{"word":"Hygrodeik","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc."},{"word":"Hygrograph","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere."},{"word":"Hygrology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the fluids of the body."},{"word":"Hygrometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere."},{"word":"Hygrometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hygrometrical"},{"word":"Hygrometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hygrometry; made with, or according to, the hygrometer; as, hygrometric observations."},{"word":"Hygrometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Readily absorbing and retaining moisture; as, hygrometric substances, like potash."},{"word":"Hygrometry","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose."},{"word":"Hygrophanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry."},{"word":"Hygrophthalmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to moisten the eye; -- sometimes applied to the lachrymal ducts."},{"word":"Hygroplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The fluid portion of the cell protoplasm, in opposition to stereoplasm, the solid or insoluble portion. The latter is supposed to be partly nutritive and partly composed of idioplasm."},{"word":"Hygroscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount."},{"word":"Hygroscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture."},{"word":"Hygroscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc."},{"word":"Hygroscopicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances."},{"word":"Hygrostatics","type":"(n.)","description":"The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture."},{"word":"Hyke","type":"(n.)","description":"See Haik, and Huke."},{"word":"Hylaeosaur","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hylaeosaurus"},{"word":"Hylaeosaurus","type":"(n.)","description":"A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines."},{"word":"Hylarchical","type":"(a.)","description":"Presiding over matter."},{"word":"Hyleosaur","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hylaeosaur."},{"word":"Hylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences."},{"word":"Hylicist","type":"(n.)","description":"A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism."},{"word":"Hylism","type":"(n.)","description":"A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil."},{"word":"Hylobate","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon."},{"word":"Hylodes","type":"(n.)","description":"The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes."},{"word":"Hyloism","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hylotheism."},{"word":"Hyloist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hylotheist."},{"word":"Hylopathism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that matter is sentient."},{"word":"Hylopathist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in hylopathism."},{"word":"Hylophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating green shoots, as certain insects do."},{"word":"Hylotheism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism."},{"word":"Hylotheist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in hylotheism."},{"word":"Hylozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hylozoism."},{"word":"Hylozoism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable."},{"word":"Hylozoist","type":"(n.)","description":"A believer in hylozoism."},{"word":"Hymar","type":"(n.)","description":"The wild ass of Persia."},{"word":"Hymen","type":"(n.)","description":"A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane."},{"word":"Hymen","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabulous deity; according to some, the son of Apollo and Urania, according to others, of Bacchus and Venus. He was the god of marriage, and presided over nuptial solemnities."},{"word":"Hymen","type":"(n.)","description":"Marriage; union as if by marriage."},{"word":"Hymeneal","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hymenean"},{"word":"Hymenean","type":"(n.)","description":"Of or pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites."},{"word":"Hymeneal","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hymenean"},{"word":"Hymenean","type":"(n.)","description":"A marriage song."},{"word":"Hymenia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hymenium"},{"word":"Hymeniums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hymenium"},{"word":"Hymenium","type":"(n.)","description":"The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom."},{"word":"Hymenogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former."},{"word":"Hymenomycetes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed."},{"word":"Hymenophore","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a fungus which is covered with the hymenium."},{"word":"Hymenopter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Hymenoptera."},{"word":"Hymenoptera","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc."},{"word":"Hymenopteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hymenopterous"},{"word":"Hymenopterous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera."},{"word":"Hymenopteran","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Hymenoptera."},{"word":"Hymn","type":"(n.)","description":"An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns."},{"word":"Hymned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hymn"},{"word":"Hymning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hymn"},{"word":"Hymn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing."},{"word":"Hymn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sing in praise or adoration."},{"word":"Hymnal","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of hymns; a hymn book."},{"word":"Hymnic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics."},{"word":"Hymning","type":"(a.)","description":"Praising with hymns; singing."},{"word":"Hymning","type":"(n.)","description":"The singing of hymns."},{"word":"Hymnist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer of hymns."},{"word":"Hymnody","type":"(n.)","description":"Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology."},{"word":"Hymnographer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who writes on the subject of hymns."},{"word":"Hymnographer","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer or composed of hymns."},{"word":"Hymnography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of composing hymns."},{"word":"Hymnologist","type":"(n.)","description":"A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology."},{"word":"Hymnology","type":"(n.)","description":"The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology."},{"word":"Hymnology","type":"(n.)","description":"A knowledge of hymns; a treatise on hymns."},{"word":"Hympne","type":"(n.)","description":"A hymn."},{"word":"Hyndreste","type":"(a.)","description":"See Hinderest."},{"word":"Hyne","type":"(n.)","description":"A servant. See Hine."},{"word":"Hyo-","type":"()","description":"A prexif used in anatomy, and generally denoting connection with the hyoid bone or arch; as, hyoglossal, hyomandibular, hyomental, etc."},{"word":"Hyoganoidei","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of ganoid fishes, including the gar pikes and bowfins."},{"word":"Hyoglossal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or connecting the tongue and hyodean arch; as, the hyoglossal membrane."},{"word":"Hyoglossal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the hyoglossus muscle."},{"word":"Hyoglossus","type":"(n.)","description":"A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the hyoid bone."},{"word":"Hyoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [/]."},{"word":"Hyoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself."},{"word":"Hyoid","type":"(n.)","description":"The hyoid bone."},{"word":"Hyoideal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hyoidean"},{"word":"Hyoidean","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hyoid, a."},{"word":"Hyomandibular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes."},{"word":"Hyomandibular","type":"(n.)","description":"The hyomandibular bone or cartilage."},{"word":"Hyomental","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck."},{"word":"Hyopastron","type":"(n.)","description":"The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyosternum."},{"word":"Hyoscine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance."},{"word":"Hyoscyamine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc."},{"word":"Hyoscyamus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane."},{"word":"Hyoscyamus","type":"(n.)","description":"The leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles."},{"word":"Hyosternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the hyoid bone and the sternum, or pertaining to them; infrahyoid; as, the hyosternal region of the neck."},{"word":"Hyosternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the hyosternum of turtles."},{"word":"Hyosternum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hyoplastron."},{"word":"Hyostylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull."},{"word":"Hyp","type":"(n.)","description":"An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural."},{"word":"Hyp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make melancholy."},{"word":"Hypaethral","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hypethral"},{"word":"Hypethral","type":"(a.)","description":"Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building."},{"word":"Hypallage","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, \"dare classibus austros,\" to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds."},{"word":"Hypanthia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypanthium"},{"word":"Hypanthiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypanthium"},{"word":"Hypanthium","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear."},{"word":"Hypapophyles","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypapophysis"},{"word":"Hypapophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as haemal spines, and chevron bones."},{"word":"Hyparterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus."},{"word":"Hypaspist","type":"(n.)","description":"A shield-bearer or armor-bearer."},{"word":"Hypaxial","type":"(a.)","description":"Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal."},{"word":"Hyper-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperaemia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion."},{"word":"Hyper-","type":"()","description":"A prefix equivalent to super- or per-; as hyperoxide, or peroxide. [Obs.] See Per-."},{"word":"Hyperaemia","type":"(n.)","description":"A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body."},{"word":"Hyperaesthesia","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it."},{"word":"Hyperapophyses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hyperapophysis"},{"word":"Hyperapophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra."},{"word":"Hyperaspist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender."},{"word":"Hyperbatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an hyperbaton; transposed; inverted."},{"word":"Hyperbaton","type":"(n.)","description":"A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, \"echoed the hills\" for \"the hills echoed.\""},{"word":"Hyperbola","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus."},{"word":"Hyperbole","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect."},{"word":"Hyperbolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hyperbolical"},{"word":"Hyperbolical","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola."},{"word":"Hyperbolical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression."},{"word":"Hyperbolically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form of an hyperbola."},{"word":"Hyperbolically","type":"(adv.)","description":"With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth."},{"word":"Hyperboliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form, or nearly the form, of an hyperbola."},{"word":"Hyperbolism","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of hyperbole."},{"word":"Hyperbolist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses hyperboles."},{"word":"Hyperbolized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hyperbolize"},{"word":"Hyperbolizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hyperbolize"},{"word":"Hyperbolize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To speak or write with exaggeration."},{"word":"Hyperbolize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To state or represent hyperbolically."},{"word":"Hyperboloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface."},{"word":"Hyperboloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having some property that belongs to an hyperboloid or hyperbola."},{"word":"Hyperborean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants."},{"word":"Hyperborean","type":"(a.)","description":"Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere."},{"word":"Hyperborean","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine."},{"word":"Hyperborean","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of the most northern regions."},{"word":"Hypercarbureted","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates."},{"word":"Hypercatalectic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse."},{"word":"Hyperchloric","type":"(a.)","description":"See Perchloric."},{"word":"Hyperchromatism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of having an unusual intensity of color."},{"word":"Hypercritic","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor."},{"word":"Hypercritic","type":"(a.)","description":"Hypercritical."},{"word":"Hypercritical","type":"(a.)","description":"Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious."},{"word":"Hypercritical","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessively nice or exact."},{"word":"Hypercritically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hypercritical manner."},{"word":"Hypercriticise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously."},{"word":"Hypercriticism","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism."},{"word":"Hyperdicrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse."},{"word":"Hyperdicrotism","type":"(n.)","description":"A hyperdicrotic condition."},{"word":"Hyperdicrotous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hyperdicrotic."},{"word":"Hyperdulia","type":"(n.)","description":"Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia."},{"word":"Hyperduly","type":"(n.)","description":"Hyperdulia."},{"word":"Hyperesthesia","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hyperaesthesia."},{"word":"Hypericum","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; -- called also St. John's-wort."},{"word":"Hyperinosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases."},{"word":"Hyperion","type":"(n.)","description":"The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty."},{"word":"Hyperkinesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm."},{"word":"Hyperkinetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis."},{"word":"Hypermetamorphosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth."},{"word":"Hypermeter","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse."},{"word":"Hypermeter","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, anything exceeding the ordinary standard."},{"word":"Hypermetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure."},{"word":"Hypermetropia","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hypermetropy"},{"word":"Hypermetropy","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia."},{"word":"Hypermyriorama","type":"(n.)","description":"A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views."},{"word":"Hyperoartia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey."},{"word":"Hyperopia","type":"(n.)","description":"Hypermetropia."},{"word":"Hyperorganic","type":"(a.)","description":"Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic."},{"word":"Hyperorthodoxy","type":"(n.)","description":"Orthodoxy pushed to excess."},{"word":"Hyperotreta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish."},{"word":"Hyperoxide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide."},{"word":"Hyperoxygenated","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hyperoxygenized"},{"word":"Hyperoxygenized","type":"(a.)","description":"Combined with a relatively large amount of oxygen; -- said of higher oxides."},{"word":"Hyperoxymuriate","type":"(n.)","description":"A perchlorate."},{"word":"Hyperoxymuriatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Perchloric; as, hyperoxymuriatic acid."},{"word":"Hyperphysical","type":"(a.)","description":"Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural."},{"word":"Hyperplasia","type":"(n.)","description":"An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part."},{"word":"Hyperplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hyperplasia."},{"word":"Hyperplastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to excess of formative action."},{"word":"Hypernoea","type":"(n.)","description":"Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea."},{"word":"Hyperpyrexia","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease."},{"word":"Hypersecretion","type":"(n.)","description":"Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh."},{"word":"Hypersensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hyperaesthesia."},{"word":"Hyperspace","type":"(n.)","description":"An imagined space having more than three dimensions."},{"word":"Hypersthene","type":"(n.)","description":"An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface."},{"word":"Hypersthenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of, or containing, hypersthene."},{"word":"Hyperthetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical."},{"word":"Hyperthyrion","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the architrave which is over a door or window."},{"word":"Hypertrophic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hypertrophical"},{"word":"Hypertrophical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy."},{"word":"Hypertrophied","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy."},{"word":"Hypertrophy","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy."},{"word":"Hyphae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure."},{"word":"Hyphen","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words."},{"word":"Hyphened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hyphen"},{"word":"Hyphening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hyphen"},{"word":"Hyphen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word."},{"word":"Hyphenated","type":"(a.)","description":"United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word."},{"word":"Hyphomycetes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads."},{"word":"Hypidiomorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form."},{"word":"Hypinosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood."},{"word":"Hypnagogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep."},{"word":"Hypnobate","type":"(n.)","description":"A somnambulist."},{"word":"Hypnocyst","type":"(n.)","description":"A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts."},{"word":"Hypnogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; as, the so-called hypnogenic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep."},{"word":"Hypnologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in hypnology."},{"word":"Hypnology","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep."},{"word":"Hypnosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Supervention of sleep."},{"word":"Hypnotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific."},{"word":"Hypnotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition."},{"word":"Hypnotic","type":"(n.)","description":"Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic."},{"word":"Hypnotic","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism."},{"word":"Hypnotism","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body."},{"word":"Hypnotization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of producing hypnotism."},{"word":"Hypnotized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hypnotize"},{"word":"Hypnotizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hypnotize"},{"word":"Hypnotize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism."},{"word":"Hypnotizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hypnotizes."},{"word":"Hypnum","type":"(n.)","description":"The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss."},{"word":"Hypo-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying a less quantity, or a low state or degree, of that denoted by the word with which it is joined, or position under or beneath."},{"word":"Hypo-","type":"()","description":"A prefix denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed enters with a low valence, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid."},{"word":"Hypo","type":"(n.)","description":"Hypochondria."},{"word":"Hypo","type":"(n.)","description":"Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture."},{"word":"Hypoarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a hypoarion."},{"word":"Hypoaria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypoarion"},{"word":"Hypoarion","type":"(n.)","description":"An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes."},{"word":"Hypoblast","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm."},{"word":"Hypoblastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or connected with, the hypoblast; as, the hypoic sac."},{"word":"Hypobole","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order."},{"word":"Hypobranchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch."},{"word":"Hypobranchial","type":"(n.)","description":"A hypobranchial bone or cartilage."},{"word":"Hypocarp","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hypocarpium"},{"word":"Hypocarpium","type":"(n.)","description":"A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew."},{"word":"Hypocarpogean","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fruit below the ground."},{"word":"Hypocaust","type":"(n.)","description":"A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses."},{"word":"Hypochlorite","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride."},{"word":"Hypochlorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds."},{"word":"Hypochondres","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium."},{"word":"Hypochondria","type":"(n.)","description":"Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues."},{"word":"Hypochondriac","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions."},{"word":"Hypochondriac","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis."},{"word":"Hypochondriac","type":"(n.)","description":"A person affected with hypochondriasis."},{"word":"Hypochondriacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hypochondriac, 2."},{"word":"Hypochondriacism","type":"(n.)","description":"Hypochondriasis."},{"word":"Hypochondriasis","type":"(n.)","description":"A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health."},{"word":"Hypochondriasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Hypochondriasis."},{"word":"Hypochondria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypochondrium"},{"word":"Hypochondriums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypochondrium"},{"word":"Hypochondrium","type":"(n.)","description":"Either of the hypochondriac regions."},{"word":"Hypochondry","type":"(n.)","description":"Hypochondriasis."},{"word":"Hypocist","type":"(n.)","description":"An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub."},{"word":"Hypocleida","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypocleidium"},{"word":"Hypocleidiums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypocleidium"},{"word":"Hypocleidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum."},{"word":"Hypocoristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name."},{"word":"Hypocrateriform","type":"(a.)","description":"hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped."},{"word":"Hypocraterimorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac."},{"word":"Hypocrisies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypocrisy"},{"word":"Hypocrisy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness."},{"word":"Hypocrite","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety."},{"word":"Hypocritely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hypocritically."},{"word":"Hypocritic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Hypocritical."},{"word":"Hypocritical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action."},{"word":"Hypocrystalline","type":"(a.)","description":"Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass."},{"word":"Hypocycloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid."},{"word":"-tyla","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypodactylum"},{"word":"Hypodactylum","type":"(n.)","description":"The under side of the toes."},{"word":"Hypoderm","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hypoblast."},{"word":"Hypoderma","type":"(n.)","description":"A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma."},{"word":"Hypoderma","type":"(n.)","description":"An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates."},{"word":"Hypodermatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Hypodermic."},{"word":"Hypodermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin."},{"word":"Hypodermis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hypoblast."},{"word":"Hypodermis","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hypoderma, 2."},{"word":"Hypodicrotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hypodicrotous"},{"word":"Hypodicrotous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve."},{"word":"Hypogaeic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, the peanut, or earthnut (Arachis hypogaea)."},{"word":"Hypogastric","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region."},{"word":"Hypogastrium","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower part of the abdomen."},{"word":"Hypogean","type":"(a.)","description":"Hypogeous."},{"word":"Hypogene","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene."},{"word":"Hypogeous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground."},{"word":"Hypogea","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypogeum"},{"word":"Hypogeum","type":"(n.)","description":"The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs."},{"word":"Hypoglossal","type":"(a.)","description":"Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue."},{"word":"Hypoglossal","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the hypoglossal nerves."},{"word":"Hypognatous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer."},{"word":"Hypogyn","type":"(n.)","description":"An hypogynous plant."},{"word":"Hypogynous","type":"(a.)","description":"Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant."},{"word":"Hypohyal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes, between the caratohyal and urohyal."},{"word":"Hypohyal","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages."},{"word":"Hyponastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth. Cf. Epinastic."},{"word":"Hyponasty","type":"(n.)","description":"Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface."},{"word":"Hyponitrite","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of hyponitrous acid."},{"word":"Hyponitrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds."},{"word":"Hypopharynx","type":"(n.)","description":"An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects."},{"word":"Hypophosphate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of hypophosphoric acid."},{"word":"Hypophosphite","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of hypophosphorous acid."},{"word":"Hypophosphoric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid."},{"word":"Hypophosphorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid."},{"word":"Hypophyllous","type":"(a.)","description":"Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns."},{"word":"Hypophysial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the hypophysis; pituitary."},{"word":"Hypophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"See Pituitary body, under Pituitary."},{"word":"Hypophysis","type":"(n.)","description":"Cataract."},{"word":"Hypoplastra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypoplastron"},{"word":"Hypoplastron","type":"(n.)","description":"The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum."},{"word":"Hypoptila","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypoptilum"},{"word":"Hypoptilums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypoptilum"},{"word":"Hypoptilum","type":"(n.)","description":"An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather."},{"word":"Hyporadii","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hyporadius"},{"word":"Hyporadius","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather."},{"word":"Hyporhachides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hyporhachis"},{"word":"Hyporhachis","type":"(n.)","description":"The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum."},{"word":"Hyposkeletal","type":"(a.)","description":"Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal."},{"word":"Hypospadias","type":"(n.)","description":"A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface."},{"word":"Hypostases","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypostasis"},{"word":"Hypostasis","type":"(n.)","description":"That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing."},{"word":"Hypostasis","type":"(n.)","description":"Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."},{"word":"Hypostasis","type":"(n.)","description":"Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies."},{"word":"Hypostasis","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment."},{"word":"Hypostasize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize."},{"word":"Hypostatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hypostatical"},{"word":"Hypostatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary."},{"word":"Hypostatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances."},{"word":"Hypostatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation."},{"word":"Hypostatically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a hypostatic manner."},{"word":"Hypostatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance."},{"word":"Hypostatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attribute actual or personal existence to."},{"word":"Hyposterna","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hyposternum"},{"word":"Hyposternums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hyposternum"},{"word":"Hyposternum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hypoplastron."},{"word":"Hypostome","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hypostoma"},{"word":"Hypostoma","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc."},{"word":"Hypostrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of a patient turning himself."},{"word":"Hypostrophe","type":"(n.)","description":"A relapse, or return of a disease."},{"word":"Hypostyle","type":"(a.)","description":"Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak."},{"word":"Hyposulphate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of hyposulphuric acid."},{"word":"Hyposulphite","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate."},{"word":"Hyposulphite","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of hyposulphurous acid proper."},{"word":"Hyposulphuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur in a lower state of oxidation than in the sulphuric compounds; as, hyposulphuric acid."},{"word":"Hyposulphurous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur, all, or a part, in a low state of oxidation."},{"word":"Hypotarsi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypotarsus"},{"word":"Hypotarsus","type":"(n.)","description":"A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process."},{"word":"Hypotenuse","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Hypothenuse"},{"word":"Hypothenuse","type":"(n.)","description":"The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle."},{"word":"Hypothec","type":"(n.)","description":"A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent."},{"word":"Hypotheca","type":"(n.)","description":"An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt."},{"word":"Hypothecated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Hypothecate"},{"word":"Hypothecating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Hypothecate"},{"word":"Hypothecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry."},{"word":"Hypothecation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re."},{"word":"Hypothecation","type":"(n.)","description":"A contract whereby, in consideration of money advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry."},{"word":"Hypothecator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed."},{"word":"Hypothenal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hypothenar"},{"word":"Hypothenar","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence."},{"word":"Hypothenar","type":"(n.)","description":"The hypothenar eminence."},{"word":"Hypothenusal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hypothenuse."},{"word":"Hypothenuse","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Hypotenuse."},{"word":"Hypotheses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Hypothesis"},{"word":"Hypothesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer."},{"word":"Hypothesis","type":"(n.)","description":"A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis."},{"word":"Hypothetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hypothetical"},{"word":"Hypothetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon."},{"word":"Hypothetist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who proposes or supports an hypothesis."},{"word":"Hypotrachelium","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Gorgerin."},{"word":"Hypotricha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body."},{"word":"Hypotrochoid","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid."},{"word":"Hypotyposis","type":"(n.)","description":"A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events."},{"word":"Hypoxanthin","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin."},{"word":"Hypozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains."},{"word":"Hyppish","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with hypochondria; hypped."},{"word":"Hyppogriff","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hyppogriff."},{"word":"Hypsiloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling the Greek letter / in form; hyoid."},{"word":"Hypsometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition."},{"word":"Hypsometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hypsometrical"},{"word":"Hypsometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hypsometry."},{"word":"Hypsometry","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively."},{"word":"Hypural","type":"(a.)","description":"Under the tail; -- applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes."},{"word":"Hyracoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Hyracoidea."},{"word":"Hyracoid","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Hyracoidea."},{"word":"Hyracoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax."},{"word":"Hyrax","type":"(n.)","description":"Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman."},{"word":"Hyrcanian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hyrcan"},{"word":"Hyrcan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyrcanian) Sea."},{"word":"Hyrse","type":"(n.)","description":"Millet."},{"word":"Hyrst","type":"(n.)","description":"A wood. See Hurst."},{"word":"Hyson","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragrant kind of green tea."},{"word":"Hyssop","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant (Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste."},{"word":"Hysteranthous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened."},{"word":"Hysteresis","type":"(n.)","description":"A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity."},{"word":"Hysteria","type":"(n.)","description":"A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits."},{"word":"Hysteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Hysterical"},{"word":"Hysterical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful."},{"word":"Hysterics","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Hysteria."},{"word":"Hysteroepilepsy","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body."},{"word":"Hysterogenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria."},{"word":"Hysterology","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron."},{"word":"Hysteron","type":"()","description":"A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, \"he is well and lives.\""},{"word":"Hysteron","type":"()","description":"An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence."},{"word":"Hysterophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter."},{"word":"Hysterotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The Caesarean section. See under Caesarean."},{"word":"Hystricine","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the porcupines."},{"word":"Hystricomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or allied to, the porcupines; -- said of a group (Hystricomorpha) of rodents."},{"word":"Hystrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of rodents, including the porcupine."},{"word":"Hythe","type":"(n.)","description":"A small haven. See Hithe."},{"word":"I","type":"()","description":"I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. /ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon."},{"word":"I","type":"()","description":"In our old authors, I was often used for ay (or aye), yes, which is pronounced nearly like it."},{"word":"I","type":"()","description":"As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc."},{"word":"I-","type":"(prefix.)","description":"See Y-."},{"word":"We","type":"(pl. )","description":"of I"},{"word":"Our","type":"(pl. )","description":"of I"},{"word":"Ours","type":"(pl. )","description":"of I"},{"word":"Us","type":"(pl. )","description":"of I"},{"word":"I","type":"(object.)","description":"The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself."},{"word":"Iamatology","type":"(n.)","description":"Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies."},{"word":"Iamb","type":"(n.)","description":"An iambus or iambic."},{"word":"Iambic","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot."},{"word":"Iambic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus."},{"word":"Iambic","type":"(n.)","description":"An iambic foot; an iambus."},{"word":"Iambic","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse composed of iambic feet."},{"word":"Iambic","type":"(n.)","description":"A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon."},{"word":"Iambical","type":"(a.)","description":"Iambic."},{"word":"Iambically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics."},{"word":"Iambize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To satirize in iambics; to lampoon."},{"word":"Iambi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Iambus"},{"word":"Iambuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Iambus"},{"word":"Iambus","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n."},{"word":"Ianthinae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ianthina"},{"word":"Ianthinas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ianthina"},{"word":"Ianthina","type":"(n.)","description":"Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail."},{"word":"Iatraliptic","type":"(a.)","description":"Treating diseases by anointing and friction; as, the iatraliptic method."},{"word":"Iatric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Iatrical"},{"word":"Iatrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men."},{"word":"Iatrochemical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists."},{"word":"Iatrochemist","type":"(n.)","description":"A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry."},{"word":"Iatrochemistry","type":"(n.)","description":"Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles."},{"word":"Iatromathematical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine."},{"word":"Iatromathematician","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists."},{"word":"Iberian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Iberia."},{"word":"Ibexes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ibex"},{"word":"Ibices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ibex"},{"word":"Ibex","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok."},{"word":"Ibidem","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib."},{"word":"Ibis","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles."},{"word":"-ible","type":"()","description":"See -able."},{"word":"-ic","type":"()","description":"A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc."},{"word":"-ic","type":"()","description":"A suffix, denoting that the element indicated enters into certain compounds with its highest valence, or with a valence relatively higher than in compounds where the name of the element ends in -ous; as, ferric, sulphuric. It is also used in the general sense of pertaining to; as, hydric, sodic, calcic."},{"word":"Icarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight."},{"word":"Ice","type":"(n.)","description":"Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4� C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats."},{"word":"Ice","type":"(n.)","description":"Concreted sugar."},{"word":"Ice","type":"(n.)","description":"Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen."},{"word":"Ice","type":"(n.)","description":"Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice."},{"word":"Iced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ice"},{"word":"Icing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ice"},{"word":"Ice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice."},{"word":"Ice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc."},{"word":"Ice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze."},{"word":"Iceberg","type":"(n.)","description":"A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean."},{"word":"Icebird","type":"(n.)","description":"An Arctic sea bird, as the Arctic fulmar."},{"word":"Icebound","type":"(a.)","description":"Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing; as, an icebound vessel; also, surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access; as, an icebound coast."},{"word":"Ice-built","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of ice."},{"word":"Ice-built","type":"(a.)","description":"Loaded with ice."},{"word":"Iced","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water."},{"word":"Iced","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake."},{"word":"Icefall","type":"(n.)","description":"A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall."},{"word":"Icelander","type":"(n.)","description":"A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland."},{"word":"Icelandic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders."},{"word":"Icelandic","type":"(n.)","description":"The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken."},{"word":"Iceland","type":"()","description":"A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent."},{"word":"Iceland","type":"()","description":"A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite."},{"word":"Icemen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Iceman"},{"word":"Iceman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers."},{"word":"Iceman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice."},{"word":"Ice","type":"()","description":"A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass."},{"word":"Icequake","type":"(n.)","description":"The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold."},{"word":"Ich","type":"(pron.)","description":"I."},{"word":"Ichneumon","type":"(n.)","description":"Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra."},{"word":"Ichneumon","type":"(n.)","description":"Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera."},{"word":"Ichneumonidan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonidae, or ichneumon flies."},{"word":"Ichneumonidan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Ichneumonidae."},{"word":"Ichneumonides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The ichneumon flies."},{"word":"Ichnite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone."},{"word":"Ichnographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ichnographical"},{"word":"Ichnographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ichonography; describing a ground plot."},{"word":"Ichnography","type":"(n.)","description":"A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans."},{"word":"Ichnolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil footprint; an ichnite."},{"word":"Ichnolithology","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ichnology."},{"word":"Ichnological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ichnology."},{"word":"Ichnology","type":"(n.)","description":"The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints."},{"word":"Ichnoscopy","type":"(n.)","description":"The search for the traces of anything."},{"word":"Ichor","type":"(n.)","description":"An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods."},{"word":"Ichor","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc."},{"word":"Ichorhaemia","type":"(n.)","description":"Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances."},{"word":"Ichorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious."},{"word":"Ichthidin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes."},{"word":"Ichthin","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes."},{"word":"Ichthulin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance from the yolk of salmon's egg."},{"word":"Ichthus","type":"(n.)","description":"In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words /, /, / /, /, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior."},{"word":"Ichthyic","type":"(a.)","description":"Like, or pertaining to, fishes."},{"word":"Ichthyocol","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ichthyocolla"},{"word":"Ichthyocolla","type":"(n.)","description":"Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes."},{"word":"Ichthyocoprolite","type":"(n.)","description":"Fossil dung of fishes."},{"word":"Ichthyodorulite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates."},{"word":"Ichthyography","type":"(n.)","description":"A treatise on fishes."},{"word":"Ichthyoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ichthyoidal"},{"word":"Ichthyoidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians."},{"word":"Ichthyolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols."},{"word":"Ichthyolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish."},{"word":"Ichthyologic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ichthyological"},{"word":"Ichthyological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ichthyology."},{"word":"Ichthyologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology."},{"word":"Ichthyology","type":"(n.)","description":"The natural history of fishes; that branch of zoology which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits."},{"word":"Ichthyomancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes."},{"word":"Ichthyomorpha","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Urodela."},{"word":"Ichthyomorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ichthyomorphous"},{"word":"Ichthyomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria."},{"word":"Ichthyophagist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who eats, or subsists on, fish."},{"word":"Ichthyophagous","type":"(a.)","description":"Eating, or subsisting on, fish."},{"word":"Ichthyohagy","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of eating, or living upon, fish."},{"word":"Ichthyophthalmite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Apophyllite."},{"word":"Ichthyophthira","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes."},{"word":"Ichthyopsida","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes."},{"word":"Ichthyopterygia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Ichthyosauria."},{"word":"Ichthyopterygium","type":"(n.)","description":"The typical limb, or lateral fin, of fishes."},{"word":"Ichthyornis","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebrae, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormae."},{"word":"Ichthyosaur","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Ichthyosaura."},{"word":"Ichthyosauria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also Ichthyopterygia. They have not been found later than the Cretaceous period."},{"word":"Ichthyosaurian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria."},{"word":"Ichthyosaurian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Ichthyosauria."},{"word":"Ichthyosauri","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ichthyosaurus"},{"word":"Ichthyosaurus","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations."},{"word":"Ichthyosis","type":"(n.)","description":"A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin."},{"word":"Ichthyotomist","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in ichthyotomy."},{"word":"Ichthyoomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The anatomy or dissection of fishes."},{"word":"Ichthys","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ichthus."},{"word":"Icicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house."},{"word":"Icicled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having icicles attached."},{"word":"Icily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an icy manner; coldly."},{"word":"Iciness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity."},{"word":"Icing","type":"(n.)","description":"A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting."},{"word":"Ickle","type":"(n.)","description":"An icicle."},{"word":"Icon","type":"(n.)","description":"An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait."},{"word":"Iconical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind."},{"word":"Iconism","type":"(n.)","description":"The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description."},{"word":"Iconize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form an image or likeness of."},{"word":"Iconoclasm","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking."},{"word":"Iconoclast","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship."},{"word":"Iconoclast","type":"(n.)","description":"One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical."},{"word":"Iconoclastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking."},{"word":"Iconodule","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Iconodulist"},{"word":"Iconodulist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast."},{"word":"Iconographer","type":"(n.)","description":"A maker of images."},{"word":"Iconographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to iconography."},{"word":"Iconographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; as, an icongraphic encyclopaedia."},{"word":"Iconography","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients."},{"word":"Iconography","type":"(n.)","description":"The study of representative art in general."},{"word":"Iconolater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who worships images."},{"word":"Iconolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves."},{"word":"Iconology","type":"(n.)","description":"The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography."},{"word":"Iconomachy","type":"(n.)","description":"Hostility to images as objects of worship."},{"word":"Iconomical","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship."},{"word":"Iconophilist","type":"(n.)","description":"A student, or lover of the study, of iconography."},{"word":"Icosahedral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having twenty equal sides or faces."},{"word":"Icosahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces."},{"word":"Icosandria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A Linnaean class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx."},{"word":"Icosandrian","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Icosandrous"},{"word":"Icosandrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx."},{"word":"Icositetrahedron","type":"(n.)","description":"A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron."},{"word":"-ics","type":"()","description":"A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics."},{"word":"Icteric","type":"(n.)","description":"A remedy for the jaundice."},{"word":"Icteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Icterical"},{"word":"Icterical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice."},{"word":"Icterical","type":"(a.)","description":"Good against the jaundice."},{"word":"Icteritious","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Icteritous"},{"word":"Icteritous","type":"(a.)","description":"Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice."},{"word":"Icteroid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; as, an icteroid tint or complexion."},{"word":"Icterus","type":"(a.)","description":"The jaundice."},{"word":"Ictic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt."},{"word":"Ictus","type":"(n.)","description":"The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis."},{"word":"Ictus","type":"(n.)","description":"A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc."},{"word":"Icy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty."},{"word":"Icy","type":"(superl.)","description":"Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold."},{"word":"Icy-pearled","type":"(a.)","description":"Spangled with ice."},{"word":"I'd","type":"()","description":"A contraction from I would or I had."},{"word":"Id","type":"(n.)","description":"A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany."},{"word":"Idalian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred."},{"word":"Ide","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Id."},{"word":"-ide","type":"()","description":"A suffix used to denote: (a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc."},{"word":"Ideas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Idea"},{"word":"Idea","type":"(n.)","description":"The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual."},{"word":"Idea","type":"(n.)","description":"A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization."},{"word":"Idea","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of."},{"word":"Idea","type":"(n.)","description":"A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development."},{"word":"Idea","type":"(n.)","description":"A plan or purpose of action; intention; design."},{"word":"Idea","type":"(n.)","description":"A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract."},{"word":"Idea","type":"(n.)","description":"A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity."},{"word":"Ideal","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge."},{"word":"Ideal","type":"(a.)","description":"Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty."},{"word":"Ideal","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal."},{"word":"Ideal","type":"(a.)","description":"Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy."},{"word":"Ideal","type":"(a.)","description":"Imaginary."},{"word":"Ideal","type":"(n.)","description":"A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc."},{"word":"Idealess","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of an idea."},{"word":"Idealism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being ideal."},{"word":"Idealism","type":"(n.)","description":"Conception of the ideal; imagery."},{"word":"Idealism","type":"(n.)","description":"The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations."},{"word":"Idealist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations."},{"word":"Idealist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the doctrine of idealism."},{"word":"Idealistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories."},{"word":"Idealities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ideality"},{"word":"Ideality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being ideal."},{"word":"Ideality","type":"(n.)","description":"The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection."},{"word":"Ideality","type":"(n.)","description":"The conceptive faculty."},{"word":"Idealization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of idealizing."},{"word":"Idealization","type":"(n.)","description":"The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal."},{"word":"Idealized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Idealize"},{"word":"Idealizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Idealize"},{"word":"Idealize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life."},{"word":"Idealize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2."},{"word":"Idealize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form ideals."},{"word":"Idealizer","type":"(n.)","description":"An idealist."},{"word":"Ideally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally."},{"word":"Idealogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization."},{"word":"Idealogue","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator."},{"word":"Ideat","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ideate"},{"word":"Ideate","type":"(n.)","description":"The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence."},{"word":"Ideate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form in idea; to fancy."},{"word":"Ideate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize."},{"word":"Ideation","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought."},{"word":"Ideational","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation."},{"word":"Idem","type":"(pron. / adj.)","description":"The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id."},{"word":"Identic","type":"(a.)","description":"Identical."},{"word":"Identical","type":"(a.)","description":"The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing."},{"word":"Identical","type":"(a.)","description":"Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological."},{"word":"Identically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an identical manner; with respect to identity."},{"word":"Identicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being identical; sameness."},{"word":"Identifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being identified."},{"word":"Identification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified."},{"word":"Identified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Identify"},{"word":"Identifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Identify"},{"word":"Identify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation."},{"word":"Identify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property."},{"word":"Identify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc."},{"word":"Identism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system / doctrine of identity."},{"word":"Identities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Identity"},{"word":"Identity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness."},{"word":"Identity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods."},{"word":"Identity","type":"(n.)","description":"An identical equation."},{"word":"Ideo-","type":"()","description":"A combining form from the Gr. /, an idea."},{"word":"Ideogenical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to ideology."},{"word":"Ideogeny","type":"(n.)","description":"The science which treats of the origin of ideas."},{"word":"Ideogram","type":"(n.)","description":"An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea."},{"word":"Ideogram","type":"(n.)","description":"A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, /, $, /, etc."},{"word":"Ideogram","type":"(n.)","description":"A phonetic symbol; a letter."},{"word":"Ideograph","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ideogram."},{"word":"Ideographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ideographical"},{"word":"Ideographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word \"nine,\" but the idea of the number itself."},{"word":"Ideographics","type":"(n.)","description":"The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written."},{"word":"Ideography","type":"(n.)","description":"The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc."},{"word":"Ideological","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ideology."},{"word":"Ideologist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology."},{"word":"Ideology","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of ideas."},{"word":"Ideology","type":"(n.)","description":"A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation."},{"word":"Ideo-motion","type":"(n.)","description":"An ideo-motor movement."},{"word":"Ideo-motor","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence."},{"word":"Ides","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months."},{"word":"Idio-","type":"()","description":"A combining form from the Greek /, meaning private, personal, peculiar, distinct."},{"word":"Idioblast","type":"(n.)","description":"An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents."},{"word":"Idiocrasis","type":"(n.)","description":"Idiocracy."},{"word":"Idiocrasies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Idiocracy"},{"word":"Idiocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy."},{"word":"Idiocratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Idiocratical"},{"word":"Idiocratical","type":"(a.)","description":"Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic."},{"word":"Idiocy","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence."},{"word":"Idiocyclophanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Idiophanous."},{"word":"Idioelectric","type":"(a.)","description":"Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric."},{"word":"Idioelectric","type":"(n.)","description":"An idioelectric substance."},{"word":"Idiograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark."},{"word":"Idiographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Idiographical"},{"word":"Idiographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an idiograph."},{"word":"Idiolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Self-worship; excessive self-esteem."},{"word":"Idiom","type":"(n.)","description":"The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language."},{"word":"Idiom","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author."},{"word":"Idiom","type":"(n.)","description":"Dialect; a variant form of a language."},{"word":"Idiomatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Idiomatical"},{"word":"Idiomatical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase."},{"word":"Idiomorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Idiomorphous."},{"word":"Idiomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a form of its own."},{"word":"Idiomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock."},{"word":"Idiomuscular","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant."},{"word":"Idiopathetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Idiopathic."},{"word":"Idiopathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Idiopathical"},{"word":"Idiopathical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic."},{"word":"Idiopathies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Idiopathy"},{"word":"Idiopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection."},{"word":"Idiopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease."},{"word":"Idiophanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals."},{"word":"Idioplasm","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Idioplasma."},{"word":"Idioplasma","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes, and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm."},{"word":"Idiorepulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat."},{"word":"Idiosyncrasies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Idiosyncrasy"},{"word":"Idiosyncrasy","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity."},{"word":"Idiosyncratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Idiosyncratical"},{"word":"Idiosyncratical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character."},{"word":"Idiot","type":"(n.)","description":"A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office."},{"word":"Idiot","type":"(n.)","description":"An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus."},{"word":"Idiot","type":"(n.)","description":"A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent."},{"word":"Idiot","type":"(n.)","description":"A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach."},{"word":"Idiotcy","type":"(n.)","description":"Idiocy."},{"word":"Idioted","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendered idiotic; befooled."},{"word":"Idiothermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself."},{"word":"Idiotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Idiotical"},{"word":"Idiotical","type":"(a.)","description":"Common; simple."},{"word":"Idiotical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action."},{"word":"Idiotically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a idiotic manner."},{"word":"Idioticon","type":"(n.)","description":"A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary."},{"word":"Idiotish","type":"(a.)","description":"Like an idiot; foolish."},{"word":"Idiotism","type":"(n.)","description":"An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language."},{"word":"Idiotism","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of knowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness."},{"word":"Idiotize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become stupid."},{"word":"Idiotry","type":"(n.)","description":"Idiocy."},{"word":"Idle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren."},{"word":"Idle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours."},{"word":"Idle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen."},{"word":"Idle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow."},{"word":"Idle","type":"(superl.)","description":"Light-headed; foolish."},{"word":"Idled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Idle"},{"word":"Idling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Idle"},{"word":"Idle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business."},{"word":"Idle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day."},{"word":"Idle-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Foolish; stupid."},{"word":"Idle-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Delirious; infatuated."},{"word":"Idleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness."},{"word":"Idle-pated","type":"(a.)","description":"Idle-headed; stupid."},{"word":"Idler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard."},{"word":"Idler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch."},{"word":"Idler","type":"(n.)","description":"An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle."},{"word":"Idless","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Idlesse"},{"word":"Idlesse","type":"(n.)","description":"Idleness."},{"word":"Idly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly."},{"word":"Idocrase","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Vesuvianite."},{"word":"Idol","type":"(n.)","description":"An image or representation of anything."},{"word":"Idol","type":"(n.)","description":"An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god."},{"word":"Idol","type":"(n.)","description":"That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored."},{"word":"Idol","type":"(n.)","description":"A false notion or conception; a fallacy."},{"word":"Idolastre","type":"(n.)","description":"An idolater."},{"word":"Idolater","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan."},{"word":"Idolater","type":"(n.)","description":"An adorer; a great admirer."},{"word":"Idolatress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female worshiper of idols."},{"word":"Idolatrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Idolatrous."},{"word":"Idolatrized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Idolatrize"},{"word":"Idolatrizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Idolatrize"},{"word":"Idolatrize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship."},{"word":"Idolatrize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make in idol of; to idolize."},{"word":"Idolatrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices."},{"word":"Idolatrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity."},{"word":"Idolatrously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a idolatrous manner."},{"word":"Idolatries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Idolatry"},{"word":"Idolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods."},{"word":"Idolatry","type":"(n.)","description":"Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration."},{"word":"Idolish","type":"(a.)","description":"Idolatrous."},{"word":"Idolism","type":"(n.)","description":"The worship of idols."},{"word":"Idolist","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper of idols."},{"word":"Idolized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Idolize"},{"word":"Idolizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Idolize"},{"word":"Idolize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt."},{"word":"Idolize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero."},{"word":"Idolize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice idolatry."},{"word":"Idolizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater."},{"word":"Idoloclast","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaker of idols; an iconoclast."},{"word":"Idolographical","type":"(a.)","description":"Descriptive of idols."},{"word":"Idolous","type":"(a.)","description":"Idolatrous."},{"word":"Idoneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate."},{"word":"Idorgan","type":"(n.)","description":"A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon."},{"word":"Idrialine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Idrialite"},{"word":"Idrialite","type":"(n.)","description":"A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar."},{"word":"Idumean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia."},{"word":"Idumean","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite."},{"word":"Idyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like."},{"word":"Idyllic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or belonging to idyls."},{"word":"I.","type":"()","description":"Abbreviation of Latin id est, that is."},{"word":"If","type":"(conj.)","description":"In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition."},{"word":"If","type":"(conj.)","description":"Whether; -- in dependent questions."},{"word":"I'","type":"()","description":"In faith; indeed; truly."},{"word":"Ifere","type":"(a.)","description":"Together."},{"word":"Igasuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or obtained from, nux vomica or St. Ignatius's bean; as, igasuric acid."},{"word":"Igasurine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance."},{"word":"Igloo","type":"(n.)","description":"An Eskimo snow house."},{"word":"Igloo","type":"(n.)","description":"A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice."},{"word":"Ignatius","type":"()","description":"See Saint Ignatius's bean, under Saint."},{"word":"Igneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance."},{"word":"Igneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks."},{"word":"Ignescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones."},{"word":"Ignicolist","type":"(n.)","description":"A worshiper of fire."},{"word":"Igniferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing fire."},{"word":"Ignifluous","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing with fire."},{"word":"Ignified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ignify"},{"word":"Ignifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ignify"},{"word":"Ignify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into fire."},{"word":"Ignigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Produced by the action of fire, as lava."},{"word":"Ignipotence","type":"(n.)","description":"Power over fire."},{"word":"Ignipotent","type":"(a.)","description":"Presiding over fire; also, fiery."},{"word":"Ignes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ignis fatuus"},{"word":"Ignis","type":"()","description":"A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern."},{"word":"Ignis","type":"()","description":"Fig.: A misleading influence; a decoy."},{"word":"Ignited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ignite"},{"word":"Igniting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ignite"},{"word":"Ignite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood."},{"word":"Ignite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum."},{"word":"Ignite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take fire; to begin to burn."},{"word":"Ignitible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being ignited."},{"word":"Ignition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire."},{"word":"Ignition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being ignited or kindled."},{"word":"Ignitor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like."},{"word":"Ignivomous","type":"(a.)","description":"Vomiting fire."},{"word":"Ignobility","type":"(n.)","description":"Ignobleness."},{"word":"Ignoble","type":"(a.)","description":"Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble."},{"word":"Ignoble","type":"(a.)","description":"Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base."},{"word":"Ignoble","type":"(a.)","description":"Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk."},{"word":"Ignoble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make ignoble."},{"word":"Ignobleness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being ignoble."},{"word":"Ignobly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ignoble manner; basely."},{"word":"Ignominious","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful."},{"word":"Ignominious","type":"(a.)","description":"Deserving ignominy; despicable."},{"word":"Ignominious","type":"(a.)","description":"Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence."},{"word":"Ignominiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully; ingloriously."},{"word":"Ignominies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ignominy"},{"word":"Ignominy","type":"(n.)","description":"Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy."},{"word":"Ignominy","type":"(n.)","description":"An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act."},{"word":"Ignomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Ignominy."},{"word":"Ignoramus","type":"(n.)","description":"We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, \"No bill,\" \"No true bill,\" or \"Not found,\" though in some jurisdictions \"Ignored\" is still used."},{"word":"Ignoramuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ignoramus"},{"word":"Ignoramus","type":"(n.)","description":"A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce."},{"word":"Ignorance","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed."},{"word":"Ignorance","type":"(n.)","description":"A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have."},{"word":"Ignorant","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened."},{"word":"Ignorant","type":"(a.)","description":"Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with of."},{"word":"Ignorant","type":"(a.)","description":"Unknown; undiscovered."},{"word":"Ignorant","type":"(a.)","description":"Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly."},{"word":"Ignorant","type":"(n.)","description":"A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous."},{"word":"Ignorantism","type":"(n.)","description":"The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism."},{"word":"Ignorantist","type":"(n.)","description":"One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist."},{"word":"Ignorantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently."},{"word":"Ignored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ignore"},{"word":"Ignoring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ignore"},{"word":"Ignore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be ignorant of or not acquainted with."},{"word":"Ignore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus."},{"word":"Ignore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person."},{"word":"Ignoscible","type":"(a.)","description":"Pardonable."},{"word":"Ignote","type":"(a.)","description":"Unknown."},{"word":"Ignote","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is unknown."},{"word":"Iguana","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits."},{"word":"Iguanian","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or pertaining to, the iguana."},{"word":"Iguanid","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Iguanoid."},{"word":"Iguanodon","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix."},{"word":"Iguanodont","type":"(a.)","description":"Like or pertaining to the genus Iguanodon."},{"word":"Iguanoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Iguanidae."},{"word":"Ihlang-ihlang","type":"(n.)","description":"A rich, powerful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree."},{"word":"Ihram","type":"(n.)","description":"The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca."},{"word":"Ik","type":"(pron.)","description":"I."},{"word":"Il-","type":"()","description":"A form of the prefix in-, not, and in-, among. See In-."},{"word":"Ile","type":"(n.)","description":"Ear of corn."},{"word":"Ile","type":"(n.)","description":"An aisle."},{"word":"Ile","type":"(n.)","description":"An isle."},{"word":"Ileac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ileum."},{"word":"Ileac","type":"(a.)","description":"See Iliac, 1."},{"word":"Ileocaecal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ileum and caecum."},{"word":"Ileocolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocaecal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine."},{"word":"Ileum","type":"(n.)","description":"The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine."},{"word":"Ileum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ilium."},{"word":"Ileus","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion."},{"word":"Ilex","type":"(n.)","description":"The holm oak (Quercus Ilex)."},{"word":"Ilex","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly."},{"word":"Iliac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to ancient Ilium, or Troy."},{"word":"Iliac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery."},{"word":"Iliac","type":"(a.)","description":"See Ileac, 1."},{"word":"Iliacal","type":"(a.)","description":"Iliac."},{"word":"liad","type":"(n.)","description":"A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer."},{"word":"Ilial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ilium; iliac."},{"word":"Iliche","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alike."},{"word":"Ilicic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, the holly (Ilex), and allied plants; as, ilicic acid."},{"word":"Ilicin","type":"(n.)","description":"The bitter principle of the holly."},{"word":"Ilio-","type":"()","description":"A combining form used in anatomy to denote connection with, or relation to, the ilium; as, ilio-femoral, ilio-lumbar, ilio-psoas, etc."},{"word":"Iliofemoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments."},{"word":"Iliolumbar","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the iliac and lumbar regions; as, the iliolumbar artery."},{"word":"Iliopsoas","type":"(n.)","description":"The great flexor muscle of the hip joint, divisible into two parts, the iliac and great psoas, -- often regarded as distinct muscles."},{"word":"Ilium","type":"(n.)","description":"The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate."},{"word":"Ilixanthin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly."},{"word":"Ilk","type":"(a.)","description":"Same; each; every."},{"word":"Ilke","type":"(a.)","description":"Same."},{"word":"Ilkon","type":"(pron.)","description":"Alt. of Ilkoon"},{"word":"Ilkoon","type":"(pron.)","description":"Each one; every one."},{"word":"Ill","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable."},{"word":"Ill","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper."},{"word":"Ill","type":"(a.)","description":"Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever."},{"word":"Ill","type":"(a.)","description":"Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant."},{"word":"Ill","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity."},{"word":"Ill","type":"(n.)","description":"Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil."},{"word":"Ill","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a ill manner; badly; weakly."},{"word":"I'","type":"()","description":"Contraction for I will or I shall."},{"word":"Illabile","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of falling or erring; infalliable."},{"word":"Illacerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent."},{"word":"Illacrymable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of weeping."},{"word":"Illapsable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of slipping, or of error."},{"word":"Illapsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illapse"},{"word":"Illapsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illapse"},{"word":"Illapse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into."},{"word":"Illapse","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack."},{"word":"Illaqueable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being insnared or entrapped."},{"word":"Illaqueated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illaqueate"},{"word":"Illaqueating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illaqueate"},{"word":"Illaqueate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch."},{"word":"Illaqueation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of catching or insnaring."},{"word":"Illaqueation","type":"(n.)","description":"A snare; a trap."},{"word":"Illation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion."},{"word":"Illative","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc."},{"word":"Illative","type":"(n.)","description":"An illative particle, as for, because."},{"word":"Illatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By inference; as an illative; in an illative manner."},{"word":"Illaudable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation."},{"word":"Ill-boding","type":"(a.)","description":"Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened."},{"word":"Ill-bred","type":"(a.)","description":"Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv."},{"word":"Illecebration","type":"(n.)","description":"Allurement."},{"word":"Illecebrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alluring; attractive; enticing."},{"word":"Illegal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love."},{"word":"Illegalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Illegality"},{"word":"Illegality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act."},{"word":"Illegalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illegalize"},{"word":"Illegalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illegalize"},{"word":"Illegalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or declare illegal or unlawful."},{"word":"Illegally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a illegal manner; unlawfully."},{"word":"Illegalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Illegality, unlawfulness."},{"word":"Illegibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being illegible."},{"word":"Illegible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription."},{"word":"Illegitimacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being illegitimate."},{"word":"Illegitimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper."},{"word":"Illegitimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child."},{"word":"Illegitimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference."},{"word":"Illegitimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word."},{"word":"Illegitimated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illegitimate"},{"word":"Illegitimating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illegitimate"},{"word":"Illegitimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize."},{"word":"Illegitimately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully."},{"word":"Illegitimation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of illegitimating; bastardizing."},{"word":"Illegitimation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy."},{"word":"Illegitimatize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render illegitimate; to bastardize."},{"word":"Illesive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not injurious; harmless."},{"word":"Illeviable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected."},{"word":"Ill-favored","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking."},{"word":"Illiberal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid."},{"word":"Illiberal","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous."},{"word":"Illiberal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin."},{"word":"Illiberalism","type":"(n.)","description":"Illiberality."},{"word":"Illiberality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness."},{"word":"Illiberalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illiberalize"},{"word":"Illiberalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illiberalize"},{"word":"Illiberalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make illiberal."},{"word":"Illiberally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously."},{"word":"Illiberalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being illiberal; illiberality."},{"word":"Illicit","type":"(a.)","description":"Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure."},{"word":"Illicitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Illicit."},{"word":"Illicium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of Asiatic and American magnoliaceous trees, having star-shaped fruit; star anise. The fruit of Illicium anisatum is used as a spice in India, and its oil is largely used in Europe for flavoring cordials, being almost identical with true oil of anise."},{"word":"Illighten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlighten."},{"word":"Illimitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space."},{"word":"Illimitation","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation."},{"word":"Illimited","type":"(a.)","description":"Not limited; interminable."},{"word":"Illinition","type":"(n.)","description":"A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment."},{"word":"Illinition","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals."},{"word":"Illinois","type":"(n.sing. & pl.)","description":"A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers."},{"word":"Illiquation","type":"(n.)","description":"The melting or dissolving of one thing into another."},{"word":"Illish","type":"(a.)","description":"Somewhat ill."},{"word":"Illision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of dashing or striking against."},{"word":"Illiteracies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Illiteracy"},{"word":"Illiteracy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census."},{"word":"Illiteracy","type":"(n.)","description":"An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder."},{"word":"Illiteral","type":"(a.)","description":"Not literal."},{"word":"Illiterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people."},{"word":"Illiterature","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of learning; illiteracy."},{"word":"Ill-judged","type":"(a.)","description":"Not well judged; unwise."},{"word":"Ill-lived","type":"(a.)","description":"Leading a wicked life."},{"word":"Ill-looking","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv."},{"word":"Ill-mannered","type":"(a.)","description":"Impolite; rude."},{"word":"Ill-minded","type":"(a.)","description":"Ill-disposed."},{"word":"Ill-natured","type":"(a.)","description":"Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person."},{"word":"Ill-natured","type":"(a.)","description":"Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful."},{"word":"Ill-natured","type":"(a.)","description":"Intractable; not yielding to culture."},{"word":"Illness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness."},{"word":"Illness","type":"(n.)","description":"Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness."},{"word":"Illness","type":"(n.)","description":"Wrong moral conduct; wickedness."},{"word":"Ill-nurtured","type":"(a.)","description":"Ill-bred."},{"word":"Illocality","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of locality or place."},{"word":"Illogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning; as, an illogical disputant; contrary of the rules of logic or sound reasoning; as, an illogical inference."},{"word":"Ill-omened","type":"(a.)","description":"Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv."},{"word":"Ill-starred","type":"(a.)","description":"Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day."},{"word":"Ill-tempered","type":"(a.)","description":"Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome."},{"word":"Ill-tempered","type":"(a.)","description":"Unhealthy; ill-conditioned."},{"word":"Ill-timed","type":"(a.)","description":"Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time."},{"word":"Illtreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat cruelly or improperly; to ill use; to maltreat."},{"word":"Illuded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illude"},{"word":"Illuding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illude"},{"word":"Illude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of."},{"word":"Illumed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illume"},{"word":"Illuming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illume"},{"word":"Illume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine."},{"word":"Illuminable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being illuminated."},{"word":"Illuminant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants."},{"word":"Illuminary","type":"(a.)","description":"Illuminative."},{"word":"Illuminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illuminate"},{"word":"Illuminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illuminate"},{"word":"Illuminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten."},{"word":"Illuminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect."},{"word":"Illuminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages."},{"word":"Illuminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty."},{"word":"Illuminate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To light up in token or rejoicing."},{"word":"Illuminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Enlightened."},{"word":"Illuminate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge."},{"word":"Illuminati","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Literally, those who are enlightened"},{"word":"Illuminati","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Persons in the early church who had received baptism; in which ceremony a lighted taper was given them, as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament."},{"word":"Illuminati","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Members of a sect which sprung up in Spain about the year 1575. Their principal doctrine was, that, by means of prayer, they had attained to so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances, sacraments, good works, etc.; -- called also Alumbrados, Perfectibilists, etc."},{"word":"Illuminati","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years."},{"word":"Illuminati","type":"(v. t.)","description":"An obscure sect of French Familists;"},{"word":"Illuminati","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists;"},{"word":"Illuminati","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The Rosicrucians."},{"word":"Illuminati","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Any persons who profess special spiritual or intellectual enlightenment."},{"word":"Illuminating","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving or producing light; used for illumination."},{"word":"Illumination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated."},{"word":"Illumination","type":"(n.)","description":"Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights."},{"word":"Illumination","type":"(n.)","description":"Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3."},{"word":"Illumination","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript."},{"word":"Illumination","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge."},{"word":"Illumination","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration."},{"word":"Illuminatism","type":"(n.)","description":"Illuminism."},{"word":"Illuminative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative."},{"word":"Illuminator","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3."},{"word":"Illuminator","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant."},{"word":"Illumine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To illuminate; to light up; to adorn."},{"word":"Illuminee","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Illuminati."},{"word":"Illuminer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, illuminates."},{"word":"Illuminism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of the Illuminati."},{"word":"Illuministic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to illuminism, or the Illuminati."},{"word":"Illuminized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illuminize"},{"word":"Illuminizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illuminize"},{"word":"Illuminize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To initiate the doctrines or principles of the Illuminati."},{"word":"Illuminous","type":"(a.)","description":"Bright; clear."},{"word":"Illure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive; to entice; to lure."},{"word":"Ill-used","type":"(a.)","description":"Misapplied; treated badly."},{"word":"Illusion","type":"(n.)","description":"An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination."},{"word":"Illusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour."},{"word":"Illusion","type":"(n.)","description":"A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder."},{"word":"Illusion","type":"(n.)","description":"A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc."},{"word":"Illusionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to illusion."},{"word":"Illusionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer."},{"word":"Illusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal."},{"word":"Illusively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a illusive manner; falsely."},{"word":"Illusiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being illusive; deceptiveness; false show."},{"word":"Illusory","type":"(a.)","description":"Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes."},{"word":"Illustrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of illustration."},{"word":"Illustrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Illustrate"},{"word":"Illustrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Illustrate"},{"word":"Illustrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clear, bright, or luminous."},{"word":"Illustrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously."},{"word":"Illustrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples."},{"word":"Illustrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance."},{"word":"Illustrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify."},{"word":"Illustrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious."},{"word":"Illustration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct."},{"word":"Illustration","type":"(n.)","description":"That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity."},{"word":"Illustration","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work."},{"word":"Illustrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate."},{"word":"Illustrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Making illustrious."},{"word":"Illustratively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of illustration or elucidation."},{"word":"Illustrator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who illustrates."},{"word":"Illustratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to illustrate."},{"word":"Illustrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid."},{"word":"Illustrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished."},{"word":"Illustrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles."},{"word":"Illustriously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously."},{"word":"Illustriousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame."},{"word":"Illustrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without luster."},{"word":"Illutation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath."},{"word":"Illuxurious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not luxurious."},{"word":"Ill-will","type":"()","description":"See under Ill, a."},{"word":"Ill-wisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who wishes ill to another; an enemy."},{"word":"Ilmenite","type":"(n.)","description":"Titanic iron. See Menaccanite."},{"word":"Ilmenium","type":"(n.)","description":"A supposed element claimed to have been discovered by R.Harmann."},{"word":"Ilvaite","type":"(n.)","description":"A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses."},{"word":"I'm","type":"()","description":"A contraction of I am."},{"word":"Im-","type":"()","description":"A form of the prefix in- not, and in- in. See In-. Im- also occurs in composition with some words not of Latin origin; as, imbank, imbitter."},{"word":"Image","type":"(n.)","description":"An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance."},{"word":"Image","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol."},{"word":"Image","type":"(n.)","description":"Show; appearance; cast."},{"word":"Image","type":"(n.)","description":"A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea."},{"word":"Image","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor."},{"word":"Image","type":"(n.)","description":"The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror."},{"word":"Imaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Image"},{"word":"Imaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Image"},{"word":"Image","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure."},{"word":"Image","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine."},{"word":"Imageable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be imaged."},{"word":"Imageless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no image."},{"word":"Imager","type":"(n.)","description":"One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor."},{"word":"Imagery","type":"(n.)","description":"The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass."},{"word":"Imagery","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance."},{"word":"Imagery","type":"(n.)","description":"The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms."},{"word":"Imagery","type":"(n.)","description":"Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse."},{"word":"Imaginability","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity for imagination."},{"word":"Imaginable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being imagined; conceivable."},{"word":"Imaginal","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins."},{"word":"Imaginal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an imago."},{"word":"Imaginant","type":"(a.)","description":"Imagining; conceiving."},{"word":"Imaginant","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginer."},{"word":"Imaginarily","type":"(a.)","description":"In a imaginary manner; in imagination."},{"word":"Imaginariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality."},{"word":"Imaginary","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal."},{"word":"Imaginary","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary expression or quantity."},{"word":"Imaginate","type":"(a.)","description":"Imaginative."},{"word":"Imagination","type":"(n.)","description":"The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines."},{"word":"Imagination","type":"(n.)","description":"The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy."},{"word":"Imagination","type":"(n.)","description":"The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal."},{"word":"Imagination","type":"(n.)","description":"A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion."},{"word":"Imaginational","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination."},{"word":"Imaginationalism","type":"(n.)","description":"Idealism."},{"word":"Imaginative","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word."},{"word":"Imaginative","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative."},{"word":"Imaginative","type":"(a.)","description":"Unreasonably suspicious; jealous."},{"word":"Imagined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imagine"},{"word":"Imagining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imagine"},{"word":"Imagine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination."},{"word":"Imagine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5."},{"word":"Imagine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To represent to one's self; to think; to believe."},{"word":"Imagine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise."},{"word":"Imagine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To think; to suppose."},{"word":"Imaginer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives."},{"word":"Imaginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Imaginative."},{"word":"Imagoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Imago"},{"word":"Imago","type":"(n.)","description":"An image."},{"word":"Imago","type":"(n.)","description":"The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm."},{"word":"Imam","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Imaum"},{"word":"Iman","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Imaum"},{"word":"Imaum","type":"(n.)","description":"Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque."},{"word":"Imaum","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power."},{"word":"Imaret","type":"(n.)","description":"A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims."},{"word":"Imbalm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embalm."},{"word":"Imban","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put under a ban."},{"word":"Imband","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a band or bands."},{"word":"Imbanked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbank"},{"word":"Imbanking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbank"},{"word":"Imbank","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank."},{"word":"Imbankment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment."},{"word":"Imbannered","type":"(a.)","description":"Having banners."},{"word":"Imbar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bar in; to secure."},{"word":"Imbargo","type":"(n.)","description":"See Embargo."},{"word":"Imbark","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"See Embark."},{"word":"Imbarn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To store in a barn."},{"word":"Imbase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embase."},{"word":"Imbase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To diminish in value."},{"word":"Imbastardize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bastardize; to debase."},{"word":"Imbathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce."},{"word":"Imbay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embay."},{"word":"Imbecile","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane."},{"word":"Imbecile","type":"(n.)","description":"One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind."},{"word":"Imbecile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage."},{"word":"Imbecilitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble."},{"word":"Imbecilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Imbecility"},{"word":"Imbecility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind."},{"word":"Imbedded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbed"},{"word":"Imbedding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbed"},{"word":"Imbed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc."},{"word":"Imbellic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not warlike or martial."},{"word":"Imbenching","type":"(n.)","description":"A raised work like a bench."},{"word":"Imber-goose","type":"(n.)","description":"The loon. See Ember-goose."},{"word":"Imbezzle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embezzle."},{"word":"Imbibed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbibe"},{"word":"Imbibing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbibe"},{"word":"Imbibe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture."},{"word":"Imbibe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors."},{"word":"Imbibe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To saturate; to imbue."},{"word":"Imbiber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, imbibes."},{"word":"Imbibition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons."},{"word":"Imbittered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbitter"},{"word":"Imbittering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbitter"},{"word":"Imbitter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant."},{"word":"Imbitterer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, imbitters."},{"word":"Imbitterment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment."},{"word":"Imblaze","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Emblaze."},{"word":"Imblazon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Emblazon."},{"word":"Imbody","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody."},{"word":"Imboil","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Emboil."},{"word":"Imbolden","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embolden."},{"word":"Imbonity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of goodness."},{"word":"Imbordered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imborder"},{"word":"Imbordering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imborder"},{"word":"Imborder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of."},{"word":"Imbosked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbosk"},{"word":"Imbosking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbosk"},{"word":"Imbosk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conceal, as in bushes; to hide."},{"word":"Imbosk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be concealed."},{"word":"Imbosomed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbosom"},{"word":"Imbosoming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbosom"},{"word":"Imbosom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom."},{"word":"Imbosom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove."},{"word":"Imboss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Emboss."},{"word":"Imbosture","type":"(n.)","description":"Embossed or raised work."},{"word":"Imbound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in limits; to shut in."},{"word":"Imbow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow."},{"word":"Imbowel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embowel."},{"word":"Imbower","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Embower."},{"word":"Imbowment","type":"(n.)","description":"act of imbowing; an arch; a vault."},{"word":"Imbox","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a box."},{"word":"Imbracery","type":"(n.)","description":"Embracery."},{"word":"Imbraid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Embraid."},{"word":"Imbrangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly."},{"word":"Imbreed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To generate within; to inbreed."},{"word":"Imbricate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Imbricated"},{"word":"Imbricated","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile."},{"word":"Imbricated","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying over each other in regular order, so as to \"break joints,\" like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation."},{"word":"Imbricated","type":"(a.)","description":"In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern."},{"word":"Imbricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface."},{"word":"Imbrication","type":"(n.)","description":"An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure."},{"word":"Imbricative","type":"(a.)","description":"Imbricate."},{"word":"Imbrocadoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Imbrocado"},{"word":"Imbrocado","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth of silver or of gold."},{"word":"Imbrocata","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Imbroccata"},{"word":"Imbroccata","type":"(n.)","description":"A hit or thrust."},{"word":"Imbroglios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Imbroglio"},{"word":"Imbroglio","type":"(n.)","description":"An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction."},{"word":"Imbroglio","type":"(n.)","description":"A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding."},{"word":"Imbrown","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure."},{"word":"Imbureed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbrue"},{"word":"Imbureing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbrue"},{"word":"Imbrue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood."},{"word":"Imbruement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued."},{"word":"Imbruted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbrute"},{"word":"Imbruting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbrute"},{"word":"Imbrute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal."},{"word":"Imbrute","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sink to the state of a brute."},{"word":"Imbrutement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted."},{"word":"Imbued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imbue"},{"word":"Imbuing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imbue"},{"word":"Imbue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black."},{"word":"Imbue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles."},{"word":"Imbuement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture."},{"word":"Imburse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply or stock with money."},{"word":"Imbursement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed."},{"word":"Imbursement","type":"(n.)","description":"Money laid up in stock."},{"word":"Imbution","type":"(n.)","description":"An imbuing."},{"word":"Imesatin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark yellow, crystalline substance, obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin."},{"word":"Imide","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide."},{"word":"Imido","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, containing, or combined with, the radical NH, which is called the imido group."},{"word":"Imitability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being imitable."},{"word":"Imitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capble of being imitated or copied."},{"word":"Imitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of imitation; as, imitable character or qualities."},{"word":"Imitableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being imitable; worthness of imitation."},{"word":"Imitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Tendency to imitation."},{"word":"Imitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imitate"},{"word":"Imitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imitate"},{"word":"Imitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc."},{"word":"Imitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy."},{"word":"Imitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds."},{"word":"Imitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imitating."},{"word":"Imitation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance."},{"word":"Imitation","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon."},{"word":"Imitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3."},{"word":"Imitational","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities."},{"word":"Imitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original; as, man is an imitative being; painting is an imitative art."},{"word":"Imitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed after a model, pattern, or original."},{"word":"Imitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative."},{"word":"Imitative","type":"(n.)","description":"A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance."},{"word":"Imitater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who imitates."},{"word":"Imitatorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or office of an imitator."},{"word":"Imitatress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who is an imitator."},{"word":"Imitatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"An imitatress."},{"word":"Immaculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure."},{"word":"Immailed","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing mail or armor; clad of armor."},{"word":"Immalleable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not maleable."},{"word":"Immanacled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immanacle"},{"word":"Immanacling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immanacle"},{"word":"Immanacle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To manacle; to fetter; hence; to confine; to restrain from free action."},{"word":"Immanation","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation."},{"word":"Immane","type":"(a.)","description":"Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce."},{"word":"Immanence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Immanency"},{"word":"Immanency","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling."},{"word":"Immanent","type":"(a.)","description":"Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective."},{"word":"Immanifest","type":"(a.)","description":"Not manifest."},{"word":"Immanity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immane; barbarity."},{"word":"Immantle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Emmantle."},{"word":"Immanuel","type":"(n.)","description":"God with us; -- an appellation of the Christ."},{"word":"Immarcescible","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfading; lasting."},{"word":"Immarcescibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unfadingly."},{"word":"Immarginate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having a distinctive margin or border."},{"word":"Immartial","type":"(a.)","description":"Not martial; unwarlike."},{"word":"Immask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal."},{"word":"Immatchable","type":"(a.)","description":"Matchless; peerless."},{"word":"Immaterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied."},{"word":"Immaterial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not."},{"word":"Immaterialism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible."},{"word":"Immaterialism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism."},{"word":"Immaterialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in or professes, immaterialism."},{"word":"Immaterialities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Immateriality"},{"word":"Immateriality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul."},{"word":"Immaterialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render immaterial or incorporeal."},{"word":"Immaterially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance."},{"word":"Immaterially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an unimportant manner or degree."},{"word":"Immaterialness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immaterial; immateriality."},{"word":"Immateriate","type":"(a.)","description":"Immaterial."},{"word":"Immature","type":"(a.)","description":"Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans."},{"word":"Immature","type":"(a.)","description":"Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death."},{"word":"Immatured","type":"(a.)","description":"Immature."},{"word":"Immaturely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immature manner."},{"word":"Immatureness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immature; immaturity."},{"word":"Immaturity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness."},{"word":"Immeability","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness."},{"word":"Immeasurability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability."},{"word":"Immeasurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast."},{"word":"Immeasurableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immeasurable."},{"word":"Immeasurably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immeasurable manner or degree."},{"word":"Immeasured","type":"(a.)","description":"Immeasurable."},{"word":"Immechanical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not mechanical."},{"word":"Immediacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness."},{"word":"Immediate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact."},{"word":"Immediate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant."},{"word":"Immediate","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause."},{"word":"Immediately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous."},{"word":"Immediately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once."},{"word":"Immediately","type":"(adv.)","description":"As soon as. Cf. Directly, 8, Note."},{"word":"Immediateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes."},{"word":"Immedeatism","type":"(n.)","description":"Immediateness."},{"word":"Immedicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be healed; incurable."},{"word":"Immelodious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not melodious."},{"word":"Immemorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not memorable; not worth remembering."},{"word":"Immemorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial."},{"word":"Immemorially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Beyond memory."},{"word":"Immense","type":"(a.)","description":"Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge."},{"word":"Immensely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In immense manner or degree."},{"word":"Immenseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being immense."},{"word":"Immensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Immeasurable."},{"word":"Immensities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Immensity"},{"word":"Immensity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness."},{"word":"Immensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Huge."},{"word":"Immensurability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being immensurable."},{"word":"Immensurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Immeasurable."},{"word":"Immensurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unmeasured; unlimited."},{"word":"Immerged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immerge"},{"word":"Immerging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immerge"},{"word":"Immerge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse."},{"word":"Immerge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun."},{"word":"Immerit","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of worth; demerit."},{"word":"Immerited","type":"(a.)","description":"Unmerited."},{"word":"Immeritous","type":"(a.)","description":"Undeserving."},{"word":"Immersable","type":"(a.)","description":"See Immersible."},{"word":"Immerse","type":"(a.)","description":"Immersed; buried; hid; sunk."},{"word":"Immersed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immerse"},{"word":"Immersing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immerse"},{"word":"Immerse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge."},{"word":"Immerse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To baptize by immersion."},{"word":"Immerse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm."},{"word":"Immersed","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid."},{"word":"Immersed","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled."},{"word":"Immersed","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Growing wholly under water."},{"word":"Immersible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being immersed."},{"word":"Immersible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being immersed."},{"word":"Immersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx."},{"word":"Immersion","type":"(n.)","description":"Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists."},{"word":"Immersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness."},{"word":"Immersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion."},{"word":"Immersionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism."},{"word":"Immeshed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immesh"},{"word":"Immeshing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immesh"},{"word":"Immesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare."},{"word":"Immethodical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused."},{"word":"Immethodically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without method; confusedly; unsystematically."},{"word":"Immethodicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of method."},{"word":"Immethodize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse."},{"word":"Immetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not metrical or rhythmical."},{"word":"Immew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Emmew."},{"word":"Immigrant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant."},{"word":"Immigrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immigrate"},{"word":"Immigrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immigrate"},{"word":"Immigrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate."},{"word":"Immigration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence."},{"word":"Imminence","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress."},{"word":"Imminence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is imminent; impending evil or danger."},{"word":"Imminent","type":"(a.)","description":"Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril."},{"word":"Imminent","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous."},{"word":"Imminent","type":"(a.)","description":"(With upon) Bent upon; attentive to."},{"word":"Imminently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an imminent manner."},{"word":"Immingle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend."},{"word":"Imminution","type":"(n.)","description":"A lessening; diminution; decrease."},{"word":"Immiscibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Incapability of being mixed, or mingled."},{"word":"Immiscible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being mixed or mingled."},{"word":"Immission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission."},{"word":"Immitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immit"},{"word":"Immiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immit"},{"word":"Immit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit."},{"word":"Immitigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased."},{"word":"Immitigably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immitigable manner."},{"word":"Immix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix; to mingle."},{"word":"Immixable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not mixable."},{"word":"Immixed","type":"(a.)","description":"Unmixed."},{"word":"Immixture","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from mixture; purity."},{"word":"Immobile","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable."},{"word":"Immobility","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state."},{"word":"Immobilize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages."},{"word":"Immoble","type":"(a.)","description":"See Immobile."},{"word":"Immoderacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Immoderateness."},{"word":"Immoderancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Immoderateness; excess."},{"word":"Immoderate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter."},{"word":"Immoderately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immoderate manner; excessively."},{"word":"Immoderateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance."},{"word":"Immoderation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of moderation."},{"word":"Immodest","type":"(a.)","description":"Not limited to due bounds; immoderate."},{"word":"Immodest","type":"(a.)","description":"Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc."},{"word":"Immodestly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immodest manner."},{"word":"Immodesty","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency."},{"word":"Immolated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immolate"},{"word":"Immolating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immolate"},{"word":"Immolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim."},{"word":"Immolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed."},{"word":"Immolation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is immolated; a sacrifice."},{"word":"Immolator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice."},{"word":"Immold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Immould"},{"word":"Immould","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mold into shape, or form."},{"word":"Immoment","type":"(a.)","description":"Trifling."},{"word":"Immomentous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant."},{"word":"Immoral","type":"(a.)","description":"Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed."},{"word":"Immoralities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Immorality"},{"word":"Immorality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immoral; vice."},{"word":"Immorality","type":"(n.)","description":"An immoral act or practice."},{"word":"Immorally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immoral manner; wickedly."},{"word":"Immorigerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rude; uncivil; disobedient."},{"word":"Immortal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance."},{"word":"Immortal","type":"(a.)","description":"Connected with, or pertaining to immortability."},{"word":"Immortal","type":"(a.)","description":"Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame."},{"word":"Immortal","type":"(a.)","description":"Great; excessive; grievous."},{"word":"Immortal","type":"(n.)","description":"One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation."},{"word":"Immortalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul."},{"word":"Immortalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Immortality"},{"word":"Immortality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul."},{"word":"Immortality","type":"(n.)","description":"Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame."},{"word":"Immortalization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized."},{"word":"Immortalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immortalize"},{"word":"Immortalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immortalize"},{"word":"Immortalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever."},{"word":"Immortalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame."},{"word":"Immortalize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become immortal."},{"word":"Immortally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immortal manner."},{"word":"Immortelles","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Immortelle"},{"word":"Immortelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting."},{"word":"Immortification","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure to mortify the passions."},{"word":"Immovability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose."},{"word":"Immovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin."},{"word":"Immovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain immovable."},{"word":"Immovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive."},{"word":"Immovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n."},{"word":"Immovable","type":"(n.)","description":"That which can not be moved."},{"word":"Immovable","type":"(n.)","description":"Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes."},{"word":"Immovableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being immovable."},{"word":"Immovably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an immovable manner."},{"word":"Immund","type":"(a.)","description":"Unclean."},{"word":"Immundicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Uncleanness; filthness."},{"word":"Immune","type":"(a.)","description":"Exempt; protected by inoculation."},{"word":"Immunities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Immunity"},{"word":"Immunity","type":"(a.)","description":"Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy."},{"word":"Immunity","type":"(a.)","description":"Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error."},{"word":"Immured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Immure"},{"word":"Immuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Immure"},{"word":"Immure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wall around; to surround with walls."},{"word":"Immure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate."},{"word":"Immure","type":"(n.)","description":"A wall; an inclosure."},{"word":"Immurement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment."},{"word":"Immusical","type":"(a.)","description":"Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant."},{"word":"Immutability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness."},{"word":"Immutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable."},{"word":"Immutate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unchanged."},{"word":"Immutation","type":"(n.)","description":"Change; alteration; mutation."},{"word":"Immute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change or alter."},{"word":"Imp","type":"(n.)","description":"A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft."},{"word":"Imp","type":"(n.)","description":"An offspring; progeny; child; scion."},{"word":"Imp","type":"(n.)","description":"A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker."},{"word":"Imp","type":"(n.)","description":"Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line."},{"word":"Imped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imp"},{"word":"Imping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imp"},{"word":"Imp","type":"(n.)","description":"To graft; to insert as a scion."},{"word":"Imp","type":"(n.)","description":"To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip."},{"word":"Impacable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be appeased or quieted."},{"word":"Impackment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice."},{"word":"Impacted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impact"},{"word":"Impacting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impact"},{"word":"Impact","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place."},{"word":"Impact","type":"(n.)","description":"Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated."},{"word":"Impact","type":"(n.)","description":"The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest."},{"word":"Impacted","type":"(a.)","description":"Driven together or close."},{"word":"Impaction","type":"(n.)","description":"The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip."},{"word":"Impaction","type":"(n.)","description":"An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast."},{"word":"Impaint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To paint; to adorn with colors."},{"word":"Impaired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impair"},{"word":"Impairing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impair"},{"word":"Impair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value."},{"word":"Impair","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grow worse; to deteriorate."},{"word":"Impair","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fit or appropriate."},{"word":"Impair","type":"(n.)","description":"Diminution; injury."},{"word":"Impairer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, impairs."},{"word":"Impairment","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being impaired; injury."},{"word":"Impalatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpalatable."},{"word":"Impaled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impale"},{"word":"Impaling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impale"},{"word":"Impale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale."},{"word":"Impale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround."},{"word":"Impale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention."},{"word":"Impalement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled."},{"word":"Impalement","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed."},{"word":"Impalement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which hedges in; inclosure."},{"word":"Impalement","type":"(n.)","description":"The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3."},{"word":"Impalla","type":"(n.)","description":"The pallah deer of South Africa."},{"word":"Impallid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make pallid; to blanch."},{"word":"Impalm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grasp with or hold in the hand."},{"word":"Impalpability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impalpable."},{"word":"Impalpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch."},{"word":"Impalpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not material; intangible; incorporeal."},{"word":"Impalpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions."},{"word":"Impalpably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impalpable manner."},{"word":"Impalsy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden."},{"word":"Impanate","type":"(a.)","description":"Embodied in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist."},{"word":"Impanated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impanate"},{"word":"Impanating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impanate"},{"word":"Impanate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embody in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist."},{"word":"Impanation","type":"(a.)","description":"Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation."},{"word":"Impanator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the doctrine of impanation."},{"word":"Impaneled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impanel"},{"word":"Impanelled","type":"()","description":"of Impanel"},{"word":"Impaneling","type":"()","description":"of Impanel"},{"word":"Impanelling","type":"()","description":"of Impanel"},{"word":"Impanel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice."},{"word":"Impanelment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled."},{"word":"Imparadised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imparadise"},{"word":"Imparadising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imparadise"},{"word":"Imparadise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy."},{"word":"Imparalleled","type":"(a.)","description":"Unparalleled."},{"word":"Impardonable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpardonable."},{"word":"Imparidigitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc."},{"word":"Imparipinnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet."},{"word":"Imparisyllabic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis."},{"word":"Imparity","type":"(n.)","description":"Inequality; disparity; disproportion; difference of degree, rank, excellence, number, etc."},{"word":"Imparity","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of comparison, correspondence, or suitableness; incongruity."},{"word":"Imparity","type":"(n.)","description":"Indivisibility into equal parts; oddness."},{"word":"Imparked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impark"},{"word":"Imparking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impark"},{"word":"Impark","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up."},{"word":"Imparl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold discourse; to parley."},{"word":"Imparl","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment."},{"word":"Imparlance","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual discourse; conference."},{"word":"Imparlance","type":"(n.)","description":"Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, or answer to the allegations of the opposite party."},{"word":"Imparlance","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, the delay or continuance of a suit."},{"word":"Imparsonee","type":"(a.)","description":"Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession."},{"word":"Imparsonee","type":"(n.)","description":"A clergyman so inducted."},{"word":"Imparted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impart"},{"word":"Imparting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impart"},{"word":"Impart","type":"(n.)","description":"To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth."},{"word":"Impart","type":"(n.)","description":"To obtain a share of; to partake of."},{"word":"Impart","type":"(n.)","description":"To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose."},{"word":"Impart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give a part or share."},{"word":"Impart","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hold a conference or consultation."},{"word":"Impartance","type":"(n.)","description":"Impartation."},{"word":"Impartation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imparting, or the thing imparted."},{"word":"Imparter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who imparts."},{"word":"Impartial","type":"(a.)","description":"Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just."},{"word":"Impartialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is impartial."},{"word":"Impartiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc."},{"word":"Impartially","type":"(a.)","description":"In an impartial manner."},{"word":"Impartialness","type":"(n.)","description":"Impartiality."},{"word":"Impartibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impartible; communicability."},{"word":"Impartibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incapable of division into parts; indivisibility."},{"word":"Impartible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being imparted or communicated."},{"word":"Impartible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate."},{"word":"Impartment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed."},{"word":"Impassable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf."},{"word":"Impassibility","type":"(a.)","description":"The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things."},{"word":"Impassible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation."},{"word":"Impassibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Impassibility."},{"word":"Impassion","type":"(v.)","description":"To move or affect strongly with passion."},{"word":"Impassionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion."},{"word":"Impassionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Strongly affected."},{"word":"Impassionate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of."},{"word":"Impassionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without passion or feeling."},{"word":"Impassioned","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse."},{"word":"Impassive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved."},{"word":"Impassivity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness."},{"word":"Impastation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements."},{"word":"Impasted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impaste"},{"word":"Impasting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impaste"},{"word":"Impaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To knead; to make into paste; to concrete."},{"word":"Impaste","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay color on canvas by uniting them skillfully together. [R.] Cf. Impasto."},{"word":"Impasting","type":"()","description":"The laying on of colors to produce impasto."},{"word":"Impasto","type":"(n.)","description":"The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole."},{"word":"Impasture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a pasture; to foster."},{"word":"Impatible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being borne; impassible."},{"word":"Impatience","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid."},{"word":"Impatiency","type":"(n.)","description":"Impatience."},{"word":"Impatiens","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam."},{"word":"Impatient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under."},{"word":"Impatient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be borne; unendurable."},{"word":"Impatient","type":"(a.)","description":"Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies."},{"word":"Impatient","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is impatient."},{"word":"Impatiently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impatient manner."},{"word":"Impatronization","type":"(n.)","description":"Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession."},{"word":"Impatronized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impatronize"},{"word":"Impatronizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impatronize"},{"word":"Impatronize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory."},{"word":"Impave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pave."},{"word":"Impavid","type":"(a.)","description":"Fearless."},{"word":"Impawned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impawn"},{"word":"Impawning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impawn"},{"word":"Impawn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in pawn; to pledge."},{"word":"Impeached","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impeach"},{"word":"Impeaching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impeach"},{"word":"Impeach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder; to impede; to prevent."},{"word":"Impeach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment."},{"word":"Impeach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct."},{"word":"Impeach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper."},{"word":"Impeach","type":"(n.)","description":"Hindrance; impeachment."},{"word":"Impeachable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime."},{"word":"Impeacher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who impeaches."},{"word":"Impeachment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached"},{"word":"Impeachment","type":"(n.)","description":"Hindrance; impediment; obstruction."},{"word":"Impeachment","type":"(n.)","description":"A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration."},{"word":"Impeachment","type":"(n.)","description":"A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as, an impeachment of motives."},{"word":"Impearled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impearl"},{"word":"Impearling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impearl"},{"word":"Impearl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls."},{"word":"Impearl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To decorate as with pearls or with anything resembling pearls."},{"word":"Impeccability","type":"(n.)","description":"the quality of being impeccable; exemption from sin, error, or offense."},{"word":"Impeccable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong."},{"word":"Impeccable","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness."},{"word":"Impeccancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Sinlessness."},{"word":"Impeccant","type":"(a.)","description":"Sinless; impeccable."},{"word":"Impecuniosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being impecunious."},{"word":"Impecunious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having money; habitually without money; poor."},{"word":"Impeded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impede"},{"word":"Impeding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impede"},{"word":"Impede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops."},{"word":"Impedible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being impeded or hindered."},{"word":"Impediment","type":"(n.)","description":"That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect."},{"word":"Impediment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impede."},{"word":"Impedimental","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive."},{"word":"Impedite","type":"(a.)","description":"Hindered; obstructed."},{"word":"Impedite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impede."},{"word":"Impedition","type":"(n.)","description":"A hindering; a hindrance."},{"word":"Impeditive","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing hindrance; impeding."},{"word":"Impelled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impel"},{"word":"Impelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impel"},{"word":"Impel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way."},{"word":"Impellent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of impelling."},{"word":"Impellent","type":"(n.)","description":"An impelling power or force."},{"word":"Impeller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, impels."},{"word":"Impenned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impen"},{"word":"Impent","type":"()","description":"of Impen"},{"word":"Impenning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impen"},{"word":"Impen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up or inclose, as in a pen."},{"word":"Impend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pay."},{"word":"Impended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impend"},{"word":"Impending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impend"},{"word":"Impend","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent."},{"word":"Impendence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Impendency"},{"word":"Impendency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of impending; also, that which impends."},{"word":"Impendent","type":"(a.)","description":"Impending; threatening."},{"word":"Impending","type":"(a.)","description":"Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening."},{"word":"Impenetrability","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being impenetrable."},{"word":"Impenetrability","type":"(n.)","description":"That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space."},{"word":"Impenetrability","type":"(n.)","description":"Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness."},{"word":"Impenetrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield."},{"word":"Impenetrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time."},{"word":"Impenetrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart."},{"word":"Impenetrableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability."},{"word":"Impenetrably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously."},{"word":"Impenitence","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart."},{"word":"Impenitency","type":"(n.)","description":"Impenitence."},{"word":"Impenitent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart."},{"word":"Impenitent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is not penitent."},{"word":"Impenitently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without repentance."},{"word":"Impennate","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins."},{"word":"Impennate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Impennes."},{"word":"Impennes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight."},{"word":"Impennous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no wings, as some insects."},{"word":"Impeopled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impeople"},{"word":"Impeopling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impeople"},{"word":"Impeople","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To people; to give a population to."},{"word":"Imperant","type":"(a.)","description":"Commanding."},{"word":"Imperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Done by express direction; not involuntary; communded."},{"word":"Imperatival","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the imperative mood."},{"word":"Imperative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders."},{"word":"Imperative","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order."},{"word":"Imperative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood."},{"word":"Imperative","type":"(n.)","description":"The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood."},{"word":"Imperatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an imperative manner."},{"word":"Imperator","type":"(n.)","description":"A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor."},{"word":"Imperatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Commanding; imperative; authoritative."},{"word":"Imperatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the title or office of imperator."},{"word":"Imperatorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperial."},{"word":"Imperatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperative."},{"word":"Imperceivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperceptible."},{"word":"Imperceived","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perceived."},{"word":"Imperceptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being imperceptible."},{"word":"Imperceptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the souses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended."},{"word":"Imperception","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of perception."},{"word":"Imperceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Unable to perceive."},{"word":"Impercipient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perceiving, or not able to perceive."},{"word":"Imperdibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being imperdible."},{"word":"Imperdible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not destructible."},{"word":"Imperfect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient."},{"word":"Imperfect","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity."},{"word":"Imperfect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective."},{"word":"Imperfect","type":"(n.)","description":"The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense."},{"word":"Imperfect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make imperfect."},{"word":"Imperfectibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being imperfectible."},{"word":"Imperfectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being mad perfect."},{"word":"Imperfection","type":"(a.)","description":"The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish."},{"word":"Imperfectness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being imperfect."},{"word":"Imperforable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being perforated, or bored through."},{"word":"Imperforata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous."},{"word":"Imperforate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Imperforated"},{"word":"Imperforated","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perforated; having no opening or aperture."},{"word":"Imperforation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being without perforation."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(n.)","description":"The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(n.)","description":"An outside seat on a diligence."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(n.)","description":"A luggage case on the top of a coach."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drowing, printing, or writing paper, etc."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(n.)","description":"A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars."},{"word":"Imperial","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages."},{"word":"Imperialism","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire."},{"word":"Imperialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who serves an emperor; one who favors imperialism."},{"word":"Imperialities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Imperiality"},{"word":"Imperiality","type":"(n.)","description":"Imperial power."},{"word":"Imperiality","type":"(n.)","description":"An imperial right or privilegs. See Royalty."},{"word":"Imperialized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imperialize"},{"word":"Imperializing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imperialize"},{"word":"Imperialize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire."},{"word":"Imperially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an imperial manner."},{"word":"Imperially","type":"(n.)","description":"Imperial power."},{"word":"Imperiled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imperil"},{"word":"Imperilled","type":"()","description":"of Imperil"},{"word":"Imperiling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imperil"},{"word":"Imperilling","type":"()","description":"of Imperil"},{"word":"Imperil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into peril; to endanger."},{"word":"Imperilment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imperiling, or the state of being imperiled."},{"word":"Imperious","type":"(a.)","description":"Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic."},{"word":"Imperious","type":"(a.)","description":"Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner."},{"word":"Imperious","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperative; urgent; compelling."},{"word":"Imperiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an imperious manner."},{"word":"Imperiousnes","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being imperious; arrogance; haughtiness."},{"word":"Imperishability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility."},{"word":"Imperishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown."},{"word":"Imperiwigged","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing a periwig."},{"word":"Impermanence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Impermanency"},{"word":"Impermanency","type":"(n.)","description":"lack of permanence."},{"word":"Impermanent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not permanent."},{"word":"Impermeability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impermeable."},{"word":"Impermeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air."},{"word":"Impermissible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not permissible."},{"word":"Imperscrutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being searched out; inscrutable."},{"word":"Imperseverant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless."},{"word":"Impersonal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality."},{"word":"Impersonal","type":"(n.)","description":"That which wants personality; specifically (Gram.), an impersonal verb."},{"word":"Impersonality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impersonal; want or absence of personality."},{"word":"Impersonally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impersonal manner."},{"word":"Impersonated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impersonate"},{"word":"Impersonating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impersonate"},{"word":"Impersonate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being."},{"word":"Impersonate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify."},{"word":"Impersonate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth."},{"word":"Impersonation","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Impersonification"},{"word":"Impersonification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form."},{"word":"Impersonator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic."},{"word":"Imperspicuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of perspicuity or clearness; vaguness; ambiguity."},{"word":"Imperspicuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perspicuous; not clear; obscure; vague; ambeguous."},{"word":"Impersuadable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be persuaded; obstinate; unyielding; impersuasible."},{"word":"Impersuasible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not persuasible; not to be moved by persuasion; inflexible; impersuadable."},{"word":"Impertinence","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness."},{"word":"Impertinence","type":"(n.)","description":"Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility."},{"word":"Impertinence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no value."},{"word":"Impertinency","type":"(n.)","description":"Impertinence."},{"word":"Impertinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable."},{"word":"Impertinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark."},{"word":"Impertinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Trifing; inattentive; frivolous."},{"word":"Impertinent","type":"(n.)","description":"An impertinent person."},{"word":"Impertinently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impertinent manner."},{"word":"Impertransibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being impertransible."},{"word":"Impertransible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being passed through."},{"word":"Impertrubable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted; as, imperturbable gravity."},{"word":"Imperturbably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an imperturbable manner; calmly."},{"word":"Imperturbation","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude."},{"word":"Imperturbed","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perturbed."},{"word":"Imperviability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being imperviable."},{"word":"Imperviable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not pervious; impervious."},{"word":"Impervious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air."},{"word":"Impery","type":"(n.)","description":"Empery."},{"word":"Impest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague."},{"word":"Impester","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Pester."},{"word":"Impetiginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo."},{"word":"Impetigo","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation."},{"word":"Impetrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being obtained or moved by petition."},{"word":"Impetrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtained by entreaty."},{"word":"Impetrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impetrate"},{"word":"Impetrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impetrate"},{"word":"Impetrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obtain by request or entreaty."},{"word":"Impetration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty."},{"word":"Impetration","type":"(n.)","description":"The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm."},{"word":"Impetrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty."},{"word":"Impetratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing or expressing entreaty."},{"word":"Impetuosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence."},{"word":"Impetuosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper."},{"word":"Impetuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent."},{"word":"Impetuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper."},{"word":"Impetus","type":"(n.)","description":"A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum."},{"word":"Impetus","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force."},{"word":"Impetus","type":"(n.)","description":"The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece."},{"word":"Impeyan","type":"()","description":"An Indian crested pheasant of the genus Lophophorus. Several species are known. Called also monaul, monal."},{"word":"Imphee","type":"(n.)","description":"The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane."},{"word":"Impictured","type":"(a.)","description":"Pictured; impressed."},{"word":"Impierce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce; to penetrate."},{"word":"Impierceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable."},{"word":"Impieties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Impiety"},{"word":"Impiety","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness."},{"word":"Impiety","type":"(n.)","description":"An impious act; an act of wickednes."},{"word":"Impignorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pledge or pawn."},{"word":"Impignoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned."},{"word":"Imping","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of grafting or mending."},{"word":"Imping","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing."},{"word":"Impinged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impinge"},{"word":"Impinging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impinge"},{"word":"Impinge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon."},{"word":"Impingement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impinging."},{"word":"Impingent","type":"(a.)","description":"Striking against or upon."},{"word":"Impinguate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fatten; to make fat."},{"word":"Impinguation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened."},{"word":"Impious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language."},{"word":"Impire","type":"(n.)","description":"See Umpire."},{"word":"Impishly","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the qualities, or showing the characteristics, of an imp."},{"word":"Impishly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an imp."},{"word":"Imppiteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pitiless; cruel."},{"word":"Implacability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being implacable."},{"word":"Implacable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince."},{"word":"Implacable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable."},{"word":"Implacableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being implacable; implacability."},{"word":"Implacably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an implacable manner."},{"word":"Implacental","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes."},{"word":"Implacental","type":"(n.)","description":"A mammal having no placenta."},{"word":"Implacentalia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed."},{"word":"Implanted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Implant"},{"word":"Implanting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Implant"},{"word":"Implant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth."},{"word":"Implantation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of implantating."},{"word":"Implated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Implate"},{"word":"Implating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Implate"},{"word":"Implate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron."},{"word":"Implausibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of plausibility; the quality of being implausible."},{"word":"Implausible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed."},{"word":"Impleach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pleach; to interweave."},{"word":"Impleaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Implead"},{"word":"Impleading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Implead"},{"word":"Implead","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach."},{"word":"Implead","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sue at law."},{"word":"Impleadable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous."},{"word":"Impleader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who prosecutes or sues another."},{"word":"Impleasing","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpleasing; displeasing."},{"word":"Impledge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pledge."},{"word":"Implement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war."},{"word":"Implement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accomplish; to fulfill."},{"word":"Implement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements."},{"word":"Implement","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement."},{"word":"Implemental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical."},{"word":"Impletion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of filling, or the state of being full."},{"word":"Impletion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which fills up; filling."},{"word":"Implex","type":"(a.)","description":"Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex."},{"word":"Implexion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution."},{"word":"Impliable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding."},{"word":"Implicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Implicate"},{"word":"Implicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Implicate"},{"word":"Implicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infold; to fold together; to interweave."},{"word":"Implicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc."},{"word":"Implication","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated."},{"word":"Implication","type":"(n.)","description":"An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words."},{"word":"Implicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to implicate."},{"word":"Implicatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By implication."},{"word":"Implicit","type":"(a.)","description":"Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved."},{"word":"Implicit","type":"(a.)","description":"Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement."},{"word":"Implicit","type":"(a.)","description":"Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience."},{"word":"Implicitly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence."},{"word":"Implicitly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of God is implicitly to deny his existence."},{"word":"Implicitness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being implicit."},{"word":"Implicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Implicitness."},{"word":"Implied","type":"(a.)","description":"Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply."},{"word":"Impliedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By implication or inference."},{"word":"Imploded","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by implosion."},{"word":"Implodent","type":"(n.)","description":"An implosive sound."},{"word":"Imploration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imploring; earnest supplication."},{"word":"Implorator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who implores."},{"word":"Imploratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplicatory; entreating."},{"word":"Implored","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Implore"},{"word":"Imploring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Implore"},{"word":"Implore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought."},{"word":"Implore","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To entreat; to beg; to prey."},{"word":"Implore","type":"(n.)","description":"Imploration."},{"word":"Implorer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who implores."},{"word":"Imploring","type":"(a.)","description":"That implores; beseeching; entreating."},{"word":"Implosion","type":"(n.)","description":"A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion."},{"word":"Implosion","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, //159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany."},{"word":"Implosive","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed by implosion."},{"word":"Implosive","type":"(n.)","description":"An implosive sound, an implodent."},{"word":"Implumed","type":"(a.)","description":"Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless."},{"word":"Implunge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To plunge."},{"word":"Impluvium","type":"(n.)","description":"In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm."},{"word":"Implied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imply"},{"word":"Implying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imply"},{"word":"Imply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infold or involve; to wrap up."},{"word":"Imply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting."},{"word":"Imply","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To refer, ascribe, or attribute."},{"word":"Impoison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To poison; to imbitter; to impair."},{"word":"Impoisoner","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisoner."},{"word":"Impoisonment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of poisoning or impoisoning."},{"word":"Impolarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Impolarly"},{"word":"Impolarly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not according to or in, the direction of the poles."},{"word":"Impolicy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud."},{"word":"Impolite","type":"(a.)","description":"Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude."},{"word":"Impolitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure."},{"word":"Impolitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Impolitic."},{"word":"Impoliticly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impolitic manner."},{"word":"Impoliticness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impolitic."},{"word":"Imponderability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness."},{"word":"Imponderable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed."},{"word":"Imponderable","type":"(n.)","description":"An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used."},{"word":"Imponderableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being imponderable."},{"word":"Imponderous","type":"(a.)","description":"Imponderable."},{"word":"Impone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stake; to wager; to pledge."},{"word":"Impoofo","type":"(n.)","description":"The eland."},{"word":"Impoon","type":"(n.)","description":"The duykerbok."},{"word":"Impoor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impoverish."},{"word":"Imporosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness."},{"word":"Imporous","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid."},{"word":"Imported","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Import"},{"word":"Importing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Import"},{"word":"Import","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc."},{"word":"Import","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify."},{"word":"Import","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern."},{"word":"Import","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To signify; to purport; to be of moment."},{"word":"Import","type":"(n.)","description":"Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports."},{"word":"Import","type":"(n.)","description":"That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like."},{"word":"Import","type":"(n.)","description":"Importance; weight; consequence."},{"word":"Importable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being imported."},{"word":"Importable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be endured; insupportable; intolerable."},{"word":"Importance","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance."},{"word":"Importance","type":"(n.)","description":"Subject; matter."},{"word":"Importance","type":"(n.)","description":"Import; meaning; significance."},{"word":"Importance","type":"(n.)","description":"Importunity; solicitation."},{"word":"Importancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important."},{"word":"Important","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious."},{"word":"Important","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty."},{"word":"Important","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Bearing on; forcible; driving."},{"word":"Important","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Importunate; pressing; urgent."},{"word":"Importantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an important manner."},{"word":"Importation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering."},{"word":"Importation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country or state; -- opposed to exportation."},{"word":"Importation","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad."},{"word":"Importer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter."},{"word":"Importing","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of meaning."},{"word":"Importless","type":"(a.)","description":"Void of meaning."},{"word":"Importunable","type":"(a.)","description":"Heavy; insupportable."},{"word":"Importunacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being importunate; importunateness."},{"word":"Importunate","type":"(a.)","description":"Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity."},{"word":"Importunate","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard to be borne; unendurable."},{"word":"Importunator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who importunes; an importuner."},{"word":"Importunee","type":"(a.)","description":"Inopportune; unseasonable."},{"word":"Importunee","type":"(a.)","description":"Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation."},{"word":"Importuned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Importune"},{"word":"Importuning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Importune"},{"word":"Importune","type":"(a.)","description":"To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry."},{"word":"Importune","type":"(a.)","description":"To import; to signify."},{"word":"Importune","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To require; to demand."},{"word":"Importunely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an importune manner."},{"word":"Importuner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who importunes."},{"word":"Importunities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Importunity"},{"word":"Importunity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity."},{"word":"Importuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a port or harbor."},{"word":"Imposable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being imposed or laid on."},{"word":"Imposableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being imposable."},{"word":"Imposed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impose"},{"word":"Imposing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impose"},{"word":"Impose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit."},{"word":"Impose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute."},{"word":"Impose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination."},{"word":"Impose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc."},{"word":"Impose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice trick or deception."},{"word":"Impose","type":"(n.)","description":"A command; injunction."},{"word":"Imposement","type":"(n.)","description":"Imposition."},{"word":"Imposer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who imposes."},{"word":"Imposing","type":"(a.)","description":"Laying as a duty; enjoining."},{"word":"Imposing","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle."},{"word":"Imposing","type":"(a.)","description":"Deceiving; deluding; misleading."},{"word":"Imposing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4."},{"word":"Imposingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an imposing manner."},{"word":"Imposingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being imposing."},{"word":"Imposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like."},{"word":"Imposition","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax."},{"word":"Imposition","type":"(n.)","description":"An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment."},{"word":"Imposition","type":"(n.)","description":"An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture."},{"word":"Imposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc."},{"word":"Imposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4."},{"word":"Impossibilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Impossibility"},{"word":"Impossibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impossible; impracticability."},{"word":"Impossibility","type":"(n.)","description":"An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured."},{"word":"Impossibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Inability; helplessness."},{"word":"Impossible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible."},{"word":"Impossible","type":"(n.)","description":"An impossibility."},{"word":"Impossibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not possibly."},{"word":"Impost","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country."},{"word":"Impost","type":"(n.)","description":"The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests."},{"word":"Imposthumate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apostemate; to form an imposthume or abscess."},{"word":"Imposthumated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imposthumate"},{"word":"Imposthumating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imposthumate"},{"word":"Imposthumate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect with an imposthume or abscess."},{"word":"Imposthumate","type":"(a.)","description":"Imposthumated."},{"word":"Imposthumation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration."},{"word":"Imposthumation","type":"(n.)","description":"An abscess; an imposthume."},{"word":"Imposthume","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess."},{"word":"Imposthume","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Same as Imposthumate."},{"word":"Impostor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender."},{"word":"Impostorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition, character, or practice of an impostor."},{"word":"Impostress","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Impostrix"},{"word":"Impostrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who imposes upon or deceives others."},{"word":"Impostrous","type":"(n.)","description":"Characterized by imposture; deceitful."},{"word":"Imposturage","type":"(n.)","description":"Imposture; cheating."},{"word":"Imposture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating."},{"word":"Impostured","type":"(a.)","description":"Done by imposture."},{"word":"Imposturous","type":"(a.)","description":"Impostrous; deceitful."},{"word":"Impostury","type":"(n.)","description":"Imposture."},{"word":"Impotence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Impotency"},{"word":"Impotency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility."},{"word":"Impotency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of self-restraint or self-control."},{"word":"Impotency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness."},{"word":"Impotent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm."},{"word":"Impotent","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent."},{"word":"Impotent","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren."},{"word":"Impotent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is imoitent."},{"word":"Impotently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impotent manner."},{"word":"Impounded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impound"},{"word":"Impounding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impound"},{"word":"Impound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping."},{"word":"Impoundage","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded."},{"word":"Impoundage","type":"(n.)","description":"The fee or fine for impounding."},{"word":"Impounder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who impounds."},{"word":"Impoverished","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impoverish"},{"word":"Impoverishing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impoverish"},{"word":"Impoverish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families."},{"word":"Impoverish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land."},{"word":"Impoverisher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, impoverishes."},{"word":"Impoverishment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty."},{"word":"Impower","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Empower."},{"word":"Imp-pole","type":"(n.)","description":"A pole for supporting a scaffold."},{"word":"Impracticabilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Impracticability"},{"word":"Impracticability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility."},{"word":"Impracticability","type":"(n.)","description":"An impracticable thing."},{"word":"Impracticability","type":"(n.)","description":"Intractableness; stubbornness."},{"word":"Impracticable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking."},{"word":"Impracticable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with."},{"word":"Impracticable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method."},{"word":"Impracticableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability."},{"word":"Impracticably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impracticable manner."},{"word":"Impractical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not practical."},{"word":"Imprecated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imprecate"},{"word":"Imprecating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imprecate"},{"word":"Imprecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous."},{"word":"Imprecate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at."},{"word":"Imprecation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse."},{"word":"Imprecatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invoking evil; as, the imprecatory psalms."},{"word":"Imprecision","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of precision."},{"word":"Impregn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate; to make fruitful."},{"word":"Impregnability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being impregnable; invincibility."},{"word":"Impregnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue."},{"word":"Impregnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant."},{"word":"Impregnant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which impregnates."},{"word":"Impregnant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile."},{"word":"Impregnated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impregnate"},{"word":"Impregnating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impregnate"},{"word":"Impregnate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young."},{"word":"Impregnate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate."},{"word":"Impregnate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue."},{"word":"Impregnate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore."},{"word":"Impregnate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become pregnant."},{"word":"Impregnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Impregnated; made prolific."},{"word":"Impregnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation."},{"word":"Impregnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation."},{"word":"Impregnation","type":"(n.)","description":"That with which anything is impregnated."},{"word":"Impregnation","type":"(n.)","description":"Intimate mixture; influsion; saturation."},{"word":"Impregnation","type":"(n.)","description":"An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore."},{"word":"Imprejudicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not prejuged; unprejudiced; impartial."},{"word":"Imprenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Impregnable."},{"word":"Impreparation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of preparation."},{"word":"Impresa","type":"(n.)","description":"A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like."},{"word":"Impresarios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Impresario"},{"word":"Impresario","type":"(n.)","description":"The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company."},{"word":"Imprescriptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being imprescriptible."},{"word":"Imprescriptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription."},{"word":"Imprescriptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious."},{"word":"Imprescriptibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an imprescriptible manner; obviously."},{"word":"Imprese","type":"(n.)","description":"A device. See Impresa."},{"word":"Impressed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impress"},{"word":"Impressing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impress"},{"word":"Impress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression)."},{"word":"Impress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something)."},{"word":"Impress","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate."},{"word":"Impress","type":"(n.)","description":"To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money."},{"word":"Impress","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be impressed; to rest."},{"word":"Impresses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Impress"},{"word":"Impress","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impressing or making."},{"word":"Impress","type":"(n.)","description":"A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence."},{"word":"Impress","type":"(n.)","description":"Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp."},{"word":"Impress","type":"(n.)","description":"A device. See Impresa."},{"word":"Impress","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed."},{"word":"Impressibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impressible; susceptibility."},{"word":"Impressible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like."},{"word":"Impression","type":"(n.)","description":"A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like."},{"word":"Impressionability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impressionable."},{"word":"Impresionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible."},{"word":"Impressionableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impressionable."},{"word":"Impressionism","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching."},{"word":"Impressionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism, so called."},{"word":"Impressionistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism."},{"word":"Impressionless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible."},{"word":"Impressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene."},{"word":"Impressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being impressed."},{"word":"Impressment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors."},{"word":"Impressor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, impresses."},{"word":"Impressure","type":"(n.)","description":"Dent; impression."},{"word":"Imprested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imprest"},{"word":"Impresting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imprest"},{"word":"Imprest","type":"(n.)","description":"To advance on loan."},{"word":"Imprest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment."},{"word":"Imprevalence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Imprevalency"},{"word":"Imprevalency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of prevalence."},{"word":"Impreventability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being impreventable."},{"word":"Impreventable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not preventable; invitable."},{"word":"Imprimatur","type":"(n.)","description":"A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published."},{"word":"Imprimery","type":"(n.)","description":"A print; impression."},{"word":"Imprimery","type":"(n.)","description":"A printing establishment."},{"word":"Imprimery","type":"(n.)","description":"The art of printing."},{"word":"Impriming","type":"(n.)","description":"A beginning."},{"word":"Imprimis","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the first place; first in order."},{"word":"Imptrinted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imprint"},{"word":"Imprinting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imprint"},{"word":"Imprint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp."},{"word":"Imprint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something)."},{"word":"Imprint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress."},{"word":"Imprint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet."},{"word":"Imprisoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Imprison"},{"word":"Imprisoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Imprison"},{"word":"Imprison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine."},{"word":"Imprison","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To limit, restrain, or confine in any way."},{"word":"Imprisoner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who imprisons."},{"word":"Imprison","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint."},{"word":"Improbabilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Improbability"},{"word":"Improbability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result."},{"word":"Improbable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event."},{"word":"Improbate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disapprove of; to disallow."},{"word":"Improbation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of disapproving; disapprobation."},{"word":"Improbation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged."},{"word":"Improbative","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Improbatory"},{"word":"Improbatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Implying, or tending to, improbation."},{"word":"Improbity","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty."},{"word":"Improficience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Improficiency"},{"word":"Improficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of proficiency."},{"word":"Improfitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unprofitable."},{"word":"Improgressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not progressive."},{"word":"Improlific","type":"(a.)","description":"Not prolific."},{"word":"Improlificate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate."},{"word":"Imprompt","type":"(a.)","description":"Not ready."},{"word":"Impromptu","type":"(adv. / a.)","description":"Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse."},{"word":"Impromptu","type":"(n.)","description":"Something made or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark."},{"word":"Impromptu","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece composed or played at first thought; a composition in the style of an extempore piece."},{"word":"Improper","type":"(a.)","description":"Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress."},{"word":"Improper","type":"(a.)","description":"Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common."},{"word":"Improper","type":"(a.)","description":"Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous."},{"word":"Improper","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appropriate; to limit."},{"word":"Improperation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt."},{"word":"Improperia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual."},{"word":"Improperly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly."},{"word":"Improperty","type":"(n.)","description":"Impropriety."},{"word":"Impropitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpropitious; unfavorable."},{"word":"Improportionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not proportionable."},{"word":"Improportionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not proportionate."},{"word":"Impropriated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impropriate"},{"word":"Impropriating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impropriate"},{"word":"Impropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appropriate to one's self; to assume."},{"word":"Impropriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement."},{"word":"Impropriate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become an impropriator."},{"word":"Impropriate","type":"(a.)","description":"Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated."},{"word":"Impropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated."},{"word":"Impropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation."},{"word":"Impropriation","type":"(n.)","description":"A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation."},{"word":"Impropriator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property."},{"word":"-trixes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Impropriatrix"},{"word":"-trices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Impropriatrix"},{"word":"Impropriatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A female impropriator."},{"word":"Improprieties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Impropriety"},{"word":"Impropriety","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners."},{"word":"Impropriety","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language."},{"word":"Improsperity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of prosperity."},{"word":"Improsperous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not prosperous."},{"word":"Improvability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness."},{"word":"Improvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities."},{"word":"Improvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous."},{"word":"Improve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disprove or make void; to refute."},{"word":"Improve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence."},{"word":"Improved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Improve"},{"word":"Improving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Improve"},{"word":"Improve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land."},{"word":"Improve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means."},{"word":"Improve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad."},{"word":"Improve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health."},{"word":"Improve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse."},{"word":"Improve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves."},{"word":"Improvement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc."},{"word":"Improvement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse."},{"word":"Improvement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old."},{"word":"Improvement","type":"(n.)","description":"Increase; growth; progress; advance."},{"word":"Improvement","type":"(n.)","description":"Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises."},{"word":"Improvement","type":"(n.)","description":"A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition."},{"word":"Improver","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, improves."},{"word":"Improvided","type":"(a.)","description":"Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared."},{"word":"Improvidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift."},{"word":"Improvident","type":"(a.)","description":"Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man."},{"word":"Improvidentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Improvidently."},{"word":"Improvidently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a improvident manner."},{"word":"Improving","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better."},{"word":"Improvisate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore."},{"word":"Improvisated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Improvisate"},{"word":"Improvisating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Improvisate"},{"word":"Improvisate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To improvise; to extemporize."},{"word":"Improvisation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ."},{"word":"Improvisation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is improvised; an impromptu."},{"word":"Improvisatize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"Same as Improvisate."},{"word":"Improvisator","type":"(n.)","description":"An improviser, or improvvisatore."},{"word":"Improvisatore","type":"(n.)","description":"See Improvvisatore."},{"word":"Improvisatorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Improvisatory"},{"word":"Improvisatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition."},{"word":"Improvisatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"See Improvvisatrice."},{"word":"Improvised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Improvise"},{"word":"Improvising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Improvise"},{"word":"Improvise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously."},{"word":"Improvise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring about, arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation."},{"word":"Improvise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone."},{"word":"Improvise","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand."},{"word":"Improviser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who improvises."},{"word":"Improvision","type":"(n.)","description":"Improvidence."},{"word":"Improviso","type":"(a.)","description":"Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous."},{"word":"Improvvisatori","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Improvvisatore"},{"word":"Improvvisatore","type":"(n.)","description":"One who composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously."},{"word":"Improvvisatrici","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Improvvisatrice"},{"word":"Improvvisatrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A female improvvisatore."},{"word":"Imprudence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence."},{"word":"Imprudent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper."},{"word":"Impuberal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having arrived at puberty; immature."},{"word":"Impuberty","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of not having reached puberty, or the age of ability to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into."},{"word":"Impudence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty."},{"word":"Impudency","type":"(n.)","description":"Impudence."},{"word":"Impudent","type":"(a.)","description":"Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy."},{"word":"Impudently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly."},{"word":"Impudicity","type":"(n.)","description":"Immodesty."},{"word":"Impugned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impugn"},{"word":"Impugning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impugn"},{"word":"Impugn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose."},{"word":"Impugnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being impugned; that may be gainsaid."},{"word":"Impugnation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of impugning; opposition; attack."},{"word":"Impugner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who impugns."},{"word":"Impugnment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impugning, or the state of being impugned."},{"word":"Impuissance","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of power; inability."},{"word":"Impuissant","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak; impotent; feeble."},{"word":"Impulse","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately."},{"word":"Impulse","type":"(n.)","description":"The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force."},{"word":"Impulse","type":"(n.)","description":"The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body."},{"word":"Impulse","type":"(n.)","description":"A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will."},{"word":"Impulse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impel; to incite."},{"word":"Impulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse."},{"word":"Impulsion","type":"(n.)","description":"Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse."},{"word":"Impulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent."},{"word":"Impulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings."},{"word":"Impulsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous; -- said of forces."},{"word":"Impulsive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent."},{"word":"Impulsively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impulsive manner."},{"word":"Impulsiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being impulsive."},{"word":"Impulsor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, impels; an inciter."},{"word":"Impunctate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not punctuate or dotted."},{"word":"Impunctual","type":"(a.)","description":"Not punctual."},{"word":"Impunctuality","type":"(n.)","description":"Neglect of, or failure in, punctuality."},{"word":"Impune","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpunished."},{"word":"Impunibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without punishment; with impunity."},{"word":"Impunity","type":"(n.)","description":"Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss."},{"word":"Impuration","type":"(n.)","description":"Defilement; obscuration."},{"word":"Impure","type":"(a.)","description":"Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc."},{"word":"Impure","type":"(a.)","description":"Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things."},{"word":"Impure","type":"(a.)","description":"Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas."},{"word":"Impure","type":"(a.)","description":"Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean."},{"word":"Impure","type":"(a.)","description":"Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style."},{"word":"Impure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defile; to pollute."},{"word":"Impurely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an impure manner."},{"word":"Impureness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being impure; impurity."},{"word":"Impurity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration."},{"word":"Impurity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient."},{"word":"Impurity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of ceremonial purity; defilement."},{"word":"Impurpled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impurple"},{"word":"Impurpling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impurple"},{"word":"Impurple","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood."},{"word":"Imputability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being imputable; imputableness."},{"word":"Imputable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be imputed; capable of being imputed; chargeable; ascribable; attributable; referable."},{"word":"Imputable","type":"(a.)","description":"Accusable; culpable."},{"word":"Imputableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being imputable."},{"word":"Imputably","type":"(adv.)","description":"By imputation."},{"word":"Imputation","type":"()","description":"The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged."},{"word":"Imputation","type":"()","description":"Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation."},{"word":"Imputation","type":"()","description":"A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ."},{"word":"Imputation","type":"()","description":"Opinion; intimation; hint."},{"word":"Imputative","type":"(a.)","description":"Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed."},{"word":"Imputed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Impute"},{"word":"Imputing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Impute"},{"word":"Impute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense."},{"word":"Impute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us."},{"word":"Impute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take account of; to consider; to regard."},{"word":"Imputer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who imputes."},{"word":"Imputrescible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not putrescible."},{"word":"Imrigh","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland."},{"word":"In-","type":"(prep.)","description":"A prefix from Eng. prep. in, also from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force."},{"word":"In-","type":"()","description":"An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial."},{"word":"-in","type":"()","description":"A suffix. See the Note under -ine."},{"word":"In","type":"(prep.)","description":"The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among."},{"word":"In","type":"(prep.)","description":"With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air."},{"word":"In","type":"(prep.)","description":"With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light."},{"word":"In","type":"(prep.)","description":"With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army."},{"word":"In","type":"(prep.)","description":"With reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear."},{"word":"In","type":"(prep.)","description":"With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor."},{"word":"In","type":"(prep.)","description":"With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God."},{"word":"In","type":"(prep.)","description":"With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life."},{"word":"In","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house)."},{"word":"In","type":"(adv.)","description":"With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband."},{"word":"In","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is in office; -- the opposite of out."},{"word":"In","type":"(n.)","description":"A reentrant angle; a nook or corner."},{"word":"In","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose; to take in; to harvest."},{"word":"Inability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity."},{"word":"Inable","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enable."},{"word":"Inablement","type":"(n.)","description":"See Enablement."},{"word":"Inabstinence","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of abstinence; indulgence."},{"word":"Inabstracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Not abstracted."},{"word":"Inabusively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without abuse."},{"word":"Inaccessibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness."},{"word":"Inaccessible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not accessible; not to be reached, obtained, or approached; as, an inaccessible rock, fortress, document, prince, etc."},{"word":"Inaccordant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not accordant; discordant."},{"word":"Inaccuracies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inaccuracy"},{"word":"Inaccuracy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness."},{"word":"Inaccuracy","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc."},{"word":"Inaccurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc."},{"word":"Inaccurately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly."},{"word":"Inacquaintance","type":"(a.)","description":"Want of acquaintance."},{"word":"Inacquiescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not acquiescent or acquiescing."},{"word":"Inaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness."},{"word":"Inactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive."},{"word":"Inactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer."},{"word":"Inactive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid."},{"word":"Inactively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inactive manner."},{"word":"Inactivity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter."},{"word":"Inactivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness."},{"word":"Inactose","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of sugar, found in certain plants. It is optically inactive."},{"word":"Inactuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in action."},{"word":"Inactuation","type":"(n.)","description":"Operation."},{"word":"Inadaptation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of adaptation; unsuitableness."},{"word":"Inadequacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness."},{"word":"Inadequate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc."},{"word":"Inadequation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of exact correspondence."},{"word":"Inadherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not adhering."},{"word":"Inadherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Free; not connected with the other organs."},{"word":"Inadhesion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of adhesion."},{"word":"Inadmissibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inadmissible, or not to be received."},{"word":"Inadmissible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed, or received; as, inadmissible testimony; an inadmissible proposition, or explanation."},{"word":"-ces","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inadvertence"},{"word":"-cies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inadvertency"},{"word":"Inadvertence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inadvertency"},{"word":"Inadvertency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence."},{"word":"Inadvertency","type":"(n.)","description":"An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence."},{"word":"Inadvertent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive."},{"word":"Inadvisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not advisable."},{"word":"Inaffability","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of affability or sociability; reticence."},{"word":"Inaffable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not affable; reserved in social intercourse."},{"word":"Inaffectation","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from affectation; naturalness."},{"word":"Inaffected","type":"(a.)","description":"Unaffected."},{"word":"Inaidable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being assisted; helpless."},{"word":"Inalienability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inalienable."},{"word":"Inalienable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright."},{"word":"Inalienableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability."},{"word":"Inalienably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested."},{"word":"Inalimental","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording no aliment or nourishment."},{"word":"Inalterability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being unalterable or unchangeable; permanence."},{"word":"Inalterable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable."},{"word":"Inamiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unamiable."},{"word":"Inamissible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being lost."},{"word":"Inamorata","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman in love; a mistress."},{"word":"Inamorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Enamored."},{"word":"Inamoratos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inamorato"},{"word":"Inamorato","type":"(n.)","description":"A male lover."},{"word":"Inamovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not amovable or removable."},{"word":"In-and-in","type":"(n.)","description":"An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike."},{"word":"In","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding."},{"word":"Inane","type":"(a.)","description":"Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless."},{"word":"Inane","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is void or empty."},{"word":"Inangular","type":"(a.)","description":"Not angular."},{"word":"Inaniloquent","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inaniloquous"},{"word":"Inaniloquous","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous."},{"word":"Inanimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To animate."},{"word":"Inanimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances."},{"word":"Inanimated","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated."},{"word":"Inanimateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inanimate."},{"word":"Inanimation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of animation; lifeless; dullness."},{"word":"Inanimation","type":"(n.)","description":"Infusion of life or vigor; animation; inspiration."},{"word":"Inanitiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment."},{"word":"Inanitiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Inanition."},{"word":"Inanition","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result."},{"word":"Inanities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inanity"},{"word":"Inanity","type":"(n.)","description":"Inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness."},{"word":"Inanity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity."},{"word":"Inanity","type":"(n.)","description":"An inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object; -- chiefly in pl.; as, the inanities of the world."},{"word":"Inantherate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens."},{"word":"In","type":"()","description":"Between antae; -- said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building. See Anta."},{"word":"Inapathy","type":"(n.)","description":"Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy."},{"word":"Inappealable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not admitting of appeal; not appealable."},{"word":"Inappeasable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable."},{"word":"Inappellability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inappellable; finality."},{"word":"Inappellable","type":"(a.)","description":"Inappealable; final."},{"word":"Inappetence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inappetency"},{"word":"Inappetency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of appetency; want of desire."},{"word":"Inapplicability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness."},{"word":"Inapplicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case."},{"word":"Inapplication","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence."},{"word":"Inapposite","type":"(a.)","description":"Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent."},{"word":"Inappreciable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated."},{"word":"Inappreciation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of appreciation."},{"word":"Inapprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not apprehensible; unintelligible; inconceivable."},{"word":"Inapprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of apprehension."},{"word":"Inapprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not apprehensive; regardless; unconcerned."},{"word":"Inapproachable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled."},{"word":"Inappropriate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for."},{"word":"Inapt","type":"(a.)","description":"Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept."},{"word":"Inaptitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of aptitude."},{"word":"Inaquate","type":"(a.)","description":"Embodied in, or changed into, water."},{"word":"Inaquation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being inaquate."},{"word":"Inarable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not arable."},{"word":"Inarched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inarch"},{"word":"Inarching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inarch"},{"word":"Inarch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach."},{"word":"Inarching","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of ingrafting. See Inarch."},{"word":"Inarticulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words."},{"word":"Inarticulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm."},{"word":"Inarticulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a hinge; -- said of an order (Inarticulata or Ecardines) of brachiopods."},{"word":"Inarticulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of articulating."},{"word":"Inarticulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint."},{"word":"Inarticulately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inarticulate manner."},{"word":"Inarticulateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inarticulate."},{"word":"Inarticulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Inarticulateness."},{"word":"Inartificial","type":"(a.)","description":"Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art; natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial character."},{"word":"Inasmuch","type":"(adv.)","description":"In like degree; in like manner; seeing that; considering that; since; -- followed by as. See In as much as, under In, prep."},{"word":"Inattention","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect."},{"word":"Inattentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit."},{"word":"Inaudibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inaudible; inaudibleness."},{"word":"Inaudible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent."},{"word":"Inaugur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inaugurate."},{"word":"Inaugural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises."},{"word":"Inaugural","type":"(n.)","description":"An inaugural address."},{"word":"Inaugurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Invested with office; inaugurated."},{"word":"Inaugurated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inaugurate"},{"word":"Inaugurating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inaugurate"},{"word":"Inaugurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce or induct into an office with suitable ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king."},{"word":"Inaugurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to begin, esp. with formality or solemn ceremony; hence, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate; -- used especially of something of dignity or worth or public concern; as, to inaugurate a new era of things, new methods, etc."},{"word":"Inaugurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To celebrate the completion of, or the first public use of; to dedicate, as a statue."},{"word":"Inaugurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To begin with good omens."},{"word":"Inauguration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies."},{"word":"Inauguration","type":"(n.)","description":"The formal beginning or initiation of any movement, course of action, etc.; as, the inauguration of a new system, a new condition, etc."},{"word":"Inaugurator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inaugurates."},{"word":"Inauguratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable for, or pertaining to, inauguration."},{"word":"Inaurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with gold; gilded."},{"word":"Inaurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with gold; to gild."},{"word":"Inauration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of gilding or covering with gold."},{"word":"Inauspicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Inauspicious."},{"word":"Inauspicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable."},{"word":"Inauthoritative","type":"(a.)","description":"Without authority; not authoritative."},{"word":"Inbarge","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To embark; to go or put into a barge."},{"word":"Inbeaming","type":"(n.)","description":"Shining in."},{"word":"Inbeing","type":"(n.)","description":"Inherence; inherent existence."},{"word":"Inbind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose."},{"word":"Inblown","type":"(a.)","description":"Blown in or into."},{"word":"Inboard","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard."},{"word":"Inboard","type":"(a. & adv.)","description":"From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke."},{"word":"Inborn","type":"(a.)","description":"Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions."},{"word":"Inbreak","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inbreaking"},{"word":"Inbreaking","type":"(n.)","description":"A breaking in; inroad; invasion."},{"word":"Inbreathed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inbreathe"},{"word":"Inbreathing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inbreathe"},{"word":"Inbreathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse by breathing; to inspire."},{"word":"Inbred","type":"(a.)","description":"Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth."},{"word":"Inbred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inbreed"},{"word":"Inbreeding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inbreed"},{"word":"Inbreed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce or generate within."},{"word":"Inbreed","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i."},{"word":"Inburning","type":"(a.)","description":"Burning within."},{"word":"Inburnt","type":"(a.)","description":"Burnt in; ineffaceable."},{"word":"Inburst","type":"(n.)","description":"A bursting in or into."},{"word":"Inc","type":"(n.)","description":"A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards."},{"word":"Inca","type":"(n.)","description":"An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun."},{"word":"Inca","type":"(n.)","description":"The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe."},{"word":"Incaged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incage"},{"word":"Incaging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incage"},{"word":"Incage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up."},{"word":"Incagement","type":"(n.)","description":"Confinement in, or as in, cage."},{"word":"Incalculability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incalculable."},{"word":"Incalculable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great."},{"word":"Incalescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm."},{"word":"Incalescency","type":"(n.)","description":"Incalescence."},{"word":"Incalescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing warm; increasing in heat."},{"word":"Incameration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain."},{"word":"Incan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Incas."},{"word":"Incandescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat."},{"word":"Incandescent","type":"(a.)","description":"White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant."},{"word":"Incanescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Becoming hoary or gray; canescent."},{"word":"Incanous","type":"(a.)","description":"Hoary with white pubescence."},{"word":"Incantation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment."},{"word":"Incantation","type":"(n.)","description":"A formula of words used as above."},{"word":"Incantatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Dealing by enchantment; magical."},{"word":"Incanting","type":"(a.)","description":"Enchanting."},{"word":"Incanton","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community."},{"word":"Incapability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incapable; incapacity."},{"word":"Incapability","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office."},{"word":"Incapable","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc."},{"word":"Incapable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood."},{"word":"Incapable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit; as, incapable of pain, or pleasure; incapable of stain or injury."},{"word":"Incapable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government."},{"word":"Incapable","type":"(a.)","description":"As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country."},{"word":"Incapable","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton."},{"word":"Incapableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incapable; incapability."},{"word":"Incapably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incapable manner."},{"word":"Incapacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul."},{"word":"Incapacitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incapacitate"},{"word":"Incapacitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incapacitate"},{"word":"Incapacitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war."},{"word":"Incapacitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify."},{"word":"Incapacitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification."},{"word":"Incapacities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incapacity"},{"word":"Incapacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability."},{"word":"Incapacity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc."},{"word":"Incapsulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose completely, as in a membrane."},{"word":"Incapsulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of becoming, or the state or condition of being, incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus."},{"word":"Incarcerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incarcerate"},{"word":"Incarcerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incarcerate"},{"word":"Incarcerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison."},{"word":"Incarcerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in."},{"word":"Incarcerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Imprisoned."},{"word":"Incarceration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment."},{"word":"Incarceration","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia."},{"word":"Incarceration","type":"(n.)","description":"A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation."},{"word":"Incarcerator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who incarcerates."},{"word":"Incarn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or invest with flesh."},{"word":"Incarn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To develop flesh."},{"word":"Incarnadine","type":"(a.)","description":"Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color."},{"word":"Incarnadine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dye red or crimson."},{"word":"Incarnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not in the flesh; spiritual."},{"word":"Incarnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body."},{"word":"Incarnate","type":"(a.)","description":"Flesh-colored; rosy; red."},{"word":"Incarnated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incarnate"},{"word":"Incarnating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incarnate"},{"word":"Incarnate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature."},{"word":"Incarnate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound."},{"word":"Incarnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature."},{"word":"Incarnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ."},{"word":"Incarnation","type":"(n.)","description":"An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act."},{"word":"Incarnation","type":"(n.)","description":"A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation."},{"word":"Incarnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation."},{"word":"Incarnative","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative."},{"word":"Incarnative","type":"(n.)","description":"An incarnative medicine."},{"word":"Incarnification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation."},{"word":"Incased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incase"},{"word":"Incasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incase"},{"word":"Incase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid."},{"word":"Incasement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased."},{"word":"Incasement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure."},{"word":"Incask","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a casque or as with a casque."},{"word":"Incastellated","type":"(a.)","description":"Confined or inclosed in a castle."},{"word":"Incastelled","type":"(a.)","description":"Hoofbound."},{"word":"Incatenation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of linking together; enchaining."},{"word":"Incaution","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of caution."},{"word":"Incautious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark."},{"word":"Incavated","type":"(a.)","description":"Made hollow; bent round or in."},{"word":"Incavation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an exvation; a depression."},{"word":"Incaved","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed in a cave."},{"word":"Incaverned","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern."},{"word":"Incedingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Majestically."},{"word":"Incelebrity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity."},{"word":"Incend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflame; to excite."},{"word":"Incendiarism","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson."},{"word":"Incendiaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incendiary"},{"word":"Incendiary","type":"(n.)","description":"Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property."},{"word":"Incendiary","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter."},{"word":"Incendiary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime."},{"word":"Incendiary","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious."},{"word":"Incendious","type":"(a.)","description":"Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory."},{"word":"Incensant","type":"(a.)","description":"A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect."},{"word":"Incensation","type":"(n.)","description":"The offering of incense."},{"word":"Incensed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incense"},{"word":"Incensing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incense"},{"word":"Incense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn."},{"word":"Incense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden."},{"word":"Incensed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incense"},{"word":"Incensing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incense"},{"word":"Incense","type":"(n.)","description":"To offer incense to. See Incense."},{"word":"Incense","type":"(n.)","description":"To perfume with, or as with, incense."},{"word":"Incense","type":"(n.)","description":"The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity."},{"word":"Incense","type":"(n.)","description":"The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc."},{"word":"Incense","type":"(n.)","description":"Also used figuratively."},{"word":"Incensebreathing","type":"(a.)","description":"Breathing or exhaling incense."},{"word":"Incensed","type":"(a.)","description":"Angered; enraged."},{"word":"Incensed","type":"(a.)","description":"Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes."},{"word":"Incensement","type":"(n.)","description":"Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement."},{"word":"Incenser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who instigates or incites."},{"word":"Incension","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire."},{"word":"Incensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory."},{"word":"Incensor","type":"(n.)","description":"A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter."},{"word":"Incensories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incensory"},{"word":"Incensory","type":"(n.)","description":"The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible."},{"word":"Incensurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not censurable."},{"word":"Incenter","type":"(n.)","description":"The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle."},{"word":"Incentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative."},{"word":"Incentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to kindle or set on fire."},{"word":"Incentive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action."},{"word":"Incentively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Incitingly; encouragingly."},{"word":"Inception","type":"(n.)","description":"Beginning; commencement; initiation."},{"word":"Inception","type":"(n.)","description":"Reception; a taking in."},{"word":"Inceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative."},{"word":"Inceptive","type":"(n.)","description":"An inceptive word, phrase, or clause."},{"word":"Inceptor","type":"(n.)","description":"A beginner; one in the rudiments."},{"word":"Inceptor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university."},{"word":"Inceration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of smearing or covering with wax."},{"word":"Incerative","type":"(a.)","description":"Cleaving or sticking like wax."},{"word":"Incertain","type":"(n.)","description":"Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady."},{"word":"Incertainty","type":"(n.)","description":"Uncertainty."},{"word":"Incertitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt."},{"word":"Incertum","type":"(a.)","description":"Doubtful; not of definite form."},{"word":"Incessable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unceasing; continual."},{"word":"Incessancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness."},{"word":"Incessant","type":"(a.)","description":"Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc."},{"word":"Incessantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unceasingly; continually."},{"word":"Incession","type":"(n.)","description":"Motion on foot; progress in walking."},{"word":"Incest","type":"(n.)","description":"The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law."},{"word":"Incesttuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection."},{"word":"Inch","type":"(n.)","description":"An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc."},{"word":"Inch","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic."},{"word":"Inch","type":"(n.)","description":"A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment."},{"word":"Inched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inch"},{"word":"Inching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inch"},{"word":"Inch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drive by inches, or small degrees."},{"word":"Inch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deal out by inches; to give sparingly."},{"word":"Inch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly."},{"word":"Inch","type":"(a.)","description":"Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank."},{"word":"Inchambered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inchamber"},{"word":"Inchambering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inchamber"},{"word":"Inchamber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lodge in a chamber."},{"word":"Inchangeability","type":"(n.)","description":"Unchangeableness."},{"word":"Inchant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enchant."},{"word":"Incharitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncharitable; unfeeling."},{"word":"Incharity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of charity."},{"word":"Inchase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enchase."},{"word":"Inchastity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unchastity."},{"word":"Inched","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge."},{"word":"Inchest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into a chest."},{"word":"Inchipin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Inchpin."},{"word":"Inchmeal","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece an inch long."},{"word":"Inchmeal","type":"(adv.)","description":"Little by little; gradually."},{"word":"Inchoate","type":"(a.)","description":"Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete."},{"word":"Inchoate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To begin."},{"word":"Inchoation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of beginning; commencement; inception."},{"word":"Inchoative","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb."},{"word":"Inchoative","type":"(n.)","description":"An inchoative verb. See Inceptive."},{"word":"Inchpin","type":"(n.)","description":"The sweetbread of a deer."},{"word":"Inchworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid."},{"word":"Incicurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Untamable."},{"word":"Incide","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines."},{"word":"Incidence","type":"(n.)","description":"A falling on or upon; an incident; an event."},{"word":"Incidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface."},{"word":"Incidency","type":"(n.)","description":"Incidence."},{"word":"Incident","type":"(a.)","description":"Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface."},{"word":"Incident","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous."},{"word":"Incident","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining."},{"word":"Incident","type":"(a.)","description":"Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal."},{"word":"Incident","type":"(n.)","description":"That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence."},{"word":"Incident","type":"(n.)","description":"That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event."},{"word":"Incident","type":"(n.)","description":"Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal."},{"word":"Incindental","type":"(a.)","description":"Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses."},{"word":"Incendental","type":"(n.)","description":"An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the plural, an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals."},{"word":"Incidently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Incidentally."},{"word":"Incinerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being incinerated or reduced to ashes."},{"word":"Incinerate","type":"()","description":"Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed."},{"word":"Incinerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incinerate"},{"word":"Incinerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incinerate"},{"word":"Incinerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn."},{"word":"Incineration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation."},{"word":"Incipience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Incipiency"},{"word":"Incipiency","type":"(n.)","description":"Beginning; commencement; incipient state."},{"word":"Incipient","type":"(a.)","description":"Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day."},{"word":"Incircle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Encircle."},{"word":"Incirclet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small circle."},{"word":"Incircumscriptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being circumscribed or limited."},{"word":"Incircumscription","type":"(n.)","description":"Condition or quality of being incircumscriptible or limitless."},{"word":"Incircumspect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not circumspect; heedless; careless; reckless; impolitic."},{"word":"Incircumspection","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of circumspection."},{"word":"Incised","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incise"},{"word":"Incising","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incise"},{"word":"Incise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave."},{"word":"Incise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off."},{"word":"Incised","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut in; carved; engraved."},{"word":"Incised","type":"(a.)","description":"Having deep and sharp notches, as a leaf or a petal."},{"word":"Incisely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incised manner."},{"word":"Incision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incising, or cutting into a substance."},{"word":"Incision","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash."},{"word":"Incision","type":"(n.)","description":"Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines."},{"word":"Incisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting."},{"word":"Incisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the incisive bones, the premaxillaries."},{"word":"Incisor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth."},{"word":"Incisor","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth."},{"word":"Incisory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of cutting; incisor; incisive."},{"word":"Incisure","type":"(n.)","description":"A cut; an incision; a gash."},{"word":"Incitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Inciting; stimulating."},{"word":"Incitant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which incites; an inciting agent or cause; a stimulant."},{"word":"Incitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inciting or moving to action."},{"word":"Incitation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive."},{"word":"Incitative","type":"(n.)","description":"A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant."},{"word":"Incited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incite"},{"word":"Inciting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incite"},{"word":"Incite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on."},{"word":"Incitement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inciting."},{"word":"Incitement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse."},{"word":"Inciter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, incites."},{"word":"Incitingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to incite or stimulate."},{"word":"Incito-motor","type":"(a.)","description":"Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor."},{"word":"Incito-motory","type":"(a.)","description":"Incitomotor."},{"word":"Incivil","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncivil; rude."},{"word":"Incivilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incivility"},{"word":"Incivility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness."},{"word":"Incivility","type":"(n.)","description":"Any act of rudeness or ill breeding."},{"word":"Incivility","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism."},{"word":"Incivilization","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism."},{"word":"Incivilly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Uncivilly."},{"word":"Incivism","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of civism; want of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government."},{"word":"Inclamation","type":"(n.)","description":"Exclamation."},{"word":"Inclasp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle."},{"word":"Inclaudent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not closing or shutting."},{"word":"Inclavated","type":"(a.)","description":"Set; fast; fixed."},{"word":"Inclave","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary."},{"word":"Incle","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Inkle."},{"word":"Inclemencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inclemency"},{"word":"Inclemency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity."},{"word":"Inclemency","type":"(n.)","description":"Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather); roughness; storminess; rigor; severe cold, wind, rain, or snow."},{"word":"Inclement","type":"(a.)","description":"Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh."},{"word":"Inclement","type":"(a.)","description":"Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather."},{"word":"Inclemently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inclement manner."},{"word":"Inclinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Leaning; tending."},{"word":"Inclinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth."},{"word":"Inclinableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination."},{"word":"Inclinnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head."},{"word":"Inclinnation","type":"(n.)","description":"A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed."},{"word":"Inclinnation","type":"(n.)","description":"A tendency towards another body or point."},{"word":"Inclinnation","type":"(n.)","description":"The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23� 28'; the inclination of two rays of light."},{"word":"Inclinnation","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or will; propensity; a disposition more favorable to one thing than to another; favor; desire; love."},{"word":"Inclinnation","type":"(n.)","description":"A person or thing loved or admired."},{"word":"Inclinnation","type":"(n.)","description":"Decantation, or tipping for pouring."},{"word":"Inclinatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle."},{"word":"Inclined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incline"},{"word":"Inclining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incline"},{"word":"Incline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south."},{"word":"Incline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed."},{"word":"Incline","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bow; to incline the head."},{"word":"Incline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right."},{"word":"Incline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence."},{"word":"Incline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility."},{"word":"Incline","type":"(n.)","description":"An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope."},{"word":"Inclined","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue."},{"word":"Inclined","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane."},{"word":"Inclined","type":"(p. p. & a.)","description":"Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost."},{"word":"Incliner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial."},{"word":"Inclining","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Inclined, 3."},{"word":"Inclining","type":"(n.)","description":"Inclination; disposition."},{"word":"Inclining","type":"(n.)","description":"Party or side chosen; a following."},{"word":"Inclinnometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle."},{"word":"Inclip","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clasp; to inclose."},{"word":"Incloister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine as in a cloister; to cloister."},{"word":"Inclosed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inclose"},{"word":"Inclosing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inclose"},{"word":"Inclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls."},{"word":"Inclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note."},{"word":"Inclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands."},{"word":"Inclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put into harness; to harness."},{"word":"Incloser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds."},{"word":"Inclosure","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence."},{"word":"Inclosure","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up."},{"word":"Inclosure","type":"(n.)","description":"That which incloses; a barrier or fence."},{"word":"Incloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure."},{"word":"Included","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Include"},{"word":"Including","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Include"},{"word":"Include","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell."},{"word":"Include","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five."},{"word":"Include","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To conclude; to end; to terminate."},{"word":"Included","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosed; confined."},{"word":"Includible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being included."},{"word":"Inclusa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example."},{"word":"Inclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy."},{"word":"Inclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral."},{"word":"Inclusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclosing; encircling; surrounding."},{"word":"Inclusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Comprehending the stated limit or extremes; as, from Monday to Saturday inclusive, that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday; -- opposed to exclusive."},{"word":"Inclusively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inclusive manner."},{"word":"Incoach","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a coach."},{"word":"Incoact","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Incoacted"},{"word":"Incoacted","type":"(a.)","description":"Not compelled; unconstrained."},{"word":"Incoagulable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not coagulable."},{"word":"Incoalescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of not coalescing."},{"word":"Incocted","type":"(a.)","description":"Raw; indigestible."},{"word":"Incoercible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced."},{"word":"Incoercible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical point; -- also particularly of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide, formerly regarded as incapable of liquefaction at any temperature or pressure."},{"word":"Incoercible","type":"(a.)","description":"That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc."},{"word":"Incoexistence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of not coexisting."},{"word":"Incog","type":"(adv.)","description":"Incognito."},{"word":"Incogitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not cogitable; inconceivable."},{"word":"Incogitance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Incogitancy"},{"word":"Incogitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness."},{"word":"Incogitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Toughtless; inconsiderate."},{"word":"Incogitantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incogitant manner."},{"word":"Incogitative","type":"(a.)","description":"Not cogitative; not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being."},{"word":"Incogitativity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking."},{"word":"Incognita","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who is unknown or in disguise."},{"word":"Incognita","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being in disguise; -- said of a woman."},{"word":"Incognitant","type":"(a.)","description":"Ignorant."},{"word":"Incognito","type":"(a. / adv.)","description":"Without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title; -- said esp. of great personages who sometimes adopt a disguise or an assumed character in order to avoid notice."},{"word":"Incognitos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incognito"},{"word":"Incognito","type":"(a.)","description":"One unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name."},{"word":"Incognito","type":"(a.)","description":"The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized."},{"word":"Incognizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not cognizable; incapable of being recognized, known, or distinguished."},{"word":"Incognizance","type":"(n.)","description":"Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice."},{"word":"Incognizant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not cognizant; failing to apprehended or notice."},{"word":"Incognoscible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incognizable."},{"word":"Incoherence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Incoherency"},{"word":"Incoherency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence."},{"word":"Incoherency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want of agreement or dependence of one part on another; as, the incoherence of arguments, facts, etc."},{"word":"Incoherency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is incoherent."},{"word":"Incoherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances."},{"word":"Incoherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected."},{"word":"Incoherentific","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing incoherence."},{"word":"Incoherently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incoherent manner; without due connection of parts."},{"word":"Incoherentness","type":"(n.)","description":"Incoherence."},{"word":"Incoincidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incoincident; want of coincidence."},{"word":"Incoincident","type":"(a.)","description":"Not coincident; not agreeing in time, in place, or principle."},{"word":"Incolumity","type":"(n.)","description":"Safety; security."},{"word":"Incomber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Encumber."},{"word":"Incombine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ."},{"word":"Incombustibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incombustible."},{"word":"Incombustible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas."},{"word":"Income","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion."},{"word":"Income","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted."},{"word":"Income","type":"(n.)","description":"That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income."},{"word":"Income","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output."},{"word":"Incomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who comes in."},{"word":"Incomer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc."},{"word":"Incoming","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming in; accruing."},{"word":"Incoming","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming in, succeeding, or following, as occupant or possessor; as, in incoming tenant."},{"word":"Incoming","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coming in; arrival."},{"word":"Incoming","type":"(n.)","description":"Income; gain."},{"word":"Incomity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of comity; incivility; rudeness."},{"word":"In","type":"()","description":"See Commendam, and Partnership in Commendam, under Partnership."},{"word":"Incommensurability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incommensurable."},{"word":"Incommensurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable."},{"word":"Incommensurable","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two or more quantities which have no common measure."},{"word":"Incommensurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable."},{"word":"Incommensurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants."},{"word":"Incommiscible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not commiscible; not mixable."},{"word":"Incommixture","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being unmixed; separateness."},{"word":"Incommodated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incommodate"},{"word":"Incommodating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incommodate"},{"word":"Incommodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incommode."},{"word":"Incommodation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being incommoded; inconvenience."},{"word":"Incommoded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incommode"},{"word":"Incommoding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incommode"},{"word":"Incommode","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room."},{"word":"Incommode","type":"(n.)","description":"An inconvenience."},{"word":"Incommodement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incommoded."},{"word":"Incommodious","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to incommode; not commodious; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble; inconvenient; annoying; as, an incommodious seat; an incommodious arrangement."},{"word":"Incommodities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incommodity"},{"word":"Incommodity","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage; encumbrance."},{"word":"Incommunicability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted."},{"word":"Incommunicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others."},{"word":"Incommunicated","type":"(a.)","description":"Not communicated or imparted."},{"word":"Incommunicating","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no communion or intercourse with each other."},{"word":"Incommunicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive."},{"word":"Incommutability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incommutable."},{"word":"Incommutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not commutable; not capable of being exchanged with, or substituted for, another."},{"word":"Incompact","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Incompacted"},{"word":"Incompacted","type":"(a.)","description":"Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete."},{"word":"Incomparable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent."},{"word":"Incompared","type":"(a.)","description":"Peerless; incomparable."},{"word":"Incompass","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Encompass."},{"word":"Incompassion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of compassion or pity."},{"word":"Incompassionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless."},{"word":"-ties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incompatibility"},{"word":"Incompatibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness."},{"word":"Incompatible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition."},{"word":"Incompatible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines."},{"word":"Incompatible","type":"(n.)","description":"An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron."},{"word":"Incompatibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incompatible; incompatibility."},{"word":"Incompatibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incompatible manner; inconsistently; incongruously."},{"word":"Incompetence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Incompetency"},{"word":"Incompetency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts."},{"word":"Incompetency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause."},{"word":"Incompetent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit."},{"word":"Incompetent","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence."},{"word":"Incompetent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible."},{"word":"Incompetently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably."},{"word":"Incompetibility","type":"(n.)","description":"See Incompatibility."},{"word":"Incompetible","type":"(a.)","description":"See Incompatible."},{"word":"Incomplete","type":"(a.)","description":"Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective."},{"word":"Incomplete","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower."},{"word":"Incompletely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incomplete manner."},{"word":"Incompleteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness."},{"word":"Incompletion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of completion; incompleteness."},{"word":"Incomplex","type":"(a.)","description":"Not complex; uncompounded; simple."},{"word":"Incompliable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not compliable; not conformable."},{"word":"Incompliance","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy."},{"word":"Incompliance","type":"(n.)","description":"Refusal or failure to comply."},{"word":"Incompliant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn."},{"word":"Incomposed","type":"(a.)","description":"Disordered; disturbed."},{"word":"Incomposite","type":"(a.)","description":"Not composite; uncompounded; simple."},{"word":"Incompossible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of joint existence; incompatible; inconsistent."},{"word":"Incomprehense","type":"(a.)","description":"Incomprehensible."},{"word":"Incomprehensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability."},{"word":"Incomprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being contained within limits."},{"word":"Incomprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable."},{"word":"Incomprehension","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of comprehension or understanding."},{"word":"Incomprehensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not comprehensive; not capable of including or of understanding; not extensive; limited."},{"word":"Incompressibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids."},{"word":"Incompressible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible."},{"word":"Incomputable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not computable."},{"word":"Inconcealable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not concealable."},{"word":"Inconceivability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inconceivable; inconceivableness."},{"word":"Inconceivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion."},{"word":"Inconceptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Inconceivable."},{"word":"Inconcerning","type":"(a.)","description":"Unimportant; trifling."},{"word":"Inconcinne","type":"(a.)","description":"Dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable."},{"word":"Inconcinnity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness."},{"word":"Inconcinnous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not concinnous; unsuitable; discordant."},{"word":"Inconcludent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not inferring a conclusion or consequence; not conclusive."},{"word":"Inconcluding","type":"(a.)","description":"Inferring no consequence."},{"word":"Inconclusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conclusive; leading to no conclusion; not closing or settling a point in debate, or a doubtful question; as, evidence is inconclusive when it does not exhibit the truth of a disputed case in such a manner as to satisfy the mind, and put an end to debate or doubt."},{"word":"Inconcoct","type":"(a.)","description":"Inconcocted."},{"word":"Inconcocted","type":"(a.)","description":"Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened."},{"word":"Inconcoction","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity."},{"word":"Inconcrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Not concrete."},{"word":"Inconcurring","type":"(a.)","description":"Not concurring; disagreeing."},{"word":"Inconcussible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not concussible; that cannot be shaken."},{"word":"Incondensability","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Incondensibility"},{"word":"Incondensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incondensable."},{"word":"Incondensable","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Incondensible"},{"word":"Incondensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form."},{"word":"Incondite","type":"(a.)","description":"Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular."},{"word":"Inconditional","type":"(a.)","description":"Unconditional."},{"word":"Inconditionate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conditioned; not limited; absolute."},{"word":"Inconform","type":"(a.)","description":"Unconformable."},{"word":"Inconformable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unconformable."},{"word":"Inconformity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of conformity; nonconformity."},{"word":"Inconfused","type":"(a.)","description":"Not confused; distinct."},{"word":"Inconfusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from confusion; distinctness."},{"word":"Inconfutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not confutable."},{"word":"Incongealable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not congealable; incapable of being congealed."},{"word":"Incongenial","type":"(a.)","description":"Not congenial; uncongenial."},{"word":"Incongruence","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of congruence; incongruity."},{"word":"Incongruent","type":"(a.)","description":"Incongruous."},{"word":"Incongruities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incongruity"},{"word":"Incongruity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety."},{"word":"Incongruity","type":"(n.)","description":"Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry or of harmony."},{"word":"Incongruity","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is incongruous; want of congruity."},{"word":"Incongruous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress, etc."},{"word":"Inconnected","type":"(a.)","description":"Not connected; disconnected."},{"word":"Inconnection","type":"(n.)","description":"Disconnection."},{"word":"Inconnexedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not connectedly; without connection."},{"word":"Inconscionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unconscionable."},{"word":"Inconscious","type":"(a.)","description":"Unconscious."},{"word":"Inconsecutiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of not being consecutive."},{"word":"Inconsequence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness."},{"word":"Inconsequent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence."},{"word":"Inconsequential","type":"(a.)","description":"Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence."},{"word":"Inconsequentiality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being inconsequential."},{"word":"Inconsequentness","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconsequence."},{"word":"Inconsiderable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum."},{"word":"Inconsideracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness."},{"word":"Inconsiderate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct."},{"word":"Inconsiderate","type":"(a.)","description":"Inconsiderable."},{"word":"Inconsiderately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inconsiderate manner."},{"word":"Inconsiderateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inconsiderate."},{"word":"Inconsideration","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness."},{"word":"Inconsistence","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconsistency."},{"word":"Inconsistencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inconsistency"},{"word":"Inconsistency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility."},{"word":"Inconsistency","type":"(n.)","description":"Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent."},{"word":"Inconsistency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness."},{"word":"Inconsistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory."},{"word":"Inconsistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not exhibiting uniformity of sentiment, steadiness to principle, etc.; unequal; fickle; changeable."},{"word":"Inconsistently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inconsistent manner."},{"word":"Inconsistentness","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconsistency."},{"word":"Inconsisting","type":"(a.)","description":"Inconsistent."},{"word":"Inconsolable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate."},{"word":"Inconsonance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inconsonancy"},{"word":"Inconsonancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement."},{"word":"Inconsonant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant."},{"word":"Inconspicuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conspicuous or noticeable; hardly discernible."},{"word":"Inconstance","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconstancy."},{"word":"Inconstancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness."},{"word":"Inconstant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship."},{"word":"Inconstantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inconstant manner."},{"word":"Incomsumable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent."},{"word":"Inconsummate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not consummated; not finished; incomplete."},{"word":"Inconsumptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Inconsumable."},{"word":"Incontaminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not contaminated; pure."},{"word":"Incontentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Discontent."},{"word":"Incontestability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incontestable."},{"word":"Incontestable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts."},{"word":"Incontested","type":"(a.)","description":"Not contested."},{"word":"Incontiguous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate."},{"word":"Incontinence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Incontinency"},{"word":"Incontinency","type":"(n.)","description":"Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness."},{"word":"Incontinency","type":"(n.)","description":"The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine."},{"word":"Incontinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd."},{"word":"Incontinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Unable to restrain natural evacuations."},{"word":"Incontinent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is unchaste."},{"word":"Incontinent","type":"(adv.)","description":"Incontinently; instantly immediately."},{"word":"Incontinently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites."},{"word":"Incontinently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Immediately; at once; forthwith."},{"word":"Incontracted","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncontracted."},{"word":"Incontrollable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not controllable; uncontrollable."},{"word":"Incontrovertibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of being incontrovertible."},{"word":"Incontrovertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable."},{"word":"Inconvenience","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement."},{"word":"Inconvenience","type":"(n.)","description":"That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty."},{"word":"Inconvenience","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor."},{"word":"Inconveniency","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconvenience."},{"word":"Inconvenient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient."},{"word":"Inconvenient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not convenient; giving trouble, uneasiness, or annoyance; hindering progress or success; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, arrangement, or time."},{"word":"Inconveniently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inconvenient manner; incommodiously; unsuitably; unseasonably."},{"word":"Inconversable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incommunicative; unsocial; reserved."},{"word":"Inconversant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar."},{"word":"Inconverted","type":"(a.)","description":"Not turned or changed about."},{"word":"Inconvertibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold."},{"word":"Inconvertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie."},{"word":"Inconvertibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Inconvertibility."},{"word":"Inconvertibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inconvertible manner."},{"word":"Inconvincible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not convincible; incapable of being convinced."},{"word":"Inconvincibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner not admitting of being convinced."},{"word":"Incony","type":"(a.)","description":"Unlearned; artless; pretty; delicate."},{"word":"Incoordinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not coordinate."},{"word":"Incoordination","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of coordination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action."},{"word":"Incoronate","type":"(a.)","description":"Crowned."},{"word":"Incorporal","type":"(a.)","description":"Immaterial; incorporeal; spiritual."},{"word":"Incorporality","type":"(n.)","description":"Incorporeality."},{"word":"Incorporally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Incorporeally."},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual."},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association."},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(a.)","description":"Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied."},{"word":"Incorporated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incorporate"},{"word":"Incorporating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incorporate"},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients. into one consistent mass."},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody."},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; -- used with with and into."},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work."},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc."},{"word":"Incorporate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with."},{"word":"Incorporated","type":"(a.)","description":"United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity."},{"word":"Incorporation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated."},{"word":"Incorporation","type":"(n.)","description":"The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis."},{"word":"Incorporation","type":"(n.)","description":"The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic."},{"word":"Incorporation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of creating a corporation."},{"word":"Incorporation","type":"(n.)","description":"A body incorporated; a corporation."},{"word":"Incorporative","type":"(a.)","description":"Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word."},{"word":"Incorporator","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a number of persons who gets a company incorporated; one of the original members of a corporation."},{"word":"Incorporeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial."},{"word":"Incorporeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal."},{"word":"Incorporealism","type":"(n.)","description":"Existence without a body or material form; immateriality."},{"word":"Incorporealist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes in incorporealism."},{"word":"Incorporeality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism."},{"word":"Incorporeally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incorporeal manner."},{"word":"Incorporeity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality."},{"word":"Incorpse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incorporate."},{"word":"Incorrect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty."},{"word":"Incorrect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation."},{"word":"Incorrect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not accordant with duty or morality; not duly regulated or subordinated; unbecoming; improper; as, incorrect conduct."},{"word":"Incorrection","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of correction, restraint, or discipline."},{"word":"Incorrectly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated."},{"word":"Incorrectness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance."},{"word":"Incorrespondence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Incorrespondency"},{"word":"Incorrespondency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion."},{"word":"Incorresponding","type":"(a.)","description":"Not corresponding; disagreeing."},{"word":"Incorrigibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being incorrigible."},{"word":"Incorrigible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error."},{"word":"Incorrigible","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles."},{"word":"Incorrigibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Incorrigibility."},{"word":"Incorrigibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incorrigible manner."},{"word":"Incorrodible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away."},{"word":"Incorrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled."},{"word":"Incorrupt","type":"(a.)","description":"Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest."},{"word":"Incorrupted","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncorrupted."},{"word":"Incorruptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption."},{"word":"Incorruptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible."},{"word":"Incorruptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright."},{"word":"Incorruptible","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance."},{"word":"Incorruptible","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incorruptible."},{"word":"Incorruptibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incorruptible manner."},{"word":"Incorruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption."},{"word":"Incorruptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Incorruptible; not liable to decay."},{"word":"Incorruptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without corruption."},{"word":"Incorruptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption."},{"word":"Incorruptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Probity; integrity; honesty."},{"word":"Incrassated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incrassate"},{"word":"Incrassating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incrassate"},{"word":"Incrassate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts."},{"word":"Incrassate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become thick or thicker."},{"word":"Incrassate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Incrassated"},{"word":"Incrassated","type":"(a.)","description":"Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated."},{"word":"Incrassated","type":"(a.)","description":"Thickened; becoming thicker."},{"word":"Incrassated","type":"(a.)","description":"Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennae of certain insects."},{"word":"Incrassation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker."},{"word":"Incrassation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation."},{"word":"Incrassative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken."},{"word":"Incrassative","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors."},{"word":"Increasable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being increased."},{"word":"Increased","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Increase"},{"word":"Increasing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Increase"},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease."},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific."},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases."},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence."},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth."},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest."},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Progeny; issue; offspring."},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Generation."},{"word":"Increase","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon."},{"word":"Increaseful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of increase; abundant in produce."},{"word":"Increasement","type":"(n.)","description":"Increase."},{"word":"Increaser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that, increases."},{"word":"Increasingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"More and more."},{"word":"Increated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Increate"},{"word":"Increating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Increate"},{"word":"Increate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To create within."},{"word":"Increate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Increated"},{"word":"Increated","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncreated; self-existent."},{"word":"Incredibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being incredible; incredibleness."},{"word":"Incredibility","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is incredible."},{"word":"Incredible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous."},{"word":"Incredibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Incredibility."},{"word":"Incredibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incredible manner."},{"word":"Incredited","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncredited."},{"word":"Incredulity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being i/credulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief."},{"word":"Incredulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving."},{"word":"Incredulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity."},{"word":"Incredulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Incredible; not easy to be believed."},{"word":"Incredulously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incredulous manner; with incredulity."},{"word":"Incredulousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Incredulity."},{"word":"Incremable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe."},{"word":"Incremate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate."},{"word":"Incremation","type":"(n.)","description":"Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation."},{"word":"Increment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement."},{"word":"Increment","type":"(n.)","description":"Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement."},{"word":"Increment","type":"(n.)","description":"The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased."},{"word":"Increment","type":"(n.)","description":"An amplification without strict climax,"},{"word":"Incremental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth."},{"word":"Increpate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chide; to rebuke; to reprove."},{"word":"Increpation","type":"(n.)","description":"A chiding; rebuke; reproof."},{"word":"Increscent","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging."},{"word":"Increscent","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side."},{"word":"Increst","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To adorn with a crest."},{"word":"Incriminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incriminate"},{"word":"Incriminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incriminate"},{"word":"Incriminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate."},{"word":"Incrimination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incriminating; crimination."},{"word":"Incriminatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory."},{"word":"Incruental","type":"(a.)","description":"Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice."},{"word":"Incrusted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incrust"},{"word":"Incrusting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incrust"},{"word":"Incrust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar."},{"word":"Incrust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object."},{"word":"Incrustate","type":"(a.)","description":"Incrusted."},{"word":"Incrustate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incrust."},{"word":"Incrustation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted."},{"word":"Incrustation","type":"(n.)","description":"A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler."},{"word":"Incrustation","type":"(n.)","description":"A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement."},{"word":"Incrustation","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything inlaid or imbedded."},{"word":"Incrustment","type":"(n.)","description":"Incrustation."},{"word":"Incrystallizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals."},{"word":"Incubated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incubate"},{"word":"Incubating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incubate"},{"word":"Incubate","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching."},{"word":"Incubation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process."},{"word":"Incubation","type":"(n.)","description":"The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)"},{"word":"Incubation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams."},{"word":"Incubative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation."},{"word":"Incubator","type":"(n.)","description":"That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat."},{"word":"Incubatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving for incubation."},{"word":"Incube","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix firmly, as in cube; to secure or place firmly."},{"word":"Incubiture","type":"(n.)","description":"Incubation."},{"word":"Incubous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous."},{"word":"Incubuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incubus"},{"word":"Incubi","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incubus"},{"word":"Incubus","type":"(n.)","description":"A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night."},{"word":"Incubus","type":"(n.)","description":"The nightmare. See Nightmare."},{"word":"Incubus","type":"(n.)","description":"Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties."},{"word":"Inculcated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inculcate"},{"word":"Inculcating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inculcate"},{"word":"Inculcate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility."},{"word":"Inculcation","type":"(n.)","description":"A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions."},{"word":"Inculcator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inculcates."},{"word":"Inculk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inculcate."},{"word":"Inculp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inculpate."},{"word":"Inculpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Faultless; blameless; innocent."},{"word":"Inculpableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Blamelessness; faultlessness."},{"word":"Inculpably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Blamelessly."},{"word":"Inculpated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inculpate"},{"word":"Inculpating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inculpate"},{"word":"Inculpate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt."},{"word":"Inculpation","type":"(n.)","description":"Blame; censure; crimination."},{"word":"Inculpatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Imputing blame; criminatory; compromising; implicating."},{"word":"Incult","type":"(a.)","description":"Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized."},{"word":"Incultivated","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncultivated."},{"word":"Incultivation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of cultivation."},{"word":"Inculture","type":"(n.)","description":"Want or neglect of cultivation or culture."},{"word":"Incumbencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incumbency"},{"word":"Incumbency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something."},{"word":"Incumbency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is physically incumbent; that which lies as a burden; a weight."},{"word":"Incumbency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is morally incumbent, or is imposed, as a rule, a duty, obligation, or responsibility."},{"word":"Incumbency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of holding a benefice; the full possession and exercise of any office."},{"word":"Incumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent."},{"word":"Incumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon."},{"word":"Incumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them."},{"word":"Incumbent","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird."},{"word":"Incumbent","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office."},{"word":"Incumbently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent."},{"word":"Incumbered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incumber"},{"word":"Incumbering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incumber"},{"word":"Incumber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Encumber."},{"word":"Incumbition","type":"(n.)","description":"Incubation."},{"word":"Incumbrance","type":"(n.)","description":"A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check."},{"word":"Incumbrance","type":"(n.)","description":"A burden or charge upon property; a claim or lien upon an estate, which may diminish its value."},{"word":"Incumbrancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds an incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate."},{"word":"Incumbrous","type":"(a.)","description":"Cumbersome; troublesome."},{"word":"Incunabula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Incunabulum"},{"word":"Incunabulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before a. d. 1500."},{"word":"Incurred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incur"},{"word":"Incurring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incur"},{"word":"Incur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure/ penalty, responsibility, etc."},{"word":"Incur","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render liable or subject to; to occasion."},{"word":"Incur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass; to enter."},{"word":"Incurability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being uncurable; irremediableness."},{"word":"Incurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease."},{"word":"Incurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils."},{"word":"Incurable","type":"(n.)","description":"A person diseased beyond cure."},{"word":"Incurableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being incurable; incurability."},{"word":"Incurably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably."},{"word":"Incuriosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference."},{"word":"Incurious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless."},{"word":"Incuriously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an curious manner."},{"word":"Incuriousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unconcernedness; incuriosity."},{"word":"Incurrence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of incurring, bringing on, or subjecting one's self to (something troublesome or burdensome); as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc."},{"word":"Incurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca."},{"word":"Incursion","type":"(n.)","description":"A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid."},{"word":"Incursion","type":"(n.)","description":"Attack; occurrence."},{"word":"Incursive","type":"(a.)","description":"Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile."},{"word":"Incurtain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To curtain."},{"word":"Incurvate","type":"(a.)","description":"Curved; bent; crooked."},{"word":"Incurvated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incurvate"},{"word":"Incurvating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incurvate"},{"word":"Incurvate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook."},{"word":"Incurvation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bending, or curving."},{"word":"Incurvation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being bent or curved; curvature."},{"word":"Incurvation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence."},{"word":"Incurved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Incurve"},{"word":"Incurving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Incurve"},{"word":"Incurve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend; to curve; to make crooked."},{"word":"Incurved","type":"(a.)","description":"Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals."},{"word":"Incurvity","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards."},{"word":"Incus","type":"(n.)","description":"An anvil."},{"word":"Incus","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear."},{"word":"Incus","type":"(n.)","description":"The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera."},{"word":"Incuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving."},{"word":"Incuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Alt. of Incuss"},{"word":"Incuss","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal."},{"word":"Incute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike or stamp in."},{"word":"Incyst","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Encyst."},{"word":"Incysted","type":"(a.)","description":"See Encysted."},{"word":"Ind","type":"(n.)","description":"India."},{"word":"Indagate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seek or search out."},{"word":"Indagation","type":"(n.)","description":"Search; inquiry; investigation."},{"word":"Indagative","type":"(a.)","description":"Searching; exploring; investigating."},{"word":"Indagator","type":"(n.)","description":"A searcher; an explorer; an investigator."},{"word":"Indamage","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Endamage."},{"word":"Indamaged","type":"(a.)","description":"Not damaged."},{"word":"Indart","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce, as with a dart."},{"word":"Indazol","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous compound, C7H6N2, analogous to indol, and produced from a diazo derivative or cinnamic acid."},{"word":"Inde","type":"(a.)","description":"Azure-colored; of a bright blue color."},{"word":"Indear","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Endear."},{"word":"Indebted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indebt"},{"word":"Indebting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indebt"},{"word":"Indebt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted."},{"word":"Indebted","type":"(a.)","description":"Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden."},{"word":"Indebted","type":"(a.)","description":"Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude is due; as, we are indebted to our parents for their care of us in infancy; indebted to friends for help and encouragement."},{"word":"Indebtedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being indebted."},{"word":"Indebtedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum owed; debts, collectively."},{"word":"Indebtment","type":"(n.)","description":"Indebtedness."},{"word":"Indecence","type":"(n.)","description":"See Indecency."},{"word":"Indecencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Indecency"},{"word":"Indecency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity."},{"word":"Indecency","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy."},{"word":"Indecent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language."},{"word":"Indecently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indecent manner."},{"word":"Indeciduate","type":"(a.)","description":"Indeciduous."},{"word":"Indeciduate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no decidua; nondeciduate."},{"word":"Indeciduous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not deciduous or falling, as the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial."},{"word":"Indecimable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes."},{"word":"Indecipherable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved."},{"word":"Indecision","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation."},{"word":"Indecisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer."},{"word":"Indecisive","type":"(a.)","description":"Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating; hesitating; as, an indecisive state of mind; an indecisive character."},{"word":"Indecisively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without decision."},{"word":"Indecisiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being indecisive; unsettled state."},{"word":"Indecinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun."},{"word":"Indecinable","type":"(n.)","description":"An indeclinable word."},{"word":"Indecinably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without variation."},{"word":"Indecinably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without variation of termination."},{"word":"Indecomposable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not decomposable; incapable or difficult of decomposition; not resolvable into its constituents or elements."},{"word":"Indecomposableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability."},{"word":"Indecorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct."},{"word":"Indecorously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indecorous manner."},{"word":"Indecorousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum."},{"word":"Indecorum","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of decorum; impropriety of behavior; that in behavior or manners which violates the established rules of civility, custom, or etiquette; indecorousness."},{"word":"Indecorum","type":"(n.)","description":"An indecorous or becoming action."},{"word":"Indeed","type":"(adv.)","description":"In reality; in truth; in fact; verily; truly; -- used in a variety of sense. Esp.: (a) Denoting emphasis; as, indeed it is so. (b) Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right. (c) Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you? Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies."},{"word":"Indefatigability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being indefatigable."},{"word":"Indefatigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application."},{"word":"Indefatigableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency."},{"word":"Indefatigably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently."},{"word":"Indefatigation","type":"(n.)","description":"Indefatigableness; unweariedness."},{"word":"Indefeasibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being undefeasible."},{"word":"Indefeasible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title."},{"word":"Indefectibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being indefectible."},{"word":"Indefectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay."},{"word":"Indefective","type":"(a.)","description":"Not defective; perfect; complete."},{"word":"Indefeisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Indefeasible."},{"word":"Indefensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of not being defensible."},{"word":"Indefensible","type":"()","description":"Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc."},{"word":"Indefensibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indefensible manner."},{"word":"Indefensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Defenseless."},{"word":"Indeficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of not being deficient."},{"word":"Indeficient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not deficient; full."},{"word":"Indefinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable."},{"word":"Indefinably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indefinable manner."},{"word":"Indefinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Not definite; not limited, defined, or specified; not explicit; not determined or fixed upon; not precise; uncertain; vague; confused; obscure; as, an indefinite time, plan, etc."},{"word":"Indefinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no determined or certain limits; large and unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as indefinite space; the indefinite extension of a straight line."},{"word":"Indefinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Boundless; infinite."},{"word":"Indefinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Too numerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate."},{"word":"Indefinitely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely."},{"word":"Indefiniteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being indefinite."},{"word":"Indefinitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite."},{"word":"Indehiscence","type":"(n.)","description":"The property or state of being indehiscent."},{"word":"Indehiscent","type":"(a.)","description":"Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut."},{"word":"Indelectable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not delectable; unpleasant; disagreeable."},{"word":"Indeliberate","type":"(a.)","description":"Done without deliberation; unpremeditated."},{"word":"Indeliberated","type":"(a.)","description":"Indeliberate."},{"word":"Indelibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being indelible."},{"word":"Indelible","type":"(a.)","description":"That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory."},{"word":"Indelible","type":"(a.)","description":"That can not be annulled; indestructible."},{"word":"Indelicacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Indelicacy"},{"word":"Indelicacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind."},{"word":"Indelicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior."},{"word":"Indemnification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of indemnifying, preserving, or securing against loss, damage, or penalty; reimbursement of loss, damage, or penalty; the state of being indemnified."},{"word":"Indemnification","type":"(n.)","description":"That which indemnifies."},{"word":"Indemnified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indemnify"},{"word":"Indemnifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indemnify"},{"word":"Indemnify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure."},{"word":"Indemnify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate."},{"word":"Indemnities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Indemnity"},{"word":"Indemnity","type":"(n.)","description":"Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty."},{"word":"Indemnity","type":"(n.)","description":"Indemnification, compensation, or remuneration for loss, damage, or injury sustained."},{"word":"Indemonstrability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being indemonstrable."},{"word":"Indemonstrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being demonstrated."},{"word":"Indenization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of naturalizing; endenization."},{"word":"Indenize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To naturalize."},{"word":"Indenizened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indenizen"},{"word":"Indenizening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indenizen"},{"word":"Indenizen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize."},{"word":"Indented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indent"},{"word":"Indenting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indent"},{"word":"Indent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be cut, notched, or dented."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To contract; to bargain or covenant."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(n.)","description":"A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(n.)","description":"A stamp; an impression."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(n.)","description":"A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt."},{"word":"Indent","type":"(n.)","description":"A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army."},{"word":"Indentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of indenting or state of being indented."},{"word":"Indentation","type":"(n.)","description":"A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc."},{"word":"Indentation","type":"(n.)","description":"A recess or sharp depression in any surface."},{"word":"Indentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph."},{"word":"Indentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems."},{"word":"Indented","type":"(a.)","description":"Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface."},{"word":"Indented","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating."},{"word":"Indented","type":"(a.)","description":"Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary."},{"word":"Indented","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant."},{"word":"Indented","type":"(a.)","description":"Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds."},{"word":"Indentedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With indentations."},{"word":"Indenting","type":"(n.)","description":"Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth."},{"word":"Indention","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Indentation, 4."},{"word":"Indentment","type":"(n.)","description":"Indenture."},{"word":"Indenture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of indenting, or state of being indented."},{"word":"Indenture","type":"(n.)","description":"A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master."},{"word":"Indentured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indenture"},{"word":"Indenturing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indenture"},{"word":"Indenture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow."},{"word":"Indenture","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice."},{"word":"Indenture","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent."},{"word":"Independence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference."},{"word":"Independence","type":"(n.)","description":"Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood."},{"word":"Independency","type":"(n.)","description":"Independence."},{"word":"Independency","type":"(n.)","description":"Doctrine and polity of the Independents."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(a.)","description":"Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(a.)","description":"Separate from; exclusive; irrespective."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority."},{"word":"Independent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting."},{"word":"Independentism","type":"(n.)","description":"Independency; the church system of Independents."},{"word":"Independently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an independent manner; without control."},{"word":"Indeposable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being deposed."},{"word":"Indepravate","type":"(a.)","description":"Undepraved."},{"word":"Indeprecable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable or undeserving of being deprecated."},{"word":"Indeprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being found out."},{"word":"Indeprivable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away."},{"word":"Indescribable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being described."},{"word":"Indescriptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not descriptive."},{"word":"Indesert","type":"(n.)","description":"Ill desert."},{"word":"Indesinent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not ceasing; perpetual."},{"word":"Indesirable","type":"(a.)","description":"Undesirable."},{"word":"Indestructibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being indestructible."},{"word":"Indestructible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed."},{"word":"Indeterminable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited."},{"word":"Indeterminable","type":"(n.)","description":"An indeterminable thing or quantity."},{"word":"Indeterminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years."},{"word":"Indetermination","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind."},{"word":"Indetermination","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of fixed or stated direction."},{"word":"Indetermined","type":"(a.)","description":"Undetermined."},{"word":"Indevirginate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not devirginate."},{"word":"Indevote","type":"(a.)","description":"Not devoted."},{"word":"Indevotion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of devotion; impiety; irreligion."},{"word":"Indevout","type":"(a.)","description":"Not devout."},{"word":"Indew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indue."},{"word":"Indexes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Index"},{"word":"Indices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Index"},{"word":"Index","type":"(n.)","description":"That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses."},{"word":"Index","type":"(n.)","description":"That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist."},{"word":"Index","type":"(n.)","description":"A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume."},{"word":"Index","type":"(n.)","description":"A prologue indicating what follows."},{"word":"Index","type":"(n.)","description":"The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger."},{"word":"Index","type":"(n.)","description":"The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent."},{"word":"indices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Index"},{"word":"Indexed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Index"},{"word":"Indexing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Index"},{"word":"Index","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents."},{"word":"Indexer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes an index."},{"word":"Indexical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index."},{"word":"Indexically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an index."},{"word":"Indexterity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness."},{"word":"India","type":"(n.)","description":"A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan."},{"word":"Indiadem","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems."},{"word":"Indiamen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Indiaman"},{"word":"Indiaman","type":"(n.)","description":"A large vessel in the India trade."},{"word":"Indian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies."},{"word":"Indian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk."},{"word":"Indian","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like."},{"word":"Indian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of India."},{"word":"Indian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India."},{"word":"Indianeer","type":"(n.)","description":"An Indiaman."},{"word":"India","type":"()","description":"See Caoutchouc."},{"word":"Indical","type":"(a.)","description":"Indexical."},{"word":"Indican","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo."},{"word":"Indican","type":"(n.)","description":"An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin."},{"word":"Indicant","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating."},{"word":"Indicant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which indicates or points out; as, an indicant of the remedy for a disease."},{"word":"Indicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indicate"},{"word":"Indicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indicate"},{"word":"Indicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known."},{"word":"Indicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants."},{"word":"Indicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator."},{"word":"Indicated","type":"(a.)","description":"Shown; denoted; registered; measured."},{"word":"Indication","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of pointing out or indicating."},{"word":"Indication","type":"(n.)","description":"That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence."},{"word":"Indication","type":"(n.)","description":"Discovery made; information."},{"word":"Indication","type":"(n.)","description":"Explanation; display."},{"word":"Indication","type":"(n.)","description":"Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies."},{"word":"Indicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious."},{"word":"Indicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc."},{"word":"Indicative","type":"(n.)","description":"The indicative mood."},{"word":"Indicatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify."},{"word":"Indicator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car."},{"word":"Indicator","type":"(n.)","description":"A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part"},{"word":"Indicator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below)."},{"word":"Indicator","type":"(n.)","description":"A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc."},{"word":"Indicator","type":"(n.)","description":"The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer."},{"word":"Indicator","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey."},{"word":"Indicator","type":"(n.)","description":"That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis."},{"word":"Indicatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying."},{"word":"Indicatrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic."},{"word":"Indicavit","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts."},{"word":"Indice","type":"(n.)","description":"Index; indication."},{"word":"Indices","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Index."},{"word":"Indicia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Discriminating marks; signs; tokens; indications; appearances."},{"word":"Indicible","type":"(a.)","description":"Unspeakable."},{"word":"Indicolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of tourmaline of an indigo-blue color."},{"word":"Indicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indict"},{"word":"Indicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indict"},{"word":"Indict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite."},{"word":"Indict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce."},{"word":"Indict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach."},{"word":"Indictable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense."},{"word":"Indictee","type":"(n.)","description":"A person indicted."},{"word":"Indicter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who indicts."},{"word":"Indiction","type":"(n.)","description":"Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment."},{"word":"Indiction","type":"(n.)","description":"A cycle of fifteen years."},{"word":"Indictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Proclaimed; declared; public."},{"word":"Indictment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted."},{"word":"Indictment","type":"(n.)","description":"The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury."},{"word":"Indictment","type":"(n.)","description":"An accusation in general; a formal accusation."},{"word":"Indictor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who indicts."},{"word":"Indies","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies."},{"word":"Indifference","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance."},{"word":"Indifference","type":"(n.)","description":"Passableness; mediocrity."},{"word":"Indifference","type":"(n.)","description":"Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias."},{"word":"Indifference","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs."},{"word":"Indifferency","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference."},{"word":"Indifferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance."},{"word":"Indifferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre."},{"word":"Indifferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial."},{"word":"Indifferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family."},{"word":"Indifferent","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested."},{"word":"Indifferent","type":"(adv.)","description":"To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably."},{"word":"Indifferentism","type":"(n.)","description":"State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism."},{"word":"Indifferentism","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Identism."},{"word":"Indifferentism","type":"(n.)","description":"A heresy consisting in an unconcern for any particular creed, provided the morals be right and good."},{"word":"Indifferentist","type":"(n.)","description":"One governed by indifferentism."},{"word":"Indifferently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably."},{"word":"Indifulvin","type":"(n.)","description":"A reddish resinous substance, obtained from indican."},{"word":"Indifuscin","type":"(n.)","description":"A brown amorphous powder, obtained from indican."},{"word":"Indigeen","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Indigene."},{"word":"Indigence","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence."},{"word":"Indigency","type":"(n.)","description":"Indigence."},{"word":"Indigene","type":"(n.)","description":"One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon."},{"word":"Indigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported."},{"word":"Indigenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Native; inherent; innate."},{"word":"Indigent","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of."},{"word":"Indigent","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous."},{"word":"Indigently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indigent manner."},{"word":"Indigest","type":"(a.)","description":"Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested."},{"word":"Indigest","type":"(n.)","description":"Something indigested."},{"word":"Indigested","type":"(a.)","description":"Not digested; undigested."},{"word":"Indigested","type":"(a.)","description":"Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude; as, an indigested array of facts."},{"word":"Indigested","type":"(a.)","description":"Not in a state suitable for healing; -- said of wounds."},{"word":"Indigested","type":"(a.)","description":"Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its contents."},{"word":"Indigested","type":"(a.)","description":"Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam."},{"word":"Indigestedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being undigested; crudeness."},{"word":"Indigestibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being indigestible; indigestibleness."},{"word":"Indigestible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption."},{"word":"Indigestible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile."},{"word":"Indigestion","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion."},{"word":"Indigitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To communicative ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers."},{"word":"Indigitated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indigitate"},{"word":"Indigitating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indigitate"},{"word":"Indigitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point out with the finger; to indicate."},{"word":"Indigitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication."},{"word":"Indiglucin","type":"(n.)","description":"The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution."},{"word":"Indign","type":"(a.)","description":"Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading."},{"word":"Indignance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Indignancy"},{"word":"Indignancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Indignation."},{"word":"Indignant","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with indignation; wrathful; passionate; irate; feeling wrath, as when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation."},{"word":"Indignantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indignant manner."},{"word":"Indignation","type":"(n.)","description":"The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence."},{"word":"Indignation","type":"(n.)","description":"The effect of anger; punishment."},{"word":"Indignify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn."},{"word":"Indignities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Indignity"},{"word":"Indignity","type":"(n.)","description":"Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult."},{"word":"Indignly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unworthily."},{"word":"Indigoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Indigo"},{"word":"Indigo","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors."},{"word":"Indigo","type":"(n.)","description":"A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican."},{"word":"Indigo","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo."},{"word":"Indigofera","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, and I. Anil."},{"word":"Indigogen","type":"(n.)","description":"See Indigo white, under Indigo."},{"word":"Indigogen","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Indican, 2."},{"word":"Indigometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for ascertaining the strength of an indigo solution, as in volumetric analysis."},{"word":"Indigometry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or method of determining the coloring power of indigo."},{"word":"Indigotic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, indigo; as, indigotic acid, which is also called anilic or nitrosalicylic acid."},{"word":"Indigotin","type":"(n.)","description":"See Indigo blue, under Indigo."},{"word":"Indigrubin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Urrhodin."},{"word":"Indihumin","type":"(n.)","description":"A brown amorphous substance resembling humin, and obtained from indican."},{"word":"Indilatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dilatory."},{"word":"Indiligence","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of diligence."},{"word":"Indiligent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not diligent; idle; slothful."},{"word":"Indiminishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being diminished."},{"word":"Indin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol."},{"word":"Indirect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road."},{"word":"Indirect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal."},{"word":"Indirect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive."},{"word":"Indirect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as, indirect results, damages, or claims."},{"word":"Indirect","type":"(a.)","description":"Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc."},{"word":"Indirected","type":"(a.)","description":"Not directed; aimless."},{"word":"Indirection","type":"(n.)","description":"Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness."},{"word":"Indirectly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly."},{"word":"Indirectness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness."},{"word":"Indirectness","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty."},{"word":"Indiretin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark brown resinous substance obtained from indican."},{"word":"Indirubin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance isomeric with, and resembling, indigo blue, and accompanying it as a side product, in its artificial production."},{"word":"Indiscernible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible."},{"word":"Indiscerpibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Indiscerptibility"},{"word":"Indiscerptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being indiscerpible."},{"word":"Indiscerpible","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Indiscerptible"},{"word":"Indiscerptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not discerpible; inseparable."},{"word":"Indisciplinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not disciplinable; undisciplinable."},{"word":"Indiscipline","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of discipline or instruction."},{"word":"Indiscoverable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not discoverable; undiscoverable."},{"word":"Indiscovery","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of discovery."},{"word":"Indiscreet","type":"(a.)","description":"Not discreet; wanting in discretion."},{"word":"Indiscrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Indiscreet."},{"word":"Indiscrete","type":"(a.)","description":"Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous."},{"word":"Indiscretion","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence."},{"word":"Indiscretion","type":"(n.)","description":"An indiscreet act; indiscreet behavior."},{"word":"Indiscriminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing; not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous."},{"word":"Indiscriminating","type":"(a.)","description":"Not discriminating."},{"word":"Indiscrimination","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality."},{"word":"Indiscriminative","type":"(a.)","description":"Making no distinction; not discriminating."},{"word":"Indiscussed","type":"(a.)","description":"Not discussed."},{"word":"Indispensability","type":"(n.)","description":"Indispensableness."},{"word":"Indispensable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite."},{"word":"Indispensable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption."},{"word":"Indispensable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unavoidable; inevitable."},{"word":"Indispensableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary."},{"word":"Indispensably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indispensable manner."},{"word":"Indispersed","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dispersed."},{"word":"Indisposed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indispose"},{"word":"Indisposing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indispose"},{"word":"Indispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify."},{"word":"Indispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat."},{"word":"Indispose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes the mind to severe study; the pride and selfishness of men indispose them to religious duties."},{"word":"Indisposedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being indisposed."},{"word":"Indisposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine."},{"word":"Indisposition","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight disorder or illness."},{"word":"Indisputability","type":"(n.)","description":"Indisputableness."},{"word":"Indisputable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute."},{"word":"Indisputed","type":"(a.)","description":"Undisputed."},{"word":"Indissipable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable o/ being dissipated."},{"word":"Indisdolubility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being indissoluble."},{"word":"Indissoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dissoluble; not capable of being dissolved, melted, or liquefied; insoluble; as few substances are indissoluble by heat, but many are indissoluble in water."},{"word":"Indissoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being rightfully broken or dissolved; perpetually binding or obligatory; firm; stable, as, an indissoluble league or covenant."},{"word":"Indissolubleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Indissolubility."},{"word":"Indissolubly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indissoluble manner."},{"word":"Indissolvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated; incapable o/ separation; perpetually firm and binding; indissoluble; as, an indissolvable bond of union."},{"word":"Indissolvableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Indissolubleness."},{"word":"Indistancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of distance o/ separation; nearness."},{"word":"Indistinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance."},{"word":"Indistinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused; imperfect; faint; as, indistinct vision; an indistinct sound; an indistinct idea or recollection."},{"word":"Indistinctible","type":"(a.)","description":"Indistinguishable."},{"word":"Indistinction","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination."},{"word":"Indistinctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having nothing distinctive; common."},{"word":"Indistinctly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended."},{"word":"Indistinctness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision."},{"word":"Indistinguishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form or color; the difference between them was indisguishable."},{"word":"Indistinguishably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a indistinguishable manner."},{"word":"Indistinguished","type":"(a.)","description":"Indistinct."},{"word":"Indistinguishing","type":"(a.)","description":"Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities."},{"word":"Indisturbance","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference."},{"word":"Inditch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bury in, or cast into, a ditch."},{"word":"Indited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indite"},{"word":"Inditing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indite"},{"word":"Indite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt."},{"word":"Indite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invite or ask."},{"word":"Indite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indict; to accuse; to censure."},{"word":"Indite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To compose; to write, as a poem."},{"word":"Inditement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inditing."},{"word":"Inditer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who indites."},{"word":"Indium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare metallic element, discovered in certain ores of zinc, by means of its characteristic spectrum of two indigo blue lines; hence, its name. In appearance it resembles zinc, being white or lead gray, soft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation it resembles aluminium or gallium. Symbol In. Atomic weight, 113.4."},{"word":"Indivertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be diverted or turned aside."},{"word":"Individable","type":"(a.)","description":"Indivisible."},{"word":"Individed","type":"(a.)","description":"Undivided."},{"word":"Individual","type":"(a.)","description":"Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city."},{"word":"Individual","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities."},{"word":"Individual","type":"(n.)","description":"A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person."},{"word":"Individual","type":"(n.)","description":"An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal."},{"word":"Individual","type":"(n.)","description":"The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission."},{"word":"Individualism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being individual; individuality; personality."},{"word":"Individualism","type":"(n.)","description":"An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self-interest; selfishness."},{"word":"Individualistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism."},{"word":"Individualities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Individuality"},{"word":"Individuality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity."},{"word":"Individuality","type":"(n.)","description":"The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an individual; that quality which distinguishes one person or thing from another; the sum of characteristic traits; distinctive character; as, he is a person of marked individuality."},{"word":"Individualization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized; individuation."},{"word":"Individualized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Individualize"},{"word":"Individualizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Individualize"},{"word":"Individualize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality."},{"word":"Individualizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who individualizes."},{"word":"Individually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an individual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself."},{"word":"Individually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly; as, individuallyhe same."},{"word":"Individuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Undivided."},{"word":"Individua","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Individuate"},{"word":"Individuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Individuate"},{"word":"Individuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To distinguish from others from others of the species; to endow with individuality; to divide into individuals; to discriminate."},{"word":"Individuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of individuating or state of being individuated; individualization."},{"word":"Individuator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, individuates."},{"word":"Individuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Separate existence; individuality; oneness."},{"word":"Indivinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want or absence of divine power or of divinity."},{"word":"Indivisibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability."},{"word":"Indivisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts."},{"word":"Indivisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable."},{"word":"Indivisible","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is indivisible."},{"word":"Indivisible","type":"(n.)","description":"An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division."},{"word":"Indivisibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being indivisible; indivisibility."},{"word":"Indivisibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indivisible manner."},{"word":"Indivision","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being not divided; oneness."},{"word":"Indo-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying Indian (i. e., East Indian); of or pertaining of India."},{"word":"Indoaniline","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a series of artificial blue dyes, in appearance resembling indigo, for which they are often used as substitutes."},{"word":"IndoBriton","type":"(n.)","description":"A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste."},{"word":"Indo-Chinese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges)."},{"word":"Indocibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being indocible; indocibleness; indocility."},{"word":"Indocible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect; intractable; unteachable; indocile."},{"word":"Indocile","type":"(a.)","description":"Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable."},{"word":"Indocility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness."},{"word":"Indoctrinated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indoctrinate"},{"word":"Indoctrinating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indoctrinate"},{"word":"Indoctrinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed by in."},{"word":"Indoctrination","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information."},{"word":"Indo-English","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian."},{"word":"Indo-European","type":"(a.)","description":"Aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo-European or Aryan family."},{"word":"Indogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex, nitrogenous radical, C8H5NO, regarded as the essential nucleus of indigo."},{"word":"Indogenide","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the derivatives of indogen, which contain that group as a nucleus."},{"word":"Indo-Germanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Aryan, and Indo-European."},{"word":"Indo-Germanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language."},{"word":"Indoin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance resembling indigo blue, obtained artificially from certain isatogen compounds."},{"word":"Indol","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora."},{"word":"Indolence","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc."},{"word":"Indolence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity."},{"word":"Indolency","type":"(n.)","description":"Indolence."},{"word":"Indolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from toil, pain, or trouble."},{"word":"Indolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man."},{"word":"Indolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor."},{"word":"Indolently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indolent manner."},{"word":"Indoles","type":"(n.)","description":"Natural disposition; natural quality or abilities."},{"word":"Indolin","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark resinous substance, polymeric with indol, and obtained by the reduction of indigo white."},{"word":"Indomable","type":"(a.)","description":"Indomitable."},{"word":"Indomitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal."},{"word":"Indomite","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tamed; untamed; savage; wild."},{"word":"Indomptable","type":"(a.)","description":"Indomitable."},{"word":"Indoor","type":"(a.)","description":"Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work."},{"word":"Indoors","type":"(adv.)","description":"Within the house; -- usually separated, in doors."},{"word":"Indophenol","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a series of artificial blue dyestuffs, resembling indigo in appearance, and obtained by the action of phenol on certain nitrogenous derivatives of quinone. Simple indophenol proper has not yet been isolated."},{"word":"Indorsable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being indorsed; transferable; convertible."},{"word":"Indorsation","type":"(n.)","description":"Indorsement."},{"word":"Indorsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indorse"},{"word":"Indorsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indorse"},{"word":"Indorse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover the back of; to load or burden."},{"word":"Indorse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address."},{"word":"Indorse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.)."},{"word":"Indorse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion."},{"word":"Indorsed","type":"(a.)","description":"See Addorsed."},{"word":"Indorsee","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom a note or bill is indorsed, or assigned by indorsement."},{"word":"Indorsement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument."},{"word":"Indorsement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred."},{"word":"Indorsement","type":"(n.)","description":"Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct."},{"word":"Indorser","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Indorsor"},{"word":"Indorsor","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who indorses."},{"word":"Indow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Endow."},{"word":"Indowment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Endowment."},{"word":"Indoxyl","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol, obtained as an oily liquid."},{"word":"Indoxylic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or producing, indoxyl; as, indoxylic acid."},{"word":"Indraught","type":"(n.)","description":"An opening from the sea into the land; an inlet."},{"word":"Indraught","type":"(n.)","description":"A draught of air or flow of water setting inward."},{"word":"Indrawn","type":"(a.)","description":"Drawn in."},{"word":"Indrench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown."},{"word":"Indris","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Indri"},{"word":"Indri","type":"(n.)","description":"Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris."},{"word":"Indubious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dubious or doubtful; certain."},{"word":"Indubious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not doubting; unsuspecting."},{"word":"Indubitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not dubitable or doubtful; too evident to admit of doubt; unquestionable; evident; apparently certain; as, an indubitable conclusion."},{"word":"Indubitable","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is indubitable."},{"word":"Indubitableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being indubitable."},{"word":"Indubitably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt."},{"word":"Indubitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not questioned or doubtful; evident; certain."},{"word":"Indubitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted."},{"word":"Induced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Induce"},{"word":"Inducing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Induce"},{"word":"Induce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead in; to introduce."},{"word":"Induce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw on; to overspread."},{"word":"Induce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence."},{"word":"Induce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure."},{"word":"Induce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state."},{"word":"Induce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce."},{"word":"Inducement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inducing, or the state of being induced."},{"word":"Inducement","type":"(n.)","description":"That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil."},{"word":"Inducement","type":"(n.)","description":"Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to."},{"word":"Inducer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, induces or incites."},{"word":"Inducible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being induced, caused, or made to take place."},{"word":"Inducible","type":"(a.)","description":"Obtainable by induction; derivable; inferable."},{"word":"Inducted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Induct"},{"word":"Inducting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Induct"},{"word":"Induct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring in; to introduce; to usher in."},{"word":"Induct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies."},{"word":"Inducteous","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendered electro-polar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies."},{"word":"Inductile","type":"(a.)","description":"Not ductile; incapable of being drawn into threads, as a metal; inelastic; tough."},{"word":"Inductility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inductile."},{"word":"Induction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement."},{"word":"Induction","type":"(n.)","description":"An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue."},{"word":"Induction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached."},{"word":"Induction","type":"(n.)","description":"The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities."},{"word":"Induction","type":"(n.)","description":"A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction."},{"word":"Induction","type":"(n.)","description":"The property by which one body, having electrical or magnetic polarity, causes or induces it in another body without direct contact; an impress of electrical or magnetic force or condition from one body on another without actual contact."},{"word":"Inductional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive."},{"word":"Inductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to."},{"word":"Inductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to induce or cause."},{"word":"Inductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning."},{"word":"Inductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine."},{"word":"Inductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity."},{"word":"Inductively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By induction or inference."},{"word":"Inductometer","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction."},{"word":"Inductor","type":"(n.)","description":"The person who inducts another into an office or benefice."},{"word":"Inductor","type":"(n.)","description":"That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current."},{"word":"Inductoriums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inductorium"},{"word":"Inductoria","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inductorium"},{"word":"Inductorium","type":"(n.)","description":"An induction coil."},{"word":"Inductric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inductrical"},{"word":"Inductrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting by, or in a state of, induction; relating to electrical induction."},{"word":"Indued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indue"},{"word":"Induing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indue"},{"word":"Indue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put on, as clothes; to draw on."},{"word":"Indue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities."},{"word":"Induement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment."},{"word":"Indulged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indulge"},{"word":"Indulging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indulge"},{"word":"Indulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain"},{"word":"Indulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;"},{"word":"Indulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure."},{"word":"Indulge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request."},{"word":"Indulge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to."},{"word":"Indulgement","type":"(n.)","description":"Indulgence."},{"word":"Indulgence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control."},{"word":"Indulgence","type":"(n.)","description":"An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification."},{"word":"Indulgence","type":"(n.)","description":"Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory."},{"word":"Indulgence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grant an indulgence to."},{"word":"Indulgency","type":"(n.)","description":"Indulgence."},{"word":"Indulgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent."},{"word":"Indulgential","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the indulgences of the Roman Catholic Church."},{"word":"Indulgently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably."},{"word":"Indulger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who indulges."},{"word":"Indulgiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indulge."},{"word":"Induline","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet."},{"word":"Induline","type":"(n.)","description":"A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also aniline black."},{"word":"Indult","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Indulto"},{"word":"Indulto","type":"(n.)","description":"A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope."},{"word":"Indulto","type":"(n.)","description":"A duty levied on all importations."},{"word":"Indument","type":"(n.)","description":"Plumage; feathers."},{"word":"Induplicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in aestivation."},{"word":"Induplicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; -- said of leaves in vernation."},{"word":"Induplicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having induplicate sepals or petals in aestivation."},{"word":"Induplicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having induplicate leaves in vernation."},{"word":"Indurance","type":"(n.)","description":"See Endurance."},{"word":"Indurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Hardened; not soft; indurated."},{"word":"Indurate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate."},{"word":"Indurated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indurate"},{"word":"Indurating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indurate"},{"word":"Indurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air."},{"word":"Indurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate."},{"word":"Indurate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat."},{"word":"Indurated","type":"(a.)","description":"Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart."},{"word":"Induration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard."},{"word":"Induration","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being indurated, or of having become hard."},{"word":"Induration","type":"(n.)","description":"Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling."},{"word":"Indusial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or containing, the petrified cases of the larvae of certain insects."},{"word":"Indusiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Indusiated"},{"word":"Indusiated","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with an indusium."},{"word":"Indusia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Indusium"},{"word":"Indusium","type":"(n.)","description":"A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower."},{"word":"Indusium","type":"(n.)","description":"The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet."},{"word":"Indusium","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar covering found in certain fungi."},{"word":"Industrial","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights."},{"word":"Industrialism","type":"(n.)","description":"Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry."},{"word":"Industrialism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor."},{"word":"Industrially","type":"(adv.)","description":"With reference to industry."},{"word":"Industrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor."},{"word":"Industrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Steadily and perseveringly active in a particular pursuit or aim; as, he was negligent in business, but industrious in pleasure; an industrious mischief maker."},{"word":"Industries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Industry"},{"word":"Industry","type":"(n.)","description":"Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them."},{"word":"Industry","type":"(n.)","description":"Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry."},{"word":"Industry","type":"(n.)","description":"Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor."},{"word":"Indutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering."},{"word":"Induviae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time."},{"word":"Induviate","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with induviae, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree."},{"word":"Indwelt","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Indwell"},{"word":"Indwelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Indwell"},{"word":"Indwell","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession."},{"word":"Indweller","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant."},{"word":"Indwelling","type":"(n.)","description":"Residence within, as in the heart."},{"word":"-ine","type":"()","description":"A suffix, indicating that those substances of whose names it is a part are basic, and alkaloidal in their nature."},{"word":"-ine","type":"()","description":"A suffix, used to indicate hydrocarbons of the second degree of unsaturation; i. e., members of the acetyline series; as, hexine, heptine, etc."},{"word":"Inearth","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inter."},{"word":"Inebriant","type":"(a.)","description":"Intoxicating."},{"word":"Inebriant","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant."},{"word":"Inebriated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inebriate"},{"word":"Inebriating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inebriate"},{"word":"Inebriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make drunk; to intoxicate."},{"word":"Inebriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy."},{"word":"Inebriate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become drunk."},{"word":"Inebriate","type":"(a.)","description":"Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied."},{"word":"Inebriate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum fro inebriates."},{"word":"Inebriation","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success."},{"word":"Inebriety","type":"(n.)","description":"Drunkenness; inebriation."},{"word":"Inebrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Intoxicated, or partially so; intoxicating."},{"word":"Inedited","type":"(a.)","description":"Not edited; unpublished; as, an inedited manuscript."},{"word":"Inee","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrow poison, made from an apocynaceous plant (Strophanthus hispidus) of the Gaboon country; -- called also onaye."},{"word":"Ineffability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being ineffable; ineffableness; unspeakableness."},{"word":"Ineffable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven."},{"word":"Ineffableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness."},{"word":"Ineffably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner not to be expressed in words; unspeakably."},{"word":"Ineffaceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable."},{"word":"Ineffaceably","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as not to be effaceable."},{"word":"Ineffectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Ineffectual; impracticable."},{"word":"Ineffective","type":"(a.)","description":"Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal."},{"word":"Ineffectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ineffective manner; without effect; inefficiently; ineffectually."},{"word":"Ineffectiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being ineffective."},{"word":"Ineffectual","type":"(a.)","description":"Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient."},{"word":"Ineffectuality","type":"(n.)","description":"Ineffectualness."},{"word":"Ineffectually","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without effect; in vain."},{"word":"Ineffectualness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy."},{"word":"Ineffervescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of effervescence."},{"word":"Ineffervescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent."},{"word":"Ineffervescibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being ineffervescible."},{"word":"Ineffervescible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable or susceptible of effervescence."},{"word":"Inefficacious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent."},{"word":"Inefficaciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"without efficacy or effect."},{"word":"Inefficaciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of effect, or of power to produce the effect; inefficacy."},{"word":"Inefficacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means."},{"word":"Inefficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency."},{"word":"Inefficient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures."},{"word":"Inefficient","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator."},{"word":"Inefficiently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inefficient manner."},{"word":"Inelaborate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished."},{"word":"Inelastic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not elastic."},{"word":"Inelasticity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of elasticity."},{"word":"Inelegances","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inelegancy"},{"word":"Inelegancies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inelegancy"},{"word":"Inelegance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inelegancy"},{"word":"Inelegancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners."},{"word":"Inelegancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition."},{"word":"Inelegant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires."},{"word":"Inelegantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inelegant manner."},{"word":"Ineligibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being ineligible."},{"word":"Ineligible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not eligible; not qualified to be chosen for an office; not worthy to be chosen or prefered; not expedient or desirable."},{"word":"Inelligibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ineligible manner."},{"word":"Ineloquent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not eloquent; not fluent, graceful, or pathetic; not persuasive; as, ineloquent language."},{"word":"Ineloquently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without eloquence."},{"word":"Ineluctable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable."},{"word":"Ineludible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable."},{"word":"Inembryonate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not embryonate."},{"word":"Inernarrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being narrated; indescribable; ineffable."},{"word":"Inept","type":"(a.)","description":"Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming."},{"word":"Inept","type":"(a.)","description":"Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish."},{"word":"Ineptitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness."},{"word":"Ineptitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness."},{"word":"Ineptly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly."},{"word":"Ineptness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unfitness; ineptitude."},{"word":"Inequable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unequable."},{"word":"Inequal","type":"(a.)","description":"Unequal; uneven; various."},{"word":"Inequalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inequality"},{"word":"Inequality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc."},{"word":"Inequality","type":"(n.)","description":"Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc."},{"word":"Inequality","type":"(n.)","description":"Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc."},{"word":"Inequality","type":"(n.)","description":"Disproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy; competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul."},{"word":"Inequality","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality (< or >) between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1."},{"word":"Inequality","type":"(n.)","description":"An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the amount of such deviation."},{"word":"Inequation","type":"(n.)","description":"An inequality."},{"word":"Inequidistant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not equally distant; not equidistant."},{"word":"Inequilateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having unequal sides; unsymmetrical; unequal-sided."},{"word":"Inequilateral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the two ends unequal, as in the clam, quahaug, and most lamellibranch shells."},{"word":"Inequilobate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unequally lobed; cut into lobes of different shapes or sizes."},{"word":"Inequitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not equitable; not just."},{"word":"Inequitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ride over or through."},{"word":"Inequity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of equity; injustice; wrong."},{"word":"Inequivalve","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inequivalvular"},{"word":"Inequivalvular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster."},{"word":"Ineradicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being /radicated or rooted out."},{"word":"Ineradicably","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as not to be eradicable."},{"word":"Inergetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inergetical"},{"word":"Inergetical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no energy; sluggish."},{"word":"Inergetically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without energy."},{"word":"Inerm","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inermous"},{"word":"Inermous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Inermis."},{"word":"Inermis","type":"(a.)","description":"Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf."},{"word":"Inerrability","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility."},{"word":"Inerrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring."},{"word":"Inerrableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Exemption from error; inerrability; infallibility."},{"word":"Inerrably","type":"(adv.)","description":"With security from error; infallibly; unerringly."},{"word":"Inerrancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Exemption from error."},{"word":"Inerratic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not erratic or wandering; fixed; settled; established."},{"word":"Inerringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly."},{"word":"Inert","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert."},{"word":"Inert","type":"(a.)","description":"Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless."},{"word":"Inert","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect."},{"word":"Inertia","type":"(n.)","description":"That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called vis inertiae."},{"word":"Inertia","type":"(n.)","description":"Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness."},{"word":"Inertia","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased."},{"word":"Inertion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude."},{"word":"Inertitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Inertness; inertia."},{"word":"Inertly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without activity; sluggishly."},{"word":"Inertness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility."},{"word":"Inertness","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia."},{"word":"Inerudite","type":"(a.)","description":"Not erudite; unlearned; ignorant."},{"word":"Inescapable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not escapable."},{"word":"Inescate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allure; to lay a bait for."},{"word":"Inescation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of baiting; allurement."},{"word":"Inescutcheon","type":"(n.)","description":"A small escutcheon borne within a shield."},{"word":"In","type":"()","description":"In being; actually existing; -- distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be."},{"word":"Inessential","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no essence or being."},{"word":"Inessential","type":"(a.)","description":"Not essential; unessential."},{"word":"Inestimable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being estimated or computed; especially, too valuable or excellent to be measured or fully appreciated; above all price; as, inestimable rights or privileges."},{"word":"Inestimably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner, or to a degree, above estimation; as, things inestimably excellent."},{"word":"Inevasible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being evaded; inevitable; unavoidable."},{"word":"Inevidence","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of evidence; obscurity."},{"word":"Inevident","type":"(a.)","description":"Not evident; not clear or obvious; obscure."},{"word":"Inevitability","type":"(n.)","description":"Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness."},{"word":"Inevitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain."},{"word":"Inevitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Irresistible."},{"word":"Inevitableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen."},{"word":"Inevitably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly."},{"word":"Inexact","type":"(a.)","description":"Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate."},{"word":"Inexactitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Inexactness; uncertainty; as, geographical inexactitude."},{"word":"Inexactly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately."},{"word":"Inexactness","type":"(n.)","description":"Incorrectness; want of exactness."},{"word":"Inexcitability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inexcitable; insusceptibility to excitement."},{"word":"Inexcitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not susceptible of excitement; dull; lifeless; torpid."},{"word":"Inexcusable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly."},{"word":"Inexcusableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inexcusable; enormity forgiveness."},{"word":"Inexcusably","type":"(adv.)","description":"With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification."},{"word":"Inexecrable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can not be execrated enough."},{"word":"Inexecutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible."},{"word":"Inexecution","type":"(n.)","description":"Neglect of execution; nonperformance; as, the inexecution of a treaty."},{"word":"Inexertion","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of exertion; want of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness."},{"word":"Inexhalable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being exhaled."},{"word":"Inexhausted","type":"(a.)","description":"Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted."},{"word":"Inexhaustedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without exhaustion."},{"word":"Inexhaustibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inexhaustible; abundance."},{"word":"Inexhaustible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words."},{"word":"Inexhaustive","type":"(a.)","description":"Inexhaustible."},{"word":"Inexist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exist within; to dwell within."},{"word":"Inexistant","type":"(a.)","description":"Inexistent; not existing."},{"word":"Inexistence","type":"(n.)","description":"Inherence; subsistence."},{"word":"Inexistence","type":"(n.)","description":"That which exists within; a constituent."},{"word":"Inexistence","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of being or existence."},{"word":"Inexistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having being; not existing."},{"word":"Inexistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Inherent; innate; indwelling."},{"word":"Inexorability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty."},{"word":"Inexorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge."},{"word":"Inexorableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inexorable."},{"word":"Inexorably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inexorable manner; inflexibly."},{"word":"Inexpansible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of expansion, enlargement, or extension."},{"word":"Inexpectable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be expected or anticipated."},{"word":"Inexpectant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not expectant."},{"word":"Inexpectation","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of expectation."},{"word":"Inexpected","type":"(a.)","description":"Unexpected."},{"word":"Inexpectedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unexpectedly."},{"word":"Inexpectedness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unexpectedness."},{"word":"Inexpedience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inexpediency"},{"word":"Inexpediency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures."},{"word":"Inexpedient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another."},{"word":"Inexpediently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not expediently; unfitly."},{"word":"Inexpensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not expensive; cheap."},{"word":"Inexperience","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth."},{"word":"Inexperienced","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having experience unskilled."},{"word":"Inexpert","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of experience or of much experience."},{"word":"Inexpert","type":"(a.)","description":"Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice."},{"word":"Inexpertness","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of expertness or skill."},{"word":"Inexpiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense."},{"word":"Inexpiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable."},{"word":"Inexpiableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being inexpiable."},{"word":"Inexpiably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement."},{"word":"Inexpiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not appeased or placated."},{"word":"Inexplainable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being explained; inexplicable."},{"word":"Inexpleably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Insatiably."},{"word":"Inexplicability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inexplicable."},{"word":"Inexplicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery."},{"word":"Inexplicableness","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability."},{"word":"Inexplicably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inexplicable manner."},{"word":"Inexplicit","type":"(a.)","description":"Not explicit; not clearly stated; indefinite; vague."},{"word":"Inexplorable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being explored, searched out, or discovered."},{"word":"Inexplosive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not explosive."},{"word":"Inexposure","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of not being exposed."},{"word":"Inexpressible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure."},{"word":"Inexpressibles","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Breeches; trousers."},{"word":"Inexpressibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably."},{"word":"Inexpressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Inexpressible."},{"word":"Inexpressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Without expression or meaning; not expressive; dull; unintelligent; as, an inexpressive countenance."},{"word":"Inexpressiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inexpressive."},{"word":"Inexpugnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being subdued by force; impregnable; unconquerable."},{"word":"Inexpugnably","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to be inexpugnable; in an inexpugnable manner."},{"word":"Inexsuperable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being passed over; insuperable; insurmountable."},{"word":"Inextended","type":"(a.)","description":"Not extended."},{"word":"Inextensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being extended; not elastic; as, inextensible fibers."},{"word":"Inextension","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of extension; unextended state."},{"word":"Inexterminable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of extermination."},{"word":"Inextinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Not quenched; not extinct."},{"word":"Inextinguible","type":"(a.)","description":"Inextinguishable."},{"word":"Inextinguishable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds."},{"word":"Inextinguishably","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as not to be extinguished; in an inextinguishable manner."},{"word":"Inextirpable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable."},{"word":"Inextricable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion."},{"word":"Inextricable","type":"(a.)","description":"Inevitable."},{"word":"Inextricableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being inextricable."},{"word":"Inextricably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inextricable manner."},{"word":"Ineyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ineye"},{"word":"Ineyeing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ineye"},{"word":"Ineye","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate."},{"word":"Infabricated","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural."},{"word":"Infallibilist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility."},{"word":"Infallibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability."},{"word":"Infallible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable."},{"word":"Infallible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy."},{"word":"Infallible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility."},{"word":"Infallibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility."},{"word":"Infallibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly."},{"word":"Infame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defame; to make infamous."},{"word":"Infamized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infamize"},{"word":"Infamizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infamize"},{"word":"Infamize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make infamous; to defame."},{"word":"Infamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer."},{"word":"Infamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption."},{"word":"Infamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness."},{"word":"Infamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous."},{"word":"Infamously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully."},{"word":"Infamousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being infamous; infamy."},{"word":"Infamies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infamy"},{"word":"Infamy","type":"(n.)","description":"Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity."},{"word":"Infamy","type":"(n.)","description":"A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action."},{"word":"Infamy","type":"(n.)","description":"That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness."},{"word":"Infancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood."},{"word":"Infancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art."},{"word":"Infancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority."},{"word":"Infandous","type":"(a.)","description":"Too odious to be expressed or mentioned."},{"word":"Infangthef","type":"(n.)","description":"The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords."},{"word":"Infant","type":"(n.)","description":"A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age."},{"word":"Infant","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor."},{"word":"Infant","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Infante."},{"word":"Infant","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength."},{"word":"Infant","type":"(a.)","description":"Intended for young children; as, an infant school."},{"word":"Infant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general."},{"word":"Infanta","type":"(n.)","description":"A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest."},{"word":"Infante","type":"(n.)","description":"A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent."},{"word":"Infanthood","type":"(n.)","description":"Infancy."},{"word":"Infanticidal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder."},{"word":"Infanticide","type":"(n.)","description":"The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder."},{"word":"Infanticide","type":"(n.)","description":"One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant."},{"word":"Infantile","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior."},{"word":"Infantine","type":"(a.)","description":"Infantile; childish."},{"word":"Infantlike","type":"(a.)","description":"Like an infant."},{"word":"Infantly","type":"(a.)","description":"Like an infant."},{"word":"Infantry","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of children."},{"word":"Infantry","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry."},{"word":"Infarce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stuff; to swell."},{"word":"Infarction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation."},{"word":"Infare","type":"(n.)","description":"A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house."},{"word":"Infashionable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfashionable."},{"word":"Infatigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Indefatigable."},{"word":"Infatuate","type":"(a.)","description":"Infatuated."},{"word":"Infatuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infatuate"},{"word":"Infatuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infatuate"},{"word":"Infatuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment."},{"word":"Infatuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming."},{"word":"Infatuated","type":"(a.)","description":"Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation."},{"word":"Infatuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates."},{"word":"Infaust","type":"(a.)","description":"Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister."},{"word":"Infausting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck."},{"word":"Infeasibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being infeasible; impracticability."},{"word":"Infeasible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable."},{"word":"Infeasibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of quality of being infeasible; infeasibility."},{"word":"Infect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Infected. Cf. Enfect."},{"word":"Infected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infect"},{"word":"Infecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infect"},{"word":"Infect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment."},{"word":"Infect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague."},{"word":"Infect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious."},{"word":"Infect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty."},{"word":"Infecter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, infects."},{"word":"Infectible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being infected."},{"word":"Infection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of infecting."},{"word":"Infection","type":"(n.)","description":"That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused."},{"word":"Infection","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic."},{"word":"Infection","type":"(n.)","description":"That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles."},{"word":"Infection","type":"(n.)","description":"Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication."},{"word":"Infection","type":"(n.)","description":"Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence."},{"word":"Infectious","type":"(a.)","description":"Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices."},{"word":"Infectious","type":"(a.)","description":"Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing."},{"word":"Infectious","type":"(a.)","description":"Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture."},{"word":"Infectious","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth."},{"word":"Infectiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an infectious manner."},{"word":"Infectiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being infectious."},{"word":"Infective","type":"(a.)","description":"Infectious."},{"word":"Infecund","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile."},{"word":"Infecundity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness."},{"word":"Infecundous","type":"(a.)","description":"Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive."},{"word":"Infeeble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enfeeble."},{"word":"Infelicitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words."},{"word":"Infelicities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infelicity"},{"word":"Infelicity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness."},{"word":"Infelicity","type":"(n.)","description":"That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech."},{"word":"Infelonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not felonious, malignant, or criminal."},{"word":"Infelt","type":"(a.)","description":"Felt inwardly; heartfelt."},{"word":"Infeodation","type":"(n.)","description":"See Infeudation."},{"word":"Infeoff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enfeoff."},{"word":"Infeoffment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Enfeoffment."},{"word":"Inferred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infer"},{"word":"Inferring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infer"},{"word":"Infer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring on; to induce; to occasion."},{"word":"Infer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To offer, as violence."},{"word":"Infer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer."},{"word":"Infer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence."},{"word":"Infer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To show; to manifest; to prove."},{"word":"Inferable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises."},{"word":"Inference","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction."},{"word":"Inference","type":"(n.)","description":"That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction."},{"word":"Inferential","type":"(a.)","description":"Deduced or deducible by inference."},{"word":"Inferentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of inference."},{"word":"Inferiae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends."},{"word":"Inferior","type":"(a.)","description":"Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath."},{"word":"Inferior","type":"(a.)","description":"Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods."},{"word":"Inferior","type":"(a.)","description":"Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus."},{"word":"Inferior","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian."},{"word":"Inferior","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx."},{"word":"Inferior","type":"(a.)","description":"On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior."},{"word":"Inferior","type":"(a.)","description":"Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer."},{"word":"Inferior","type":"(n.)","description":"A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another."},{"word":"Inferiority","type":"()","description":"The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth."},{"word":"Inferiorly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part."},{"word":"Infernal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients."},{"word":"Infernal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct."},{"word":"Infernal","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself."},{"word":"Infernally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an infernal manner; diabolically."},{"word":"Inferobranchian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Inferobranchiata."},{"word":"Inferobranchiata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle."},{"word":"Inferobranchiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata."},{"word":"Inferrible","type":"(a.)","description":"Inferable."},{"word":"Infertile","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil."},{"word":"Infertilely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an infertile manner."},{"word":"Infertility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness."},{"word":"Infest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Mischievous; hurtful; harassing."},{"word":"Infested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infest"},{"word":"Infesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infest"},{"word":"Infest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass; as, fleas infest dogs and cats; a sea infested with pirates."},{"word":"Infesttation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance."},{"word":"Infester","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, infests."},{"word":"Infestive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn."},{"word":"Infestivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness."},{"word":"Infestuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Mischievous; harmful; dangerous."},{"word":"Infeudation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee."},{"word":"Infeudation","type":"(n.)","description":"The granting of tithes to laymen."},{"word":"Infibulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock."},{"word":"Infibulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation."},{"word":"Infidel","type":"(a.)","description":"Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity."},{"word":"Infidel","type":"(n.)","description":"One who does not believe in the prevailing religious faith; especially, one who does not believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker."},{"word":"Infidelities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infidelity"},{"word":"Infidelity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity."},{"word":"Infidelity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery."},{"word":"Infidelity","type":"(n.)","description":"Breach of trust; unfaithfulness to a charge, or to moral obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a servant."},{"word":"Infield","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose, as a field."},{"word":"Infield","type":"(n.)","description":"Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield."},{"word":"Infield","type":"(n.)","description":"The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5."},{"word":"Infile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange in a file or rank; to place in order."},{"word":"Infilm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a film; to coat thinly; as, to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding; to infilm the glass of a mirror."},{"word":"Infiltered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infilter"},{"word":"Infiltering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infilter"},{"word":"Infilter","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To filter or sift in."},{"word":"Infiltrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infiltrate"},{"word":"Infiltrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infiltrate"},{"word":"Infiltrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something."},{"word":"Infiltrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To penetrate gradually; -- sometimes used reflexively."},{"word":"Infiltration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body."},{"word":"Infiltration","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body."},{"word":"Infiltrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to infiltration."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(n.)","description":"An infinite quantity or magnitude."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(n.)","description":"An infinity; an incalculable or very great number."},{"word":"Infinite","type":"(n.)","description":"The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty."},{"word":"Infinitely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity."},{"word":"Infinitely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Very; exceedingly; vastly; highly; extremely."},{"word":"Infiniteness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being infinite; infinity; greatness; immensity."},{"word":"Infinitesimal","type":"(a.)","description":"Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small."},{"word":"Infinitesimal","type":"(n.)","description":"An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity."},{"word":"Infinitesimally","type":"(adv.)","description":"By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree."},{"word":"Infinitival","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the infinite mood."},{"word":"Infinitive","type":"(n.)","description":"Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined."},{"word":"Infinitive","type":"(n.)","description":"An infinitive form of the verb; a verb in the infinitive mood; the infinitive mood."},{"word":"Infinitive","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the manner of an infinitive mood."},{"word":"Infinito","type":"(a.)","description":"Infinite; perpetual, as a canon whose end leads back to the beginning. See Infinite, a., 5."},{"word":"Infinitude","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being infinite, or without limits; infiniteness."},{"word":"Infinitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Infinite extent; unlimited space; immensity; infinity."},{"word":"Infinitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Boundless number; countless multitude."},{"word":"Infinituple","type":"(a.)","description":"Multipied an infinite number of times."},{"word":"Infinities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infinity"},{"word":"Infinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity."},{"word":"Infinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections."},{"word":"Infinity","type":"(n.)","description":"Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties."},{"word":"Infinity","type":"(n.)","description":"A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind."},{"word":"Infinity","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity."},{"word":"Infirm","type":"(a.)","description":"Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution."},{"word":"Infirm","type":"(a.)","description":"Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating."},{"word":"Infirm","type":"(a.)","description":"Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious."},{"word":"Infirm","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weaken; to enfeeble."},{"word":"Infirmarian","type":"(n.)","description":"A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution."},{"word":"Infirmaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infirmary"},{"word":"Infirmary","type":"(n.)","description":"A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated."},{"word":"Infirmative","type":"(a.)","description":"Weakening; annulling, or tending to make void."},{"word":"Infirmatory","type":"(n.)","description":"An infirmary."},{"word":"Infirmities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infirmity"},{"word":"Infirmity","type":"(a.)","description":"The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind."},{"word":"Infirmity","type":"(a.)","description":"A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect."},{"word":"Infirmly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an infirm manner."},{"word":"Infirmness","type":"(n.)","description":"Infirmity; feebleness."},{"word":"Infixed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infix"},{"word":"Infixing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infix"},{"word":"Infix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart."},{"word":"Infix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions; as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory."},{"word":"Infix","type":"(n.)","description":"Something infixed."},{"word":"Inflamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inflame"},{"word":"Inflaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inflame"},{"word":"Inflame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow."},{"word":"Inflame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire."},{"word":"Inflame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage."},{"word":"Inflame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork."},{"word":"Inflame","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exaggerate; to enlarge upon."},{"word":"Inflame","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed."},{"word":"Inflamed","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated."},{"word":"Inflamed","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame."},{"word":"Inflamer","type":"(n.)","description":"The person or thing that inflames."},{"word":"Inflammabillty","type":"(n.)","description":"Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable."},{"word":"Inflammable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled; combustible; as, inflammable oils or spirits."},{"word":"Inflammable","type":"(a.)","description":"Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked; as, an inflammable temper."},{"word":"Inflammableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inflammable; inflammability."},{"word":"Inflammbly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inflammable manner."},{"word":"Inflammation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed."},{"word":"Inflammation","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain."},{"word":"Inflammation","type":"(n.)","description":"Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties."},{"word":"Inflammative","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflammatory."},{"word":"Inflammatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate."},{"word":"Inflammatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications."},{"word":"Inflammatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease."},{"word":"Inflatable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be inflated."},{"word":"Inflate","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Blown in; inflated."},{"word":"Inflated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inflate"},{"word":"Inflating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inflate"},{"word":"Inflate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs."},{"word":"Inflate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity."},{"word":"Inflate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency."},{"word":"Inflate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To expand; to fill; to distend."},{"word":"Inflated","type":"(a.)","description":"Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas."},{"word":"Inflated","type":"(a.)","description":"Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style."},{"word":"Inflated","type":"(a.)","description":"Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp."},{"word":"Inflated","type":"(a.)","description":"Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc."},{"word":"Inflater","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange."},{"word":"Inflatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner tending to inflate."},{"word":"Inflation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement."},{"word":"Inflation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity."},{"word":"Inflation","type":"(n.)","description":"Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency."},{"word":"Inflationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money."},{"word":"Inflatus","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration."},{"word":"Inflected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inflect"},{"word":"Inflecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inflect"},{"word":"Inflect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow."},{"word":"Inflect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb."},{"word":"Inflect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To modulate, as the voice."},{"word":"Inflected","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent; turned; deflected."},{"word":"Inflected","type":"(a.)","description":"Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective."},{"word":"Inflection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected."},{"word":"Inflection","type":"(n.)","description":"A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist."},{"word":"Inflection","type":"(n.)","description":"A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection."},{"word":"Inflection","type":"(n.)","description":"The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc."},{"word":"Inflection","type":"(n.)","description":"Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice."},{"word":"Inflection","type":"(n.)","description":"A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting."},{"word":"Inflection","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Diffraction."},{"word":"Inflectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection."},{"word":"Inflective","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air."},{"word":"Inflective","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection."},{"word":"Inflesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To incarnate."},{"word":"Inflex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect."},{"word":"Inflexed","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned; bent."},{"word":"Inflexed","type":"(a.)","description":"Bent or turned abruptly inwards, or toward the axis, as the petals of a flower."},{"word":"Inflexibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy."},{"word":"Inflexible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding."},{"word":"Inflexible","type":"(a.)","description":"Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn."},{"word":"Inflexible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable."},{"word":"Inflexibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness."},{"word":"Inflexibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inflexible manner."},{"word":"Inflexion","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflection."},{"word":"Inflexive","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflective."},{"word":"Inflexive","type":"(a.)","description":"Inflexible."},{"word":"Inflexure","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflection; a bend or fold."},{"word":"Inflicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inflict"},{"word":"Inflicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inflict"},{"word":"Inflict","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal."},{"word":"Inflicter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inflicts."},{"word":"Infliction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment."},{"word":"Infliction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc."},{"word":"Inflictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing infliction; acting as an infliction."},{"word":"Inflorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms."},{"word":"Inflorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other."},{"word":"Inflorescence","type":"(n.)","description":"An axis on which all the flower buds."},{"word":"Inflow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow in."},{"word":"Influence","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing in or upon; influx."},{"word":"Influence","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs."},{"word":"Influence","type":"(n.)","description":"Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community."},{"word":"Influence","type":"(n.)","description":"Induction."},{"word":"Influenced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Influence"},{"word":"Influencing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Influence"},{"word":"Influence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce."},{"word":"Influencer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, influences."},{"word":"Influencive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending toinfluence; influential."},{"word":"Influent","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing in."},{"word":"Influent","type":"(a.)","description":"Exerting influence; influential."},{"word":"Inflential","type":"(a.)","description":"Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc."},{"word":"Influentially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an influential manner."},{"word":"Influenza","type":"(n.)","description":"An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever."},{"word":"Influx","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light."},{"word":"Influx","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming in; infusion; intromission; introduction; importation in abundance; also, that which flows or comes in; as, a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver."},{"word":"Influx","type":"(n.)","description":"Influence; power."},{"word":"Influxion","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing in; infusion."},{"word":"Influxious","type":"(a.)","description":"Influential."},{"word":"Influxive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a tendency to flow in; having influence; influential."},{"word":"Influxively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By influxion."},{"word":"Infolded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infold"},{"word":"Infolding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infold"},{"word":"Infold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve."},{"word":"Infold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clasp with the arms; to embrace."},{"word":"Infoldment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of infolding; the state of being infolded."},{"word":"Infoliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover or overspread with, or as with, leaves."},{"word":"Inform","type":"(a.)","description":"Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed."},{"word":"Informed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inform"},{"word":"Informing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inform"},{"word":"Inform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion."},{"word":"Inform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; -- usually followed by of."},{"word":"Inform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To communicate a knowledge of facts to,by way of accusation; to warn against anybody."},{"word":"Inform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear."},{"word":"Inform","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give intelligence or information; to tell."},{"word":"Informal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit."},{"word":"Informal","type":"(a.)","description":"Deranged in mind; out of one's senses."},{"word":"Informalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Informality"},{"word":"Informality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings."},{"word":"Informality","type":"(n.)","description":"An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does not conform to the established rule."},{"word":"Informally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an informal manner."},{"word":"Informant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies."},{"word":"Informant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who imparts information or instruction."},{"word":"Informant","type":"(v. t.)","description":"One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer."},{"word":"Information","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence."},{"word":"Information","type":"(v. t.)","description":"News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction."},{"word":"Information","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment."},{"word":"Informative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to inform, animate, or vivify."},{"word":"Informatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of, or conveying, information; instructive."},{"word":"Informed","type":"(a.)","description":"Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless."},{"word":"Informer","type":"(v.)","description":"One who informs, animates, or inspires."},{"word":"Informer","type":"(v.)","description":"One who informs, or imparts knowledge or news."},{"word":"Informer","type":"(v.)","description":"One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute."},{"word":"Informidable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded."},{"word":"Informity","type":"(a.)","description":"Want of regular form; shapelessness."},{"word":"Informous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of irregular form; shapeless."},{"word":"Infortunate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unlucky; unfortunate."},{"word":"Infortune","type":"(n.)","description":"Misfortune."},{"word":"Infortuned","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfortunate."},{"word":"Infound","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour in; to infuse."},{"word":"Infra","type":"(adv.)","description":"Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix."},{"word":"Infra-axillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated below the axil, as a bud."},{"word":"Infrabranchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs."},{"word":"Infraclavicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the clavicle; as, the infraclavicular fossa."},{"word":"Infract","type":"(a.)","description":"Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole."},{"word":"Infracted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infract"},{"word":"Infracting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infract"},{"word":"Infract","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break; to infringe."},{"word":"Infractible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being broken."},{"word":"Infraction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law."},{"word":"Infractor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a breaker."},{"word":"Infragrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fragrant."},{"word":"Infrahyoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Hyosternal (a)."},{"word":"Infralabial","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes."},{"word":"Infralapsarian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; -- opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men."},{"word":"Infralapsarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Infralapsarians, or to their doctrine."},{"word":"Infralapsarianism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Infralapsarians."},{"word":"Inframarginal","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain."},{"word":"Inframaxillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Under the lower jaw; submaxillary; as, the inframaxillary nerve."},{"word":"Inframaxillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the lower iaw."},{"word":"Inframedian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms."},{"word":"Inframundane","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying or situated beneath the world."},{"word":"Infranchise","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enfranchise."},{"word":"Infrangibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being infrangible; infrangibleness."},{"word":"Infrangible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being broken or separated into parts; as, infrangible atoms."},{"word":"Infrangible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be infringed or violated."},{"word":"Infrangibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being infrangible; infrangibility."},{"word":"Infraocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated below the eyes, as the antenna of certain insects."},{"word":"Infraorbital","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve."},{"word":"Infrapose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place under or beneath."},{"word":"Infraposition","type":"(n.)","description":"A situation or position beneath."},{"word":"Infrascapular","type":"(a.)","description":"Beneath the scapula, or shoulder blade; subscapular."},{"word":"Infraspinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the vertebral column, subvertebral."},{"word":"Infraspinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the spine; infraspinate; infraspinous."},{"word":"Infraspinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Infraspinous"},{"word":"Infraspinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle."},{"word":"Infrastapedial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes."},{"word":"Infrastapedial","type":"(n.)","description":"The infrastapedial part of the columella."},{"word":"Infrasternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach."},{"word":"Infratemporal","type":"(a.)","description":"Below the temple; below the temporal bone."},{"word":"Infraterritorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the territory of a state."},{"word":"Infratrochlear","type":"(a.)","description":"Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve."},{"word":"Infrequence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Infrequency"},{"word":"Infrequency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as, the infrquence of his visits."},{"word":"Infrequency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of not being frequented; solitude; isolation; retirement; seclusion."},{"word":"Infrequent","type":"(a.)","description":"Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual."},{"word":"Infrequently","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not frequently; rarely."},{"word":"Infrigidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To chill; to make cold; to cool."},{"word":"Infrigidation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation."},{"word":"Infringed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infringe"},{"word":"Infringing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infringe"},{"word":"Infringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract."},{"word":"Infringe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hinder; to destroy; as, to infringe efficacy; to infringe delight or power."},{"word":"Infringe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend."},{"word":"Infringe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To encroach; to trespass; -- followed by on or upon; as, to infringe upon the rights of another."},{"word":"Infringement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution."},{"word":"Infringement","type":"(n.)","description":"An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass."},{"word":"Infringer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who infringes or violates; a violator."},{"word":"Infructuose","type":"(a.)","description":"Not producing fruit; unfruitful; unprofitable."},{"word":"Infrugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time."},{"word":"Infrugiferous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not bearing fruit; not fructiferous."},{"word":"Infucate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stain; to paint; to daub."},{"word":"Infucation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of painting or staining, especially of painting the face."},{"word":"Infule","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infula"},{"word":"Infula","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of fillet worn by dignitaries, priests, and others among the ancient Romans. It was generally white."},{"word":"Infumated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infumate"},{"word":"Infumating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infumate"},{"word":"Infumate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke."},{"word":"Infumated","type":"(a.)","description":"Clouded; having a cloudy appearance."},{"word":"Infumation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of drying in smoke."},{"word":"Infumed","type":"(a.)","description":"Dried in smoke; smoked."},{"word":"Infundibular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Infundibulate"},{"word":"Infundibulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum."},{"word":"Infundibuliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped."},{"word":"Infundibuliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Funnelform."},{"word":"Infundibula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infundibulum"},{"word":"Infundibulums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infundibulum"},{"word":"Infundibulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes."},{"word":"Infundibulum","type":"(n.)","description":"A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads."},{"word":"Infundibulum","type":"(n.)","description":"The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda."},{"word":"Infuneral","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inter with funeral rites; to bury."},{"word":"Infurcation","type":"(n.)","description":"A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching."},{"word":"Infuriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Enraged; rading; furiously angry; infuriated."},{"word":"Infuriated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infuriate"},{"word":"Infuriating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infuriate"},{"word":"Infuriate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate."},{"word":"Infuriated","type":"(a.)","description":"Enraged; furious."},{"word":"Infuscate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To darken; to make black; to obscure."},{"word":"Infuscated","type":"(a.)","description":"Darkened with a blackish tinge."},{"word":"Infuscation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity."},{"word":"Infused","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Infuse"},{"word":"Infusing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Infuse"},{"word":"Infuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed."},{"word":"Infuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce."},{"word":"Infuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Infuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak."},{"word":"Infuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate."},{"word":"Infuse","type":"(n.)","description":"Infusion."},{"word":"Infuser","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, infuses."},{"word":"Infusibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Capability of being infused, pouredin, or instilled."},{"word":"Infusibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon."},{"word":"Infusible","type":"(v.)","description":"Capable of being infused."},{"word":"Infusible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fusible; incapble or difficalt of fusion, or of being dissolved or melted."},{"word":"Infusibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Infusibility."},{"word":"Infusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal."},{"word":"Infusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"That which is infused; suggestion; inspiration."},{"word":"Infusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion."},{"word":"Infusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its virtues."},{"word":"Infusion","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The liquid extract obtained by this process."},{"word":"Infusionism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism."},{"word":"Infusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power of infusion; inspiring; influencing."},{"word":"Infusoria","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size."},{"word":"Infusorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth."},{"word":"Infusorian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Infusoria."},{"word":"Infusory","type":"(a.)","description":"Infusorial."},{"word":"Infusories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Infusory"},{"word":"Infusory","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Infusoria; -- usually in the pl."},{"word":"-ing","type":"()","description":"A suffix used to from present participles; as, singing, playing."},{"word":"-ing","type":"()","description":"A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing."},{"word":"-ing","type":"()","description":"A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing."},{"word":"Ing","type":"(n.)","description":"A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river."},{"word":"Ingannation","type":"(n.)","description":"Cheat; deception."},{"word":"Ingate","type":"(n.)","description":"Entrance; ingress."},{"word":"Ingate","type":"(n.)","description":"The aperture in a mold for pouring in the metal; the gate."},{"word":"Ingathering","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest."},{"word":"Ingelable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not congealable."},{"word":"Ingeminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Redoubled; repeated."},{"word":"Ingeminated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ingeminate"},{"word":"Ingeminating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ingeminate"},{"word":"Ingeminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To redouble or repeat; to reiterate."},{"word":"Ingemination","type":"(n.)","description":"Repetition; reduplication; reiteration."},{"word":"Ingena","type":"(n.)","description":"The gorilla."},{"word":"Ingender","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Engender."},{"word":"Ingenerabillty","type":"(n.)","description":"Incapacity of being engendered or produced."},{"word":"Ingenerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapble of being engendered or produced; original."},{"word":"Ingenerably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ingenerable manner."},{"word":"Ingenerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body."},{"word":"Ingenerat","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ingenerate"},{"word":"Ingenerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ingenerate"},{"word":"Ingenerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To generate or produce within; to begete; to engener; to occasion; to cause."},{"word":"Ingeneration","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of ingenerating."},{"word":"Ingeniate","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To invent; to contrive."},{"word":"Ingenie","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ingeny."},{"word":"Ingeniosity","type":"(n.)","description":"Ingenuity; skill; cunning."},{"word":"Ingenious","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic."},{"word":"Ingenious","type":"(a.)","description":"Proseeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc."},{"word":"Ingenious","type":"(a.)","description":"Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply."},{"word":"Ingenious","type":"(a.)","description":"Mental; intellectual."},{"word":"Ingeniously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; skillfully; wittily; cleverly."},{"word":"Ingeniousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity."},{"word":"Ingenite","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Ingenit"},{"word":"Ingenit","type":"(a.)","description":"Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate."},{"word":"Ingenuity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining."},{"word":"Ingenuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism."},{"word":"Ingenuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Openness of heart; ingenuousness."},{"word":"Ingenuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth."},{"word":"Ingenuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal."},{"word":"Ingenuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc."},{"word":"Ingenuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Ingenious."},{"word":"Ingenuously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly."},{"word":"Ingenuousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness."},{"word":"Ingenuousness","type":"(n.)","description":"Ingenuity."},{"word":"Ingeny","type":"(n.)","description":"Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity."},{"word":"Ingerminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to germinate."},{"word":"Ingest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal."},{"word":"Ingesta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta."},{"word":"Ingestion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food."},{"word":"Inghalla","type":"(n.)","description":"The reedbuck of South Africa."},{"word":"Ingirt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle to gird; to engirt."},{"word":"Ingirt","type":"(a.)","description":"Surrounded; encircled."},{"word":"Ingle","type":"(n.)","description":"Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace."},{"word":"Ingle","type":"(n.)","description":"A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle."},{"word":"Ingle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle."},{"word":"Inglobate","type":"(a.)","description":"In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation."},{"word":"Inglobe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly."},{"word":"Inglorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease."},{"word":"Inglorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc."},{"word":"Ingloriously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely."},{"word":"Ingloriousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being inglorious."},{"word":"Inglut","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To glut."},{"word":"Ingluvial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the indulges or crop of birds."},{"word":"Ingluvies","type":"(n.)","description":"The crop, or craw, of birds."},{"word":"Ingluvious","type":"(a.)","description":"Gluttonous."},{"word":"In-going","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of going in; entrance."},{"word":"In-going","type":"(a.)","description":"Going; entering, as upon an office or a possession; as, an in-going tenant."},{"word":"Ingorge","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Engorge."},{"word":"Ingot","type":"(n.)","description":"That in which metal is cast; a mold."},{"word":"Ingot","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal."},{"word":"Ingrace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ingratiate."},{"word":"Ingracious","type":"(a.)","description":"Ungracious; unkind."},{"word":"Ingraff","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Ingraft."},{"word":"Ingrafted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ingraft"},{"word":"Ingrafting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ingraft"},{"word":"Ingraft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something."},{"word":"Ingraft","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree."},{"word":"Ingrafter","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who ingrafts."},{"word":"Ingraftment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ingrafting."},{"word":"Ingraftment","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing ingrafted; a scion."},{"word":"Ingrain","type":"(a.)","description":"Dyed with grain, or kermes."},{"word":"Ingrain","type":"(a.)","description":"Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance."},{"word":"Ingrain","type":"(n.)","description":"An ingrain fabric, as a carpet."},{"word":"Ingrained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ingrain"},{"word":"Ingraining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ingrain"},{"word":"Ingrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dye with or in grain or kermes."},{"word":"Ingrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dye in the grain, or before manufacture."},{"word":"Ingrain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply."},{"word":"Ingrapple","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To seize; to clutch; to grapple."},{"word":"Ingrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Ingrateful."},{"word":"Ingrate","type":"(n.)","description":"An ungrateful person."},{"word":"Ingrateful","type":"(a.)","description":"Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative."},{"word":"Ingrateful","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive."},{"word":"Ingrately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Ungratefully."},{"word":"Ingratiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ingratiate"},{"word":"Ingratiating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ingratiate"},{"word":"Ingratiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce or commend to the favor of another; to bring into favor; to insinuate; -- used reflexively, and followed by with before the person whose favor is sought."},{"word":"Ingratiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To recommend; to render easy or agreeable; -- followed by to."},{"word":"Ingratiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gain favor."},{"word":"Ingratitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness."},{"word":"Ingrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engrave."},{"word":"Ingrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bury."},{"word":"Ingravidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impregnate."},{"word":"Ingravidation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being pregnant or impregnated."},{"word":"Ingreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make great; to enlarge; to magnify."},{"word":"Ingredience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ingrediency"},{"word":"Ingrediency","type":"(n.)","description":"Entrance; ingress."},{"word":"Ingrediency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being an ingredient or component part."},{"word":"Ingredient","type":"(n.)","description":"That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent."},{"word":"Ingredient","type":"(a.)","description":"Entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part."},{"word":"Ingress","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs."},{"word":"Ingress","type":"(n.)","description":"Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited."},{"word":"Ingress","type":"(n.)","description":"The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc."},{"word":"Ingress","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go in; to enter."},{"word":"Ingression","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of entering; entrance."},{"word":"Ingrieve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render more grievous; to aggravate."},{"word":"Ingroove","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To groove in; to join in or with a groove."},{"word":"Ingross","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Engross."},{"word":"Ingrowing","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance."},{"word":"Ingrowth","type":"(n.)","description":"A growth or development inward."},{"word":"Inguen","type":"(n.)","description":"The groin."},{"word":"Inguilty","type":"(a.)","description":"Not guilty."},{"word":"Inguinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia."},{"word":"Ingulfed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ingulf"},{"word":"Ingulfing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ingulf"},{"word":"Ingulf","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf."},{"word":"Ingulfment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of ingulfing, or the state of being ingulfed."},{"word":"Ingurgitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle."},{"word":"Ingurgitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To swallow up, as in a gulf."},{"word":"Ingurgitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To guzzle; to swill."},{"word":"Ingurgitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed."},{"word":"Ingustable","type":"(a.)","description":"Tasteless; insipid."},{"word":"Inhabile","type":"(a.)","description":"Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; as, inhabile matter."},{"word":"Inhabile","type":"(a.)","description":"Unskilled; unready; awkward; incompetent; unqualified; -- said of person."},{"word":"Inhability","type":"(n.)","description":"Unsuitableness; unaptness; unfitness; inability."},{"word":"Inhabited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inhabit"},{"word":"Inhabiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inhabit"},{"word":"Inhabit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses."},{"word":"Inhabit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide."},{"word":"Inhabitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inhabited; habitable."},{"word":"Inhabitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited."},{"word":"Inhabitance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inhabitancy"},{"word":"Inhabitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy."},{"word":"Inhabitancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy."},{"word":"Inhabitant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state."},{"word":"Inhabitant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident."},{"word":"Inhabitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inhabit."},{"word":"Inhabitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling."},{"word":"Inhabitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Abode; place of dwelling; residence."},{"word":"Inhabitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Population; inhabitants."},{"word":"Inhabitativeness","type":"(n.)","description":"A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country."},{"word":"Inhabited","type":"(a.)","description":"Uninhabited."},{"word":"Inhabiter","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant."},{"word":"Inhabitiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"See Inhabitativeness."},{"word":"Inhabitress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female inhabitant."},{"word":"Inhalant","type":"(a.)","description":"Inhaling; used for inhaling."},{"word":"Inhalant","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus also called an inhaler (which see); that which is to be inhaled."},{"word":"Inhalation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled."},{"word":"Inhaled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inhale"},{"word":"Inhaling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inhale"},{"word":"Inhale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; -- opposed to exhale."},{"word":"Inhalent","type":"(a.)","description":"Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct."},{"word":"Inhaler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inhales."},{"word":"Inhaler","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus for inhaling any vapor or volatile substance, as ether or chloroform, for medicinal purposes."},{"word":"Inhaler","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance to filter, as air, in order to protect the lungs from inhaling damp or cold air, noxious gases, dust, etc.; also, the respiratory apparatus for divers."},{"word":"Inhance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enhance."},{"word":"Inharmonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inharmonical"},{"word":"Inharmonical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not harmonic; inharmonious; discordant; dissonant."},{"word":"Inharmonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not harmonious; unmusical; discordant; dissonant."},{"word":"Inharmonious","type":"(a.)","description":"Conflicting; jarring; not in harmony."},{"word":"Inharmoniously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without harmony."},{"word":"Inharmoniousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inharmonious; want of harmony; discord."},{"word":"Inharmony","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of harmony."},{"word":"Inhaul","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inhauler"},{"word":"Inhauler","type":"(n.)","description":"A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom."},{"word":"Inhearsed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inhearse"},{"word":"Inhearsing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inhearse"},{"word":"Inhearse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin."},{"word":"Inhered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inhere"},{"word":"Inhering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inhere"},{"word":"Inhere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities."},{"word":"Inherence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Inherency"},{"word":"Inherency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection."},{"word":"Inherent","type":"(a.)","description":"Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection."},{"word":"Inherently","type":"(adv.)","description":"By inherence; inseparably."},{"word":"Inherited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inherit"},{"word":"Inheriting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inherit"},{"word":"Inherit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown."},{"word":"Inherit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc."},{"word":"Inherit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession."},{"word":"Inherit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in possession of."},{"word":"Inherit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance."},{"word":"Inheritability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs."},{"word":"Inheritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title."},{"word":"Inheritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities."},{"word":"Inheritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir."},{"word":"Inheritably","type":"(adv.)","description":"By inheritance."},{"word":"Inheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities."},{"word":"Inheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent."},{"word":"Inheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction."},{"word":"Inheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"Possession; ownership; acquisition."},{"word":"Inheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation."},{"word":"Inheritance","type":"(n.)","description":"A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law."},{"word":"Inheritor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inherits; an heir."},{"word":"Inheritress","type":"(n.)","description":"A heiress."},{"word":"Inheritrix","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Inheritress."},{"word":"Inherse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Inhearse."},{"word":"Inhesion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence."},{"word":"Inhiation","type":"(n.)","description":"A gaping after; eager desire; craving."},{"word":"Inhibited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inhibit"},{"word":"Inhibiting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inhibit"},{"word":"Inhibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder."},{"word":"Inhibit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict."},{"word":"Inhibition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo."},{"word":"Inhibition","type":"(n.)","description":"A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc."},{"word":"Inhibition","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal."},{"word":"Inhibitor","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve."},{"word":"Inhibitory","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center."},{"word":"Inhibitory-motor","type":"(a.)","description":"A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue."},{"word":"Inhive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a hive; to hive."},{"word":"Inheld","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inhold"},{"word":"Inholding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inhold"},{"word":"Inhold","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess."},{"word":"Inholder","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant."},{"word":"Inhoop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop."},{"word":"Inhospitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people."},{"word":"Inhospitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild."},{"word":"Inhospitality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality."},{"word":"Inhuman","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people."},{"word":"Inhuman","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment."},{"word":"Inhumanities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inhumanity"},{"word":"Inhumanity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity."},{"word":"Inhumanly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously."},{"word":"Inhumate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inhume; to bury; to inter."},{"word":"Inhumation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inhuming or burying; interment."},{"word":"Inhumation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed."},{"word":"Inhumation","type":"(n.)","description":"Arenation."},{"word":"Inhumed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inhume"},{"word":"Inhuming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inhume"},{"word":"Inhume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter."},{"word":"Inhume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes."},{"word":"Inia","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout."},{"word":"Inial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the inion."},{"word":"Inimaginable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unimaginable; inconceivable."},{"word":"Inimical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity."},{"word":"Inimical","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant."},{"word":"Inimicality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness."},{"word":"Inimically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inimical manner."},{"word":"Inimicitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Inimical; unfriendly."},{"word":"Inimicous","type":"(a.)","description":"Inimical; hurtful."},{"word":"Inimitability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness."},{"word":"Inimitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence."},{"word":"Inion","type":"(n.)","description":"The external occipital protuberance of the skull."},{"word":"Iniquitous","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding."},{"word":"Iniquitously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly."},{"word":"Iniquities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Iniquity"},{"word":"Iniquity","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge."},{"word":"Iniquity","type":"(n.)","description":"An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o/ unrighteousness; a sin; a crime."},{"word":"Iniquity","type":"(n.)","description":"A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice."},{"word":"Iniquous","type":"(a.)","description":"Iniquitous."},{"word":"Inirritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not irritable; esp. (Physiol.), incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle."},{"word":"Inirritative","type":"(a.)","description":"Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever."},{"word":"Inisle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into an island; to surround."},{"word":"Initial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease."},{"word":"Initial","type":"(a.)","description":"Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name."},{"word":"Initial","type":"(n.)","description":"The first letter of a word or a name."},{"word":"Initialed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Initial"},{"word":"Initialing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Initial"},{"word":"Initial","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials."},{"word":"Initially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning."},{"word":"Initiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Initiate"},{"word":"Initiating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Initiate"},{"word":"Initiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon."},{"word":"Initiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce."},{"word":"Initiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies."},{"word":"Initiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative."},{"word":"Initiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unpracticed; untried; new."},{"word":"Initiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted."},{"word":"Initiate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is, or is to be, initiated."},{"word":"Initiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc."},{"word":"Initiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order."},{"word":"Initiative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary."},{"word":"Initiative","type":"(n.)","description":"An introductory step or movement; an act which originates or begins."},{"word":"Initiative","type":"(n.)","description":"The right or power to introduce a new measure or course of action, as in legislation; as, the initiative in respect to revenue bills is in the House of Representatives."},{"word":"Initiator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who initiates."},{"word":"Initiatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step."},{"word":"Initiatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary."},{"word":"Initiatory","type":"(n.)","description":"An introductory act or rite."},{"word":"Inition","type":"(n.)","description":"Initiation; beginning."},{"word":"Injected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inject"},{"word":"Injecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inject"},{"word":"Inject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe."},{"word":"Inject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill."},{"word":"Inject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast or throw; -- with on."},{"word":"Inject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels."},{"word":"Injection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aeriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc."},{"word":"Injection","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema."},{"word":"Injection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance."},{"word":"Injection","type":"(n.)","description":"A specimen prepared by injection."},{"word":"Injection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum."},{"word":"Injection","type":"(n.)","description":"The cold water thrown into a condenser."},{"word":"Injector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, injects."},{"word":"Injector","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor."},{"word":"Injelly","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in jelly."},{"word":"Injoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enjoin."},{"word":"Injoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join; to unite."},{"word":"Injoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disjoint; to separate."},{"word":"Injucundity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unpleasantness; disagreeableness."},{"word":"Injudicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not cognizable by a judge."},{"word":"Injudicial","type":"(a.)","description":"Not according to the forms of law; not judicial."},{"word":"Injudicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not judicious; wanting in sound judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser."},{"word":"Injudicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not according to sound judgment or discretion; unwise; as, an injudicious measure."},{"word":"Injudiciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an injudicious manner."},{"word":"Injudiciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being injudicious; want of sound judgment; indiscretion."},{"word":"Injunction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting."},{"word":"Injunction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction."},{"word":"Injunction","type":"(n.)","description":"A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ."},{"word":"Injured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Injure"},{"word":"Injuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Injure"},{"word":"Injure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind."},{"word":"Injurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who injures or wrongs."},{"word":"Injurie","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Injuria"},{"word":"Injuria","type":"(n.)","description":"Injury; invasion of another's rights."},{"word":"Injurious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable."},{"word":"Injurious","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc."},{"word":"Injuriously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an injurious or hurtful manner; wrongfully; hurtfully; mischievously."},{"word":"Injuriousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury."},{"word":"Injuries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Injury"},{"word":"Injury","type":"(a.)","description":"Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character."},{"word":"Injustice","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition."},{"word":"Injustice","type":"(n.)","description":"An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong."},{"word":"Ink","type":"(n.)","description":"The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs."},{"word":"Ink","type":"(n.)","description":"A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing."},{"word":"Ink","type":"(n.)","description":"A pigment. See India ink, under India."},{"word":"Inked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ink"},{"word":"Inking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ink"},{"word":"Ink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink."},{"word":"Inker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type."},{"word":"Inkfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A cuttlefish. See Cuttlefish."},{"word":"Inkhorn","type":"(n.)","description":"A small bottle of horn or other material formerly used for holding ink; an inkstand; a portable case for writing materials."},{"word":"Inkhorn","type":"(a.)","description":"Learned; pedantic; affected."},{"word":"Inkhornism","type":"(n.)","description":"Pedantry."},{"word":"Inkiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inky; blackness."},{"word":"Inking","type":"(a.)","description":"Supplying or covering with ink."},{"word":"Inkle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of tape or braid."},{"word":"Inkle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To guess."},{"word":"Inkling","type":"(n.)","description":"A hint; an intimation."},{"word":"Inknee","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Knock-knee."},{"word":"Inkneed","type":"(a.)","description":"See Knock-kneed."},{"word":"Inknot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten or bind, as with a knot; to knot together."},{"word":"Inkstand","type":"(n.)","description":"A small vessel for holding ink, to dip the pen into; also, a device for holding ink and writing materials."},{"word":"Inkstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink."},{"word":"Inky","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black."},{"word":"Inlaced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inlace"},{"word":"Inlacing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inlace"},{"word":"Inlace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace; also, to lace or enlace."},{"word":"Inlagation","type":"(n.)","description":"The restitution of an outlawed person to the protection of the law; inlawing."},{"word":"Inlaid","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Inlay."},{"word":"Inland","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town."},{"word":"Inland","type":"(a.)","description":"Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc."},{"word":"Inland","type":"(a.)","description":"Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange."},{"word":"Inland","type":"(n.)","description":"The interior part of a country."},{"word":"Inland","type":"(adv.)","description":"Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast."},{"word":"Inlander","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea."},{"word":"Inlandish","type":"(a.)","description":"Inland."},{"word":"Inlapidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into a stony substance; to petrity."},{"word":"Inlard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Inlard."},{"word":"Inlaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law."},{"word":"Inlaied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inlay"},{"word":"Inlaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inlay"},{"word":"Inlay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions."},{"word":"Inlay","type":"(n.)","description":"Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety."},{"word":"Inlayer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inlays, or whose occupation it is to inlay."},{"word":"Inleagued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inleague"},{"word":"Inleaguing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inleague"},{"word":"Inleague","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ally, or form an alliance witgh; to unite; to combine."},{"word":"Inleaguer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beleaguer."},{"word":"Inlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance."},{"word":"Inlet","type":"(n.)","description":"A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands."},{"word":"Inlet","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is let in or inland; an inserted material."},{"word":"Inlighten","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enlighten."},{"word":"Inlist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enlist."},{"word":"Inlive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To animate."},{"word":"Inlock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lock in, or inclose."},{"word":"In","type":"()","description":"In the place; in the proper or natural place."},{"word":"Inlumine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Illumine."},{"word":"Inly","type":"(a.)","description":"Internal; interior; secret."},{"word":"Inly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Internally; within; in the heart."},{"word":"Inmacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being an inmate."},{"word":"Inmate","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling."},{"word":"Inmate","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitted as a dweller; resident; internal."},{"word":"Inmeats","type":"(n.pl.)","description":"The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc."},{"word":"Inmeshed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inmesh"},{"word":"Inmeshing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inmesh"},{"word":"Inmesh","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring within meshes, as of a net; to enmesh."},{"word":"Inmew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose, as in a mew or cage."},{"word":"Inmost","type":"(a.)","description":"Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost."},{"word":"Inn","type":"(n.)","description":"A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode."},{"word":"Inn","type":"(n.)","description":"A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel."},{"word":"Inn","type":"(n.)","description":"The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn."},{"word":"Inn","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns."},{"word":"Inned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inn"},{"word":"Inning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inn"},{"word":"Inn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take lodging; to lodge."},{"word":"Inn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To house; to lodge."},{"word":"Inn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To get in; to in. See In, v. t."},{"word":"Innate","type":"(a.)","description":"Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence."},{"word":"Innate","type":"(a.)","description":"Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive."},{"word":"Innate","type":"(a.)","description":"Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther."},{"word":"Innate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to exit; to call into being."},{"word":"Innately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Naturally."},{"word":"Innateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being innate."},{"word":"Innative","type":"(a.)","description":"Native."},{"word":"Innavigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels."},{"word":"Inne","type":"(adv. & prep.)","description":"In."},{"word":"Inner","type":"(a.)","description":"Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena."},{"word":"Inner","type":"(a.)","description":"Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure."},{"word":"Innerly","type":"(adv.)","description":"More within."},{"word":"Innermost","type":"(a.)","description":"Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within."},{"word":"Innermostly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the innermost place."},{"word":"Innervate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches."},{"word":"Innervation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of innerving or stimulating."},{"word":"Innervation","type":"(n.)","description":"Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs."},{"word":"Innervation","type":"(n.)","description":"The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts."},{"word":"Innerved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Innerve"},{"word":"Innerving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Innerve"},{"word":"Innerve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate."},{"word":"Innholder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps an inn."},{"word":"Inning","type":"(n.)","description":"Ingathering; harvesting."},{"word":"Inning","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings."},{"word":"Inning","type":"(n.)","description":"Lands recovered from the sea."},{"word":"Innitency","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaning; pressure; weight."},{"word":"Innixion","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of leaning upon something; incumbency."},{"word":"Innkeeper","type":"(n.)","description":"An innholder."},{"word":"Innocence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness."},{"word":"Innocence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness."},{"word":"Innocence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown."},{"word":"Innocence","type":"(n.)","description":"Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness."},{"word":"Innocency","type":"(n.)","description":"Innocence."},{"word":"Innocent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy."},{"word":"Innocent","type":"(a.)","description":"Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright."},{"word":"Innocent","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged."},{"word":"Innocent","type":"(a.)","description":"Simple; artless; foolish."},{"word":"Innocent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade."},{"word":"Innocent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation."},{"word":"Innocent","type":"(n.)","description":"An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin."},{"word":"Innocent","type":"(n.)","description":"An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot."},{"word":"Innocently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an innocent manner."},{"word":"Innocuity","type":"(n.)","description":"Innocuousness."},{"word":"Innocuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Harmless; producing no ill effect; innocent."},{"word":"Innodated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Innodate"},{"word":"Innodating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Innodate"},{"word":"Innodate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bind up,as in a knot; to include."},{"word":"Innominable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be named."},{"word":"Innominate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place."},{"word":"Innominate","type":"(a.)","description":"A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava."},{"word":"Innovated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Innovate"},{"word":"Innovating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Innovate"},{"word":"Innovate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act."},{"word":"Innovate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize."},{"word":"Innovate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To introduce novelties or changes; -- sometimes with in or on."},{"word":"Innovation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc."},{"word":"Innovation","type":"(n.)","description":"A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites."},{"word":"Innovation","type":"(n.)","description":"A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses."},{"word":"Innovationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors innovation."},{"word":"Innovative","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by, or introducing, innovations."},{"word":"Innovator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who innovates."},{"word":"Innoxious","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless."},{"word":"Innoxious","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from crime; pure; innocent."},{"word":"Innubilous","type":"(a.)","description":"Cloudless."},{"word":"Innuedoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Innuendo"},{"word":"Innuendo","type":"(n.)","description":"An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation."},{"word":"Innuendo","type":"(n.)","description":"An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief."},{"word":"Innuent","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveying a hint; significant."},{"word":"Innuit","type":"(n.)","description":"An Eskimo."},{"word":"Innumerability","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being innumerable."},{"word":"Innumerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number."},{"word":"Innumerous","type":"(a.)","description":"Innumerable."},{"word":"Innutrition","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment."},{"word":"Innutritious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment."},{"word":"Innutritive","type":"(a.)","description":"Innutritious."},{"word":"Innyard","type":"(n.)","description":"The yard adjoining an inn."},{"word":"Inobedience","type":"(n.)","description":"Disobedience."},{"word":"Inobedient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not obedient; disobedient."},{"word":"Inobservable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not observable."},{"word":"Inobservance","type":"(a.)","description":"Want or neglect of observance."},{"word":"Inobservant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not observant; regardless; heedless."},{"word":"Inobservation","type":"(n.)","description":"Neglect or want of observation."},{"word":"Inobtrusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not obtrusive; unobtrusive."},{"word":"Inocarpin","type":"(n.)","description":"A red, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis)."},{"word":"Inoccupation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of occupation."},{"word":"Inoceramus","type":"(n.)","description":"An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells,allied to the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the Cretaceous period."},{"word":"Inoculability","type":"(n.)","description":"The qual ity or state of being inoculable."},{"word":"Inoculable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation."},{"word":"Inocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Inserted in the corner of the eye; -- said of the antenn/ of certain insects."},{"word":"Inoculated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inoculate"},{"word":"Inoculating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inoculate"},{"word":"Inoculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant."},{"word":"Inoculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree."},{"word":"Inoculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate."},{"word":"Inoculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity."},{"word":"Inoculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To graft by inserting buds."},{"word":"Inoculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To communicate disease by inoculation."},{"word":"Inoculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or art of inoculating trees or plants."},{"word":"Inoculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh."},{"word":"Inoculation","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind."},{"word":"Inoculator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation."},{"word":"Inodiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make odious or hateful."},{"word":"Inodorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Inodorous."},{"word":"Inodorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless."},{"word":"Inoffensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance."},{"word":"Inoffensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Harmless; doing no injury or mischief."},{"word":"Inoffensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance."},{"word":"Inofficial","type":"(a.)","description":"Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence."},{"word":"Inofficially","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without the usual forms, or not in the official character."},{"word":"Inofficious","type":"(a.)","description":"Indifferent to obligation or duty."},{"word":"Inofficious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not officious; not civil or attentive."},{"word":"Inofficious","type":"(a.)","description":"Regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty; unkind; -- commonly said of a testament made without regard to natural obligation, or by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance."},{"word":"Inofficiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not-officiously."},{"word":"Inogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life."},{"word":"Inoperation","type":"(n.)","description":"Agency; influence; production of effects."},{"word":"Inoperative","type":"(a.)","description":"Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes."},{"word":"Inopercular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inoperculate"},{"word":"Inoperculate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells."},{"word":"Inopinable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be expected; inconceivable."},{"word":"Inopinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not expected or looked for."},{"word":"Inopportune","type":"(a.)","description":"Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc."},{"word":"Inopportunely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently."},{"word":"Inopportunity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience."},{"word":"Inoppressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not oppressive or burdensome."},{"word":"Inopulent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not opulent; not affluent or rich."},{"word":"Inordinacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness; immoderateness; as, the inordinacy of love or desire."},{"word":"Inordinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world."},{"word":"Inordination","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy."},{"word":"Inorganic","type":"(a.)","description":"Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances."},{"word":"Inorganical","type":"(a.)","description":"Inorganic."},{"word":"Inorganically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inorganic manner."},{"word":"Inorganity","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being inorganic."},{"word":"Inorganization","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being without organization."},{"word":"Inorganized","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having organic structure; devoid of organs; inorganic."},{"word":"Inorthography","type":"(n.)","description":"Deviation from correct orthography; bad spelling."},{"word":"Inosculated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inosculate"},{"word":"Inosculating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inosculate"},{"word":"Inosculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose."},{"word":"Inosculate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To intercommunicate; to interjoin."},{"word":"Inosculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body."},{"word":"Inosculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite intimately; to cause to become as one."},{"word":"Inosculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc."},{"word":"Inosinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, inosite; as, inosinic acid."},{"word":"Inosite","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite."},{"word":"Inoxidizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being oxidized; as, gold and platinum are inoxidizable in the air."},{"word":"Inoxidize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes."},{"word":"In","type":"()","description":"In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse."},{"word":"Inquartation","type":"(n.)","description":"Quartation."},{"word":"Inquest","type":"(n.)","description":"Inquiry; quest; search."},{"word":"Inquest","type":"(n.)","description":"Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death."},{"word":"Inquest","type":"(n.)","description":"A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand."},{"word":"Inquest","type":"(n.)","description":"The finding of the jury upon such inquiry."},{"word":"Inquiet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disquiet."},{"word":"Inquietation","type":"(n.)","description":"Disturbance."},{"word":"Inquietness","type":"(n.)","description":"Unquietness."},{"word":"Inquietude","type":"(n.)","description":"Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude."},{"word":"Inquiline","type":"(n.)","description":"A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects."},{"word":"Inquinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To defile; to pollute; to contaminate; to befoul."},{"word":"Inquination","type":"(n.)","description":"A defiling; pollution; stain."},{"word":"Inquirable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest."},{"word":"Inquirance","type":"(n.)","description":"Inquiry."},{"word":"Inquired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inquire"},{"word":"Inquiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inquire"},{"word":"Inquire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries."},{"word":"Inquire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination."},{"word":"Inquire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting."},{"word":"Inquire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call or name."},{"word":"Inquirent","type":"(a.)","description":"Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning."},{"word":"Inquirer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator."},{"word":"Inquiring","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to inquiry; disposed to investigate causes; curious; as, an inquiring mind."},{"word":"Inquiringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inquiring manner."},{"word":"Inquiries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inquiry"},{"word":"Inquiry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning."},{"word":"Inquiry","type":"(n.)","description":"Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries."},{"word":"Inquisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting judicial inquiry."},{"word":"Inquisition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation."},{"word":"Inquisition","type":"(n.)","description":"Judicial inquiry; official examination; inquest."},{"word":"Inquisition","type":"(n.)","description":"The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry."},{"word":"Inquisition","type":"(n.)","description":"A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy."},{"word":"Inquisition","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make inquisistion concerning; to inquire into."},{"word":"Inquisitional","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to inquiry or inquisition; inquisitorial; also, of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Inquisition."},{"word":"Inquisitionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Inquisitional."},{"word":"Inquisitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer."},{"word":"Inquisitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to examination, investigation, or research; searching; curious."},{"word":"Inquisitive","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research."},{"word":"Inquisitively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inquisitive manner."},{"word":"Inquisitiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity."},{"word":"Inquisitor","type":"(n.)","description":"An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions."},{"word":"Inquisitor","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose official duty it is to examine and inquire, as coroners, sheriffs, etc."},{"word":"Inquisitor","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the Court of Inquisition."},{"word":"Inquisitorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power."},{"word":"Inquisitorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices."},{"word":"Inquisitorially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inquisitorial manner."},{"word":"Inquisitorious","type":"(a.)","description":"Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial."},{"word":"Inquisiturient","type":"(a.)","description":"Inquisitorial."},{"word":"Inracinate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enroot or implant."},{"word":"Inrailed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inrail"},{"word":"Inrailing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inrail"},{"word":"Inrail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails."},{"word":"Inreristered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inregister"},{"word":"Inregistering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inregister"},{"word":"Inregister","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To register; to enter, as in a register."},{"word":"Inroad","type":"(n.)","description":"The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment."},{"word":"Inroaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inroad"},{"word":"Inroading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inroad"},{"word":"Inroad","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an inroad into; to invade."},{"word":"Inroll","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enroll."},{"word":"Inrunning","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the place of entrance; an inlet."},{"word":"Inrush","type":"(n.)","description":"A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide."},{"word":"Inrush","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rush in."},{"word":"Insabbatati","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiary cut or marked sabots, or shoes."},{"word":"Insafety","type":"(n.)","description":"Insecurity; danger."},{"word":"Insalivation","type":"(n.)","description":"The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating."},{"word":"Insalubrious","type":"(a.)","description":"Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate."},{"word":"Insalubrity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate."},{"word":"Insalutary","type":"(a.)","description":"Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health."},{"word":"Insalutary","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tending to safety; productive of evil."},{"word":"Insanability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness."},{"word":"Insanable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable."},{"word":"Insanableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness."},{"word":"Insanably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an incurable manner."},{"word":"Insane","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2."},{"word":"Insane","type":"(a.)","description":"Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital."},{"word":"Insane","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing insanity or madness."},{"word":"Insane","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc."},{"word":"Insanely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without reason; madly; foolishly."},{"word":"Insaneness","type":"(n.)","description":"Insanity; madness."},{"word":"Insaniate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render unsound; to make mad."},{"word":"Insanie","type":"(n.)","description":"Insanity."},{"word":"Insanitary","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage."},{"word":"Insanitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions."},{"word":"Insanity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy."},{"word":"Insanity","type":"(n.)","description":"Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility."},{"word":"Insapory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tasteless; unsavory."},{"word":"Insatiability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness."},{"word":"Insatiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire."},{"word":"Insatiableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability."},{"word":"Insatiably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably."},{"word":"Insatiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst."},{"word":"Insatiately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Insatiably."},{"word":"Insatiateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being insatiate."},{"word":"Insatiety","type":"(n.)","description":"Insatiableness."},{"word":"Insatisfaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Insufficiency; emptiness."},{"word":"Insatisfaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissatisfaction."},{"word":"Insaturable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being saturated or satisfied."},{"word":"Inscience","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of knowledge; ignorance."},{"word":"Inscient","type":"(a.)","description":"Having little or no knowledge; ignorant; stupid; silly."},{"word":"Inscient","type":"(a.)","description":"Having knowledge or insight; intelligent."},{"word":"Insconce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Ensconce."},{"word":"Inscribable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures."},{"word":"Inscribableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being inscribable."},{"word":"Inscribed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inscribe"},{"word":"Inscribing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inscribe"},{"word":"Inscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint."},{"word":"Inscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark with letters, charakters, or words."},{"word":"Inscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend."},{"word":"Inscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory."},{"word":"Inscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries."},{"word":"Inscriber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inscribes."},{"word":"Inscriptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inscribed; inscribable."},{"word":"Inscription","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of inscribing."},{"word":"Inscription","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc."},{"word":"Inscription","type":"(n.)","description":"A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle."},{"word":"Inscription","type":"(n.)","description":"An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage."},{"word":"Inscriptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription."},{"word":"Inscrolled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inscroll"},{"word":"Inscrolling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inscroll"},{"word":"Inscroll","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write on a scroll; to record."},{"word":"Inscrutability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness."},{"word":"Inscrutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event."},{"word":"Inscrutableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutability."},{"word":"Inscrutably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inscrutable manner."},{"word":"Insculp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engrave; to carve; to sculpture."},{"word":"Insculption","type":"(n.)","description":"Inscription."},{"word":"Insculpture","type":"(n.)","description":"An engraving, carving, or inscription."},{"word":"Insculptured","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Engraved."},{"word":"Inseamed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inseam"},{"word":"Inseaming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inseam"},{"word":"Inseam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix."},{"word":"Insearch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch."},{"word":"Insecable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible."},{"word":"Insect","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta."},{"word":"Insect","type":"(n.)","description":"Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion."},{"word":"Insect","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates."},{"word":"Insect","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing."},{"word":"Insect","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an insect or insects."},{"word":"Insect","type":"(a.)","description":"Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral."},{"word":"Insecta","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n."},{"word":"Insecta","type":"(n.)","description":"In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See Hexapoda."},{"word":"Insecta","type":"(n.)","description":"In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined."},{"word":"Insectary","type":"(n.)","description":"A place for keeping living insects."},{"word":"Insectation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution."},{"word":"Insectator","type":"(n.)","description":"A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic."},{"word":"Insected","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect."},{"word":"Insecticide","type":"(n.)","description":"An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder."},{"word":"Insectile","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects."},{"word":"Insection","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting in; incisure; incision."},{"word":"Insectivora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects."},{"word":"Insectivora","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats."},{"word":"Insectivores","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Insectivore"},{"word":"Insectivore","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Insectivora."},{"word":"Insectivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous."},{"word":"Insectivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc."},{"word":"Insectivorous","type":"(a.)","description":"the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles."},{"word":"Insectologer","type":"(n.)","description":"An entomologist."},{"word":"Insectology","type":"(n.)","description":"Entomology."},{"word":"Insecure","type":"(a.)","description":"Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss."},{"word":"Insecure","type":"(a.)","description":"Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss."},{"word":"Insecurely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an insecure manner."},{"word":"Insecureness","type":"(n.)","description":"Insecurity."},{"word":"Insecurities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Insecurity"},{"word":"Insecurity","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt."},{"word":"Insecurity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence."},{"word":"Insecution","type":"(n.)","description":"A following after; close pursuit."},{"word":"Inseminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sow; to impregnate."},{"word":"Insemination","type":"(n.)","description":"A sowing."},{"word":"Insensate","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish."},{"word":"Insense","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make to understand; to instruct."},{"word":"Insensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates."},{"word":"Insensibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity."},{"word":"Insensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility."},{"word":"Insensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with of or to."},{"word":"Insensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion."},{"word":"Insensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless."},{"word":"Insensibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Insensibility."},{"word":"Insensibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually."},{"word":"Insensitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility."},{"word":"Insensuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sensuous; not pertaining to, affecting, or addressing, the senses."},{"word":"Insentiment","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception."},{"word":"Inseparability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparableness."},{"word":"Inseparable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined."},{"word":"Inseparable","type":"(a.)","description":"Invariably attached to some word, stem, or root; as, the inseparable particle un-."},{"word":"Inseparableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability."},{"word":"Inseparably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inseparable manner or condition; so as not to be separable."},{"word":"Inseparate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not separate; together; united."},{"word":"Inseparately","type":"(adv.)","description":"Inseparably."},{"word":"Inserted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insert"},{"word":"Inserting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insert"},{"word":"Insert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper."},{"word":"Inserted","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle."},{"word":"Inserting","type":"(n.)","description":"A setting in."},{"word":"Inserting","type":"(n.)","description":"Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments."},{"word":"Insertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings."},{"word":"Insertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or mode of being inserted or attached; as, the insertion of stamens in a calyx."},{"word":"Insertion","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is set in or inserted, especially a narrow strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric."},{"word":"Insertion","type":"(n.)","description":"The point or part by which a muscle or tendon is attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its origin."},{"word":"Inserve","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be of use to an end; to serve."},{"word":"Inservient","type":"(a.)","description":"Conducive; instrumental."},{"word":"Insession","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath."},{"word":"Insession","type":"(n.)","description":"That in which one sits, as a bathing tub."},{"word":"Insessores","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Insessor"},{"word":"Insessor","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds."},{"word":"Insessores","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group."},{"word":"Insessorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds."},{"word":"Insessorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores."},{"word":"Inset","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infix."},{"word":"Inset","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is inserted or set in; an insertion."},{"word":"Inset","type":"(n.)","description":"One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted."},{"word":"Inseverable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable."},{"word":"Inshaded","type":"(a.)","description":"Marked with different shades."},{"word":"Inshave","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves."},{"word":"Insheathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe."},{"word":"Inshell","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hide in a shell."},{"word":"Inship","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To embark."},{"word":"Inshore","type":"(a.)","description":"Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents."},{"word":"Inshore","type":"(adv.)","description":"Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore."},{"word":"Inshrine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enshrine."},{"word":"Insiccation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of drying in."},{"word":"Inside","type":"(adv.)","description":"Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc."},{"word":"Inside","type":"(a.)","description":"Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration."},{"word":"Inside","type":"(a.)","description":"Adapted to the interior."},{"word":"Inside","type":"(n.)","description":"The part within; interior or internal portion; content."},{"word":"Inside","type":"(n.)","description":"The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings."},{"word":"Inside","type":"(n.)","description":"An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside."},{"word":"Insidiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lie in ambush for."},{"word":"Insidiator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lies in ambush."},{"word":"Insidious","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe."},{"word":"Insidious","type":"(a.)","description":"Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts."},{"word":"Insight","type":"(n.)","description":"A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into."},{"word":"Insight","type":"(n.)","description":"Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception."},{"word":"Insignia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order."},{"word":"Insignia","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Typical and characteristic marks or signs, by which anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade."},{"word":"Insignificance","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases."},{"word":"Insignificance","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art."},{"word":"Insignificance","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness."},{"word":"Insignificancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Insignificance."},{"word":"Insignificant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words."},{"word":"Insignificant","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile."},{"word":"Insignificant","type":"(a.)","description":"Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person."},{"word":"Insignificantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose."},{"word":"Insignificative","type":"(a.)","description":"Not expressing meaning; not significant."},{"word":"Insignment","type":"(n.)","description":"A token, mark, or explanation."},{"word":"Insimulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accuse."},{"word":"Insincere","type":"(a.)","description":"Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere; dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; -- said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations."},{"word":"Insincere","type":"(a.)","description":"Disappointing; imperfect; unsound."},{"word":"Insincerely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without sincerity."},{"word":"Insincerity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard."},{"word":"Insinewed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insinew"},{"word":"Insinewing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insinew"},{"word":"Insinew","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strengthen, as with sinews; to invigorate."},{"word":"Insinuant","type":"(a.)","description":"Insinuating; insinuative."},{"word":"Insinuated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insinuate"},{"word":"Insinuating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insinuate"},{"word":"Insinuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement."},{"word":"Insinuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill."},{"word":"Insinuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?"},{"word":"Insinuate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To push or work (one's self), as into favor; to introduce by slow, gentle, or artful means; to ingratiate; -- used reflexively."},{"word":"Insinuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices."},{"word":"Insinuate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ingratiate one's self; to obtain access or favor by flattery or cunning."},{"word":"Insinuating","type":"(a.)","description":"Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly."},{"word":"Insinuatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By insinuation."},{"word":"Insinuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in."},{"word":"Insinuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition."},{"word":"Insinuation","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner."},{"word":"Insinuation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations."},{"word":"Insinuative","type":"(a.)","description":"Stealing on or into the confidence or affections; having power to gain favor."},{"word":"Insinuative","type":"(a.)","description":"Using insinuations; giving hints; insinuating; as, insinuative remark."},{"word":"Insinuator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, insinuates."},{"word":"Insinuatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Insinuative."},{"word":"Insipid","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food."},{"word":"Insipid","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition."},{"word":"Insipidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Insipidness"},{"word":"Insipidness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity."},{"word":"Insipidly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly."},{"word":"Insipience","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of intelligence; stupidity; folly."},{"word":"Insipient","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish."},{"word":"Insipient","type":"(n.)","description":"An insipient person."},{"word":"Insisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insist"},{"word":"Insisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insist"},{"word":"Insist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon."},{"word":"Insist","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money."},{"word":"Insistence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency."},{"word":"Insistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall."},{"word":"Insistent","type":"(a.)","description":"Insisting; persistent; persevering."},{"word":"Insistent","type":"(a.)","description":"See Incumbent."},{"word":"Insistently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an insistent manner."},{"word":"Insisture","type":"(n.)","description":"A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence."},{"word":"Insitency","type":"(n.)","description":"Freedom from thirst."},{"word":"Insition","type":"(n.)","description":"The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment."},{"word":"In","type":"()","description":"In its natural position or place; -- said of a rock or fossil, when found in the situation in which it was originally formed or deposited."},{"word":"Insnared","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insnare"},{"word":"Insnaring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insnare"},{"word":"Insnare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means."},{"word":"Insnare","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle."},{"word":"Insnarer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who insnares."},{"word":"Insnarl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl."},{"word":"Insobriety","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness."},{"word":"Insociability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability."},{"word":"Insociable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected."},{"word":"Insociable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn."},{"word":"Insociably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unsociably."},{"word":"Insociate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not associate; without a companion; single; solitary; recluse."},{"word":"Insolated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insolate"},{"word":"Insolating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insolate"},{"word":"Insolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure."},{"word":"Insolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar."},{"word":"Insolation","type":"(n.)","description":"A sunstroke."},{"word":"Insolation","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; a sun bath."},{"word":"Insole","type":"(n.)","description":"The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin strip of leather, felt, etc., placed inside the shoe for warmth or ease."},{"word":"Insolence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being unusual or novel."},{"word":"Insolence","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence."},{"word":"Insolence","type":"(n.)","description":"Insolent conduct or treatment; insult."},{"word":"Insolence","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insult."},{"word":"Insolency","type":"(n.)","description":"Insolence."},{"word":"Insolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual."},{"word":"Insolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant."},{"word":"Insolent","type":"(a.)","description":"Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior."},{"word":"Insolently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an insolent manner."},{"word":"Insolidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument."},{"word":"Insolubility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being insoluble or not dissolvable, as in a fluid."},{"word":"Insolubility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being inexplicable or insolvable."},{"word":"Insoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water."},{"word":"Insoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty."},{"word":"Insoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Strong."},{"word":"Insolubleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility."},{"word":"Insolvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty."},{"word":"Insolvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts."},{"word":"Insolvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable."},{"word":"Insolvencies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Insolvency"},{"word":"Insolvency","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency."},{"word":"Insolvency","type":"(n.)","description":"Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate."},{"word":"Insolvent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor."},{"word":"Insolvent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent estate."},{"word":"Insolvent","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to persons unable to pay their debts."},{"word":"Insolvent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders."},{"word":"Insomnia","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness."},{"word":"Insomnious","type":"(a.)","description":"Restless; sleepless."},{"word":"Insomnolence","type":"(n.)","description":"Sleeplessness."},{"word":"Insomuch","type":"(adv.)","description":"So; to such a degree; in such wise; -- followed by that or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch."},{"word":"Insonorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not clear or melodious."},{"word":"Insooth","type":"(adv.)","description":"In sooth; truly."},{"word":"Insouciance","type":"(n.)","description":"Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern."},{"word":"Insouciant","type":"(a.)","description":"Careless; heedless; indifferent; unconcerned."},{"word":"Insoul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set a soul in; reflexively, to fix one's strongest affections on."},{"word":"Inspan","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To yoke or harness, as oxen to a vehicle."},{"word":"Inspected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inspect"},{"word":"Inspecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inspect"},{"word":"Inspect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct."},{"word":"Inspect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend."},{"word":"Inspect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Inspection."},{"word":"Inspecttion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation."},{"word":"Inspecttion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of overseeing; official examination or superintendence."},{"word":"Inspective","type":"(a.)","description":"Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection."},{"word":"Inspector","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer."},{"word":"Inspectorate","type":"(n.)","description":"Inspectorship."},{"word":"Inspectorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection."},{"word":"Inspectorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of an inspector."},{"word":"Inspectorship","type":"(n.)","description":"The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction."},{"word":"Inspectress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female inspector."},{"word":"Insperse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle; to scatter."},{"word":"Inspersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sprinkling."},{"word":"Inspeximus","type":"(n.)","description":"The first word of ancient charters in England, confirming a grant made by a former king; hence, a royal grant."},{"word":"Insphered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insphere"},{"word":"Insphering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insphere"},{"word":"Insphere","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in, or as in, an orb a sphere. Cf. Ensphere."},{"word":"Inspirable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration."},{"word":"Inspiration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration."},{"word":"Inspiration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc."},{"word":"Inspiration","type":"(n.)","description":"A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated."},{"word":"Inspirational","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to inspiration."},{"word":"Inspirationist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds to inspiration."},{"word":"Inspirator","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2."},{"word":"Inspirtory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or aiding, inspiration; as, the inspiratory muscles."},{"word":"Inspire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate."},{"word":"Inspire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing."},{"word":"Inspire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire."},{"word":"Inspire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration."},{"word":"Inspire","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue."},{"word":"Inspired","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inspire"},{"word":"Inspiring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inspire"},{"word":"Inspire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire."},{"word":"Inspire","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To breathe; to blow gently."},{"word":"Inspired","type":"(a.)","description":"Breathed in; inhaled."},{"word":"Inspired","type":"(a.)","description":"Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers."},{"word":"Inspired","type":"(a.)","description":"Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine authority; hence, sacred, holy; -- opposed to uninspired, profane, or secular; as, the inspired writings, that is, the Scriptures."},{"word":"Inspirer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, inspirer."},{"word":"Inspiring","type":"(a.)","description":"Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene."},{"word":"Inspirited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inspirit"},{"word":"Inspiriting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inspirit"},{"word":"Inspirit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate."},{"word":"Inspissated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inspissate"},{"word":"Inspissating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inspissate"},{"word":"Inspissate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation."},{"word":"Inspissate","type":"(a.)","description":"Thick or thickened; inspissated."},{"word":"Inspissation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened."},{"word":"Instabilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Instability"},{"word":"Instability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building."},{"word":"Instability","type":"(n.)","description":"Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc."},{"word":"Instable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant."},{"word":"Instableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Instability; unstableness."},{"word":"Installed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Install"},{"word":"Installing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Install"},{"word":"Install","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place."},{"word":"Install","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president."},{"word":"Installation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish."},{"word":"Installation","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc."},{"word":"Installment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of installing; installation."},{"word":"Installment","type":"(n.)","description":"The seat in which one is placed."},{"word":"Installment","type":"(n.)","description":"A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated."},{"word":"Instamp","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Enstamp."},{"word":"Instance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion."},{"word":"Instance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is instant or urgent; motive."},{"word":"Instance","type":"(n.)","description":"Occasion; order of occurrence."},{"word":"Instance","type":"(n.)","description":"That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example."},{"word":"Instance","type":"(n.)","description":"A token; a sign; a symptom or indication."},{"word":"Instanced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Instance"},{"word":"Instancing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Instance"},{"word":"Instance","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact."},{"word":"Instance","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give an example."},{"word":"Instancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Instance; urgency."},{"word":"Instant","type":"(a.)","description":"Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest."},{"word":"Instant","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay."},{"word":"Instant","type":"(a.)","description":"Present; current."},{"word":"Instant","type":"(adv.)","description":"Instantly."},{"word":"Instant","type":"(a.)","description":"A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment."},{"word":"Instant","type":"(a.)","description":"A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3."},{"word":"Instantaneity","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being instantaneous."},{"word":"Instantaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous."},{"word":"Instantaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"At or during a given instant; as, instantaneous acceleration, velocity, etc."},{"word":"Instanter","type":"(a.)","description":"Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter."},{"word":"Instantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately."},{"word":"Instantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly."},{"word":"Instar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stud as with stars."},{"word":"Instated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Instate"},{"word":"Instating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Instate"},{"word":"Instate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor."},{"word":"Instaurated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Instaurate"},{"word":"Instaurating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Instaurate"},{"word":"Instaurate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renew or renovate."},{"word":"Instauration","type":"(n.)","description":"Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance."},{"word":"Instaurator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who renews or restores to a former condition."},{"word":"Instaure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renew or renovate; to instaurate."},{"word":"Instead","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the place or room; -- usually followed by of."},{"word":"Instead","type":"(adv.)","description":"Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of."},{"word":"Insteeped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insteep"},{"word":"Insteeping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insteep"},{"word":"Insteep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To steep or soak; to drench."},{"word":"Instep","type":"(n.)","description":"The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint."},{"word":"Instep","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint."},{"word":"Instigated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Instigate"},{"word":"Instigating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Instigate"},{"word":"Instigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime."},{"word":"Instigatingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Incitingly; temptingly."},{"word":"Instigation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness."},{"word":"Instigator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who instigates or incites."},{"word":"Instilled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Instill"},{"word":"Instilling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Instill"},{"word":"Instill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed."},{"word":"Instillation","type":"(n.)","description":"The of instilling; also, that which is instilled."},{"word":"Instilllator","type":"(n.)","description":"An instiller."},{"word":"Instilllatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to instillation."},{"word":"Instiller","type":"(n.)","description":"One who instills."},{"word":"Instillment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled."},{"word":"Instimulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Not to stimulate; to soothe; to quiet."},{"word":"Instimulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stimulate; to excite."},{"word":"Instimulation","type":"(n.)","description":"Stimulation."},{"word":"Instinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life."},{"word":"Instinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished."},{"word":"Instinct","type":"(a.)","description":"Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method."},{"word":"Instinct","type":"(a.)","description":"A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct."},{"word":"Instinct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impress, as an animating power, or instinct."},{"word":"Instinction","type":"(n.)","description":"Instinct; incitement; inspiration."},{"word":"Instinctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous."},{"word":"Instinctively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse."},{"word":"Instinctivity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct."},{"word":"Instipulate","type":"(a.)","description":"See Exstipulate."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Established; organized; founded."},{"word":"Instituted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Institute"},{"word":"Instituting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Institute"},{"word":"Institute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To nominate; to appoint."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(a.)","description":"The act of instituting; institution."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(a.)","description":"That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(a.)","description":"Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(n.)","description":"An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute."},{"word":"Institute","type":"(n.)","description":"The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation."},{"word":"Instituter","type":"(n.)","description":"An institutor."},{"word":"Institution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school."},{"word":"Institution","type":"(n.)","description":"Instruction; education."},{"word":"Institution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge."},{"word":"Institution","type":"(n.)","description":"That which instituted or established"},{"word":"Institution","type":"(n.)","description":"Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity."},{"word":"Institution","type":"(n.)","description":"An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution."},{"word":"Institution","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits."},{"word":"Institution","type":"(n.)","description":"That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute."},{"word":"Institutional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or treating of, institutions; as, institutional legends."},{"word":"Institutional","type":"(a.)","description":"Instituted by authority."},{"word":"Institutional","type":"(a.)","description":"Elementary; rudimental."},{"word":"Institutionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to an institution, or institutions."},{"word":"Institutionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary."},{"word":"Institutist","type":"(n.)","description":"A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes."},{"word":"Institutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish."},{"word":"Institutive","type":"(a.)","description":"Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order."},{"word":"Institutively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In conformity with an institution."},{"word":"Institutor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes."},{"word":"Institutor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who educates; an instructor."},{"word":"Institutor","type":"(n.)","description":"A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church."},{"word":"Instop","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams."},{"word":"Instore","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To store up; to inclose; to contain."},{"word":"Instratified","type":"(a.)","description":"Interstratified."},{"word":"Instruct","type":"(a.)","description":"Arranged; furnished; provided."},{"word":"Instruct","type":"(a.)","description":"Instructed; taught; enlightened."},{"word":"Instructed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Instruct"},{"word":"Instructing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Instruct"},{"word":"Instruct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in order; to form; to prepare."},{"word":"Instruct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline."},{"word":"Instruct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury."},{"word":"Instructer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Instructor."},{"word":"Instructible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible."},{"word":"Instruction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information."},{"word":"Instruction","type":"(n.)","description":"That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted"},{"word":"Instruction","type":"(n.)","description":"Precept; information; teachings."},{"word":"Instruction","type":"(n.)","description":"Direction; order; command."},{"word":"Instructional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational."},{"word":"Instructive","type":"(a.)","description":"Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons."},{"word":"Instructor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher."},{"word":"Instructress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess."},{"word":"Instrument","type":"(n.)","description":"That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments."},{"word":"Instrument","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument."},{"word":"Instrument","type":"(n.)","description":"A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc."},{"word":"Instrument","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent."},{"word":"Instrument","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra."},{"word":"Instrumental","type":"(a.)","description":"Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business."},{"word":"Instrumental","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music."},{"word":"Instrumental","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms."},{"word":"Instrumentalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist."},{"word":"Instrumentalities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Instrumentality"},{"word":"Instrumentality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency."},{"word":"Instrumentally","type":"(adv.)","description":"By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end."},{"word":"Instrumentally","type":"(adv.)","description":"With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied."},{"word":"Instrumentalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality."},{"word":"Instrumentary","type":"(a.)","description":"Instrumental."},{"word":"Instrumentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency."},{"word":"Instrumentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band."},{"word":"Instrumentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect."},{"word":"Instrumentist","type":"(n.)","description":"A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist."},{"word":"Instyle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To style."},{"word":"Insuavity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of suavity; unpleasantness."},{"word":"Insubjection","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government."},{"word":"Insubmergible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being submerged; buoyant."},{"word":"Insubmission","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance."},{"word":"Insubordinate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous."},{"word":"Insubordination","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority."},{"word":"Insubstantial","type":"(a.)","description":"Unsubstantial; not real or strong."},{"word":"Insubstantiality","type":"(n.)","description":"Unsubstantiality; unreality."},{"word":"Insuccation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs."},{"word":"Insuccess","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of success."},{"word":"Insue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Ensue, v. i."},{"word":"Insuetude","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit."},{"word":"Insufferable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs."},{"word":"Insufferable","type":"(a.)","description":"Offensive beyond endurance; detestable."},{"word":"Insufferably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud."},{"word":"Insufficience","type":"(n.)","description":"Insufficiency."},{"word":"Insufficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc."},{"word":"Insufficiency","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office."},{"word":"Insufficient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality."},{"word":"Insufficient","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office."},{"word":"Insufficiently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately."},{"word":"Insufflation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of breathing on or into anything"},{"word":"Insufflation","type":"(n.)","description":"The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life."},{"word":"Insufflation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body."},{"word":"Insuitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unsuitable."},{"word":"Insular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc."},{"word":"Insular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices."},{"word":"Insular","type":"(n.)","description":"An islander."},{"word":"Insularity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation."},{"word":"Insularity","type":"(n.)","description":"Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy."},{"word":"Insularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an insular manner."},{"word":"Insulary","type":"(a.)","description":"Insular."},{"word":"Insulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insulate"},{"word":"Insulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insulate"},{"word":"Insulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an island of."},{"word":"Insulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate."},{"word":"Insulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prevent the transfer o/ electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors."},{"word":"Insulated","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column."},{"word":"Insulated","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Separated from other bodies by means of nonconductors of heat or electricity."},{"word":"Insulated","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; -- said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible."},{"word":"Insulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation."},{"word":"Insulation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated."},{"word":"Insulator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, insulates."},{"word":"Insulator","type":"(n.)","description":"The substance or body that insulates; a nonconductor."},{"word":"Insulite","type":"(n.)","description":"An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc."},{"word":"Insulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Abounding in islands."},{"word":"Insulse","type":"(a.)","description":"Insipid; dull; stupid."},{"word":"Insulsity","type":"(n.)","description":"Insipidity; stupidity; dullness."},{"word":"Insult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of leaping on; onset; attack."},{"word":"Insult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity."},{"word":"Insulted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insult"},{"word":"Insulting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insult"},{"word":"Insult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon."},{"word":"Insult","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him."},{"word":"Insult","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To leap or jump."},{"word":"Insult","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To behave with insolence; to exult."},{"word":"Insultable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being insulted or affronted."},{"word":"Insultation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult."},{"word":"Insultation","type":"(n.)","description":"Exultation."},{"word":"Insulter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who insults."},{"word":"Insulting","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc."},{"word":"Insultment","type":"(n.)","description":"Insolent treatment; insult."},{"word":"Insume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take in; to absorb."},{"word":"Insuperability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness."},{"word":"Insuperable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties."},{"word":"Insupportable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain."},{"word":"Insupposable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable."},{"word":"Insuppressible","type":"(a.)","description":"That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible."},{"word":"Insuppressive","type":"(a.)","description":"Insuppressible."},{"word":"Insurable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured."},{"word":"Insurance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6."},{"word":"Insurance","type":"(n.)","description":"The premium paid for insuring property or life."},{"word":"Insurance","type":"(n.)","description":"The sum for which life or property is insured."},{"word":"Insurance","type":"(n.)","description":"A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance."},{"word":"Insurancer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter."},{"word":"Insurant","type":"(n.)","description":"The person insured."},{"word":"Insured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Insure"},{"word":"Insuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Insure"},{"word":"Insure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one."},{"word":"Insure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured."},{"word":"Insure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent."},{"word":"Insurer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter."},{"word":"Insurgence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Insurgency"},{"word":"Insurgency","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection."},{"word":"Insurgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious."},{"word":"Insurgent","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel."},{"word":"Insurmountability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being insurmountable."},{"word":"Insurmountable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle."},{"word":"Insurmountableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being insurmountable; insurmountability."},{"word":"Insurmountably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner or to a degree not to be overcome."},{"word":"Insurrection","type":"(n.)","description":"A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state."},{"word":"Insurrection","type":"(n.)","description":"A rising in mass to oppose an enemy."},{"word":"Insurrectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection."},{"word":"Insurrectionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious."},{"word":"Insurrectionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent."},{"word":"Insusceptibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive."},{"word":"Insusceptible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery."},{"word":"Insusceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not susceptive or susceptible."},{"word":"Insusurration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of whispering into something."},{"word":"Inswathed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inswathe"},{"word":"Inswating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inswathe"},{"word":"Inswathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wrap up; to infold; to swathe."},{"word":"Intact","type":"(a.)","description":"Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire."},{"word":"Intactible","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Intactable"},{"word":"Intactable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not perceptible to the touch."},{"word":"Intagliated","type":"(a.)","description":"Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone."},{"word":"Intaglius","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intaglio"},{"word":"Intagli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intaglio"},{"word":"Intaglio","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively."},{"word":"Intail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Entail, v. t."},{"word":"Intake","type":"(n.)","description":"The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet."},{"word":"Intake","type":"(n.)","description":"the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder."},{"word":"Intake","type":"(n.)","description":"The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air."},{"word":"Intaminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncontaminated."},{"word":"Intangibilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intangibility"},{"word":"Intangibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness."},{"word":"Intangible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible."},{"word":"Intangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Entangle."},{"word":"Intastable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory."},{"word":"Integer","type":"(n.)","description":"A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number."},{"word":"Integrability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being integrable."},{"word":"Integrable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being integrated."},{"word":"Integral","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire."},{"word":"Integral","type":"(a.)","description":"Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant."},{"word":"Integral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional."},{"word":"Integral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the integral calculus."},{"word":"Integral","type":"(n.)","description":"A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual."},{"word":"Integral","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent."},{"word":"Integrality","type":"(n.)","description":"Entireness."},{"word":"Integrally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration."},{"word":"Integrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral."},{"word":"Integrated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Integrate"},{"word":"Integrating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Integrate"},{"word":"Integrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect."},{"word":"Integrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time."},{"word":"Integrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of."},{"word":"Integration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making whole or entire."},{"word":"Integration","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral."},{"word":"Integration","type":"(n.)","description":"In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development."},{"word":"Integrator","type":"(n.)","description":"That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined."},{"word":"Integrity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory."},{"word":"Integrity","type":"(n.)","description":"Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude."},{"word":"Integrity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity."},{"word":"Integropallial","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells."},{"word":"Integumation","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants."},{"word":"Integument","type":"(n.)","description":"That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular."},{"word":"Integumentary","type":"(n.)","description":"Belonging to, or composed of, integuments."},{"word":"Integumentation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered."},{"word":"Intellect","type":"(n.)","description":"The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding."},{"word":"Intellected","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities."},{"word":"Intellection","type":"(n.)","description":"A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself."},{"word":"Intellective","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual."},{"word":"Intellective","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational."},{"word":"Intellective","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses."},{"word":"Intellectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intellective manner."},{"word":"Intellectual","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc."},{"word":"Intellectual","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person."},{"word":"Intellectual","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments."},{"word":"Intellectual","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called \"mental\" philosophy."},{"word":"Intellectual","type":"(n.)","description":"The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties."},{"word":"Intellectualism","type":"(n.)","description":"Intellectual power; intellectuality."},{"word":"Intellectualism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason."},{"word":"Intellectualist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who overrates the importance of the understanding."},{"word":"Intellectualist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism."},{"word":"Intellectuality","type":"(n.)","description":"Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual."},{"word":"Intellectualize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize."},{"word":"Intellectualize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual."},{"word":"Intellectually","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intellectual manner."},{"word":"Intelligence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding."},{"word":"Intelligence","type":"(n.)","description":"The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment."},{"word":"Intelligence","type":"(n.)","description":"Information communicated; news; notice; advice."},{"word":"Intelligence","type":"(n.)","description":"Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity."},{"word":"Intelligence","type":"(n.)","description":"Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information."},{"word":"Intelligence","type":"(n.)","description":"An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence."},{"word":"Intelligencer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger."},{"word":"Intelligencing","type":"(a.)","description":"Informing; giving information; talebearing."},{"word":"Intelligency","type":"(n.)","description":"Intelligence."},{"word":"Intelligent","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being."},{"word":"Intelligent","type":"(a.)","description":"Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer."},{"word":"Intelligent","type":"(a.)","description":"Gognizant; aware; communicate."},{"word":"Intelligential","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual."},{"word":"Intelligential","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal."},{"word":"Intelligentiary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who gives information; an intelligencer."},{"word":"Intelligently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intelligent manner; with intelligence."},{"word":"Intelligibility","type":"()","description":"The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness."},{"word":"Intelligible","type":"()","description":"Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc."},{"word":"Intelligibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility."},{"word":"Intelligibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly."},{"word":"Intemerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Intemerated"},{"word":"Intemerated","type":"(a.)","description":"Pure; undefiled."},{"word":"Intemerateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being unpolluted; purity."},{"word":"Intemerament","type":"(n.)","description":"A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part."},{"word":"Intemperance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions."},{"word":"Intemperance","type":"(n.)","description":"Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors."},{"word":"Intemperancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Intemperance."},{"word":"Intemperant","type":"(a.)","description":"Intemperate."},{"word":"Intemperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion."},{"word":"Intemperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors."},{"word":"Intemperate","type":"(a.)","description":"Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather."},{"word":"Intemperate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To disorder."},{"word":"Intemperately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint."},{"word":"Intemperateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking."},{"word":"Intemperateness","type":"(n.)","description":"Severity of weather; inclemency."},{"word":"Intemperature","type":"(n.)","description":"Intemperateness."},{"word":"Intempestive","type":"(a.)","description":"Out of season; untimely."},{"word":"Intempestively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Unseasonably."},{"word":"Intempestivity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unseasonableness; untimeliness."},{"word":"Intenable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress."},{"word":"Intended","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intend"},{"word":"Intending","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intend"},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To stretch' to extend; to distend."},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strain; to make tense."},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intensify; to strengthen."},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply with energy."},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey."},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard."},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain."},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold."},{"word":"Intend","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate."},{"word":"Intendancies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intendancy"},{"word":"Intendancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or employment of an intendant."},{"word":"Intendancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant."},{"word":"Intendant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance."},{"word":"Intendant","type":"(a.)","description":"Attentive."},{"word":"Intended","type":"(a.)","description":"Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent."},{"word":"Intended","type":"(a.)","description":"Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help."},{"word":"Intended","type":"(a.)","description":"Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband."},{"word":"Intended","type":"(n.)","description":"One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover."},{"word":"Intendedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Intentionally."},{"word":"Intendent","type":"(n.)","description":"See Intendant, n."},{"word":"Intender","type":"(n.)","description":"One who intends."},{"word":"Intendiment","type":"(n.)","description":"Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding."},{"word":"Intendment","type":"(n.)","description":"Charge; oversight."},{"word":"Intendment","type":"(n.)","description":"Intention; design; purpose."},{"word":"Intendment","type":"(n.)","description":"The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument."},{"word":"Intenerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intenerate"},{"word":"Intenerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intenerate"},{"word":"Intenerate","type":"(a.)","description":"To make tender or sensitive; to soften."},{"word":"Intenerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Made tender or soft; softened."},{"word":"Inteneration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening."},{"word":"Intenible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of holding or containing."},{"word":"Intensated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intensate"},{"word":"Intensating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intensate"},{"word":"Intensate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intensify."},{"word":"Intensation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax."},{"word":"Intensative","type":"(a.)","description":"Adding intensity; intensifying."},{"word":"Intense","type":"(a.)","description":"Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought."},{"word":"Intense","type":"(a.)","description":"Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: (a) Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat. (b) Keen; biting; as, intense cold. (c) Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate. (d) Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish. (e) Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light."},{"word":"Intensely","type":"(adv.)","description":"Intently."},{"word":"Intensely","type":"(adv.)","description":"To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold."},{"word":"Intenseness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought."},{"word":"Intensification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense."},{"word":"Intensifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture."},{"word":"Intensified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intensify"},{"word":"Intensifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intensify"},{"word":"Intensify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity."},{"word":"Intensify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy."},{"word":"Intension","type":"(n.)","description":"A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string."},{"word":"Intension","type":"(n.)","description":"Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency."},{"word":"Intension","type":"(n.)","description":"The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; -- opposed to extension, extent, or sphere."},{"word":"Intensitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence."},{"word":"Intensity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc."},{"word":"Intensity","type":"(n.)","description":"The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced."},{"word":"Intensity","type":"(n.)","description":"The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch."},{"word":"Intensity","type":"(n.)","description":"The degree or depth of shade in a picture."},{"word":"Intensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified."},{"word":"Intensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense."},{"word":"Intensive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition."},{"word":"Intensive","type":"(n.)","description":"That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word."},{"word":"Intensively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intensive manner; by increase of degree."},{"word":"Intensiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being intensive; intensity."},{"word":"Intent","type":"(a.)","description":"Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement."},{"word":"Intent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure."},{"word":"Intent","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim."},{"word":"Intentation","type":"(n.)","description":"Intention."},{"word":"Intention","type":"(n.)","description":"A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness."},{"word":"Intention","type":"(n.)","description":"A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New York."},{"word":"Intention","type":"(n.)","description":"The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim."},{"word":"Intention","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being strained. See Intension."},{"word":"Intention","type":"(n.)","description":"Any mental apprehension of an object."},{"word":"Intentional","type":"(a.)","description":"Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental."},{"word":"Intentionality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design."},{"word":"Intentionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intentional manner; with intention; by design; of purpose."},{"word":"Intentioned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having designs; -- chiefly used in composition; as, well-intentioned, having good designs; ill-intentioned, having ill designs."},{"word":"Intentive","type":"(n.)","description":"Attentive; intent."},{"word":"Intentively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Attentively; closely."},{"word":"Intentiveness","type":"(n.)","description":"Closeness of attention or application of mind; attentiveness."},{"word":"Intently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed."},{"word":"Intentness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention."},{"word":"Inter-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit."},{"word":"Interred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inter"},{"word":"Interring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inter"},{"word":"Inter","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body."},{"word":"Interact","type":"(n.)","description":"A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time."},{"word":"Interact","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact."},{"word":"Interaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Intermediate action."},{"word":"Interaction","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other."},{"word":"Interadditive","type":"(a.)","description":"Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence."},{"word":"Interagency","type":"(n.)","description":"Intermediate agency."},{"word":"Interagent","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermediate agent."},{"word":"Interall","type":"(n.)","description":"Entrail or inside."},{"word":"Interalveolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs."},{"word":"Interambulacral","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the interambulacra."},{"word":"Interambulacra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interambulacrum"},{"word":"Interambulacrums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interambulacrum"},{"word":"Interambulacrum","type":"(n.)","description":"In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum."},{"word":"Interamnian","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated between rivers."},{"word":"Interanimate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To animate or inspire mutually."},{"word":"Interarboration","type":"(n.)","description":"The interweaving of branches of trees."},{"word":"Interarticular","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments."},{"word":"Interatomic","type":"(a.)","description":"Between atoms; situated, or acting, between the atoms of bodies; as, interatomic forces."},{"word":"Interaulic","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing between royal courts."},{"word":"Interauricular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart."},{"word":"Interaxal","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated in an interaxis."},{"word":"Interaxillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated within or between the axils of leaves."},{"word":"Interaxes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interaxis"},{"word":"Interaxis","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between two axes. See Axis, 6."},{"word":"Interbastation","type":"(n.)","description":"Patchwork."},{"word":"Interbrachial","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the arms."},{"word":"Interbrain","type":"(n.)","description":"See Thalamencephalon."},{"word":"Interbranchial","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the branchiae."},{"word":"Interbreed","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants."},{"word":"Intercalar","type":"(a.)","description":"Intercalary."},{"word":"Intercalary","type":"(a.)","description":"Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n."},{"word":"Intercalary","type":"(n.)","description":"Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary."},{"word":"Intercalated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intercalate"},{"word":"Intercalating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intercalate"},{"word":"Intercalate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar."},{"word":"Intercalate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular series of rocks."},{"word":"Intercalation","type":"(n.)","description":"The insertion of a day, or other portion of time, in a calendar."},{"word":"Intercalation","type":"(n.)","description":"The insertion or introduction of anything among others, as the insertion of a phrase, line, or verse in a metrical composition; specif. (Geol.), the intrusion of a bed or layer between other layers."},{"word":"Intercarotid","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated between the external and internal carotid arteries; as, an intercarotid ganglion."},{"word":"Intercarpal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments."},{"word":"Intercartilaginous","type":"(a.)","description":"Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification."},{"word":"Intercavernous","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the cavernous sinuses; as, the intercavernous sinuses connecting the cavernous sinuses at the base of the brain."},{"word":"Interceded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intercede"},{"word":"Interceding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intercede"},{"word":"Intercede","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass between; to intervene."},{"word":"Intercede","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; -- usually followed by with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you."},{"word":"Intercede","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate."},{"word":"Intercedence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interceding; intercession; intervention."},{"word":"Intercedent","type":"(a.)","description":"Passing between; mediating; pleading."},{"word":"Interceder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who intercedes; an intercessor; a mediator."},{"word":"Intercellular","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels."},{"word":"Intercentral","type":"(a.)","description":"Between centers."},{"word":"Intercentra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intercentrum"},{"word":"Intercentrum","type":"(n.)","description":"The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians."},{"word":"Intercepted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intercept"},{"word":"Intercepting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intercept"},{"word":"Intercept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris."},{"word":"Intercept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river."},{"word":"Intercept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade."},{"word":"Intercept","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To include between; as, that part of the line which is intercepted between the points A and B."},{"word":"Intercept","type":"(n.)","description":"A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves."},{"word":"Intercepter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, intercepts."},{"word":"Interception","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy."},{"word":"Interceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Intercepting or tending to intercept."},{"word":"Intercession","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others."},{"word":"Intercessional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession or entreaty."},{"word":"Intercessionate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entreat."},{"word":"Intercessor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. (b) One who pleads in behalf of another."},{"word":"Intercessor","type":"(n.)","description":"A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed."},{"word":"Intercessorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Intercessory."},{"word":"Intercessory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer."},{"word":"Interchained","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interchain"},{"word":"Interchaining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interchain"},{"word":"Interchain","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain."},{"word":"Interchanged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interchange"},{"word":"Interchanging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interchange"},{"word":"Interchange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services."},{"word":"Interchange","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures."},{"word":"Interchange","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an interchange; to alternate."},{"word":"Interchange","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons."},{"word":"Interchange","type":"(n.)","description":"The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce."},{"word":"Interchange","type":"(n.)","description":"Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling."},{"word":"Interchangeability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness."},{"word":"Interchangeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution."},{"word":"Interchangeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Following each other in alternate succession; as, the four interchangeable seasons."},{"word":"Interchangement","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual transfer; exchange."},{"word":"Interchapter","type":"(n.)","description":"An intervening or inserted chapter."},{"word":"Intercidence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of coming or falling between; occurrence; incident."},{"word":"Intercident","type":"(a.)","description":"Falling or coming between; happening accidentally."},{"word":"Intercipient","type":"(a.)","description":"Intercepting; stopping."},{"word":"Intercipient","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, intercepts or stops anything on the passage."},{"word":"Inrecision","type":"(n.)","description":"A cutting off, through, or asunder; interruption."},{"word":"Intercitizenship","type":"(n.)","description":"The mutual right to civic privileges, in the different States."},{"word":"Interclavicle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Episternum."},{"word":"Interclavicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the clavicles; as, the interclavicular notch of the sternum."},{"word":"Interclavicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the interclavicle."},{"word":"Interclose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut in; to inclose."},{"word":"Intercloud","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cloud."},{"word":"Intercluded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interclude"},{"word":"Intercluding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interclude"},{"word":"Interclude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shut off or out from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt."},{"word":"Interclusion","type":"(n.)","description":"Interception; a stopping / obstruction."},{"word":"Intercollegiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc."},{"word":"Intercolline","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones."},{"word":"Intercolonial","type":"(a.)","description":"Between or among colonies; pertaining to the intercourse or mutual relations of colonies; as, intercolonial trade."},{"word":"Intercolumnar","type":"(a.)","description":"Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue."},{"word":"Intercolumniation","type":"(n.)","description":"The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts."},{"word":"Intercombat","type":"(n.)","description":"Combat."},{"word":"Intercoming","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coming between; intervention; interference."},{"word":"Intercommoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intercommon"},{"word":"Intercommoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intercommon"},{"word":"Intercommon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table."},{"word":"Intercommon","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc."},{"word":"Intercommonage","type":"(n.)","description":"The right or privilege of intercommoning."},{"word":"Intercommuned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intercommune"},{"word":"Intercommuning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intercommune"},{"word":"Intercommune","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To intercommunicate."},{"word":"Intercommune","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have mutual communication or intercourse by conservation."},{"word":"Intercommunicable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being mutually communicated."},{"word":"Intercommunicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication."},{"word":"Intercommunicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To communicate mutually; to interchange."},{"word":"Intercommunication","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual communication."},{"word":"Intercommunion","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities."},{"word":"Intercommunity","type":"(n.)","description":"Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc."},{"word":"Intercomparison","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual comparison of corresponding parts."},{"word":"Intercondylar","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Intercondyloid"},{"word":"Intercondyloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Between condyles; as, the intercondylar fossa or notch of the femur."},{"word":"Interconnect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join together."},{"word":"Interconnection","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection between; mutual connection."},{"word":"Intercontinental","type":"(a.)","description":"Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce."},{"word":"Interconvertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible."},{"word":"Intercostal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles."},{"word":"Intercourse","type":"(n.)","description":"A commingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion."},{"word":"Intercrossed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intercross"},{"word":"Intercrossing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intercross"},{"word":"Intercross","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To cross each other, as lines."},{"word":"Intercross","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety."},{"word":"Intercross","type":"(n.)","description":"The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants."},{"word":"Intercrural","type":"(a.)","description":"Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes."},{"word":"Intercur","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime."},{"word":"Intercurrence","type":"(n.)","description":"A passing or running between; occurrence."},{"word":"Intercurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Running between or among; intervening."},{"word":"Intercurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not belonging to any particular season."},{"word":"Intercurrent","type":"(a.)","description":"Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease."},{"word":"Intercurrent","type":"(n.)","description":"Something intervening."},{"word":"Intercutaneous","type":"(a.)","description":"Subcutaneous."},{"word":"Interdashed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interdash"},{"word":"Interdashing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interdash"},{"word":"Interdash","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dash between or among; to intersperse."},{"word":"Interdeal","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To intrigue."},{"word":"Interdental","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated between teeth; as, an interdental space, the space between two teeth in a gear wheel."},{"word":"Interdental","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed between the upper and lower teeth; as, interdental consonants."},{"word":"Interdentil","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between two dentils."},{"word":"Interdependence","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual dependence."},{"word":"Interdependency","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests."},{"word":"Interdependent","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutually dependent."},{"word":"Interdicted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interdict"},{"word":"Interdicting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interdict"},{"word":"Interdict","type":"(n.)","description":"To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations."},{"word":"Interdict","type":"(n.)","description":"To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual."},{"word":"Interdict","type":"(n.)","description":"A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition."},{"word":"Interdict","type":"(n.)","description":"A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church."},{"word":"Interdict","type":"(n.)","description":"An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America."},{"word":"Interdiction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict."},{"word":"Interdictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence."},{"word":"Interdictory","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory."},{"word":"Interdigital","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the fingers or toes; as, interdigital space."},{"word":"Interdigitate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interweave."},{"word":"Interdigitate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle."},{"word":"Interdigitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of interdigitating; interdigital space."},{"word":"Interdome","type":"(n.)","description":"The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry."},{"word":"Interduce","type":"(n.)","description":"An intertie."},{"word":"Interepimeral","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans."},{"word":"Interequinoctial","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming between the equinoxes."},{"word":"Interess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interest or affect."},{"word":"Interesse","type":"(n.)","description":"Interest."},{"word":"Interested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interest"},{"word":"Interesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interest"},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work."},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally."},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"To cause or permit to share."},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern."},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks."},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit."},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars."},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered."},{"word":"Interest","type":"(n.)","description":"The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest."},{"word":"Interested","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener."},{"word":"Interested","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness."},{"word":"Interestedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being interested; selfishness."},{"word":"Interesting","type":"(a.)","description":"Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news."},{"word":"Interestingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an interesting manner."},{"word":"Interestingness","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition or quality of being interesting."},{"word":"Interfacial","type":"(a.)","description":"Included between two plane surfaces or faces; as, an interfacial angle."},{"word":"Interfascicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue."},{"word":"Interferant","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office."},{"word":"Interfered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interfere"},{"word":"Interfering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interfere"},{"word":"Interfere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands."},{"word":"Interfere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose."},{"word":"Interfere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes."},{"word":"Interfere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2."},{"word":"Interfere","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention."},{"word":"Interference","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others."},{"word":"Interference","type":"(n.)","description":"The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally."},{"word":"Interference","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention."},{"word":"Interferer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who interferes."},{"word":"Interferingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By or with interference."},{"word":"Interflow","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flow in."},{"word":"Interfluent","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Interfluous"},{"word":"Interfluous","type":"(a.)","description":"Flowing between or among; intervening."},{"word":"Interfolded","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together."},{"word":"Interfoliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment."},{"word":"Interfoliate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interleave."},{"word":"Interfollicular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between follicles; as, the interfollicular septa in a lymphatic gland."},{"word":"Interfretted","type":"(a.)","description":"Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted."},{"word":"Interfulgent","type":"(a.)","description":"Shining between."},{"word":"Interfuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter."},{"word":"Interfuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spread through; to permeate; to pervade."},{"word":"Interfuse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix up together; to associate."},{"word":"Interfusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interfusing, or the state of being interfused."},{"word":"Interganglionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords."},{"word":"Interglobular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between globules; -- applied esp. to certain small spaces, surrounded by minute globules, in dentine."},{"word":"Intergraved","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Intergrave"},{"word":"Intergraved","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Intergrave"},{"word":"Intergraven","type":"()","description":"of Intergrave"},{"word":"Intergraving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intergrave"},{"word":"Intergrave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections."},{"word":"Interhemal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Interhaemal"},{"word":"Interhaemal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the hemal arches or hemal spines."},{"word":"Interhaemal","type":"(n.)","description":"An interhemal spine or cartilage."},{"word":"Interhyal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a segment sometimes present at the proximal end of the hyoidean arch."},{"word":"Interhyal","type":"(n.)","description":"An interhyal ligament or cartilage."},{"word":"Interim","type":"(n.)","description":"The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc."},{"word":"Interim","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics."},{"word":"Interior","type":"(a.)","description":"Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball."},{"word":"Interior","type":"(a.)","description":"Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country."},{"word":"Interior","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside."},{"word":"Interior","type":"(n.)","description":"The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom."},{"word":"Interiority","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being interior."},{"word":"Interiorly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Internally; inwardly."},{"word":"Interjacence","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Interjacency"},{"word":"Interjacency","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between."},{"word":"Interjacent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles."},{"word":"Interjaculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ejaculate parenthetically."},{"word":"Interjangle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily."},{"word":"Interjected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interject"},{"word":"Interjecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interject"},{"word":"Interject","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw in between; to insert; to interpose."},{"word":"Interject","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throw one's self between or among; to come between; to interpose."},{"word":"Interjection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected."},{"word":"Interjection","type":"(n.)","description":"A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation."},{"word":"Interjectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Thrown in between other words or phrases; parenthetical; ejaculatory; as, an interjectional remark."},{"word":"Interjectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an interjection; consisting of natural and spontaneous exclamations."},{"word":"Interjectionalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into, or to use as, an interjection."},{"word":"Interjectionally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an interjectional manner."},{"word":"Interjectionary","type":"(a.)","description":"Interjectional."},{"word":"Interjoined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interjoin"},{"word":"Interjoining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interjoin"},{"word":"Interjoin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join mutually; to unite."},{"word":"Interjoist","type":"(n.)","description":"The space or interval between two joists."},{"word":"Interjoist","type":"(n.)","description":"A middle joist or crossbeam."},{"word":"Interjunction","type":"(n.)","description":"A mutual joining."},{"word":"Interknit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine."},{"word":"Interknow","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To know mutually."},{"word":"Interknowledge","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual knowledge or acquaintance."},{"word":"Interlaced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interlace"},{"word":"Interlacing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interlace"},{"word":"Interlace","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave."},{"word":"Interlacement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced."},{"word":"Interlamellar","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Interlaminar"},{"word":"Interlaminar","type":"(a.)","description":"Between lammellae or laminae; as, interlamellar spaces."},{"word":"Interlaminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Placed between, or containing, laminae or plates."},{"word":"Interlamination","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being interlaminated."},{"word":"Interlapse","type":"(n.)","description":"The lapse or interval of time between two events."},{"word":"Interlarded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interlard"},{"word":"Interlarding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interlard"},{"word":"Interlard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean."},{"word":"Interlard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions."},{"word":"Interlaid","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interlay"},{"word":"Interlaying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interlay"},{"word":"Interlay","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay or place among or between."},{"word":"Interleaves","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interleaf"},{"word":"Interleaf","type":"(n.)","description":"A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book."},{"word":"Interleaved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interleave"},{"word":"Interleaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interleave"},{"word":"Interleave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book."},{"word":"Interlibel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To libel mutually."},{"word":"Interlined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interline"},{"word":"Interlining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interline"},{"word":"Interline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book."},{"word":"Interline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrange in alternate lines; as, to interline Latin and English."},{"word":"Interline","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mark or imprint with lines."},{"word":"Interlineal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Interlinear"},{"word":"Interlinear","type":"(a.)","description":"Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc."},{"word":"Interlineary","type":"(a.)","description":"Interlinear."},{"word":"Interlineary","type":"(n.)","description":"A book containing interlineations."},{"word":"Interlineation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interlining."},{"word":"Interlineation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is interlined; a passage, word, or line inserted between lines already written or printed."},{"word":"Interlining","type":"(n.)","description":"Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation."},{"word":"Interlink","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To link together; to join, as one chain to another."},{"word":"Interlink","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermediate or connecting link."},{"word":"Interlobar","type":"(a.)","description":"Between lobes; as, the interlobar notch of the liver; the interlobar ducts of a gland."},{"word":"Interlobular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein."},{"word":"Interlocation","type":"(n.)","description":"A placing or coming between; interposition."},{"word":"Interlock","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly."},{"word":"Interlock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening."},{"word":"Interlocution","type":"(n.)","description":"Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference."},{"word":"Interlocution","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermediate act or decree before final decision."},{"word":"Interlocution","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, intermediate argument or discussion."},{"word":"Interlocutor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner."},{"word":"Interlocutor","type":"(n.)","description":"An interlocutory judgment or sentence."},{"word":"Interlocutory","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational."},{"word":"Interlocutory","type":"(a.)","description":"Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action."},{"word":"Interlocutory","type":"(n.)","description":"Interpolated discussion or dialogue."},{"word":"Interlocutrice","type":"(n.)","description":"A female interlocutor."},{"word":"Interloped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interlope"},{"word":"Interloping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interlope"},{"word":"Interlope","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle."},{"word":"Interloper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who interlopes; one who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously."},{"word":"Interlucate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To let in light upon, as by cutting away branches."},{"word":"Interlucation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of thinning a wood to let in light."},{"word":"Interlucent","type":"(a.)","description":"Shining between."},{"word":"Interlude","type":"(n.)","description":"A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting."},{"word":"Interlude","type":"(n.)","description":"A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama."},{"word":"Interlude","type":"(n.)","description":"A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line."},{"word":"Interluded","type":"(a.)","description":"Inserted in the manner of an interlude; having or containing interludes."},{"word":"Interluder","type":"(n.)","description":"An actor who performs in an interlude."},{"word":"Interluency","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing between; intervening water."},{"word":"Interlunar","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Interlunary"},{"word":"Interlunary","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible."},{"word":"Intermandibular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the mandibles; interramal; as, the intermandibular space."},{"word":"Intermarriage","type":"(n.)","description":"Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations."},{"word":"Intermarry","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc."},{"word":"Intermaxillae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intermaxilla"},{"word":"Intermaxilla","type":"(n.)","description":"See Premaxilla."},{"word":"Intermaxillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the maxillary bones."},{"word":"Intermaxillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the intermaxillae."},{"word":"Intermaxillary","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermaxilla."},{"word":"Intermean","type":"(n.)","description":"Something done in the meantime; interlude."},{"word":"Intermeation","type":"(n.)","description":"A flowing between."},{"word":"Intermeddle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with."},{"word":"Intermeddle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intermix; to mingle."},{"word":"Intermeddler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who meddles with, or intrudes into, the affairs of others."},{"word":"Intermeddlesome","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined or disposed to intermeddle."},{"word":"Intermeddling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of improperly interfering."},{"word":"Intermede","type":"(n.)","description":"A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera."},{"word":"Intermediacy","type":"(n.)","description":"Interposition; intervention."},{"word":"Intermediae","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices."},{"word":"Intermedial","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying between; intervening; intermediate."},{"word":"Intermedian","type":"(a.)","description":"Intermediate."},{"word":"Intermediary","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project."},{"word":"Intermediaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intermediary"},{"word":"Intermediary","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, is intermediate; an interagent; a go-between."},{"word":"Intermediate","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors."},{"word":"Intermediate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come between; to intervene; to interpose."},{"word":"Intermediately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention."},{"word":"Intermediation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of coming between; intervention; interposition."},{"word":"Intermediator","type":"(n.)","description":"A mediator."},{"word":"Intermedious","type":"(a.)","description":"Intermediate."},{"word":"Intermediums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intermedium"},{"word":"Intermedia","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intermedium"},{"word":"Intermedium","type":"(n.)","description":"Intermediate space."},{"word":"Intermedium","type":"(n.)","description":"An intervening agent or instrument."},{"word":"Intermedium","type":"(n.)","description":"The bone or cartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus. It corresponds to the lunar in the carpus, and to a part of the astragalus in the tarsus of man and most mammals."},{"word":"Intermell","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To intermeddle; to intermix."},{"word":"Intermembral","type":"(a.)","description":"Between members or limbs; as, intermembral homology, the correspondence of the limbs with each other."},{"word":"Intermembranous","type":"(a.)","description":"Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification."},{"word":"Interment","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation."},{"word":"Intermention","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mention among other things, or casually or incidentally."},{"word":"Intermesenteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the mesentery; as, the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus."},{"word":"Intermetacarpal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the metacarpal bones."},{"word":"Intermetatarsal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the metatarsal bones."},{"word":"Intermezzo","type":"(n.)","description":"An interlude; an intermede. See Intermede."},{"word":"Intermicate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flash or shine between or among."},{"word":"Intermication","type":"(n.)","description":"A shining between or among."},{"word":"Intermigration","type":"(n.)","description":"Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration."},{"word":"Interminable","type":"(a.)","description":"Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings."},{"word":"Interminableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being endless."},{"word":"Interminably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without end or limit."},{"word":"Interminate","type":"(a.)","description":"Endless; as, interminate sleep."},{"word":"Interminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To menace; to threaten."},{"word":"Interminated","type":"(a.)","description":"Interminable; interminate; endless; unending."},{"word":"Intermination","type":"(n.)","description":"A menace or threat."},{"word":"Intermine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intersect or penetrate with mines."},{"word":"Intermingle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mingle or mix together; to intermix."},{"word":"Intermingle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be mixed or incorporated."},{"word":"Intermise","type":"(n.)","description":"Interference; interposition."},{"word":"Intermission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance."},{"word":"Intermission","type":"(n.)","description":"Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes."},{"word":"Intermission","type":"(n.)","description":"The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever."},{"word":"Intermission","type":"(n.)","description":"Intervention; interposition."},{"word":"Intermissive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent."},{"word":"Intermitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intermit"},{"word":"Intermitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intermit"},{"word":"Intermit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend."},{"word":"Intermit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever."},{"word":"Intermittence","type":"(n.)","description":"Act or state of intermitting; intermission."},{"word":"Intermittent","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever."},{"word":"Intermittent","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermittent fever or disease."},{"word":"Intermittently","type":"(adv.)","description":"With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly."},{"word":"Intermittingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With intermissions; at intervals."},{"word":"Intermix","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix together; to intermingle."},{"word":"Intermix","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be mixed together; to be intermingled."},{"word":"Intermixedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a mixed manner."},{"word":"Intermixture","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed."},{"word":"Intermixture","type":"(n.)","description":"Admixture; an additional ingredient."},{"word":"Intermobility","type":"(n.)","description":"Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles."},{"word":"Intermodillion","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between two modillions."},{"word":"Intermontane","type":"(a.)","description":"Between mountains; as, intermontane soil."},{"word":"Intermundane","type":"(a.)","description":"Being, between worlds or orbs."},{"word":"Intermundian","type":"(a.)","description":"Intermundane."},{"word":"Intermural","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying between walls; inclosed by walls."},{"word":"Intermured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intermure"},{"word":"Intermuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intermure"},{"word":"Intermure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wall in; to inclose."},{"word":"Intermuscular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between muscles; as, intermuscular septa."},{"word":"Intermutation","type":"(n.)","description":"Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change."},{"word":"Intermutual","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutual."},{"word":"Intern","type":"(a.)","description":"Internal."},{"word":"Intern","type":"(a.)","description":"To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country."},{"word":"Internal","type":"(a.)","description":"Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth."},{"word":"Internal","type":"(a.)","description":"Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures."},{"word":"Internal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war."},{"word":"Internal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual."},{"word":"Internal","type":"(a.)","description":"Intrinsic; inherent; real."},{"word":"Internal","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial."},{"word":"Internality","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being internal or within; interiority."},{"word":"Internally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface."},{"word":"Internally","type":"(adv.)","description":"Hence: Mentally; spiritually."},{"word":"Internasal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the nasal cavities; as, the internasal cartilage."},{"word":"International","type":"(a.)","description":"Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations."},{"word":"International","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or concerning the association called the International."},{"word":"International","type":"(n.)","description":"The International; an abbreviated from of the title of the International Workingmen's Association, the name of an association, formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations."},{"word":"International","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the International Association."},{"word":"Internationalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or principles of international interests and intercourse."},{"word":"Internationalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrines or organization of the International."},{"word":"Internationalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is versed in the principles of international law."},{"word":"Internationalist","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of the International; one who believes in, or advocates the doctrines of, the International."},{"word":"Internationalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make international; to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic enterprise."},{"word":"Internationally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an international manner; from an international point of view."},{"word":"Interne","type":"(a.)","description":"That which is within; the interior."},{"word":"Interneciary","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Internecinal"},{"word":"Internecinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Internecine."},{"word":"Internecine","type":"(a.)","description":"Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive."},{"word":"Internecion","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre."},{"word":"Internecive","type":"(a.)","description":"Internecine."},{"word":"Internection","type":"(n.)","description":"Intimate connection."},{"word":"Interneural","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the neural arches or neural spines."},{"word":"Interneural","type":"(n.)","description":"An interneural spine or cartilage."},{"word":"Internity","type":"(n.)","description":"State of being within; interiority."},{"word":"Internment","type":"(n.)","description":"Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country."},{"word":"Internodal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints."},{"word":"Internode","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise."},{"word":"Internode","type":"(n.)","description":"A part between two joints; a segment; specifically, one of the phalanges."},{"word":"Internodial","type":"(a.)","description":"Internodal."},{"word":"Internuncial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an internuncio."},{"word":"Internuncial","type":"(a.)","description":"Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system."},{"word":"Internunciess","type":"(n.)","description":"A female messenger."},{"word":"Internuncios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Internuncio"},{"word":"Internuncio","type":"(n.)","description":"A messenger between two parties."},{"word":"Internuncio","type":"(n.)","description":"A representative, or charge d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio."},{"word":"Internuncioship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or function of an internuncio."},{"word":"Internuncius","type":"(n.)","description":"Internuncio."},{"word":"Interoceanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal."},{"word":"Interocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between, or within, the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennae of some insects."},{"word":"Interpercular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the interoperculum."},{"word":"Interpercular","type":"(n.)","description":"The interopercular bone."},{"word":"-la","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interoperculum"},{"word":"Interoperculum","type":"(n.)","description":"The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes."},{"word":"Interorbital","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum."},{"word":"Interosculant","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles."},{"word":"Interosculant","type":"(a.)","description":"Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant."},{"word":"Interosculate","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To kiss together to touch. See Osculate."},{"word":"Interosculate","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To have the character of, or to lie between, two distinct groups."},{"word":"Interosseal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Interosseous"},{"word":"Interosseous","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament."},{"word":"Interpale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place pales between or among; to separate by pales."},{"word":"Interpale","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interweave or interlace."},{"word":"Interparietal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the parietal bones or cartilages; as, the interparietal suture."},{"word":"Interparietal","type":"(n.)","description":"The interparietal bone or cartilage."},{"word":"Interpause","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermission."},{"word":"Interpeal","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interpel."},{"word":"Interpedencular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between peduncles; esp., between the peduncles, or crura, of the cerebrum."},{"word":"Interpel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with."},{"word":"Interpellant","type":"(a.)","description":"Interpelling; interrupting."},{"word":"Interpellant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, interpels."},{"word":"Interpellate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body."},{"word":"Interpellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption."},{"word":"Interpellation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interposing or interceding; intercession."},{"word":"Interpellation","type":"(n.)","description":"An act of interpellating, or of demanding of an officer an explanation of his action; imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate."},{"word":"Interpellation","type":"(n.)","description":"A official summons or citation."},{"word":"Interpenetrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually."},{"word":"Interpenetrate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To penetrate each the other; to penetrate between bodies or their parts."},{"word":"Interpenetration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration."},{"word":"Interpenetrative","type":"(a.)","description":"Penetrating among or between other substances; penetrating each the other; mutually penetrative."},{"word":"Interpetalary","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the petals of a flower."},{"word":"Interpetiolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Being between petioles. Cf. Intrapetiolar."},{"word":"Interphalangeal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between phalanges; as, interphalangeal articulations."},{"word":"Interpilaster","type":"(n.)","description":"The interval or space between two pilasters."},{"word":"Interplace","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place between or among; as, to interplace a name."},{"word":"Interplanetary","type":"(a.)","description":"Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces."},{"word":"Interplay","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection."},{"word":"Interplead","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader."},{"word":"Interpleader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who interpleads."},{"word":"Interpleader","type":"(n.)","description":"A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him."},{"word":"Interpledge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pledge mutually."},{"word":"Interpoint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate."},{"word":"Interpolable","type":"(a.)","description":"That may be interpolated; suitable to be interpolated."},{"word":"Interpolated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interpolate"},{"word":"Interpolating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interpolate"},{"word":"Interpolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To renew; to carry on with intermission."},{"word":"Interpolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author."},{"word":"Interpolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series."},{"word":"Interpolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Inserted in, or added to, the original; introduced; foisted in; changed by the insertion of new or spurious matter."},{"word":"Interpolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Provided with necessary interpolations; as, an interpolated table."},{"word":"Interpolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Introduced or determined by interpolation; as, interpolated quantities or numbers."},{"word":"Interpolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign."},{"word":"Interpolation","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious."},{"word":"Interpolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series."},{"word":"Interpolator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings."},{"word":"Interpone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To interpose; to insert or place between."},{"word":"Interponent","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, interposes; an interloper, an opponent."},{"word":"Interposal","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interposing; interposition; intervention."},{"word":"Interposed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interpose"},{"word":"Interposing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interpose"},{"word":"Interpose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light."},{"word":"Interpose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling."},{"word":"Interpose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument."},{"word":"Interpose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or come between."},{"word":"Interpose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace."},{"word":"Interpose","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a sentiment by way of interruption."},{"word":"Interpose","type":"(n.)","description":"Interposition."},{"word":"Interposer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties."},{"word":"Interposit","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another."},{"word":"Interposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation."},{"word":"Interposition","type":"(n.)","description":"The thing interposed."},{"word":"Interposure","type":"(n.)","description":"Interposition."},{"word":"Interpreted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interpret"},{"word":"Interpreting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interpret"},{"word":"Interpret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech."},{"word":"Interpret","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape."},{"word":"Interpret","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act as an interpreter."},{"word":"Interpretable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained."},{"word":"Interpretament","type":"(n.)","description":"Interpretation."},{"word":"Interpretation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma."},{"word":"Interpretation","type":"(n.)","description":"The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture."},{"word":"Interpretation","type":"(n.)","description":"The power or explaining."},{"word":"Interpretation","type":"(n.)","description":"An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature."},{"word":"Interpretation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases."},{"word":"Interpretative","type":"(a.)","description":"Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory."},{"word":"Interpretative","type":"(a.)","description":"According to interpretation; constructive."},{"word":"Interpretatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"By interpretation."},{"word":"Interpreter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties."},{"word":"Interpretive","type":"(a.)","description":"Interpretative."},{"word":"Interpubic","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk."},{"word":"Interpunction","type":"(n.)","description":"The insertion of points between word or sentences; punctuation."},{"word":"Interradial","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoology, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish."},{"word":"Interramal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular."},{"word":"Interreceive","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To receive between or within."},{"word":"Interregency","type":"(n.)","description":"An interregnum."},{"word":"Interregent","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum."},{"word":"Interregnums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interregnum"},{"word":"Interregnum","type":"(n.)","description":"The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor."},{"word":"Interregnum","type":"(n.)","description":"Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted."},{"word":"Interreign","type":"(n.)","description":"An interregnum."},{"word":"Interrelated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative."},{"word":"Interrelation","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation."},{"word":"Interrenal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes."},{"word":"Interrenal","type":"(n.)","description":"The interrenal body."},{"word":"Interrepellent","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutually repellent."},{"word":"Interrer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inters."},{"word":"Interrexes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interrex"},{"word":"Interreges","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interrex"},{"word":"Interrex","type":"(n.)","description":"An interregent, or a regent."},{"word":"Interrogating","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interrogate"},{"word":"Interrogate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness."},{"word":"Interrogate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ask questions."},{"word":"Interrogate","type":"(n.)","description":"An interrogation; a question."},{"word":"Interrogatee","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is interrogated."},{"word":"Interrogation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry."},{"word":"Interrogation","type":"(n.)","description":"A question put; an inquiry."},{"word":"Interrogation","type":"(n.)","description":"A point, mark, or sign, thus [?], indicating that the sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Called also interrogation point."},{"word":"Interrogative","type":"(a.)","description":"Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun."},{"word":"Interrogative","type":"(n.)","description":"A word used in asking questions; as, who? which? why?"},{"word":"Interrogatively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the form of, or by means of, a question; in an interrogative manner."},{"word":"Interrogator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who asks questions; a questioner."},{"word":"Interrogatories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interrogatory"},{"word":"Interrogatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal question or inquiry; esp. (Law), a question asked in writing."},{"word":"Interrogatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing, expressing, or implying a question; as, an interrogatory sentence."},{"word":"Interrupted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interrupt"},{"word":"Interrupting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interrupt"},{"word":"Interrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking."},{"word":"Interrupt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill."},{"word":"Interrupt","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Broken; interrupted."},{"word":"Interrupted","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped."},{"word":"Interrupted","type":"(a.)","description":"Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf."},{"word":"Interruptedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"With breaks or interruptions; discontinuously."},{"word":"Interrupter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, interrupts."},{"word":"Interrupter","type":"(n.)","description":"A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself."},{"word":"Interruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon."},{"word":"Interruption","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition."},{"word":"Interruption","type":"(n.)","description":"Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption."},{"word":"Interruption","type":"(n.)","description":"Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension."},{"word":"Interruptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to interrupt; interrupting."},{"word":"Interscapular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the scapulae or shoulder blades."},{"word":"Interscapular","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the upper back, or the part between the shoulders; as, the interscapular feathers."},{"word":"Interscapulars","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The interscapular feathers of a bird."},{"word":"Interscendent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having exponents which are radical quantities; -- said of certain powers; as, x�2, or x�a."},{"word":"Interscinded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interscind"},{"word":"Interscinding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interscind"},{"word":"Interscind","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut off."},{"word":"Interscribed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Interscribe"},{"word":"Interscribing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interscribe"},{"word":"Interscribe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To write between."},{"word":"Intersecant","type":"(a.)","description":"Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting."},{"word":"Intersected","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intersect"},{"word":"Intersecting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intersect"},{"word":"Intersect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center."},{"word":"Intersect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To cut into one another; to meet and cross each other; as, the point where two lines intersect."},{"word":"Intersection","type":"(n.)","description":"The act, state, or place of intersecting."},{"word":"Intersection","type":"(n.)","description":"The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another."},{"word":"Intersectional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections."},{"word":"Interseminate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sow between or among."},{"word":"Interseptal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel."},{"word":"Interserted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intersert"},{"word":"Interserting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intersert"},{"word":"Intersert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in between other things; to insert."},{"word":"Interserttion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interserting, or that which is interserted."},{"word":"Intersesamoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments."},{"word":"Interset","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set between or among."},{"word":"Intershock","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shock mutually."},{"word":"Intersidereal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between or among constellations or stars; interstellar."},{"word":"Intersocial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society; social."},{"word":"Intersomnious","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness."},{"word":"Interspace","type":"(n.)","description":"Intervening space."},{"word":"Interspeech","type":"(n.)","description":"A speech interposed between others."},{"word":"Interspersed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intersperse"},{"word":"Interspersing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intersperse"},{"word":"Intersperse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book."},{"word":"Intersperse","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a book with pictures."},{"word":"Interspersion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interspersing, or the state of being interspersed."},{"word":"Interspinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Interspinous"},{"word":"Interspinous","type":"(a.)","description":"Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column."},{"word":"Interspiration","type":"(n.)","description":"Spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals."},{"word":"Interstapedial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, between the stapes and the mediostapedial."},{"word":"Interstapedial","type":"(n.)","description":"The interstapedial part of the columella."},{"word":"Interstate","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce."},{"word":"Interstellar","type":"(a.)","description":"Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space."},{"word":"Interstellary","type":"(a.)","description":"Interstellar."},{"word":"Intersternal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans."},{"word":"Interstices","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Interstice"},{"word":"Interstice","type":"(n.)","description":"That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall."},{"word":"Interstice","type":"(n.)","description":"An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders."},{"word":"Intersticed","type":"(a.)","description":"Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals."},{"word":"Interstinctive","type":"(a.)","description":"Distinguishing."},{"word":"Interstitial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants."},{"word":"Interstition","type":"(n.)","description":"An intervening period of time; interval."},{"word":"Interstratification","type":"(n.)","description":"Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also, that which is interstratified."},{"word":"Interstratified","type":"(a.)","description":"Stratified among or between other bodies; as, interstratified rocks."},{"word":"Interstratify","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put or insert between other strata."},{"word":"Intertalk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To converse."},{"word":"Intertangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entangle; to intertwine."},{"word":"Intertarsal","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the tarsal bones; as, the intertarsal articulations."},{"word":"Intertex","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intertwine; to weave or bind together."},{"word":"Intertexture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven."},{"word":"Interthoracic","type":"(a.)","description":"In the thorax."},{"word":"Intertie","type":"(n.)","description":"In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another."},{"word":"Intertissued","type":"(a.)","description":"Interwoven."},{"word":"Intertraffic","type":"(n.)","description":"Mutual trade of traffic."},{"word":"Intertranspicuous","type":"(a.)","description":"Transpicuous within or between."},{"word":"Intertransverse","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae."},{"word":"Intertrigo","type":"(n.)","description":"A rubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children."},{"word":"Intertrochanteric","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the trochanters of the femur."},{"word":"Intertropical","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated between or within the tropics."},{"word":"Intertubular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance."},{"word":"Intertwine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace."},{"word":"Intertwine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded."},{"word":"Intertwine","type":"(n.)","description":"The act intertwining, or the state of being intertwined."},{"word":"Intertwiningly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By intertwining or being intertwined."},{"word":"Intertwist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twist together one with another; to intertwine."},{"word":"Intertwistingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By intertwisting, or being intertwisted."},{"word":"Interungular","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Interungulate"},{"word":"Interungulate","type":"(a.)","description":"Between ungulae; as, interungular glands."},{"word":"Interval","type":"(n.)","description":"A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills."},{"word":"Interval","type":"(n.)","description":"Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II."},{"word":"Interval","type":"(n.)","description":"A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium."},{"word":"Interval","type":"(n.)","description":"Difference in pitch between any two tones."},{"word":"Interval","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Intervale"},{"word":"Intervale","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7."},{"word":"Intervallums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intervallum"},{"word":"Intervalla","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intervallum"},{"word":"Intervallum","type":"(n.)","description":"An interval."},{"word":"Intervary","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To alter or vary between; to change."},{"word":"Interveined","type":"(a.)","description":"Intersected, as with veins."},{"word":"Intervened","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intervene"},{"word":"Intervening","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intervene"},{"word":"Intervene","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa."},{"word":"Intervene","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking."},{"word":"Intervene","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel."},{"word":"Intervene","type":"(v. i.)","description":"In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter."},{"word":"Intervene","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come between."},{"word":"Intervene","type":"(n.)","description":"A coming between; intervention; meeting."},{"word":"Intervener","type":"(n.)","description":"One who intervenes; especially (Law), a person who assumes a part in a suit between others."},{"word":"Intervenience","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Interveniency"},{"word":"Interveniency","type":"(n.)","description":"Intervention; interposition."},{"word":"Intervenient","type":"(a.)","description":"Being or coming between; intercedent; interposed."},{"word":"Intervent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thwart; to obstruct."},{"word":"Intervention","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of intervening; interposition."},{"word":"Intervention","type":"(n.)","description":"Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation."},{"word":"Intervention","type":"(n.)","description":"The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties."},{"word":"Interventor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers."},{"word":"Interventricular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart."},{"word":"Intervenue","type":"(n.)","description":"Interposition."},{"word":"Intervert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn to another course or use."},{"word":"Intervertebral","type":"(a.)","description":"Between vertebrae."},{"word":"Interview","type":"(n.)","description":"A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President."},{"word":"Interview","type":"(n.)","description":"A conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication; the published statement so elicited."},{"word":"Interview","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have an interview with; to question or converse with, especially for the purpose of obtaining information for publication."},{"word":"Interviewer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication."},{"word":"Interviewing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews."},{"word":"Intervisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, as stations."},{"word":"Intervisit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exchange visits."},{"word":"Intervital","type":"(a.)","description":"Between two lives."},{"word":"Intervolution","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake."},{"word":"Intervolved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intervolve"},{"word":"Intervolving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intervolve"},{"word":"Intervolve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To involve one within another; to twist or coil together."},{"word":"Interwove","type":"(imp. & obs. p. p.)","description":"of Interweave"},{"word":"Interwoven","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Interweave"},{"word":"Interweaving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Interweave"},{"word":"Interweave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven."},{"word":"Interweave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood."},{"word":"Interwish","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wish mutually in regarded to each other."},{"word":"Interworking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of working in together; interweaving."},{"word":"Interworld","type":"(n.)","description":"A world between other worlds."},{"word":"Interwove","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Interwoven"},{"word":"Interwoven","type":"()","description":"imp. & p. p. of Interweave."},{"word":"Interwreathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weave into a wreath; to intertwine."},{"word":"Intestable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament."},{"word":"Intestacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will."},{"word":"Intestate","type":"(a.)","description":"Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate."},{"word":"Intestate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate."},{"word":"Intestate","type":"(n.)","description":"A person who dies without making a valid will."},{"word":"Intestinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments."},{"word":"Intestine","type":"(a.)","description":"Internal; inward; -- opposed to external."},{"word":"Intestine","type":"(a.)","description":"Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc."},{"word":"Intestine","type":"(a.)","description":"Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective."},{"word":"Intestine","type":"(a.)","description":"Shut up; inclosed."},{"word":"Intestines","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intestine"},{"word":"Intestine","type":"(a.)","description":"That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus."},{"word":"Intestine","type":"(a.)","description":"The bowels; entrails; viscera."},{"word":"Intext","type":"(n.)","description":"The text of a book."},{"word":"Intextine","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in /nothera."},{"word":"Intextured","type":"(a.)","description":"Inwrought; woven in."},{"word":"Inthirst","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make thirsty."},{"word":"Inthralled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inthrall"},{"word":"Inthralling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inthrall"},{"word":"Inthrall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave."},{"word":"Inthrallment","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of inthralling, or state of being inthralled; servitude; bondage; vassalage."},{"word":"Inthrone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Enthrone."},{"word":"Inthrong","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To throng or collect together."},{"word":"Inthronization","type":"(n.)","description":"Enthronement."},{"word":"Inthronize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enthrone."},{"word":"Intice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Entice."},{"word":"Intimacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intimacy"},{"word":"Intimacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship."},{"word":"Intimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty."},{"word":"Intimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Near; close; direct; thorough; complete."},{"word":"Intimate","type":"(a.)","description":"Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend."},{"word":"Intimate","type":"(n.)","description":"An intimate friend or associate; a confidant."},{"word":"Intimated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intimate"},{"word":"Intimating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intimate"},{"word":"Intimate","type":"(a.)","description":"To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known."},{"word":"Intimate","type":"(a.)","description":"To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office."},{"word":"Intimately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intimate manner."},{"word":"Intimation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated."},{"word":"Intimation","type":"(n.)","description":"Announcement; declaration."},{"word":"Intimation","type":"(n.)","description":"A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design."},{"word":"Intime","type":"(a.)","description":"Inward; internal; intimate."},{"word":"Intimidated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intimidate"},{"word":"Intimidating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intimidate"},{"word":"Intimidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash."},{"word":"Intimidation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation."},{"word":"Intimidatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending or serving to intimidate."},{"word":"Intinction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of tingeing or dyeing."},{"word":"Intinction","type":"(n.)","description":"A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together."},{"word":"Intinctivity","type":"(n.)","description":"The want of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies."},{"word":"Intine","type":"(n.)","description":"A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen."},{"word":"Intire","type":"(adv.)","description":"Alt. of Intirely"},{"word":"Intirely","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Entire, a., Entirely, adv."},{"word":"Intitle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Entitle."},{"word":"Intituled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intitule"},{"word":"Intituling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intitule"},{"word":"Intitule","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entitle; to give a title to."},{"word":"Into","type":"(prep.)","description":"To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications."},{"word":"Into","type":"(prep.)","description":"Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants."},{"word":"Into","type":"(prep.)","description":"Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment."},{"word":"Into","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition."},{"word":"Into","type":"(prep.)","description":"Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words."},{"word":"Into","type":"(prep.)","description":"Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly."},{"word":"Intolerability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness."},{"word":"Intolerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden."},{"word":"Intolerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Enormous."},{"word":"Intolerance","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light."},{"word":"Intolerance","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect."},{"word":"Intolerancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Intolerance."},{"word":"Intolerant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not enduring; not able to endure."},{"word":"Intolerant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tolerating difference of opinion or sentiment, especially in religious matters; refusing to allow others the enjoyment of their opinions, rights, or worship; unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted."},{"word":"Intolerant","type":"(n.)","description":"An intolerant person; a bigot."},{"word":"Intolerantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intolerant manner."},{"word":"Intolerated","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tolerated."},{"word":"Intolerating","type":"(a.)","description":"Intolerant."},{"word":"Intoleration","type":"(n.)","description":"Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion."},{"word":"Intombed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intomb"},{"word":"Intombing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intomb"},{"word":"Intomb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb."},{"word":"Intombment","type":"(n.)","description":"See Entombment."},{"word":"Intonate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To thunder."},{"word":"Intonated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intonate"},{"word":"Intonating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intonate"},{"word":"Intonate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa."},{"word":"Intonate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone."},{"word":"Intonate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy."},{"word":"Intonation","type":"(n.)","description":"A thundering; thunder."},{"word":"Intonation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale."},{"word":"Intonation","type":"(n.)","description":"Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false."},{"word":"Intonation","type":"(n.)","description":"Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t."},{"word":"Intoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intone"},{"word":"Intoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intone"},{"word":"Intone","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service."},{"word":"Intone","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate."},{"word":"Intorsion","type":"(n.)","description":"A winding, bending, or twisting."},{"word":"Intorsion","type":"(n.)","description":"The bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical."},{"word":"Intorted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intort"},{"word":"Intorting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intort"},{"word":"Intort","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring."},{"word":"Intortion","type":"(n.)","description":"See Intorsion."},{"word":"Intoxicant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants."},{"word":"Intoxicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Intoxicated."},{"word":"Intoxicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Overexcited, as with joy or grief."},{"word":"Intoxicated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intoxicate"},{"word":"Intoxicating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intoxicate"},{"word":"Intoxicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To poison; to drug."},{"word":"Intoxicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance."},{"word":"Intoxicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively."},{"word":"Intoxicatedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness."},{"word":"Intoxicating","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors."},{"word":"Intoxication","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance."},{"word":"Intoxication","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk."},{"word":"Intoxication","type":"(n.)","description":"A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness."},{"word":"Intra-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal."},{"word":"Intraaxillary","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem."},{"word":"Intracellular","type":"(a.)","description":"Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells."},{"word":"Intracolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve."},{"word":"Intracranial","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the cranium or skull."},{"word":"Intractability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being intractable; intractableness."},{"word":"Intractable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child."},{"word":"Intractile","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended."},{"word":"Intrados","type":"(n.)","description":"The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados."},{"word":"Intrafoliaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules."},{"word":"Intrafusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood."},{"word":"Intralobular","type":"(a.)","description":"Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins."},{"word":"Intramarginal","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated within the margin."},{"word":"Intramercurial","type":"(a.)","description":"Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial."},{"word":"Intramolecular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies."},{"word":"Intramundane","type":"(a.)","description":"Being within the material world; -- opposed to extramundane."},{"word":"Intramural","type":"(a.)","description":"Being within the walls, as of a city."},{"word":"Intramural","type":"(a.)","description":"Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy."},{"word":"Intranquillity","type":"(n.)","description":"Unquietness; restlessness."},{"word":"Intranscalent","type":"(a.)","description":"Impervious to heat; adiathermic."},{"word":"Intransgressible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed."},{"word":"Intranssient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not transient; remaining; permanent."},{"word":"Intransigent","type":"(a.)","description":"Refusing compromise; uncompromising; irreconcilable."},{"word":"Intransigentes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The extreme radicals; the party of the irreconcilables."},{"word":"Intransitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not passing farther; kept; detained."},{"word":"Intransitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs."},{"word":"Intransitively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb."},{"word":"In","type":"()","description":"In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu."},{"word":"Intransmissible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being transmitted."},{"word":"Intransmutability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being intransmutable."},{"word":"Intransmutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance."},{"word":"Intrant","type":"(a.)","description":"Entering; penetrating."},{"word":"Intrant","type":"(n.)","description":"One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station."},{"word":"Intranuclear","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the nucleus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis."},{"word":"Intrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Entrap."},{"word":"Intraparietal","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired."},{"word":"Intrapetiolar","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning."},{"word":"Intraterritorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the territory or a territory."},{"word":"Intrathoracic","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the thora/ or chest."},{"word":"Intratropical","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the tropics."},{"word":"Intrauterine","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine hemorrhage."},{"word":"Intravalvular","type":"(a.)","description":"Between valves."},{"word":"Intravenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Within the veins."},{"word":"Intraventricular","type":"(a.)","description":"Within or between ventricles."},{"word":"Intreasure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard."},{"word":"Intreat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Entreat."},{"word":"Intreatable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be entreated; inexorable."},{"word":"Intreatance","type":"(n.)","description":"Entreaty."},{"word":"Intreatful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of entreaty."},{"word":"Intrenched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intrench"},{"word":"Intrenching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intrench"},{"word":"Intrench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon."},{"word":"Intrench","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself."},{"word":"Intrench","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown."},{"word":"Intrenchant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be gashed or marked with furrows."},{"word":"Intrenchment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched."},{"word":"Intrenchment","type":"(n.)","description":"Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch."},{"word":"Intrenchment","type":"(n.)","description":"Any defense or protection."},{"word":"Intrenchment","type":"(n.)","description":"An encroachment or infringement."},{"word":"Intrepid","type":"(a.)","description":"Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit."},{"word":"Intrepidity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor."},{"word":"Intrepidly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely."},{"word":"Intricable","type":"(a.)","description":"Entangling."},{"word":"Intricacies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Intricacy"},{"word":"Intricacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot."},{"word":"Intricate","type":"(a.)","description":"Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc."},{"word":"Intricate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing."},{"word":"Intricately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intricate manner."},{"word":"Intricateness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy."},{"word":"Intrication","type":"(n.)","description":"Entanglement."},{"word":"Intrigante","type":"(n.)","description":"A female intriguer."},{"word":"Intrigued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intrigue"},{"word":"Intriguing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intrigue"},{"word":"Intrigue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice."},{"word":"Intrigue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour."},{"word":"Intrigue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass."},{"word":"Intrigue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Intricacy; complication."},{"word":"Intrigue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem."},{"word":"Intrigue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events."},{"word":"Intrigue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison."},{"word":"Intriguer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who intrigues."},{"word":"Intriguery","type":"(n.)","description":"Arts or practice of intrigue."},{"word":"Intriguingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"By means of, or in the manner of, intrigue."},{"word":"Intrinse","type":"(a.)","description":"Tightly drawn; or (perhaps) intricate."},{"word":"Intrinsic","type":"(a.)","description":"Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person."},{"word":"Intrinsic","type":"(a.)","description":"Included wholly within an organ or limb, as certain groups of muscles; -- opposed to extrinsic."},{"word":"Intrinsic","type":"(n.)","description":"A genuine quality."},{"word":"Intrinsical","type":"(a.)","description":"Intrinsic."},{"word":"Intrinsical","type":"(a.)","description":"Intimate; closely familiar."},{"word":"Intrinsicality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being intrinsic; essentialness; genuineness; reality."},{"word":"Intrinsically","type":"(adv.)","description":"Internally; in its nature; essentially; really; truly."},{"word":"Intrinsicalness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality."},{"word":"Intrinsicate","type":"(a.)","description":"Intricate."},{"word":"Intro-","type":"()","description":"A prefix signifying within, into, in, inward; as, introduce, introreception, introthoracic."},{"word":"Introcession","type":"(n.)","description":"A depression, or inward sinking of parts."},{"word":"Introduced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Introduce"},{"word":"Introducing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Introduce"},{"word":"Introduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room."},{"word":"Introduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe."},{"word":"Introduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another."},{"word":"Introduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant."},{"word":"Introduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce; to cause to exist; to induce."},{"word":"Introduce","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he introduced the subject with a long preface."},{"word":"Introducement","type":"(n.)","description":"Introduction."},{"word":"Introducer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, introduces."},{"word":"Introduct","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To introduce."},{"word":"Introduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of introducing, or bringing to notice."},{"word":"Introduction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another."},{"word":"Introduction","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium."},{"word":"Introduction","type":"(n.)","description":"A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature."},{"word":"Introductive","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to introduce; introductory."},{"word":"Introductor","type":"(n.)","description":"An introducer."},{"word":"Introductorily","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of introduction."},{"word":"Introductory","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse."},{"word":"Introductress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female introducer."},{"word":"Introflexed","type":"(a.)","description":"Flexed or bent inward."},{"word":"Introgression","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of going in; entrance."},{"word":"Introit","type":"(n.)","description":"A going in."},{"word":"Introit","type":"(n.)","description":"A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar."},{"word":"Introit","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar."},{"word":"Introit","type":"(n.)","description":"An anthem or psalm sung before the Communion service."},{"word":"Introit","type":"(n.)","description":"Any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening of church services."},{"word":"Intromission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion."},{"word":"Intromission","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of letting go in; admission."},{"word":"Intromission","type":"(n.)","description":"An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority."},{"word":"Intromitted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intromit"},{"word":"Intromitting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intromit"},{"word":"Intromit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send in or put in; to insert or introduce."},{"word":"Intromit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allow to pass in; to admit."},{"word":"Intromit","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another."},{"word":"Intromittent","type":"(a.)","description":"Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within."},{"word":"Intromittent","type":"(a.)","description":"Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females."},{"word":"Intromitter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who intromits."},{"word":"Intropression","type":"(n.)","description":"Pressure acting within."},{"word":"Introreception","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of admitting into or within."},{"word":"Introrse","type":"(a.)","description":"Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs."},{"word":"Introspect","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look into or within; to view the inside of."},{"word":"Introspection","type":"(n.)","description":"A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection."},{"word":"Introspectionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul."},{"word":"Introspective","type":"(a.)","description":"Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious."},{"word":"Introspective","type":"(a.)","description":"Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational."},{"word":"Introsume","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To draw in; to swallow."},{"word":"Introsusception","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of receiving within."},{"word":"Introsusception","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Intussusception."},{"word":"Introvenient","type":"(a.)","description":"Coming in together; entering; commingling."},{"word":"Introversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward."},{"word":"Introverted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Introvert"},{"word":"Introverting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Introvert"},{"word":"Introvert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn or bend inward."},{"word":"Introvert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To look within; to introspect."},{"word":"Intrude","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another."},{"word":"Intruded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intrude"},{"word":"Intruding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intrude"},{"word":"Intrude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another."},{"word":"Intrude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter by force; to invade."},{"word":"Intrude","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks."},{"word":"Intruded","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Same as Intrusive."},{"word":"Intruder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser."},{"word":"Intrudress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female intruder."},{"word":"Intrunk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose as in a trunk; to incase."},{"word":"Intrusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment."},{"word":"Intrusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another."},{"word":"Intrusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession."},{"word":"Intrusion","type":"(n.)","description":"The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent."},{"word":"Intrusional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to intrusion."},{"word":"Intrusionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners."},{"word":"Intrusive","type":"(a.)","description":"Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome."},{"word":"Intrusted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intrust"},{"word":"Intrusting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intrust"},{"word":"Intrust","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant."},{"word":"Intubation","type":"(n.)","description":"The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup."},{"word":"Intuition","type":"(n.)","description":"A looking after; a regard to."},{"word":"Intuition","type":"(n.)","description":"Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from \"mediate\" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension."},{"word":"Intuition","type":"(n.)","description":"Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth."},{"word":"Intuitional","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized by intuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive."},{"word":"Intuitionalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism."},{"word":"Intuitionalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who holds the doctrine of intuitionalism."},{"word":"Intuitionism","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Intuitionalism."},{"word":"Intuitionist","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Intuitionalist."},{"word":"Intuitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision."},{"word":"Intuitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning."},{"word":"Intuitive","type":"(a.)","description":"Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive."},{"word":"Intuitively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an intuitive manner."},{"word":"Intuitivism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive."},{"word":"Intumesced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Intumesce"},{"word":"Intumescing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Intumesce"},{"word":"Intumesce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe."},{"word":"Intumescence","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat."},{"word":"Intumescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor."},{"word":"Intumescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Swelling up; expanding."},{"word":"Intumulated","type":"(a.)","description":"Unburied."},{"word":"Intune","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To intone. Cf. Entune."},{"word":"Inturbidated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inturbidate"},{"word":"Inturbidating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inturbidate"},{"word":"Inturbidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render turbid; to darken; to confuse."},{"word":"Inturgescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled."},{"word":"Intuse","type":"(n.)","description":"A bruise; a contusion."},{"word":"Intussuscepted","type":"(a.)","description":"Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated."},{"word":"Intussusception","type":"(n.)","description":"The reception of one part within another."},{"word":"Intussusception","type":"(n.)","description":"The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination."},{"word":"Intussusception","type":"(n.)","description":"The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain."},{"word":"Intussusception","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs."},{"word":"Intwine","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined."},{"word":"Intwine","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be or to become intwined."},{"word":"Intwinement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined."},{"word":"Intwist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To twist into or together; to interweave."},{"word":"Inuendo","type":"(n.)","description":"See Innuendo."},{"word":"Inulin","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc."},{"word":"Inuloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila."},{"word":"Inumbrate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shade; to darken."},{"word":"Inuncted","type":"(a.)","description":"Anointed."},{"word":"Inunction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed."},{"word":"Inunctuosity","type":"(n.)","description":"The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay."},{"word":"Inundant","type":"(a.)","description":"Overflowing."},{"word":"Inundated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inundate"},{"word":"Inundating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inundate"},{"word":"Inundate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town."},{"word":"Inundate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit."},{"word":"Inundation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds."},{"word":"Inundation","type":"(n.)","description":"An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists."},{"word":"Inunderstanding","type":"(a.)","description":"Void of understanding."},{"word":"Inurbane","type":"(a.)","description":"Uncivil; unpolished; rude."},{"word":"Inurbanity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness."},{"word":"Inured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inure"},{"word":"Inuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inure"},{"word":"Inure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually."},{"word":"Inure","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs."},{"word":"Inurement","type":"(n.)","description":"Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom."},{"word":"Inurned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inurn"},{"word":"Inurning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inurn"},{"word":"Inurn","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb."},{"word":"Inusitate","type":"(a.)","description":"Unusual."},{"word":"Inusitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of use; disuse."},{"word":"Inust","type":"(a.)","description":"Burnt in."},{"word":"Inustion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of burning or branding."},{"word":"Inutile","type":"(a.)","description":"Useless; unprofitable."},{"word":"Inutility","type":"(n.)","description":"Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects."},{"word":"Inutterable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unutterable; inexpressible."},{"word":"In","type":"()","description":"In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo."},{"word":"Invaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invade"},{"word":"Invading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invade"},{"word":"Invade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress."},{"word":"Invade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain."},{"word":"Invade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people."},{"word":"Invade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue."},{"word":"Invade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an invasion."},{"word":"Invader","type":"(n.)","description":"One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder."},{"word":"Invaginate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in."},{"word":"Invaginate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Invaginated"},{"word":"Invaginated","type":"(a.)","description":"Sheathed."},{"word":"Invaginated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion."},{"word":"Invagination","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of an invaginated organ or part."},{"word":"Invagination","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated."},{"word":"Invalescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength; health."},{"word":"Invaletudinary","type":"(a.)","description":"Wanting health; valetudinary."},{"word":"Invalid","type":"(a.)","description":"Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak."},{"word":"Invalid","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement."},{"word":"Invalid","type":"(a.)","description":"A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health."},{"word":"Invalid","type":"(n.)","description":"Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter."},{"word":"Invalid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make or render invalid or infirm."},{"word":"Invalid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To classify or enroll as an invalid."},{"word":"Invalidated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invalidate"},{"word":"Invalidating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invalidate"},{"word":"Invalidate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument."},{"word":"Invalidation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inavlidating, or the state of being invalidated."},{"word":"Invalide","type":"(n.)","description":"See Invalid, n."},{"word":"Invalidism","type":"(n.)","description":"The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity."},{"word":"Invalidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will."},{"word":"Invalidity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of health; infirmity."},{"word":"Invalidness","type":"(n.)","description":"Invalidity; as, the invalidness of reasoning."},{"word":"Invalorous","type":"(a.)","description":"Not valorous; cowardly."},{"word":"Invaluable","type":"(a.)","description":"Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious."},{"word":"Invaluably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Inestimably."},{"word":"Invalued","type":"(a.)","description":"Inestimable."},{"word":"Invariability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity."},{"word":"Invariable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not given to variation or change; unalterable; unchangeable; always uniform."},{"word":"Invariable","type":"(n.)","description":"An invariable quantity; a constant."},{"word":"Invariance","type":"(n.)","description":"The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions."},{"word":"Invariant","type":"(n.)","description":"An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations."},{"word":"Invasion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass."},{"word":"Invasion","type":"(n.)","description":"A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder."},{"word":"Invasion","type":"(n.)","description":"The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease."},{"word":"Invasive","type":"(a.)","description":"Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive."},{"word":"Invect","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To inveigh."},{"word":"Invected","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed."},{"word":"Invection","type":"(n.)","description":"An inveighing against; invective."},{"word":"Invective","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing."},{"word":"Invective","type":"(n.)","description":"An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny."},{"word":"Invectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an invective manner."},{"word":"Inveighed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inveigh"},{"word":"Inveighing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inveigh"},{"word":"Inveigh","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse."},{"word":"Inveigher","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inveighs."},{"word":"Inveigled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inveigle"},{"word":"Inveigling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inveigle"},{"word":"Inveigle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle."},{"word":"Inveiglement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction."},{"word":"Inveigler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who inveigles."},{"word":"Inveil","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover, as with a vail."},{"word":"Invendibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being invendible; invendibleness; unsalableness."},{"word":"Invendible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not vendible or salable."},{"word":"Invenom","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Envenom."},{"word":"Invented","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invent"},{"word":"Inventing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invent"},{"word":"Invent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To come or light upon; to meet; to find."},{"word":"Invent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine."},{"word":"Invent","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood."},{"word":"Inventer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who invents."},{"word":"Inventful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of invention."},{"word":"Inventible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being invented."},{"word":"Inventibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being inventible."},{"word":"Invention","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing."},{"word":"Invention","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention."},{"word":"Invention","type":"(n.)","description":"Thought; idea."},{"word":"Invention","type":"(n.)","description":"A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood."},{"word":"Invention","type":"(n.)","description":"The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention."},{"word":"Invention","type":"(n.)","description":"The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts."},{"word":"Inventious","type":"(a.)","description":"Inventive."},{"word":"Inventive","type":"(a.)","description":"Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius."},{"word":"Inventor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices."},{"word":"Inventorial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an inventory."},{"word":"Inventories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Inventory"},{"word":"Inventory","type":"(n.)","description":"An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business."},{"word":"Inventoried","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inventory"},{"word":"Inventorying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inventory"},{"word":"Inventory","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock."},{"word":"Inventress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who invents."},{"word":"Inveracity","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of veracity."},{"word":"Inverisimilitude","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability."},{"word":"Inverse","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct."},{"word":"Inverse","type":"(a.)","description":"Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual."},{"word":"Inverse","type":"(a.)","description":"Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x."},{"word":"Inverse","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is inverse."},{"word":"Inversely","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, \"of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable,\" instead of, \"impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices.\""},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"Said of double counterpoint, when an upper and a lower part change places."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed."},{"word":"Inversion","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose)."},{"word":"Inverted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invert"},{"word":"Inverting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invert"},{"word":"Invert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc."},{"word":"Invert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony."},{"word":"Invert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To divert; to convert to a wrong use."},{"word":"Invert","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10."},{"word":"Invert","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To undergo inversion, as sugar."},{"word":"Invert","type":"(a.)","description":"Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar."},{"word":"Invert","type":"(n.)","description":"An inverted arch."},{"word":"Invertebral","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Invertebrate."},{"word":"Invertebrata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata."},{"word":"Invertebrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebrae; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata."},{"word":"Invertebrate","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Invertebrata."},{"word":"Invertebrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no backbone; invertebrate."},{"word":"Inverted","type":"(a.)","description":"Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion."},{"word":"Inverted","type":"(a.)","description":"Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval."},{"word":"Invertedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inverted order."},{"word":"Invertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being inverted or turned."},{"word":"Invertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being changed or converted; as, invertible sugar."},{"word":"Invertible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being turned or changed."},{"word":"Invertin","type":"(n.)","description":"An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar."},{"word":"Invested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invest"},{"word":"Investing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invest"},{"word":"Invest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe."},{"word":"Invest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put on."},{"word":"Invest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate."},{"word":"Invest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround, accompany, or attend."},{"word":"Invest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confer; to give."},{"word":"Invest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town."},{"word":"Invest","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To lay out (money or capital) in business with the /iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock."},{"word":"Invest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in."},{"word":"Investient","type":"(a.)","description":"Covering; clothing."},{"word":"Investigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research."},{"word":"Investigable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unsearchable; inscrutable."},{"word":"Investigated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Investigate"},{"word":"Investigating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Investigate"},{"word":"Investigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena."},{"word":"Investigate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pursue a course of investigation and study; to make investigation."},{"word":"Investigation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist."},{"word":"Investigative","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching."},{"word":"Investigator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who searches diligently into a subject."},{"word":"Investiture","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing."},{"word":"Investiture","type":"(n.)","description":"Livery of seizin."},{"word":"Investiture","type":"(n.)","description":"That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering."},{"word":"Investive","type":"(a.)","description":"Investing."},{"word":"Investment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of investing, or the state of being invested."},{"word":"Investment","type":"(n.)","description":"That with which anyone is invested; a vestment."},{"word":"Investment","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded."},{"word":"Investment","type":"(n.)","description":"The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested."},{"word":"Investor","type":"(n.)","description":"One who invests."},{"word":"Investure","type":"(n.)","description":"Investiture; investment."},{"word":"Investure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To clothe; to invest; to install."},{"word":"Inveteracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error."},{"word":"Inveteracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Malignity; spitefulness; virulency."},{"word":"Inveterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Old; long-established."},{"word":"Inveterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse."},{"word":"Inveterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker."},{"word":"Inveterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Malignant; virulent; spiteful."},{"word":"Inveterate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fix and settle by long continuance."},{"word":"Inveterately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inveterate manner or degree."},{"word":"Inveterateness","type":"(n.)","description":"Inveteracy."},{"word":"Inveteration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of making inveterate."},{"word":"Invict","type":"(a.)","description":"Invincible."},{"word":"Invidious","type":"(a.)","description":"Envious; malignant."},{"word":"Invidious","type":"(a.)","description":"Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable."},{"word":"Invidious","type":"(a.)","description":"Likely to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy; hateful; as, invidious distinctions."},{"word":"Invigilance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Invigilancy"},{"word":"Invigilancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of vigilance; neglect of watching; carelessness."},{"word":"Invigor","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invigorate."},{"word":"Invigorated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invigorate"},{"word":"Invigorating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invigorate"},{"word":"Invigorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to."},{"word":"Invigoration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated."},{"word":"Invile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render vile."},{"word":"Invillaged","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Turned into, or reduced to, a village."},{"word":"Invincibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness."},{"word":"Invincible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle."},{"word":"Inviolability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness."},{"word":"Inviolable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine."},{"word":"Inviolable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unviolated; uninjured; undefiled; uncorrupted."},{"word":"Inviolable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being broken or violated; as, an inviolable covenant, agreement, promise, or vow."},{"word":"Inviolableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being inviolable; as, the inviolableness of divine justice."},{"word":"Inviolably","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without violation."},{"word":"Inviolacy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being inviolate; as, the inviolacy of an oath."},{"word":"Inviolate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inviolated"},{"word":"Inviolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken."},{"word":"Inviolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure."},{"word":"Inviolately","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an inviolate manner."},{"word":"Inviolaness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being inviolate."},{"word":"Invious","type":"(a.)","description":"Untrodden."},{"word":"Invirile","type":"(a.)","description":"Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate."},{"word":"Invirility","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of virility or manhood; effeminacy."},{"word":"Inviscated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inviscate"},{"word":"Inviscating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inviscate"},{"word":"Inviscate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter."},{"word":"Inviscerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inviscerate"},{"word":"Inviscerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inviscerate"},{"word":"Inviscerate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To breed; to nourish."},{"word":"Inviscerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Deep-seated; internal."},{"word":"Invisibilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Invisibility"},{"word":"Invisibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being invisible; also, that which is invisible."},{"word":"Invisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible."},{"word":"Invisible","type":"(n.)","description":"An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being."},{"word":"Invisible","type":"(n.)","description":"A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft."},{"word":"Invisible","type":"(n.)","description":"One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church."},{"word":"Invisibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being invisible; invisibility."},{"word":"Invisibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an invisible manner."},{"word":"Invision","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of vision or of the power of seeing."},{"word":"Invitation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend."},{"word":"Invitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A document written or printed, or spoken words, /onveying the message by which one is invited."},{"word":"Invitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Allurement; enticement."},{"word":"Invitatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Using or containing invitations."},{"word":"Invitatories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Invitatory"},{"word":"Invitatory","type":"(n.)","description":"That which invites; specifically, the invitatory psalm, or a part of it used in worship."},{"word":"Invited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invite"},{"word":"Inviting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invite"},{"word":"Invite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion."},{"word":"Invite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract."},{"word":"Invite","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism."},{"word":"Invite","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give invitation."},{"word":"Invitement","type":"(n.)","description":"Invitation."},{"word":"Inviter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, invites."},{"word":"Invitiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Not vitiated."},{"word":"Inviting","type":"(a.)","description":"Alluring; tempting; as, an inviting amusement or prospect."},{"word":"Invitrifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass."},{"word":"Invocated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invocate"},{"word":"Invocating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invocate"},{"word":"Invocate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore."},{"word":"Invocation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being."},{"word":"Invocation","type":"(n.)","description":"A call or summons; especially, a judicial call, demand, or order; as, the invocation of papers or evidence into court."},{"word":"Invocatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Making or containing invocation; invoking."},{"word":"Invoice","type":"(n.)","description":"A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed."},{"word":"Invoice","type":"(n.)","description":"The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods."},{"word":"Invoiced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invoice"},{"word":"Invoicing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invoice"},{"word":"Invoice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice."},{"word":"Invoked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Invoke"},{"word":"Invoking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Invoke"},{"word":"Invoke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing."},{"word":"Involucel","type":"(n.)","description":"A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre."},{"word":"Involucellate","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with involucels."},{"word":"Involucella","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Involucellum"},{"word":"Involucellum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Involucel."},{"word":"Involucral","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum."},{"word":"Involucrate","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Involucrated"},{"word":"Involucrated","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an involucre; involucred."},{"word":"Involucre","type":"(n.)","description":"A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head."},{"word":"Involucre","type":"(n.)","description":"A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns."},{"word":"Involucre","type":"(n.)","description":"The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum."},{"word":"Involucred","type":"(a.)","description":"Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc."},{"word":"Involucret","type":"(n.)","description":"An involucel."},{"word":"Involucra","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Involucrum"},{"word":"Involucrums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Involucrum"},{"word":"Involucrum","type":"(n.)","description":"See Involucre."},{"word":"Involucrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora."},{"word":"Involuntarily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an involuntary manner; not voluntarily; not intentionally or willingly."},{"word":"Involuntariness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism."},{"word":"Involuntary","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having will or the power of choice."},{"word":"Involuntary","type":"(a.)","description":"Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers."},{"word":"Involuntary","type":"(a.)","description":"Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission."},{"word":"Involute","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Involuted"},{"word":"Involuted","type":"(a.)","description":"Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation."},{"word":"Involuted","type":"(a.)","description":"Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea."},{"word":"Involuted","type":"(a.)","description":"Rolled inward spirally."},{"word":"Involute","type":"(n.)","description":"A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute."},{"word":"Involution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of involving or infolding."},{"word":"Involution","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement."},{"word":"Involution","type":"(n.)","description":"That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope."},{"word":"Involution","type":"(n.)","description":"The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction."},{"word":"Involution","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution."},{"word":"Involution","type":"(n.)","description":"The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a', b.b', c.c', so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution."},{"word":"Involution","type":"(n.)","description":"The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy."},{"word":"Involved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Involve"},{"word":"Involving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Involve"},{"word":"Involve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine."},{"word":"Involve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity."},{"word":"Involve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure."},{"word":"Involve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply."},{"word":"Involve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge."},{"word":"Involve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery."},{"word":"Involve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb."},{"word":"Involve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power."},{"word":"Involved","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Involute."},{"word":"Involvedness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being involved."},{"word":"Involvement","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of involving, or the state of being involved."},{"word":"Invulgar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become or appear vulgar."},{"word":"Invulgar","type":"(a.)","description":"Not vulgar; refined; elegant."},{"word":"Invulnerability","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality or state of being invulnerable."},{"word":"Invulnerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury."},{"word":"Invulnerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unanswerable; irrefutable; that can not be refuted or convinced; as, an invulnerable argument."},{"word":"Invulnerableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Invulnerability."},{"word":"Invulnerate","type":"(a.)","description":"Invulnerable."},{"word":"Inwalled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Inwall"},{"word":"Inwalling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Inwall"},{"word":"Inwall","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To inclose or fortify as with a wall."},{"word":"Inwall","type":"(n.)","description":"An inner wall; specifically (Metal.), the inner wall, or lining, of a blast furnace."},{"word":"Inward","type":"(a.)","description":"Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward."},{"word":"Inward","type":"(a.)","description":"Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul."},{"word":"Inward","type":"(a.)","description":"Intimate; domestic; private."},{"word":"Inward","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera."},{"word":"Inward","type":"(n.)","description":"The mental faculties; -- usually pl."},{"word":"Inward","type":"(n.)","description":"An intimate or familiar friend or acquaintance."},{"word":"Inward","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Inwards"},{"word":"Inwards","type":"(a.)","description":"Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward."},{"word":"Inwards","type":"(a.)","description":"Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward."},{"word":"Inwardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the inner parts; internally."},{"word":"Inwardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Toward the center; inward; as, to curve inwardly."},{"word":"Inwardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secret/y; as, he inwardly repines."},{"word":"Inwardly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Intimately; thoroughly."},{"word":"Inwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct."},{"word":"Inwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"Intimacy; familiarity."},{"word":"Inwardness","type":"(n.)","description":"Heartiness; earnestness."},{"word":"Inwards","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Inward."},{"word":"Inweave","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace."},{"word":"Inwheel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To encircle."},{"word":"Inwit","type":"(n.)","description":"Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience."},{"word":"Inwith","type":"(prep.)","description":"Within."},{"word":"Inwork","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To work in or within."},{"word":"Itworn","type":"(p. a.)","description":"Worn, wrought, or stamped in."},{"word":"Inwrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover by wrapping; to involve; to infold; as, to inwrap in a cloak, in smoke, etc."},{"word":"Inwrap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To involve, as in difficulty or perplexity; to perplex."},{"word":"Inwreathe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To surround or encompass as with a wreath."},{"word":"Inwrought","type":"(p. p. / a.)","description":"Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures."},{"word":"Ios","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Io"},{"word":"Io","type":"(n.)","description":"An exclamation of joy or triumph; -- often interjectional."},{"word":"Iod-","type":"()","description":"See Iodo-."},{"word":"Iodal","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal."},{"word":"Iodate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of iodic acid."},{"word":"Iodhydrin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of compounds containing iodine, and analogous to the chlorhydrins."},{"word":"Iodic","type":"(a.)","description":"to, or containing, iodine; specif., denoting those compounds in which it has a relatively high valence; as, iodic acid."},{"word":"Iodide","type":"(n.)","description":"A binary compound of iodine, or one which may be regarded as binary; as, potassium iodide."},{"word":"Iodine","type":"(n.)","description":"A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors."},{"word":"Iodism","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin."},{"word":"Iodized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Iodize"},{"word":"Iodizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Iodize"},{"word":"Iodize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to iodize a plate for photography."},{"word":"Iodizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, iodizes."},{"word":"Iodo-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Iod-"},{"word":"Iod-","type":"()","description":"A prefix, or combining from, indicating iodine as an ingredient; as, iodoform."},{"word":"Iodoform","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores."},{"word":"Iodoquinine","type":"(n.)","description":"A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance,. It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite."},{"word":"Iodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or containing, iodine. See -ous (chemical suffix)."},{"word":"Ioduret","type":"(n.)","description":"Iodide."},{"word":"Iodyrite","type":"(n.)","description":"Silver iodide, a mineral of a yellowish color."},{"word":"Iolite","type":"(n.)","description":"A silicate of alumina, iron, and magnesia, having a bright blue color and vitreous luster; cordierite. It is remarkable for its dichroism, and is also called dichroite."},{"word":"Io","type":"()","description":"A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles."},{"word":"-ion","type":"()","description":"A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or process of revolving; construction, the act or process of constructing; a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction."},{"word":"Ion","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation."},{"word":"Ionian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians; Ionic."},{"word":"Ionian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or citizen of Ionia."},{"word":"Ionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians."},{"word":"Ionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital."},{"word":"Ionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions."},{"word":"Ionic","type":"(n.)","description":"A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic."},{"word":"Ionic","type":"(n.)","description":"A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet."},{"word":"Ionic","type":"(n.)","description":"The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic."},{"word":"Ionic","type":"(n.)","description":"Ionic type."},{"word":"Ionidium","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of violaceous plants, chiefly found in tropical America, some species of which are used as substitutes for ipecacuanha."},{"word":"Ioqua","type":"()","description":"The shell of a large Dentalium (D. pretiosum), formerly used as shell money, and for ornaments, by the Indians of the west coast of North America."},{"word":"Iota","type":"(n.)","description":"The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (/) corresponding with the English i."},{"word":"Iota","type":"(n.)","description":"A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a particle."},{"word":"Iotacism","type":"(n.)","description":"The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding /, /, /, /, //, etc., like /."},{"word":"I","type":"()","description":"A paper having on it these letters, with a sum named, and duly signed; -- in use in England as an acknowledgment of a debt, and taken as evidence thereof, but not amounting to a promissory note; a due bill."},{"word":"Iowas","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region now included in the State of Iowa."},{"word":"Ipecac","type":"(n.)","description":"An abbreviation of Ipecacuanha, and in more frequent use."},{"word":"Ipecacuanha","type":"(n.)","description":"The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (Cephaelis Ipecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself; also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other plants are used as a substitutes; among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the bastard or wild ipecac (Asclepias Curassavica), and the undulated ipecac (Richardsonia scabra)."},{"word":"Ipocras","type":"(n.)","description":"Hippocras."},{"word":"Ipomoea","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers, including the morning-glory, the sweet potato, and the cypress vine."},{"word":"Ipomoeic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of convolvulin (obtained from jalap, the tubers of Ipomoea purga), and identical in most of its properties with sebacic acid."},{"word":"Ir-","type":"()","description":"A form of the prefix in-. See In-."},{"word":"Iracund","type":"(a.)","description":"Irascible; choleric."},{"word":"Irade","type":"(n.)","description":"A decree of the Sultan."},{"word":"Iran","type":"(n.)","description":"The native name of Persia."},{"word":"Iranian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Iran."},{"word":"Iranian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Iran; also, the Iranian or Persian language, a division of the Aryan family of languages."},{"word":"Iranic","type":"(a.)","description":"Iranian."},{"word":"Irascibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness."},{"word":"Irascible","type":"(a.)","description":"Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood."},{"word":"Irate","type":"(a.)","description":"Angry; incensed; enraged."},{"word":"Ire","type":"(n.)","description":"Anger; wrath."},{"word":"Ireful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of ire; angry; wroth."},{"word":"Irefulness","type":"(n.)","description":"Wrathfulness."},{"word":"Irenarch","type":"(n.)","description":"An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace."},{"word":"Irenic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Irenical"},{"word":"Irenical","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful."},{"word":"Irenicon","type":"(n.)","description":"A proposition or device for securing peace, especially in the church."},{"word":"Irenics","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology."},{"word":"Irestone","type":"(n.)","description":"Any very hard rock."},{"word":"Irian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the iris."},{"word":"Iricism","type":"(n.)","description":"Irishism."},{"word":"Iridaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Irideous"},{"word":"Irideous","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceae), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others."},{"word":"Iridal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors."},{"word":"Iridectomy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of cutting out a portion of the iris in order to form an artificial pupil."},{"word":"Iridescence","type":"(n.)","description":"Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl."},{"word":"Iridescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass."},{"word":"Iridian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow."},{"word":"Iridiated","type":"(a.)","description":"Iridescent."},{"word":"Iridic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the iris of the eye."},{"word":"Iridic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to iridium; -- said specifically of those compounds in which iridium has a relatively high valence."},{"word":"Iridioscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of ophthalmoscope."},{"word":"Iridious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to iridium; -- applied specifically to compounds in which iridium has a low valence."},{"word":"Iridium","type":"(n.)","description":"A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indifferent to most corrosive agents. With the exception of osmium, it is the heaviest substance known, its specific gravity being 22.4. Symbol Ir. Atomic weight 192.5."},{"word":"Iridized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Iridize"},{"word":"Iridizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Iridize"},{"word":"Iridize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To point or tip with iridium, as a gold pen."},{"word":"Iridize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make iridescent; as, to iridize glass."},{"word":"Iridoline","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous base C10H9N, extracted from coal-tar naphtha, as an oily liquid. It is a member of the quinoline series, and is probably identical with lepidine."},{"word":"Iridosmine","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Iridosmium"},{"word":"Iridosmium","type":"(n.)","description":"The native compound of iridium and osmium. It is found in flattened metallic grains of extreme hardness, and is often used for pointing gold pens."},{"word":"Irises","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Iris"},{"word":"Irides","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Iris"},{"word":"Iris","type":"(n.)","description":"The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods."},{"word":"Iris","type":"(n.)","description":"The rainbow."},{"word":"Iris","type":"(n.)","description":"An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors."},{"word":"Iris","type":"(n.)","description":"The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye."},{"word":"Iris","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce."},{"word":"Iris","type":"(n.)","description":"See Fleur-de-lis, 2."},{"word":"Irisated","type":"(a.)","description":"Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent."},{"word":"Iriscope","type":"(n.)","description":"A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films."},{"word":"Irised","type":"(a.)","description":"Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent."},{"word":"Irish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland."},{"word":"Irish","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants."},{"word":"Irish","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic."},{"word":"Irish","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"An old game resembling backgammon."},{"word":"Irishism","type":"(n.)","description":"A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism."},{"word":"Irishmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Irishman"},{"word":"Irishman","type":"(n.)","description":"A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian."},{"word":"Irishry","type":"(n.)","description":"The Celtic people of Ireland."},{"word":"Iritis","type":"(n.)","description":"An inflammation of the iris of the eye."},{"word":"Irk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To weary; to give pain; to annoy; -- used only impersonally at present."},{"word":"Irksome","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks."},{"word":"Irksome","type":"(a.)","description":"Weary; vexed; uneasy."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms; viz., cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or on a fresh surface, is a gray or white metal. It is easily oxidized (rusted) by moisture, and is attacked by many corrosive agents. Symbol Fe (Latin Ferrum). Atomic weight 55.9. Specific gravity, pure iron, 7.86; cast iron, 7.1. In magnetic properties, it is superior to all other substances."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument or utensil made of iron; -- chiefly in composition; as, a flatiron, a smoothing iron, etc."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Strength; power; firmness; inflexibility; as, to rule with a rod of iron."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.;"},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Rude; hard; harsh; severe."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(n.)","description":"Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious."},{"word":"Ironed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Iron"},{"word":"Ironing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Iron"},{"word":"Iron","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To smooth with an instrument of iron; especially, to smooth, as cloth, with a heated flatiron; -- sometimes used with out."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff."},{"word":"Iron","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon."},{"word":"Ironbark","type":"()","description":"The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood."},{"word":"Ironbound","type":"(a.)","description":"Bound as with iron; rugged; as, an ironbound coast."},{"word":"Ironbound","type":"(a.)","description":"Rigid; unyielding; as, ironbound traditions."},{"word":"Iron-cased","type":"(a.)","description":"Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad."},{"word":"Ironclad","type":"(a.)","description":"Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare."},{"word":"Ironclad","type":"(a.)","description":"Rigorous; severe; exacting; as, an ironclad oath or pledge."},{"word":"Ironclad","type":"(n.)","description":"A naval vessel having the parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot."},{"word":"Ironer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, irons."},{"word":"Iron-fisted","type":"(a.)","description":"Closefisted; stingy; mean."},{"word":"Iron-gray","type":"(a.)","description":"Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken."},{"word":"Iron-gray","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron-gray color; also, a horse of this color."},{"word":"Ironheads","type":"(n.)","description":"A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle."},{"word":"Iron-hearted","type":"(a.)","description":"Hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; as, an iron-hearted master."},{"word":"Ironic","type":"(a.)","description":"Ironical."},{"word":"Ironical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark."},{"word":"Ironical","type":"(a.)","description":"Addicted to the use of irony; given to irony."},{"word":"Ironing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons."},{"word":"Ironing","type":"(n.)","description":"The clothes ironed."},{"word":"Ironish","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling iron, as in taste."},{"word":"Ironist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses irony."},{"word":"Ironmaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A manufacturer of iron, or large dealer therein."},{"word":"Ironmonger","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in iron or hardware."},{"word":"Ironmongery","type":"(n.)","description":"Hardware; a general name for all articles made of iron."},{"word":"Iron-sick","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky."},{"word":"Iron-sided","type":"(a.)","description":"Having iron sides, or very firm sides."},{"word":"Ironsides","type":"(n. /)","description":"A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry."},{"word":"Ironsmith","type":"(n.)","description":"A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith."},{"word":"Ironsmith","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian barbet (Megalaima faber), inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith."},{"word":"Ironstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A hard, earthy ore of iron."},{"word":"Ironware","type":"(n.)","description":"Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like."},{"word":"Ironweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A tall weed with purplish flowers (Vernonia Noveboracensis). The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus."},{"word":"Ironwood","type":"(n.)","description":"A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood."},{"word":"Ironwork","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron."},{"word":"Iron","type":"()","description":"See under Iron, a."},{"word":"Ironwort","type":"(n.)","description":"An herb of the Mint family (Sideritis), supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis."},{"word":"Irony","type":"(a.)","description":"Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles."},{"word":"Irony","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property."},{"word":"Irony","type":"(n.)","description":"Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist."},{"word":"Irony","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words."},{"word":"Iroquois","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes."},{"word":"Irous","type":"(a.)","description":"Irascible; passionate."},{"word":"Irp","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Irpe"},{"word":"Irpe","type":"(n.)","description":"A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body."},{"word":"Irp","type":"(a.)","description":"Making irps."},{"word":"Irradiance","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Irradiancy"},{"word":"Irradiancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light."},{"word":"Irradiancy","type":"(n.)","description":"That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy."},{"word":"Irradiant","type":"(a.)","description":"Irradiating or illuminating; as, the irradiant moon."},{"word":"Irradiated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Irradiate"},{"word":"Irradiating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Irradiate"},{"word":"Irradiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster."},{"word":"Irradiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate; as, to irradiate the mind."},{"word":"Irradiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To animate by heat or light."},{"word":"Irradiate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To radiate, shed, or diffuse."},{"word":"Irradiate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emit rays; to shine."},{"word":"Irradiate","type":"(a.)","description":"Illuminated; irradiated."},{"word":"Irradiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated."},{"word":"Irradiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Illumination; irradiance; brilliancy."},{"word":"Irradiation","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Mental light or illumination."},{"word":"Irradiation","type":"(n.)","description":"The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, esp. when a little out of focus."},{"word":"Irradicate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To root deeply."},{"word":"Irrational","type":"(a.)","description":"Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals."},{"word":"Irrational","type":"(a.)","description":"Not according to reason; absurd; foolish."},{"word":"Irrational","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd."},{"word":"Irrationality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irrational."},{"word":"Irrationally","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irrational manner."},{"word":"Irrationalness","type":"(n.)","description":"Irrationality."},{"word":"Irrebuttable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being rebutted."},{"word":"Irreceptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not receiving; incapable of receiving."},{"word":"Irreclaimable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being reclaimed."},{"word":"Irrecognition","type":"(n.)","description":"A failure to recognize; absence of recognition."},{"word":"Irrecognizable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not recognizable."},{"word":"Irreconcilability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irreconcilable; irreconcilableness."},{"word":"Irreconcilable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not reconcilable; implacable; incompatible; inconsistent; disagreeing; as, irreconcilable enemies, statements."},{"word":"Irreconcile","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To prevent from being reconciled; to alienate or disaffect."},{"word":"Irreconcilement","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being unreconciled; disagreement."},{"word":"Irreconciliation","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of reconciliation; disagreement."},{"word":"Irrecordable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not fit or possible to be recorded."},{"word":"Irrecoverable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury."},{"word":"Irrecuperable","type":"(a.)","description":"Irrecoverable."},{"word":"Irrecured","type":"(a.)","description":"Incurable."},{"word":"Irrecusable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not liable to exception or rejection."},{"word":"Irredeemability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irredeemable; irredeemableness."},{"word":"Irredeemable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder."},{"word":"Irreducibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irreducible."},{"word":"Irreducible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia."},{"word":"Irreducible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula."},{"word":"Irreflection","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of reflection."},{"word":"Irreflective","type":"(a.)","description":"Not reflective."},{"word":"Irrefromable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible."},{"word":"Irrefragability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted."},{"word":"Irrefragable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not refragable; not to be gainsaid or denied; not to be refuted or overthrown; unanswerable; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence."},{"word":"Irrefrangibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irrefrangible; irrefrangibleness."},{"word":"Irrefrangible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not refrangible; that can not be refracted in passing from one medium to another."},{"word":"Irrefutable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable."},{"word":"Irregeneracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Unregeneracy."},{"word":"Irregeneration","type":"(n.)","description":"An unregenerate state."},{"word":"Irregular","type":"(a.)","description":"Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular."},{"word":"Irregular","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service."},{"word":"Irregularist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is irregular."},{"word":"Irregularities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Irregularity"},{"word":"Irregularity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular."},{"word":"Irregularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irregular manner."},{"word":"Irregulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make irregular; to disorder."},{"word":"Irregulous","type":"(a.)","description":"Lawless."},{"word":"Irrejectable","type":"(a.)","description":"That can not be rejected; irresistible."},{"word":"Irrelapsable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not liable to relapse; secure."},{"word":"Irrelate","type":"(a.)","description":"Irrelative; unconnected."},{"word":"Irrelation","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation."},{"word":"Irrelative","type":"(a.)","description":"Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected."},{"word":"Irrelavance","type":"(n.)","description":"Irrelevancy."},{"word":"Irrelavancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irrelevant; as, the irrelevancy of an argument."},{"word":"Irrelavant","type":"(a.)","description":"Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent; not bearing upon or serving to support; foreign; extraneous; as, testimony or arguments irrelevant to a case."},{"word":"Irrelievable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless."},{"word":"Irreligion","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being irreligious; want of religion; impiety."},{"word":"Irreligionist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is irreligious."},{"word":"Irreligious","type":"(a.)","description":"Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious."},{"word":"Irreligious","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech."},{"word":"Irreligiously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irreligious manner."},{"word":"Irreligiousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness."},{"word":"Irremeable","type":"(a.)","description":"Admitting no return; as, an irremeable way."},{"word":"Irremediable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil."},{"word":"Irremediableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irremediable."},{"word":"Irremediably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction."},{"word":"Irremissible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not remissible; unpardonable; as, irremissible crimes."},{"word":"Irremission","type":"(n.)","description":"Refusal of pardon."},{"word":"Irremissive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not remitting; unforgiving."},{"word":"Irremittable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being remitted; irremissible."},{"word":"Irremobability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness."},{"word":"Irremovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not removable; immovable; inflexible."},{"word":"Irremoval","type":"(n.)","description":"Absence of removal."},{"word":"Irremunerable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not remunerable; not capable of remuneration."},{"word":"Irrenowned","type":"(a.)","description":"Not renowned."},{"word":"Irreparability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irreparable; irreparableness."},{"word":"Irreparable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not reparable; not capable of being repaired, recovered, regained, or remedied; irretrievable; irremediable; as, an irreparable breach; an irreparable loss."},{"word":"Irreparableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being irreparable."},{"word":"Irreparably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irreparable manner."},{"word":"Irrepealability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irrepealable."},{"word":"Irrepealable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not repealable; not capable of being repealed or revoked, as a law."},{"word":"Irrepentance","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of repentance; impenitence."},{"word":"Irrepleviable","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Irreplevisable"},{"word":"Irreplevisable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being replevied."},{"word":"Irreprehensible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not reprehensible; blameless; innocent."},{"word":"Irrepresentable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being represented or portrayed."},{"word":"Irrepressible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict."},{"word":"Irrepressibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed."},{"word":"Irreproachable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless."},{"word":"Irreproachableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence."},{"word":"Irreproachably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly."},{"word":"Irreprovable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright."},{"word":"Irreptitious","type":"(a.)","description":"Surreptitious; spurious."},{"word":"Irreputable","type":"(a.)","description":"Disreputable."},{"word":"Irresilient","type":"(a.)","description":"Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic."},{"word":"Irresistance","type":"(n.)","description":"Nonresistance; passive submission."},{"word":"Irresistibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irrestible, irresistibleness."},{"word":"Irresistible","type":"(a.)","description":"That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction."},{"word":"Irresistibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"Quality of being irrestible."},{"word":"Irresistibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irrestible manner."},{"word":"Irresistless","type":"(a.)","description":"Irresistible."},{"word":"Irresoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being dissolved or resolved into parts; insoluble."},{"word":"Irresoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being relieved or assisted."},{"word":"Irresolubleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irresoluble; insolubility."},{"word":"Irresolute","type":"(a.)","description":"Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution."},{"word":"Irresolution","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation."},{"word":"Irresolvability","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being irresolvable; irresolvableness."},{"word":"Irresolvable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being resolved; not separable into component parts."},{"word":"Irresolvableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being irresolvable; irresolvability."},{"word":"Irresolvedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without settled determination; in a hesitating manner; doubtfully."},{"word":"Irrespective","type":"(a.)","description":"Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment."},{"word":"Irrespective","type":"(a.)","description":"Disrespectful."},{"word":"Irrespectively","type":"(adv.)","description":"Without regard to conditions; not making circumstances into consideration."},{"word":"Irrespirable","type":"(a.)","description":"Unfit for respiration; not having the qualities necessary to support animal life; as, irrespirable air."},{"word":"Irresponsibility","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability."},{"word":"Irresponsible","type":"(a.)","description":"Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent."},{"word":"Irresponsible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be trusted; unreliable."},{"word":"Irresponsibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as not to be responsible."},{"word":"Irresponsive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not responsive; not able, ready, or inclined to respond."},{"word":"Irresuscitable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being resuscitated or revived."},{"word":"Irretention","type":"(n.)","description":"Want of retaining power; forgetfulness."},{"word":"Irretentive","type":"(a.)","description":"Not retentive; as, an irretentive memory."},{"word":"Irretraceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being retraced; not retraceable."},{"word":"Irretractile","type":"(a.)","description":"Not retractile."},{"word":"Irretractile","type":"(a.)","description":"Not tractile or ductile."},{"word":"Irretrievable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss."},{"word":"Irretrievableness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irretrievable."},{"word":"Irretrievably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irretrievable manner."},{"word":"Irreturnable","type":"(a.)","description":"Not to be returned."},{"word":"Irrevealable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being revealed."},{"word":"Irreverence","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior."},{"word":"Irreverend","type":"(a.)","description":"Irreverent."},{"word":"Irreverent","type":"(a.)","description":"Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest."},{"word":"Irreverently","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irreverent manner."},{"word":"Irreversibility","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness."},{"word":"Irreversible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine."},{"word":"Irreversible","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree."},{"word":"Irreversibleness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irreversible."},{"word":"Irreversibly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irreversible manner."},{"word":"Irrevocability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irrevocable; irrevocableness."},{"word":"Irrevocable","type":"(a.)","description":"Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate."},{"word":"Irrevokable","type":"(a.)","description":"Irrevocable."},{"word":"Irrevoluble","type":"(a.)","description":"That has no finite period of revolution; not revolving."},{"word":"Irrhetorical","type":"(a.)","description":"Not rethorical."},{"word":"Irrigated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Irrigate"},{"word":"Irrigating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Irrigate"},{"word":"Irrigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew."},{"word":"Irrigate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels."},{"word":"Irrigation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants."},{"word":"Irriguous","type":"(a.)","description":"Watered; watery; moist; dewy."},{"word":"Irriguous","type":"(a.)","description":"Gently penetrating or pervading."},{"word":"Irrisible","type":"(a.)","description":"Not risible."},{"word":"Irrision","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of laughing at another; derision."},{"word":"Irritability","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper."},{"word":"Irritability","type":"(n.)","description":"A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility."},{"word":"Irritability","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3."},{"word":"Irritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being irriated."},{"word":"Irritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper."},{"word":"Irritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli."},{"word":"Irritable","type":"(a.)","description":"Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3."},{"word":"Irritableness","type":"(n.)","description":"Irritability."},{"word":"Irritably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an irritable manner."},{"word":"Irritancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture."},{"word":"Irritancy","type":"(n.)","description":"The state o quality of being irritant or irritating."},{"word":"Irritant","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating."},{"word":"Irritant","type":"(a.)","description":"Irritating; producing irritation or inflammation."},{"word":"Irritant","type":"(n.)","description":"That which irritates or excites."},{"word":"Irritant","type":"(n.)","description":"Any agent by which irritation is produced; as, a chemical irritant; a mechanical or electrical irritant."},{"word":"Irritant","type":"(n.)","description":"A poison that produces inflammation."},{"word":"Irritate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render null and void."},{"word":"Irritated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Irritate"},{"word":"Irritating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Irritate"},{"word":"Irritate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate."},{"word":"Irritate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects."},{"word":"Irritate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2."},{"word":"Irritate","type":"(n.)","description":"To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage."},{"word":"Irritate","type":"(a.)","description":"Excited; heightened."},{"word":"Irritation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger."},{"word":"Irritation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation."},{"word":"Irritation","type":"(n.)","description":"A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action."},{"word":"Irritative","type":"(a.)","description":"Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent."},{"word":"Irritative","type":"(a.)","description":"Accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation; as, an irritative fever."},{"word":"Irritatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Exciting; producing irritation; irritating."},{"word":"Irrorated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Irrorate"},{"word":"Irrorating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Irrorate"},{"word":"Irrorate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sprinkle or moisten with dew; to bedew."},{"word":"Irrorate","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with minute grains, appearing like fine sand."},{"word":"Irroration","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of bedewing; the state of being moistened with dew."},{"word":"Irrotational","type":"(a.)","description":"Not rotatory; passing from one point to another by a movement other than rotation; -- said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yielding mass."},{"word":"Irrubrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Contrary to the rubric; not rubrical."},{"word":"Irrugate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wrinkle."},{"word":"Irrupted","type":"(a.)","description":"Broken with violence."},{"word":"Irruption","type":"(n.)","description":"A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea."},{"word":"Irruption","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders; as, the irruptions of the Goths into Italy."},{"word":"Irruptive","type":"(a.)","description":"Rushing in or upon."},{"word":"Irvingite","type":"(n.)","description":"The common designation of one a sect founded by the Rev. Edward Irving (about 1830), who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church. They are highly ritualistic in worship, have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles, prophets, etc., and look for the speedy coming of Christ."},{"word":"Is-","type":"()","description":"See Iso-."},{"word":"Is","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The third person singular of the substantive verb be, in the indicative mood, present tense; as, he is; he is a man. See Be."},{"word":"Isabel","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Isabel color"},{"word":"Isabel","type":"()","description":"See Isabella."},{"word":"Isabella","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Isabella color"},{"word":"Isabella","type":"()","description":"A brownish yellow color."},{"word":"Isabella","type":"()","description":"A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox."},{"word":"Isabella","type":"()","description":"A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part."},{"word":"Isabelline","type":"(a.)","description":"Of an isabel or isabella color."},{"word":"Isagelous","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing the same information; as, isagelous sentences."},{"word":"Isagel","type":"(n.)","description":"One of two or more objects containing the same information."},{"word":"Isagoge","type":"(n.)","description":"An introduction."},{"word":"Isagogic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Isagogical"},{"word":"Isagogical","type":"(a.)","description":"Introductory; especially, introductory to the study of theology."},{"word":"Isagogics","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of theological science directly preliminary to actual exegesis, or interpretation of the Scriptures."},{"word":"Isagon","type":"(a.)","description":"A figure or polygon whose angles are equal."},{"word":"Isapostolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal, or almost equal, authority with the apostles of their teachings."},{"word":"Isatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Isatinic"},{"word":"Isatinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, isatin; as, isatic acid, which is also called trioxindol."},{"word":"Isatide","type":"(n.)","description":"A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin."},{"word":"Isatin","type":"(n.)","description":"An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial indigo."},{"word":"Isatis","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of herbs, some species of which, especially the Isatis tinctoria, yield a blue dye similar to indigo; woad."},{"word":"Isatogen","type":"(n.)","description":"A complex nitrogenous radical, C8H4NO2, regarded as the essential residue of a series of compounds, related to isatin, which easily pass by reduction to indigo blue."},{"word":"Isatropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine, and isomeric with cinnamic acid."},{"word":"Ischias","type":"(a.)","description":"See Ischial."},{"word":"Ischiadic","type":"(a.)","description":"Ischial."},{"word":"Ischial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ischium or hip; ischiac; ischiadic; ischiatic."},{"word":"Ischiatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Ishial."},{"word":"Ischiocapsular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the ischium and the capsule of the hip joint; as, the ischiocapsular ligament."},{"word":"Ischiocerite","type":"(n.)","description":"The third joint or the antennae of the Crustacea."},{"word":"Ischion","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ischium"},{"word":"Ischium","type":"(n.)","description":"The ventral and posterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone."},{"word":"Ischium","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pleurae of insects."},{"word":"Ischiopodite","type":"(n.)","description":"The third joint of the typical appendages of Crustacea."},{"word":"Ischiorectal","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and ishial tuberosity."},{"word":"Ischuretic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of relieving ischury."},{"word":"Ischuretic","type":"(n.)","description":"An ischuretic medicine."},{"word":"Ischury","type":"(n.)","description":"A retention or suppression of urine."},{"word":"-ise","type":"()","description":"See -ize."},{"word":"Isentropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal entropy."},{"word":"Isethionic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid, HO.C2H4.SO3H, obtained as an oily or crystalline substance, by the action of sulphur trioxide on alcohol or ether. It is derivative of sulphuric acid."},{"word":"-ish","type":"()","description":"A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white."},{"word":"-ish","type":"()","description":"A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish."},{"word":"Ishmaelite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Ishmael (the son of Abraham and Hagar), of whom it was said, \"His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.\""},{"word":"Ishmaelite","type":"(n.)","description":"One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast."},{"word":"Ishmaelite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ismaelian."},{"word":"Ishmaelitish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an Ishmaelite or the Ishmaelites."},{"word":"Isiac","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the goddess Isis; as, Isiac mysteries."},{"word":"Isicle","type":"(n.)","description":"A icicle."},{"word":"Isidorian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining, or ascribed, to Isidore; as, the Isidorian decretals, a spurious collection of decretals published in the ninth century."},{"word":"Isinglass","type":"(n.)","description":"A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish glue."},{"word":"Isinglass","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular name for mica, especially when in thin sheets."},{"word":"Isis","type":"(n.)","description":"The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture."},{"word":"Isis","type":"(n.)","description":"Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea."},{"word":"Isis","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the asteroids."},{"word":"Islam","type":"(n.)","description":"The religion of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islamism. Their formula of faith is: There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet."},{"word":"Islam","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole body of Mohammedans, or the countries which they occupy."},{"word":"Islamism","type":"(n.)","description":"The faith, doctrines, or religious system of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islam."},{"word":"Islamite","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mohammedan."},{"word":"Islamitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Islam; Mohammedan."},{"word":"Islamized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Islamize"},{"word":"Islamizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Islamize"},{"word":"Islamize","type":"(v. i. & t.)","description":"To conform, or cause to conform, to the religion of Islam."},{"word":"Island","type":"(n.)","description":"A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent."},{"word":"Island","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice."},{"word":"Island","type":"(n.)","description":"See Isle, n., 2."},{"word":"Island","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle."},{"word":"Island","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep."},{"word":"Islander","type":"(n.)","description":"An inhabitant of an island."},{"word":"Islandy","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands."},{"word":"Isle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Aisle."},{"word":"Isle","type":"(n.)","description":"An island."},{"word":"Isle","type":"(n.)","description":"A spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects."},{"word":"Isle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island."},{"word":"Islet","type":"(n.)","description":"A little island."},{"word":"-ism","type":"()","description":"A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism."},{"word":"Ism","type":"(n.)","description":"A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory."},{"word":"Ismaelian","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ismaelite"},{"word":"Ismaelite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a sect of Mohammedans who favored the pretensions of the family of Mohammed ben Ismael, of the house Ali."},{"word":"Iso-","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Is-"},{"word":"Is-","type":"()","description":"A prefix or combining form, indicating identity, or equality; the same numerical value; as in isopod, isomorphous, isochromatic."},{"word":"Is-","type":"()","description":"Applied to certain compounds having the same composition but different properties; as in isocyanic."},{"word":"Is-","type":"()","description":"Applied to compounds of certain isomeric series in whose structure one carbon atom, at least, is connected with three other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with neo- and normal; as in isoparaffine; isopentane."},{"word":"Isobar","type":"(n.)","description":"A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line."},{"word":"Isobaric","type":"(a.)","description":"Denoting equal pressure; as, an isobaric line; specifically, of or pertaining to isobars."},{"word":"Isobar","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science."},{"word":"Isobarometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating equal barometric pressure."},{"word":"Isobathytherm","type":"(n.)","description":"A line connecting the points on the surface of the earth where a certain temperature is found at the same depth."},{"word":"Isobathythermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an isobathytherm; possessing or indicating the same temperature at the same depth."},{"word":"Isocephalism","type":"(n.)","description":"A peculiarity in the design of bas-relief by which the heads of human figures are kept at the same height from the ground, whether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia."},{"word":"Isochasm","type":"(n.)","description":"A line connecting places on the earth's surface at which there is the same mean frequency of auroras."},{"word":"Isochasmic","type":"(a.)","description":"Indicating equal auroral display; as, an isochasmic line."},{"word":"Isocheim","type":"(n.)","description":"A line connecting places on the earth having the same mean winter temperature. Cf. Isothere."},{"word":"Isocheimal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Isochimal"},{"word":"Isochimal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, or making, isocheims; as, an isocheimal line; an isocheimal chart."},{"word":"Isocheimenal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Isochimenal"},{"word":"Isochimenal","type":"(a.)","description":"The same as Isocheimal."},{"word":"Isocheimic","type":"(a.)","description":"The same as Isocheimal."},{"word":"Isochimene","type":"(n.)","description":"The same as Isocheim."},{"word":"Isochromatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same color; connecting parts having the same color, as lines drawn through certain points in experiments on the chromatic effects of polarized light in crystals."},{"word":"Isochronal","type":"(a.)","description":"Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times; recurring at regular intervals; isochronal vibrations or oscillations."},{"word":"Isochronic","type":"(a.)","description":"Isochronal."},{"word":"Isochronism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being isochronous."},{"word":"Isochronon","type":"(n.)","description":"A clock that is designed to keep very accurate time."},{"word":"Isochronous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Isochronal."},{"word":"Isochroous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same tint or color throughout; uniformly or evenly colored."},{"word":"Isoclinal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Isoclinic"},{"word":"Isoclinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to, or indicating, equality of inclination or dip; having equal inclination or dip."},{"word":"Isocrymal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, or illustrating, an isocryme; as, an isocrymal line; an isocrymal chart."},{"word":"Isocryme","type":"(n.)","description":"A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year."},{"word":"Isocrymic","type":"(a.)","description":"Isocrymal."},{"word":"Isocyanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Designating an acid isomeric with cyanic acid."},{"word":"Isocyanuric","type":"(a.)","description":"Designating, or pertaining to, an acid isomeric with cyanuric acid, and called also fulminuric acid. See under Fulminuric."},{"word":"Isodiabatic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the reception or the giving out of equal quantities of heat by a substance."},{"word":"Isodiametric","type":"(a.)","description":"Developed alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; -- said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems."},{"word":"Isodiametric","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the several diameters nearly equal; -- said of the cells of ordinary parenchyma."},{"word":"Isodimorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Isodimorphous."},{"word":"Isodimorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"Isomorphism between the two forms severally of two dimorphous substances."},{"word":"Isodimorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of isodimorphism."},{"word":"Isodulcite","type":"(n.)","description":"A white, crystalline, sugarlike substance, obtained by the decomposition of certain glucosides, and intermediate in nature between the hexacid alcohols (ductile, mannite, etc.) and the glucoses."},{"word":"Isodynamic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, having, or denoting, equality of force."},{"word":"Isodynamous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of equal force or size."},{"word":"Isogeotherm","type":"(n.)","description":"A line or curved surface passing beneath the earth's surface through points having the same mean temperature."},{"word":"Isogeothermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Isogeothermic"},{"word":"Isogeothermic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart."},{"word":"Isogeothermic","type":"(n.)","description":"An isogeotherm."},{"word":"Isogonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or noting, equal angles."},{"word":"Isogonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Characterized by isogonism."},{"word":"Isogonism","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of having similar sexual zooids or gonophores and dissimilar hydrants; -- said of certain hydroids."},{"word":"Isographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to isography."},{"word":"Isography","type":"(n.)","description":"Imitation of another's handwriting."},{"word":"Isohyetose","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to lines connecting places on the earth's surface which have a mean annual rainfall."},{"word":"Isohyetose","type":"(n.)","description":"An isohyetose line."},{"word":"Isolable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable."},{"word":"Isolated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Isolate"},{"word":"Isolating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Isolate"},{"word":"Isolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others."},{"word":"Isolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To insulate. See Insulate."},{"word":"Isolate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state."},{"word":"Isolated","type":"(a.)","description":"Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others."},{"word":"Isolatedly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an isolated manner."},{"word":"Isolation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness."},{"word":"Isolator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, isolates."},{"word":"Isologous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similar differences of composition; -- said specifically of groups or series which differ by a constant difference; as, ethane, ethylene, and acetylene, or their analogous compounds, form an isologous series."},{"word":"Isomer","type":"(n.)","description":"A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series."},{"word":"Isomeric","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: (a) Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, but with different molecular weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric (polymeric) with each other in this sense. See Polymeric. (b) Metameric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but which a different structure or arrangement of the ultimate parts; as, ethyl alcohol and methyl ether are isomeric (metameric) with each other in this sense. See Metameric."},{"word":"Isomeride","type":"(n.)","description":"An isomer."},{"word":"Isomerism","type":"(n.)","description":"The state, quality, or relation, of two or more isomeric substances."},{"word":"Isomeromorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"Isomorphism between substances that are isomeric."},{"word":"Isometric","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Isometrical"},{"word":"Isometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characterized by, equality of measure."},{"word":"Isometrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Noting, or conforming to, that system of crystallization in which the three axes are of equal length and at right angles to each other; monometric; regular; cubic. Cf. Crystallization."},{"word":"Isomorph","type":"(n.)","description":"A substance which is similar to another in crystalline form and composition."},{"word":"Isomorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Isomorphous."},{"word":"Isomorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"A similarity of crystalline form between substances of similar composition, as between the sulphates of barium (BaSO4) and strontium (SrSO4). It is sometimes extended to include similarity of form between substances of unlike composition, which is more properly called homoeomorphism."},{"word":"Isomorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of isomorphism."},{"word":"Isonandra","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha."},{"word":"Isonephelic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having, or indicating, an equal amount of cloudiness for a given period; as, isonephelic regions; an isonephelic line."},{"word":"Isonicotine","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline, nitrogenous base, C10H14N2, isomeric with nicotine."},{"word":"Isonicotinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, isonicotine."},{"word":"Isonicotinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid isomeric with nicotinic acid."},{"word":"Isonitroso-","type":"()","description":"A combining from (also used adjectively), signifying: Pertaining to, or designating, the characteristic, nitrogenous radical, NOH, called the isonitroso group."},{"word":"Isonomic","type":"(a.)","description":"The same, or equal, in law or right; one in kind or origin; analogous; similar."},{"word":"Isonomy","type":"(n.)","description":"Equal law or right; equal distribution of rights and privileges; similarity."},{"word":"Isopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease."},{"word":"Isopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal."},{"word":"Isopathy","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease."},{"word":"Isopepsin","type":"(n.)","description":"Pepsin modified by exposure to a temperature of from 40� to 60� C."},{"word":"Isoperimetrical","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies."},{"word":"Isoperimetry","type":"(n.)","description":"The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries."},{"word":"Isopiestic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal pressure."},{"word":"Isopleura","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal."},{"word":"Isopod","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the legs similar in structure; belonging to the Isopoda."},{"word":"Isopod","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Isopoda."},{"word":"Isopoda","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of sessile-eyed Crustacea, usually having seven pairs of legs, which are all similar in structure."},{"word":"Isopodiform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape of an isopod; -- said of the larvae of certain insects."},{"word":"Isopodous","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Isopod."},{"word":"Isopogonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the two webs equal in breath; -- said of feathers."},{"word":"Isoprene","type":"(n.)","description":"An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha."},{"word":"Isopycnic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having equal density, as different regions of a medium; passing through points at which the density is equal; as, an isopycnic line or surface."},{"word":"Isopycnic","type":"(n.)","description":"A line or surface passing through those points in a medium, at which the density is the same."},{"word":"Isorcin","type":"(n.)","description":"A crystalline hydrocarbon derivative, metameric with orcin, but produced artificially; -- called also cresorcin."},{"word":"Isorropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of equal value."},{"word":"Isosceles","type":"(a.)","description":"Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle."},{"word":"Isospondyli","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms."},{"word":"Isospondylous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Isospondyli; having the anterior vertebrae separate and normal."},{"word":"Isosporic","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns and Equiseta. Cf. Heterosporic."},{"word":"Isostemonous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having exactly as many stamens as petals."},{"word":"Isostemony","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being isostemonous."},{"word":"Isosulphocyanate","type":"(n.)","description":"A salt of isosulphocyanic acid."},{"word":"Isosulphocyanic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, HNCS, isomeric with sulphocyanic acid."},{"word":"Isotheral","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the nature of an isothere; indicating the distribution of temperature by means of an isothere; as, an isotheral chart or line."},{"word":"Isothere","type":"(n.)","description":"A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean summer temperature."},{"word":"Isotherm","type":"(n.)","description":"A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time of observation, or the mean temperature for a year or other period. Also, a similar line based on the distribution of temperature in the ocean."},{"word":"Isothermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to equality of temperature."},{"word":"Isothermal","type":"(a.)","description":"Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart."},{"word":"Isothermobath","type":"(n.)","description":"A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean."},{"word":"Isothermobathic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean."},{"word":"Isotherombrose","type":"(n.)","description":"A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall."},{"word":"Isotonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension."},{"word":"Isotrimorphic","type":"(a.)","description":"Isotrimorphous."},{"word":"Isotrimorphism","type":"(n.)","description":"Isomorphism between the three forms, severally, of two trimorphous substances."},{"word":"Isotrimorphous","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the quality of isotrimorphism; isotrimorphic."},{"word":"Isotropic","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the same properties in all directions; specifically, equally elastic in all directions."},{"word":"Isotropism","type":"(n.)","description":"Isotropy."},{"word":"Isotropous","type":"(a.)","description":"Isotropic."},{"word":"Isotropy","type":"(n.)","description":"Uniformity of physical properties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions."},{"word":"Isouric","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, isomeric with uric acid."},{"word":"Israelite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew."},{"word":"Israelitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Israelitish"},{"word":"Israelitish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew."},{"word":"Issuable","type":"(a.)","description":"Leading to, producing, or relating to, an issue; capable of being made an issue at law."},{"word":"Issuable","type":"(a.)","description":"Lawful or suitable to be issued; as, a writ issuable on these grounds."},{"word":"Issuably","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably."},{"word":"Issuance","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of issuing, or giving out; as, the issuance of an order; the issuance of rations, and the like."},{"word":"Issuant","type":"(a.)","description":"Issuing or coming up; -- a term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"A discharge of flux, as of blood."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(n.)","description":"In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned."},{"word":"Issued","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Issue"},{"word":"Issuing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Issue"},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. i.)","description":"In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions."},{"word":"Issue","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ."},{"word":"Issueless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no issue or progeny; childless."},{"word":"Issuer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who issues, emits, or publishes."},{"word":"-ist","type":"()","description":"A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality."},{"word":"Is't","type":"()","description":"A contraction of is it."},{"word":"Isthmian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece."},{"word":"Isthmuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Isthmus"},{"word":"Isthmus","type":"(n.)","description":"A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc."},{"word":"Istle","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ixtle."},{"word":"Isuret","type":"(n.)","description":"An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine."},{"word":"It","type":"(pron.)","description":"The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (they, their or theirs, them)."},{"word":"It","type":"(pron.)","description":"As a substance for any noun of the neuter gender; as, here is the book, take it home."},{"word":"It","type":"(pron.)","description":"As a demonstrative, especially at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known; as, I saw it was John."},{"word":"It","type":"(pron.)","description":"As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains."},{"word":"It","type":"(pron.)","description":"As a substitute for such general terms as, the state of affairs, the condition of things, and the like; as, how is it with the sick man?"},{"word":"It","type":"(pron.)","description":"As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk)."},{"word":"Itacism","type":"(n.)","description":"Pronunciation of / (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it, that is, like e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by Reu/hlin and his followers, in opposition to the etacism of Erasmus. See Etacism."},{"word":"Itacist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is in favor of itacism."},{"word":"Itacolumite","type":"(n.)","description":"A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found."},{"word":"Itaconic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C5H6O4, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing aconitic and other organic acids."},{"word":"Itala","type":"(n.)","description":"An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version)."},{"word":"Italian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language."},{"word":"Italian","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Italy."},{"word":"Italian","type":"(n.)","description":"The language used in Italy, or by the Italians."},{"word":"Italianate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize."},{"word":"Italianate","type":"(a.)","description":"Italianized; Italianated."},{"word":"Italianism","type":"(n.)","description":"A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism."},{"word":"Italianism","type":"(n.)","description":"Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy."},{"word":"Italianized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Italianize"},{"word":"Italianizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Italianize"},{"word":"Italianize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the Italian; to speak Italian."},{"word":"Italianize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate."},{"word":"Italic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to Italy or to its people."},{"word":"Italic","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500."},{"word":"Italics","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Italic"},{"word":"Italic","type":"(n.)","description":"An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters."},{"word":"Italicism","type":"(n.)","description":"A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism."},{"word":"Italicism","type":"(n.)","description":"The use of Italics."},{"word":"Italicized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Italicize"},{"word":"Italicizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Italicize"},{"word":"Italicize","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much."},{"word":"Ita","type":"()","description":"A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber."},{"word":"Itched","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Itch"},{"word":"Itching","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Itch"},{"word":"Itch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected."},{"word":"Itch","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears."},{"word":"Itch","type":"(n.)","description":"An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact."},{"word":"Itch","type":"(n.)","description":"Any itching eruption."},{"word":"Itch","type":"(n.)","description":"A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc."},{"word":"Itch","type":"(n.)","description":"A constant irritating desire."},{"word":"Itchiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being itchy."},{"word":"Itchless","type":"(a.)","description":"Free from itching."},{"word":"Itchy","type":"(a.)","description":"Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation."},{"word":"-ite","type":"()","description":"A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite."},{"word":"-ite","type":"()","description":"A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its use in writing."},{"word":"-ite","type":"()","description":"A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrous acid, etc."},{"word":"Item","type":"(adv.)","description":"Also; as an additional article."},{"word":"Item","type":"(n.)","description":"An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill."},{"word":"Item","type":"(n.)","description":"A hint; an innuendo."},{"word":"Item","type":"(n.)","description":"A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather."},{"word":"Itemed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Item"},{"word":"Iteming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Item"},{"word":"Item","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make a note or memorandum of."},{"word":"Itemize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad."},{"word":"Iter","type":"(n.)","description":"A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius."},{"word":"Iterable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being iterated or repeated."},{"word":"Iterance","type":"(n.)","description":"Iteration."},{"word":"Iterant","type":"(a.)","description":"Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo."},{"word":"Iterate","type":"(a.)","description":"Uttered or done again; repeated."},{"word":"Iterated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Iterate"},{"word":"Iterating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Iterate"},{"word":"Iterate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice."},{"word":"Iterate","type":"(adv.)","description":"By way of iteration."},{"word":"Iteration","type":"(n.)","description":"Recital or performance a second time; repetition."},{"word":"Iterative","type":"(a.)","description":"Repeating."},{"word":"Ithyphallic","type":"(a.)","description":"Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene."},{"word":"Itineracy","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy."},{"word":"Itinerancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A passing from place to place."},{"word":"Itinerancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence; the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also, a body of persons who thus discharge official duty."},{"word":"Itinerant","type":"(a.)","description":"Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler."},{"word":"Itinerant","type":"(a.)","description":"One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled."},{"word":"Itinerantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In an itinerant manner."},{"word":"Itinerary","type":"(a.)","description":"Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey."},{"word":"Itineraries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Itinerary"},{"word":"Itinerary","type":"(a.)","description":"An account of travels, or a register of places and distances as a guide to travelers; as, the Itinerary of Antoninus."},{"word":"Itinerated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Itinerate"},{"word":"Itinerating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Itinerate"},{"word":"Itinerate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc."},{"word":"-itis","type":"()","description":"A suffix used in medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis; bronchitis, phrenitis."},{"word":"Its","type":"()","description":"Possessive form of the pronoun it. See It."},{"word":"Itself","type":"(pron.)","description":"The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself."},{"word":"Ittria","type":"(n.)","description":"See Yttria."},{"word":"Ittrium","type":"(n.)","description":"See Yttrium."},{"word":"Itzibu","type":"(n.)","description":"A silver coin of Japan, worth about thirty-four cents."},{"word":"Iulidan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Iulidae, a family of myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus."},{"word":"Iulus","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha."},{"word":"Ivan","type":"()","description":"An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as \"John Bull\" is used for the typical Englishman."},{"word":"I've","type":"()","description":"Colloquial contraction of I have."},{"word":"-ive","type":"()","description":"An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive."},{"word":"Ivied","type":"(a.)","description":"Overgrown with ivy."},{"word":"Ivoride","type":"(n.)","description":"A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it."},{"word":"Ivories","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ivory"},{"word":"Ivory","type":"(n.)","description":"The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility."},{"word":"Ivory","type":"(n.)","description":"The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc."},{"word":"Ivory","type":"(n.)","description":"Any carving executed in ivory."},{"word":"Ivory","type":"(n.)","description":"Teeth; as, to show one's ivories."},{"word":"Ivory-bill","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States."},{"word":"Ivorytype","type":"(n.)","description":"A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype."},{"word":"Ivies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Ivy"},{"word":"Ivy","type":"(n.)","description":"A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers."},{"word":"Ivy-mantled","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered with ivy."},{"word":"Iwis","type":"(adv.)","description":"Indeed; truly. See Ywis."},{"word":"Ixia","type":"(n.)","description":"A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers."},{"word":"Ixodes","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See Tick, the insect."},{"word":"Ixodian","type":"(n.)","description":"A tick of the genus Ixodes, or the family Ixodidae."},{"word":"Ixtle","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Ixtli"},{"word":"Ixtli","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber."},{"word":"Izard","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of the chamois found in the Pyrenees."},{"word":"-ize","type":"()","description":"A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize."},{"word":"Izedi","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an Oriental religious sect which worships Satan or the Devil."},{"word":"Izedism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religion of the Izedis."},{"word":"Izzard","type":"(n.)","description":"See Izard."},{"word":"Izzard","type":"(n.)","description":"The letter z; -- formerly so called."},{"word":"J","type":"()","description":"J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably."},{"word":"Jaal","type":"()","description":"A species of wild goat (Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela."},{"word":"Jab","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t."},{"word":"Jab","type":"(n.)","description":"A thrust or stab."},{"word":"Jabbered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jabber"},{"word":"Jabbering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jabber"},{"word":"Jabber","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter."},{"word":"Jabber","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French."},{"word":"Jabber","type":"(n.)","description":"Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish."},{"word":"Jabber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who jabbers."},{"word":"Jabberingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jabbering manner."},{"word":"Jabberment","type":"(n.)","description":"Jabber."},{"word":"Jabbernowl","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Jobbernowl."},{"word":"Jabiru","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria and Xenorhynchus, allied to the storks in form and habits."},{"word":"Jaborandi","type":"(n.)","description":"The native name of a South American rutaceous shrub (Pilocarpus pennatifolius). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue."},{"word":"Jaborine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid found in jaborandi leaves, from which it is extracted as a white amorphous substance. In its action it resembles atropine."},{"word":"Jabot","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt."},{"word":"Jabot","type":"(n.)","description":"An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress."},{"word":"Jacamar","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but climb on tree trunks like nuthatches, and feed upon insects. Their colors are often brilliant."},{"word":"Jacana","type":"(n.)","description":"Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird."},{"word":"Jacaranda","type":"(n.)","description":"The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood."},{"word":"Jacaranda","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers."},{"word":"Jacare","type":"(n.)","description":"A cayman. See Yacare."},{"word":"Jacchus","type":"(n.)","description":"The common marmoset (Hapale vulgaris). Formerly, the name was also applied to other species of the same genus."},{"word":"Jacconet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jaconet."},{"word":"Jacent","type":"(a.)","description":"Lying at length; as, the jacent posture."},{"word":"Jacinth","type":"(n.)","description":"See Hyacinth."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack"},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A device to pull off boots."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A sawhorse or sawbuck."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A compact, portable machine for planing metal."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for slicking or pebbling leather."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"The male of certain animals, as of the ass."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A young pike; a pickerel."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"The jurel."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"The wall-eyed pike."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"The knave of a suit of playing cards."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(n.)","description":"A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n."},{"word":"Jack","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5."},{"word":"Jack-a-dandy","type":"(n.)","description":"A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow."},{"word":"Jackal","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling."},{"word":"Jackal","type":"(n.)","description":"One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated."},{"word":"Jack-a-lent","type":"(n.)","description":"A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow."},{"word":"Jackanapes","type":"(n.)","description":"A monkey; an ape."},{"word":"Jackanapes","type":"(n.)","description":"A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow."},{"word":"Jackass","type":"(n.)","description":"The male ass; a donkey."},{"word":"Jackass","type":"(n.)","description":"A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead."},{"word":"Jackdaw","type":"(n.)","description":"See Daw, n."},{"word":"Jackeen","type":"(n.)","description":"A drunken, dissolute fellow."},{"word":"Jacket","type":"(n.)","description":"A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts."},{"word":"Jacket","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc."},{"word":"Jacket","type":"(n.)","description":"In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired."},{"word":"Jacket","type":"(n.)","description":"A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket."},{"word":"Jacket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket."},{"word":"Jacket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrash; to beat."},{"word":"Jacketed","type":"(a.)","description":"Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket."},{"word":"Jacketing","type":"(n.)","description":"The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing."},{"word":"Jack","type":"()","description":"A public executioner, or hangman."},{"word":"Jackknife","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife."},{"word":"Jackmen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jackman"},{"word":"Jackman","type":"(n.)","description":"One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n."},{"word":"Jackman","type":"(n.)","description":"A cream cheese."},{"word":"Jack-o'-lantern","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack."},{"word":"Jackpudding","type":"(n.)","description":"A merry-andrew; a buffoon."},{"word":"Jacksaw","type":"(n.)","description":"The merganser."},{"word":"Jackscrew","type":"(n.)","description":"A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5."},{"word":"Jackslave","type":"(n.)","description":"A low servant; a mean fellow."},{"word":"Jacksmith","type":"(n.)","description":"A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c."},{"word":"Jacksnipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe."},{"word":"Jacksnipe","type":"(n.)","description":"A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe."},{"word":"Jackstay","type":"(n.)","description":"A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened."},{"word":"Jackstone","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones."},{"word":"Jackstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck."},{"word":"Jackstraw","type":"(n.)","description":"An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence."},{"word":"Jackstraw","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin."},{"word":"Jackwood","type":"(n.)","description":"Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork."},{"word":"Jacob","type":"(n.)","description":"A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel."},{"word":"Jacobaean","type":"()","description":"A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower."},{"word":"Jacobean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Jacobian"},{"word":"Jacobian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England."},{"word":"Jacobin","type":"(n.)","description":"A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris."},{"word":"Jacobin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue."},{"word":"Jacobin","type":"(n.)","description":"A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short."},{"word":"Jacobin","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Jacobinic."},{"word":"Jacobine","type":"(n.)","description":"A Jacobin."},{"word":"Jacobinic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Jacobinical"},{"word":"Jacobinical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism."},{"word":"Jacobinism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government."},{"word":"Jacobinized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jacobinize"},{"word":"Jacobinizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jacobinize"},{"word":"Jacobinize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism."},{"word":"Jacobite","type":"(n.)","description":"A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary."},{"word":"Jacobite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century."},{"word":"Jacobite","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Jacobites."},{"word":"Jacobitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Jacobitical"},{"word":"Jacobitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism."},{"word":"Jacobitism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of the Jacobites."},{"word":"Jacobuses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jacobus"},{"word":"Jacobus","type":"(n.)","description":"An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I."},{"word":"Jaconet","type":"(n.)","description":"A thin cotton fabric, between and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc."},{"word":"Jacquard","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834."},{"word":"Jacqueminot","type":"(n.)","description":"A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France."},{"word":"Jacquerie","type":"(n.)","description":"The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants."},{"word":"Jactancy","type":"(n.)","description":"A boasting; a bragging."},{"word":"Jactation","type":"(n.)","description":"A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation."},{"word":"Jactitation","type":"(n.)","description":"Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim."},{"word":"Jactitation","type":"(n.)","description":"A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium."},{"word":"Jaculable","type":"(a.)","description":"Fit for throwing."},{"word":"Jaculated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jaculate"},{"word":"Jaculating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jaculate"},{"word":"Jaculate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw or cast, as a dart; to throw out; to emit."},{"word":"Jaculation","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of tossing, throwing, or hurling, as spears."},{"word":"Jaculator","type":"()","description":"One who throws or casts."},{"word":"Jaculator","type":"()","description":"The archer fish (Toxotes jaculator)."},{"word":"Jaculatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Darting or throwing out suddenly; also, suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory; as, jaculatory prayers."},{"word":"Jadding","type":"(n.)","description":"See Holing."},{"word":"Jade","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples."},{"word":"Jade","type":"(n.)","description":"A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag."},{"word":"Jade","type":"(n.)","description":"A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man."},{"word":"Jade","type":"(n.)","description":"A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt."},{"word":"Jaded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jade"},{"word":"Jading","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jade"},{"word":"Jade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat like a jade; to spurn."},{"word":"Jade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make ridiculous and contemptible."},{"word":"Jade","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass."},{"word":"Jade","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become weary; to lose spirit."},{"word":"Jadeite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jade, the stone."},{"word":"Jadery","type":"(n.)","description":"The tricks of a jade."},{"word":"Jadish","type":"(a.)","description":"Vicious; ill-tempered; resembling a jade; -- applied to a horse."},{"word":"Jadish","type":"(a.)","description":"Unchaste; -- applied to a woman."},{"word":"Jaeger","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jager."},{"word":"Jag","type":"(n.)","description":"A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation."},{"word":"Jag","type":"(n.)","description":"A part broken off; a fragment."},{"word":"Jag","type":"(n.)","description":"A cleft or division."},{"word":"Jagged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jag"},{"word":"Jagging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jag"},{"word":"Jag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch."},{"word":"Jag","type":"(n.)","description":"A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore."},{"word":"Jag","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc."},{"word":"Jaganatha","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jaganatha"},{"word":"Jaganatha","type":"(n.)","description":"See Juggernaut."},{"word":"Jager","type":"(n.)","description":"A sharpshooter. See Yager."},{"word":"Jager","type":"(n.)","description":"Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)."},{"word":"Jagg","type":"(v. t. & n.)","description":"See Jag."},{"word":"Jagged","type":"(a.)","description":"Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks."},{"word":"Jagger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who carries about a small load; a peddler. See 2d Jag."},{"word":"Jagger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, jags; specifically: (a) jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc. (b) A toothed chisel. See Jag, v. t."},{"word":"Jaggery","type":"(n.)","description":"Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis)."},{"word":"Jaggy","type":"(a.)","description":"Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth."},{"word":"Jaghir","type":"(n.)","description":"A village or district the government and revenues of which are assigned to some person, usually in consideration of some service to be rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops."},{"word":"Jaghirdar","type":"(n.)","description":"The holder of a jaghir."},{"word":"Jagua","type":"()","description":"A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs."},{"word":"Jaguar","type":"(n.)","description":"A large and powerful feline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. Called also the American tiger."},{"word":"Jaguarondi","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds."},{"word":"Jah","type":"(n.)","description":"Jehovah."},{"word":"Jail","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding."},{"word":"Jail","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To imprison."},{"word":"Jailer","type":"(n.)","description":"The keeper of a jail or prison."},{"word":"Jain","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jaina"},{"word":"Jaina","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism."},{"word":"Jainism","type":"(n.)","description":"The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each."},{"word":"Jairou","type":"(n.)","description":"The ahu or Asiatic gazelle."},{"word":"Jak","type":"(n.)","description":"see Ils Jack."},{"word":"Jakes","type":"(n.)","description":"A privy."},{"word":"Jakie","type":"(n.)","description":"A South American striped frog (Pseudis paradoxa), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also paradoxical frog."},{"word":"Jako","type":"(n.)","description":"An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot."},{"word":"Jakwood","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jackwood."},{"word":"Jalap","type":"(n.)","description":"The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa."},{"word":"Jalapic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to jalap."},{"word":"Jalapin","type":"(n.)","description":"A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony. It is a strong purgative."},{"word":"Jalons","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Long poles, topped with wisps of straw, used as landmarks and signals."},{"word":"Jalousie","type":"(n.)","description":"A Venetian or slatted inside window blind."},{"word":"Jalousied","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with jalousies; as, jalousied porches."},{"word":"Jam","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of frock for children."},{"word":"Jam","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jamb."},{"word":"Jammed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jam"},{"word":"Jamming","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jam"},{"word":"Jam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in."},{"word":"Jam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door."},{"word":"Jam","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback."},{"word":"Jam","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river."},{"word":"Jam","type":"(n.)","description":"An injury caused by jamming."},{"word":"Jam","type":"(n.)","description":"A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam."},{"word":"Jamacina","type":"(n.)","description":"Jamaicine."},{"word":"Jamadar","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Jemidar."},{"word":"Jamaica","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the West India is islands."},{"word":"Jamaican","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Jamaica."},{"word":"Jamaican","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Jamaica."},{"word":"Jamaicine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina."},{"word":"Jamb","type":"(n.)","description":"The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face."},{"word":"Jamb","type":"(n.)","description":"Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein."},{"word":"Jamb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Jam, v. t."},{"word":"Jambee","type":"(n.)","description":"A fashionable cane."},{"word":"Jambes","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jambeux"},{"word":"Jambeux","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees."},{"word":"Jambolana","type":"(n.)","description":"A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit."},{"word":"Jamdani","type":"(n.)","description":"A silk fabric, with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers."},{"word":"Jamesonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron."},{"word":"James's","type":"()","description":"Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder."},{"word":"Jamestown","type":"()","description":"The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura."},{"word":"Jan","type":"(n.)","description":"One of intermediate order between angels and men."},{"word":"Jane","type":"(n.)","description":"A coin of Genoa; any small coin."},{"word":"Jane","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of twilled cotton cloth. See Jean."},{"word":"Jane-of-apes","type":"(n.)","description":"A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes."},{"word":"Jangled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jangle"},{"word":"Jangling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jangle"},{"word":"Jangle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune."},{"word":"Jangle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip."},{"word":"Jangle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle."},{"word":"Jangle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with."},{"word":"Jangle","type":"(n.)","description":"Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble."},{"word":"Jangle","type":"(n.)","description":"Discordant sound; wrangling."},{"word":"Jangler","type":"(n.)","description":"An idle talker; a babbler; a prater."},{"word":"Jangler","type":"(n.)","description":"A wrangling, noisy fellow."},{"word":"Jangleress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female prater or babbler."},{"word":"Janglery","type":"(n.)","description":"Jangling."},{"word":"Jangling","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing discordant sounds."},{"word":"Jangling","type":"(n.)","description":"Idle babbling; vain disputation."},{"word":"Jangling","type":"(n.)","description":"Wrangling; altercation."},{"word":"Janissary","type":"(n.)","description":"See Janizary."},{"word":"Janitor","type":"(n.)","description":"A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc."},{"word":"Janitress","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Janitrix"},{"word":"Janitrix","type":"(n.)","description":"A female janitor."},{"word":"Janizar","type":"(n.)","description":"A janizary."},{"word":"Janizarian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the janizaries, or their government."},{"word":"Janizaries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Janizary"},{"word":"Janizary","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826."},{"word":"Janker","type":"(n.)","description":"A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs."},{"word":"Jansenism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace."},{"word":"Jansenist","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace."},{"word":"Jant","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Jaunt."},{"word":"Janthina","type":"(n.)","description":"See Ianthina."},{"word":"Jantily","type":"(adv.)","description":"See Jauntily."},{"word":"Jantiness","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jauntiness."},{"word":"Jantu","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land."},{"word":"Janty","type":"(a.)","description":"See Jaunty."},{"word":"January","type":"(n.)","description":"The first month of the year, containing thirty-one days."},{"word":"Janus","type":"(n.)","description":"A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace."},{"word":"Janus-faced","type":"(a.)","description":"Double-faced; deceitful."},{"word":"Janus-headed","type":"(a.)","description":"Double-headed."},{"word":"Japan","type":"(n.)","description":"Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning."},{"word":"Japan","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Japan, or to the lacquered work of that country; as, Japan ware."},{"word":"Japanned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Japan"},{"word":"Japanning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Japan"},{"word":"Japan","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cover with a coat of hard, brilliant varnish, in the manner of the Japanese; to lacquer."},{"word":"Japan","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a glossy black to, as shoes."},{"word":"Japanese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants."},{"word":"Japanese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan."},{"word":"Japanese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"The language of the people of Japan."},{"word":"Japanned","type":"(a.)","description":"Treated, or coated, with varnish in the Japanese manner."},{"word":"Japanner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art."},{"word":"Japanner","type":"(n.)","description":"A bootblack."},{"word":"Japanning","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner."},{"word":"Japannish","type":"(a.)","description":"After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles."},{"word":"Jape","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jest; to play tricks; to jeer."},{"word":"Jape","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mock; to trick."},{"word":"Japer","type":"(n.)","description":"A jester; a buffoon."},{"word":"Japery","type":"(n.)","description":"Jesting; buffoonery."},{"word":"Japhethite","type":"(n.)","description":"A Japhetite."},{"word":"Japhetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, Japheth, one of the sons of Noah; as, Japhetic nations, the nations of Europe and Northern Asia; Japhetic languages."},{"word":"Japhetite","type":"(n.)","description":"A descendant of Japheth."},{"word":"Japonica","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Camellia (Camellia Japonica), a native of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers. Many other genera have species of the same name."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(n.)","description":"A turn. [Only in phrase.]"},{"word":"Jar","type":"(n.)","description":"A deep, broad-mouthed vessel of earthenware or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes; as, a jar of honey; a rose jar."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(n.)","description":"The measure of what is contained in a jar; as, a jar of oil; a jar of preserves."},{"word":"Jarred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jar"},{"word":"jarring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jar"},{"word":"Jar","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To tick; to beat; to mark or tell off."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(n.)","description":"A rattling, tremulous vibration or shock; a shake; a harsh sound; a discord; as, the jar of a train; the jar of harsh sounds."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(n.)","description":"Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate; slight disagreement."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(n.)","description":"A regular vibration, as of a pendulum."},{"word":"Jar","type":"(n.)","description":"In deep well boring, a device resembling two long chain links, for connecting a percussion drill to the rod or rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed."},{"word":"Jararaca","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous serpent of Brazil (Bothrops jararaca), about eighteen inches long, and of a dusky, brownish color, variegated with red and black spots."},{"word":"Jarble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wet; to bemire."},{"word":"Jardiniere","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornamental stand or receptacle for plants, flowers, etc., used as a piece of decorative furniture in room."},{"word":"Jards","type":"(n.)","description":"A callous tumor on the leg of a horse, below the hock."},{"word":"Jargle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To emit a harsh or discordant sound."},{"word":"Jargon","type":"(n.)","description":"Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang."},{"word":"Jargoned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jargon"},{"word":"Jargoning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jargon"},{"word":"Jargon","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner."},{"word":"Jargon","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of zircon. See Zircon."},{"word":"Jargonelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pear which ripens early."},{"word":"Jargonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon."},{"word":"Jargonist","type":"(n.)","description":"One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang."},{"word":"Jarl","type":"(n.)","description":"A chief; an earl; in English history, one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions."},{"word":"Jarnut","type":"(n.)","description":"An earthnut."},{"word":"Jarosite","type":"(n.)","description":"An ocher-yellow mineral occurring on minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash."},{"word":"Jar-owl","type":"(n.)","description":"The goatsucker."},{"word":"Jarrah","type":"(n.)","description":"The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus."},{"word":"Jarring","type":"(a.)","description":"Shaking; disturbing; discordant."},{"word":"Jarring","type":"(n.)","description":"A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines."},{"word":"Jarring","type":"(n.)","description":"Discord; a clashing of interests."},{"word":"Jarringly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jarring or discordant manner."},{"word":"Jarvey","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jarvy"},{"word":"Jarvy","type":"(n.)","description":"The driver of a hackney coach."},{"word":"Jarvy","type":"(n.)","description":"A hackney coach."},{"word":"Jasey","type":"(n.)","description":"A wig; -- so called, perhaps, from being made of, or resembling, Jersey yarn."},{"word":"Jashawk","type":"(n.)","description":"A young hawk."},{"word":"Jasmine","type":"(n.)","description":"A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The J. officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and, with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea."},{"word":"Jasp","type":"(n.)","description":"Jasper."},{"word":"Jaspachate","type":"(n.)","description":"Agate jasper."},{"word":"Jasper","type":"(n.)","description":"An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped / banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper."},{"word":"Jasperated","type":"(a.)","description":"mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate."},{"word":"Jasperize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper."},{"word":"Jaspery","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper."},{"word":"Jaspidean","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Jaspideous"},{"word":"Jaspideous","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of jasper, or containing jasper; jaspery; jasperlike."},{"word":"Jaspilite","type":"(n.)","description":"A compact siliceous rock resembling jasper."},{"word":"Jaspoid","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling jasper."},{"word":"Jasponyx","type":"(n.)","description":"An onyx, part or all of whose layers consist of jasper."},{"word":"Jatrophic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to physic nuts, the seeds of plants of the genus Jatropha."},{"word":"Jaunce","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ride hard; to jounce."},{"word":"Jaundice","type":"(n.)","description":"A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the faeces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood."},{"word":"Jaundice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice."},{"word":"Jaundiced","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with jaundice."},{"word":"Jaundiced","type":"(a.)","description":"Prejudiced; envious; as, a jaundiced judgment."},{"word":"Jaunted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jaunt"},{"word":"Jaunting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jaunt"},{"word":"Jaunt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion."},{"word":"Jaunt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To ride on a jaunting car."},{"word":"Jaunt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To jolt; to jounce."},{"word":"Jaunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A wearisome journey."},{"word":"Jaunt","type":"(n.)","description":"A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey."},{"word":"Jauntily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jaunty manner."},{"word":"Jauntiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being jaunty."},{"word":"Jaunty","type":"(superl.)","description":"Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner."},{"word":"Java","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands."},{"word":"Java","type":"(n.)","description":"Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java."},{"word":"Javanese","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java."},{"word":"Javanese","type":"(n. sing. & pl.)","description":"A native or natives of Java."},{"word":"Javel","type":"(n.)","description":"A vagabond."},{"word":"Javelin","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game."},{"word":"Javelin","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pierce with a javelin."},{"word":"Javelinier","type":"(n.)","description":"A soldier armed with a javelin."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"In the plural, the mouth."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A notch or opening."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(n.)","description":"Impudent or abusive talk."},{"word":"Jawed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jaw"},{"word":"Jawing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jaw"},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To scold; to clamor."},{"word":"Jaw","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To assail or abuse by scolding."},{"word":"Jawbone","type":"(n.)","description":"The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible."},{"word":"Jawed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having jaws; -- chiefly in composition; as, lantern-jawed."},{"word":"Law-fall","type":"(n.)","description":"Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits."},{"word":"Jaw-fallen","type":"(a.)","description":"Dejected; chopfallen."},{"word":"Jawfoot","type":"(n.)","description":"See Maxilliped."},{"word":"Jawing","type":"(n.)","description":"Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk."},{"word":"Jawn","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Yawn."},{"word":"Jawy","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to the jaws."},{"word":"Jay","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genera. They are allied to the crows, but are smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually have a crest."},{"word":"Jayet","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jet."},{"word":"Jayhawker","type":"(n.)","description":"A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla."},{"word":"Jazel","type":"(n.)","description":"A gem of an azure color."},{"word":"Jazerant","type":"(n.)","description":"A coat of defense made of small plates of metal sewed upon linen or the like; also, this kind of armor taken generally; as, a coat of jazerant."},{"word":"Jealous","type":"(a.)","description":"Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful."},{"word":"Jealous","type":"(a.)","description":"Apprehensive; anxious; suspiciously watchful."},{"word":"Jealous","type":"(a.)","description":"Exacting exclusive devotion; intolerant of rivalry."},{"word":"Jealous","type":"(a.)","description":"Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover."},{"word":"Jealoushood","type":"(n.)","description":"Jealousy."},{"word":"Jealously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jealous manner."},{"word":"Jealousness","type":"(n.)","description":"State or quality of being jealous."},{"word":"Jealousies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jealousy"},{"word":"Jealousy","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover."},{"word":"Jeames","type":"(n.)","description":"A footman; a flunky."},{"word":"Jean","type":"(n.)","description":"A twilled cotton cloth."},{"word":"Jears","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See 1st Jeer (b)."},{"word":"Jeat","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jet."},{"word":"Jedding","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone mason's tool, having a flat face and a pointed part."},{"word":"Jee","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"See Gee."},{"word":"Jeel","type":"(n.)","description":"A morass; a shallow lake."},{"word":"Jeer","type":"(n.)","description":"A gear; a tackle."},{"word":"Jeer","type":"(n.)","description":"An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship."},{"word":"Jeered","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jeer"},{"word":"Jeering","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jeer"},{"word":"Jeer","type":"(v.)","description":"To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker."},{"word":"Jeer","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at."},{"word":"Jeer","type":"(n.)","description":"A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery."},{"word":"Jeerer","type":"(n.)","description":"A scoffer; a railer; a mocker."},{"word":"Jeering","type":"(a.)","description":"Mocking; scoffing."},{"word":"Jeering","type":"(n.)","description":"A mocking utterance."},{"word":"Jeers","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See 1st Jeer (b)."},{"word":"Jeffersonia","type":"(n.)","description":"An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf."},{"word":"Jeffersonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines."},{"word":"Jeffersonite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc."},{"word":"Jeg","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jig, 6."},{"word":"Jehovah","type":"(n.)","description":"A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the \"ineffable name\" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews."},{"word":"Jehovist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist."},{"word":"Jehovist","type":"(n.)","description":"The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist."},{"word":"Jehovistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or containing, Jehovah, as a name of God; -- said of certain parts of the Old Testament, especially of the Pentateuch, in which Jehovah appears as the name of the Deity. See Elohistic."},{"word":"Jehu","type":"(n.)","description":"A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously."},{"word":"Jejunal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the jejunum."},{"word":"Jejune","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking matter; empty; void of substance."},{"word":"Jejune","type":"(a.)","description":"Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative."},{"word":"Jejunity","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being jejune; jejuneness."},{"word":"Jejunum","type":"(n.)","description":"The middle division of the small intestine, between the duodenum and ileum; -- so called because usually found empty after death."},{"word":"Jelerang","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, handsome squirrel (Sciurus Javensis), native of Java and Southern Asia; -- called also Java squirrel."},{"word":"Jell","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jelly."},{"word":"Jellied","type":"(a.)","description":"Brought to the state or consistence of jelly."},{"word":"Jellies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jelly"},{"word":"Jelly","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like."},{"word":"Jelly","type":"(n.)","description":"The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly."},{"word":"Jellied","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jelly"},{"word":"Jellying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jelly"},{"word":"Jelly","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly."},{"word":"Jellyfish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa."},{"word":"Jemidar","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief or leader of a hand or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army."},{"word":"Jemlah","type":"()","description":"The jharal."},{"word":"Jemminess","type":"(n.)","description":"Spruceness."},{"word":"Jemmy","type":"(a.)","description":"Spruce."},{"word":"Jemmy","type":"(n.)","description":"A short crowbar. See Jimmy."},{"word":"Jemmy","type":"(n.)","description":"A baked sheep's head."},{"word":"Jeniquen","type":"(n.)","description":"A Mexican name for the Sisal hemp (Agave rigida, var. Sisalana); also, its fiber."},{"word":"Jenite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Yenite."},{"word":"Jenkins","type":"(n.)","description":"name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper."},{"word":"Jennet","type":"(n.)","description":"A small Spanish horse; a genet."},{"word":"Jenneting","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of early apple. See Juneating."},{"word":"Jennies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jenny"},{"word":"Jenny","type":"(n.)","description":"A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane."},{"word":"Jenny","type":"(n.)","description":"A familiar name of the European wren."},{"word":"Jenny","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories."},{"word":"Jentling","type":"(n.)","description":"A fish of the genus Leuciscus; the blue chub of the Danube."},{"word":"Jeofail","type":"(n.)","description":"An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight."},{"word":"Jeoparded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jeopard"},{"word":"Jeoparding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jeopard"},{"word":"Jeopard","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put in jeopardy; to expose to loss or injury; to imperil; to hazard."},{"word":"Jeoparder","type":"(n.)","description":"One who puts in jeopardy."},{"word":"Jeopardized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jeopardize"},{"word":"Jeopardizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jeopardize"},{"word":"Jeopardize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard."},{"word":"Jeopardous","type":"(a.)","description":"Perilous; hazardous."},{"word":"Jeopardy","type":"(n.)","description":"Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger."},{"word":"Jeopardy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To jeopardize."},{"word":"Jerboa","type":"(n.)","description":"Any small jumping rodent of the genus Dipus, esp. D. Aegyptius, which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail."},{"word":"Jereed","type":"(n.)","description":"A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights."},{"word":"Jeremiad","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jeremiade"},{"word":"Jeremiade","type":"(n.)","description":"A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically."},{"word":"Jerfalcon","type":"(n.)","description":"The gyrfalcon."},{"word":"Jerguer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jerquer."},{"word":"Jerid","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Jereed."},{"word":"Jerk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui."},{"word":"Jerked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jerk"},{"word":"Jerking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jerk"},{"word":"Jerk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To beat; to strike."},{"word":"Jerk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off."},{"word":"Jerk","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone."},{"word":"Jerk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts."},{"word":"Jerk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To flout with contempt."},{"word":"Jerk","type":"(n.)","description":"A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion."},{"word":"Jerk","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden start or spring."},{"word":"Jerker","type":"(n.)","description":"A beater."},{"word":"Jerker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who jerks or moves with a jerk."},{"word":"Jerker","type":"(n.)","description":"A North American river chub (Hybopsis biguttatus)."},{"word":"Jerkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat."},{"word":"Jerkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A male gyrfalcon."},{"word":"Jerking","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk."},{"word":"Jerkinhead","type":"(n.)","description":"The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable."},{"word":"Jerky","type":"(a.)","description":"Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style."},{"word":"Jermoonal","type":"(n.)","description":"The Himalayan now partridge."},{"word":"Jeronymite","type":"(n.)","description":"One belonging of the mediaeval religious orders called Hermits of St. Jerome."},{"word":"Jeropigia","type":"(n.)","description":"See Geropigia."},{"word":"Jerquer","type":"(n.)","description":"A customhouse officer who searches ships for unentered goods."},{"word":"Jerquing","type":"(n.)","description":"The searching of a ship for unentered goods."},{"word":"Jerquing","type":"(n.)","description":"The searching of a ship for unentered goods."},{"word":"Jerry-built","type":"(a.)","description":"Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses."},{"word":"Jerseys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jersey"},{"word":"Jersey","type":"(n.)","description":"The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool."},{"word":"Jersey","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet)."},{"word":"Jersey","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk."},{"word":"Jerusalem","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus Christ."},{"word":"Jervine","type":"(n.)","description":"A poisonous alkaloid resembling veratrine, and found with it in white hellebore (Veratrum album); -- called also jervina."},{"word":"Jesses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jess"},{"word":"Jess","type":"(n.)","description":"A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon."},{"word":"Jessamine","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Jasmine."},{"word":"Jessant","type":"(a.)","description":"Springing up or emerging; -- said of a plant or animal."},{"word":"Jesse","type":"(n.)","description":"Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art"},{"word":"Jesse","type":"(n.)","description":"A genealogical tree represented in stained glass."},{"word":"Jesse","type":"(n.)","description":"A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse."},{"word":"Jessed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having jesses on, as a hawk."},{"word":"Jest","type":"(n.)","description":"A deed; an action; a gest."},{"word":"Jest","type":"(n.)","description":"A mask; a pageant; an interlude."},{"word":"Jest","type":"(n.)","description":"Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i."},{"word":"Jest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock."},{"word":"Jested","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jest"},{"word":"Jesting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jest"},{"word":"Jest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude."},{"word":"Jest","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything."},{"word":"Jester","type":"(n.)","description":"A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool."},{"word":"Jester","type":"(n.)","description":"A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk."},{"word":"Jestful","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to jesting; full of jokes."},{"word":"Jesting","type":"(a.)","description":"Sportive; not serious; fit for jests."},{"word":"Jesting","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry."},{"word":"Jestingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jesting manner."},{"word":"Jesuit","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus."},{"word":"Jesuit","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer."},{"word":"Jesuited","type":"(a.)","description":"Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits."},{"word":"Jesuitess","type":"(n.)","description":"One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633."},{"word":"Jesuitic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Jesuitical"},{"word":"Jesuitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods."},{"word":"Jesuitical","type":"(a.)","description":"Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word."},{"word":"Jesuitically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jesuitical manner."},{"word":"Jesuitism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles and practices of the Jesuits."},{"word":"Jesuitism","type":"(n.)","description":"Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word."},{"word":"Jesuitocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country."},{"word":"Jesuitry","type":"(n.)","description":"Jesuitism; subtle argument."},{"word":"Jesus","type":"(n.)","description":"The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation."},{"word":"Jet","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as 2d Get."},{"word":"Jet","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber."},{"word":"Jet","type":"(n.)","description":"A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet."},{"word":"Jet","type":"(n.)","description":"Drift; scope; range, as of an argument."},{"word":"Jet","type":"(n.)","description":"The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold."},{"word":"Jetted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jet"},{"word":"Jetting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jet"},{"word":"Jet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude."},{"word":"Jet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken."},{"word":"Jet","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out."},{"word":"Jet","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To spout; to emit in a stream or jet."},{"word":"Jet-black","type":"(a.)","description":"Black as jet; deep black."},{"word":"Jets","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jet d'eau"},{"word":"Jet","type":"()","description":"A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament."},{"word":"Jeterus","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellowness of the parts of plants which are normally green; yellows."},{"word":"Jetsam","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jetson"},{"word":"Jetson","type":"(n.)","description":"Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy."},{"word":"Jetson","type":"(n.)","description":"Jettison. See Jettison, 1."},{"word":"Jetteau","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jet d'eau."},{"word":"Jettee","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jetty, n."},{"word":"Jetter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop."},{"word":"Jettiness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being jetty; blackness."},{"word":"Jettison","type":"(n.)","description":"The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck."},{"word":"Jettison","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jetsam, 1."},{"word":"Jetton","type":"(n.)","description":"A metal counter used in playing cards."},{"word":"Jetty","type":"(a.)","description":"Made of jet, or like jet in color."},{"word":"Jetties","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jetty"},{"word":"Jetty","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below."},{"word":"Jetty","type":"(n.)","description":"A wharf or pier extending from the shore."},{"word":"Jetty","type":"(n.)","description":"A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River."},{"word":"Jetty","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To jut out; to project."},{"word":"Jeu","type":"()","description":"A witticism."},{"word":"Jew","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite."},{"word":"Jewbush","type":"(n.)","description":"A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus (P. tithymaloides), found in the West Indies, and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities."},{"word":"Jewel","type":"(n.)","description":"An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design."},{"word":"Jewel","type":"(n.)","description":"A precious stone; a gem."},{"word":"Jewel","type":"(n.)","description":"An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing."},{"word":"Jewel","type":"(n.)","description":"A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby."},{"word":"Jeweled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jewel"},{"word":"Jewelled","type":"()","description":"of Jewel"},{"word":"Jeweling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jewel"},{"word":"Jewelling","type":"()","description":"of Jewel"},{"word":"Jewel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels."},{"word":"Jeweler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments."},{"word":"Jewellery","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jewelry."},{"word":"Jewelry","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or trade of a jeweler."},{"word":"Jewelry","type":"(n.)","description":"Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry."},{"word":"Jewelweed","type":"(n.)","description":"See Impatiens."},{"word":"Jewess","type":"(fem.)","description":"A Hebrew woman."},{"word":"Jewfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw."},{"word":"Jewfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A similar gigantic fish (Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish."},{"word":"Jewfish","type":"(n.)","description":"The black grouper of Florida and Texas."},{"word":"Jewfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A large herringlike fish; the tarpum."},{"word":"Jewise","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Juise."},{"word":"Jewish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish."},{"word":"Jewry","type":"(n.)","description":"Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter."},{"word":"Jew's-ear","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of fungus (Hirneola Auricula-Judae, / Auricula), bearing some resemblance to the human ear."},{"word":"Jew's-harp","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument of music, which, when placed between the teeth, gives, by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger, a sound which is modulated by the breath; -- called also Jew's-trump."},{"word":"Jew's-harp","type":"(n.)","description":"The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor."},{"word":"Jew's-stone","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jewstone"},{"word":"Jewstone","type":"(n.)","description":"A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin."},{"word":"Jezebel","type":"(n.)","description":"A bold, vicious woman; a termagant."},{"word":"Jharal","type":"(n.)","description":"A wild goat (Capra Jemlaica) which inhabits the loftiest mountains of India. It has long, coarse hair, forming a thick mane on its head and neck."},{"word":"Jib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc."},{"word":"Jib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended."},{"word":"Jib","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk."},{"word":"Jibber","type":"(n.)","description":"A horse that jibs."},{"word":"Jibed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jibe"},{"word":"Jibing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jibe"},{"word":"Jibe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe."},{"word":"Jibe","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe."},{"word":"Jibe","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To agree; to harmonize."},{"word":"Jiffy","type":"(n.)","description":"A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, brisk musical movement."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of sport; a trick; a prank."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(n.)","description":"A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(n.)","description":"A small machine or handy tool"},{"word":"Jig","type":"(n.)","description":"A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(n.)","description":"An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore."},{"word":"Jigged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jig"},{"word":"Jigging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jig"},{"word":"Jig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sing to the tune of a jig."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(n.)","description":"To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine."},{"word":"Jig","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To dance a jig; to skip about."},{"word":"Jigger","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe."},{"word":"Jigger","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging."},{"word":"Jigger","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel."},{"word":"Jigger","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel."},{"word":"Jigger","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle."},{"word":"Jigger","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl."},{"word":"Jigger","type":"(n. & v.)","description":"A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b)."},{"word":"Jigger","type":"(n.)","description":"A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i)."},{"word":"Jigging","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water."},{"word":"Jiggish","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling, or suitable for, a jig, or lively movement."},{"word":"Jiggish","type":"(a.)","description":"Playful; frisky."},{"word":"Jiggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down."},{"word":"Jigjog","type":"(n.)","description":"A jolting motion; a jogging pace."},{"word":"Jigjog","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a jolting motion."},{"word":"Jill","type":"(n.)","description":"A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill."},{"word":"Jill-flirt","type":"(n.)","description":"A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See Gill-flirt."},{"word":"Jilt","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt."},{"word":"Jilted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jilt"},{"word":"Jilting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jilt"},{"word":"Jilt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love."},{"word":"Jilt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously."},{"word":"Jimcrack","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gimcrack."},{"word":"Jim-crow","type":"(n.)","description":"A machine for bending or straightening rails."},{"word":"Jim-crow","type":"(n.)","description":"A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways."},{"word":"Jimmies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jimmy"},{"word":"Jimmy","type":"(n.)","description":"A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors."},{"word":"Jimp","type":"(a.)","description":"Neat; handsome; elegant. See Gimp."},{"word":"Jimson","type":"()","description":"See Jamestown weed."},{"word":"Jin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jinn"},{"word":"Jinn","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jinnee."},{"word":"Jingal","type":"(n.)","description":"A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel."},{"word":"Jingle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle."},{"word":"Jingle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect."},{"word":"Jingled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jingle"},{"word":"Jingling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jingle"},{"word":"Jingle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle."},{"word":"Jingle","type":"(n.)","description":"A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal."},{"word":"Jingle","type":"(n.)","description":"That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle."},{"word":"Jingle","type":"(n.)","description":"A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself."},{"word":"Jingler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, jingles."},{"word":"Jingling","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the sound itself; a chink."},{"word":"Jinglingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"So as to jingle."},{"word":"Jingoes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jingo"},{"word":"Jingo","type":"(n.)","description":"A word used as a jocular oath."},{"word":"Jingo","type":"(n.)","description":"A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs."},{"word":"Jingoism","type":"(n.)","description":"The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2."},{"word":"Jinn","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jinnee"},{"word":"Jinnee","type":"(n.)","description":"A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms."},{"word":"Jinny","type":"()","description":"An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones."},{"word":"Jinrikisha","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, two-wheeled, hooded vehicle drawn by one more men."},{"word":"Jippo","type":"(n.)","description":"A waistcoat or kind of stays for women."},{"word":"Joes","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jo"},{"word":"Jo","type":"(n.)","description":"A sweetheart; a darling."},{"word":"Job","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden thrust or stab; a jab."},{"word":"Job","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars."},{"word":"Job","type":"(n.)","description":"A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business."},{"word":"Job","type":"(n.)","description":"Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately."},{"word":"Job","type":"(n.)","description":"A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job."},{"word":"Jobbed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Job"},{"word":"Jobbing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Job"},{"word":"Job","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike or stab with a pointed instrument."},{"word":"Job","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thrust in, as a pointed instrument."},{"word":"Job","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract."},{"word":"Job","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods."},{"word":"Job","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage."},{"word":"Job","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work."},{"word":"Job","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage."},{"word":"Job","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks."},{"word":"Job","type":"(n.)","description":"The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man."},{"word":"Jobation","type":"(n.)","description":"A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof."},{"word":"Jobber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who works by the job."},{"word":"Jobber","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber."},{"word":"Jobber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers."},{"word":"Jobber","type":"(n.)","description":"One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue."},{"word":"Jobbernowl","type":"(n.)","description":"A blockhead."},{"word":"Jobbery","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of jobbing."},{"word":"Jobbery","type":"(n.)","description":"Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery."},{"word":"Jobbing","type":"(a.)","description":"Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter."},{"word":"Jobbing","type":"(a.)","description":"Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician."},{"word":"Jocantry","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or practice of jesting."},{"word":"Jockeys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jockey"},{"word":"Jockey","type":"(n.)","description":"A professional rider of horses in races."},{"word":"Jockey","type":"(n.)","description":"A dealer in horses; a horse trader."},{"word":"Jockey","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade."},{"word":"Jockeyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jockey"},{"word":"Jockeying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jockey"},{"word":"Jockey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"\" To jostle by riding against one.\""},{"word":"Jockey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer."},{"word":"Jockey","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play or act the jockey; to cheat."},{"word":"Jockeying","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery."},{"word":"Jockeyism","type":"(n.)","description":"The practice of jockeys."},{"word":"Jockeyship","type":"(n.)","description":"The art, character, or position, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey."},{"word":"Jocose","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous."},{"word":"Jocoserious","type":"(a.)","description":"Mingling mirth and seriousness."},{"word":"Jocosity","type":"(n.)","description":"A jocose act or saying; jocoseness."},{"word":"Jocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person."},{"word":"Jocular","type":"(a.)","description":"Sportive; merry."},{"word":"Jocularity","type":"(n.)","description":"Jesting; merriment."},{"word":"Jocularly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In jest; for sport or mirth; jocosely."},{"word":"Joculary","type":"(a.)","description":"Jocular; jocose; sportive."},{"word":"Joculator","type":"(n.)","description":"A jester; a joker."},{"word":"Joculatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Droll; sportive."},{"word":"Jocund","type":"()","description":"Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive."},{"word":"Jocund","type":"(adv.)","description":"Merrily; cheerfully."},{"word":"Jocundity","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness."},{"word":"Joe","type":"(n.)","description":"See Johannes."},{"word":"Joe","type":"()","description":"A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke."},{"word":"Joe-Pye","type":"()","description":"A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled leaves."},{"word":"Jogged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jog"},{"word":"Jogging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jog"},{"word":"Jog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn."},{"word":"Jog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of; as, to jog the memory."},{"word":"Jog","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i."},{"word":"Jog","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with over."},{"word":"Jog","type":"(n.)","description":"A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt."},{"word":"Jog","type":"(n.)","description":"A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane."},{"word":"Jogger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who jogs."},{"word":"Jogging","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of giving a jog or jogs; traveling at a jog."},{"word":"Joggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Joggle"},{"word":"Joggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Joggle"},{"word":"Joggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog."},{"word":"Joggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel."},{"word":"Joggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shake or totter; to slip out of place."},{"word":"Joggle","type":"(n.)","description":"A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like."},{"word":"Johannean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to John, esp. to the Apostle John or his writings."},{"word":"Johannes","type":"(n.)","description":"A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears; -- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe."},{"word":"Johannisberger","type":"(n.)","description":"A fine white wine produced on the estate of Schloss (or Castle) Johannisberg, on the Rhine."},{"word":"John","type":"(n.)","description":"A proper name of a man."},{"word":"Johnadreams","type":"(n.)","description":"A dreamy, idle fellow."},{"word":"Johnnies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Johnny"},{"word":"Johnny","type":"(n.)","description":"A familiar diminutive of John."},{"word":"Johnny","type":"(n.)","description":"A sculpin."},{"word":"Johnnycake","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked."},{"word":"Johnsonese","type":"(n.)","description":"The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words."},{"word":"Johnson","type":"()","description":"A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet."},{"word":"Johnsonian","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated."},{"word":"Johnsonianism","type":"(n.)","description":"A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson."},{"word":"John's-wort","type":"(n.)","description":"See St. John's-wort."},{"word":"Joined","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Join"},{"word":"Joining","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Join"},{"word":"Join","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append."},{"word":"Join","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church."},{"word":"Join","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite in marriage."},{"word":"Join","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enjoin upon; to command."},{"word":"Join","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue."},{"word":"Join","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join."},{"word":"Join","type":"(n.)","description":"The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines."},{"word":"Joinant","type":"(a.)","description":"Adjoining."},{"word":"Joinder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The act of joining; a putting together; conjunction."},{"word":"Joinder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A joining of parties as plaintiffs or defendants in a suit."},{"word":"Joinder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Acceptance of an issue tendered in law or fact."},{"word":"Joinder","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A joining of causes of action or defense in civil suits or criminal prosecutions."},{"word":"Joiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, joins."},{"word":"Joiner","type":"(n.)","description":"One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings."},{"word":"Joiner","type":"(n.)","description":"A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc."},{"word":"Joinery","type":"(n.)","description":"The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner."},{"word":"Joinhand","type":"(n.)","description":"Writing in which letters are joined in words; -- distinguished from writing in single letters."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(n.)","description":"The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(n.)","description":"A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(n.)","description":"The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(n.)","description":"The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(n.)","description":"The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(a.)","description":"Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(a.)","description":"Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(a.)","description":"United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(a.)","description":"Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond."},{"word":"Jointed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Joint"},{"word":"Jointing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Joint"},{"word":"Joint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join; to connect; to unite; to combine."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat."},{"word":"Joint","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly."},{"word":"Jointed","type":"(a.)","description":"Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure."},{"word":"Jointer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, joints."},{"word":"Jointer","type":"(n.)","description":"A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joined"},{"word":"Jointer","type":"(n.)","description":"The longest plane used by a joiner."},{"word":"Jointer","type":"(n.)","description":"A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves."},{"word":"Jointer","type":"(n.)","description":"A bent piece of iron inserted to strengthen the joints of a wall."},{"word":"Jointer","type":"(n.)","description":"A tool for pointing the joints in brickwork."},{"word":"Joint-fir","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California."},{"word":"Jointing","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced."},{"word":"Jointless","type":"(a.)","description":"Without a joint; rigid; stiff."},{"word":"Jointly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately."},{"word":"Jointress","type":"(n.)","description":"A woman who has a jointure."},{"word":"Jointure","type":"(n.)","description":"A joining; a joint."},{"word":"Jointure","type":"(n.)","description":"An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower."},{"word":"Jointured","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jointure"},{"word":"Jointuring","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jointure"},{"word":"Jointure","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To settle a jointure upon."},{"word":"Jointureless","type":"(a.)","description":"Having no jointure."},{"word":"Jointuress","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jointress."},{"word":"Jointweed","type":"(n.)","description":"A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers."},{"word":"Jointworm","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop."},{"word":"Joist","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a."},{"word":"Joisted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Joist"},{"word":"Joisting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Joist"},{"word":"Joist","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fit or furnish with joists."},{"word":"Joke","type":"(n.)","description":"Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes."},{"word":"Joke","type":"(n.)","description":"Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport."},{"word":"Joked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Joke"},{"word":"Joking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Joke"},{"word":"Joke","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade."},{"word":"Joke","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest."},{"word":"Joker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who makes jokes or jests."},{"word":"Joker","type":"(n.)","description":"See Rest bower, under 2d Bower."},{"word":"Jokingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a joking way; sportively."},{"word":"Jole","type":"(v. t. & n.)","description":"Alt. of Joll"},{"word":"Joll","type":"(v. t. & n.)","description":"Same as Jowl."},{"word":"Jolif","type":"(a.)","description":"Joyful; merry; pleasant; jolly."},{"word":"Jollification","type":"(n.)","description":"A merrymaking; noisy festivity."},{"word":"Jollily","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jolly manner."},{"word":"Jolloment","type":"(n.)","description":"Jollity."},{"word":"Jolliness","type":"(n.)","description":"Jollity; noisy mirth."},{"word":"Jollity","type":"(n.)","description":"Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment."},{"word":"Jolly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful."},{"word":"Jolly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety."},{"word":"Jolly","type":"(superl.)","description":"Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant."},{"word":"Jolly-boat","type":"(n.)","description":"A boat of medium size belonging to a ship."},{"word":"Jollyhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Jollity."},{"word":"Jolted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jolt"},{"word":"Jolt","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts."},{"word":"Jolt","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers."},{"word":"Jolt","type":"(n.)","description":"A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground."},{"word":"Jolter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, jolts."},{"word":"Jolterhead","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jolthead"},{"word":"Jolthead","type":"(n.)","description":"A dunce; a blockhead."},{"word":"Joltingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jolting manner."},{"word":"Jolty","type":"(a.)","description":"That jolts; as, a jolty coach."},{"word":"Jonah","type":"(n.)","description":"The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious."},{"word":"Jonesian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Jones."},{"word":"Jongleur","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jongler"},{"word":"Jongler","type":"(n.)","description":"In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour."},{"word":"Jongler","type":"(n.)","description":"A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler."},{"word":"Jonquil","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jonquille"},{"word":"Jonquille","type":"(n.)","description":"A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Jonquilla), allied to the daffodil. It has long, rushlike leaves, and yellow or white fragrant flowers. The root has emetic properties. It is sometimes called the rush-leaved daffodil. See Illust. of Corona."},{"word":"Joram","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jorum."},{"word":"Jordan","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Jorden"},{"word":"Jorden","type":"(n.)","description":"A pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists."},{"word":"Jorden","type":"(n.)","description":"A chamber pot."},{"word":"Jorum","type":"(n.)","description":"A large drinking vessel; also, its contents."},{"word":"Joseph","type":"(n.)","description":"An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front."},{"word":"Joseph's","type":"()","description":"A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify."},{"word":"Joso","type":"(n.)","description":"A small gudgeon."},{"word":"Joss","type":"(n.)","description":"A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol."},{"word":"Jossa","type":"(interj.)","description":"A command to a horse, probably meaning \"stand still.\""},{"word":"Jostled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jostle"},{"word":"Jostling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jostle"},{"word":"Jostle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against."},{"word":"Jostle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To push; to crowd; to hustle."},{"word":"Jostle","type":"(n.)","description":"A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference."},{"word":"Jostlement","type":"(n.)","description":"Crowding; hustling."},{"word":"Jot","type":"(n.)","description":"An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n."},{"word":"Jotted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jot"},{"word":"Jotting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jot"},{"word":"Jot","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down."},{"word":"Jotter","type":"(n.)","description":"One who jots down memoranda."},{"word":"Jotter","type":"(n.)","description":"A memorandum book."},{"word":"Jougs","type":"(n.)","description":"An iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke."},{"word":"Jouissance","type":"(n.)","description":"Jollity; merriment."},{"word":"Jouk","type":"(v. i.)","description":"See Juke."},{"word":"Joul","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Jowl."},{"word":"Joule","type":"(n.)","description":"A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds."},{"word":"Jounced","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jounce"},{"word":"Jouncing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jounce"},{"word":"Jounce","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions."},{"word":"Jounce","type":"(n.)","description":"A jolt; a shake; a hard trot."},{"word":"Journal","type":"(a.)","description":"Daily; diurnal."},{"word":"Journal","type":"(a.)","description":"A diary; an account of daily transactions and events."},{"word":"Journal","type":"(a.)","description":"A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions."},{"word":"Journal","type":"(a.)","description":"A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc."},{"word":"Journal","type":"(a.)","description":"The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk."},{"word":"Journal","type":"(a.)","description":"A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc."},{"word":"Journal","type":"(a.)","description":"That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey."},{"word":"Journal","type":"(a.)","description":"That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box."},{"word":"Journalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The keeping of a journal or diary."},{"word":"Journalism","type":"(n.)","description":"The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals or newspapers; as, political journalism."},{"word":"Journalist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who keeps a journal or diary."},{"word":"Journalist","type":"(n.)","description":"The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical."},{"word":"Journalistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise."},{"word":"Journalized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Journalize"},{"word":"Journalizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Journalize"},{"word":"Journalize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enter or record in a journal or diary."},{"word":"Journalize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"to conduct or contribute to a public journal; to follow the profession of a journalist."},{"word":"Journeys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Journey"},{"word":"Journey","type":"(n.)","description":"The travel or work of a day."},{"word":"Journey","type":"(n.)","description":"Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life."},{"word":"Journeyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Journey"},{"word":"Journeying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Journey"},{"word":"Journey","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance."},{"word":"Journey","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To traverse; to travel over or through."},{"word":"Journey-bated","type":"(a.)","description":"Worn out with journeying."},{"word":"Journeyer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who journeys."},{"word":"Journeymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Journeyman"},{"word":"Journeyman","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman."},{"word":"Journeywork","type":"(n.)","description":"Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade."},{"word":"Joust","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt."},{"word":"Joust","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field."},{"word":"Jouster","type":"(n.)","description":"One who jousts or tilts."},{"word":"Jove","type":"(n.)","description":"The chief divinity of the ancient Romans; Jupiter."},{"word":"Jove","type":"(n.)","description":"The planet Jupiter."},{"word":"Jove","type":"(n.)","description":"The metal tin."},{"word":"Jovial","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter."},{"word":"Jovial","type":"(a.)","description":"Sunny; serene."},{"word":"Jovial","type":"(a.)","description":"Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem."},{"word":"Jovialist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who lives a jovial life."},{"word":"Joviality","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being jovial."},{"word":"Jovially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jovial manner; merrily; gayly."},{"word":"Jovialness","type":"(n.)","description":"Noisy mirth; joviality."},{"word":"Jovialty","type":"(n.)","description":"Joviality."},{"word":"Jovian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Jove, or Jupiter (either the deity or the planet)."},{"word":"Jovicentric","type":"(a.)","description":"Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter."},{"word":"Jovinianist","type":"(n.)","description":"An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary, and opposed the asceticism of his time."},{"word":"Jowl","type":"(n.)","description":"The cheek; the jaw."},{"word":"Jowl","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To throw, dash, or knock."},{"word":"Jowler","type":"(n.)","description":"A dog with large jowls, as the beagle."},{"word":"Jowter","type":"(n.)","description":"A mounted peddler of fish; -- called also jouster."},{"word":"Joy","type":"(n.)","description":"The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight."},{"word":"Joy","type":"(n.)","description":"That which causes joy or happiness."},{"word":"Joy","type":"(n.)","description":"The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity."},{"word":"Joyed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Joy"},{"word":"Joying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Joy"},{"word":"Joy","type":"(n.)","description":"To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult."},{"word":"Joy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give joy to; to congratulate."},{"word":"Joy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate."},{"word":"Joy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To enjoy."},{"word":"Joyace","type":"(n.)","description":"Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness."},{"word":"Joyancy","type":"(n.)","description":"Joyance."},{"word":"Joyful","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart."},{"word":"Joyless","type":"(a.)","description":"Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable."},{"word":"Joyous","type":"(a.)","description":"Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy."},{"word":"Joysome","type":"(a.)","description":"Causing joyfulness."},{"word":"Jub","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel for holding ale or wine; a jug."},{"word":"Jubae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Juba"},{"word":"Juba","type":"(n.)","description":"The mane of an animal."},{"word":"Juba","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose panicle, the axis of which falls to pieces, as in certain grasses."},{"word":"Jubate","type":"(a.)","description":"Fringed with long, pendent hair."},{"word":"Jube","type":"(n.)","description":"chancel screen or rood screen."},{"word":"Jube","type":"(n.)","description":"gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read."},{"word":"Jubilant","type":"(a.)","description":"Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting."},{"word":"Jubilantly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a jubilant manner."},{"word":"Jubilar","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or having the character of, a jubilee."},{"word":"Jubilate","type":"(n.)","description":"The third Sunday after Easter; -- so called because the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin version, begins with the words, \"Jubilate Deo.\""},{"word":"Jubilate","type":"(n.)","description":"A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version."},{"word":"Jubilate","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To exult; to rejoice."},{"word":"Jubilation","type":"(n.)","description":"A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation."},{"word":"Jubilee","type":"(n.)","description":"Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners."},{"word":"Jubilee","type":"(n.)","description":"The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions."},{"word":"Jubilee","type":"(n.)","description":"A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist."},{"word":"Jubilee","type":"(n.)","description":"A season of general joy."},{"word":"Jubilee","type":"(n.)","description":"A state of joy or exultation."},{"word":"Jucundity","type":"(n.)","description":"Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity."},{"word":"Judahite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew."},{"word":"Judaic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Judaical"},{"word":"Judaical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Jews."},{"word":"Judaically","type":"(adv.)","description":"After the Jewish manner."},{"word":"Judaism","type":"(n.)","description":"The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses."},{"word":"Judaism","type":"(n.)","description":"Conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies."},{"word":"Judaist","type":"(n.)","description":"One who believes and practices Judaism."},{"word":"Judaistic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Judaism."},{"word":"Judaization","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of Judaizing; a conforming to the Jewish religion or ritual."},{"word":"Judaized","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Judaize"},{"word":"Judaizing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Judaize"},{"word":"Judaize","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To conform to the doctrines, observances, or methods of the Jews; to inculcate or impose Judaism."},{"word":"Judaize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism."},{"word":"Judaizer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who conforms to or inculcates Judaism; specifically, pl. (Ch. Hist.), those Jews who accepted Christianity but still adhered to the law of Moses and worshiped in the temple at Jerusalem."},{"word":"Judas","type":"(n.)","description":"The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship."},{"word":"Judas","type":"(a.)","description":"Treacherous; betraying."},{"word":"Judas-colored","type":"(a.)","description":"Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard."},{"word":"Juddock","type":"(n.)","description":"See Jacksnipe."},{"word":"Judean","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Judea."},{"word":"Judean","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of Judea; a Jew."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges."},{"word":"Judged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Judge"},{"word":"Judging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Judge"},{"word":"Judge","type":"(a.)","description":"To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(a.)","description":"To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon."},{"word":"Judge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern."},{"word":"Judger","type":"(n.)","description":"One who judges."},{"word":"Judgeship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office of a judge."},{"word":"Judgment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence."},{"word":"Judgment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment."},{"word":"Judgment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision."},{"word":"Judgment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all."},{"word":"Judgment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical."},{"word":"Judgment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2."},{"word":"Judgment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment."},{"word":"Judgment","type":"(v. i.)","description":"The final award; the last sentence."},{"word":"Judicable","type":"(v. i.)","description":"Capable of being judged; capable of being tried or decided upon."},{"word":"Judicative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty."},{"word":"Judicatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals."},{"word":"Judicatory","type":"(n.)","description":"A court of justice; a tribunal."},{"word":"Judicatory","type":"(n.)","description":"Administration of justice."},{"word":"Judicature","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice."},{"word":"Judicature","type":"(n.)","description":"A court of justice; a judicatory."},{"word":"Judicature","type":"(n.)","description":"The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court."},{"word":"Judicial","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale."},{"word":"Judicial","type":"(a.)","description":"Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind."},{"word":"Judicial","type":"(a.)","description":"Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive."},{"word":"Judicial","type":"(a.)","description":"Judicious."},{"word":"Judicially","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a judicial capacity or judicial manner."},{"word":"Judiciary","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding."},{"word":"Judiciary","type":"(n.)","description":"That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary."},{"word":"Judicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or relating to a court; judicial."},{"word":"Judicious","type":"(a.)","description":"Directed or governed by sound judgment; having sound judgment; wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet."},{"word":"Judiciously","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a judicious manner; with good judgment; wisely."},{"word":"Judiciousness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment."},{"word":"Jug","type":"(n.)","description":"A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side."},{"word":"Jug","type":"(n.)","description":"A pitcher; a ewer."},{"word":"Jug","type":"(n.)","description":"A prison; a jail; a lockup."},{"word":"Jugged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jug"},{"word":"Jugging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jug"},{"word":"Jug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare."},{"word":"Jug","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To commit to jail; to imprison."},{"word":"Jug","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale."},{"word":"Jug","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges."},{"word":"Jugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to a yoke, or to marriage."},{"word":"Jugal","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone."},{"word":"Jugata","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The figures of two heads on a medal or coin, either side by side or joined."},{"word":"Jugated","type":"(a.)","description":"Coupled together."},{"word":"Juge","type":"(n.)","description":"A judge."},{"word":"Jugement","type":"(n.)","description":"Judgment."},{"word":"Juger","type":"(n.)","description":"A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth."},{"word":"Jugger","type":"(n.)","description":"An East Indian falcon. See Lugger."},{"word":"Juggernaut","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos."},{"word":"Juggled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Juggle"},{"word":"Juggling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Juggle"},{"word":"Juggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure."},{"word":"Juggle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To practice artifice or imposture."},{"word":"Juggle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive by trick or artifice."},{"word":"Juggle","type":"(n.)","description":"A trick by sleight of hand."},{"word":"Juggle","type":"(n.)","description":"An imposture; a deception."},{"word":"Juggle","type":"(n.)","description":"A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split."},{"word":"Juggler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer."},{"word":"Juggler","type":"(n.)","description":"A deceiver; a cheat."},{"word":"Juggleress","type":"(n.)","description":"A female juggler."},{"word":"Jugglery","type":"(n.)","description":"The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand."},{"word":"Jugglery","type":"(n.)","description":"Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery."},{"word":"Juggling","type":"(a.)","description":"Cheating; tricky."},{"word":"Juggling","type":"(n.)","description":"Jugglery; underhand practice."},{"word":"Juggs","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Jougs."},{"word":"Juglandin","type":"(n.)","description":"An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye."},{"word":"Juglandine","type":"(n.)","description":"An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia)."},{"word":"Juglans","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut."},{"word":"Juglone","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); -- called also nucin."},{"word":"Jugular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein."},{"word":"Jugular","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen."},{"word":"Jugular","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes."},{"word":"Jugular","type":"(a.)","description":"One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein."},{"word":"Jugular","type":"(a.)","description":"Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares)."},{"word":"Jugulated","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jugulate"},{"word":"Jugulating","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jugulate"},{"word":"Jugulate","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cut the throat of."},{"word":"Jugula","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jugulum"},{"word":"Jugulum","type":"(n.)","description":"The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast."},{"word":"Juga","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jugum"},{"word":"Jugums","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jugum"},{"word":"Jugum","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants."},{"word":"Jugum","type":"(n.)","description":"A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant."},{"word":"Juice","type":"(n.)","description":"The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking."},{"word":"Juice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To moisten; to wet."},{"word":"Juiceless","type":"(a.)","description":"Lacking juice; dry."},{"word":"Juiciness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being juicy; succulence plants."},{"word":"Juicy","type":"(superl.)","description":"A bounding with juice; succulent."},{"word":"Juise","type":"(n.)","description":"Judgment; justice; sentence."},{"word":"Jujube","type":"(n.)","description":"The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Z. jujuba, Z. vulgaris, Z. mucronata, and Z. Lotus. The last named is thought to have furnished the lotus of the ancient Libyan Lotophagi, or lotus eaters."},{"word":"Juke","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head."},{"word":"Juke","type":"(n.)","description":"The neck of a bird."},{"word":"Juke","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To perch on anything, as birds do."},{"word":"Julaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Like an ament, or bearing aments; amentaceous."},{"word":"Julep","type":"(n.)","description":"A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs"},{"word":"Julep","type":"(n.)","description":"a sweet, demulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle."},{"word":"Julep","type":"(n.)","description":"A beverage composed of brandy, whisky, or some other spirituous liquor, with sugar, pounded ice, and sprigs of mint; -- called also mint julep."},{"word":"Julian","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to, or derived from, Julius Caesar."},{"word":"Julienne","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc."},{"word":"Juliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the shape or appearance of a julus or catkin."},{"word":"Juli","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Julus"},{"word":"Julus","type":"(n.)","description":"A catkin or ament. See Ament."},{"word":"Julies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of July"},{"word":"July","type":"(n.)","description":"The seventh month of the year, containing thirty-one days."},{"word":"July-flower","type":"(n.)","description":"See Gillyflower."},{"word":"Jumart","type":"(n.)","description":"The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare."},{"word":"Jumbled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jumble"},{"word":"Jumbling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jumble"},{"word":"Jumble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up."},{"word":"Jumble","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly."},{"word":"Jumble","type":"(n.)","description":"A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words."},{"word":"Jumble","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped."},{"word":"Jumblement","type":"(n.)","description":"Confused mixture."},{"word":"Jumbler","type":"(n.)","description":"One who confuses things."},{"word":"Jumblingly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a confused manner."},{"word":"Jument","type":"(n.)","description":"A beast; especially, a beast of burden."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of loose jacket for men."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(n.)","description":"A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century."},{"word":"Jumped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jump"},{"word":"Jumping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jump"},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To join by a butt weld."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bore with a jumper."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(n.)","description":"An effort; an attempt; a venture."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(n.)","description":"The space traversed by a leap."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(n.)","description":"A dislocation in a stratum; a fault."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(n.)","description":"An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(a.)","description":"Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise."},{"word":"Jump","type":"(adv.)","description":"Exactly; pat."},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, jumps."},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen."},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills."},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese."},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions."},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece."},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A loose upper garment"},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it."},{"word":"Jumper","type":"(n.)","description":"A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys."},{"word":"Jumping","type":"(p. a. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jump, to leap."},{"word":"Jumpweld","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Buttweld, v. t."},{"word":"Juncaceous","type":"(a.)","description":"Of. pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Juncaceae), of which the common rush (Juncus) is the type."},{"word":"Juncate","type":"(n.)","description":"See Junket."},{"word":"Juncite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fossil rush."},{"word":"Junco","type":"(n.)","description":"Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird."},{"word":"Juncous","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous."},{"word":"Junction","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths."},{"word":"Junction","type":"(n.)","description":"The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross."},{"word":"Juncture","type":"(n.)","description":"A joining; a union; an alliance."},{"word":"Juncture","type":"(n.)","description":"The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones."},{"word":"Juncture","type":"(n.)","description":"A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency."},{"word":"June","type":"(n.)","description":"The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days."},{"word":"Juneating","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of early apple."},{"word":"Juneberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry."},{"word":"Juneberry","type":"(n.)","description":"The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and had tree."},{"word":"Jungermanniae","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jungermannia"},{"word":"Jungermannia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceae."},{"word":"Jungle","type":"(n.)","description":"A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil."},{"word":"Jungly","type":"(a.)","description":"Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle."},{"word":"Junior","type":"(a.)","description":"Less advanced in age than another; younger."},{"word":"Junior","type":"(a.)","description":"Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain."},{"word":"Junior","type":"(a.)","description":"Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2."},{"word":"Junior","type":"(n.)","description":"Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life."},{"word":"Junior","type":"(n.)","description":"A younger person."},{"word":"Junior","type":"(n.)","description":"Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course."},{"word":"Juniority","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being junior."},{"word":"Juniper","type":"(n.)","description":"Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Coniferae."},{"word":"Juniperin","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow amorphous substance extracted from juniper berries."},{"word":"Juniperite","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the fossil Coniferae, evidently allied to the juniper."},{"word":"Junk","type":"(n.)","description":"A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk."},{"word":"Junk","type":"(n.)","description":"Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships."},{"word":"Junk","type":"(n.)","description":"Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers."},{"word":"Junk","type":"(n.)","description":"Hard salted beef supplied to ships."},{"word":"Junk","type":"(n.)","description":"A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters."},{"word":"Junker","type":"(n.)","description":"A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia."},{"word":"Junkerism","type":"(n.)","description":"The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia."},{"word":"Junket","type":"(n.)","description":"A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food."},{"word":"Junket","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast; an entertainment."},{"word":"Junket","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost."},{"word":"Junketed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Junket"},{"word":"Junketing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Junket"},{"word":"Junket","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To give entertainment to; to feast."},{"word":"Junketing","type":"(n.)","description":"A feast or entertainment; a revel."},{"word":"Junketries","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Sweetmeats."},{"word":"Junos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of June"},{"word":"June","type":"(n.)","description":"The sister and wife of Jupiter, the queen of heaven, and the goddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera."},{"word":"June","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the early discovered asteroids."},{"word":"Juntas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Junta"},{"word":"Junta","type":"(n.)","description":"A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain."},{"word":"Juntos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Junto"},{"word":"Junto","type":"(n.)","description":"A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians."},{"word":"Junartie","type":"(n.)","description":"Jeopardy."},{"word":"Jupati","type":"()","description":"A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia taedigera), used by the natives for many purposes."},{"word":"Jupe","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Jupon."},{"word":"Jupiter","type":"(n.)","description":"The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus."},{"word":"Jupiter","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity."},{"word":"Jupon","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Juppon"},{"word":"Juppon","type":"(n.)","description":"A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips."},{"word":"Juppon","type":"(n.)","description":"A petticoat."},{"word":"Jura","type":"(n.)","description":"1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland."},{"word":"Jura","type":"(n.)","description":"The Jurassic period. See Jurassic."},{"word":"Jural","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to natural or positive right."},{"word":"Jural","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to jurisprudence."},{"word":"Juramenta","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Juramentum"},{"word":"Juramentum","type":"(n.)","description":"An oath."},{"word":"Jurassic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains."},{"word":"Jurassic","type":"(n.)","description":"The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura."},{"word":"Jurat","type":"(n.)","description":"A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England."},{"word":"Jurat","type":"(n.)","description":"The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed."},{"word":"Juratory","type":"(a.)","description":"Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution."},{"word":"Jura-trias","type":"(n.)","description":"A term applied to many American Mesozoic strata, in which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended."},{"word":"Jurdiccion","type":"(n.)","description":"Jurisdiction."},{"word":"Jurdon","type":"(n.)","description":"Jordan."},{"word":"Jurel","type":"(n.)","description":"A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel."},{"word":"Juridic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Juridical"},{"word":"Juridical","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to a judge or to jurisprudence; acting in the distribution of justice; used in courts of law; according to law; legal; as, juridical law."},{"word":"Juridically","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a juridical manner."},{"word":"Jurisconsult","type":"(n.)","description":"A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist."},{"word":"Jurisdiction","type":"(a.)","description":"The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission."},{"word":"Jurisdiction","type":"(a.)","description":"The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority."},{"word":"Jurisdiction","type":"(a.)","description":"Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority."},{"word":"Jurisdictional","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights."},{"word":"Jurisdictive","type":"(a.)","description":"Having jurisdiction."},{"word":"Jurisprudence","type":"(a.)","description":"The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice."},{"word":"Jurisprudent","type":"(a.)","description":"Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence."},{"word":"Jurisprudent","type":"(n.)","description":"One skilled in law or jurisprudence."},{"word":"Jurisprudential","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to jurisprudence."},{"word":"Jurist","type":"(a.)","description":"One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law."},{"word":"Juristic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Juristical"},{"word":"Juristical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence."},{"word":"Juror","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of a jury; a juryman."},{"word":"Juror","type":"(n.)","description":"A member of any jury for awarding prizes, etc."},{"word":"Jury","type":"(a.)","description":"For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance."},{"word":"Juries","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Jury"},{"word":"Jury","type":"(a.)","description":"A body of men, usually twelve, selected according to law, impaneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest."},{"word":"Jury","type":"(a.)","description":"A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize."},{"word":"Jurymen","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Juryman"},{"word":"Juryman","type":"(n.)","description":"One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror."},{"word":"Jury-rigged","type":"(a.)","description":"Rigged for temporary service. See Jury, a."},{"word":"Jussi","type":"(n.)","description":"A delicate fiber, produced in the Philippine Islands from an unidentified plant, of which dresses, etc., are made."},{"word":"Just","type":"(a.)","description":"Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things."},{"word":"Just","type":"(a.)","description":"Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference."},{"word":"Just","type":"(a.)","description":"Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge."},{"word":"Just","type":"(adv.)","description":"Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated."},{"word":"Just","type":"(adv.)","description":"Closely; nearly; almost."},{"word":"Just","type":"(adv.)","description":"Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late."},{"word":"Just","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To joust."},{"word":"Just","type":"(n.)","description":"A joust."},{"word":"Justice","type":"(a.)","description":"The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness."},{"word":"Justice","type":"(a.)","description":"Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice."},{"word":"Justice","type":"(a.)","description":"The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives."},{"word":"Justice","type":"(a.)","description":"Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim."},{"word":"Justice","type":"(a.)","description":"A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice."},{"word":"Justice","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To administer justice to."},{"word":"Justiceable","type":"(a.)","description":"Liable to trial in a court of justice."},{"word":"Justicehood","type":"(n.)","description":"Justiceship."},{"word":"Justicement","type":"(n.)","description":"Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice."},{"word":"Justicer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who administers justice; a judge."},{"word":"Justiceship","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or dignity of a justice."},{"word":"Justiciable","type":"(a.)","description":"Proper to be examined in a court of justice."},{"word":"Justiciar","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Justiciary."},{"word":"Justiciary","type":"(n.)","description":"An old name for the judges of the higher English courts."},{"word":"Justico","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Justicoat"},{"word":"Justicoat","type":"(n.)","description":"Formerly, a close coat or waistcoat with sleeves."},{"word":"Justifiable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable of being justified, or shown to be just."},{"word":"Justification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification."},{"word":"Justification","type":"(n.)","description":"The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer."},{"word":"Justification","type":"(n.)","description":"The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements."},{"word":"Justification","type":"(n.)","description":"Adjustment of type by spacing it so as to make it exactly fill a line, or of a cut so as to hold it in the right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making such adjustment."},{"word":"Justificative","type":"(a.)","description":"Having power to justify; justificatory."},{"word":"Justificator","type":"(n.)","description":"One who justifies or vindicates; a justifier."},{"word":"Justificatory","type":"(a.)","description":"Vindicatory; defensory; justificative."},{"word":"Justifier","type":"(n.)","description":"One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves."},{"word":"Justified","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Justify"},{"word":"Justifying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Justify"},{"word":"Justify","type":"(a.)","description":"To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty."},{"word":"Justify","type":"(a.)","description":"To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear."},{"word":"Justify","type":"(a.)","description":"To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve."},{"word":"Justify","type":"(a.)","description":"To prove; to ratify; to confirm."},{"word":"Justify","type":"(a.)","description":"To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4."},{"word":"Justify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly."},{"word":"Justify","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety."},{"word":"Justinian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to the Institutes or laws of the Roman Justinian."},{"word":"Justle","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To run or strike against each other; to encounter; to clash; to jostle."},{"word":"Justled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Justle"},{"word":"Justling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Justle"},{"word":"Justle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To push; to drive; to force by running against; to jostle."},{"word":"Justle","type":"(n.)","description":"An encounter or shock; a jostle."},{"word":"Justly","type":"(a.)","description":"In a just manner; in conformity to law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately."},{"word":"Justness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause."},{"word":"Jutted","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Jut"},{"word":"Jutting","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Jut"},{"word":"Jut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building."},{"word":"Jut","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To butt."},{"word":"Jut","type":"(n.)","description":"That which projects or juts; a projection."},{"word":"Jut","type":"(n.)","description":"A shove; a push."},{"word":"Jute","type":"(n.)","description":"The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc."},{"word":"Jutes","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century."},{"word":"Jutlander","type":"(n.)","description":"A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark."},{"word":"Jutlandish","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Jutland, or to the people of Jutland."},{"word":"Jutting","type":"(a.)","description":"Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc."},{"word":"Jutty","type":"(n.)","description":"A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty."},{"word":"Jutty","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To project beyond."},{"word":"Juvenal","type":"(n.)","description":"A youth."},{"word":"Juvenescence","type":"(n.)","description":"A growing young."},{"word":"Juvenescent","type":"(a.)","description":"Growing or becoming young."},{"word":"Juvenile","type":"(a.)","description":"Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance."},{"word":"Juvenile","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports."},{"word":"Juvenile","type":"(n.)","description":"A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly."},{"word":"Juvenileness","type":"(n.)","description":"The state or quality of being juvenile; juvenility."},{"word":"Juvenilities","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Juvenility"},{"word":"Juvenility","type":"(n.)","description":"Youthfulness; adolescence."},{"word":"Juvenility","type":"(n.)","description":"The manners or character of youth; immaturity."},{"word":"Juvia","type":"(n.)","description":"A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree (Bertholetia excelsa) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts."},{"word":"Juwansa","type":"(n.)","description":"The camel's thorn. See under Camel."},{"word":"Juwise","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Juise."},{"word":"Juxtapose","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in juxtaposition."},{"word":"Juxtaposited","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Juxtaposit"},{"word":"Juxtapositing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Juxtaposit"},{"word":"Juxtaposit","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose."},{"word":"Juxtaposition","type":"(v. i.)","description":"A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words."},{"word":"Junold","type":"(a.)","description":"See Gimmal."},{"word":"K","type":"()","description":"the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, is nonvocal consonant. The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see)."},{"word":"Kaama","type":"(n.)","description":"The hartbeest."},{"word":"Kabala","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cabala."},{"word":"Kabassou","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cabassou."},{"word":"Kabob","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"See Cabob, n. & v. t."},{"word":"Kabook","type":"(n.)","description":"A clay ironstone found in Ceylon."},{"word":"Kabyle","type":"(n.)","description":"A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See Berber."},{"word":"Kadder","type":"(n.)","description":"The jackdaw."},{"word":"Kadi","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kadiaster"},{"word":"Kadiaster","type":"(n.)","description":"A Turkish judge. See Cadi."},{"word":"Kafal","type":"(n.)","description":"The Arabian name of two trees of the genus Balsamodendron, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood."},{"word":"Kaffir","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kafir"},{"word":"Kafir","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs."},{"word":"Kafir","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia."},{"word":"Kaffle","type":"(n.)","description":"See Coffle."},{"word":"Kafilah","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cafila."},{"word":"Kaftan","type":"(n & v.)","description":"See Caftan."},{"word":"Kage","type":"(n.)","description":"A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work."},{"word":"Kagu","type":"(n.)","description":"A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern."},{"word":"Kaguan","type":"(n.)","description":"The colugo."},{"word":"Kahani","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant."},{"word":"Kahau","type":"(n.)","description":"A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey."},{"word":"Kail","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1."},{"word":"Kail","type":"(n.)","description":"Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables."},{"word":"Kail","type":"(n.)","description":"A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner."},{"word":"Kaimacam","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Caimacam."},{"word":"Kain","type":"(n.)","description":"Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord."},{"word":"Kainit","type":"(n.)","description":"Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers."},{"word":"Kainite","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony."},{"word":"Kainozoic","type":"(a.)","description":"See Cenozoic."},{"word":"Kaique","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caique."},{"word":"Kairine","type":"(n.)","description":"A pale buff or white crystalline alkaloid derived from quinoline, and used as an antipyretic in medicine."},{"word":"Kairoline","type":"(n.)","description":"An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine."},{"word":"Kaiser","type":"(n.)","description":"The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871."},{"word":"Kaka","type":"(n.)","description":"A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis)."},{"word":"Kakapo","type":"(n.)","description":"A singular nocturnal parrot (Strigops habroptilus), native of New Zealand. It lives in holes during the day, but is active at night. It resembles an owl in its colors and general appearance. It has large wings, but can fly only a short distance. Called also owl parrot, night parrot, and night kaka."},{"word":"Kakaralli","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle."},{"word":"Kakistocracy","type":"(n.)","description":"Government by the worst men."},{"word":"Kakoxene","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cacoxene."},{"word":"Kalan","type":"(n.)","description":"The sea otter."},{"word":"Kalasie","type":"(n.)","description":"A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head."},{"word":"Kale","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species."},{"word":"Kale","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kail, 2."},{"word":"Kaleege","type":"(n.)","description":"One of several species of large, crested, Asiatic pheasants, belonging to the genus Euplocamus, and allied to the firebacks."},{"word":"Kaleidophon","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Kaleidophone"},{"word":"Kaleidophone","type":"()","description":"An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations."},{"word":"Kaleidoscope","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design."},{"word":"Kaleidoscopic","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Kaleidoscopical"},{"word":"Kaleidoscopical","type":"(a.)","description":"Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated."},{"word":"Kalendar","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calendar."},{"word":"Kalendarial","type":"(a.)","description":"See Calendarial."},{"word":"Kalender","type":"(n.)","description":"See 3d Calender."},{"word":"Kalends","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Calends."},{"word":"Kali","type":"(n.)","description":"The last and worst of the four ages of the world; -- considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000 years."},{"word":"Kali","type":"(n.)","description":"The black, destroying goddess; -- called also Doorga, Anna Purna."},{"word":"Kali","type":"(n.)","description":"The glasswort (Salsola Kali)."},{"word":"Kalif","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caliph."},{"word":"Kaliform","type":"(a.)","description":"Formed like kali, or glasswort."},{"word":"Kaligenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Forming alkalies with oxygen, as some metals."},{"word":"Kalium","type":"(n.)","description":"Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists."},{"word":"Kalki","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar."},{"word":"Kalmia","type":"(n.)","description":"A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc."},{"word":"Kalmuck","type":"(n.)","description":"See Calmucks."},{"word":"Kalmuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin."},{"word":"Kalmuck","type":"(n.)","description":"A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia."},{"word":"Kalong","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis)."},{"word":"Kaloyer","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caloyer."},{"word":"Kalpa","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated."},{"word":"Kalsomine","type":"(n. & v. t.)","description":"Same as Calcimine."},{"word":"Kam","type":"(n.)","description":"Crooked; awry."},{"word":"Kama","type":"(n.)","description":"The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers."},{"word":"Kamala","type":"(n.)","description":"The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm."},{"word":"Kame","type":"(n.)","description":"A low ridge."},{"word":"Kami","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A title given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado."},{"word":"Kamichi","type":"(n.)","description":"A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer."},{"word":"Kamptulicon","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork."},{"word":"Kampylite","type":"(n.)","description":"A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow."},{"word":"Kamsin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Khamsin"},{"word":"Khamsin","type":"(n.)","description":"A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara."},{"word":"Kamtschadales","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of Kamtschatka."},{"word":"Kan","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To know; to ken."},{"word":"Kan","type":"(n.)","description":"See Khan."},{"word":"Kanacka","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kanaka"},{"word":"Kanaka","type":"(n.)","description":"A native of the Sandwich Islands."},{"word":"Kanchil","type":"(n.)","description":"A small chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, esp. T. pygmaeus, or T. kanchil, inhabiting Java, Sumatra, and adjacent islands; a deerlet. It is noted for its agility and cunning."},{"word":"Kand","type":"(n.)","description":"Fluor spar; -- so called by Cornish miners."},{"word":"Kangaroo","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Halmaturus, inhabit wooded districts. See Wallaby."},{"word":"Kansas","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of Indians allied to the Winnebagoes and Osages. They formerly inhabited the region which is now the State of Kansas, but were removed to the Indian Territory."},{"word":"Kantian","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant."},{"word":"Kantian","type":"(n.)","description":"A follower of Kant; a Kantist."},{"word":"Kantianism","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kantism"},{"word":"Kantism","type":"(n.)","description":"The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy."},{"word":"Kantist","type":"(n.)","description":"A disciple or follower of Kant."},{"word":"Kanttry","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cantred."},{"word":"Kaolin","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kaoline"},{"word":"Kaoline","type":"(n.)","description":"A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar."},{"word":"Kaolinization","type":"(n.)","description":"The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin."},{"word":"Kaolinize","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To convert into kaolin."},{"word":"Kapelle","type":"(n.)","description":"A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral."},{"word":"Kapellmeister","type":"(n.)","description":"See Capellmeister."},{"word":"Kapia","type":"(n.)","description":"The fossil resin of the kauri tree of New Zealand."},{"word":"Kapnomar","type":"(n. Chem.)","description":") See Capnomor."},{"word":"Karagane","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of gray fox found in Russia."},{"word":"Karaism","type":"(n.)","description":"Doctrines of the Karaites."},{"word":"Karaite","type":"(n.)","description":"A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists."},{"word":"Karatas","type":"(n.)","description":"A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas)."},{"word":"Karma","type":"(n.)","description":"One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence."},{"word":"Karmathian","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat."},{"word":"Karn","type":"(n.)","description":"A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn."},{"word":"Karob","type":"(n.)","description":"The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths."},{"word":"Karpholite","type":"(n.)","description":"A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese."},{"word":"Karroos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Karreo"},{"word":"Karreo","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations."},{"word":"Karstenite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Anhydrite."},{"word":"Karvel","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carvel, and Caravel."},{"word":"Karyokinesis","type":"(n.)","description":"The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell."},{"word":"Karyokinetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division."},{"word":"Karyomiton","type":"(n.)","description":"The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell."},{"word":"Karyoplasma","type":"(n.)","description":"The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell: nucleoplasm; -- in opposition to kytoplasma, the protoplasm of the cell."},{"word":"Karyostenosis","type":"(n.)","description":"Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division."},{"word":"Kasack","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cossack."},{"word":"Kat","type":"(n.)","description":"An Arabian shrub Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs."},{"word":"Katabolic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability."},{"word":"Katabolism","type":"(n.)","description":"Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation."},{"word":"Katastate","type":"(n.)","description":"(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic."},{"word":"Kate","type":"(n.)","description":"The brambling finch."},{"word":"Kathetal","type":"(a.)","description":"Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle."},{"word":"Kathetometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cathetometer."},{"word":"Kattinumdoo","type":"(n.)","description":"A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement."},{"word":"Katydid","type":"(n.)","description":"A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name."},{"word":"Kauri","type":"(n.)","description":"A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, / Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin."},{"word":"Kava","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself."},{"word":"Kavasses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kavass"},{"word":"Kavass","type":"(n.)","description":"An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier."},{"word":"Kaw","type":"(v. i. & n.)","description":"See Caw."},{"word":"Kawaka","type":"(n.)","description":"a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood."},{"word":"Kawn","type":"(n.)","description":"An inn."},{"word":"Kayak","type":"(n.)","description":"A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes."},{"word":"Kayaker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who uses a kayak."},{"word":"Kayko","type":"(n.)","description":"The dog salmon."},{"word":"Kayles","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A game; ninepins."},{"word":"Kaynard","type":"(n.)","description":"A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal."},{"word":"Kecked","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Keck"},{"word":"Kecking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Keck"},{"word":"Keck","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit."},{"word":"Keck","type":"(n.)","description":"An effort to vomit; queasiness."},{"word":"Keckle","type":"(v. i. & n.)","description":"See Keck, v. i. & n."},{"word":"Keckled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Keckle"},{"word":"Keckling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Keckle"},{"word":"Keckle","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice."},{"word":"Keckling","type":"(n.)","description":"Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t."},{"word":"Kecklish","type":"(a.)","description":"Inclined to vomit; squeamish."},{"word":"Kecksies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kecksy"},{"word":"Kecksy","type":"(n.)","description":"The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock."},{"word":"Kecky","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling a kecksy."},{"word":"Kedged","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kedge"},{"word":"Kedging","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kedge"},{"word":"Kedge","type":"(n.)","description":"To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it."},{"word":"Kedge","type":"(v. t.)","description":"A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n."},{"word":"Kedger","type":"(n.)","description":"A small anchor; a kedge."},{"word":"Kedlook","type":"(n.)","description":"See Charlock."},{"word":"Kee","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"See Kie, Ky, and Kine."},{"word":"Keech","type":"(n.)","description":"A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher."},{"word":"Keel","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To cool; to skim or stir."},{"word":"Keel","type":"(n.)","description":"A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat."},{"word":"Keel","type":"(n.)","description":"A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson."},{"word":"Keel","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig.: The whole ship."},{"word":"Keel","type":"(n.)","description":"A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt."},{"word":"Keel","type":"(n.)","description":"The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina."},{"word":"Keel","type":"(n.)","description":"A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface."},{"word":"Keeled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Keel"},{"word":"Keeling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Keel"},{"word":"Keel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To traverse with a keel; to navigate."},{"word":"Keel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To turn up the keel; to show the bottom."},{"word":"Keelage","type":"(n.)","description":"The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll."},{"word":"Keeled","type":"(a.)","description":"Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf."},{"word":"Keeled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale."},{"word":"Keeler","type":"(n.)","description":"One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman."},{"word":"Keeler","type":"(n.)","description":"A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc."},{"word":"Keelfat","type":"(n.)","description":"A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc."},{"word":"Keelhauled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Keelhaul"},{"word":"Keelhauling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Keelhaul"},{"word":"Keelhaul","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies."},{"word":"Keeling","type":"(n.)","description":"A cod."},{"word":"Keelivine","type":"(n.)","description":"A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen."},{"word":"men","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Keelman"},{"word":"Keelman","type":"(n.)","description":"See Keeler, 1."},{"word":"Keelrake","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Same as Keelhaul."},{"word":"Keels","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Ninepins. See Kayles."},{"word":"Keelson","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship."},{"word":"Keelvat","type":"(n.)","description":"See Keelfat."},{"word":"Keen","type":"(superl.)","description":"Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge."},{"word":"Keen","type":"(superl.)","description":"Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features."},{"word":"Keen","type":"(superl.)","description":"Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm."},{"word":"Keen","type":"(superl.)","description":"Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen."},{"word":"Keen","type":"(superl.)","description":"Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite."},{"word":"Keen","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To sharpen; to make cold."},{"word":"Keen","type":"(n.)","description":"A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach."},{"word":"Keen","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To wail as a keener does."},{"word":"Keener","type":"(n.)","description":"A professional mourner who wails at a funeral."},{"word":"Keenly","type":"(adv.)","description":"In a keen manner."},{"word":"Keenness","type":"(n.)","description":"The quality or state of being keen."},{"word":"Kept","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Keep"},{"word":"Keeping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Keep"},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To care; to desire."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc. ; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To have habitually in stock for sale."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. ; hence, to haunt; to frequent."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To observe duty, as a festival, etc. ; to celebrate; to solemnize; as, to keep a feast."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take care; to be solicitous; to watch."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To be in session; as, school keeps to-day."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(n.)","description":"The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(n.)","description":"The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(n.)","description":"The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(n.)","description":"That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is kept in charge; a charge."},{"word":"Keep","type":"(n.)","description":"A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place."},{"word":"Keeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything."},{"word":"Keeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners."},{"word":"Keeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver."},{"word":"Keeper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who remains or keeps in a place or position."},{"word":"Keeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap."},{"word":"Keeper","type":"(n.)","description":"A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper."},{"word":"Keepership","type":"(n.)","description":"The office or position of a keeper."},{"word":"Keeping","type":"(n.)","description":"A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation."},{"word":"Keeping","type":"(n.)","description":"Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping."},{"word":"Keeping","type":"(n.)","description":"Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other."},{"word":"Keeping","type":"(n.)","description":"Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping."},{"word":"Keepsake","type":"(n.)","description":"Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship."},{"word":"Keesh","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kish."},{"word":"Keeve","type":"(n.)","description":"A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub."},{"word":"Keeve","type":"(n.)","description":"A bleaching vat; a kier."},{"word":"Keeve","type":"(n.)","description":"A large vat used in dressing ores."},{"word":"Keeved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Keeve"},{"word":"Keeving","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Keeve"},{"word":"Keeve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation."},{"word":"Keeve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To heave; to tilt, as a cart."},{"word":"Keever","type":"(n.)","description":"See Keeve, n."},{"word":"Keffe-kil","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kiefekil."},{"word":"Keg","type":"(n.)","description":"A small cask or barrel."},{"word":"Keilhau-ite","type":"(n.)","description":"A mineral of a brownish black color, related to titanite in form. It consists chiefly of silica, titanium dioxide, lime, and yttria."},{"word":"Keir","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kier."},{"word":"Keitloa","type":"(n.)","description":"A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer."},{"word":"Keld","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a kell or covering; webbed."},{"word":"Kele","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cool."},{"word":"Kell","type":"(n.)","description":"A kiln."},{"word":"Kell","type":"(n.)","description":"A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2."},{"word":"Kell","type":"(n.)","description":"The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film."},{"word":"Kell","type":"(n.)","description":"The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect."},{"word":"Keloid","type":"(a.)","description":"Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin."},{"word":"Keloid","type":"(n.)","description":"A keloid tumor."},{"word":"Kelotomy","type":"(n.)","description":"See Celotomy."},{"word":"Kelp","type":"(n.)","description":"The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine."},{"word":"Kelp","type":"(n.)","description":"Any large blackish seaweed."},{"word":"Kelpfish","type":"(n.)","description":"A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus."},{"word":"Kelpies","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kelpy"},{"word":"Kelpie","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kelpy"},{"word":"Kelpy","type":"(n.)","description":"An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned."},{"word":"Kelpware","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Kelp, 2."},{"word":"Kelson","type":"(n.)","description":"See Keelson."},{"word":"Kelt","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kilt, n."},{"word":"Kelt","type":"(n.)","description":"Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool."},{"word":"Kelt","type":"(n.)","description":"A salmon after spawning."},{"word":"Kelt","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Celt, one of Celtic race."},{"word":"Kelter","type":"(n.)","description":"Regular order or proper condition."},{"word":"Keltic","type":"(a. & n.)","description":"Same as Celtic, a. & n."},{"word":"Kembed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kemb"},{"word":"Kempt","type":"()","description":"of Kemb"},{"word":"Kembing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kemb"},{"word":"Kemb","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To comb."},{"word":"Kemelin","type":"(n.)","description":"A tub; a brewer's vessel."},{"word":"Kemp","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kempty"},{"word":"Kempty","type":"(n.)","description":"Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality."},{"word":"Kempe","type":"(a.)","description":"Rough; shaggy."},{"word":"Kemps","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata)."},{"word":"Kempt","type":"()","description":"p. p. of Kemb."},{"word":"Ken","type":"(n.)","description":"A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves."},{"word":"Kenned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Ken"},{"word":"Kenning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Ken"},{"word":"Ken","type":"(n. t.)","description":"To know; to understand; to take cognizance of."},{"word":"Ken","type":"(n. t.)","description":"To recognize; to descry; to discern."},{"word":"Ken","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To look around."},{"word":"Ken","type":"(n.)","description":"Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge."},{"word":"Kendal","type":"()","description":"Alt. of Kendal"},{"word":"Kendal","type":"()","description":"A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England."},{"word":"Kennel","type":"(n.)","description":"The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle."},{"word":"Kennel","type":"(n.)","description":"A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds."},{"word":"Kennel","type":"(n.)","description":"A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs."},{"word":"Kennel","type":"(n.)","description":"The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt."},{"word":"Kenneled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kennel"},{"word":"Kennelled","type":"()","description":"of Kennel"},{"word":"Kennelling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kennel"},{"word":"Kennel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox."},{"word":"Kennel","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To put or keep in a kennel."},{"word":"Kennel","type":"()","description":"See Cannel coal."},{"word":"Kenning","type":"(v. t.)","description":"Range of sight."},{"word":"Kenning","type":"(v. t.)","description":"The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles."},{"word":"Keno","type":"(n.)","description":"A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered."},{"word":"Kenogenesis","type":"(n.)","description":"Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis."},{"word":"Kenogenetic","type":"(a.)","description":"Of or pertaining to kenogenesis; as, kenogenetic processes."},{"word":"Kenspeckle","type":"(a.)","description":"Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized."},{"word":"Kent","type":"()","description":"A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle."},{"word":"Kentle","type":"(n.)","description":"A hundred weight; a quintal."},{"word":"Kentledge","type":"(n.)","description":"Pigs of iron used for ballast."},{"word":"Kentucky","type":"(n.)","description":"One of the United States."},{"word":"Kephalin","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue."},{"word":"Kept","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Keep."},{"word":"Keramic","type":"(a.)","description":"Same as Ceramic."},{"word":"Keramics","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Ceramics."},{"word":"Keramographic","type":"(a.)","description":"Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe."},{"word":"Kerana","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians."},{"word":"Kerargyrite","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cerargyrite."},{"word":"Kerasin","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin."},{"word":"Kerasine","type":"(a.)","description":"Resembling horn; horny; corneous."},{"word":"Keratin","type":"(n.)","description":"A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose."},{"word":"Keratitis","type":"(n.)","description":"Inflammation of the cornea."},{"word":"Keratode","type":"(n.)","description":"See Keratose."},{"word":"Keratogenous","type":"(a.)","description":"Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse."},{"word":"Keratoidea","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Same as Keratosa."},{"word":"Keratome","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract."},{"word":"Keratonyxis","type":"(n.)","description":"The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass."},{"word":"Keratophyte","type":"(n.)","description":"A gorgonian coral having a horny axis."},{"word":"Keratosa","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges."},{"word":"Keratose","type":"(n.)","description":"A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode."},{"word":"Keratose","type":"(a.)","description":"Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa."},{"word":"Keraunograph","type":"(n.)","description":"A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere."},{"word":"Kerb","type":"(n.)","description":"See Curb."},{"word":"Kerbstone","type":"(n.)","description":"See Curbstone."},{"word":"Kercher","type":"(n.)","description":"A kerchief."},{"word":"Kerchered","type":"(a.)","description":"Covered, or bound round, with a kercher."},{"word":"Kerchiefs","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kerchief"},{"word":"Kerchief","type":"(n.)","description":"A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief."},{"word":"Kerchief","type":"(n.)","description":"A lady who wears a kerchief."},{"word":"Kerchiefed","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Kerchieft"},{"word":"Kerchieft","type":"(a.)","description":"Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief."},{"word":"Kerf","type":"(n.)","description":"A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing."},{"word":"Kerite","type":"(n.)","description":"A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy."},{"word":"Kerl","type":"(n.)","description":"See Carl."},{"word":"Kermes","type":"(n.)","description":"The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine."},{"word":"Kermes","type":"(n.)","description":"A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds."},{"word":"Kermesse","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kirmess."},{"word":"Kern","type":"(n.)","description":"A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt."},{"word":"Kern","type":"(n.)","description":"Any kind of boor or low-lived person."},{"word":"Kern","type":"(n.)","description":"An idler; a vagabond."},{"word":"Kern","type":"(n.)","description":"A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank."},{"word":"Kerned","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kern"},{"word":"Kerning","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kern"},{"word":"Kern","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form with a kern. See 2d Kern."},{"word":"Kern","type":"(n.)","description":"A churn."},{"word":"Kern","type":"(n.)","description":"A hand mill. See Quern."},{"word":"Kern","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To harden, as corn in ripening."},{"word":"Kern","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To take the form of kernels; to granulate."},{"word":"Kerned","type":"(a.)","description":"Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type."},{"word":"Kernel","type":"(n.)","description":"The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp."},{"word":"Kernel","type":"(n.)","description":"A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn."},{"word":"Kernel","type":"(n.)","description":"A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh."},{"word":"Kernel","type":"(n.)","description":"The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument."},{"word":"Kerneled","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kernel"},{"word":"Kernelled","type":"()","description":"of Kernel"},{"word":"Kerneling","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kernel"},{"word":"Kernelling","type":"()","description":"of Kernel"},{"word":"Kernel","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels."},{"word":"Kerneled","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Kernelled"},{"word":"Kernelled","type":"(a.)","description":"Having a kernel."},{"word":"Kernelly","type":"(a.)","description":"Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels."},{"word":"Kerish","type":"(a.)","description":"Clownish; boorish."},{"word":"Kerolite","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Cerolite."},{"word":"Kerosene","type":"(n.)","description":"An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series."},{"word":"Kers","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kerse"},{"word":"Kerse","type":"(n.)","description":"A cress."},{"word":"Kerseys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kersey"},{"word":"Kersey","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple."},{"word":"Kerseymere","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cassimere."},{"word":"Kerseynette","type":"(n.)","description":"See Cassinette."},{"word":"Kerve","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To carve."},{"word":"Kerver","type":"(n.)","description":"A carver."},{"word":"Kesar","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kaiser."},{"word":"Keslop","type":"(n.)","description":"The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet."},{"word":"Kess","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To kiss."},{"word":"Kest","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Cast."},{"word":"Kestrel","type":"(n.)","description":"A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species."},{"word":"Ket","type":"(n.)","description":"Carrion; any filth."},{"word":"Ketch","type":"(n.)","description":"An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden."},{"word":"Ketch","type":"(n.)","description":"A hangman. See Jack Ketch."},{"word":"Ketch","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To catch."},{"word":"Ketchup","type":"(n.)","description":"A sauce. See Catchup."},{"word":"Ketine","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of organic bases obtained by the reduction of certain isonitroso compounds of the ketones. In general they are unstable oily substances having a pungent aromatic odor."},{"word":"Ketmie","type":"(n.)","description":"The name of certain African species of Hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of their mucilage."},{"word":"Ketol","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol."},{"word":"Ketone","type":"(n.)","description":"One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having a pungent ethereal odor."},{"word":"Ketonic","type":"(a.)","description":"Pertaining to, or derived from, a ketone; as, a ketonic acid."},{"word":"Kettle","type":"(n.)","description":"A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids."},{"word":"Kettledrum","type":"(n.)","description":"A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it."},{"word":"Kettledrum","type":"(n.)","description":"An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5."},{"word":"Kettledrummer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who plays on a kettledrum."},{"word":"Keuper","type":"(n.)","description":"The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology."},{"word":"Kevel","type":"(n.)","description":"A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed."},{"word":"Kevel","type":"(n.)","description":"A stone mason's hammer."},{"word":"Kevel","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kevin"},{"word":"Kevin","type":"(n.)","description":"The gazelle."},{"word":"Kever","type":"(v. t. &)","description":"i. To cover."},{"word":"Keverchief","type":"(n.)","description":"A kerchief."},{"word":"Kex","type":"(n.)","description":"A weed; a kecksy."},{"word":"Kex","type":"(n.)","description":"A dry husk or covering."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"A piece of wood used as a wedge."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"The last board of a floor when laid down."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"A keystone."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as \" sharp four,\" \"flat seven,\" etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote."},{"word":"Key","type":"(n.)","description":"Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance."},{"word":"Keved","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Key"},{"word":"Keying","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Key"},{"word":"Key","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges."},{"word":"Keyage","type":"(n.)","description":"Wharfage; quayage."},{"word":"Keyboard","type":"(n.)","description":"The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc."},{"word":"Key-cold","type":"(a.)","description":"Cold as a metallic key; lifeless."},{"word":"Keyed","type":"(a.)","description":"Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune."},{"word":"Keyhole","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key."},{"word":"Keyhole","type":"(n.)","description":"A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them."},{"word":"Keyhole","type":"(n.)","description":"a mortise for a key or cotter."},{"word":"Keynote","type":"(n.)","description":"The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone."},{"word":"Keynote","type":"(n.)","description":"The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon."},{"word":"Keyseat","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key."},{"word":"Keystone","type":"(n.)","description":"The central or topmost stone of an arch. This in some styles is made different in size from the other voussoirs, or projects, or is decorated with carving. See Illust. of Arch."},{"word":"Key","type":"()","description":"See Keynote."},{"word":"Keyway","type":"(n.)","description":"See Key way, under Key."},{"word":"Khaliff","type":"(n.)","description":"See Caliph."},{"word":"Khamsin","type":"(n.)","description":"Same as Kamsin."},{"word":"Khan","type":"(n.)","description":"A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; -- so called among the Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed by them."},{"word":"Khan","type":"(n.)","description":"An Eastern inn or caravansary."},{"word":"Khanate","type":"(n.)","description":"Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan."},{"word":"Khaya","type":"(n.)","description":"A lofty West African tree (Khaya Senegalensis), related to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge."},{"word":"Khedive","type":"(n.)","description":"A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt."},{"word":"Khenna","type":"(n.)","description":"See Henna."},{"word":"Kholah","type":"(n.)","description":"The Indian jackal."},{"word":"Kholsun","type":"(n.)","description":"The dhole."},{"word":"Khutbah","type":"(n.)","description":"An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes."},{"word":"Kiabooca","type":"()","description":"See Kyaboca wood."},{"word":"Kiang","type":"(n.)","description":"The dziggetai."},{"word":"Kibble","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats."},{"word":"Kibble","type":"(n.)","description":"A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines."},{"word":"Kibblings","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Portions of small fish used for bait on the banks of Newfoundland."},{"word":"Kibe","type":"(n.)","description":"A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain."},{"word":"Kibed","type":"(a.)","description":"Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as kibed heels."},{"word":"Kibitkas","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kibitka"},{"word":"Kibitka","type":"(n.)","description":"A tent used by the Kirghiz Tartars."},{"word":"Kibitka","type":"(n.)","description":"A rude kind of Russian vehicle, on wheels or on runners, sometimes covered with cloth or leather, and often used as a movable habitation."},{"word":"Kiblah","type":"(n.)","description":"See Keblah."},{"word":"Kiby","type":"(a.)","description":"Affected with kibes."},{"word":"Kichil","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kechil."},{"word":"Kicred","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kick"},{"word":"Kicking","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kick"},{"word":"Kick","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog."},{"word":"Kick","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn."},{"word":"Kick","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc."},{"word":"Kick","type":"(n.)","description":"A blow with the foot or feet; a striking or thrust with the foot."},{"word":"Kick","type":"(n.)","description":"The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust. of Pocketknife."},{"word":"Kick","type":"(n.)","description":"A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick."},{"word":"Kick","type":"(n.)","description":"The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged."},{"word":"Kickable","type":"(a.)","description":"Capable or deserving of being kicked."},{"word":"Kickapoos","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region of Northern Illinois, allied in language to the Sacs and Foxes."},{"word":"Kicker","type":"(n.)","description":"One who, or that which, kicks."},{"word":"Kickshaw","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kickshaws, the correct singular."},{"word":"Kickshawses","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kickshaws"},{"word":"Kickshaws","type":"(n.)","description":"Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy."},{"word":"Kickshaws","type":"(n.)","description":"A fancy dish; a titbit; a delicacy."},{"word":"Kickshoe","type":"(n.)","description":"A kickshaws."},{"word":"Kicksy-wicksy","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kicky-wisky"},{"word":"Kicky-wisky","type":"(n.)","description":"That which is restless and uneasy."},{"word":"Kicksy-wicksy","type":"(a.)","description":"Fantastic; restless; as, kicksy-wicksy flames."},{"word":"Kickup","type":"(n.)","description":"The water thrush or accentor."},{"word":"Kid","type":"(n.)","description":"A young goat."},{"word":"Kid","type":"(n.)","description":"A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on."},{"word":"Kid","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc."},{"word":"Kid","type":"(n.)","description":"Gloves made of kid."},{"word":"Kid","type":"(n.)","description":"A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food."},{"word":"Kidded","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kid"},{"word":"Kidding","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kid"},{"word":"Kid","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To bring forth a young goat."},{"word":"Kid","type":"(n.)","description":"A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze."},{"word":"Kid","type":"(p. p.)","description":"of Kythe."},{"word":"Kid","type":"(v. t.)","description":"See Kiddy, v. t."},{"word":"Kidde","type":"(imp.)","description":"of Kythe."},{"word":"Kidderminster","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured."},{"word":"Kiddier","type":"(n.)","description":"A huckster; a cadger."},{"word":"Kiddle","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish."},{"word":"Kiddow","type":"(n.)","description":"The guillemot."},{"word":"Kiddy","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deceive; to outwit; to hoax."},{"word":"Kiddy","type":"(n.)","description":"A young fellow; formerly, a low thief."},{"word":"Kiddyish","type":"(a.)","description":"Frolicsome; sportive."},{"word":"Kidfox","type":"()","description":"A young fox."},{"word":"Kidling","type":"(n.)","description":"A young kid."},{"word":"Kidnaped","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kidnap"},{"word":"Kidnapped","type":"()","description":"of Kidnap"},{"word":"Kidnaping","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kidnap"},{"word":"Kidnapping","type":"()","description":"of Kidnap"},{"word":"Kidnap","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place."},{"word":"Kidnaper","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kidnapper"},{"word":"Kidnapper","type":"(n.)","description":"One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer."},{"word":"Kidneys","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kidney"},{"word":"Kidney","type":"(n.)","description":"A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland."},{"word":"Kidney","type":"(n.)","description":"Habit; disposition; sort; kind."},{"word":"Kidney","type":"(n.)","description":"A waiter."},{"word":"Kidney-form","type":"(a.)","description":"Alt. of Kidney-shaped"},{"word":"Kidney-shaped","type":"(a.)","description":"Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney-shaped leaf."},{"word":"Kidneywort","type":"(n.)","description":"A kind of saxifrage (Saxifrage stellaris)."},{"word":"Kidneywort","type":"(n.)","description":"The navelwort."},{"word":"Kie","type":"(n. pl.)","description":"Kine; cows."},{"word":"Kiefekil","type":"(n.)","description":"A species of clay; meerschaum."},{"word":"Kier","type":"(n.)","description":"A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve."},{"word":"Kieselguhr","type":"(n.)","description":"Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite."},{"word":"Kieserite","type":"(n.)","description":"Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony."},{"word":"Kieve","type":"(n.)","description":"See Keeve, n."},{"word":"Kike","type":"(v. i.)","description":"To gaze; to stare."},{"word":"Kike","type":"(v. t. & i.)","description":"To kick."},{"word":"Kilderkin","type":"(n.)","description":"A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure."},{"word":"Kill","type":"(n.)","description":"A kiln."},{"word":"Kill","type":"(n.)","description":"A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc."},{"word":"Killed","type":"(imp. & p. p.)","description":"of Kill"},{"word":"Killing","type":"(p. pr. & vb. n.)","description":"of Kill"},{"word":"Kill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay."},{"word":"Kill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book."},{"word":"Kill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind."},{"word":"Kill","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid."},{"word":"Killdee","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Killdeer"},{"word":"Killdeer","type":"(n.)","description":"A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera)."},{"word":"Killer","type":"(n.)","description":"One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills."},{"word":"Killer","type":"(n.)","description":"A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known."},{"word":"Killesse","type":"(n.)","description":"A gutter, groove, or channel."},{"word":"Killesse","type":"(n.)","description":"A hipped roof."},{"word":"Killifish","type":"(n.)","description":"Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow."},{"word":"Killigrew","type":"(n.)","description":"The Cornish chough. See under Chough."},{"word":"Killikinick","type":"(n.)","description":"See Kinnikinic."},{"word":"Killing","type":"(a.)","description":"Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible."},{"word":"Kill-joy","type":"(n.)","description":"One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person."},{"word":"Killock","type":"(n.)","description":"A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together."},{"word":"Killow","type":"(n.)","description":"An earth of a blackish or deep blue color."},{"word":"Kiln","type":"(n.)","description":"A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone."},{"word":"Kiln","type":"(n.)","description":"A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln."},{"word":"Kiln-dry","type":"(v. t.)","description":"To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain."},{"word":"Kilnhole","type":"(n.)","description":"The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln."},{"word":"Kilos","type":"(pl. )","description":"of Kilo"},{"word":"Kilo","type":"(n.)","description":"An abbreviation of Kilogram."},{"word":"Kilogram","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kilogramme"},{"word":"Kilogramme","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39� Fahrenheit."},{"word":"Kilogrammeter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kilogrammetre"},{"word":"Kilogrammetre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris."},{"word":"Kiloliter","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kilolitre"},{"word":"Kilolitre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of capacity equal to a cubic meter, or a thousand liters. It is equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet, and to 220.04 imperial gallons, or 264.18 American gallons of 321 cubic inches."},{"word":"Kilometer","type":"(n.)","description":"Alt. of Kilometre"},{"word":"Kilometre","type":"(n.)","description":"A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile."},{